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The negative effects of guilt
The Psychological and Physiological Effects of Guilt
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Brone stormed into the chamber with blood clouding his vision. His already bulky body bubbled and doubled in size. Skin stretched and muscles pulled and tightened. But then, when he opened his mouth a deep growl rumbled out. His lips pulled into a snarl and showed viciously pointed teeth much like mine when I changed. My eyes widened as his body continued to change. “You’re a shape shifter!” I felt the need to point out. Fur the color of golden sun rays sprouted all over his body, and his legs began to shift and crackle until they formed hind legs. When they started to pump and he ran forward, I sprung into action. Getting up I flung air coming from the open door at him. It did nothing but slow him down a little. But it was better than nothing. …show more content…
I let the water level rise until it was covering Brone’s large paws and ankles. Then, the lightening came crackling and popping like live fire. Brone shrieked. “I’m honestly really disappointed in you Brone. And I’m a little impressed. All I ask is this: how did you do it all? How did you convince Elsa to kill Feronzo? How did you kill me? How did you know that Feronzo would evolve? And how exactly, did you manage to kill our mother, someone who was labeled the strongest of all gods?” Each question brought on a new anger. I was mad, yes, but not for the reasons I first thought. I didn’t notice until that moment, but I wasn’t just made because of what he did, I was mad because I felt betrayed. I trusted too easily again. And he made me regret it. He made me want to go back in time and end myself right then, before I started to care. Of course I had grown attached to some of the people here, but why did I have to become attached to Brone of all people? “You mother. . . . She was a no good bitch.” Cackling. His laughing, a horrible thing. My tears, even …show more content…
What had got you so upset?” She was speaking gently unlike my father. He continued to yell at me. It wasn’t as if I could burn anything though. I was in the center of the room, and the fire left no traces of being anywhere else. I dropped to my knees. “I didn’t know. I didn’t know he was my brother. If I did, I would have tried harder, so much harder to keep him safe. But now he’s dead, and all because I couldn’t figure out how to put these powers to much better use.” She stopped trying to cox me. Instead she got much more serious. “Snow, if what you say is true, you need to wake up soon. Because that means your brother is in trouble. He doesn’t know what he is, just as you don’t know what you are capable of. Put the fire out and come here right now. I must tell you something.” I couldn’t put it out. How could she expect me to either? I didn’t even know how I made it start anyway. “I don’t know how,” I whispered quietly. She shook her head. “Yes you do. You started it, so you can stop it. Just, think, Snow.” I closed my eyes and tried to think of putting the fire out. I thought of an invisible blanket smothering the flames, then I opened my eyes. “See!” I shouted. “I can’t do it. I don’t know how!” My mother came a little closer to the fire. “How did you feel when the fire
Montag, Beatty and the rest of the firemen expected it to be just another burning. They did not expect an unidentified woman to commit suicide along with burning her books. As the firemen attempted to save the woman, she told them to “go on.” Within a moment, “The woman on the porch reached out with contempt to them all and struck the kitchen match against the railing.” On the way back to the firehouse, the men didn’t speak or look at each other. While Beatty began showing the knowledge he has gained from books, which along with the death, firemen begin to show that they are thinking and showing emotions. While listening to Beatty, Blackstone passes the turn to the firehouse, while Montag is amazed at his intelligence.
From the minute he enters the ward, Bromden notes his charismatic and overbearing personality as signs of his power. “Even though I can’t see him, I know he’s no ordinary admission. I don’t hear him slide scared along the wall. he sounds like he’s way above them. he sounds big” (15-16).
The silence was okay, she could’ve lived with that. But it was the coldness that scared her; the coldness suspended in the air between them: her mommy washing dishes in the kitchen, head bent, hair swooped to the side, hiding her left cheek, and her daddy, sitting on the sofa reading the Sunday paper in silent indifference. She was caught in the middle, with her toys scattered around her, shivering at the coldness of it all. She knew.
He is burning down a house filled with books and all he cares about is how pretty the fire looks. At this point in his life fire is nothing but a spectacle to him. It’s just as empty and meaningless as the rest of his life and provides only immediate sensory pleasure. He enjoys it while it lasts and forgets about it almost immediately after. This outlook is almost immediately destroyed when he meets Clarisse Mcclellan, a bright seventeen year old who still finds joy in the little things of life.
I walked into the house which was lit up like a Christmas tree, every light in every room ablaze. There had to be ten, maybe fifteen neighbors all crammed into the living room. Everything was sweaty, panicked and awful, and everyone looked pitiful and I was pathetic. The usual interrogation began. “How is this making you feel?”
At the mountaintop, we used Piggy’s glasses to light the fire. Or, Ralph and Jack forcefully took his glasses instead of asking him. It made my stomach churn. What happened to kindness? Or even a little respect? The fire burned fast and fiercely. It licked the wood up like a starving bear, and we could not sustain it. I think it was a stupid idea. We all rushed to make a fire without thought of how to keep it going or how we would light it. We need a plan, not reckless action.
"I just lay there on the floor for a while, and kept calling him a moron sonuvabitch. I was so mad, I was practically bawling."
I became scared. I’ve never seen Mom this mad. We arrived at home and I went straight to the basement to wash off the coal. When I got out, I could still feel the coal grime in my pores and smell the coal dust caught in my nose.
“Kill me! I’m useless for you. I know how to keep secrets and no one including you can get them out of me.” sounded the serene voice as the tension was rising in the room. I tried not to show the bewilderment inside me.
I threw the wet rags into the flames and they slowly turned into a pile of ash. The flames were nearing me and I knew it would soon be over. I looked around the room and noticed that the windows were wide open, inviting me like they had in the past. Either way Rebecca would win, but if I jumped, so would Mrs. Danvers. With a heavy heart, I chose to stay inside the burning
Aunt Leslie then snapped me out of my deep thought asking whether I was okay. I told her I was even if it was obviously a complete lie. "So shall we go back to Geraldine tomorrow morning? Or would you like to leave in the evening?"
...She whispered softly, "I was 10." I try to fathom what it would be like if my mom had died when I was 10. I can't imagine, and I'm glad I haven't had to experience that.
The Fire “C’mon, it’ll only take you a second,” he said. I can still remember the look on his face; he looked like a puppy begging for a treat. My red-haired neighbor was three years older than me; he had a sprinkle of freckles across his cheeks and a certain charm in his voice. “Ben, I don’t know about this. I don’t want to get into trouble,” I, being ever cautious, was always reluctant to participate in Ben’s adventures.
“Is everything okay?” she asked, “You don’t seem to talk much. I want you to know whatever you say to me is between you and me.”
I raised my arms in anger, ?I?m talking to you.? Instantly his arm swung swiftly, like steel, it impacted on mine. Fear bulged from my eyeballs, he grasped both my hands and heaved me up. My feet dangled in the air.