The world is made up of walls. Skyscrapers, houses, schools, theatres and offices are all just a collection of walls with a roof over them. Everything we see has a wall. In addition to their literary function, in Bartleby the idea of the symbolism of the wall is continuous throughout the text. Herma...

"A flat in the pauper barracks, west thirty-eighth street, with all its furniture". This is a drawing, focusing on the corner of the room. There is so little room that the bed/couch is shoved against the door. There is another door, and next to it is a wood stool with a bucket on top. ...

Late in the afternoon an old man is making his bed stacking one blanket on the other because of a cold breeze blowing in a small town in Spain. Due to the lack of caring the bed was made in an undulate way. After he runs his hands up and down the wall till he jams his left middle finger in the ...

Remember Everyday I remember as a kid, how every Sunday before Memorial Day my dad polished his black boots, laid out his drill squad suit, and met with the local legion men to prepare for the big Memorial Day parade. The men rushed to get everything ready to give our little town a very special...

Dear Dad, I know that you are angry and upset with me, and I understand why-but I also want to explain myself to you. I am too uncomfortable to talk with you in person and I thought that, by writing you a letter, I could say what I needed to say without either one of us getting too upset or fighting...

THE WITCHES' COVE It was a dark, foggy night. Nothing was stirring, not even a bat. As I walked down the dark street to my friend's house, I saw the old broken-down, tattered Nelson mansion. As I passed the spooky old house, it seemed like a silence fell over the little town of ...

It was a warm summer day when his life turned upside down. He and some friends had been enjoying some delicious pizza you could only find at privately owned Italian restaurants. They took advantage of the luxurious warmth and sat on the front patio where they could watch people pass by on th...

In South Africa is a town named Soweto. There are two boys who live there, they're names were Marcus and John, they were twins. They were fourteen years old and they went to a school for black children only. One time they were going home from school and they heard gun shoots, the two boys di...