"Shine my shoes, Cinderfella! Fix my hair, Cinderfella! Hurry, Cinderfella! It's almost time for the ball!" Cinderfella's stepmother and her stepsisters had been shouting at him all afternoon, until... Slam! They marched out. Cinderfella looked down at her tattered old cloth...

After Auschwitz Anne Sexton Anger, as black as a hook, Rage and death overtakes me. Each day, each Nazi took, at 8:00 A.M., a baby Killing is a ritual and sauteed him for breakfast No love or cares in his frying pan. No regrets And death looks on with a casual eye And it happens al...

Rising through life's destruction In this world many things that used to be knew and wonderful lose their beauty and rot into old pieces of garbage. In the poem Miss Rosie by Lucille Clifton the woman once was beautiful and knew but as time progressed she turned into a body of useless woman. A...

As a society all people wear a type of mask to hide something about their personality. As long as an individual is influenced by another or group of individuals we will always wear some type of mask. Every day people wake up and put on their game face. No one is completely open, its not a tr...

Frankly, I was amazed by the set of Blithe Spirit. I am not sure whether it was because I had a hand in building it and all of the skills I acquired in doing so or just the fact that it was a great set. Either way I was extremely impressed. Seeing the set from the front, back, and even above gave m...

In the play Hamlet Gertrude and Ophelia are portrayed as weak characters. The men in their lives have complete control over them. These women obviously do not have a mind of their own. If they listened to themselves, they would have more control of their lives. Ophelia is one of those women ...

The Night the Ghost Got In is a classic example of how a little thing can turn into a very large problem. After James had heard the sound downstairs, he and his brother Herman decided to find out what it was. All of the commotion in the house seems to have awoken their mother who then tried to figur...

This passage from scene three plainly shows us the tempestuousness of the relationship between Tom and his mother, Amanda. One of the play's important themes is the conflict between the desire to live one's own life and the responsibility for one's family. Tom's wages pay the bills, but Amanda cont...

My first thoughts were that this story was going to be your typical bullying brother tale. I just kept waiting for the other shoe to drop. I was completely shocked that this story ended up the way it did. As the brothers all went out to succeed at their trades, I was continually waiting for ...

The Woods It's a nice day and you have your camera with you, so you decide to park your car and go for a quick stroll through the woods to take some pictures of the beautiful Fall leaves. In the woods you hear the trees swaying,the branches rattle against one another making a peaceful ...

The portrait of a tree is not to be mistaken or over looked. Every one can see the beauty of a tree whether it be an ever green or disigous. This may be the key to our future. To look from the ground up standing under a tree the leaves may slowly turn around you enrapture you with all thier g...

In the play "Twelfth Night," the character, Malvolio, is an ill-mannered steward. Although Malvolio is ill-mannered, I truly believe he was treated way too harshly by the others. Malvolio's departure also leaves a loose end in the plot which weakens the play. Even if Malvolio was ill-mannered, ...

The book Daughter of Fortune and in the movie Captain Corelli's Mandolin both leading ladies, Eliza Sommers in daughter of fortune and Pelagia in Captain Corelli's Mandolin must go though many obstacles to find love and experience passion. Throughout the novel Eliza has to go th...

Lili's Love Triangle Narrator: They started off as 5 college buddies, who went their separate ways after college. Shaft played by Keith is married to Lili who is played by Linh. Tony who is played by Colin is going out with Lauren played by Fern, and Kenny, Tony's brother, played by La...

Song of Solomon: Milkman Dead - Respecting and Listening to Women In Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon, Milkman Dead becomes a man by learning to respect and to listen to women. In the first part of the novel, he emulates his father, by being deaf to women's wisdom and women's needs, and casuall...

Everyone has a comfortable place to escape for relaxation. They go there when they need to be alone and not with people to disturb them. My favorite place is nature in the summer. The summer time relaxes me like no place could. Nature, in the summer, relaxes me with its magic. I love sitting in t...

Who has seen the Wind: Setting - Peacefulness Through Words The poplars along the road shook light from their leaves. A tin can rolled in the street; a newspaper plastered itself against the base of a telephone pole; loose dust lifted...a dust-devil...went whirling out to the prairie. In the ...

The Red Convertible as a Symbol and Revealing Agent Many writers use symbolism in their stories in order to reveal certain or multiple aspects of the story. Symbols can be anything in a story from an inanimate or animate object to multiple other things. In the short story "The Red Convertible&...

Freedom to Breathe Running here, running there, doing this, doing that, arguing, listening, talking, working, what about me? Like millions of people I have a busy life. It's hard to find time in a day just to breathe, collect my thoughts, or just relax when I'm always spending tim...

The Sixth Sense The sixth sense is a supernatural horror. The story is about Dr Malcolm Crowe who is a child psychologist haunted by the painful memory of a disturbed young patient he could not help. So when he meets Cole Sear a frightened, confused eight years old with a similar condition. Dr ...

In William Faulkner's story "A Rose for Emily," the rose symbolizes many things from love, to hate, to revenge, and her feeling of being neglected. Emily is living a sad life. When she is growing up her father isolates her, and after his death, she is still sad and miserable. Her father leaves he...

The protagonist in the book "Where the Heart Is" is Novalee Nation. She is involved in almost every aspect of the book. She always goes on no matter what hard things come up in her life. If something is wrong she finds a way to make the best of the situation. She grows stronger from a...

For All Seasons In the eyes of the poet, how can we describe the majestic cycle of nature? Nature is all around us and we are bound by it unpredictable transformations. Robert Frost finds the beauty of nature, yet is quite aware of its fickleness. He is infatuated with the regeneration of lif...

Tess of the d‘Urbervilles written by Thomas Hardy is a novel about a young girl of a poor family whose life changes because someone tells her family that they belong to a noble family. But is it a bad change or a good one? This story is written in third person point of view. John Durbeyfiel...

Tess of the d‘Urbervilles written by Thomas Hardy is a novel about a young girl of a poor family whose life changes because someone tells her family that they belong to a noble family. But is it a bad change or a good one? This story is written in third person point of view. John Durbeyfiel...