Soulful Strings As I plop down on the over-stuffed rose-tinted antique love seat, childhood memories dance through my imagination, creating a comforting yet unbreakable bubble, until reality's sharpness stabs the unfamiliar world into several suds of disillusion. Intensely fixated on a ple...

When growing up, do you remember playing the game Jacks? It involved a couple of bouncy balls and many non-descript "jack" pieces that were packaged together and sold in a small net bag. The first time my cousin introduced me to it, I questioned how a game could be played using such randomly oppo...

Remembering Mike The death of my friend Mike Walker taught me the true meaning of the cliche, "Life does not last forever, so live each day like it is the last." I treasure my friends and family more than anything in the world. A good friend is hard to find. I thought this was true unt...

Lost Generation In the novel All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque shows how the soldiers in World War I are disillusioned and surrounded by human suffering. Surrounded by death and suffering, the boys lose interest in everything but war. The war slow...

The Waste Land By T.S. Eliot This poem, which is divided into five parts, was exhaustive to read and understand. I had to read over it at least four to five times before I was able to make some sense out of it. The reason that the is so difficult to understand is because it seems to be haphaz...

Death Be Not Proud Death Be Not Proud by John Gunther is a novel in which you see the love a father has for his son. This true story is about a gifted boy named Johnny Gunther who died of a brain tumor at the age of seventeen. The book encounters his life, along with his family's, during th...

Emily Dickinson was born on December 10, 1830. Resembling her poetry, her relationship to the world was restrained. She spent her entire life at home, never married, and developed particular attention for death. Through her poetry, the reader found a particular concern for death. "Because I Could N...

One Thing A Person Should Never Take For Granted Life is like a hourglass, with little specks of sand descending one by one and then perishing forever. People tend to believe that they have control over their "hourglass." They never tend to see that at any moment that glass can shatter ...

Hamlet's Fatal Flaw The death of Hamlet was caused by a number of flaws, many of which were his own fault. Aside from the obvious reasons, the trap set by Claudius and Laertes, there were steps leading up his death which could have easily been avoided. However, Hamlet lets his indecisiveness t...

Catcher in the Rye The Catcher in the Rye is a story about a kid named Holden Caulfield who experiences some interesting things and people. From having breakfast with a couple of nuns, to being with a prostitute, to getting kicked out of school, Holden handles each situation the best way he can....

The short story, " The Grave," by Katherine Anne Porter began in a secluded area that had once been the family cemetery. The cemetery was owned by the grandmother who had just passed away. In her will she had requested the land be sold and this required the family cemetery to be moved. Two childr...