It was an excruciatingly hot day in August in the year of 2000. I was at the Sara Lee soccer fields for soccer tryouts for North Forsyth High School. The sweat was dripping off of my face as the coach made his final cuts. "I made it! I made the team!" I thought to myself as my friends ...

Of Mice and Men was a very powerful book, which had many characters that were sad and deserved some sympathy, but I feel very sorry for Lennie. Others would think that Curlys wife deserved sympathy because she was stuck on a ranch and not getting her dream of being an actress or Crooks because he...

The book Illusions, written by Richard Bach, is about a messiah, Donald Shimoda teaching a man named Richard, how to be like him. Shimoda tells Richard that everything in life that he sees, touches, and feels are all illusions. Nothing in this real world was what it seemed, and by concentrating/fo...

In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein there is only one person who can be held responsible for the deaths and misfortunes of loved ones, Victor Frankenstein. Unfortunately, Victor's selfishness and lack of rational thought has ended in death and pain. Consequently, Victor is the only one who...

MAGGIE: One of those no-neck monsters hit me with a hot buttered biscuit so I have to change! Well, I! - just remarked that! - one of th' no-neck monsters messed up my lovely lace dress so I got to cha-a-ange! I swear they've got no necks. None visible. Their fat little heads are stuck on the...