...Everything stuck to him I went to Milan from Christmas and I really want to know what it was like when I was a child. “I asked my father, tell me what it was like”, as i sip the Strega, waiting for him to answer me. “ That was along time ago”, my father said. “almost twenty years.” “You can remember”, I say as he is thinking of the story he is going to tell. “ I could tell you about something that happened, They were kids themselves, but they were crazy in love, this eighteen-year-old boy and this seventeen-year-old girl when they married. Not all that long afterwards they had a daughter. The baby came along in late November during a cold spell that just happened to coincide with the peak of the waterfowl season. The boy loved to hunt, you see. That’s part of it. The boy and girl, husband and wife, father and mother, they lived in a little apartment under a dentist’s office. Each night they cleaned the dentist’s place upstairs in exchange for rent and utilities. In summer they were expected to maintain the lawn and the flowers. In winter the boy shoveled snow and spread rock salt on the walks. Are you still with me? Are you getting the picture? I am, she says. That’s good, he says. So one day the dentist finds out they were using his letterhead for their personal correspondence. But that’s another story. He gets up from his chair and looks out the window. He sees the tile rooftops and the snow that is falling steadily on them. Tell the story, she says. The two...
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...Tyler K. Schlagheck Professor Daniel Rosenberg English 1102 30 January 2013 Everything Stuck to Him He gets up from his chair and refills their drinks. That's it, he says. End of story. I admit it's not much of a story. I was interested, she says. He doesn't respond and takes his drink to the window. It's darker now but still snowing. She's been gone ten years and these are the stories I still remember about her, he says. I don't even remember the night of your birth, for God's sake. He takes a deep gulp from his drink and stares out the window. The darkness seems to grow with each minute. That's okay, it was so long ago, I – But she stops herself from saying more. She sits quietly and reflects upon her nails. He watches her in the window's reflection. He sighs heavily. She lifts her head. She looks out past him into the darkness. Then she asks if she is going to get to see the city, after all. He says, not tonight, how about tomorrow? She does not reply. I'm going to bed, she says. He continues to stare out the window and does not even seem to hear her. She gets up and goes to her room. He looks out into the cold darkness, remembering the times they used to have together as a family. He sighs and reaches for the bottle. It was going to be a long night after all. Part 2 I decided to change the ending of “Everything Stuck to Him.” Instead of having a sad ending where the man clearly left his wife and moved to Milan for an unknown reason, I decided...
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...Some messes are easily cleaned, while others seem to leave a lasting stain. In “Everything Stuck to Him,” by Raymond Carver, he uses symbols, a minimalist style, and a frame story to effectively convey his theme and get his message across. Carver uses many symbols to add meaning to his piece. He uses the windshield, the waffles and the title to convey his theme. In the frame story, the boy and the girl get into an argument about whether the boy should go out with his friends while the girl believes the baby is not feeling well. He storms out of the house and gets into the car. Carver writes,“The boy took up his hunting gear and went outside. He started the car. He went around to the car windows, and making a job of it, scraped away the ice.”...
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...In everything stuck to him age does not negatively affect the ability to of two people to Achieve the life they want. They live in a apartment they work to support themselves. “The boy and girl. Husband and wife, father and mother they live in a little apartment. Pg. (985) ‘’Every night they clean the dentist place upstairs in exchange for rent and utilities.’’ The boy And girl were supporting themselves and their baby making ends meet it might not have been the Job they dreamed of having or wanted to do but there making the best out of it. In everything stuck to him age does not negatively affect the ability to raise a child. ‘’After Dinner he turned up the furnace and helped her bathe the baby’’. ‘’ The baby and I will get along Fine.’’...
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...characters- Ma and Jack- have specific routines they do everyday, and because they are stuck in a room and have nothing else to do. This is from when Jack is describing how they do their laundry. Monday is a laundry day, we get into Bath with socks, underwears, my gray pants that ketchup squirted on, the sheets and dish towels, and we squish all the dirt out. Ma hots Thermostat way up for the drying, she pulls Clothes Horse out from beside Door and stands him open and I tell him to be strong… When we’ve twisted the water out of everything and hanged them up, Ma and me have to rip off out T-shirts and take turns pushing ourselves into Refrigerator to cool down....
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...Stefani Arcadi C. Centorame ENG 2D March 24, 2015 The Catcher in the Rye The transition from childhood to adulthood is a huge journey. In the novel the Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, Holden Caulfield is on his own journey and cannot accept the fact that his childhood is slipping away and that he has to grow up and face reality. Holden is having a difficult time doing so because he is afraid that if he grows up he will become a phony and will not be himself. Holden is poised between two worlds; one he fears to enter and one he cannot return to. Holden's refusal to face the adult world leads him to isolation and the realization that he has to mature. The museum of natural history displays how Holden is stuck between childhood and...
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...Looking back of the memories; my dad’s smile, laugh, and all of our adventure’s is what I pictured. My heart was shattered and it was unfathomable to believe that my dad was possibly gone forever. A memory stuck out to me a month before my dad went missing. We were at the cabin sledding down the steep hills, laughing, feeling inevitably euphoric and stuck in time. The sun was shining through the trees and I remember looking up at the sky, seeing it was clear blue as I layed down in the snow, with my sled beside me. I could hear dad laughing, running down the hill to lay next to me, with that gigantic smirk on his face, “Cheyanne i’ll be right there!.” And thinking about that makes my heart smile because I know he was happy as he can be, as I was too. Time is fleeting by as it seemed because on April 10, 2010, the case of my dad was already forgotten from everyone. Everyone gave up on finding him and it was impossible to move forward when there was no evidence or tracks of him, so the case ended. After a couple years, the memories of my dad faded, I lost hope of him being found, and I was still in deep shock. I had forgotten his smile, his laugh, everything about him. I went to school everyday after he passed away...
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...name If you wanna know Here it goes Gonna tell you this The part of me that'll show if you're close Gonna let you see everything But remember that you asked for it I'll try to do my best to impress But it's easier to let you take a guess at the rest But you wanna hear what lives in my brain My heart, will you ask for it, for your perusing? At times confusing, slightly amusing Introducing me Doo doo, doo doo doo doo to Doo doo, doo doo doo doo to La la la la La la la la la la la la, da I never trust a dog to watch my food And I like to use to the word "dude" As a noun, or an adverb, or an adjective And I've never really been into cars I like really cool guitars and superheroes And checks with lots of zeros on 'em I love the sound of violins And making someone smile If you wanna know Here it goes Gonna tell you this The part of me that'll show if you're close Gonna let you see everything But remember that you asked for it I'll try to do my best to impress But it's easier to let you take a guess at the rest But you wanna hear what lives in my brain My heart, will you ask for it, for your perusing? At times confusing, possibly amusing Introducing me Well, you probably know more than you ever wanted to So be careful when you ask next time So if you wanna know Here it goes Gonna tell you this The part of me that'll show if you're close Gonna let you see everything But remember that you asked for it I'll try to do my best to impress But it's easier to let you take a guess at the rest...
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...(53). Nwoye was thinking about becoming less masculine before Okonkwo killed Ikemefuna, but he wasn’t really sure about it. After Okonkwo killed him, he realized that's what he wanted and needed to do. Okonkwo was the one who always wanted Nwoye to be a super strong man someday and in the end his decisions caused Nwoye to choose this path. Next, the white missionaries coming in resulted in Okonkwo basically disowning Nwoye. Although Okonkwo didn’t directly tell Nwoye that he wasn’t his son anymore, Nwoye could easily infer that. Okonkwo made it evident through his actions and his thoughts that “he could not be [his son]” (153). Nwoye was happy to change to make a life of his own. He was tired of not being good enough for his dad and was ready to move on from him. Nwoye didn’t want to be known only as Okonkwo’s son, so he distanced himself from Okonkwo. With all of the horrific things Okonkwo did to people in Nwoye’s lifetime, distancing himself from his father wasn’t an impossible thing to do and he did so. The death of Ikemefuna and Nwoye’s conversion to Christianity changed him so that he was no longer...
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...school can be uncomfortable for me sometimes. I always see all the people that I used to talk or even hung out with. As I was making my way to my navy blue locker, I felt a pair of cold hands cover my eyes. “Guess who,” someone saying in a raspy voice “Hmm, let me guess my overprotective, drunk brother,” replying back with a bit of a giggle to my voice “Nope not even close June-Bug,” someone said back with a hint of a voice crack in there Thinking to myself I knew right at the moment that it was my best friend Cole because no one else called me that besides him. I was never really fond of that nickname he gave me but it just kind of stuck. I took the pair of hands off of my face and I turned around to see him standing there....
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...were the Spiegleman’s. Art Spiegleman was the son in the family who wrote about his father’s experience in the Holocaust. Maus I and Maus II are his two works of art that share historical information and his personal struggle. Within Maus II, Art talks about the start of his father’s struggles and what will be the beginning of a life changing event. The Holocaust affected victims just as the American Great Depression did its victims. This chapter starts out with Vladek continuously counting his pills, and then Artie and Francoise are staying with him just for a little since Mala left. Vladek keeps everything; he doesn’t want to get rid of anything, even crumbs. In chapter three, page 78 of Maus II, he is trying to give Artie a piece of fruitcake, and Artie refuses, and says he isn’t hungry. Vladek then tells Artie, “So, fine. I can pack the fruitcake in with the cereal for you to take home,” then Artie refuses to let Vladek give him the food because he doesn’t want it. Vladek then says, “I cannot forget it…ever since Hitler I don’t like to throw out even a crumb.” This shows that Vladek is still afraid to get rid of anything, because he is still in fear of the past. They begin talking more about Auschwitz, and how in 1944, some prisoners revolted and they killed three S.S men and blew up the crematorium and for this they all got killed. The girls who snuck over to the ammunitions got hanged as well. This was the end of Auschwitz. The Gestapo then came and here is where the death...
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...feel of Juliet’s precious hand and not ope her lap like he wanted to do with Rosaline who abjured him. In the play, Romeo says, “If I profane with my unworthiest hand, this holy shrine, the gentle fine is this, my lips two blushing pilgrims, ready to stand to smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss. (1.5.90.94) This is extremely significant because towards the beginning of Act One, Romeo was just a guy who was obsessed with the thought of finding a girl he can express his love towards, however as the story continues, Romeo changes. Towards the end of Act One, he’s determined to touch Juliet’s precious hand and kiss her. He thinks of her hand as a holy place and...
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...Haber, after realizing that Georges dreams actually do come to life begins to start making George dream things that would benefit him or humanity. One of the first things big things we see Haber make him dream is the plague. Haber tells George to dream about the over population that has started to occur on earth. By doing so George dreams up the plague in order to wipe out a good portion of the human race. Haber tells George that this will benefit everyone and not just himself. After this dream we see George ask himself “No. I never buried anybody. Nobody died of the Plague. There wasn’t any Plague. It’s all in my imagination. I dreamed it.” (70) even George is lost on what is real and what is not anymore because of what he must endure. George does not want to believe this because he is still lost in the past realities which in his case are no longer real. He is stuck not knowing what to believe or think of each reality because there have been so many. “Dreams are incoherent, selfish, irrational—immoral, you said a minute ago.” (14) this is also showing how he is wanting to think that dreams are nothing but instead his dreams are everything. This just adds to his inner conflict because he is being told all these things even though nothing matters because his dreams will just end up changing reality in the end. They will create another new reality in which he won’t want to...
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...in the story, Jay Gatsby. Fitzgerald’s usage of this character effectively conveys this idea throughout the novel. The story about how and why Gatsby is unsuccessful in recapturing his past, how his actions hurt himself and others around him and how he ultimately fails while achieving nothing. Throughout the story, we learn that Jay Gatsby is a man who depends and dwells upon his past to reach his dream. Through the narrator, Nick Carraway, we can see that Gatsby’s bad habit of holding on the past does not help him get anywhere with his goal. He believes that the past could be repeated, “'Can't repeat the past?' he cried incredulously. ‘Why of course you can!'” (Fitzgerald, 85). This shows Gatsby’s inability to move on from the past. This obsession with the past inspires Gatsby to do everything he does in order to win back Daisy. He gets into the business of bootleg alcohol selling. To get Daisy’s attention, he throws lavish parties every week and he buys a mansion across the bay in front of Daisy’s mansion. He feels that if Daisy sees his display of wealth, she will come running back to him and will have no reason to reject him again. He does everything in his power to get Daisy to come back to him, to rewind five years ago when everything was almost perfect in his perspective. When they finally see each other at the tea...
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...to achieve their dreams. So even though Milkman and Guitar’s financial situation in their childhood is different, their longing to be rich and have money is equally strong, leaving them paralyzed. However, Milkman is able to escape the stillness in his life and does more than just “yearn”, he works towards achieving his dreams. Growing up Milkman and Guitar develop a different view on money because of their families wealth. In his childhood, Milkman had everything he wanted and grew up being the center of attention. As his family is driving down Not Doctor Street the reaction of the neighbors is described as, “In 1936 there were very few among them who lived as well as Macon Dead. Others watched the family gliding by with a tiny bit of jealousy and a whole lot of amusement…” (Morrison 32). The author is showing a picture in which Milkman and his family are better than everyone else, especially better than most black people. They live a life which is unknown to their community. They are different, special and have everything they need and want. The words “jealousy” and “amusement” show the feelings that others had towards them but “respect” is not one of them. Everybody watches from a distance wishing they could be driving the Green Packard. The movement of the car, which is described as “gliding”,...
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