...But, even after all that’s happened, and even after the fact that I was dead wrong about there being no happy ending for me, none of that is even the best part. No, the best part is always saved for last. Here is one of the transcripts of Southside Jimmy’s transformation treatments with Dr. Chicavonov. Dr. Chicavonov: “Good morning, Mr. Balenducci, how are we today?” Jimmy Balenducci: “What the hell do you care?” Dr. Chicavonov: “Oh, I care. I care. Of course, I care. You are my life’s work, Mr. Balenducci.” Jimmy Balenducci: “When the hell am I going to get out of here?” Dr. Chicavonov: “Maybe, someday, maybe not. But, first, let’s see how your treatment is going today.” —PAUSE— Dr. Chicavonov: “Ah, ah, ah, good, good, I see your pupil’s have become fully dilated once more and your breathing is back on track. It’s important, so important with the breathing. It helps to keep your cells fully alive with oxygen and it helps to fight off pathogens.”...
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...Descent Into Hell Who or what is Lilith and what is her role in the book? According to Charles Williams, Lilith is the apparition of all that one desires; she promises to give health, money, life, and even love but gives only false hope. She is the seductress, disguised as an old lady, who guards the grand gate of Gomorrah (Descent Into Hell 204). Williams describes Lilith as such, “Their enchantress sat there, the last illusion still with her, the illusion of love itself; she could not believe her breasts were dry. She desired infinitely to seem give suck; she would be kind and good, she who did not depend, on whom others had depended…” (207). She is not real love, but merely the chimera of love, and does not give true life. Williams further describes her, “She would not see and she would not go to the door because of that unacknowledged crowd, but she sat there, cut off from earth she had in her genius so long universally inhabited, gazing, waiting, longing for some of the living to enter, to ask her for oblivion and the shapes with which she enchanted oblivion” (207). She deceives people and gives them want they think they most desire; she traps people with their fantasies and then pulls them down into Hell (208). Lilith is portrayed as a weak, depressed old woman who guards the gate to Hades and who promises to care, nurture one’s soul, and to give what one desires. However, what she promises is actually void and empty; she really intends to starve and deprive people...
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...JC Molina Tina Golaw ENGL 1A West Valley College September 13, 2011 Narrative Essay rough draft Quick trip to hell I am going to die and go to hell. I repeated the words over and over again in my head as I walked home from school. I didn't know why I was condemned to hell; however, I knew that Mr. Okawsky, my bible teacher, lectured under his cafenated breath, “All homosexuals will go to hell.” The path home was long and hard. Thinking about my future I noticed that there was no point in living. I couldn't help but to repeat Mr. Okawsky’s words in my head. The lecture burned my whole being; like, a fire quickly incinerates a news paper to a dust. My mind was racing life the horses at golden gate fields that I used to watch on the TV. At my new school I didn't feel welcomed since the first day. I was called a fagot on the first day of school and since then I have hated the christian school. In my mind I argued with my self, Am I going to burn in hell? Why? What the fuck did I do to deserve that? I didn't choose to be gay. If I am going to go to hell why should I continue to live this shitty life? Once I arrived home I was glutted with depression. I had never told my secret to anybody in my family so I did not have any body to talk to. I walked down the long lonely hall. As I walked down the hall I could hear the house creekas I walked into the Kitchen. Filled with loneliness and sadness I went straight...
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...Short Story Analysis “The Lift That Went Down Into Hell” by Par Lagerkvist requires a deeper understanding especially on little things such as the words and scenery that the author used. If you read the story as it is you’ll find it senseless and more like a nonsense story and the only moral value that you’ll be able to extract is that “It’s better to live on oh well’s than what if’s” but if you use your imagination and focus on little things such as on why Mr. Smith failed to answer the little lady’s question if he really loves her, this might be because Mr. Smith’s perception towards the little lady is just a playmate and he don’t have any special feelings toward the little lady. In the scene where they were in hell and they saw Arvid, the little lady’s past lover, the statement of the little lady “He's [Arvid] never been able to take things simply and naturally, as they are” implies that the real reason why his past lover commit suicide didn’t bother her that much. And lastly, the statement of the devil that “Good evening... welcome back.” When they re-enter the lift to go back to the real world signifies that they’ve been living in hell all along, and that they’re just turning a blind eye on what’s really going on or who’s hurting who. Living in the world where you keep on hurting others and being ignorant, intentional or not, on things that’s happening around you is more worse than hell because it’s not just you that’s hurting, but the feelings of others that you won’t even...
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...Lucius Jones was a cruddy and cantankerous bigoted racist. Anyone who didn’t agree with his ideas could “go straight to hell," and anyone who wasn’t from the same race as him, could “burn in hell”. There was a decided difference between the two damnations and Lucius would be more than obliged to explain it to anyone who thought otherwise, if only anyone had the backbone to ask him. He was a crusty, willowy scarecrow looking old man with long gangly limbs, a thin narrow frame and an even thinner face with a hollowed out right eye socket. The empty hole could hold a glass eye, but Lucius chose not to use one and he refused to wear an eye patch. He knew it made people uncomfortable and he liked that. His dingy colored hair, which he rarely...
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...A Raisin In The Sun by Lorraine Hansberry is a story about an African American family who lives in a time where racial discrimination was in major effect, it made life a living hell for black families. She explains this though the life of Walter Younger and his family. First, White and Blacks were segregated. Due to the racial discrimination, Walter and his family were not the richest people. Jobs available to African Americans were limited. Walter He worked as a chauffeur. Lorrain Hansberry grew up around the time when racial discrimination was very affective. She gives an idea of what she had been through. She does so by giving Walter this poor trait. A job that one would take only if it was your very last option. Mama, Walter’s mother, is expected to get a big check in the mail from her husband’s life insurance. With this money, she plans on buying a new house. She wants a house in a white neighborhood. At first it seemed risky, but in reality, it was a huge step for their family to start fresh. The author wants us to know that this money was life changing. With this huge check coming in, it was important for their family to take on some new opportunities. Around this time, having a lot of money would make someone think of their possibilities. It usually ends up bad. Second, a man named Mr. Linder came by their house to discuss their move. Instead...
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...were very descriptive. However, Edwards theme was more effective. This is because he used several intense, fear inspiring words to drive his very point across. His theme was that without god we would go to hell. In lines 29-35 he delivered this by quoting “ You probably are not sensible of this, you find you are kept out of hell, but do not see the hand of God…” Thus, emphasizing in that one quote that the reason that mankind have not perished yet is because God is showing mercy to us. Throughout, this parable Edwards used intense, powerful and hand to understand dialect. For example in lines 115-119 it says “ … you have no interest in any mediator, and nothing to lay hold of to save yourself.... Nothing that you can do, to induce God to spare you one moment.” This quote makes it appear or seem as though the preacher was yelling or screaming at his congregation. In addition in both Hawthorne and Edwards writing they shared similar themes. Both of these themes were about sin and how everyone has a secret sin but without God we would all go to hell because of theses...
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...My Day in Hell One day I was making my way to room 331 for my Personal Finance class, taught by the worst teacher in the entire school: Mrs. Gisel. I arrived at the door and there was caution tape on it. My initial thought was “Oh, it’s the day before Halloween, she’s just trying to be festive,” I entered. The room looked normal; it was bleak and boring just like any other day. The only difference was that Mrs. Gisel wasn’t in there, and her office door was closed with the lights off. It was cold in there, as always. I had always thought that it was that way because Mrs. Gisel was a cold-hearted lady. My class sat there for five minutes, until the door to her office opened, and out stepped the disciplinarian herself. At first I thought she was sporting a costume, as she had Satan-horns on top of her head. They looked as if she had a professional make-up artist put them on, but upon closer inspection, they looked...
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...hill he was doing” (32). Scout does not realize how rude she is being in this setting. She thinks that she is just asking a everyday question, but in reality she is offending Walter by pointing out one of his unique habits. Due to her immaturity, Scout did not understand exactly what was going on in this situation. Another time Scout has not understood is when she is with her father Atticus and her brother Jem. The three of them are together in front of a jail protecting a man in the jail from a mob trying to get him. Scout then sees a familiar face in the crowd and strikes a conversation, which Atticus questions what she is doing. In response, Scout says “Well, Atticus, I was just sayin’ to Mr.Cunningham that entailment's are bad an’ all that, but you said not to worry, it takes a long time sometimes… that you all’d ride it out together…” I was slowly drying up wondering what idiocy I had committed. Entailment seemed all right...
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...“Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” by Jonathan Edwards and “The Minister’s Black Veil” by Nathaniel Hawthorne, are both stories that teach a religious lesson to the reader. These stories give different religious views about the thoughts of sin. The sins that you make throughout your life represent the choices you make and can determine the idea of whether you go to heaven or hell after death. In “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” Edwards gives a straightforward view on how people are going to hell. He says that “The devil is waiting for them, hell is gaping for them, the flames gather and flash about them, and would fain lay hold on them, and swallow them up.” This explains Edwards theme about how he views how bad sins are. He believes that if people can never go without sinning and are living to go to hell because of the slightest...
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...The Title of my book is Catcher In the Rye. JD Salinger wrote this book. Born January 1st 1919 to Marie and Sol Salinger in Manhattan, New York. He would go on to write one of the most popular books of all time. The Catcher in the Rye is his only novel but he did write more than one collection of short stories. This Book takes place in Pennsylvania and New York. It set around the 1950’s. The whole atmosphere is melancholy due to the narrator’s hatred for most things. “If there’s one thing I hate, it’s the movies. Don’t even mention them to me.” Goddamn money. It always ends up making you blue as hell.” The book is told in first person. Holden Caulfield, the 17-year-old narrator and protagonist of the novel, speaks to the reader directly from a mental hospital or sanitarium in southern California. Holden wants to tell what happened over a two-day period the previous year....
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...Ewells’ are guilty, Robinson was the one taking the blame. Robinson was only trying to help Mayella Ewell and she seduced him. She wasn’t beaten by Tom, she was beaten by her own drunken father. The Ewells’ lied to the jury and yet they got away with it because of their skin color. The townspeople are also guilty of being prejudice. When Calpurnia take the children to church, she was scolded by Lula, a black lady not satisfied with the sight of white children in her church. She said, “You ain’t got no business bringing white chillun here-they got their church and we got our’n. It is our church, ain’t it, Miss Cal?” (Lee 158). The children’s father, Atticus, was on a business trip for the Robinson trial; therefore they had to result in going to church with Calpurnia. Just because they were white, Lula wasn’t happy with the fact that they were there to practice the same religion under the same God. Blacks had separate churches than the whites and according to Lula, it should stay that way. Another way of...
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...seen wearing pants or working in a field, but they were welcome to accept this foreign religion. Hannah Heaton helps us realize what it was like for her to convert religions for a 20 year old women during the 1750’s. In the excerpt from Hannah Heaton’s diary, it sways me to believe that she was not found of a certain religion, but that she did in fact have knowledge of its concepts. She describes the day that she traveled from her home in North Haven to new Haven, to listen to Mr. Tennant and Mr. Whitefield give a sermon. The book states that George Whitefield was perhaps considered the first celebrity in the transatlantic world (p171). Heaton remarks that this was the strangest sermon that she had attended. Religion was not taken very seriously in the new world as it was in other parts of the world. These evangelists described ideas of religion that these people had never heard of before. They could actually have a relationship with their god instead of attending a long boring sermon and then going about their everyday lives. They could worship this god everyday and not just on holy Sunday. These sermons of the Evangelists seemed to frighten Heaton to the point where she could not think during her normal routines. The spread of religion during the Great Awakening could be slightly compared to the spread of trends we have in current time. It was the popular thing to do, whether or not it was considered good or bad. Her sister Elisabeth and even her father tried to convince...
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...her two years of events that took place during her childhood. Throughout the novel, It talked about the hierarchy between “White” and “Black” people. “White” people are superior while the “black” people are the inferior or the servants. These two race cannot be integrated and unfortunately, the inferior population suffers. However, they are some people in the story that shows courage. An example of Tom Robinson, Atticus Finch and Dolphus Raymond which I am going to explicate their concept of courage. Among by the novel, Tom Robinson is one of the black people who undergo the test of Maycomb’s racism. Tom was accused of raping Mayella Ewell. Mayella is lonely and unhappy. She has never had any friends, nor any love or affection in her life, and the only person who has been decent to her is Tom Robinson. In Chapter 19, Mr. Gilmer asks Tom, "Why were you so anxious to do that woman's chores?" He continues to ask questions about this until Tom says, "Yes suh. I felt right sorry for her, she seemed to try more than the rest of 'em” (263-264). This is an evidence that Tom is a good and pragmatic person....
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...Will had his friends, Scott Jackson, and Alonzo Walling perform this process. They both were dental students at the Ohio College of Dental Surgery. Even stranger, Mr. Jackson was known to be part of a satanic coven one that often practiced rituals in the abandoned slaughterhouse. On the morning of February 1st 1896, Pearl had left her home and told her parents she was going to Indianapolis. This would be the last time her parents ever saw her alive. She soon met up with Mr. Jackson and Mr. Walling; the three of them crossed the Ohio River into Kentucky. When they arrived in an open field, they decided to perform the abortion. At first, they attempted to perform a chemically induced abortion using a white powder. It was later noted in the autopsy of her body, that this powder was cocaine. When this didn’t work, the story takes a very dark turn. Jackson took out his dental instruments and attempted to perform the procedure, he botched it even further. Pearl Bryan was bleeding intensively. Frightened by their actions, they decided to put Pearl out of her agony and...
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