...technologically advanced house with all sorts of mechanical wonders, which the children soon come to put on a pedestal and worship. The children also develop a disturbing reliance on all of the machines that are in their new home. The parents notice the house acting strangely and decide to shut it off, but the children don’t take it very well and it doesn’t end well for the parents. In the story Bradbury has created a utopia, but in the case of Bradbury’s creation, a lot of things go wrong, and the Hadleys’ world is turned on its head. Bradbury’s poetic writing style takes the reader out of the everyday world and into a fantasy world, not unlike a child’s fantasy. The world of “The Veldst” takes children’s fantasy and makes it concrete. Phrases in the story such as “Nothing is too good for our children” and “Every home should have one” (Bradbury, “The Veldt”) bring the reader’s attention to the material worship that dominate many American households. Warner 2 In this dark and troubling story, Bradbury shows the dangers that are quite possible with the speed and advancement of technology and how important communication between families are during those times. What started as an advantage and a main point of desirability of their home becomes the main source of turmoil. Both parents have a difficult time finding a sense of fulfillment as parents, as they have been replaced by their new home. At multiple points in the story they consider shutting the house down to have a “normal”...
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...seems I need to get out of here...” I turn to my laptop and I open the lid. “HI THERE!!!” Says Gerald, my virtual assistant. “How can I help YOU today Joe?” I think for a second. “Can you hack into the electric fence over there and turn it off?” “SURE THING BUDDY!!!” He screams through the screen. I see the electric fence turn from grayish blue to plain gray. “Thanks… I guess…” I mutter. “UR WELCOME BUDDY!!!!” Gerald screams again...
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...Screenplay INT. HOUSE ON SYCAMORE Door bell rings. Brice opens the door to find his acting partner, Margaret patiently waiting at the front. Meanwhile Jeff and Joey sit on the couch under blankets watching TV, eating popcorn. BRICE Margaret! So nice to see you found our place. MARGARET Of course I found it! You can run but you’ll never hide. Jeff and Joey roll eyes. BRICE Ha, that’s my Margaret. Except let’s keep the creepy talk for our rehearsal shall we? Margaret looks confused. BRICE Gentlemen meet Margaret, Margaret, meet Jeff and Joey aka our audience for this evening. Brice grabs the TV remote and turns off the TV. Jeff and Joey are not pleased. JEFF Thank god I popped a xanex. JOEY And popcorn. JEFF Whatever it takes to relieve the pain. BRICE Jeff! Margaret notices Joeys Black eyes. MARGARET Oh my dear! Speaking of pain what happened to your eyes, Joey?? (CONTINUED) CONTINUED: 2. JEFF I ordered sock’em boppers. JOEY I wouldn’t recommend facing Jeff in a match. Unless you don’t mind your eye balls sticking to the back of your skull. MARGARET I love the feel of sticky eye balls. Slight pause. BRICE Okay! Lets get started shall we? MARGARET Absolutely! Reading from scripts Brice and Margaret start acting out their roles. The sound of Brice and Margaret slowly turns muffled as the camera slowly zooms in on Jeff and Joeys painfully uninspired faces. Joey looks around and pretends to have a phone call. JOEY ...
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...Page 1 Shawn is walking down the street when all of the sudden he hears a woman scream, “AHHHHH help me! Please! HELP!” He turns the corner to see a young lady falling. Shawn jumps into action and flies up to save the poor girl. Shawn catches her 10 feet from the ground and flies away after dropping her off. Page 2 (A long way away) Luke is on his farm, plowing the fields to plant fresh crops. Suddenly Luke sees something, all the animals have gotten loose he pushing down the pedal all the way and the tractor roars over there. He scares all the animals into the pin, saving the day in his own way. Page 3 (Back at the city) Shawn is frustrated, talking to himself he screams “That girl almost fell today, if i was any later…” he trails off....
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...down at the sandwich on the counter one last time. Our eyes grow wide and our mouths drop. The bread is blue and hardened, the lettuce is wilted and the tomato is mush. Flies are flying around the plate as if the sandwich had sat there for months or years even. It has a foul odor and all three of us plug our nose. Suddenly the grandfather clock begins to chime and we jump in fright. A blood curdling scream comes from the mantle. We run into the living room, to find the statue oozing blood yet again. This time she glares at us with menace. Tickety...
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...movability, and lightweight. Well Dirt Devil took creativity to the next level in there commercial! That’s say Dirt Devil put horror and comedy in there commercial, just to give their audiences the creeps. Also comedy for good laughter, because who doesn’t enjoy a good laugh! Dirt Devil did, and took 70’s horror movie- The Exorcist, and a lovely old lady using a Dirt Devil vacuum into a commercial. Dark foggy night an old stone house, an elderly man dressed as a priest. A middle aged woman with a scared expression on her face, as If she just seen death its self-staring at her. The woman opens the door to let the priest in. The priest mumbles something to the woman. The priest hears terrifying screams coming from up stairs. He slowly, cautiously goes up the stairs. The priest slowly opens the wooden door, from were the fearful screams are coming. As he goes in the room, there is a silence. An empty bed straight ahead of him, and a book that looks like a bible, opening its pages by it self. The priest looks up and finds the source of the strange screams: a young woman hanging from the ceiling. The woman is screaming in agony and in pain, moving uncontrollably on the ceiling. She looks, as she is possessed by the devil. Screaming as If she needs help and then there is a turning point in the commercial. An old woman that could be a mom is cleaning her carpet with a Dirt Devil vacuum. The woman enjoying cleaning and swaying left and right to the music....
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...The Quest for Happiness People's quest for happiness seems to be fueled by the 'pretty things' they surround themselves with. In D.H Lawrence's "The Rocking Horse Winner", this pursuit results in destruction. Paul's brutal death is the logical conclusion to the misguided values and beliefs his mother instills in him that are validated by the personified house. The whispering and screaming of the house represent that, in Paul's family, more money leads to more misery. A potent sense of paranoia spilts up the family with the unspoken phrase "There must be more money! There must be more money!" (255). The house begins to scream when Hester spends the five thousand dollars her son secretly wins for her. She spends this sum of money quickly without regret, and without putting any amount aside to save. This frightens Paul, and he becomes "wild-eyed and strange, as if something were going to explode in him" (264). The house begins to scream as the growing need of money becomes stronger. The change fo the house's whispering to screaming because of Hester's craving to spend money on worthless things shows that the pursuit of happiness through wealth is futile. Paul's mother often values the material things in life. However, what she values most in luck. Hester interjects inot her son that "If you're lucky, you have money. That's why it's better to be born lucky than rich"(256). After talking with his mother, Paul wants luck, only so...
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...The squeaking sound actually was a person and it said, “We are stragglers from the ocean and it was so cold outside that we came into your house for some...
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...that days she’s never been back to the woods. Rapunzel often thinks theres something she could have done to help them, but the doctors told her she would have died. Whenever she thinks about it she gets emotional remembering her parents piercing screams as her feet padded the ground. They were going on a fishing trip to the The Spot as they called it. Rapunzel and her parents had been there many times but the beauty of it never seized to amaze them. Being an only child had its perks, Rapunzel always got what she wanted but she was never stuck up about it.On the way to The Spot, they heard a crackling noise. Terrified, Rapunzel screamed as loud as a 7 year old could. Though her parents didn't want to say anything, they had a bad feeling something was going to happen. They told her that they were canceling the trip because they just got word that there was a storm coming. Even though she was sad, she listened so that they didn't get wet. As they were walking back, her parents were looking into the distance at the wildebeest jones. They told her to run to the house and that they would be behind her when she reached the house, they were just going to be picking up something for the house. When she was running she heard a loud pitching scream and started running harder. She went tot he neighbors and told them what she heard and to help her parents. After what felt like a million years, everyone came out of the forest or so she though. When Rapunzel saw her aunt come to get her, she asked...
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...The Three Little Pigs Rewrite Once upon a time there was a wolf who loved doing good things for people. The only thing he loved more was his mother. One day she sat him down and told him that it’s time for him to move out and find a house and family for himself. So he packed up his stuff and moved out, but first he made sure to say goodbye to his mother, his father, and his grandma and grandpa. Somewhere else in the world the same thing was happening to 3 little piggies who are brothers. Their mom sent them out to go build a home and find a family. Later that day Great Good Wolf was walking on a tiny road through the forest when suddenly he heard someone scream “HELP” so he dropped his bags and ran towards the screams. When he got there...
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...A scream echoes outside. The drumlike thumping of the monster's feet rattled all the houses. This is the beginning of the end of my story. It all started on a glooming summer morning; the sun was tucked away behind the Iron Mountain, which cast a shadow on our village, Lancaster. This was nothing unusual, for this happened every day. We lived at the foot of the mountain and never experienced the sun shining against our skin or the rays beaming on our eyes. My family was one of the few who were left of the abandoned project to find riches in the Iron Mountain. We were never able to leave because we had all been genetically adapted to the dense air around us; if we were exposed to the pure oxygen we would suffocate. I had heard many stories...
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...old man has never mistreated or insulted the man. He wasn’t after the old man’s gold or possessions either, he just hated the old man’s eye so in order to completely rid himself of the eye he had to murder the man. The murder was a very creepy and elaborate process. I think that another obstacle that the narrator faces is his “mad mind”. The man can’t think straight and has insanely good hearing. The night of the murder the narrator wakes up the old man accidentally and can hear everything he does while he’s awake. He can hear the pounding of the old man’s heart loud and clear. Once he kills the old man he dismembers him and places his body parts throughout the house. Later that night around four in the morning a few men of the local police force show up after receiving news of a scream coming from the house. The narrator says that it was his while having a dream yet the men look around...
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...Stuck in her daydream Been this way since eighteen But lately her face seems Slowly sinking, wasting Crumbling like pastries And they scream The worst things in life come free to us 'Cause we're just under the upper hand And go mad for a couple grams And she don't want to go outside tonight And in a pipe she flies to the Motherland Or sells love to another man It's too cold outside For angels to fly Angels to fly Ripped gloves, raincoat Tried to swim and stay afloat Dry house, wet clothes Loose change, bank notes Weary-eyed, dry throat Call girl, no phone And they say She's in the Class A Team Stuck in her daydream Been this way since eighteen But lately her face seems Slowly sinking, wasting Crumbling like pastries And they scream The worst things in life come free to us 'Cause we're just under the upper hand And go mad for a couple grams And she don't want to go outside tonight And in a pipe she flies to the Motherland Or sells love to another man It's too cold outside For angels to fly An angel will die Covered in white Closed eye And hoping for a better life This time, we'll fade out tonight Straight down the line And they say She's in the Class A Team Stuck in her daydream Been this way since eighteen But lately her face seems Slowly sinking, wasting Crumbling like pastries They scream The worst things in life come free to us And we're all under the upper hand Go mad for a couple grams And we don't want to go outside...
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...The footsteps got closer and I started to run. The forest was dark but I could see my house in the distance, if I could just keep running I could make it home. Just as I reached my house, I smashed into what seemed like body at high speed. “Fuck, that hurt.” I whispered as I rubbed head, it felt like I had ran straight into a wall. My head was stinging and I stumbled backwards before a pair of ice-cold hands held me just where my crop top stopped. The person covered my mouth in order to stop me from screaming, I tried to bite him but it felt like I had just bitten a stone. He threw me over his shoulder and carried me towards further into the woods. It was as if I was weightless to the person. “If you scream, you’ll regret it.” He said in a cold voice. I didn’t try to scream or resist, I was afraid the person would hurt me. He walked for a while with no trouble; we entered a dark house that looked abandoned. Oh, I was going to die here, I thought. He carried me into what looked like a sitting room; he placed me down, turned on the dim lighting and walked towards me. I moved backwards, until my back hit a wall. I cast a longing glance towards the door he had just closed. “Oh, sweetheart. You don’t even want to consider it.” He said in a, raspy, deep and seductive voice. “What do you want from me?” I asked stupidly, I shouldn’t have said anything. “It’s simple…” He began to move closer to me and my heart skipped a beat, I didn’t bother taking his profile...
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...Raven, a young girl, is walking home with her mother’s lottery ticket in her back pocket. While walking home she runs into one of her ex best friends that grabs the lottery ticket out of her back pocket. Her ex best friend, London, then switches her lottery ticket with a different one. Raven starts to rush home before the streetlights come on. She doesn’t want her mother to miss the numbers. Just barely making it be for the lights come on Yolanda, her mother, starts to scream outside the apartment window. “ Hurry up Raven they about to show the numbers” Yolanda says. Raven starts to run up the stairs as fast as she can. Busting threw the door running towards the TV her mothers screams the numbers. Looking at the ticket Raven’s mouth drops. So far all of the numbers are correct and they both wait for the last set of numbers. Not thinking they will win the announcer says the winning number for the mega millions. “3-8-1” the announcer says. Raven looked at the numbers shown on the TV and then looked at the ticket and says nothing. Yolanda automatically thought that they lost and just turned the TV off. Yolanda walks off in shame and then, Raven runs up to her mother screaming that they won. Her mother thought she was crazy so she turned the television back on and looked at the ticket. They jumped up and down in joy. Yolanda calls her job to let them know that she quits and told them never to call her again. Raven is so excited that she calls her new boyfriend Monte to tell...
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