Imagine people turning on each other and accusing people they have known for years because of the fear they have. That is exactly what happened in the videos of 1960 and 2003 of “The Monsters are Due on Maple Street” by Rod Serling. Fear is being caused by people finger pointing and assuming they are terrorists or aliens. All of this chaos causes they fear the people have. We all know for a fact that fear of the unknown can cause people to turn on each other. To begin with, all of the chaos and
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The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton is about gang rivalry between two social classes, the poor and powerless Greasers and the rich and appealing Socs. The Greasers disliked the Socs because they believed the Socs had everything easy with their money and privileges. On the other hand, the Socs have been always drunk and choose to pick fights with the Greasers. These gang fights, or “rumbles” would usually consist of violence, brutality, and competition, and result in bruises, wounds, and at times, death
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Nathaniel Hawthorne’s 1850 novel, The Scarlet Letter, centers around the story of an adulterous new mother named Hester Prynne and her struggles of living in the rigid Puritan society of Salem, Massachusetts, in the early 1600’s. Mostly the book is based off of the central biblical themes of sin, punishment, and forgiveness, however Hawthorne take it a step further by including numerous biblical allusions throughout the text. By both alluding to and specifically citing parts of the bible, the author
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The Rhinoceros Beetle is a passage that Susan Hawthorne wrote about a guy who's from town and fearless of anything that might be scary for other. He had several insects that he played with and used to threaten his classmates. Besides, he was the intelligent kid who knew about the insects most specifically and details. The tone of the story or passage seems to be scary. The word and language level of the author in this passage suggests the tone to be scary. For example, in the sixth paragraph
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In Lord of the Flies, Golding made a point to only include young white English boys in his book. This book, published in 1954, had these boys stranded on an island, with the oldest once there only being about 12 years old. No girls, no minorities. Why? If girls and minorities were also stranded on the island, the self-established hierarchy would put them at the bottom, and they would be in a dangerous situation. While we don’t know the setting in the book time wise, we do know that the author was
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Percy jackson and carter kane By: Tim clay The lives of Percy and carter are not normal. They are very different from normal mortals (Humans). They fight monsters, demons, titans (Are stronger evil gods), and gods. Percy jackson from the percy jackson series, by rick riordan and carter kane from the kane series by rick riordan, I think that they are both brave because they fight evil and they save the world. Percy jackson and carter kane are brave. My First reason is that they are brave because
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In the poem “summer Solstice, New York City,” Sharon Olds uses similes and metaphors to reveal the humans have a need to protect and preserve life as a community. Olds begins to use literary terms early in her poem to emphasize how protection is an important and recurring aspect in everyday life. When the suicidal jumper threatens to jump off the building, one of the police “put on a bullet-proof vest, a black shell around his own life,” (8-9). The policeman putting on the bullet proof vest portrays
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What exactly defines a monster? Is it the fear felt when it’s nearby, or the uncertainty of what it truly is? Monsters have been present in our society since the beginning of time. Monsters have taken the identity of vampires, ogres, giants, zombies and much more. Many times, each of these creatures represents a social abnormality or fear. The monsters do not choose to be viewed as monsters but instead are subject to persecution by those who created them. In Scott’s Blade Runner, replicants and the
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In The Wife's Story and What Of This Goldfish Would You Wish, there is an idea that you should either accept people for who they are or treat them differently because they are not the same as you. In both of these stories there is someone who is different than the main character and in both cases they ended up harming the other one due to them being different, although they still showed no real hatred towards the individual that they harmed. To clear up the reasoning or meaning to those who are different
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After reading an excerpt from “The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass,” I personally learned the cruelty of enslavers, how Douglass felt about slavery, and why he wished to be an animal. Frederick Douglass was born into slavery in 1818, and he wrote a book called “The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass,” which was written about his unutterable experiences as a slave. I learned on a personal account of how he felt, and the thoughts soaring through his mind. In the excerpt, Douglass
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