Describing a Place Essay

In this passage from this memoir, The Glass Castle, Jeanette Walls explains how Welch was a place full of people who liked to fight due to the harsh nature of the town. Walls illustrates this explanation by describing the reasoning behind people’s rough attitudes in Welch, and why these attitudes evolve into fighting. Walls purpose is to show how Welch was a place of negativity and obscurity in order to justify how she and her family had to survive and live in a town like Welch. Walls claims…

A marriage is a beautiful thing, but sometimes the marriage can be complicated. It is not always a marriage between two people can keep the love, and keep their marriage, as they promise when they get married. Some people are getting a divorce, and moving on and falling in love with another person. Reconciliation is a short story written in 2006 by Polly Clark. The story is about the main character Laura who is alternate between marriage and divorce. Laura is a first-person narrator because in…

In chapter four, Alice Goffman analyzes how ones legal troubles are turned into personal resources to be used for one’s own gain. She describes how many young men find themselves using jail as safe havens from violent conflict back home. Normally, young men on 6th street find themselves running away from anyone resembling a police office, but do the direct opposite after a dice game turns into an upright neighborhood war. “I watched the remaining members of the 6th street boy gang get taken into…

also in Macon. Before Tyler even begins describing the scene the demeanor is already implied by the weather. This part of the novel takes place in the dead of winter just after a snowstorm. Winter is usually associated with the cold and that piercing wind chill that goes right through you. Therefore, the reader can detect that Macon’s house will most likely correspond with the ambiance of the weather. Tyler starts the scene off outside of the home, describing it as untouched but yet dingy in…

The tone of Tocqueville’s letter is serious, honest, and sarcastic. Towards the end of the letter, his tone was serious when he was describing the native Indians that were being removed from their land. He was describing a women that was of a hundred and ten years of age; he explains how she was naked except for a blanket that was covering her. When Tocqueville was talking about the women he said, “I have never seen a more frightening figure.” Here he was being both serious and honest. In the…

the universe. In John the Word is viewed as divine Wisdom, and cosmic Reason. Christ in pre-human form was what was used to form heaven and earth. In John the Word became flesh and begin to live amongst the people of earth. This can be seen when describing the account of creation from Genesis 1 within the text of John. John depicts this by saying, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning.” (New International Version, John…

claims in his article that this generation is characterized as procrastinators, irresponsibility, and self-concern. He concludes with a list of some actions which can be useful to break the stereotype about millennials. Oleksinski begins his post by describing some contributions of the baby boomer generation and of the millennials. The baby boomers invented computers, while the millennials, have just contributed with emojis and Tv Recaps. The author admits: “I’m powerless to my biological age”,…

In Macbeth, Shakespeare documents the titular character’s transformation from a loyal general to a homicidal tyrant. Throughout the play, the audience can identify changes in Macbeth’s character via his four soliloquies. During his first soliloquy, Macbeth exhibits doubts towards the plan to seize the throne. Fearing that his struggle would not end with the king’s death, the conflicted protagonist argues that the seizure of the throne by violent means may bring about a violent end in return.…

"Tartarus of Maids" the setting is described in elaborate detail. It is set in New England, which is now known as the United States. In the first page of the text, the narrator describes a paper mill in the middle of the mountains. This is a very peculiar place for a mill and it seems hard to get to because the narrator describes it as an "adventure" (84). This not only shows the eagerness of the narrator to embark on his journey, but the naiveness behind his interest about the world. In…

constantly ridiculed because of his innocence, and how the “white and privileged” characters are superiorly portrayed emphasize the contrast of between the “civilized” and “primitive” in the film. O'Byrne describes the “Bushman” primitive ways by describing their home as what “looks like a paradise,” and quickly proceeds to changing his diction to resonate with…