Jessi Mann's Sacrifice: A Narrative Fiction

Last night, on September 12th, by 1337 Elington drive, Ms.Adela Strangeworth’s roses were supposedly vandalized by an unknown towns person. There has been speculation as to why a towns person vandalized Ms.Adela Strangeworth’s roses. Townspeople have recently called out Ms. Strangeworth for harassment in the form of letters that she sent them anonymously, and townsperson angered by Ms.Strangeworth’s letters most likely ruined her flowers. The roses were allegedly cut down with a knife or a similar sharp object and damaged by a lot of force. A few hours after Ms.Adela Strangeworth reported the incident, most townspeople were aloof about the matter, while others were sympathetic.

At the tender age of just 10 years old, just one day before her 11th birthday, Mary Bell would commit her first murder, she decided that at this point and time in her life she needed that fulfillment, her form of satisfaction. It was 1968 and Mary Bell and her best friend Norma Bell –were playing along the field in Scotswood, which was an inner-city suburb of Newcastle upon Tyne, New England, when they noticed a little boy playing, whose name was Martin Brown, whom was 4 years of age, when seeing the child they had approached him and asked him if he would like to play with them, 2 weeks prior to that Mary had been harassing and abusing the children in Scotswood, they had led martin into an abandon house and that was the end of that story, no one knew of the boy’s whereabouts after. A week later Martin Brown’s body was found by three boys in the abandon house, he was faced down with an open bottle of aspirin placed next to him. Police were alerted and since there had been no indication of foul play they had ruled it as an accidental death. Within moments after that Mary and Norma had broken into the local nursery and vandalized.

When he was assigned the story of the mutilated college girls found in the woods of Morgantown, he was very curious and ready to dig deep into the heart of the crime. The girls’ heads were missing, marks and cuts found on each body, seemed to be no pointing fingers as to who it was. Chase’s drinking buddy Shango adds humor throughout the book. Because of him we hear “behind the scenes” details on his case and his drunken thoughts seem to add to it. Alexandra Heyden, a psychiatrist in the book, appears to live a normal life outside of her office.

M.T.Anderson in his book Feed gives his readers hints to a crumbling futuristic society that he depicts to be caused by negative corporate consumerism that minute to minute bombardment of advertising and information streaming straight to a person’s brain, may be dangerous. He lays out in his book a blueprint for us to relate to our own society of today, and how this could affect our world around us or even being it to an end. Anderson gives us readers one, of his many examples in his book, on how this type of feed is bad and how consumerism it taking over their brains. This is illustrated when Violet screams at the rest of the group of teens on page (202) about how their feeds have consumed their lives.

Imagine any dystopian novel you have read recently. The plagued life they live, the crumbling government, and the aspiring heroine who attempts to make change to their world. “American Psychosis” is an article where the author, Chris Hedges examines the problems he sees in our society. He believes that our civilization is plagued by social media and criticizes American culture saying that everyone is the same. He pulls us in by talking about something we can all relate to, which in this case is the celebrities we see on TV.

Murder becomes a touchy subject to the college students; the author mixes together a suspenseful atmosphere throughout the community college the protagonist attends as the short story progresses. It almost feels like one is on the edge of their seat when reading it. William Faulkner’s short story, “A Rose for Emily,” displays suspense and tones of slight insanity, but it cannot compare to the undertones that lay beneath Stephen King’s work. The narrator’s foreshadowing of uncovering the truth through his own detailed point of view creates a well written short story dubbed “Strawberry Spring.” Skimming through the literary work, foreshadowing is an obvious detail that appears in the work several times.

She explains that it was important to part her life. Next, in “Confetti Girl” the tension comes from the point of view of school. Her and her father have a very different outlook on school. For example, in paragraph 13 it states that things are good until her

“A Rose for Emily” is a dark, suspenseful Gothic tale in which a young girl is put on a pedestal by a town who sees her as haughty and scornful. Miss Emily Grierson’s father controls her and her love life, pushing away all people until he dies and Emily is left alone. As her life goes on the townspeople watch her and judge Emily, almost turning her life into a spectacle to be talked about. At her death, a gruesome sight is unfolded when her lover of over forty years ago is found decomposed in her upstairs room. William Faulkner effectively builds epic suspense in “A Rose for Emily” by the unchronological order of the story, the treatment of Emily’s father towards her, and her family’s history of mental illness.

With her schedule filled with activities and keeping up with her grades she had no time to live the “real high school experience” or as she tells it, that was her excuse. Her life had always been consumed by mental illnesses and obsessions that she had never made close friends or developed socially beside her classmates. Always feeling drawn towards France and its culture, Jenny and

In The Essay “The News” Neil Postman demonstrates the problems with News on TV and the Psychology behind it of why our society continues to watch. Postman displayed many points that becuase television news is must appeal to everyone in a short amount of time; the coverage is often shallow and gives a false impression of the world. Neil Postman describes the time restrictions of (22 mins) because of commercials overtaking the news. This reflects “The News” as we know it to become a big piece of entertainment that has nothing to do with the intellectual information that affects our lives. The lack of in-depth look on News nowadays draws an Appearance vs. Reality that the News isn’t what It should be.

In that moment her second expectation will shatter. The kids are smart in their own unique ways. The teacher found out the kids were from the poor side of town and figured they would end up as failures. However, not all places can be perfect. There were drugs around, but unless someone went looking for drugs they were not within eye sight.

Stigmatizing Mental Illness Retarded. Stupid. Why do mentally ill people even get called these names? Is it based off of their actions, or what they do to other people, unintentionally? Mental illnesses do not affect just that individual, but everyone around them, as shown in the book “Of Mice and Men” by John Steinbeck.

“A Rose for Emily” is a unique short story that keeps the reader guessing even though its first sentence already reveals the majority of the content. William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” is the epitome of a work that follows an unconventional plot structure and a non-linear timeline, but this method of organization is intentional, as it creates suspense throughout the story. William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” follows an unusual plot structure, which creates an eccentric application of suspense to a short story. Throughout the story, there are no clear indications of standard plot structure in each section, such as intro, climax, and denouement. Instead, there are sections, which are not in chronological order, that describe a particular conflict or event, which in turn creates suspense, as each conflict builds upon each other to make the reader question the overall context and organization of the story.

Imagery, syntax, and irony are all used to create this horrific story. Jackson vividly describes the day in which this story takes place giving it a specific date, and describing it as a nice and full-summer day where “the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green” (539). Imagery helps to set a positive mood, and suspend reality to draw the reader into the story. The syntax evolves over the course of the story as the tone of the story changes. The story starts off with longer descriptive

She gets in trouble a lot at first because she does not know the rules and customs of an American school. She quickly becomes friends with social outcasts Janis and Damian who warn her to avoid the school’s most popular girls. The popular girls take in interest in her, so Janis asks her to pretend to be friends with the popular girls, so they could mess with them. She