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Jackie Passaretti
12/10/2011 10:49:22 pm
Jackie Passaretti
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Allyssa
12/11/2011 01:02:37 am
Allyssa Proulx
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Allyssa Proulx
12/11/2011 01:06:12 am
a prim and proper face, walking against the crowd as an evident leader, and the reader can see that Queenie sees herself as someone above it all. She is not a literal queen, but has the sense of one, and by her bold actions you are able to tell that she is a bit pretentious. As a reader you are able to see that she would never go for a guy like Sammy, no matter how valiant and heroic he may try to act later on in the story. You can tell that Sammy’s infatuation is going to lead him to some sort of rash decision in order to try to impress Queenie, making for a more effective climax when he actually does quit his job for her and is snubbed as the reader knew he would be. After he quits, “they keep right on going,” indifferent to what Sammy saw as a way to win over Queenie’s heart. As the reader, you see what Sammy doesn’t, and simply watch as he falls under the ridiculous spell of a pretty girl that will always be out of his reach.
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Allyssa Proulx
12/11/2011 01:08:35 am
*Sorry, I pasted one part wrong. Where it says "love of the love of the idea of a person" it should just say, "love of the idea of a person."
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Rocco Petito
12/11/2011 03:22:30 am
Rocco Petito
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Lauren Teixeira
12/11/2011 04:55:19 am
Lauren Teixeira
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Ryan Marshall
12/11/2011 05:57:12 am
Ryan Marshall
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Ryan Marshall
12/11/2011 05:59:33 am
Nobody ever says we're the bad guys, we're going to beat shit out of the good guys.” (Caryl Churchill) Just as Rainsford and Zaroff fought a physical war, they fought a war of ideals. With neither side claiming to be wrong, each one struggling to gain dominance over the other. War can be physical, or it can be mental. Just as a war can be fought with rockets and grenades, it can be fought with words. Humans are not the only species to war, for instance ants will war to gain land and food. Some will argue war is inevitable others will argue it is fought between the weak-minded, the dumb. Whatever the rhyme or reason, war is never a good thing and Richard Connell uses it to craft the characters of Rainsford and Zaroff. Zaroff being an egotistic, power-hungry individual perhaps corrupted by his time leading a cavalry division, and Rainsford being almost a symbol of veterans trying to continue on past the dark cloud war casts over their lives. In George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four he states that he who controls the present controls the past, and he who controls the past controls the future. Rainsford is now in control of his future and Connell gives the reader a few choices for interpretation. Rainsford can either rebuild or become the very evil he waged a war against.
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Jesse Brown
12/11/2011 06:13:55 am
Jesse Brown
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Dora Wu
12/11/2011 06:24:36 am
The mountain lion charges at the speed of light, racing towards the target. Just millimeters away from a snatch, the frightened, glossy eyes of the prey look back in horror. The hunter’s razor teeth sink into the prey as crimson blood splatters in all directions. Most people can go through life without the need to look back in fear that their life is about to end. In this world of predators and prey, the predators always end up on top. For as long as the earth has been spinning survival has been based on being the hunter, and not the hunted. The hunter instinct is always a part of human nature because humans are always the predator, survival is always in the forefront, and people put their own lives before others as show in ‘The Most Dangerous Game”.
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Catherine Streich
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dn't you go back to the house and tell your father right away? Why did you go and pick peas for an hour?’ Arnold gazed over his shoulder at his father, expecting his father to have an answer for this also.... It seemed odd now that he had not run back to the house and wakened his father, but he could not remember why he had not. They were all waiting for him to answer. ‘I come down to pick peas,’ he said.” Cruel heart or not, Arnold acted without thinking. One can easily assume that he is so inhuman that the decision to pick peas was not hard at all. But, because of the farm mentality, readers cannot be so sure. In fact, Uncle Andy brings back to attention the idea that Arnold was being reasonable and not cruel when all of their friends and neighbors are over. “‘He's a reasonable fellow,’ Andy explained. ‘That's what the sheriff said. It's us who ain't reasonable. If we'd of shot our brother, we'd of come runnin' back to the house, like a baby. Well, we’d of been unreasonable. What would of been the use of actin' like that? If your brother is shot dead, he's shot dead. What's the use of gettin' emotional about it? The thing to do is go down to the garden and pick peas. Am I right?’” Even Arnold’s close friends and family cannot figure out whether his actions were out of habit or hate.
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Gabrielle Granatiero
12/11/2011 06:45:19 am
The Battle
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Nicole Padrazo
12/11/2011 07:11:00 am
Nicole Padrazo
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Catherine Karbasi
12/11/2011 07:12:26 am
Catherine Karbasi Karbasi 1
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Nicole Padrazo (Part 2)
12/11/2011 07:12:43 am
imagination or not, he beings to love the change he was forced into, which is just a part of human nature.
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Wei Li
12/11/2011 07:13:30 am
Wei Li
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Wei Li
12/11/2011 07:14:29 am
From Zaroff’s actions, it can be inferred that he received a high-class education and he can appreciate the work of literature. But don’t let that persona fool you. Underneath it all is a darker, hellish side.
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Wei Li
12/11/2011 07:15:19 am
However, his world outlook only brought him ephemeral stimulation and sense of achievement. In the end, he met his match. Under this outlook, he paid the ultimate price, his life. He who plays with fire will get burned – an unfortunate disaster.
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Caroline Preston
12/11/2011 07:38:30 am
Caroline Preston
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Caroline Preston
12/11/2011 07:41:10 am
Shirley Jackson combines her narrative “paints” creatively to portray vivid literary “colors” from primary tones, which is why her story is so effective and fascinating.
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Hannah Toolson
12/11/2011 07:42:01 am
The morning begins at the crack of dawn, when only a minuscule amount of the fiery sun is visible on the horizon, and continues until the night shows its deepest, eeriest black, which signals the end. Throughout the day, from dawn to dusk on a farm, many tasks are completed in order to be successful. The cattle are milked, the sheep are turned out, and the chickens are fed, at the same time every day, on a strict routine that must be followed. If a certain task is skipped or misdone, it’s like a domino effect - everything suffers. The routine mentality on a farm is extremely important due to the quality and quantity of production. For example, peas are best picked before they are warmed by the sun, so when the peas need to be picked, they will be picked. In the short story, The Stone Boy, by Gina Bearrault, the farm setting allows Arnold to be considered reasonable for continuing his task after he shot his brother, Eugie.
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Hannah Toolson
12/11/2011 07:42:59 am
Continued: Routine on a farm is vital in order for it to prosper and Arnold continued his job of picking the peas, even though Eugie died on a few moments earlier. In the end, Arnold’s actions were more beneficial than harmful for the farm, because if he had come running back to the house even though nothing could be changed about Eugie’s state, no peas would be able to be picked due to the warm sun then risen. Uncle Andy, the sheriff, and Arnold’s father looked at the logical perspective of things, and still accepted Eugie, unlike his mother, who no longer acted like a maternal figure towards him. The farm relied greatly on routine, and routine is what Arnold followed.
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Phoebe Wong
12/11/2011 07:54:21 am
Phoebe Wong
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Phoebe Wong
12/11/2011 07:55:06 am
how much The Lottery mean to the villagers and also how important the event is. Since the characters in the story are ecstatic and curious about setting up for The Lottery, and also the outcome, the reader is tricked into thinking that The Lottery must result in a good way. However, that is what the author intended to do. The author did not want the reader to be able to guess the ending, so Jackson used the characters’ actions to mislead the reader into thinking something totally different.
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Max Fertik
12/11/2011 08:04:32 am
Max Fertik Fertik1
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Lauren Teixeira
12/11/2011 08:34:12 am
Sorry about earlier, that was the wrong copy, please disregard it.
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Lauren Teixeira
12/11/2011 08:34:46 am
He’s at the edge of the cliff, just waiting to be pushed off. Fate’s getting ready, building up the suspense in the reader, and torturing Rainsford. As he struggles for his life in the forest, General Zaroff is simply treating this like a game, and was amused when he got injured, simply yelling up to Rainsford, “…You are proving interesting, Mr. Rainsford….But I shall be back. I shall be back.” The General is creating fear in him. He understands that the city boy is not accustomed to killing another human, and will try to avoid him for as long as possible before being put in the ultimate bind: Kill or be killed. Rainsford is getting desperate, and his morals are resulting to be difficult to uphold. He is slowly losing everything he chose to believe in while he’s out in that forest. The General was playing a game, one in which he never lost, and Rainsford was proving to be a worthy opponent. The desperate young man was realizing two things, “he could stay where he was and wait. That was suicide. He could flee. That was postponing the inevitable.” He finally understood how the jaguar felt, he understood the retched feeling of fear; fear of the unknown, fear of being caught, fear of death.
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Alexandra Freeman
12/11/2011 09:12:28 am
Alexandra Freeman
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Patrick Norton
12/11/2011 09:44:22 am
Patrick Norton
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patrick Norton
12/11/2011 09:45:29 am
cont.
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Thomas Basso
12/11/2011 09:48:27 am
Thomas Basso
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Gianna Chaves
12/11/2011 09:49:37 am
Gianna Chaves
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Alexandra Freeman
12/11/2011 09:50:09 am
Continued:
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Danielle Elson
12/11/2011 09:50:30 am
Danielle Elson
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Danielle Elson
12/11/2011 09:52:40 am
continued.....
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Taylor Vutech
12/11/2011 10:01:51 am
Taylor Vutech
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Sophie Cooke
12/11/2011 10:14:47 am
Sophia Cooke
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Nicole Morin
12/11/2011 11:02:16 am
Nicole Morin
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Kayla
12/11/2011 11:02:50 am
Kayla Carcieri Cassidy
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Ming-Yi Wu
12/11/2011 11:21:50 am
I am taking a lot of risks in this essay…..
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Ming-Yi Wu
12/11/2011 11:22:24 am
The end of Zaroff’s rule has indeed began the reign of another……
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Adam Sticca
12/11/2011 11:23:20 am
Adam Sticca
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Adam Sticca
12/11/2011 11:23:56 am
(the rest)
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Charlotte Palmer
12/11/2011 11:24:45 am
Charlotte Palmer
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John
1/30/2017 04:25:21 pm
Charlotte-
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12/11/2011 11:25:54 am
Jackie Sidman
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Charlotte Palmer
12/11/2011 11:25:56 am
that of a horse or dog. He understands not the power of the fear he places in their hearts. The trembling. The sweating and shivering. The clammy hands and dry tongues. The helplessness. The hopelessness. The fear of the hunt.
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Tara Sidhu
12/11/2011 11:28:10 am
Every day millions of people across America wake up and head straight towards the espresso machine to make their ritual morning cup of coffee. This is a part of their everyday routine; something upon which they can rely, something that keeps them in their comfort zone. These coffee worshippers never wonder what would happen if they ran out of coffee grounds. How would a lack of coffee affect the rest of their day? After all, it’s the same thing every day. Yet that one, small cup of coffee is so much more than that; it is the reason why most people are still awake halfway through the day and not yelling in frustration at the smallest problem. This idea proves that even the tiniest detail can have a profound effect on a person’s life. Humans generally fear change because our nature is to desire comfort and routine, however in Fernando Sorrentino’s “There’s a Man in the Habit of Hitting Me on the Head with an Umbrella” the story examines how if a person accepts change in a positive way it can have a positive impact on his life. Most coffee drinkers are heavily dependent on the dark, bitter substance, and would surely crash without it. For more addicted drinkers, the mere thought of a day without coffee is something to be horrific. Thinking back upon their addiction, though, most consumers realize that they could not stand the drink as kids. Just like the man who is pursued by insistent blows on the head with an umbrella, who admits that “at first I couldn’t stand it, now I’m used to it.” The drinking of the once hated coffee is helping the average American adult get through the day and the blows help the man being hit with an umbrella “sleep so soundly” because these actions have become a part of a comfortable routine they do not want to change. Still, the gloomy cloud of doubt hangs over their heads, telling them that one day, they will forget to buy coffee grounds or Nespresso capsules; that someday the man will stop hitting his head with an umbrella, and their lives will slowly take a turn for the worse. Pondering this idea five years later, the man pursued by a maniac with an umbrella wonders “if it would be better for the bullet to kill him or to kill me.” After becoming dependent on a light umbrella tapping on the head, or a nice cup of java in the morning, it becomes impossible and scary to imagine a life without these dependences because of the frightening change it would bring. Still haunted by this dull man who has nothing to do but hit him on the head with an umbrella, the tortured man decides to run away. His efforts to escape are futile. The middle-aged man in grey continues to follow him, through the streets and onto the bus, where it is much easier for surrounding people to see what is happening to the poor, suffering man. Instead of realizing that the man is being tormented by the blows he continuously suffers, his fellow passengers begin to laugh and mock him. The man “was burning with shame,” for the same reason any other person would be. He was different. By simply being tapped with an umbrella he was singling himself out from the crowd in a bad way. The change seemed awful to him because this new phenomenon of being hit on the head with an umbrella led to ridicule from strangers, and was therefore undesirable. Part of why people fear even the smallest change to their daily habits is because they are afraid it will change the way they are perceived. The man was viewed differently on the bus, but he was forgiving when “it also occurred to me that they had probably never seen such a spectacle.” By ignoring the others’ comments he was beginning to accept his new appearance without worrying about any negative effects it could have which is showing the positive impact the change had on him. By the end of the story, the man being hit on the head with an umbrella has come to terms with the small annoyance he suffered at first. He realizes that he “couldn’t live without those blows” because they have become a part of his new dependence in the cycle of change. Both men once again fear the drastic change that will be made by the umbrella man’s departure because though it would be a return to the old, it would also be a fearful venture towards the new. The man, who has been enduring the blows for five years, has “anxiety stemming from the thought that this man, perhaps when I needed him most, will depart” because he has become so accustomed to this positive change that at first seemed so unbearable. After five years of being hit on the head with an umbrella it seems impossible for him to imagine life without the taps which he objected to at first. Just as most Americans cannot survive without a good ‘ole cup of Joe every morning, the incessant taps of an old umbrella have become a positive chang
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12/11/2011 11:28:21 am
use reason. The general feels that the instincts of an animal are too predicable and that reason is far superior to instinct. In the end Rainsford proved that humans do use instinct and that instinct can trump reason by beating General Zaroff and winning the game.
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Tara Sidhu
12/11/2011 11:29:32 am
contd.
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Caroline Blessing
12/11/2011 11:29:34 am
Caroline Blessing
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Caroline Blessing
12/11/2011 11:30:30 am
Just as you are surprised by the number of skips the dull stone does across the ocean surface, rather than the expected first plunge. But when we realize the ability of something observed as cold and dull, we are suddenly aware of its beauty.
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Katarina J. Diepholz -no, trust me spellcheck, my name is REALLY spelled like that....
12/11/2011 11:43:34 am
Katarina Diepholz
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Sam Rodriguez
12/11/2011 11:54:03 am
Sam Rodriguez
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Sam Rodriguez
12/11/2011 11:54:38 am
the situation. Tessie, on the contrary, is anxious and scared because the situation has finally affected her, and it finally matters to her what the outcome is. Breathing stops when the Hutchinson’s draw the slips, determining who will perish. As each person opens their slip to a negative, they sigh with relief. The situation no longer affects them. They are once more blissfully ignorant. When Tessie opens up her slip, she becomes the central part of the situation. She has been chosen. It is evident that she is in disbelief, especially when, “Bill Hutchinson went over to his wife and forced the slip of paper out of her hand.” Now that Tessie has been determined the only one affiliated with the situation, everyone else is ignorant. Mr. Summers even says, “All right, folks…let’s finish quickly.” When stoning her to death. Tessie’s final words are “It isn’t fair, it isn’t right!” She, as far as the reader knows, never uttered such words when anyone else in her lifetime was stoned to death as she was. She was directly affiliated with the situation, and therefore finally cared despite being so ignorant for many years prior.
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Austin Vutech
12/11/2011 11:54:56 am
Austin Vutech
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Tommy Sommer
12/11/2011 11:55:51 am
Thomas Sommer
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Austin Vutech
12/11/2011 11:55:58 am
when he had the chance. Zaroff was blinded by his want for the power of the hunter and this kills him in the end.
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Keira Meiser
12/11/2011 12:46:46 pm
Keira Meiser
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Keira Meiser
12/11/2011 12:48:51 pm
He was beginning to understand the feelings of the animals he hunted.
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Alana
12/11/2011 01:04:54 pm
Alana Mason
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Zoe Hinman
12/11/2011 01:05:40 pm
Zoë Hinman
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Zoe Hinman
12/11/2011 01:06:53 pm
trying to get a kid to calm down while getting a shot at the doctor’s office. They want her to be quiet, not because they feel bad, but because they are annoyed by her complaints. Everyone joins in to help as they sever with sharp rocks their ties to one of their own. This lack of caring for an individual person is shown in the quote, “Someone gave little Davy Hutchinson a few stones.” There isn’t even any love between a young boy and his mother. He becomes everyone else as she becomes anyone else.
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zoe hinman
12/11/2011 01:11:11 pm
whoops! sorry! made a typo. The last line of the first paragraph is supposed to be "Is a world without love truly better off than one with?
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zoe hinman
12/11/2011 01:16:36 pm
oh shoot i also got one of the quotes wrong it's "Someone gave little Davy Hutchinson a few pebbles"
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zoe hinman
12/11/2011 01:27:09 pm
last post i promise!!!
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Alana
12/11/2011 01:27:36 pm
Okay it says my lit analysis got posted at 12:04 but I swear I posted it at 11:57.
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Rayaan Faizan
12/11/2011 08:12:02 pm
Rayaan Faizan
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rayaan faizan
12/11/2011 08:13:40 pm
weak as a comparable adversary. This though will take out the class distinction of strong and weak, but there is a better chance that the one that is smart enough to believe their opponent is actually good will win. This shows how Rainsford won because he believed that Zaroff was a good opponent so he fought extra hard to survive while Zaroff thought less of Rainsford and didn’t take the situation to seriously. This is why the strong will eventually fall from their underestimation of the weak’s abilities.
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Taylor Vutech
12/12/2011 05:32:02 am
To Sophie Cooke:
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Dora Wu
12/12/2011 05:42:33 am
To Catherine Streich:
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Danielle Elson
12/12/2011 05:45:32 am
To Taylor Vutech:
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Catherine Karbasi
12/12/2011 05:54:15 am
Your hook was enticing and grabbed my attention to continuereading. I liked the example you used in your introduction that led to your unique thesis. I thought that it was different in that you were talking about Social Darwinism … I didn't know what that was before. I thought the best portion of your essay was the conclusion, but more specifically the last line. You nicely reviewed your thoughts at the end and strongly finished by justifying your thoughts by using a question that leaves the reader thinking. I also want to point that you didn't block any of the quotes you used within your paper, instead you nicely introduced them.
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Catherine Karbasi
12/12/2011 05:55:25 am
... sorry mine was for Wei Li
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Alexandra Freeman
12/12/2011 06:27:15 am
Response to Patrick:
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Wei Li
12/12/2011 06:34:05 am
To Caroline Preston:
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To Gabrielle Granatiero:
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Ming-Yi Wu
12/12/2011 06:56:34 am
Response to Adam:
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Caroline Preston
12/12/2011 07:13:26 am
To Hannah Toolson:
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Hannah Toolson
12/12/2011 07:16:15 am
To: Phoebe Wong
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Tommy
12/12/2011 07:22:10 am
Keira
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Gianna Chaves
12/12/2011 07:23:59 am
Response to Danielle:
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Caroline Blessing
12/12/2011 07:31:30 am
To: Katarina Diepholz
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Tara Sidhu
12/12/2011 07:39:28 am
To Caroline Blessing:
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Kayla Carcieri Cassidy
12/12/2011 07:48:20 am
To Ming-Yi
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Paige
12/12/2011 07:49:42 am
To Jackie Passaretti:
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Ryan Marshall
12/12/2011 08:08:56 am
Response to Jesse Brown:
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Thomas Basso
12/12/2011 08:10:04 am
Review of Gianna Chaves
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Patrick Norton
12/12/2011 08:38:30 am
Comments for Thomas Basso
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Katarina Diepholz
12/12/2011 08:50:08 am
To sam:
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Max Fertik
12/12/2011 08:52:39 am
To Lauren Teixiera
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Jackie Passaretti
12/12/2011 09:47:46 am
To: Alyssa Proulx
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Jackie Passaretti
12/12/2011 09:49:24 am
please excuse all the grammar errors ;)
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Allyssa
12/12/2011 09:53:13 am
Rocco-
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Adam Sticca
12/12/2011 10:36:44 am
Charlotte-
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Sam Rodriguez
12/12/2011 10:46:24 am
To Austin Vutech:
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Sam Rodriguez
12/12/2011 10:48:37 am
P.S. Vu, sorry I used "also" so much. I'm tired.
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Gabrielle Granatiero
12/12/2011 11:05:39 am
To Nicole Padrazo:
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12/12/2011 11:15:38 am
I like how you keep going back to the coffee, you keep using it with the hating it at first to it becoming an addiction. It is very effective and relatable for the reader. You didn't block your quotes, which was good, but i feel you didn't analyzes the quotes too much. I'm a little unclear with how you proved your thesis, because you never explained how the change was a positive impact. You mostly stay on topic, but I think the quote "was burning with shame,” was a little random, but after finishing your paper I think you tied that piece in very nicely. overall very well done, but I think the thesis is slightly strange and you need a bit more analysis. well done =) ~Jackie Sidman
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Sophie Cooke
12/12/2011 11:33:06 am
Nicole-
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zoe
12/12/2011 01:08:56 pm
to: Rayaan
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Rayaan Faizan
12/12/2011 07:06:30 pm
To Jackie Passaretti:
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Nicole Padrazo
12/13/2011 03:46:34 am
okay so I have an explanation that I will share later on why this is so late.
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Lauren Teixeira
12/13/2011 05:31:30 am
For Alex Freeman:
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Charlotte Palmer
12/13/2011 06:48:56 am
Response to Jackie Sidman:
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Austin Vutech
12/13/2011 09:00:27 am
@ Tommy Summers
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Phoebe Wong
12/13/2011 11:08:31 am
I just realized my paper got cut off, so here's the rest:
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Phoebe Wong
12/13/2011 11:08:58 am
To Max Fertik:
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Keira
12/13/2011 11:15:40 am
Alana-
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Alana
12/13/2011 12:15:13 pm
Zoë-
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Nicole Morin
12/13/2011 12:30:58 pm
To Kayla Carcieri
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Tommy Sommer
12/14/2011 07:32:23 am
Thomas Sommer
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9/19/2012 01:28:35 pm
kudos! A trustworthy blog, thanks for putting an effort to publish this information. very informative and does exactly what it sets out to do. thumbs up! :)
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