ipl-logo

Alex's Lying: A Short Story

161 Words1 Page

Alex, sixteen, has just started in a boy 's school when he did not save a friend from drowning in the river on the campus. They fear the consequences if they reveal the truth, Alex and his friend Glen, who also witnessed the accident, decided not to lie. Guilty, Alex hid in the library, told him the story in the magazine that he had a copy of Dick. But the boys are not the only one in the river that day. In their panic. Miss dovecott, a young English teacher, arrived in Princeton from. Over the next several weeks, miss dovecott began to recognize Alex 's poetry; she helped him to find his voice, and GE was particularly excited by the teacher. But when it became apparent that miss dovecott had noticed that Alex 's writing was flashing, and

Show More
Related

  • Living Dead Girl Summary

    437 Words  | 2 Pages

    Living Dead Girl Summary Living Dead Girl by Elizabeth Scott is heartbreaking, devastating, and just plain wrong. At just ten years old, Alice, originally named Kayla, was taken from her family, friends, and loved ones. Ray took her and drove her away into the woods, where he beat her until she bled hard. Eventually, they made it back to Ray’s apartment, which was going to be Kayla’s new home for the next five years. Ray changed Kayla’s name to Alice.

    Read More

  • Literary Elements And Techniques In Tim Winton's Breath

    508 Words  | 3 Pages

    The initial sense of duty and responsibility towards saving a drowning boy quickly turns into a mixture of guilt and glee, as he realizes that he and his friend Ivan Loonie have been playing a cruel prank on the panicked onlookers. The narrator rises to the moment and attempts to wade into the river to save the boy, but is quickly upstaged by the sudden emergence of Ivan Loonie. Loonie's feral shriek startles the woman into falling back on the mud, while the narrator is left bouncing on the plank, watching the scene unfold. As Loonie starts to laugh and the woman charges into the water, lunging and swiping to no avail, the narrator feels more guilt than glee. However, as he continues to watch Loonie duck and feint and giggle, he realizes that he is more interested in being a part of the prank than standing by and watching it

    Read More

  • Alex Flunking Science Case Study

    78 Words  | 1 Pages

    Alex is flunking science, and he’ll fail out of college if he doesn’t get his act together soon. His professor helps him create a ‘swap chemical’ that turns male mice into females. Then Alex accidentally drinks it … and turns into a beautiful young woman! However, he misses the hand-in deadline and has to go plead to his professor, and show him how the potion worked!

    Read More

  • An Omniscient Narrator In Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton

    1025 Words  | 5 Pages

    This telling of a tragic story is able to influence the readers to romanticize the story of Ethan, Mattie, and Zeena, while the novel itself stays true to its naturalist roots. This is important in the development of the plot and the audiences connect to the characters as the readers begin to root on the forbidden love that Ethan and Mattie have, and then in turn, by the end of the novel have pity for all characters. Towards the end of the novel, the narrator has a conversation with Mrs. Hale about what he saw, which gives the readers yet another perspective of the story. “Mrs. Hale answered simply: ‘There was nowhere else for her to go;’ and my heart simply tightened at the thought of the hard compulsions of the poor” (pg. 179). This interaction between the narrator and Mrs. Hale further allows for irony to emerge as their descriptions of the emotions they felt towards the accident influence how the reader feels.

    Read More

  • Personal Narrative: Miss Porter's School

    1826 Words  | 8 Pages

    Time marched on; I was almost finished with my first quarter of classes. Mike Newton remained my shadow while Alice despite all my qualms, became my best friend. Her parents - particularly her mother - were even growing on me. I had spent a considerable amount of time at their home, and was included whenever they visited and took Alice out to dinner, to shop or to see a movie.

    Read More

  • The Crucible Lies And Deceit Essay

    432 Words  | 2 Pages

    The Crucible is a book written by Author Miller to illustrate all the lies and deceit that took place during the Salem Witch Trials of 1692-1693. There are so many different forms of lies and deceit present with in this book. But to me the three biggest are when Mary Warren and the girls, Putnam’s versusthe rest of the town and John Proctor vs Abigail. But the lies and deceit derail all of these.

    Read More

  • Symbolism In The Things They Carried

    788 Words  | 4 Pages

    In “A Rose for Emily,” the author, Faulkner, describes the life of a women after the death of her family and the abandonment of her friends. The story is about a female named Emily whose father dies of natural causes, and she is left with little money except for her house and an African American manservant. The manservant is a very loyal person who stays by Emily’s side till her own death. This story is depicted from the neighbor’s point about the lady Emily. It recounts her life as she lived it from an external perspective.

    Read More

  • The Bicycle, By Jillian Horton: Poem Analysis

    1221 Words  | 5 Pages

    Hannah experiences a transition from ignorance to knowledge. To begin with, after Hannah moves in with Tante Rose, she becomes consumed by her passion for piano. To her “there [is] nothing else in the world”

    Read More

  • Rhetorical Techniques In Sherman Alexie's Superman And Me

    606 Words  | 3 Pages

    In the seventh paragraph, 98% of Alexie’s sentences started with the word “I”. This emphasized all that he had done, everything he did to become a writer. It showed how persistent he was and how he had refused to give up. In most of these sentences the “I” was followed by “read”. This shows the extent of how much reading he did; how committed he was to reading.

    Read More

  • Tim O 'Brien's On The Rainy River'

    1015 Words  | 5 Pages

    The approach of autumn was well on its way. “Autumn’s hand was lying heavy on the hillsides. Bracken was yellowing, heather passing from bloom, and the clumps of wild-wood taking the soft russet and purple of decline. Faint odors of wood smoke seemed to fit over the moor, and the sharp lines of the hill fastnesses were drawn as with a graving-tool against the sky.” As Ellie drove down the road she was much more aware of all her surroundings.

    Read More

  • A Rose For Emily Isolation Analysis

    1189 Words  | 5 Pages

    In William Faulkner’s short story, A Rose for Emily, Emily Grierson, a prominent member of her small town, dies alone in her home. Upon her death, curious townsfolk entered her home trying to learn her secrets. It was thought she was crazy. Emily Grierson was not crazy; she was isolated by her father, which led to her odd social tendencies and unique interactions with others. A Rose for Emily is a short story based in a small town.

    Read More

  • Stephanie Ericsson The Ways We Lie Summary

    534 Words  | 3 Pages

    Why do people lie? According to the article by Stephanie Ericsson “The Ways We Lie” the white lie is people that lie because they believe that telling the truth can hurt someone or do more damage than good. The White lie to me is the most dangerous one. I have witness a white lie and it did more damage than good.

    Read More

  • The Lie Don Patterson Summary

    168 Words  | 1 Pages

    The poem The Lie by Don Paterson displays a lie as a young child who has been imprisoned which illustrates of how people try to forget their wrongs and lies. In the poem the narrator every day would nourish the lie which was seen as a 3 to 4 year old child. This imagery informs the reader on how a lie has to be carefully nurtured so it does not reveal itself to the outside world much the same how you have to teach a 3 to 4 year old child to make good decisions so it does not get itself hurt. The poem also metaphorically states how the child has been gagged and locked up tight in the dungeon. This helps the reader find deeper meaning on how people lock up their lies deep inside their head so they so that they can try to forget them.

    Read More

  • Speak Journal Response To Speak By Laurie Halse Anderson

    1218 Words  | 5 Pages

    She tries to navigate through her first year of high school, and it seems like the entire student body despises her; she feels more alone than ever. I will be analyzing and making connections to three specific elements in this novel: the search for one’s identity, Melinda’s inner conflict,

    Read More

  • Examples Of Suspense In A Rose For Emily

    710 Words  | 3 Pages

    “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.

    Read More

More about Alex's Lying: A Short Story

Open Document