Feelings In Charles Baxter's 'Gryphon'

In the short story “Gryphon”, by Charles Baxter, a 4th grade boy named Tommy goes to school in Five Oaks. Tommy lives an average life like kids today with not too much interest. Tommy does chores and has friends just like any other boy in the world. The school has average teachers and substitutes that sit there and cover things that they have already done weeks before. But one day Mr. Hibler, Tommy’s teacher, comes down with a serious cough and the substitute they get is far from normal.

One of the turning points of the book begins with Bigger taking an intoxicated Mary into her room, after Mrs. Dalton walks in Bigger becomes afraid of what Mary might say, and he accidentally suffocates her. Later it was more anger and fear that drove him to assault

Imagery portrays the image that the tree and family are connected by similar trails and burdens. Her uses of metaphor, diction, tone, onomatopoeia, and alliteration shows how passionate and personal her and her mother’s connection is with this tree and how it holds them together. There is a difficult decision ahead the mother and daughter both analyze the advantages and disadvantages to cutting down this tree. They have a dispute (line1) and “talk slowly, trying in a difficult time to be wise” (line 10). Using

During the time period it was written about, everybody thought everybody was involved and had connections with the devil. In this play Arthur Miller uses the satirical device exaggeration and parody a lot and i think this affected it a lot and made it better and easier to interpret and

Her inflated ego often leads her into beating up the comic’s title character. Lucy has often stated that she is beautiful and brilliant. She is innovative when it comes to her ‘psychiatric office’ and often takes money from Charlie without giving him great advice. She often raises her voice to get her point across, and at one point she states, “Everyone is entitled to my opinion.” When she does not get her way,

Man, this is my first day of being in the Middle School; first day of sixth grade, I thought to myself. Twenty minutes passed and I was off the bus heading to my locker when a old friend of mine approached me. She told me that my best friend (may I add my only friend) had called me a brat and said she didn’t want to

The participants of the lottery were familiar with one another either as neighbors or family and yet readily turned on one another in adherence to the lottery rite. This is counter to what makes a community binding and strong. That friends turn against friends, neighbors turn against neighbors is exemplified when Mrs. Hutchinson and Mrs. Delacroix “both laughed softly” (Jackson 141). The two women are familiar with one another and share a laugh when Mrs. Hutchinson arrives to attend the lottery event revealing how wicked human nature can be, as Mrs. Delacroix readily turns on Mrs. Hutchinson. The ability to have a friend, yet turn on that person so readily is a gauge of how emotionally removed the participants are from one another; however, it is especially conspicuous when Bill Hutchinson, Mrs. Hutchinson’s husband “forced the slip of paper out of her hand” (Jackson 144).

Her sexuality is a relevant part of her identity. For a person who can be described as having an identity crisis, she is very open-minded toward all kinds of sexualities but when it comes to her lovers, she puts almost all of them under two labels - ‘rats’ and ‘superrats’. Moreover, Holly’s identity is repeatedly associated with complexity and contradict. It can be argued that we can connect her sexuality with her personality: “Holly is not only a physical paradox of a girl and a woman, but so is her personality, she has an odd mixture of child-like innocence and street smart sexuality” (Cash

She was sexual asssulted “(insert text evidence)”. She did not fit in and was an outcast because of being sexual assulted. But, she overcame her situation and realized that she cannot be tied down any longer. Some ways that she handled her conflict healthy was by telling the truth and telling Andy(Andy is the rapist)to stop. She also helped every girl that could have been affected by Andy.

Because of her exceptional powers of observation, Elizabeth 's sense of the difference between the wise and foolish, for the most part, is very good. (Josephine, 2003) In spite of her mistake in misjudging Wickham and Darcy, and her more blamable fault of sticking stubbornly to that judgment until forced to see her error, Elizabeth is usually right about people. For example, she painfully recognizes the inappropriate behavior of most of her family, and she quickly identifies Mr. Collins as a fool and Lady Catherine as a tyrant. However, this ability to size people up leads her too far at times. She proceeds from reasonable first impressions of

According to the podcast, Adnan is still coming out of school by that time and according to the State Hae was being killed during 2:15 and 2:36PM. Adnan said that you can’t just go out and drive away when the bell rings. It takes time to ride your car, drive away from the parking lot. In the same fashion, there’s a traffic in the intersection of the school. Correspondingly, Asia Mclane said that she was with Adnan in the public library until 2:40PM in which they saw some friends and talked for a bit.

In The Looking Glass Wars, Beddor uses imagery to reveal and explore how Alyss looks and acts in the story. In the beginning Alyss is a spirited person, she is nice, and she is also mischievous. She would “Drop Jolly bellies on the guards below”. Alyss’ friend is Dodge and is the son of Sir Justice. Alyss loves to pull pranks on people.

Unpleasant about this one.’’ Lines,4-5. The fear that he has on elevators makes him think negative things that might happen to him on the old elevator. Martin would get scared if the fat lady was on the elevator with him, and if she was just staring at him, so Martin also had the fear of scopophobia.’’Well she was on the elevator with me twice today. And the funny thing was that she just kept on staring at me, she never stopped looking at me for a minute, you think ..,you know of anybody who has a weird cleaning lady or anything.’’ Lines,125-127. Martin would get scared if the fat lady was on the elevator with him, and if she was just staring at him,so Martin also had the fear of scopophobia.

At 13 years of age, I was on my second year in middle school, excited to graduate and go through high school. I was surprisingly good at all the other subject except math. I hated it to the point of skipping the day that I will have a math class which fortunately was not every day. One day, my father came across my report card and he found out I had a C in my algebra class. I was grounded for a week straight with tutorial after school every single day and he sent me to an academy on Saturday that taught me computer math at Rice University.

June Star is an almost cartoonish representative of a rude, spiteful child, though she’s perceptive enough when she wants to be. The reader forms this impression of her almost immediately, when she cheerfully