Mason Adams: A Short Story

The Devil’s Thumb and Everest are great memoirs, tell great stories, both have a lot in common, and a lot of differences. Telling great stories about climbing mountains both are very different. The Devil’s Thumb in Jon Krakauer’s perspective is that he likes, dislikes, and enjoys it. He likes that he made it even though everyone said he couldn’t. “Back in Boulder, without

“An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge” Everyone in life needs to think of the good things in life as they go through tough times. Our world always has developing stories on the news about shootings and people dying, and in Ambrose Bierce’s “An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge” Peyton Farquhar wants to die. Farquhar has a tough life and a job that he doesn’t like. When he finds the bridge, he knows that it is the perfect place to be hung and the bridge is like a stage to do that. So, in the last moments of his life he disconnects himself from his physical body.

For the beginning on page 6 paragraph 3 or 4 it states “ I ran as fast as I could, leaving him far behind with a wall of rain dividing us.” The reasoning that this is helpful in this case is that when he was afraid and careless he decided to run as fast as he could and as far away as he could make it without realizing his brother was no longer behind him. To add on to the situation on page 6 paragraph 1 or 2 it says “After we had drifted a long way.” So they are saying that Doodle was already drifting apart from his brother and his brother didn 't care for it at all. Lastly on page 6 paragraph 3 or 4 “bitter, and that streak of cruelty within me awakened.” This goes to show how he already knew that he was going to leave Doodle in the dust just like in the beginning when he wanted to smother him in the pillow. After this all happend Brother regrets his life decisions that he and Doodle ever did. In conclusion I hold him accountable for the death of Doodle.

For instance, the abrupt and unknown death of his brother, Allie, petrifies and confuses him. Holden alway had trouble dealing with this kind of complexity. Another example occurred in Chapter 22 when "And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch e​verybody if they start to go over the cliff—I mean if they’re running and they don’t look where they’re going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That’s all I’d do all day.

So she sacrificed her job to take care of her son, even though it was a risk because they needed the money. Also, in the book Zopa gets arrested by Captain Shek because the Captain assumed that Sun-jo was on the mountain illegally(which he was). All of the porters and Sherpas risked their jobs and tried to get Zopa out of the situation. Over a walkie, Josh states, “As soon as the porters and Sherpas herd about Zopa’s arrest, they all gathered around Shek’s headquarters to hold a silent vigil. Shek tried to disperse them, but they wouldn 't budge.”(175) The Sherpas and porters really care about Zopa and they were willing to sacrifice their important jobs to save him.

They planned to offer him what he wanted in return for the mayor but that exactly was not the case. Whenever they saw proof he had the mayor they reacted in blink of an eye and took down Executionist. Loud thump is heard as Executionist hits the pavement and then is followed by the clicking of handcuffs as they are place around his wrists. Police then escort him to their squad car and began to question him. They told him what he did was terribly wrong and couldn’t imagine what else could have happened if he was not stopped.

These instincts include the will to survive and the wisdom to know when to accept death in dire situations. Ralston’s first instincts after becoming trapped were to call out for help and to attempt to move the boulder that had crushed his hand in order to escape. Despite these initial futile attempts, some behaviors displayed by Ralston during his dilemma seem to suggest that he was prepared to die. He made a video addressing his parents and loved ones and informing them of his demise. He also used his utility knife to carve his name, his date of birth, and his presumed death date into the canyon wall.

The bruises weren’t the scariest part though. That part was when I thought one day he would come home, rage in his eyes, and shoot the children and I. It would be like in the dream, one-minute laughter would be filling every little corner and space the air, and next it would be silent and still, blood everywhere. Sometimes I thought I could leave, run away and disappear, but he would just find me and I didn't have enough money to support the children

As the scrimmage began, Johnson’s emotions got the best of him, as his anxiety made him miss every shot he took. He was useless on the court, no defense, bad passing, and bad shooting. Tryouts soon concluded and Johnson knew that he failed to make the high school team. He left the gym in frustration and anger, As he got home, his mother immediately ran towards him, excited as can be. “Well how’d you do?” she asked him.

As James realized he was going to be late for class, he had to push through the bullies and as he tried to run through them he was brought to a punch right to the gut. James dropped and tried to crawl away, but was dragged right back into “Bullies Circle’’ James yelled for them to stop, but they just laughed and continued to shove him and kick his books around. Finally they got bored of him crying so they left. James went home, but this

Usually, reporter will always record tragedy or someone in danger and doesn’t go help, it shows that they didn’t fulfill ethical responsibility. This author illustrates “ Rolf threw down his knapsack and the rest of his equipment and waded into the quagmire, commenting for his assistant 's microphone that it was cold and that one could begin to smell the stench of corpses.” This state that Rolf had fulfill his ethical responsibility because he threw down his equipment, hurriedly ran over to the girl and tried to save her. I believe that others reporter would not of taken actions like he did, instead, they will stand recording the situation. Based on the given statement, I think that Rolf is not an oblivious person, instead, he have altruism. He have showed compassion towards the little girls.

Another error was a sheriff being involved in the case so much that didn’t even have anything to do with him. The sheriff wanted him to be guilty right away because of the incident that happened between Avery and the sheriff’s wife. The sheriff stated to Avery “I got you now.” The jail usually has a list of the people who were arrested the night before. When Stevens’s lawyer came to check his name wasn’t on the list. The sheriff ordered his name not be on the list.

Let’s get down to business. The person who crashed into you obviously didn 't want to get caught so they decided to run off before the cops came. We 're thinking that the person did it on purpose because you were finding too much information out about them. I would not have been the drug lord because he makes all his followers do all his dirty work for him.” My boss

Huck describes the abusive and cruel relationship he has with Pap when he says, “He used to always whale me when he was sober and could get his hands on me; though I used to take to the woods most of the time when he was around”(Twain 9). The fact that Huck had to run “to the woods most of the time when he was around,” shows the kind of unsafe environment a young boy should not be raised in. Once Huck realizes that his own father may be a threat to his life, he deviously fakes his own death and begins his new adventures, setting sail on a raft with the company of a runaway slave named

Indeed, I felt a sense of triumph reaching the place where I never thought I could with fatigue and stress of knowing that I have to get back over the same rough trail. My legs were severely sore and my lungs were congested but today when I look back on it as an epic expedition, a wide grin appears on my face and I believe it will continue to do so over the rest of my life.