Masters of Horror Essays

The producers of the TV series Masters of Horror, an anthology shot by various directors, chose Miike for an episode; however, they got far more than what they bargained for. Imprint was violent enough for the people of Showtime to refuse broadcasting it. In 19th century Japan, an American journalist is searching for his lost love, a woman he abandoned despite his promises. His investigation leads him to a secluded island, where a prostitute informs him that his loved one is deceased. Subsequently

Moreover, both Katniss and Beatrice love their families unconditionally. In this case, Katniss played the role of a parent and started providing for her family after she lost her father during a mine explosion. Her family was very poor and could not survive without her hunting animals for food. In her district, hunting was illegal, but she risked her own safety to prevent the starvation of her family. Furthermore, Katniss’ love for her sister, Primrose Everdeen, was amplified when she immediately

Nujood Ali has faced a multitude of horrors from a very young age: being forced into an arranged marriage with an older man at the age of nine, sexual abuse, physical abuse, running away, having family turn a blind eye on your suffering or be an accomplice to it. However, the true horror lies in the fact that Nujood is not the only victim of these atrocities. So, why is Nujood’s story so important? She may not be the first person to experience the true horrors of child marriage, but she is the youngest

Imagine you are being ripped away from your family and friends and then put into an arena. This is the experiences that tributes face in the Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, this has changed someone named Katniss Everdeen in multiple ways. Even though Katniss won the games she suffered many negative effects. Katniss has severe anxiety after the games and Katniss becomes depressed and traumatized by all the deaths she has seen or done. One example that Katniss has been negatively affected is when

In the book, The Hunger Games, one of the main events is when Katniss volunteers for her sister, Prim, to participate in the annual Hunger Games. After reading this event, I was very surprised. I noticed that Katniss surprised herself by saying she would volunteer, but then quickly recovered once she remembered that the reaping would be shown on television. “…this is upsetting me and I don’t want to cry. When they televise the replay of the reapings tonight, everyone will make note of my tears, and

Part one begins with Katniss and her sister Prim, in a poor town called Distant 12. It was the day of the Reaping, that is when one boy and one girl gets picked to play in the Hunger Games. Katniss adora Prim, she would do anything for her sister and that day Prim got chosen for the Hunger Games. Katniss volunteered as a tribute for her sister. The boy that got chosen for the Hunger Games was Peeta, he was the baker’s son. Then on the same day Katniss, Peeta, Effie (the weird looking lady that pull

“‘I volunteer!’ I gasp. ‘I volunteer as tribute!’” (Collins 22). The most iconic moment in Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games is when Katniss Everdeen volunteers to walk into a bloodbath in the place of her younger sister. It is easy to give Katniss the title of hero immediately. However, Prim, her sister, should not be regarded as weak. Primrose stands as a rock for their mother while Katniss is away; the young girl keeps her sanity when watching her sister fight right before her eyes. Because Katniss

In the film version of The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, Katniss Everdeen undergoes her initiation when she crosses the stage at the reaping. When a protagonist experiences initiation, they have to cross a threshold that will ultimately force them to give up their old reality for a new one. Annually, all boys and girls ages twelve to eighteen in all twelve districts are required to sign up and attend the reaping for the Hunger Games. At District Twelve’s reaping, the first name to be drawn was

It all started with Abby Rose, the most popular girl at school. abby Rose is like that one girl at all schools who think she 's better than everyone else! Of course she had her little group of friends who never left her side but she was the one who everyone wanted to be like. I even looked up to her until one day when she approached me, I should 've known she was trouble . no I am definitely not as popular or crate as everyone thinks Abby is and I would never think I was good enough for her to

Katniss Everdeen has had to provide for her family ever since she was a very young girl. She came from a poor family, and when her father died she was left to hunt for her family’s meals. Katniss is extremely good with a bow, using it constantly since she was a little girl. She comes from a world where every year a brutal competition comes across the country. A boy and girl from the age 12-18 are selected to compete in the life threating battle. People come from 12 districts all around and train

recovery of the protagonist Sethe happens due to the ritual of healing in the form of her “rememory” and confrontation with the repressed past. Morrison depicts in the novel both the psychological and physical pain of Sethe to overcome the unspeakable horrors of slavery conceptualised in the form of the ghost of her dead daughter Beloved. She fails to confront her past shredded with the crime of killing her own daughter to save her from slavery and the memory frequently haunts her in the form of a ghost

All my life, I have heard that eating right and exercising is important for our body, but I hardly ever learnt anything related to taking care of our mental health. It is indeed very essential for us to eat healthy, though I believe that having positive mental health is equally important too. Most of us here desire to lead a healthy and a balanced life, even if we say or not. Well, who would even want to suffer from superfluous health problems or stress about worthless things all day long? A healthy

become very handsome. My coat had grown fine and soft and was shiny black. I had one white foot, and a pretty white star on my forehead. It was time for my breaking in. My master, Squire Gordon, first started with the cold hard steel bit. He put it in my mouth and it was awful. Then came the saddle which was not half as bad. My master was very gentle with me and soon began to ride me until I got used to it. Then the horseshoes, which made my feet feel quite heavy. After that, came the collar. It is heavy

“There is no such thing as an ordinary human.” The 9th Doctor once said. Doctor Who is a show that originated in the United Kingdom and has been on for many years with different actors playing The Doctor. The Doctor is the only constant character because the rest are companions, who come and go throughout the series. The Doctor is Time Lord, which is a smaller group of the Gallifreyans from Gallifrey, his home planet. Time Lords are loomed, meaning that they are artificially created, and go to The

In Terry Alford’s novel “Prince Among Slaves” there were many people that strived to bring Ibrahima back to Africa, during this time he also worked to free his children. The role of letter writing had an impact on the course of the book and each person connected the direction of Ibrahima’s journey. A former prince, Abd al-Rahman Ibrahima, was captured through an ambush due to his lost to the Hebohs and is now a slave (23). When Ibrahima was 19, he had led his first victory, which earned him some

essential freedom is to him and fellow slaves. By telling first hand accounts about slavery, Douglass shows how unfounded Fitzhugh’s narrative is. Fitzhugh spins a biased narrative that speaks of how well-cared-for the slaves are, how nurturing slave masters are to their slaves, and how slaves are almost never physically abused. Maybe Transition? Slaves were often given the bare minimum of food and

In the satirical short story “A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings” the author Gabriel Garcia Marquez uses juxtaposition to compare the Father Gonzaga and his foil, the doctor, to greater characterize Father Gonzaga show his faults by placing their beliefs and characteristics in comparison with one another to highlight their differences. In the story Marquez uses the character of the doctor in contrast with Father Gonzales in multiple ways. The first comparison between the two characters is their

Have you had a loved one that worried you sick? It was a another day at school, and Konnor can’t wait till the bell rings to go home. Today Konnor is going to go play some basketball at the lower lake in Eureka, IL. He is going to go with his older sibling Kaleb, and his cousin Austin. The basketball hoops are a little rusty and old, but the hoops are still adequate to play and shoot into. It was a long day of hard work at school, but Konnor got through it! “RING!” the school bell went off

or hard, depending on their “master.” Some slaves worked on farms and performed extremely hard feats of work, but others would do house work for their master that was not as hard but more time consuming. Now these slaves were like servants, but they are considered property, unlike a servant that is a free person. Since slaves were considered property their master could do anything they to them, like branding them just for not doing as told. Of course not all masters were violent with their slaves

is attained only through the separation from a pack mentality. Throughout the narrative, Buck is a part of a group of dogs serving men. When John Thornton cuts Buck loose from the brutal torture of his masters, he is also setting Buck free from a pack mentality. Even when Buck serves his new master Thornton with total devotion and love, he has a growing attraction to the wild. His eagerness for a solitary life in the wild overcomes him eventually that takes him back to the wild. At this juncture of