The Black Room Essays

“A writer is a world trapped in a person”. This famous line given by Victor Hugo could apply to many lives throughout history, but none more than his own. Through his dozens of literary works and countless poems, Victor Hugo has created worlds that have changed his world and the political landscape around him. His works are the foundation of Broadway Musicals, hit movies, and even serve as the inspiration for writers such as Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and Albert Camus, according to Megan

You can search for the source of the music all you want, but you will never find where the stomach churning sounds are coming from. You may feel the sudden urge to dance to it when you seem desolate. The music only ceases when the clock in the black room chimes. When you sleep, don’t be alarmed by the sliver of light shining on your eye. As long as you do not open your eye, he won’t make any attempt to harm you. He is your watchman. He comes around every night at midnight to “check” on you. By the

would set the overall style of the room.

“Salt & Truth” collection captures pictures of Appalachian families in black and white. if we take a look at one of his photograph, “Eddie Wayne in Living Room, 2010” , Shelby captures a man in his living room. The photograph is black and white with a man and some things around him. The background of the picture shows a wall with so many pictures on it and the

steps, so it didn't long for her to make her way up the steps. The entrance to the mansion featured a grand staircase, lined with gold and diamonds. In the center stood a giant clock. It read 5:30 am. At the very top of the staircase, stood a naked black man. Kaitlyn couldn't help but look at his member, and was pleasantly surprised to see that it was nearly a foot in length. The man made his way down the stairs. Kaitlyn’s heart began to race. Was this the first trial? She remembered hearing from Sophie

under it. Departing the mud room, sunshine and warmth always

I completed my placement hours at Northside High School. The population of the school is four hundred and seventy students. Of those four hundred and seventy students enrolled at Northside, 95% are White, 2% are Black, 2% are Hispanic, and 1% is Other. The percentage of students identified as living below the poverty index is 33%. Northside had eight class periods a day, which meant each class period was around forty minutes. Northside allowed their students to bring backpacks, have a ten-minute

the first week that the CT scan did not give a hopeful report. She wasn’t likely to open her beautiful hazel eyes to the world. The edge of the wheelchair connected with the door and I slip into the dark room. I slide my hand along the wall and flick the light switch, illuminating her personal room. The place has a lone chair and and a table with one of those cheap hotel vases. I move over to the bed and rest my hand on her masked face. The ECG monitor clicked, the only outward facet of her life. I

light flickered on-and-off. The light resided in a small, decrepit room, aromatically stenched with the scent of mold; a moist coolness filtering throughout the air. The walls were clearly rugged; the once cool, maroon wallpaper was now dastardly to look upon. It was barely clinging onto the wall in some areas, and was completely barren in others, showing the darkened wood panels that lined the room from underneath. Within the room, flinging itself to and fro, was a small pest. The pest weighed

the solitary, cold walk home from the campus centre after her evening class. She had all but forgotten about waking up at 3a.m. to check the deadbolt, until she reached the chipped green door of her apartment and found that it was open.The ominous black line between the frame and the door threatened of an intruder. News reports flooded back into her imagination: “Random victims, multiple stab wounds, dismemberment, and cannibalism.”Jessie whipped her little pack from behind her back, unzipped and

I had two homes when I was a kid. My two homes were 2,300 miles apart. One in North Carolina and one in Arizona. Geographically, they each were complete opposites. One surrounded by trees and forests. The other surrounded by desert and heat. One home on the east coast and one home was on the west coast. I always liked my home in Arizona a lot more. The only problem was I would only go to visit my home in Arizona once a year while the rest of the year I spent living in North Carolina. During the school

a little, arriving at her house at 6:20 am. It was still pitch black outside with not even a little sunrise. We rushed out to the

To: Warden Dillman & Jennifer Bray, I would like to inform you of the situation that occurred on January 18, 2016 at Deep Meadows Correctional Center. This is also considered my written complaint that I will send to Malcom Taylor and Ms. Davis at the Department Of Corrections. On January 18, 2016 I arrived at Deep Meadows at 8am I waited for the Visitation Building to open at 8:30am I went to be processed to see Mr. Long (1477335) everything was fine. I arrived at security at 8:36am I took my coat

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In less than twenty minutes, Clemmy Sue is standing on Estelle Louise’s front porch. Without knocking, she opens the squeaking weathered screen door and moseys into a cluttered sitting room, where Estelle Louise slowly rocks back and forth, in a tattered rocking chair. “Estelle Louise, why ain’t you ready? You be knowing another storm be riding in.” “Imma guessing time just ran right past me. I be sitting here half the day just rocking away and I be thinking about bits and pieces of my

Adirondack chairs, some of the suds catching the head of the winged scarab on his favorite tee-shirt. “Shit.” He tried, but couldn’t bring up another of the fake laughs. He was too old for this, being lectured by his little brother for what? Not keeping his room clean enough, coming home too late for dinner again. In the pale light from the kitchen window, he couldn’t see his brother’s eyes, didn’t need to. Mark was a shorter, wider, plainer version of Jake. Too bad he’d married Heather. Now Cody and Macala

the brink, of insanity. Today at the age of seventy-eight, she wears a heavy coat of purple, red lipstick applied to lips that have shrivel with age. Her body is thin and shapeless, yet she still wears to work every day a white diaphanous blouse, black push-up bra, and tight ass jeans. The patrons overlook the Diner’s physical shortcomings and Ruby’s tawdry appearance, since Ruby offers them good cheap food, strong coffee and various forms of weekly

Home which was partly open. He dragged his shoe through a small puddle of liquid then looked up at the bulging ceiling. His eyes followed the cracked to the corner wall behind his mother’s coffin. Mildew! He thought. Karrick propped a chair from the room against the wall. Being five feet four inches at seventeen years old, he still considered himself a dwarf. Even though his step brother Dimano was five feet two inches and his right side drooped from his leg being shorten than the other. After stepping

energy. Warm tone color is what is needed in the painting rooms, such as bedrooms, but because they are also the colors are very bold and strong, darker they are, the harder you can make the room appear, which makes too intrusive and overwhelming. Fresh soothing colors The basic cool colors, including green, blue and purple. These colors represent renewal, peace, restoration, serenity and tranquility. Living room, bathroom and dining room are greatly enhanced with soft colors. Pastel colors The

hallway on the right was a extremely wide sliding door that blended into the wall and when Matthew opened the door the room it was pitch black and I couldn 't see what was inside until he turned on the lights. Once the lights turned on I recognized it was a theater room but this theater room was not like any other average in home theater room. The thing with Matthew’s theater room is that it actually looked just like a movie theater. It had the dimmed lights on the side of the wall along with dark