Dead Like Me

The first time Mrs Harter heard Patrick’s voice, she She thought she was asleep so she dreaming or had a hallucination. Because it’s impossible that her dead husband talk to her on the radio. Text Justification: «  She must just have dropped off to sleep for a minute or two. » Line 19-20 «  A curious thing to have dreamed that her dead husband’s voice should speak to her over the ether. » Line 21-22 2) This story is frightening because the old lady alone in her house to hear her husband's

He’s like a wild animal in cage, he wait all day long like a predator -Ben is like a psychopath: watches, follows his victims. He wants until nobody is around so that he can kill quietly - He looks himself in the room all day. He shows his teeth and growly. Only goes out at home, like a vampire -He likes to know that people cannot control him does it on purpose. Cf: a troll, small, aggressive, violent creature. Wants to return is the nature and to be alone. He marks his territory like a wild

gray each one than what had gone before. Like the onset of some cold glaucoma dimming away the world. His hand rose and fell softly with each precious breath. He pushed away the plastic tarpaulin and raised himself in the stinking robes and blankets and looked toward the east for any light but there was none. In the dream from which he'd wakened he had wandered in a cave where the child led him by the hand. Their light playing over the wet flowstone walls. Like pilgrims in a fable swallowed up and lost

his daughter: on bad terms, very negative part. Part three: The routine in Brooklyn. Part four: Project: “writing a book about human foolishness (his and others experiences), memories of the past. The beginning of the extract is unusual, it sounds like an end. Generally the last chapters that are placed first are called “prefaces”: We sense that the narrator is going to face something new. Probably a new life or things he didn’t expect to happen. From the very beginning, we learn almost everything

particular in the capital, the famous figurines of the eponymic game(set,play). This meeting will be a first revelation and Mister WATCHED " street artists " be going to like from then on the underground and revolutionary environment(middle) of. In his(her,its) collection(quest) of the absolute, WATCHED cannot make the impasse(dead end) on "Ze artist", the major artist of the street art whom is BANKSY. He(it) is going to manage to meet him(it) and is going to gain(win) his(its) confidence(trust). We

or serenity, to reach loneliness . There are « the others » and himself, he is an identified human being « I » and people around are anonymous « someone » line1. The Neighbors are unknown « no idea who they were » line11 and the narrator likes it like that, line 12 « I didn’t care ». The Neighbors are absent, line12 « they worked nine-to-five jobs » To support the idea that the narrator doesn‘t match any longer with the world he is living in, the author use the negative form excessively in the

came to dance. He was dressed all in black, and his mask had red spots, like stains of blood. Everyone looked at him in confusion, and no one recognized him. The prince then ordered to kill him, for disturbing the dance, but the guards could not catch him. He went straight to the black room that was empty. The prince followed him, and tried to kill him with his sword, but as soon as he stepped in the black room, he fell dead on the floor. Then, when the others got his clothes off, they found nothing

troisième partie - Questions 1 - What is Laura’s state of mind when going down the road ? 2 - What is the atmosphere of the little cottages ? Why is Laura ill-at-ease ? What does she want to do ? 3 - What was she led to do ? How did Laura find the dead man ? 4 - What did she discover through this death ? Why is it paradoxical ? THE GARDEN PARTY Katherine Mansfield Part 1 This short-story, The Garden-Party, was written by Katherine Mansfield (1888 - 1923), a New-Zealander writer who lived

The stories are much like those of the Russin writer Chekov, in that they do not have a traditional structure or plot and are more concerned with the thoughts and feelings of the characters than their actions. Perhaps the most well known of these stories is The Dead, which has been adopted into a film by the director John Huston. The story deals with the thoughts of the main character, Gabriel Conroy, as he contemplates himself, his wife, the past, the living and the dead. The story ends with a

education (southern dialect, and black accent) - respect of the upper class (King and Duke) II) Huckleberry Finn, a child lost in a fake patchwork-like identity - torn between several educations: mother and father figure, different values from side to side. - his father: emphasizes Huck's loneliness page 51« I felt so lonesome i most wish i was dead »  , detachement towards him, the father is always drunk, Jim is a better father thant Huck's real father . As we have said before Twain by this novel