The Boy Died In My Alley

The newsreader talks about may famous and well known subjects that happened in the 1960’s. One of the most tragic and gruesome topics is about the murders of the 9 nurses; he reads “The notorious Richard Speck was accused of murdering 9 student nurses, gruesomely stabbing and strangling them one by one.” The words from silent night are “Silent night, Holy night All is calm all is bright”, this is another contrast from the moods portrayed from the song and the news, and the newsreader is talking about the murders and grief that occurred at this time. This shows the audience another contrast as the night of the killing

mother’s death I can remember everyone who was in the stands that day...” This reference to the narrator’s vivid memory and the detailed depiction of the event shows the gravity of the situation and allows the reader to fully grasp the impact that the accident had on both the protagonist and the narrator. This act of bizarre violence is used masterfully in the author’s recount of his life. It shows how hard it is for a young boy to lose the only parent he ever knew and it also shows how hard it is for a child to be implicated in an event where someone close to the child has been unintentionally killed.

(Beginning sentence).In the passage, it says“And the cat and -Old Billy-ah but the world was a lonely thing. So wide so empty.And so bare, so bitter bare”. This shows that the boy thought the world was so bare and so lonely. Also, it states,“A harsher shriller not struck in as if many other ruder voices; above it flew first sweet music that made him creep closer”. This explains how he was interested in the different types of music. Lastly, it states “Hoarse staccato cries and peals of laughter shook the old hut, and as the boy stood there peering through the black trees, abruptly the door

focuses of second half of the poem is concentrated on accident that takes place in which a boy

The purpose of this paper is to introduce, discuss, and analyze the short stories "The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allen Poe and "Young Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Specifically it will discuss the phenomenon of evil in the human heart as it appears in these two works. Evil lives in everyone, whether they want to acknowledge it or not. These two chilling tales show two different sides of evil, but they both illustrate how evil can corrupt a person right down to their very heart and soul.

By adding this phrase in the poem, the persona implies that whatever he is saying in the poem is not his own. However, the lack of quotation marks and the repeated use of the pronoun “I” in the poem implies that the persona “owns” whatever he is saying. Therefore, the persona attempts to own and disown the experiences narrated in the poem at the same time, a paradox. Yes, the persona is the boy. However, as he recalls the time when he first learned English, he tries to separate himself from his experiences during the war. The girl being shot in the last stanza, although the boy wasn’t physically present, is indicative of a turning point in the boy’s life—it ruined the innocence of the boy. And in the poem, this turning point is symbolized by way of the persona’s detachment to what he is narrating; to his former

Ending in death most foul, “The Cask of Amontillado” and “The Tell-Tale Heart” feature revenge and a painstaking cruelty. Pushed to the point of insanity and retribution sought over trivialities, the narrators tell each story by their own personal account. The delivery of their confessions gives a chilling depth to the crimes they have committed and to the men themselves. Both men are motivated by their egos and their obsessions with their offenders. Prompted by their own delusions, each man seeks a violent vengeance against his opposition in the form of precise, premeditated homicide.

The sister prepares the evening meal, making her contribution to the family; and calls on the boy to come and eat. The saw in the boy?s hands was still running and when he took his attention away from his work, and that split second of carelessness cost him an extremity. His instincts raised his arm upward to keep all the blood from spilling out immediately. When he realized what was happening, the boy finally realized he was to young to be doing a man?s work. The boy ?saw all spoiled,? and now knew his whole childhood had vanished and it was impossible to get it back. The boy frantically called out to his sister to make the doctor keep his hand on. The boy?s body must have instantly gone into shock and not felt the absence of the hand. When the doctor arrived he gave him some ether to make him go to sleep. The little boy began to lose his pulse and soon he was a stranger to the world. The people surrounding the boy never expected the loss of his hand to tragically end the little boy?s life. Frost?s almost appalling casual description of death shocks the reader enough to make them think. ?Since they were not the one dead, turned to their affairs,? describes the environment of the survivors. They are forced to move on with their life and keep working because they cannot afford to stop and mourn.

“The Cask of Amontillado” is a strange, at first puzzling, very Edger Allen Poe-esque tale about a clearly mentally unstable narrator named Montresor who lures an intoxicated former friend, named Fortunato, into a system of tunnels and traps him at the end by chaining him to a wall and constructing a wall of his own to make sure he stays there to die.

The speaker states that "the Boy" died in the alley behind her house. A policeman told her about the boy's death on the morning after it had occurred, and he added that the boy, "Apparently

The narrator once praised his poetry, but, with time, our protagonist realizes that like most people on Miguel Street, Woodsworth is void of ambition, and in fact, a liar. Woodsworth confesses to the narrator that he is not writing the greatest poem in the world, and that the stories he told him were not true. This catalyst the boy to “run home crying, like a poet, for everything [he] saw” (65). Perhaps, the most compelling example of the boys consciousness is in the final chapters. After Hat, the man connected to the lives of everyone on Miguel Street, went to jail “part of [the boy] had died” (213).

unusual topic; the murder of a cat by a nine year old boy. The poet

The second stanza is almost like the first in the fact that it appeals to the same senses. It talks about the actions and the feelings of the child. It describes how the child would wake and wait for his father to call him. The second stanza also describes the mood of the house in the line, "fearing the chronic angers of that house." Perhaps that line is

Edgar Allen Poe’s tale of murder and revenge, “The Cask of Amontillado”, offers a unique perspective into the mind of a deranged murderer. The effectiveness of the story is largely due to its first person point of view, which allows the reader a deeper involvement into the thoughts and motivations of the protagonist, Montresor. The first person narration results in an unbalanced viewpoint on the central conflict of the story, man versus man, because the reader knows very little about the thoughts of the antagonist, Fortunato. The setting of “The Cask of Amontillado”, in the dark catacombs of Montresor’s wine cellar, contributes to the story’s theme that some people will go

The final stanza of the poem represents the woman going into labor and the delivery of her child into the world. “I wither and you break from me;” (16). This line represents the moment the