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“It’s over” I said to myself. I passed another line of pines before I noticed a chink in the grid. A smooth stone occupied a missing pine’s place. The rock rose a few inches above the dirt and then gave way abruptly like a miniature plateau. I sat on the stone and awaited my return to reality. Darkness crept around the far edges of my vision as I loosened my mind’s constructs. The pines above me waved and creaked. As my vision darkened I began to feel the sensation of my body amid a worn cot, fifth ...

My Burning Conscience

The tundra that surrounds Beechers Brow no longer knows a soul. Countless years have passed, but little vegetation grows. I often wonder if nature awaits the passing of our human presence. I’m among the oldest who still remember the bright verdure and pines, despite our immaterial relationship. I never experienced the intricacies of that wooden maze, but only picturesque views from glossy window frames - half frozen over. We took much for granted, lounging ...

Holding onto the Past

In A Streetcar Named Desire, Blanche Dubois fashions a nice appearance and high ideals in order to gain back the love she once lost. She feels guilt due to her former husband’s homosexual affair and tries to exert an air of impressiveness with men she meets in order to hide her feelings of inadequacy. Furthermore, after the death of all her family, Blanche becomes fearful of dying alone. Due to her only love occurring at a young age, Blanche portrays an ...

Matt Cowles
Professor Fee
English Composition 2
28 July 2011

Views on Mortality

The tragedy or idea of a loved one’s death has the potential of changing a person’s worldview. Along with grief, the tragedy inflicts the idea of mortality upon those touched by the event. In William Shakespeare’s “Not marble nor the gilded monuments”, the poet feels he can preserve the memory of a person through written poetry, therefore assuring their immortality. Edgar Allan ...

Religious institutions often present morality as a cerebral idea that is far from the common person’s grasp. In Franz Kafka’s Before the Law, a man wastes away his life as fear drives him away from morality. Though the entrance to the law lies in front of the county-man, the Doorkeeper forbids its entrance and the man obeys. Franz Kafka’s portrait of the country-man’s life, use of lighting and the identity of the doorkeeper work to portray people’s misguided search for morality under the influence ...