... ! The circle became a horseshoe. A thing was crawling out of the forest. It came darkly, uncertainly. The shrill screaming that rose before the beast was like a pain The blue-white scar was constant, the noise endurable. Simon was crying out something about a dead man on a hill The beats on its knees in the center, its arms folded over its face" One moment ... W. Golding uses animal imagery and describes the entire scenario as if there truly was a beast "crawling", "darkly", "abominable noise" and the next that image snaps into Simon. It is inhumane, how much the entire island, the entir...

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• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

... July. So we went back to trying to grab the bird and thought nothing of it. Bang, bang, bang! I startled again and this time I looked up to see what the noise really is. It turned out to be a sound of a gunfire that was coming from the bottom of the street from a brown, dirty, graffiti apartment. I see a man in black jeans and ... a plastic bag. I assume it would be the bullet shells. The hard part was finding all of the bullet shells because across the street is my friends house. It's a big white house white house with a big lawn. The grass was dead and there were so many dead weeds th...

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• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

... low hum of voices comes from the office where my father and his employee are talking about the daily occupancy for today. The walls of our hotel aren't insulated for noise very well, so in the busy mornings it isn't very quiet. Luckily by mid morning our place is empty. As I glance at the clock ! I realize it's already three and no ... as soon as he comes in through the door. As I hear the car pulling in, I fixate on the familiar hollow noises of the doors opening and shutting in my father's white Lexus. The heavy sliding glass door opens, and my brother walks in with his blue Jansport ...

• Word Count: 1709
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School