(855) 4-ESSAYS

Type a new keyword(s) and press Enter to search

Meeting Your Neighbors One Siren at a Time

             It was one of those lazy care free summer weekends that makes life so wonderful, one of those days when you could feel summer with every breath and would appreciate even the feel of heat radiating off blacktop. I lay in the hammock in the side yard enjoying the peaceful summer breeze without a care in the world gently swaying back and forth. What a peaceful start to such a horrific day.
             It was around noon when my pager went off for the local volunteer fire department. It's a cross between being at the top of the roller coaster and the first day of school, finished with a surge of adrenaline every time I herd those series of loud beeps. I eagerly waited for the dispatcher to come on the air and inform of the nature of the call. My heart raced as I herd of the possible structure fire at county rout 29 and O"Brien road. I filled with excitement and worry as I ran from the side yard to my truck in the driveway. If this was a structure fire I would surly be on the first truck out of the station living only a half a mile away. I got into my truck and raced down the road with only the sound of the engine and the winning sound of my blue light on the roof. .
             The smell of engine and brakes hung heavy the air as opened my car door and ran from my truck to my locker in the fire house. I stepped into my bunker gear and as I pulled up on my pants that familiar smell of fire hit me and a slight smile came over me. I finished up putting on my gear and walked over to the first piece due and got in the officers seat. It only took about a minute in a half till there were enough firefighters to leave the bay doors and respond to the call. We pulled out onto the pavement and hit the cue and turned on the lights. We were about half way to the scene when are chief radioed us and confirmed a working fire in a possible occupied structure. I went ahead and started to put on my Scott pack knowing I would be on the first hose line in the door upon arrival.


Essays Related to Meeting Your Neighbors One Siren at a Time

1. Siren Song

Analyzing the Alluring "Siren Song" Your next encounter will be with the Sirens, who bewitch everybody who approaches them. ... Lines one through nine make up one sentence and thirteen through eighteen make up another. They are fairly long sentences with the first one including two colons. ... This structure is one of the techniques that Atwood uses to capture the reader. ... These two words seem contradictory; how can something be valuable and be fatal to you at the same time? ...

  • Word Count: 1751
  • Approx Pages: 7
  • Grade Level: High School

2. Siren Song By Margarett Atwood

The frequent use of the number three illustrates that there are three sirens. ... In the first stanza, Margaret Atwood mentions "the one song everyone would like to learn- (lines 1-2). ... The third stanza shows the results of hearing the Sirens' song. ... Mainly, this is ironic in that the person who is listening to the Siren is the one who needs aided. ... With the phrase "it works every time- (line 27) the secret is revealed. ...

  • Word Count: 820
  • Approx Pages: 3
  • Grade Level: High School

3. Siren's Song

The first few lines start in a way that grabs your attention and invokes a desire to know or learn more. This is the one song everyone, would like to learn: the song, that is irresistible.? ... The sirens had such lovely voices that the sailors who heard the songs were lured into grounding their boats on the ragged rocks where the sirens sang. ... The second part of Atwood's poem focuses on the siren herself. ... attempting to possibly explain her remorse or unhappiness, Despite the previous words, the final verses seem to indicate that the siren is not quite the helpless, repent...

  • Word Count: 445
  • Approx Pages: 2
  • Grade Level: High School

4. Siren's Song

In Margaret Atwood's Siren Song, the siren is also illustrated as a singing creature with powerful seductions, however it also goes on to say that the life of a siren is not a pleasant one. ... However, in this case the siren downplays the life she leads, making it out to be one where she is constantly being labeled with the stereotype connected to women. ... In line twenty-one the siren says "Come closer. ... In the final stanza where the siren says "it is a boring song but it works every time" the reader realizes that he has been played with, and seduced; it works every time. ... I...

  • Word Count: 1224
  • Approx Pages: 5
  • Grade Level: High School

5. O brother where art thou

The most obviously linked in the movie and the Odyssey are the Sirens , and the one eyed Cyclops. ... Homer's Sirens are similar to the Sirens in the movie. In Homer's Sirens they bewitch him with a song and In O Brother Where Art Thou, the Sirens bewitch Pete with their song, making him stop the car and waded into the River. The most outstanding difference between Homer's account with the Sirens and the Coen Brothers" movie is that in the epic, Odysseus is the one who is tempted by the Sirens, where in the movie, Pete is the one attracted to the Sirens. ...

  • Word Count: 548
  • Approx Pages: 2
  • Grade Level: High School

6. Siren's Song

At the end, the bird seems almost bored saying that her temptations work every time. ... Homer's attitude towards the song of the siren is that of a lustful and intrigued one. ... He sees the siren's song as majestically and mysterious, as opposed to Atwood who seems to think that the Siren is merely irresistible and bored of it's purpose. She is more pessimistic towards the siren and even calls the song "boring" at one point. ... Atwood says that it "works every time" and one can almost see her roll her eyes at the people who sail past this island. ...

  • Word Count: 767
  • Approx Pages: 3
  • Grade Level: High School

7. Power in The Odyssey

"Come closer, famous Odysseus-Achaea's pride and glory- moor your ship on our coast so you can hear our song! ... The Sirens are using what they know wisely to tempt Odysseus. ... The suitors begged, "whatever gifts your suitors would like to bring, accept them," (Homer 18.322-323). ... This is significant because especially in that time no one would allow for a woman to have power over a man or almost any power at all, but the reader can also see a similar situation with the king and queen of Phaeacia. ... Here after many trials I come to beg for mercy, your husband'...

  • Word Count: 1519
  • Approx Pages: 6
  • Grade Level: High School

8. A famous epic, now a famous fi

Directly look at the movie and the epic, look at themes, plots, characters, settings, common appearances by The Sirens, and the role of both music in the movie and nature in the novel, and the similarities are obvious. ... There is a direct correlation between The Sirens in the movie and The Sirens in the book. In the movie the main characters could not resist the voices of The Sirens and became practically under their control. ... In The Odyssey, Odysseus and his men had to sail through the Island where The Sirens dwelled. ... The Sirens play a part in both the film and the epic, and natu...

  • Word Count: 838
  • Approx Pages: 3
  • Grade Level: High School

9. The Great Gatsby

The last myth that is presented in this book is the Sirens. The Sirens are not puny in any way. ... The character in this book associated with the Sirens is Daisy. ... The Sirens have a voice of a lark and so does Daisy. ... In The Great Gatsby there isn't one paragraph without imagery or some sort of reference to myths or real life characters. ...

  • Word Count: 655
  • Approx Pages: 3
  • Grade Level: High School

10. Loving Your Neighbor

And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? ... Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect." The saying "love your neighbor" is commonplace in the world around us today. ... There is a common error in the world around us regarding the love of one's neighbor. ... John 13:34 says, "A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another....

  • Word Count: 1441
  • Approx Pages: 6
  • Has Bibliography
  • Grade Level: High School

Got a writing question? Ask our professional writer!
Submit My Question