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Nightmare Abbey Author Thomas Love Peacock Country United Kingdom Language English Genre Gothic  novella, Romance novella, Satire Published November 1818,  T. Hookham Jr. and  Baldwin, Craddock & Joy Nightmare Abbey. Dilapidated mansion in England’s Lincolnshire County; a former monastery whose state of sad disrepair reflects the plight of its residents, the deeply dysfunctional Glowry family. The house is not far from the sea, being separated therefrom by a tract of low-lying fenland dotted with windmills. There is nothing unrealistic about an early nineteenth century English family living in what once had been an abbey; many English religious houses became secular residences following King Henry VIII’s dissolution of England’s Roman Catholic monasteries in the sixteenth century. The abbey’s address reveals something about the Glowry family’s problematic social status—they are products of social upheavals that were still considered ...

Regret by  Kate Chopin This story was first published in 1897 when it appeared in Chopin's short story collection  A Night in Acadia .   Taken from her A Night in Acadie collection the story is narrated in the third person by an unnamed narrator and after reading the story the reader realises that Chopin may be exploring the theme of loss or at least the sense of loss that Mamzelle Aurélie feels in her life having never had children to love and cherish. It is also interesting that Chopin never mentions to the reader whether Mamzelle Aurélie has any friends.    The theme of commitment is self-evident in the story, most noticeably by the fact that all of Mamzelle Aurélie’s attention is on her farm. If anything at the beginning she considers the children’s arrival to be a hindrance to her daily duties and tasks. Though the more she grows fond of the children, the more she is able to show them the same commitment that she had previously shown to her land. I...

I Do Not Love You Except Because I Love You Poem by Pablo Neruda I do not love you except because I love you;  I go from loving to not loving you, From waiting to not waiting for you My heart moves from cold to fire. I love you only because it's you the one I love;  I hate you deeply, and hating you Bend to you, and the measure of my changing love for you Is that I do not see you but love you blindly. Maybe January light will consume My heart with its cruel Ray, stealing my key to true calm. In this part of the story I am the one who Dies, the only one, and I will die of love because I love you, Because I love you, Love, in fire and blood. The poet expresses the true love the narrator has for his beloved. But the sad part is that this love is one sided. The narrator is deeply in love with his beloved but sadly his beloved does not love him back. The first stanza of the poem starts with the description of the love the narrator has for his beloved. He loves her from the...

Fire and Ice Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I've tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice. The purpose of this poem is to inform the reader of an opinion about the end or the destruction of the world. That the world will end in the embers of fire or the world will end in the ice. The rhythm is unchanged. The regular beat that is created suggests a simple tone, similar to that of a nursery rhyme. The rhythm is only interrupted by the change of meter. The change in meter is used to place importance on certain parts of the poem. Because of the brief dimeter lines, an additional use may be to force the reader to look back and interpret the preceding lines. The concept of fire and ice has a deep connotation that encourages memory of the sensitivity they embody. for example fire gives rise to heat and lightne...

The Indigo Spell (Bloodlines) The Novel starts with Sydney beginning by her history/magic teacher and asked a personal question. Ms. Terwiliger then drags her out to the middle of the desert so she can perform a spell, which she can't do herself because it has to be done by a virgin. Sydney is still resistant to learning magic, but does the spell anyway. Changing the subject, Sydney ends up telling him about Ms. Terwiliger and the desert spell, and the fact that she is supposed to find one neighborhood in L.A. At the wedding, Sydney is shocked by the strength of Ian's revulsion to the Moroi, who doesn't even want to shake hands with any Moroi. Sydney is the put on the spot when Adrian asks her to dance in a show of fostering good relations. She accepts, and Sonya and Rose comment on how good they look together, troubling Sydney. That leads to romantic interludes, including one that leaves her with a hickey. Sydney keeps telling herself to forget about them, and is in c...

Story of An hour In The Story of an hour written by Kate Chopin, tells the story of the life of a woman named Mrs. Mallard, she received the bad news that her husband had died from a train accident reported by her sister Josephine with her husband's friend Richard, Josephine was hesitant to say the sad news because Mrs. Mallard was suffering from heart disease, most likely the situation would get worse when hearing this news. At first he reacts with an emotional response, then he asks for permission on both and immediately heads upstairs. After hearing the news of the sadness, she opened the window, then looked at the blue sky as if to touch his soul. She just stared blankly at the sky without expression. It was as if she felt she could touch the sky so that it could pass through the sounds that filled the sky. Mrs. Mallard felt that her husband's death was a happy thing, as if she felt reborn into a world without pressure and suffering. This is contrary to the circumstances...

The author of this original story was T.J. Edwards. The original story was published by Scholastic and was published in 1995. The genre of this short story is Mystery Series. Actually, the haunted soccer field is a novel. But, there is a short story version. I already read the short story version that I got from my high school teacher; Mrs. Argo. This short story is told about the children but will be suited for children and adults too. This story is quite long because it has 11 pages (the book has 117 pages). The story took place in field, restroom, in garage, and the backyard             The story tells about a team soccer that called Sonics. The team was composed by Bryan, Sam, Jack, Corey, and Lara. Bryan is a genius boy, and he is championing in soccer especially he is a goalie. Corey and Sam also smart one. Lara is a smart girl, that diligent person that likes to read. Jack is a friendly person, although his nature is...

Title                             : Harry Potter: Order of the Phoenix Author                         : J.K. Rowling Publisher                     : Bloomsbury (UK) Arthur.A.Levine /Scholastic (US) Rain coast (Canada 1998-2010) Year of publication     : 21 juni2003 Genre                          : Fantasy Pages                          : 766 (UK) 870 (US) ...

Do You Speak English? by Simon Collings Manuel had passed the fish on his way up the road. It was eighteen to twenty inches long and its silvery scales were covered with dirt. The gill flaps opened like two gash wounds on the sides of its head as it thrashed helplessly in the gutter. Next to it a boy leaned against the railings, his rod and line dangling out over the floating garbage and the stream of brown, stinking waste which trickled from a pipe in the wall below. The boy wore a faded pair of football shorts. He was perhaps nine or ten years old, barefoot and grubby, and his skin was marked with insect bites. The fish gasped, then made one last convulsive leap, throwing itself in the direction of the river, and landed on the pavement with a thud. There it lay motionless for a moment, exhausted no doubt by the effort. The boy looked down at it, turned and kicked it back into the gutter. Manuel had not paid much attention to the fish as he was preoccupied. He had just been to l...

She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways By: William Wordsworth She dwelt among the untrodden ways         Beside the springs of Dove, A Maid whom there were none to praise        And very few to love: A violet by a mossy stone         Half hidden from the eye! -Fair as a star, when only one          Is shining in the sky. She lived unknown, and few could know        When Lucy ceased to be; But she is in her grave, and, oh,          The difference to me! This poem was written by William Wordsworth. William Wordsworth was born in 1770 and died in 1850. This poem was written in Germany and published in 1798. In 17 eras there was known as the romantic age. The poem that includes in romantic age tells about sympathy, dream, and believe in liberty. Those of all have melancholy and lonely tone. This poem is incl...

A very hard day Comes to your life Maybe you never Never Think about that The reality The pain The sorrow You have to take them all Yeah, you have to Because she will never know She does not want to know She is happy with her own choice And you How about you You deserve to be happy Just go Run and leave Treat your wound Release your pain Just believe it Everything will be okay Although Everything won’t be the same But You deserve to be happy This poem is written by me. It tells about someone who wants to give support to someone else. You deserve to be happy no matter how hard your problems right now. Ruth Fenandha Pramasita

Title: The Scarlet Letter Author:   Nathaniel Hawthorne Summary: Hester Prynne is a woman arrested for being accused of being an adulterer in Boston. She has children but no husband, everyone in town always asks her about the father of the child but Hester is always silent and never tells the turth to anyone. Without anyone else, Hester has a husband, he is Roger Chillingworth, a man known as a doctor in Boston. Roger loves Hester very much and he is obsessed by Hester. He tried to find out about the father of Hester's son. Until accidentally, Roger found the father of Hester's son, the man is Arthur Dimmesdale, a young minister. Roger does not like the fact, then he did something to punish Arthur. Arthur Dimmesdale always felt weak and sick, so he asked for help from Roger to take care of him. Without ever knowing, Roger never tried to cure him. On the contrary, Roger always makes Arthur's body weak every day. Hester's son named Pearl, she grew into a stron...

Fire and Ice By Robert Frost Some say the world will end in fire,  Some say in ice.  From what I’ve tasted of desire  I hold with those who favor fire.  But if it had to perish twice,  I think I know enough of hate  To say that for destruction ice  Is also great  And would suffice. Analysis: Rhyme: ABAABCBCB Stanzas and Lines: 1 stanza and 9 lines Imagery: Taste (From what I’ve tasted of desire) Figure of Speech: Simile (From what I’ve tasted of desire) Personal Opinion: This poem was written by Robert Frost in December 1920. This poem tells us about how the world will end (obviously?). Some say that it will end in fire, and some say in ice. “Fire” here, in my opinion, would mean “hatred”, and “Ice” would mean “ignorance”. By hating or ignoring what’s important to us, this world would surely be destroyed. He implied here that “from what I’ve tasted of desire, I hold with those who favor fire”, me...

Title: The School for Good and Evil Author: Soman Chainani Publisher: HerperCollins Character: Agatha, Sophie, Tedros, School Master, Hester, Anadil, Dot, Hort, Beatrix, Kiko, Chaddick, Professor Dovey, Merlin. Summary: Novel The School for Good and Evil is a novel written by Soman Chainani who successfully penetrated the New York Times Bestseller in the Fantasy Fiction category.This story tells of two friends who are friendly, but contrary. Sophie, a feminine girl, likes to wear something pink, and generous. But unfortunately,s he is not sincere in helping people. She behaves as if it were good in the eyes of the people, to be kidnapped by the Master, the kidnapper who brought the children from the village of Gavaldon to be brought to the School of Goodness and Crime far from the State of the Fairy, which is bordered by the Neighborly Forest. Meanwhile, Agatha, a lonely, gloomy girl, always wears black clothes (the reason is not so dirty), and keeps a ca...

English Title: Your Name — “your name.” Japanese Title: 君の名は。 – Kimi no Na wa. Author: Makoto Shinkai (Your Name), Arata Kanoh (Another Side) Illustrator: Masayoshi Tanaka and Hiyori Asahikawa (Another Side) Translator: Taylor Engel Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance Original Run: June 2016 English Run: May 2017 Japanese Publisher: Kadokawa English Publisher: Yen On (Yen Press) Volumes in Japanese: 1 (Completed) (plus side-story volume) Volumes in English: 1 (Completed) (plus side-story volume)

“The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe Summar (plot): The narrator is intensely nervous, but claims that he isn't insane.The narrator explains to us that he has a "disease" that makes his "senses" super powerful. According to him, this is different than an insane person, whose senses are completely gone, or at least very weak. The narrator says that “ Hearing" is the most powerful sense narrator have and the narrator claims to be able to hear everything going on in "heaven," "earth," and most of what's going on in "hell." The narrator thinks it might have been the old man's freaky eye that started the idea: "He had the eye of a vulture – a pale blue eye, with a film over it" (2). Whenever the old man's eye looks at the narrator, the narrator's blood freezes. This has gotten to be too much for the narrator to ...