Essay for final

The house in there will come soft rains is a smart house that has a family that lives inside. The family has timers that go off everyday, like a timer for the house to make breakfast. One day a nuclear bomb hit the town and killed everything but the house and some things in inside it. The house had no idea what was going on around it. Timers the family had set went off with no one to use them. The house was lonely and clueless with no one around to help. In the end the house started to fall apart and a fire started and burned everything down besides the west wall.
Henry was also lonely and clueless. He is home alone in expectation of his wife returning from her trip to see her family. Henry lives in a small town with every little people. He married one of the only female in the town. Yet did Henry know that his wife had been dead for nineteen years. Every year at a certain time he gets a letter saying that she will return in a certain amount of days. His friends come over and decorate the house for her and help Henry because they know that she is dead. The day she returns they drink liquor and get him drunk the where he will pass out just before the time she is expected to come home. Then he wakes up and lives another year till the day she is expected home.
The house and Henry were both lonely and oblivious. The house has no idea that a nuclear bomb has hit and the town is dead, and the family that lives in the house is gone. Henry lives by himself now and has no idea that his wife is dead and has been for nineteen years. The difference is that Henry has people around him to help when the time his wife is expected home. The house is all alone with no one to help and everything around is dying, even the house dies in the end. They are both lonely but one is even more lonely then the other.

Son of America

Protagonist- Sam
Antagonist- his parents
Type of conflict: Person vs. Self, he to himself that people can live without lots of money and new technology.

Exposition: When we find out what kind of town they live in and what the characters look like.

Inciting event: when Sam comes to visit them.

Rising action: Tells his parents about his new life style.

Climax: when Sam offers then money and they don't take it.

Falling action: They go to synagogue, Berl shows Sam the gold coins.

Resolution: When he finds out they don't need the money.

Berl and Berchla live in a very safe small town called Lenthshin in a foreign country. They are Jewish and believe they have every thing they need to live and don't need any more money. They have a son named Samuel who left home for the United States when he was only fifteen. Samuel comes to visit his parents in lenthshin. He tells them that he is a banker in New York city. When Samuel goes to visit he tries to give his parents money because he thinks they need it. His parents refuse and say that they have everything they need and don't need money. Samuel finally finds out that they do have everything they need and don't need the money.

Money: How things have changed and more modern, also shows Samuel's new life style.

Berl and Berlcha: They show that people can still live without modern technology.

Theme: Not everyone likes to live with modern technology and can survive without it.

The recalcitrant girl didn’t clean her room so she was grounded.
The boy got stuck in the verdant jungle.
The acrimonious teacher put the student in a bad mood.
The tremulous cat ran away from the dog.
The silhouette danced in the moonlight.
The psychopathic women threatened to kill the cashier.
The skate boarder had to be sedated because he broke his leg.
The desolation of the stands made the basketball team feel even worse about them selves.
The ephemeral cookies were very good.

california's tail

Pro- Henry
Antag- Henry
type of conflict- person vs. self
setting: California after the gold rush
point of view- 1st person
characters: Henry, Joe, Tom, charlie, and narrator.

Dynamic- narrator

Static- Henry

exposition: when we find out what the town looks like and how empty it is.

inciting: When he shows him the picture and tells him to apologize to her face.

Rising action: invited to stay and meet Henry's wife. Hears the letter, sets up for the party, meets the other friends.

Climax: When the wife doesn't show up at nine and Henry is put to bed.

falling: when the narrator asks what's going on.

Resolution: when the narrator finds out that the wife is dead and has been dead for a long time.

symbol: picture, the house,

Allusion: Gold rush.

situational irony: we think the wife will come home.