Friday, May 31, 2013

The Escape

“What happened?”  Wondered the husky, muscular man as he sat up on a slab of cold, hard steel that was passed off as a bed and stared into the dimly lit room into a lifeless gray stonewall.

“I don’t know what happened to you or what you did to get put in Alcatraz,” said a voice from the other side of the room.

“Who are you and what is your name?!”  Said the man who just sat up.

“My name is Redneck.  Now tell me what yours is,” said the man on the other side of the room.

“My name is Reed,” said the man who had sat up.

“Hey you two stop talking,” said the guard as he was passing by the cell door.

After the guard walked away and was out of earshot Reed asked Redneck, what he had done to be put into Alcatraz.  Redneck replied by saying, “I was put in here for creating a time travel device.  Then I went back in time and altered it so that I was in power.”

“Do you know a way out of here?”  Reed asks Redneck.

“As a matter of fact I do,” said Redneck.

“How would we get out then?”  Said Reed.

“We grab a guard as he walks by and we slam his head into the cell bars then we take his keys, his taser, and his baton.  Then we unlock our cell and all the other cells too, so that they can escape and cause a riot while we sneak out.  Then we have to hot-wire one of the boats and get off this island,” said Redneck.

It’s midnight and everything is dark in Alcatraz.  When all of the sudden there is a bang and the guard, who was just walking by, is heaped up in a pool of blood from a cylindrical indent, in his forehead, from the jail cell bars.  The guard has been stripped of his weapons and keys.  The cell door in front of him was wide open with the prisoners gone.

“Hurry,” whispers Reed.

“I’m trying,” hissed Redneck

The other prisoners start to stir when the key makes a loud cur chunk when it unlocks the cell door.  At the next cell, Redneck started getting into a rhythm and the process of unlocking the doors started to get faster.  When all the cells on their cells floor were unlocked, they started to wake the ones who weren’t already out of their cells and told them that they can escape.

“Now the fun begins,” said Redneck as more guards started to pour in because they hadn’t heard from the guard patrolling the area for a couple of hours.

“Yes, yes it does,” replies Reed.

 When the guards tried to seize one of the recently freed prisoners and there was a massive outbreak as a riot had just begun.  “Now is the time to get out of here,” said Reed as he was fighting his way to the exit

“I know that’s what I’ve been trying to do,” said Redneck when he met up with Reed near the exit.

“Okay let’s get a move on then,” said Reed.

As they were both sneaking out the door to outside all hell broke loose as the sirens started screeching, searchlights started moving, and dogs started barking. At that moment, they looked at each other and they both knew what they had to do.  They started sprinting for the nearest boat and when they got there, Redneck asked Reed if he had hot-wired anything before.  Reed having not done anything illegal before in his life, but when you worked as a boat mechanic you pick up a thing or two.  Just as Reed got the boat running, the search team had found them but it was too late.  Redneck was already jamming the throttle into full speed s the boat shot away from the dock and were lost from sight before the search team could even get in the other boat to chase after them.

A few years later

“Redneck, want to do another Alcatraz break in?”  Said Reed.

“Come on man this is our Third one this week,” said Redneck.

“I know but don’t you remember the first time we met we were two completely broke strangers now look at us were in designer suits and we each got our own mansion,” Said Reed.

“Yeah I guess we could find someone who will pay us a lot of money to break someone out,” said Redneck.

“We don’t need to find one I already got us one,” said Reed.


“Well I guess we better get moving then,” said Redneck and as they walk in the door to Alcatraz as Reed says, “Now the fun begins.”

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Hemingway- symbolism



In Hemingway’s writing, he uses a very deep and twisted form of symbolism like "against the wall" and "in the shadows."  It’s twisted because of the fact that it has to deal with death in one way or another.

When you see the words "against the wall: in Hemingway’s writing it means that they are going to commit suicide or they are going to be killed.  For example in his story “Indian Camp” when the husband of the woman who is giving birth and the doctor says the woman doesn’t matter only the baby does.  It made the husband turn to face toward the wall and killed himself by slitting his own throat with a razor blade.

The words "in the shadows" mean that they are going to do something very bad soon or have done something bad.  For example in his story “A Clean Well Lighted Place”, the shadows have a huge role in the story’s meaning.  When the younger waiter was sitting in the chair he was sitting in the shadows while the older waiter sat in the chair that was well lighted.  In addition, when the old blind man was walking home he was walking into the shadows, which represents that he is very unhappy in this case.

 Hemingway’s writing has a very deep and intense form of symbolism that you can’t find in anyone else’s writing.  You also can’t find his “Subject-verb-direct object” sentence structure that has as much depth in the story than in anyone else’s writing.