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Like other Yale senior societies, Skull and Bones membership was almost exclusively limited to white Protestant males for much of its history. While Yale itself had exclusionary policies directed at particular ethnic and religious groups, the senior societies were even more exclusionary.[11][12] While some Catholics were able to join such groups, Jews were more often not.[12] Some of these excluded groups eventually entered Skull and Bones by means of sports, through the society's practice of tapping standout athletes. Star football players included the first Jewish (Al Hessberg, class of 1938) and African-American (Levi Jackson, class of 1950, who turned down the invitation for the Berzelius Society) students to be tapped for Skull and Bones.[11]

Ever since the invention of language, humans have been obsessed and intrigued with the aspect of storytelling. Each story, whether written or spoken, holds an important theme within its creative words and exciting plot. While each story is special and unique, over the course of history, different periods of literature have formed where authors tend to focus on similar themes and messages. One of which was the American Romantic era, where authors used their stories to challenge the boundaries of society, and delve deeper into what makes people inherently human, both the flaws and perfections. Some of America’s greatest works of literature were born in this period, like those of Poe, and Hawthorne. A very common literary theme during the romantic period was that of good versus evil, in both individual characters and society as a whole; this theme is especially evident in works such as The Tell Tale Heart, The Raven, and Young Goodman Brown.

During this section of the book, I felt contented that someone was finally trying to find out more things about Mr. Harvey. In this case, it is Susie's father, Jack Salmon. I like how Jack Salmon is strong and won't give up until he finds his daughter's murderer. On the other hand, I was upset and confused as to why Ray didn't attend Susie's memorial service. I thought about this for a moment and then I understood that maybe Ray wanted to forget about Susie, but he still missed her at the same time. Overall, what really shocked me about this section of the book was when Lindsey passed out at Susie's memorial service. It startled me that Lindsey passed out due to the eye contact she made with Mr. Harvey. This event made me feel determined to

I read Jane Eyre in high-school and read the first few chapters of The Lovely Bones this summer, but reading the first few pages of The Glass Castle, I am excited to learn how the parents transitioned from home to homeless. Also, how did the children cope with having to take care of themselves while the father drank and the mother flitted around art instead of staying at home or parenting. The guilt would eat me alive if I knew my parents were on the street cold and unsafe, even though Jeanette has accepted it, she still struggles with how her mother is content with surviving on the streets and eating from dumpsters.

Alice Sebold is extremely known for her popular novel, The Lovely Bone, which was a dominating best-seller in 2002 about a murdered teenage girl observing the crime and the impact it had on everyone involve. The novel was transformed into a film in 2009, which created such a

Through the use of common themes incorporated into gothic literature, Edgar Allen Poe and Anne Rice create universal appeal to their readers. Anne Rice’s Interview With A Vampire and Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven and Dream Within A Dream all create paradoxes whether within the characters self or in society.

Gothic elements are utilized in short stories to emphasize the literal and nonliteral meaning and to allow the reader to use their imagination. In the short stories, “The Devil and Tom Walker” by Washington Irving, “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe, and “Prey” by Richard Matheson, the following gothic elements are commonly seen: supernatural forces and entrapment. The authors implement these elements in order to allow the reader to use their imagination and to show the internal and external conflicts the character feels.

To focus in on American values during the nineteenth century, Foster in The Coquette exhibits sentimentalism and early Gothicism despite the subtle differences between the two. It is important to compare the ideas behind both of these genres because it allows a glimpse into the past for showing both American ideals at the time and how they have evolved over the course of America’s history. They also show some of the controversial issues going on in societies that would otherwise be glossed over. Considering how sentimentalism and Gothicism both came around during the Enlightenment, it is evident that there are many issues to be addressed, including that of too much intellect in contrast to human emotions. The fact that sentimentalism and Gothicism can cross paths in a novel such as Foster’s to illustrate the times, shows how diverse the literary world was. Both genres enhance human emotion,

The gothic literary movement is a part of the larger Romantic Movement. Gothic literature shares many of the traits of romanticism, such as the emphasis on emotions and the imagination. Gothic literature goes beyond the melancholy evident in most romantic works, however, and enters into the areas of horror and decay, becoming preoccupied with death. “The Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allan Poe is a powerful example of gothic fiction, whereas James Fenimore Cooper’s The Last of the Mohicans serves as the romantic predecessor, illustrating the differences and the similarities between romantic and gothic literature.

One day there was a guy who lived in las vegas named Bone who hated boxing because he had to people to there death even tho he didnt to box. He was forced to box because some face people found out that he was really good at it.

There is a man who lives in the woods behind the dumpsters. His name is Bates, but everyone calls him Bones.

When I was ten I started to gain weight, which seemed normal enough at the time. I was a happy child, despite having experienced some unfortunate circumstances during my few years of existence. Maybe it was these unfortunate circumstances that caused the weight gain, due to a having an immense amount of stress for such a young girl.

Gothic literature originated in the 19th century, having diverged from the larger Romantic Movement. Like the Romantics, Gothic writers embraced the sublime nature and endeavored to evoke deep emotions in their readers. However, their motives were manifested in a fascination with the exotic and eerie human nature and the effects of guilt, evil, isolation and terror on a human being. Authors employ isolated and grotesque settings, supernatural beings and events, combines horror and romance as well as highlighting overwrought emotions. The ability to captivate reader’s emotional experience through the exploration of human weakness has allowed the Gothic genre to continue into the twenty-first century, modifying to reflect current societal concerns.

The term gothic serves as the ideal backdrop for a literary era of suspense, mystery, and terror. A haunted mansion bursting with secrets, a naïve helpless heroine, and the male hero that saves the day are all quintessentially gothic. When Ellen Moers first coined the term “Female Gothic” in her 1976 book, Literary Women, she defined it as “the work that women writers have done in the literary mode that, since the eighteenth century have been termed Gothic” (Moers). Her argument that Female Gothic literature is a code for women’s fear of domestic entrapment, especially within their own bodies as was mainly experienced in childbirth and motherhood, was quite influential. Anne Williams, in her book The Art of Darkness: A Poetics of Gothic, argues that Female Gothic can be further dissected to include its intention to criticize the patriarchy while educating and socializing its female readers with an affirmation of absolute independence and strength. The Female Gothic is often pursued and haunted by a villainous patriarchal figure, but finds salvation on her own accord and more importantly, within herself. Another element of Female gothic is madness and monstrosity as an explanation for why the female would deviate from the conventional norm.

Just like the slow ticking of an old grandfather clock, Gothic literature will be one of the most feared titles one will ever read for good reason. Heart-pounding. Sweat-inducing. Pupil-shaking. So startlingly real and lifelike, you will not be able to stop yourself from turning around to just check. Those deep, dark, unexplained laments in the murky recesses of our minds have moulded itself into two very distinct types of Gothic literature - traditional and contemporary. Traditional Gothic literature, like Charles Dickens’ ‘The Signalman’ utilises an unusual setting, and revolves heavily around the supernatural, which uses third person to further emphasise its creepiness; contemporary literature, like Roald Dahl's ’ ‘Lamb to the Slaughter’