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How I feel

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Willy Harris I did it. I successfully convinced Bobo and Walter to hand over all of their spare money to me. Haha, it was too easy. I have more money than I could’ve ever dreamed of in my hands right now. I can run away and start a new life. I won’t have to work as a servant for white people no more. But can I really do this? Bobo and Walter are my friends after all… my entire life is here in Chicago. Will I feel guilty for deceiving them? No, no I won’t. I have to be selfish and think for myself. Beneatha used to say behind my back that I was a “man even Travis wouldn’t have trusted with his most worn-out marbles” (132). Huh, well who would’ve known, that girl was right for once. I wouldn’t even trust myself either. But it’s not my fault. They were the ones dumb enough to believe me. They were the ones who trusted me with their life savings.  They were the ones that actually thought that a liquor store would be a smart form of business. I need to leave before Bobo and I had ...

DIEmond

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     Once upon a time, the Washington family drowned in wealth and resided deep in the isolated mountains far away from society (with the exception of their slaves and prisoners). While everyone in the world should have been attempting to create a life full of happiness for themselves, people were obsessed with money and attempted to do anything to attain it. The Washington family was lucky and possessed a diamond as big as a mountain that was of enormous wealth. Their own affluence imprisoned them by trapping them from conversing with the outside world in order to keep their wealth a secret. Suffering from a lack of outside influence, the Washington’s invite friends to entertain them: only to murder them in the end. After the Washington daughter Kismine accidentally reveals her family’s secret with stuttering rhetoric to the guest John, the depth of their corruption is uncovered. Their riches are ironic because although they have so much of it, they cannot do anything w...