“Where were you?” he screamed.
“Where were you?” he screamed.
Slowly closing the door, she decided not to go into the kitchen, where her mother undoubtedly stood preparing supper. Instead, she turned toward the staircase leading to her bedroom, thinking about what she wanted to say in her next letter to Sam. Stopping abruptly on the first step, she noticed a dainty box perched on the sixth step. A card standing upright on the box had the word, “for Lelia.” in handwriting she didn’t recognize.…
Natalyia Jenkins, I don't even know how she convinces my mother she innocents. I don't like this girl one bit - correction, I hate with a passion. One day we were in the Bahamas, my mother thought it was okay to plan a surprise trip. For Just the two of us, I went for 2 days and left her there. Broke...…
The Killer Angels is a novel written by Michael Shaara about the events, battles and story behind the Confederate army and its participants during the American Civil War. Throughout the novel, the tension and suspense is on a constant rise as you learn about the many obligations and challenges that the soldiers, spies and generals had to undergo to fight for independence, or unity.…
She was born on a busy summer night on September 13th 1918 in Brookline, Massachusetts. I always had the feeling that Rosie was a little different from the rest of us. On the day of her birth the midwife arrived late, and my theory is that this action deprived her brain of oxygen. We were proven right when she failed to advance from kindergarten and was deemed to suffer from intellectual disabilities. When this happened our parents began to conceal their third child from society.…
Toni Cade Bambara The puddle had frozen over, and me and Cathy went stompin in it. The twins from next door, Tyrone and Terry, were swingin so high out of sight we forgot we were waitin our turn on the tire. Cathy jumped up and came down hard on her heels and started tapdancin. And the frozen patch splinterin every which way underneath kinda spooky. “Looks like a plastic spider web,” she said. “A sort of weird spider, I guess, with many mental problems.” But really it looked like the crystal paperweight Granny kept in the parlor. She was on the back porch, Granny was, making the cakes drunk. The old ladle drippin rum into the Christmas tins, like it used to drip maple syrup into the pails when we lived in the Judson’s woods, like it poured cider into the vats when we were on the Cooper place, like it used to scoop buttermilk and soft cheese when we lived at the dairy. “Go tell that man we ain’t a bunch of trees.” “Ma’am?” “I said to tell that man to get away from here with that camera.” Me and Cathy look over toward the meadow where the men with the station wagon’d been roamin around all mornin. The tall man with a huge camera lassoed to his shoulder was buzzin our way. “They’re makin movie pictures,” yelled Tyrone, stiffenin his legs and twistin so the tire’d come down slow so they could see. “They’re makin movie pictures,” sang out…
Sitting in class, everyone is done and I haven't even got started because school is different for me. It takes more for me to understand and two times longer for me to finish. My full name is Martika Jannelyn Lane, I am 17 years old and I've lived in Hood River my whole life. Welcome to meeting me.…
A few minutes had passed since I last talked to Mrs. Morrow, it was getting boring. Mrs. Morrow made me think about old Ernest. How everyone hated his gut, but to his mom he was an angel from heaven. He would always tease you and make fun of your clothes and one time old Ernest and I almost got into a fight.…
She starts to make up story about them. Mansfield writes, “The hero and heroine, of course, just arrived from his father's yacht. And still soundlessly singing, still with that trembling smile” Mrs Brill is so happy to have more interesting people to join her play. At first the couple is seen as the perfect pair but once Mrs Brill starts listening in on their conversation they are fighting. This throws away Mrs Brill perfect story about the couple. The couple starts to mock Mrs Brill together which seems to end there fight. After that moment Mrs Brill can no longer feel like she belongs in the world, that she is special.Mrs Brill delusion that she had built comes tumbling down. Her beloved fur coat becomes the joke. Mrs Brill starts to see the world in a different way. She is no longer as happy, she no longer enjoys all of her normal things. The young boy woke her up to a harsh reality that she was not ready to face. She starts to see herself as a old lonely women. When she puts the coat back into its box it like she is accepting what the young man said as the truth. She has been rejected from the world. And as Mansfield writes, “But when she put the lid on she thought she heard something crying.” What Mrs Brill is hearing is her life being put into a lonely box. Because that coat represented her love for life and made her feel as though she was a part of the story. When the young boy…
In the cold and deadly winter, a man by the name of Billy Weaver, entered the town of Bath, where it seemed as though a giant white blanket was covering it. He tried to avoid every whip of wild wind that came his way. Trying to find shelter in a cheap hotel, he asked around, it was suggested that he go to the Bell and Dragon. As he went in, he met an old lady who was almost too nice to him. Soon after, the old lady started to talk about some other men that she had hosted at Bed and Breakfast, were named James Mulholland and Gregory Temple. Later that night, the landlady gives him tea that as a faint and bitter taste of almonds. The reader can infer that the tea had poison in it, and the old lady would kill him then stuff him like she did to…
It was settled, the Johnsons were relocating to Bellingham, Washington; since Papa cannot sustain the work in the country. John liked the idea of moving to the city, but Hilda and Lois were not so thrilled. Their house in Bellingham was modern, and John was delighted. From the window, you could see the magnificent Mount Baker. Papa and Hilda started talking about how Mount Baker was like God, making John feel awkward. The girls were a bit worried going to school even with John’s encouragement. After class, John’s classmate, Marvin, led him to the railroad tracks where he got him to smoke a cigarette brought by a fifth-grader named Pete. As they parted, John ran home in dismay, anxious that his parents might find out. When he got home, John saw Mama chopping down some onions, so he ate a piece to take the smell of the cigarette out. John felt guilty for smoking, but thought that at least he did something to please his father by chopping down some wood.…
There was still money in her purse, and her next temptation presented itself in the shape of a matinee poster. Mrs. Sommers eyed the poster, as would an eagle watching it’s pray. In the back of her mind, photographs of her family arose, their smiling faces when she showed them the gifts she had purchased. She then came to a realization, that today she only fostered herself. The pair of silk stockings, the fancy lunch, the boots, magazines and gloves how would she explained the items to her family. Mrs. Sommer’s walked away from the matinee poster, and tears filled her eyes. Consequently, she regained her composure and was silent as a mouse for a moment in which felt like an eternity. She slid her hand inside her purse, and looked over the remaining…
I fastly walked with volition up the steps and walked toward Emily’s and my bedroom. I looked into the closet and saw a nice black suit to wear. I put my suit on in time to brush my teeth and shave. By the time I finished, Emily was downstair in a lovely white dress and the babysitter was already with Jamie in the livingroom. “Hello Amelia! Don’t forget to put Jamie in bed by eight o’clock and we should be back by ten thirty at the most. Good night Jamie!” I quickly said before we left.…
Because Mrs. Mallard's was afflicted with heart trouble, everyone basically tiptoes around her and treats her carefully. When her sister and family friend discover Mr. Mallard got killed in an accident, they take time to tell Mrs. Mallard gently that her husband has died. Mrs. Mallard cries her eyes out, then goes to her room alone and locks the door. Inside, she seems terrified of some feelings that are coming to her and finally realizes that it is her freedom. Even though she and her husband loved each other, and she's truly saddened by his death, she feels liberated and free for the first time. She looks forward to the days ahead instead of dreading them. While Mrs. Mallard is having this epiphany, her sister keeps trying to check on her. Finally, Mrs. Mallard comes out of her room, newly resolved, and she and her sister start to go downstairs. Suddenly, Mr. Mallard comes in. When Mrs. Mallard sees him, she has a tremendous shock and dies.…
When read, the story shows that Miss Brill always comes to the park by herself, if her beloved fur stole is not counted as a friend, and she appears to “people watch”. She observes all of the park goers and makes fairly conversational comments to herself about them: “It was like some one playing with only the family to listen; it didn't care how it played if there weren't any strangers present. Wasn't the conductor wearing a new coat, too? She was sure it was new”, and when Miss Brill is still at her some, getting ready for her day trip to the park, she begins taking to herself about her fur stole; “Never mind–a little dab of black sealing-wax when the time came–when it was absolutely necessary . . . Little rogue! Yes, she really felt like that about it.” (Mansfield). Miss Brill is an odd old woman; she talks to herself, imagines herself to be in a play “and it also explained why she had a queer, shy feeling at telling her English pupils how she spent her Sunday afternoons. No wonder! Miss Brill nearly laughed out loud. She was on the stage” (Mansfield). She is in clear denial of her life being as miserable as it is and in the story, she appears to mock some of the people she is seeing by coining them as “odd” and “nearly all old” and the “way they stared they looked as though they'd just…
After an hour long drive, they reached the old and wrecked house their grandfather used to live in. Everyone was at the door welcoming Rennie; the lost cousin. As D.J. entered his grandfather’s old home he saw streamers and junk food as if this were a birthday party. But this was a celebration party. We partied for a while, then rested on the couch playing video games. 10 minutes into our game, My mother stood up real high on a stool and said “All grandsons gather around the fireplace; time to share stories!” Instantly, I blushed a shade of dark red; embarrassed and followed my cousins to the fireplace.…