After the crash, the Hazelwood High community struggles to cope with Robbie's seemingly senseless death. Keisha, Andy's girlfriend, calls…
November Nelson is an average 16-year-old social butterfly in high school; she had a “perfect” life, a devoted boyfriend, a caring mother, and was well on her way with her “perfect” plans after high school, when her life took a turn for the worst. Her father died when she was 10 and now she has to face the reality that Joshua Prescott, her boyfriend, has passed away. Just when she thinks that life can’t get any worse, she discovers that she is pregnant with Josh’s child. Now “… the best time of her life … all of it screwed up because of this” (Draper 120). She faces the challenge of breaking the news to her mother and the Prescotts. She is faced with the biggest decision that she could ever imagine.…
Lily Owens is lying in her bed watching bees squeeze in and out of cracks in her walls. She thinks about her mother, who died when Lily was a child. She also thinks about Rosaleen, a black woman who looks after her and her father, T. Ray. When the bees begin to swarm around Lily, she wakes T. Ray to show him but when he comes, the bees are gone. He threatens to make her kneel in grits if she wakes him again. Lily decides she will catch some bees in a jar to prove she was not making up the story. She starts to think about the day her mother died. She was packing hurridly when T. Ray comes home and they start fighting. Lily there was a gun, picking it up, and an explosion.…
Six slaps her face, hoping the pain will wake her. Pinches her cheeks when nothing happens. But she’s not sleeping and she’s not dreaming—her nightmare is her reality. She’s working with a murderer, a man who burned down an entire town. The realization hits her hard, like a punch to the gut. It’s enough to make her stomach churn. At least she doesn’t throw up.…
After the death of a twelve year old girl, Katy Devlin, detective Cassie Maddox and detective Adam Robert Ryan were in charge to investigate the murder scene. It occurred in the same woods twenty years ago as the unsolved mystery to the death of Rob’s two best friends, Peter and Jamie. In Tana French’s, In the Woods, we were introduced to Cassie as the young, unique individual, with an easy going personality that instantly made her Rob’s best friend. As a detective, she expressed her strength and weaknesses in dangerous and difficult situations throughout the story. When a character with such qualities is introduced, the reader is able to relate and understand her more. After her own experiences, she grows to be strong, talented, and…
Janie and Reeve decided to skip school and go on a two hour trip from Conneticut to New Jersey where Jaine's biological parents live. Janie studied the map of New Jersey while Reeve was driving.When Janie told him all about how she thought she was kiddnapped and how her parents are actually her grandparents, Reeve didn't believe it. They got off the New Jersey Turnpike and stopped by a Mobil station which had a phone booth. She got in the phone booth and hoped that the phone book wasn't there, but it was. She looked through it until she found the last name Spring, and there was only one listing and it read: Spring, Johnathan Avery... 114 Highview Avenue. Once Reeve and Janie got near their house they stayed in the car and saw a yellow school…
Daisy Brownstone is Ember’s best friend, they’ve known each other since the age of 3 when they met in preschool. Who, despite the name, was not like a daisy in the slightest. She hates dresses, and her favorite color is black. She and Ember are complete opposites. However, they did have one thing in common, their love for theater. In fact, Daisy had never missed rehearsal before, so it was very strange that she had today.…
In the story, Miles has a burden. He doesn’t know how to express what he’s going through. One day at the lake, he saw a bee follow this girl into the water. No one else saw her, just Miles. He tried explaining it to people, but they never really believed him. He always felt like that girl was watching him, telling him what to do. Daisy tells a story one night about how she practiced with her parents at the lake to see how long she could swim under water. Miles is relieved that she is okay, but mad that she never told anyone. On page 352, Miles says, “I was on the boat. The one Daisy swam under. Only I didn’t see her. All this time I thought the girl-I mean Daisy-had drowned and I hadn’t been able to save her.” That statement helped me understand how he felt and how he thought she was dead.…
The day before her wedding, Daisy received a letter from Jay Gatsby. She was dismayed and got very drunk in her room. Jordan was one of her bridesmaids and found her on her bed. Daisy was so discombobulated that she tried to throw away her $350,000 pearl necklace that Tom got her. She also tried to call off the…
It may be that following the recent fall and being less active, Jim's sputum ability to clear sputum had diminished and I have requested that he recommence regular nebulised saline and use the previously provided Bubble PEP device. I have also stopped doxycycline and switched him over to low-dose Erythromycin ES 400mg daily, particularly given that macrolides have the added benefit of an anti-inflammatory effect.…
Throughout the book ‘The Story of Tom Brennan’, each character deals with the tragedy in many different ways. Tom becomes depressed and begins to blame himself, he rejects that Dan, his older brother, has committed a crime and is sent to jail, ‘didn’t they realise we weren’t like everyone else here?’ (Page 134). Kylie, Tom’s younger sister, become rebellious and felt that everyone in their new town, Coghill, would have found out their secret eventually and it wasn’t fair to keep it hidden. ‘That was the thing about my sister, she’d become tough, like I didn’t know her anymore.’ (Page 29). ‘In many ways she’d released me, pushing me into my own fear.’ (Page 190). ‘In some ways, part of me almost admired her guts’ (Page 185). Tess, Tom’s mum, is affected by it the most; she refuses to accept that it’s happened and feels that her son has been ripped away from her. ‘“Well Tess,’ Kath started, “I’m sorry about that, but my son can’t even turn his neck to see his back.”’ (Page 155). She begins to live in denial and won’t talk about it. ‘Come on girlie, don’t be so self indulgent. Life goes on.’ (Page 4). Daniel becomes depressed and realises the consequences of his actions. “He’d been absolutely ripped to shreds. He didn’t sleep, eat, hardly spoke, never smiled. The only thing he did was cry. He cried buckets.” (Page 121).…
I couldn’t sleep at all last night. The nightmare of the past events haunted me all throughout the night. The visage of the body being laid out and defiled in the middle of the cold, barren road was still within my head like looking at myself in the mirror. I was near the brink of collapse, unable to bear what had just happened. I stayed in bed till about midday when I woke up from my slumber, my face dry from tears.…
In today’s society women are still not completely equal to men. However, unlike Daisy and Criseyde, women know about all of the bad things that happen in the world. Often, women are persuaded into doing something they do not necessarily want to. This could be anything from going into a field of study that does not interest them to getting married and moving away from her family. Women avoid doing things that are out of the ordinary, which is why Daisy had to stay with Tom instead of going with…
She was devastated when told the news. Her emotions were everywhere. She didn’t know what to think. She was mad at Amanda but sad for Andrew. She thought to herself “where did I go wrong” blaming herself for amandas actions. She held herself responsible because of how she raised…
The trailer was barely a five minutes drive from the high school and sitting in a park hidden in the back woods where her mother believed would keep them safe from robbers. As if robbers would ever want anything from the trailer. Faline remembered bringing Tammy to her house for the first time. Tam had grown up warm and cozy in an uncommonly large house in the rich suburbs of the district with unnaturally white siding and a spacious room for each one of her five siblings. Having two parents who were lawyers paid well. Having one mother who was a hairdresser at a local saloon paid not enough for most people. Despite the up turned noses of Faline’s classmates,…