We arrived at the hospital to find Mrs. Girroir and her twin fourteen year old daughters sitting in the waiting room. The odor of antiseptic clogged my nose; we walked into Mr.Girroir’s room and as I listened to Mrs. Girroir explain what happened I couldn’t help but feel that even though we were…
Jonas awoke to a dim light, and a warm bed. He fluttered his eyes open, and found everything a little blurry. His knee hurt, but the pain was not unbearable. Have I died and gone to elsewhere? Jonas thought. But he heard voices--talking about him.…
In the hospital room, before she slipped into a coma, she spoke to each of us. Not sure what she said to my brother, and I’m sure she told my sister to take care of me (Geesh, Mom, I’m not a kid anymore). When I stood by her bedside, her face and body frail, she took my hand. It took me years to realize, that what she said to me in the moment, was wrong.…
Lindsey woke up to a stabbing feeling in her back. She felt like her head was on fire. She opened her eyes and was confused as to why she was in a hospital. As she tried to sit up, she realized she couldn’t feel her legs. Her heart started racing and her head started to pound. Why was she in a hospital? Why did she ache all over her body? Why couldn’t she feel her legs? As much as she wanted answers to all of these questions, her eyelids felt heavy and she drifted off back into sleep.…
A:: My sister had initially felt an overwhelming feeling of great loss. My grandparents were shocked and I remember my friends calling my house phone to see if I had heard of the terrible news.…
The guards walked out of the infirmary and stood outside the door after the physician had ordered them to keep the princess and her friend out of his way. Morgana and Amora sat against the stone wall beside the elven guards waiting for the physician to emerge and tell them what was wrong with Benjamin. An hour later the elderly physician walked out of the infirmary and over to Amora so he could ask her a couple of questions.“Amora your friend has stopped coughing up blood for now, but before I can give him any medication I have to figure out what plagues the boy.” “To do so I must ask you a couple of questions tell me what were you doing when the boy first started coughing up blood,” the physician asked. “We were exploring a subterranean chamber where Benjamin accidentally cut his finger on a stone dagger that forced all of his blood to leave his body,” Morgana replied. “Do you still have the dagger that the boy cut his finger on?” Morgana handed the physician the dagger and…
This novel “Such as my beloved” by Morley Callaghan the main character’s of this novel is Father Dowling, Midge and Ronnie. Throughout the last half of the novel Father Dowling has shown consideration and concern for the two girls. Even though he has developed love interest with them, he is able to communicate with them and interact with them, even though it seems that throughout the novel he does have a sexual interest in them which contravenes his beliefs as a priest. The reason why he shows so much consideration is because he believes in himself that he can change their lives from being socially acceptable prostitutes for a living into being the best they can be with pursuing a career that is well known. Father Dowling believes that Midge and Ronnie are a good character with their personality and kindness which develops throughout the novel, he also believes helping them also benefits himself “The more I love and think for those girls the closer I am to all these people,” (Callaghan 163). They can achieve so much more than just being two prostitutes meaning a career that is more socially acceptable. The thesis in the character development to the story is that Father Dowling shows consideration to those he believes should deserve a second chance, in this novel Father Dowling gives up the ultimate sacrifice, his life, he has for the goodness of those two girls whom nobody gave a chance to, but him.…
Today is perhaps one of the most important days of my life. It is the day I take my placement exam that determines which major you will be put into at the higher learning institution. Shakily I finish getting dressed for the day, I am adorned in a pair of navy pants and a grey button up with the number 84 on the cuff. Each year the society gives a number to every child born. I was the 84th child of the year so that is the number I was assigned, many of my other classmates have number ranging from 20 to over 200. I slip out of my room and jog to the end of my hall barely catching the last lift to the 97th floor where the test is administered. Not everyone gets invited to secondary school, for 75% of the world primary is the end, they didn’t pass, and would be taught trade jobs with little opportunity for advancement. Due to this pressure of the test looms over me and the memory of leaving my mother and family take over my mind almost daily.…
Sadako was a Japanese girl. When the atom bomb dropped in Japan, she was only a little baby. Her grandma was killed by the bombing. Today is a memorial day; the family did the tradition way to remember her, which is to set free a white drove. The new school year has begun; Sadako was excited to join the track team. But she kept feeling dizzy and was sent to the hospital. The doctor told her that she had Leukemia. She can’t believe it, that means that she has to stay in the hospital and can’t join the track team. The first couple day in the hospital was hard her sister reminded her story of the paper cranes. In that story if a sick people fold a thousand paper cranes, then the god will grain they wish and make they healthy again. She started to fold them and everyone she folded she feels a bit better. One day she met Kenji, who has Leukemia also. Kenji knew he is going to die soon. Just one day she Sadako was in form by the Nurse that Kenji had pass away. Sadako is afraid, some day she might be the next victim of the disease. Even though folding crane make her feel cheerful, but as day went by, she is getting weaker and weaker. Her mother cried everyday; she hated herself for making her mom feel sad. Later she can’t tell days and night anymore, and only wake up short amount of time, she’s too wake to fold crane anymore. And the six hundred and forty fourth cranes was the last crane she ever folded.…
There’s a patient going crazy in room 1000 on the second floor! You gotta go! You gotta go! and help the poor kid” I said as if I was terrified for life. They all hustled outta the room. I casually went over to the other side of desk and got a hold of the papers trying to find the name “Jane Gallagher” rushing through as quickly as possible befores the nurses come back to realize the kid was perfectly fine. “Aha! found it I knew I saw her but the hell she in here for?” I moved my finger slightly more to the left to find the room number she's in “202” in first level never forgot that damn room. I grunt, scowl, scratch the back of my head thoughtfully and just entered the damn room and there she was Jane laying on the bed staring at me vacantly with wide brown eyes. I sense she is nervous.…
Beloved, a novel by Toni Morrison, exhibits the extreme difficulties a freed slave faces when they achieve the right to life and liberty again. Sethe, one of the main characters, faces hardship as the past she desperately tries to keep at bay catches up with her. Sethe's evolution of self is revealed through her interactions with Beloved, the reincarnation of her dead daughter. Beloved's entanglement in Sethe's life shows the journey Sethe experienced from the beginning as a slave mother, to an confused woman, up to the point of her downfall.…
I studied both of their faces, noticing something is off. My heart fluttered faster than a hummingbird’s wings. My brother took me outside a lightly said, “Abuela passed away.” The fluttering stopped and I knew then that my life would change drastically. It will…
She died suddenly in her sleep, while my grandfather was the only one at home. This was a great…
As I washed my hands and walked down what seemed to be a mile long hall I got nervous. I got an uneasy feeling while trying to fight back my tears. I see from a distance my aunt lying in a hospital bed. When I walk into the room with my uncle and sister-in-law, my uncle is informing us of what has happened recently and what’s going to happen. My aunt was unable to communicate with us, except for her rare thumbs up that she would give my uncle.…
Already it had marked a year since the devastating news had been revealed to her. On this particular day, Janee had been very sick and was lying in bed trying to sleep, as this was her only means of comfort. As she lied there, feeling miserable, she thought to herself that she should call the hospice to see how her mother was doing; Janee had called everyday to ask the nurses how she was doing. Every time Janee called to check on her mother, she always received the same report, they always made it sound as if she was doing okay or better than the day before. To bring the family together, Janee had planned for the family to drive down and visit her mother that Friday, and celebrate her daughter’s birthday all in conjunction. Continuing to lay in bed, consumed by all of her thoughts, Janee’s heart nearly jumped out of her chest, in fear, as she heard her mother scream her name in the most unpleasant manner. Promptly, Janee sat up and became extremely emotional. Thus, she knew something was…