“Hi‚ I’m Marissa.” I said as she came into my house with her belongings. I saw the puffy thick dark brown curls as soon as she walked into the front door. Like most of our foster children‚ she was from Bridgeport the largest city in Connecticut. She was Italian and Puerto-Rican with light beige skin. She was chubby and had awfully large feet for someone who was only 8 years old. She was very hesitant and looked down at her feet with her thick-lensed bifocal glasses and said‚ “Hello.” Julie came
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Cuba are stories. Since I was little my grandparents would tell me stories about their native land Cuba‚ but these were not nice stories. Some of these stories I could not even believe them. They seem like things that could only happen in movies. Things like spies‚ people trying to escape the island‚ government oppression‚ poverty and people disappearing without a trace. I used to think these things only happened during the time my grandparents lived there‚ but I was wrong. Recently‚ my cousin from
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stopped. He heard his chum Thomas still snoring. He called out out to Thomas‚ and he immediately woke up‚ still sleepy. “Do you hear it?” Hairy asked‚ his voice shaky “Yes‚ of course‚” Thomas retorted. What in the world is happening? It’s hurting my ears!” “I know‚” Hairy echoed. “Let’s go outside to see what the devil is making the sound.” Thomas followed Hairy out the door and into the hallways of the college. They slowly walked to where the source of the sound came from. Inside a room‚
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brings up good memories from their childhood. Everyone likes to remember their childhood. My childhood was rough‚ but I made sure that every night I got a bed time story. IN order for that to happen I had to pick out a book‚ 10 minutes before I had to go to bed. When I was growing up this was the best book in the world to me. Each time I wanted a story read to me‚ I would pick this book up and ask my mother to read it to me. This book brought so much hope and wisdom to me‚ it made me think about
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In this very short story‚ Alice Walker tells of a young‚ African American girl who‚ while gathering flowers‚ stumbles quite literally upon the body of a dead man. The atmosphere‚ language and subject matter of the story suggest the southern United States as a setting-sometime in the mid- to late-20th century seems an appropriate time period‚ though this is far less clear. The contrast between the story’s beginning and end is striking. We begin with a light-hearted description of the life of Myop
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The Storyteller (Saki) by H. H. Munro (Saki) (1870-1916) Word Count: 2109 It was a hot afternoon‚ and the railway carriage was correspondingly sultry‚ and the next stop was at Templecombe‚ nearly an hour ahead. The occupants of the carriage were a small girl‚ and a smaller girl‚ and a small boy. An aunt belonging to the children occupied one corner seat‚ and the further corner seat on the opposite side was occupied by a bachelor who was a stranger to their party‚ but the small girls and the small
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who tells many stories‚ "it’s as if she hopes you will love her more easily if she is associated somehow with fame" (288‚ Russell Banks)‚ most of which are untrue. Banks’ tells the reader that unlike his mother‚ he didn’t tell stories. The one story Banks’ father did tell ended up being a lie in the end. "The story simply was not true. My father had made it up" (286‚ Russell Banks)‚ even though this is not a big a deal‚ it mattered to Banks at the time. Having a parent make up a story so you feel as
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My Personal Story Chapter 1: Elementary School Years (K-6) All of my elementary school years were spent in Ridgewood‚ New Jersey. I remember going to school everyday at Somerville Elementary. This is only significant because there were a bunch of different schools‚ all obviously having to do with where you lived. I think there were like 5. But also‚ all of my friends went there. It was me‚ Peter English‚ Dougie Burek‚ Ryan Monroe‚ Cooper Shreve‚ Matt Myatt‚ Ned Winner‚ Frank Melli‚ Brian Wennersten
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The short story “A Conversation with My Father” written by Grace Paley is a short story about a woman who is having a conversation with her elderly father. In this story‚ the narrator is telling‚ and retelling‚ her father a story about a mother and her desire to be close with her son no matter the cost or circumstance. Not only does this work involve various themes‚ but it also literary elements such as comedy‚ exaggeration‚ and irony. “A Conversation with My Father” is a short story that contains
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HOW TO TELL A STORY (A) From an instant to eternity‚ from the intracranial to the intergalactic‚ the life story of each and every character offers encyclopedic possibilities. The mark of a master is to select only a few moments but give us a lifetime. —Robert McKee1 Stories are all around us. Stories move us‚ make us feel alive‚ inspire us to be more than we would be otherwise. As famed screenwriting coach and author of the screenwriting bible‚ Story‚ McKee says: “Story is not only our
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