I sat there in the hard seat of my desk and waited patiently. ... I could not wait for my new teacher to stroll up to me, eyes full of amazement, and give me my paper. I had worked hard on it for nearly a month during the summer before this new school year. ... I sat there for a while, staring at my paper. ... My eyes slowly moved towards the top of the page, where an angry looking letter 'F' sat. ...
Baldwin is alert to the absurdity of being a writer from New York who is considered in some way inferior by Swiss villagers, many of whom have never travelled. ... And it was there in the bath, with his words and her voice, that I had my body-double moment: here I was in Leukerbad, with Bessie Smith singing across the years from 1929; and I am black like him; and I am slender; and have a gap in my front teeth; and am not especially tall (no, write it: short); and am cool on the page and animated in person, except when it is the other way around; and I was once a fervid teen-age preacher (Baldw...
It was the first day back from Christmas break as I sat there in my tenth grade English class hardly awake. ... I sat and stared at my computer screen, hoping for inspiration. ... I left that meeting with a new confidence about the assignment. ...
So finally the morning comes when i have to get up early and brush my teeth and put on a new dress. ... So i sat there thinkin" that maybe we were going to make stories together. ... I lost the magic of drawing words when i learned how to write so i had to find a new way to bring the words to life. ...
A whole new three story brick building with high ceilings and hallways that looked identical every corner you turned. ... I sat with friends all from the same middle school. ... My second option was to pick any teacher, ask them if I could write a whole new research paper and have it count for my final grade and my requirement. ...
The story states, "They sat on the blanket without touching each other and watched the moon rise" (Hemingway 34). ... The passing out of cigars is a sign that a baby is about to be born, so readers can hypothesize that Uncle George might actually be the father of the new baby. ...
