Each night they would sit together in the dark telling each other secrets about their past. The secrets got deeper and deeper each night. ... They talked each night, got along and enjoyed the simple things about being in a relationship. ... His sister tries to help him stay sober but he messes up one night when he was responsible for watching her son. ...
After pondering the inevitable for what seems like an eternity in the dark woods all alone, Nick fires three shots into the night sky---the signal for his father and uncle to come back in case of an emergency. ... Later that night, while in bed, Nick realizes that his heart is broken---to experience such an unbearable occurrence at such a young age is simply torture. ... This is seen in The Light of the World, in which Nick finds himself surrounded by repulsive thugs, prostitutes, and bullies; but is most evident in The Killers, where Nick comes in close contact with his own death when two ...
He was still sitting up in the bed listening; -- just as I have done, night after night, hearkening to the death watches of the wall. ... EXAMPLES It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain; but once conceived, it haunted me day and night. ... Many a night [ ] it has welled up from my own bosom. ...
Paul spent the rest of the night starring into the great hotel lobby where the soloist exited her coach and retired for the evening. ... He spent the night in the basement awake, entertaining himself with notions of his father shooting him thinking he was a burglar. After expressing a few disturbing outcomes, Paul thinks, "Then again, suppose the day should come when his father would remember that night, and wish there had been no warning cry to steady his hand?" ... "It occurred to him that all the flowers he had seen in the show windows that first night must have gone the same way, long be...
I don't sleep much at night, for it is so interesting to watch development, but I sleep a good deal in the daytime."" She doesn't sleep much during the night anymore, because she stays awake creeping in the night. ... "At night in any kind of light it becomes bars!...... The images in the wall creep around at night, showing how the beginnings of feminism came about because it was not done visibly. ...
She describes her living arrangements and where she sleeps in night, which is a room shared by her whole family. ... My favorite part of this novel would have to be when she says how she would give bums a place to sleep at night if they asked. She would simply have them go to the attic and stay there for the night. ...
You attempt to have breakfast only to find that since there was a power outage in the middle of the night your milk has spoiled. ... You grab your favorite suit, which you prepared the night before, along with a towel and saunter into the bathroom. ... "Like a patient etherized upon a table;" (page, 459) "And seeing that it was a soft October night," (page, 460), and "And I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker," (page, 461). ...
One night during winter, after his wife had been to the theater, she came home with a cold, and eight days later, she died of pneumonia. ... Lantin's wife loved, go to the theater every night. ... Shirley P, Glass said, "Emotional attachment ranges from casual sex and "one-night stands" to long-term affairs. ...
Another use of repetition is on page two where the old woman keeps on repeating, "this night of all nights." We never find out why that night is important but it gives the reader a 'red herring' question. Although we are going to find out when we read on; we want to have answers and this continues our interest into - "why was that night important?" ...
After introductions and a failed attempt by John to persuade the two lovers to go to Poker Flat so that they could be married, they all decide to go make camp at a nearby patched-up log cabin that the two lovers found by the trail for the night. ... That very night the blizzard reaches its peak and the weak protection of the cabin is not able to stave it off. ...
- "Say thy prayers, dear Faith, and go to bed at dusk, and no harm will come to thee,"" it paints the picture to the reader that he is a religious man because saying his prayers every night is a ritual, which most religious people perform. ... After returning to Salem from that fateful night, Goodman becomes suspicious. ...
She believes that Greta and Chrisy's idea of a rape fantasy is just a vivid, wet dream about having sex, a "one night stand" with a complete stranger and never seeing them again. ... Her first fantasy like most of her fantasies start in a dark street at night. ...
"Jane was terrified of everything, from the animals attacking her, the chickens at night and the sound of quietness." ... The story may take place at night, on a foggy morning or during a thunderstorm, wherever the setting, it is essential that it is discribed to help the set the mood of the story and characters. ...
To briefly summarize A Monster Calls, a young boy named Conor has nightmares every night, as he struggles to cope with the reality that his mother has terminal cancer and is dying. ... The tree like shaped monster shows up to his bedroom at 12:07 every night and insists on telling Conor three different stories with the fourth one being up to him to tell. ...
?A Rose for Emily? By William Faulkner InA Rose for Emily?, Faulkner presents a very horrifying picture in this story, and he does this by playing with the chronology, using detailed imagery, symbolism, and foreshadowing to present a detailed setting. Faulkner uses the element of time to enhance...
On October 11 2014 (at) 8:00 pm my fiancée, my daughter, and I went to The Roxy Regional Theater in Clarksville, Tennessee to see a performance of "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow". This adaptation, directed by Roxy Artistic Director John McDonald, is based on the original book. "The Legend of Sleepy H...
Late one night, Phoebe hears "the murmur of an unknown voice" which is "strangely indistinct" and resembles "unshaped sound" (95). ... Furthermore, Phoebe hears this at an "uncertain" time of night as if "through a thin veil of a dream" (96). ...
That night she sleeps with Wilson, and she is confident that her husband will do nothing about it because she has done it before without his acknowledgement."... That night Francis is hunting impala with Wilson, Francis says "I'd like to clear away that lion business"; Francis is clearly determined to make up for the lion. ...
Tears fell from his face, he was alone, and wanted to be there with her in her room, lying in bed all night just holding onto her knee and nothing more. ... One night, Cross dug himself a foxhole in darkness while his soldiers laid waste to rations, an endless amount of jokes, and fresh made memories of Ted Lavender dying just not so long ago and how he fell straight down to the ground without any drama just a fall and he was gone, forever (O' Brien 238). ...
The Temptation of an Invitation In Guy de Maupassant's short story "The Necklace" a beautiful young woman, Madame Loisel, lives a simple life due to her unfortunate chance of being born into a family of poor clerks. She marries a clerk herself and is seemed destined to live among common people. S...
She begs her the narrator's father to walk her home every night because she always has a feeling her ex-lover is waiting to murder her. ... The ending of the story doesn't tell you whether or not Nancy actually is murdered the last night the father leaves her at her cabin. ...
A hot and breathless night toward the end of August, the patriotic smell of hot dogs and French fries in the still air. ... After they have parted that night, he is desperate, he says: It's not my fault I'm not Marvin or Shelley. ...
