He had come bounding into the room, his face full of joy. .
"You found it!" he exclaimed. He had wrapped his small arms around Grace's thighs after taking the toy train out of her outstretched hand. All of the annoyance she had had for Michael before had faded into nothing when she saw how happy he was to have found his missing train. He had the same look in his beautiful eyes, his nose pressed up against the glass window, as he watched the train finally fade away behind a thicket of trees.
"Will there be another one, Mommy?" he asked Amy in earnest.
"Don't worry Mikey, there will be plenty more trains that you will see later on." she said smiling at him from the rear-view mirror. .
"Honey, it's getting a little stuffy in here. I think we should stop and get some ice cream and stretch our legs. Don't you?" Henry said as he smiled and winked at Grace. .
"Can we, Mommy?" were the last words Michael ever got to say. The truck was just passing a bridge when a drunk driver in a cumbersome semi had hit the family. Amy, who was behind the wheel, had died instantly. After the truck had gone tumbling off the bridge and into the deep, cold water, Henry hadn't survived. Grace was tangled in the seat belt and couldn't get it off. The water was rising quickly and even thought it was in the middle of July, Grace had never felt such cold water in her entire life. This life taking cold numbed every part of her unmovable body. At first, she could hear only ringing in her ears. As that faded she heard screaming. She didn't realize, until her throat gave out, that it was her own.
Lord, save me! Don't let me die. Please! She looked to her right and there was Michael. He was paralyzed, he couldn't move, couldn't scream. He could only watch as the water came nearer to his head. His normally beautiful, blue, cheerful, eyes were now swimming in fear. Those eyes, so close, but yet so far out of her reach made her stomach twist in pain.
You are beautiful, but you always deny it. ... You looked at me, dead in the eyes, like you could look through my body and into my soul. ... I had always known that you were afraid of falling, afraid of leaving this world behind, the pain of yours was shown in your eyes. ... And I told you that you were beautiful, like I always did. ... You will always stay beautiful in my mind. ...
In the short story "Recitatif", Morrison removes all racial codes from the narrative, for which racial identity is crucial in order, to give out a message that race is not important to become friends. In the novel and the short story, Morrison is able to relate herself to the racial indiscrimination and labels that her and her friends were exposed to as young children. ... Blue eyes. New, blue eyes, she said. ... In the short story, readers are unaware of who the African American girl is or who the Caucasian girl is. ...
The components of structure reveal certain characteristics about the plot, and are essential to the comprehension of the short story. ... This is interesting because one would think that someone mourning a lost love wouldn't take in beautiful sights or scents. She then began to sob and Chopin described the "dull stare in her eyes- as Mrs. ... Mallard eventually emerged from her bedroom with "a feverish triumph in her eyes- (Chopin, 2). ... Kate Chopin's "The Story of an Hour- is a short story where structure plays a key role in the development of plot. ...
Jessica has always been shorter then everyone else. Her blue eyes light up every time she opens them. ... Since Jessica is really short and petite. ... His bright blue eyes glowed in the dim room as he stood quietly in the corner. ... Jessica set down and told her the whole story. ...
Each character craves the desire for a trait that is withheld only within the conventional white- American standards of beauty; whether it is blue eyes, lighter skin, or straighter hair. ... There is even more than just this goal of beautiful that black women desire. ... Here, they learn "in short, how to get rid of the funkiness... ... The Bluest Eye examines the home life of these children in the stories as well. ... Pecola's wish is to have blue eyes, the bluest of eyes, with this she will achieve beauty and happiness, her family will no longer fight, and everything wrong with her...
Kate Chopin's "The Story of an Hour" tells the story of Louise Mallard, a housewife who learns that her husband has recently died in a train accident. ... "There was a feverish triumph in her eyes, and she carried herself unwittingly like a goddess of Victory." ... The point of view in this story is omniscient. ... The setting in the story seems to correspond with Louise's short-lived "new life." ... This seems to be the first time Louise notices the beautiful world outside, and is symbolic of the beautiful life she is about to start. ...
Short-Short Summary of The Time Machine By: H.G. ... After the machine is invented he chooses a select group of friends and scientists to show a working model of this amazing machine, and it disappears before their very eyes, they pass it off as a cheap magic trick and leave. ... When he finally sees the light of day, he sees himself in a beautiful garden. ... When he got back no one believed his story so he decided to return to the future, but he never came back. ...
He told me a story. ... He would wear bright red nail polish and beautiful diamond earrings when I knew it didn't seem right. ... I remember the way his eyes were filled with fear and anger; the way his breathing was coming out in ragged short puffs. ... I knew that no matter what happened he would still be the courageous, beautiful and kind soul I grew up with and nothing would ever change that. ... She told me a story. ...
The short happy life of Francis Macomber The main characters of this short story are Robert Wilson a hunter from England and the wealthy married couple from America, Francis and Margot Macomber. ... About Francis and Margot Macomber it is told very directly from the beginning of the story, that their marriage is based on nothing but materialism and that they are both aware of this, I would call it tragic, fact. ... Margot was too beautiful for Macomber to divorce her and Macomber had too much money for Margot ever to leave him."" ... In the ca...
