The dawn turned night into day, cold air breeze splattered right through my window. I can hear the birds chattering and my clock ticking. It's 5 o'clock when I woke up in the morning, September 27, 2057. "Today is another special day," I muttered, so I get off of my bed and put on my glasses. I was supposed to hear noise from every corner of my house, but there's no noise at all, it's a total silence instead. I am expecting something for today but I am all alone, nobody's home except for the housemaids. With a bit of disappointment drawn in my face, I took a blanket, get into my comfy chair and picked one book on. Special day? Is that it? Well maybe I made them forget, or maybe this is all I got. Here I go again, at times when I'm all alone, I continue to read this book, trying to draw a blank on what day is it. Well intimately, this book has a never fading scheme. The usual thing, I shed tears, laughter and fulfillment whenever I read every line from this book. A couple of hours rolled and I almost catch some Z's not until I overheard someone knocked on my door. I, so opened it and saw a young girl, with messy hair, scratch clothes and pale appearance. I let her in and offered a hot soup and food. We did have some chitchat and learned that her name is Lucy and she was lost, not literarily lost but she lost her life after she lost her parents due to an accident. I can see myself when I was in her age, hit by painful experiences. I was prompted in a way when we continue talking about her life, I also want to share something to her. .
"Sweetie, would you like to hear a story?" I gently asked. She endearingly nodded and ravenously continued to eat the food and listened.
"So it is about a girl, who was once like you, lost. It was because she lost her brother due to an accident too. She was once an optimistic girl, full of wishes and dreams, long before her brother passed away.
In This Short story collection, one piece of writing that stood out to me and that I enjoyed reading was called Only Goodness. ... Jhumpa's first short story collection she put out was Interpreter of Maladies. ... But this is your home, not mine.' ... Only goodness is one of my favorite short stories by her. ... This short story is about a brother and sister who are having family problems. ...
Suspense can be critical in understanding these short stories as whole. ... It would've been less suspenseful if the author would have just said that Zaroff hunts humans for living and then tells the story of the hunt. ... The characters in the short story, "The child by tiger" are very important to the stories suspense. ... It gave me the felling of something incomplete. ... I myself enjoy suspenseful literature and it interests me to see how different authors compare in entertaining me!! ...
The Story Behind the Story of "The Lottery" The story of "The Lottery", written by Shirley Jackson is very different in terms of the ways you and me may see the lottery today. The lottery today is looked at as fun, entertaining and almost as a type of recreation for many Americans, but not in this short story. ... Hutchinson, but she is the first to tell other people to stone her. ... She figured no one would do this for me why should I help her out almost like it is normal to be stoning your own friend. ... Old man Warner is ironic in this story because he isn't your typical wise...
It looks to me that whoever wrote the bible didn't pay much attention to detail! ... This creation story is much like that of the Bible because it is short and sweet and doesn't contain much detail about the creation of heaven and earth. ... When you tell a story usually you will add to it what you wish to make it sound better to your audience. ... Creation stories from different races and nationalities tell a story of their own. Native American creation stories tell us how important animals were in their lives and the Bible and the Shinto tell us how important their Gods were to...
The Tell-Tale Heart: Literary Analysis "The Tell-Tale Heart" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe that deals with the narrators struggle to convince the reader he is not insane. ... The theme of the story is that one can only put on a front for so long but eventually your real self will reveal. ... He had never wronged me. ... What he states in the beginning of the story as "the disease" leads me to believe that he is a paranoid schizophrenic. ... Perhaps he deserves more credit than any other writer from turning the short story from anecdote to art. ...
Oh, my poor baby, come here... tell mommy what happened. ... "Where is your jacket, my little munchkin? ... The one time I let you out to allow you to get a taste of your freedom, you go all out and lose your jacket. ... Our breath came out in long puffs of steam, while their breath came out in short puffs. I could tell they were freezing and their body temperatures were probably the same as the temperature outside. ...
Introduction "Reunion" is a short story written by John Cheever. The story takes places in the 1960's. ... The story reunion tells about a young son who gets disappointed over his father. ... " Quotation: "He was a stranger to me.... He is the complex character in the story. ...
I tell my story to anyone who will hear, hoping someone would believe me or say that they have experienced the same things. My name is Cynthia and I have been involved with aliens since I was 5 years old, here's my story. ... For instance, you just know for sure that there's no monster under your bed, or that doll in your basement isn't haunted or there's simply just a rat chewing the lines in the backyard, that's why the television shut off or the lights cut off, right? Maybe there is just a little bit of truth to each of those stories. ... Aliens are real and I am s...
You see, my dad is like me, he likes to tell stories. I could retell most of his stories from memory, just because he would tell them so frequently, to anyone who would listen...yet here was a story I had never heard, of an event that changed my dad's life. To this day, I don't know if I believe it or not, but when someone who is so influential in your life, someone who seems so logical and so down to Earth, tells you something like this, it calls into question what you believe, and why. ... After a short while, she called my dad into the kitchen as well: "Leo, can you come in here f...
