To begin with, Cindy and Jim Green become emotionally distraught, upon discovering from the doctor that they are unable to conceive a child. To distract them from their emotional distraught and misery, Jim and Cindy write down characteristics of their dream child. For example, their child would be a soccer player, rock star, and have a big heart for life. They proceed to place their notes in a wooden box and burying it in the garden. Jim awakened in the middle of the night by the screen door banging and raging thunderstorm, he continues downstairs to secure the door.
Sadly their mother Corrine facing financial destitution has no other option than to agree to her children been locked in the attic of her parents home away from society. The children were often informed as sins and children on the devil because there mum ran away and settled down starting a family with her uncle. The kids were forced to live in a 2 bedroom suit with a bathroom attached. With one meal a day the kids are losing enthuse and are desperately growing confused, Corrine decided’s to inform the kids about the secret door in the closet that leads to the attic. She wants Cathy and Chris to take care of the two young ones and turn the dusty old room into a secret get away for them.
The unfortunate part is that they are still there when the parents arrive home early to discover their, still very drunk, babysitter with some extra people in their home. The rumours about the girl that ensue after this unintended night of debauchery cause the girl to get a reputation as a bad girl and as a result she loses her social status and all of her babysitting clients. In the story “All the years of her life” by Morely Callahan, the narrator tells us about an incident in which Alfred Higgins is caught stealing goods from his employer’s store. His employer, Mr. Carr then calls Alfred’s mother who rushes down to the store to bail him out of the sticky situation. Thanks to Alfred’s mother’s simple earnestness and humility when talking to Mr. Carr, the worst he gets is to lose his job.
It’s the kind of dream that wakes you try and stay awake after, because you know it’s waiting there for you behind your closed eyelids. (McNamee 11) This quote illustrates that Duncan is uncomfortable with what happened. The nightmares of the drowning girl keeps coming back to him because he did not save her. Just like Duncan, in The Penance, Octavia feels uncomfortable because of what he has done. He killed the three children’s cat because Octavia thought the cat was eating the chickens.
Slowly we see Carl standing up for himself and his brother Harley. At one stage of the novel Carl comes back to auntie Beryl’s house to see Harley chained up in her living room. Carl was absolutely furious, even though he knew what he did which was to steal chips and lollies from the store. This episode triggered Carl to stand up for Harley “It was cruel Beryl. You wouldn’t do that to a dog.” This act was his very first leap of confidence.
Lilly Gregory MacLehose English Period 7 10/14/11 Speaking While Growing: Symbolism of Trees in Speak In the novel Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson the author explores the symbolism of a tree to the way Melinda is living her life. The main character; Melinda Sordino, broke an end-of-summer party by calling the cops, and almost everyone in the school hates her for this act. At the party she was raped by an older boy, and she is too scared to speak up and tell someone. Melinda is so desperate to hide from the world that she turns an old janitors closet into her own private get away. She withdraws herself from her friends and chooses not to speak up, and tell people that she has been raped.
The movie begins with a romantic scene between Marion and Sam in a hotel room, while their departure is somehow filled with depression and disappointment, due to Sam’s inability to pay his alimony very soon. Then Marion, who works in a real state office, in a moment, decides to steal $ 40,000 and flees the state. On her way, she stops by Bates Motel. After talking to Norman Bates, a disturbed young man and also the owner of the motel, who apparently lives with his old and invalid mother, Marion is murdered by Norman’s mother in her room while taking a shower. Then, Norman appears on the scene of the murder and hides the evidence, including the stolen money, by putting the body in the car and drowning in in a nearby lake.
When he returns from the movies he mentions the magician’s trick “We nailed him into a coffin and he got out of the coffin without removing one nail. “ The magicians trick juxtaposes with Tom’s inability to escape from his family. Juxtaposition is used here to show the freedom of the magician and Tom feeling trapped. The coffin represents Tom’s life to which he is confined and the nails symbolize the emotional constraints and an obligation Tom has towards his crippled sister Laura. Laura herself “lives in a world of her own—a world of—little glass ornaments” and the breaking of the animals by Tom foreshadows his abandonment of fraternal duties towards her.
The two children believe, from much observation of the strange happenings around the house, that it’s actually a monster waiting for its chance to strike. Mr. Nebbercracker’s strange behavior only intensifies their theory. After an unfortunate event where Chowder’s new basketball ends up in Nebbercracker’s yard, DJ is brave enough to try and get it back. He narrowly escapes as he ends up being chased around the yard by Nebbercracker, who is surprisingly agile for someone so old, but ends up sending him to the hospital because of a heart attack. With Nebbercracker gone and Halloween getting ever closer, DJ and Chowder decide that the house is going to have an early Thanksgiving dinner – with Trick or Treaters as all courses!
One gloomy night on the streets of England, Alex, Dim, Pete, and Georgie decide to sneak in to a rich old womans house. But little does Alex know his so called “loyal droogs” have set him up. As he is running out of the house with stolen goods in hand, he is beaten by one of his own men as the police pull up to catch him lying helpless in front of the house and in the background hearing the poor old woman inside beaten and screaming. Alex was originally arrested for breaking and entering but soon after arriving to the prison was informed that the old woman he had beaten died of her injuries. He has already served two years of his grueling sentence when he first heard about Ludovico’s technique.