“It was a fine moment, standing there sweaty in my T-shirt and bunkers, with this beautiful woman hugging me, and me remembering her spearmint kisses that first night on the basketball bus.” This quote is after Perry helps Tracy, a young girl who was driving too fast around Jabowski’s Corner and was in fatal shape. Perry and the rest of the EMTs did as much as they possibly could until a helicopter came to take Tracy to a larger hospital thirty minutes away. The locals could only do so much, and then it was time to let the “professionals” do the rest. After the accident Perry walked past a long row of cars that were backed up due to the accident. As Perry walks thinking to himself about what just happened a lady jumps out of her car and yells Michael’s name.
Finally she did but now she regrets that she didn’t move on because she put her family in a hard position. When she first arrived at elsewhere she wanted to kill herself by crashing into a retaining wall using a car, but fortunately in elsewhere you can’t kill yourself because their age will rewind and she will get younger so she can’t kill herself even if she tries to. “Liz drives the car in to the exit’s concrete retaining wall” (Zevin 53) but nothing happens to then or the car. It makes her frustrated, because she had many things she finally can and want to do when she turns 16, but she died a few months before she turned 16 and this is something really hard for Liz to forget but she has to because she can’t go back and she has to move on. Later on she remembers that she still has a sweater to give her dad so she makes another trip to the well again and this time she finally dived into the ocean but this has caused her and her family more trouble.
Right as she says Ferris’s name he runs out in front of the car on his way home; Jeanie stops the car in time so she doesn’t hit Ferris his mother not realizing that Ferris is right in front of her. Jeanie realizes that Ferris is right in front of her and starts to drive faster to get home in time before he enters the house so he can finally get caught. The chase music starts (March of the Swivleheads) Ferris starts running towards his house by cutting through backyards of houses. It cuts to a 50/50 shot of Jeanie driving the car fast and her mother telling her to slow down. It then turns into long shot of the station wagon turning a corner at a fast speed Jeanie not knowing a police officer is just around the corner.
Mr. Younger had many pleasant and joyful moments stolen from him in this novel due to his irresponsible actions. For example, one evening Ruth had received a phone call. The caller was the wife of the man that Walter drives for, Saying walter had been a no-show to work for the past three days. “Mama: What you been doing for these three days, son?” (105) Walter replied by telling her he spent his work time just driving, roaming the streets of their small are, and drinking at the Green Hat.
REBECCA (Daphne du Maurier) – CHAPTER 5 Summary Chapter five begins with Mrs. Van Hoppers “interrogation” of where the narrator had been that morning. After being out with Max de Winter for lunch and a drive everyday for a fortnight, she lies and says she has been at a tennis lesson. Mrs. Van Hopper hopes that she has improved, making her out to be a terrible player. The narrator continues, describing her anticipated car trips with her exclusive friend, and she remembers how she could not wait for the slow lift, running down the stairs and bursting out the lobby door to meet him in his car. In the car, the narrator wishes that she could bottle these memories, so that she could relive them by uncorking the bottle.
Tracy Chapman - Fast Car Release Date : June 1988 Title : Fast Car Composer : Tracy Chapman Type Of Text : Song Source : School Handout Synopsis Of Text: Tracy Chapmans Fast Car tells the story of a young girl with big hopes and dreams looking to make a good life for herself. Her father is an unstable alcoholic with no job. Her Mother left them in search for a better life. This girl wants to pursue her goals and dreams but due to her sense of duty and responsibility to her Father cares for him. She dreams of a high-paying career, a big house in the suburbs and a family but quickly finds herself pregnant after and on the way to becoming a single parent.
Hulga over hears much of this conversation and tells her mother to “get rid of the salt of the earth.” (p.465) Hulga is suspicious of Manly, yet Mrs. Hopewell can only think about possibility of the yong man being a positive influence on her daughter. After ignoring him a dinner, Hulga waits for manly to walk him down the path. This seems totally out of character for Hulga. As Hulga lays in bed she fantasizes about seducing manly and enlightening of her view of reality. It is obvious that Hulga sees Manly as naïve to the the ways of the world.
As Terry continues with his supper, he is asked by his uncle what he’s been up to. They argue back and forth about his uncle going up to the attic to check out what he’s been doing up there. His uncle says he better not have been playing with matches up there. After supper, Terry’s uncle goes up to the attic and he is laughing in amusement as he came down the stairs. He says to his wife “You’d never guess what that kid has been doing up there!” After Terry’s uncle and aunt find what he has been doing, they both laughed at the fact that a boy was playing with paper dolls.
Feeling dejected, Candy lay rigidly on his bed staring at the ceiling silently as Carlson leaves to go shoot his precious dog. Pattern #4 Lennie was worried because he had accidentally killed his puppy and didn’t want George to get mad at him and say that he can’t tend the rabbits anymore. Knees shaking, heart beating, Lennie looked at the creature, a little dead puppy sitting in front of him, and stroked it with his huge hand clear from one end to the other. After staring at it a while, Lennie began to get furious with the puppy, making it seem like it was the dogs fault for dying so easily. Curley’s wife catches Lennie by surprise and in a panic, he shovels hay over the puppy with his fingers, but it was too
Trespassing, though she didn’t know it wasn’t her house she still trespassing into their property and broke inside the house as well. Mental Distress because baby bear loved that chair, went through a mental break down because his grandfather who no longer was around gave him that