I know that I could let my 10 year old daughter walk to school by herself, but with shooting all the time I walk her to school. Sometimes, I get scared just sitting in my house doing nothing. It’s crazy to know that you are not even safe in your own home. The gangs are taking over society and holding us hostage in our homes. I don’t let my kids play outside, because of the violence.
In A. S. Byatt’s mystery, descriptive “The Thing in the Forest”, two little girls named Penny and Primrose go into the forest near a house where they are temporarily living in because of the World War II, and they saw, or thought they saw a Thing in the forest. Byatt characterizes the girls as to be different but yet lead close to identical lives. Forty years after the incident, unexpectedly, they meet again at the same house near the forest and exchange a few words about the Thing they saw as little girls. Byatt confuses the plot and makes it seem as if what they saw was not real after all. After their reunion, Penny and Primrose go separate ways in the forest to see if the Thing is valid or not.
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.
A certain tree near the Radley house has a hole in which little presents are often left for them. The children don't know where these gifts are coming from, and when they go to leave a note for the mystery giver, they find that Boo's brother has plugged up the hole with cement. The next winter brings snow, and Miss Maudie's house catches on fire. While Jem and Scout watch the blaze from near the Radley house, someone puts a blanket around Scout. Not until she returns home and Atticus asks her where the blanket came from does she realize that Boo Radley must have put it around her while she was entranced by watching Miss Maudie, her
Obstacles due to her age and physical condition are not the only hindrance during her journey; she also experiences mental fatigue. Phoenix’s mind plays tricks on her throughout her journey. While passing through a cornfield, she thought she saw a ghost which was really just a scarecrow. She is also talking to the animals as she makes her journey into town, telling them “[o]ut from under these feet” and “[o]ut of my path.” Phoenix suffers from memory loss as well. Once she is at the doctor’s office in Natchez, the nurse asks her about her grandson, and Phoenix doesn’t answer for several minutes because she forgot the reason she made the journey.
She enters her own in-between-heaven. Susie watches her family from heaven. She sees how they all cope with her disappearance, and deal with the fact that she was murdered and never coming back. She tries to give her family the power to move on, and help them get back to normal. Un-fortune things don’t work out the way she wants it to.
At school Hunky is framed for sending a chain letter. Hunky gets suspended until her teacher, Ms. Fortune Harbinger talks to her mother. The next day Hunky goes back without her mom. Hunky said she had only come back for her book and that she’d rather pursue wish craft rather than witch craft. So Ms.Harbinger expels her.
The consequence that came from that action was Miss Lottie never replanting flowers, and also the last beautiful thing in the shabby town the main character lived in was destroyed. A personal example is when I was five and so angry that I did not know what to do so I grabbed the remote and threw on the floor. After throwing the remote the consequence I had was not being allowed to watch television for a week or eating any candy. Furthermore, the main character's coming of age also greatly relates to me. For
Often it is difficult to show one true self when traveling with a purpose of fitting in and being liked by others. In the horror film “Get Out” directed by Jordan Peele, the protagonist Chris is invited by his girlfriend Rose to spend the weekend at her parent's house. He is conscious that her family may not replicate the same feelings towards him as his girlfriend due to their ethnicity- he is African American, and she is white. On the drive to Rose’s parent's house, she accidents hit a deer and call the police. The police arrive, and he begins to question Chris although he had nothing to do with the accident since he was not driving.
She had been walking to her car when she tripped down her driveway, nearly scraping half her hands and face off. She was very distraught and didn’t think a young thing like me could help her. She just kept telling me wait for the next car to pass and yell for help. I managed to get her rolled over and seated upward. Coincidentally, the woman across the street walked out of her house to go to work.