Rick Draper stood, leather bound briefcase in one hand, overcoat and hat in other, along the side of the platform, waiting. He glanced down at his gold watch, and was passively angry at the inevitable unexpected delay. As soon as the subway had left the tunnel system a voice told the passengers, over the intercom, that the train would be making an extended stop at the next train station. Rick
He was standing being the railroad detective. He told the man that Faham, was lying down in a boxcar. "When the detective saw Faham he asked if he needed a doctor, but my husband told him he only had a headache. He questioned Faham; then said he believed our story. "‘Don’t let me see you getting on this train.'
Summer Reading 1) The book begins describing the main character as he talks to a French lieutenant. He is about to get on a train called the Taurus express. His name is Hercule Poirot the famous detective, but he is not working a case, not yet anyways. On the train it is very quiet with only two other people, Mary Debenham and colonel Arbuthnot. Then when Poirot gets off the train and arrives at the hotel, and very quickly receives a letter summoning him back to London.
Just inside the entrance, cardboard cartons, clean and with their top flaps intact. With the silent fervor of a mute at a horse race, I willed him toward them. It was slow going. His collar was pulled so high that he appeared headless as he shuffled across the street like a man who must feel Earth with his toes to know that he walks there. Standing unselfconsciously in the white glare of an overhead light, he began to sort through the boxes, picking them up, one by one, inspecting tops, insides, flaps.
This compliments perfectly the boy's imagination that he is "carrying his chalice safely through a throng of foes." when the boy enters the bazaar, he recognizes "a silence like that which pervades a church after a church service." This image makes the bazaar feel gloomy, like the boy doesn't really want to be there. He is undeterred and catches an empty train to reality. He finds Araby much like North Richmond Street, empty and dark with few people.
Night by Elie Wiesel Night by Elie Wiesel 1958 1 Night by Elie Wiesel KEY LITERARY ELEMENTS SETTINGS Note: The sections in the original text are not numbered. The numbers have been added for convenience in discussing the book. Night is set during the Second World War. The first section of the novel begins in Sighet, a small town in Transylvania (Romania) and ends in a train which stops in Kaschau (Czechoslovakia). The second section of the book continues in the train as the deportees head towards Auschwitz, the Death Camp.
“The silence came into the room. And the silence lasted”. Steinbeck does this to make the reader think about how Candy is feeling and how the other characters are sorry for him. As he has just lost his best friend that he has had for so long. Before Carlson leaves the bunk house Slim tries to tell him discreetly to bury the dog but Carlson makes it very obvious.
After successfully escaping Weed they find a running train and stowaway on it to their destination. The direct beginning of the movie is noticeably different then the beginning of the book. In the direct beginning of the book George and Lennie calmly walk down a path to a new ranch, which they want to work at. In the movie
My husband and I have packed our few belongings and we are sitting on the train going to Chicago. The trip to the train was nerve wrecking. Southern whites are trying to keep blacks here to work for them but the blacks keep moving up north. The whites are doing anything possible to keep us here. I saw black men and women get stopped at the train stop by white officers just until the train passed them by.
But Peter Rugg seems to travel forever, without getting home. Catherine and her neighbors all heard noises from horses during the nights, so they decided to look outside for him one night, and Peter Rugg past by. Peter only stopped to ask the way to Boston. He was many times travelling in the wrong direction, and he always became angry at the people who told him the way because he thought they told him the wrong directions. People called him “the storm breeder”, because of the fact that he always was followed by the bad weather.