“Over The River and Through The Woods” Task 3 – Critical Essay Unlike many other short science fiction stories, Clifford D. Simak’s “Over the River and Through the Woods” keeps its readers wanting to know how it ends. This story is about two mysterious children, Paul and Ellen Forbes, who unexpectedly walk into their apparent grandmother’s house in the woods with objects that have never been seen before. Their grandma, who is also named Ellen Forbes, knows nothing of these children, who claim that their father sent them there for a short vacation. The mysterious mood, imagery, and foreshadowing all contribute to this being a good story. It is commonly accepted that this story, like all other science fiction pieces, is not real, but unlike many others, it has an eerie, mysterious mood throughout, which makes it interesting and keeps readers reading.
My book "Lost in the Storm" is very interesting. The author of the story was "Holly Webb" and the illustrator is "Sophie Williams." First, in the story "Ella" had found this little kitten and she named the kitten "Fluff. "Long After that, while Ella was at school Fluff went outside and played in the snow but Fluff had seen a bird and chased it as Fluff ran after the bird she got stuck in a fence. As fluff had tried to wiggle her way out she tried and tried but she couldn't get out the only way for her to get out would be to have her collar rip and get out through the other way.
Then, she agrees that she is going to do it that day in front of all of her new friends. Her spotlight turns though because the hair cut does not turn out well and everyone does not like it. That night, to seek revenge on her cousin, she cuts Marjorie’s hair when she is sleeping and walks to the train station to go home. The setting of this story is in an unknown Midwestern city in the 1920’s. It’s based in its regular publication in May, 1920 (Witkoski 2007).
The Cemetery in “The Ice Palace” “The Ice Palace” is a short story written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, one of the greatest American writers in the 1920s and a member of the “Lost Generation”. In the story, Sally Carrol, a southern girl who is bored with the unchanging environment, is going to marry a northern man and goes to the North. However, she feels uncomfortable and finds the North not as interesting as she thought because of the cultural and geographical difference. After the moment of her epiphany in the Ice Palace, Sally Carrol returns to the South. Fitzgerald uses many symbols to indicate the characters’ personalities in the story, among which the cemetery is a representative one.
I chose to read Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See. This novel is about a woman named Lily who is haunted by memories if who she once was. I noticed that she alludes to Chinese culture a lot. She tells a story of two girls, Lily and Snow Flower, who come from different classes and their friendship throughout their lives. Lily is a 7 year old girl living in Hunan, China (very rural) during the 19th century.
Wadley’s story begins with her running through fields of flowers, jumping around peacefully, but then the scene changes to her being woken by her mother, and it was all just a dream. So she gets up and practices reciting a speech for school while having breakfast, then leaves for school. But when she returned home, an earthquake hit and that’s when everything changed. After the earthquake her school was no longer running and Wadley missed school so much, Wadley and her family lived in a tent camp for many weeks and since there was no school, she would take trips to the water tank and back. When her school did start back up again in a small tent, she was walking past on the way to collect water and she saw
In her short story Winter Night ,Kay Boyle writes about a babysitter who has experienced the horrors of the holocaust and who sees a little girl in Felicia, the seven year old she’s babysitting, that she took care of at a concentration camp in the holocaust. “it was not a school, but still there were a lot of children there. It was a camp-that was the name the place had; it was a camp. It was a place where they put people until they could decide what was to be done with them” I believe the purpose for the babysitter in this story is to show what type of hardships of people in Kay Boyles life have gone through. I believe she also wrote about the babysitter to show that she’s the one who can truly comfort Felicia because she’s gone through experiences unimaginable compared to Felicia’s mother.
One day, Leroy D. Silver sat on his bed staring. He was staring at a poster of his great-great-great-great-great-pirate grandfather, Long John Silver. He said to himself “I wish I could have met you.” Leroy’s mother from downstairs called up to him, “Leroy!” “What!” Leroy replied. “Time to get ready for school!” “Okay!” Leroy took a shower, got dressed, got his backpack, went downstairs and ate breakfast. He had cereal, milk, and toast.
He does not because his fear causes a heart attack. This surprise ending of Billy Boy’s life adds interest and makes, the reader keep reading to find out what happens. Saki uses irony in his short story “The storyteller”. The story, set on a train, revolves around a small girl, a smaller girl, a little boy, their aunt, and a bachelor on their way to Templecombe. The bachelor starts telling the kids a story about this girl named Bertha who got to go to the park
The bachelor seemed to know what story the children will like and what type of tone and language the story had to be told to get the children’s attention. In the first part of the story, the author presents a scene in which 3 children, their aunt and a bachelor were traveling all in the same carriage on a train. The children don’t seem to want to listen to their aunt and do what they please to do. The aunt tries to tell the children not to do things but all she gets n return is the question “Why?” The aunt then tells tem to move to the window so they could see what is happening outside. The little boy kept on asking questions, which seemed logical but had no definite answers.