So I went and got the nurse and the nurse looked up at the monitors and proceeded to get the doctors. The team came in and told me I needed to leave.” The waiting room smelt like cleaning supplies and burnt coffee. The smell of it kind of made me sick to my stomach. About after five minutes, we all turned our heads to look out in the hallway because we seen about four doctors running into the I.C.U. I told my sister “I wonder what’s going on” Little did I know, it was our mother.
The Virgin Suicides Jeffrey Eugenides For Gus and War L On the morning the last Lisbon daughter took her turn at suicide-it was Mary this time, and sleeping pills, like Therese, the two paramedics arrived at the house knowing exactly where the knife drawer was, and the gas oven, and the beam in the basement from which it was possible to tie a rope. They got out of the EMS truck, as usual moving much too slowly in our opinion, and the fat one said under his breath, "This ain't TV, folks, this is how fast we go." He was carrying the heavy respirator and cardiac unit past the bushes that had grown monstrous and over the erupting lawn, tame and immaculate thirteen months earlier when the trouble began. Cecilia, the youngest, only thirteen, had
Amy POV I love this place! It's my heaven; a place without Dan's dumb practical jokes.Without realizing it, I started to lie down on the soft green carpet of the bookstore. I closed my eyes for a few minutes when I heard someone clear their throat. I opened my eyes to see a woman who looked like she just got divorced. She was wearing a tacky green vest, and a yellow pencil skirt.
THE DEVIL’S ARITHMETIC A NOVEL BY: JANE YOLEN THE DEVIL’S ARITHMETIC A NOVEL BY: JANE YOLEN TEXT | RESPONSE | 1) “Look,” she said quickly to Aaron to shut him up, “it doesn’t matter if you make a mistake, Ron-Ron, but if you do, I’ll be right there next to you. I’ll whisper it into your ear just like they do in the plays when someone forgets a line." (Yolen 5) | This text recaps me of the time when my best friend was very tense for, she had to recite a quote the day of our fifth grade graduation that was going to be the day after. The reason for being panicky was because she had to memorize the quote and she wouldn’t have the facility of inspecting any paper that would allow her to recall the missing words. I told her, as her
“Spit it out I don’t have all day..What is it that you want?”. Startled he continued “Your house…it’s so plain why?” Surprised at the question and the courage of the little musk rat god invited him in. They sat at a beautiful long wood table, for a few minutes they just sat and looked at each other and sipped tea. “You say my house is plain...How is that? It’s beautiful and white all over.” Said god.
Her hands shook unsteadily as she reached underneath het kitchen sink. Two full tablespoons of powdered cyanide in his sweet tea. The faint groan of her husband waking in the distance alerted her. She finished making his tea quickly, as beads of sweat ran down her forehead. Just as she put the poison away, her husband staggered into the room.
She then stopped and slid off a yellow hardcover book and generously handed it to me "Thought I had seen it come in." I gave her back the book and she began to ring me up as I dug out my library card that I got once when I brought my brother for something. She handed me back the card and the book and told me the due date and I headed back home to get started reading. When I got home I got in bed and figured I had at least two hours to kill watching a little bit of TV or I could just start this book I just got. I got ready for bed, laid back down, and grabbed the book flipped through the bulk of the book and back to the beginning of the first chapter and began the book that would change my view on reading.
When she met Mrs. Flowers, she noticed all the major and minor details about her. Mrs. Flowers invited her for tea cookies to talk to her about her situation, she said “You must always be intolerant or ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.” That quote means that she should be grateful and understand other people’s opinions. Next, they have a lot of differences, and only a few similarities.
When Sammy is ringing up the customer at the beginning of the story, he describes her in a quite ugly manner as a “cash-register-watcher, a witch about fifty with rouge on her cheekbones and no eyebrows.” This could be attributed to the way that men looked at women during that time when women as housewives were unappreciated. Throughout the story, we listen to Sammy talk about the women in the store and describe them solely based on their outward appearance as a housewife, much like his mother and other matriarchal figures. He makes derogatory statements about “house-slaves in pin curlers”, and “women with six children and varicose veins mapping their legs”. However, if one thinks about the typical 1960’s housewife found in vintage films and television shows, it mainly shows a “Suzy home-maker” in a frilly apron and heels. He uses the word "Sheep" to describe the store regulars, as they seem to follow one and other, in both their actions and reactions to the girls who come into the
Although she questioned why she was going through it, she felt God had a purpose for her. 3. When her body started to give out and she had to be transferred from wheel chair to the car, a chair, bed and the toilet, she joked and said she felt like "a hunk of pork". 4. ): On her final day she was in the hospital with about a hundred people lined outside her hospital door and she turned to the guests in the room and told them she was fine and that they had better go get lunch; this is testimony of what a great hostess she was.