He returns to the old apartment and it is empty, used only now by the spiders who have built themselves luxurious condos in the arches and windowsills. His words are remorseful and vague, never allowing the reader to fully understand what has become of his sister and his mother but he apologizes to the empty place, to his sister Laura
When Richard’s father leaves the family, Richard and his brother are sent to live in an orphanage while Richard’s mother looks for a job. The orphanage is poorly run, and Richard is always hungry there and feels trapped. One day, he runs away. When night comes, Richard gets scared and says to himself, “Ought I go back? No; hunger [is] back there, and fear.”(31) The police find Richard and take him back, but soon afterwards his mother takes Richard and his brother to her sister’s house.
James and the Giant Peach Genre: Adventure Roal Dahl The plot James Henry Trotter is abandoned at the age of four when his parents are tragically killed in a freak accident. He is placed into the care of two evil relatives, Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker where he is being forced to work long hours chopping wood and cleaning. He is otherwise not allowed to come out of the house and is locked in the basement to sleep on the cold hard floor. He is not permitted to attend school, to play with other children, or to journey out of the yard. He is often denied food as well.
The Monster in the Closet Billy was the best little boy in the world. His life with was a nightmare. His mother didn’t love him, she was always drunk and he didn’t what to call Tuck ,his stepfather if he called him Tuck he would scold and say call me daddy you ungrateful kid and if he called him dad he would say don’t call me daddy! So Billy avoided calling him anything. Sometimes he would get to go to his grandma’s house which wasn’t nightmare at all.
After he hung his cat the cat has its own plans from cat heaven where his house got mysteriously burnt down. The man didn’t think twice about if it was retaliation from the cat. After many months of thinking about it he realizes he is haunted by Pluto and finds a new little kitty almost just like Pluto except he has a splash of white on him. One night he goes down stairs with his wife and he trips over the cat and jumps out in rage grabbing an axe trying to kill it and the wife defends the cat. He puts the axe right through her head!
Frank not only rebels back because it was a mistake, but because Griffin has been sleeping with his mother and this gives him a worrying feeling. Frank doesn’t really say much about how he feels about his mother and Griffin having “excitement” but once he looks more through those books at the library, he concludes adultery is a terrible sin. Frankie also gets a job and earns his own money. A man, he thinks himself to be. “Now I have to hand over my wages…I won’t be able to save for my
Leaving home at 16 doesn't even seem all that bad to me when I think about being away from this family. Everyone's down stairs having a great time laughing and I'm sitting in the bathroom crying about how much my life sucks and no one cares. My ducking father is a heroine addict that would choose coke or heroine over me any day and my mother is fucking addicted to her pain killers and sits home all day letting her child not eat for days. She won't give me money or take care of me. All she has to do is get a faking job and she won't even do that.
He got to his house and Joel took him up to his room ere they could talk in private. Joel didn’t have much time to talk because it was almost supper but Joel still doesn’t know about the job because they were talking about Samson while they were in his room. At supper they ate in peace but then Joel’s dad started to question him he blew and went on a tangent about the Romans and got kicked out of the house and didn’t complete his mission. Daniel was embarrassed and angry that he had failed so on his way back he ran into a roman while drinking water and Daniel gave the horse water and gave the man the same water so he kicked the bowl out of his hand. That made Daniel furious so he hurled the bowl at the Romans face and dashed away but while he was running he got nicked with a spear and hid in house for a while.
One day his teacher gives him a letter and tells him not to read it until he got home, John was worried because his teacher never told him to read a letter at home before because he does not like John because most of the fights that John gets in are in school. He went home and went straight up to his room, he opened the letter and it said that John has been expelled from his school and that he gets to finish out the week; he went downstairs to tell his mom but when he was downstairs he saw his father lying on the couch and vomiting profusely, right next to him was his
Sunny and her husband sleep in a room on the floor. Their 4 kids push beds together to make big ones and sleep on them in the same room. When her dad got sick she quit her job and she had to move in with her mom and dad. She goes to a discounts store (Save a Lots) and gets generic brands of food. Then her Brother Todd moved in with his family (which made it 14) but he wouldn’t even go inside until he got sick and coughed up blood.