I'd roll from side to side, make shadow animals on the wall, even sit on the balcony in the dark, a blanket wrapped around me.” (49) Amir’s insomnia is significant throughout the novel. He becomes sleep deprived when he feels guilty after not helping Hassan. He is also anxious for the tourney. 8. “I ran because I was a coward.
One night I was sleeping in this house which belonged to my grandparents. There had been many stories about hauntings that rumored around but I never believed any of them until this night. On this night I had woken up to use the restroom, everyone in the house was fast asleep and the only one that was missing was my grandpa who had been working late that night. As I was trying to go back to sleep heard a noise at the door. It was the sound of dangling keys and clanging metal.
There was a slight breeze, which made the softball sore through the dark night. This was the last time I would ever see my best friend Trevor. It was 6 am when my alarm clock went off. Hit the snooze a few times when my mom hollered, “Richard, get up. We’re going to be late.” So I slowly drug myself out of bed because I had a restless night.
Although feeling guilt doesn’t accomplish redemption, it is the first step to it. The night after Amir saw Hassan get raped Assef, Amir lay in his bed and felt guilty for not doing anything: '........An hour later, I couldn't sleep I kept tossing and turning as my relatives grunted, sighed and snored in their sleep. I sat up. A wedge of moonlight streamed in through the window . “I watched Hasaan get raped,” I said to no
Sorry, I fell to sleep. I was awoken by a harsh, blinding, flash light running under my door. The urge to pee was so strong; I slid my legs out of the bed, all is eerily quiet on the wing. It wasn’t pee my waters had burst, like the Hoover Dam. I screamed but no one came.
When Hardwick had failed to show up for the citation hearing , Torick issued a warrant for Hardwick’s arrest. Torick proceeded to serve the arrest but Hardwick was not home. Once Hardwick came home and had realized that Torick had been at his house, he immediately went to pay the citation off, but once he arrived , the clerk had said that the warrant had to be processed for 48 hours before anything could actually happen. Weeks later once the warrant was surely processed by Torick, he intended to go arrest Hardwick at his home. Upon entering his house, he notices a “friend” of Hardwick’s sleeping off a hangover on the couch.
In a small town in Italy, a young boy by the name of Montressor spent his days looking at the blank walls of his bedroom; and his nights falling asleep to the sound of his parents fighting. After his mom left when he was only eleven Montressor becamse more withdrawn and chose to seclude himself at school and home. At school, Montressor dealt with many bullues, the worst being a boy called Fortunato. Fortunato would continuously turn the other children against him. Montressor would go home everyday and lay in bed for hours just watching the ceiling.
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. He knew he had to get to Joel’s otherwise he would not live. When he got to Joel’s he passed out and they hid him for weeks and then when he got better he told Joel about being a spy. Secretly he pretended not to be able to walk but practiced it when Joel and Thacia were not around and one night when he thought he was good enough he left and made it back to the base of the mountain. From there Samson carried him up the hill
As he is starting his process he neglects his family friends and any other social areas. Now since he has been lonely and avoiding people he decided to stay in his apartment and create a powerful experiment. Once he brought the monster to life he got very terrified and afraid of it. After going to sleep wishing the monster wasn’t there he woke up with its laying across its bed with a big smile on its face. Later that day victor left because he thought his apartment was hunted and ended up running into a old friend.
Delia being very anxious about being in the house and not knowing where the snake is, she knows if she does not start on the laundry she will be behind for the week. It is not until she starts sorting laundry that she sees the snake and drops everything and runs out of the house where she falls asleep in the hayloft. Not long after falling asleep, she is awoken by the sound of Sykes in his drunken stupor. Banging around in the house, Sykes aware the snake is loose tries to light the lamp so that he can see. As Delia states, “whatever goes over the Devil’s back, is got to come under his belly.” Maybe if Sykes were a faithful man and not so abusive, he would not be in the mess he is in now.