Short Story: Shelter Point: A Narrative Fiction

Great Essays
{indent}Four years ago, Jenna had left Shelter Point, with two her kids. A small island in West Hampton, New York, estimated 2,500 residents. She had divorced a month, wondered what next step was for them. Prays to God, to show her what journey to follow, one thing is sure her kids' happiness, and safety comes first. {indent}She did not plan to converge, until Amy, her four-year-old exhibited ornery behaviors. Not like her little girl; Gone was the happy girl, they all know and love. In her stead an angry, stubborn girl; why she even fought with her brother Jason, they never argued. Jenna was beside herself with worry, felt a sudden sense of urgency to lay a plan into action. {indent}Response came to her, Paris; a plan formulated …show more content…
Her Aunt surprised, "bonjour, Cheri, how have you been? Bad girl, have not called your old Aunt in a long time". {indent}Spoke so fast poor thing could not get a word in conversation. In fluent French, "Bonjour, Aunt Viv, give me a second to answer," old woman, my foot, smiles to herself. {indent}Vivian was her mom's younger sister, two years Jenna's senior, "sorry," regretful, "busy with work and my kids," …show more content…
She has exhibited behaviors, unlike herself. Stays by herself, and fights with Jason," Viv could not believe her ears. {indent}A picture of Amy's beautiful face popped up in her head, she recalled happier, sweet, loving girl, "I am sad to hear that. Poor baby, is there anything I can do to help; why you called?" {indent}"Aunt Viv, with occurrence I wonder if we can come

Related Documents

  • Improved Essays

    Jeannette faces many hardships during her life through resiliency because the idea of a perfect family was instilled into her mind at such young age. As a young girl,…

    • 327 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    The homelessness number is at a staggering number 578,424 people (as of January 2014). As of January 2015 the number has come down to 564,708 people. Only a decrease of 13,716 in over a year is not enough. Some say that such high numbers are caused by drug abuse or misguided entitlement programs. Some believe it’s the cause by lack of funds in social-service programs or failure to create a economic opportunity.…

    • 134 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Great Essays

    Like a bird leaving the nest for the first time, Carolyn Witucky left her home in Ohio when she was 18 years old. She went to live with her husband, who had joined the army and was stationed in Texas, halfway across the country. They had a child and wished to return home. Two teenagers now had to make their way across the country with an infant. Carolyn thought she was ready to take on the world, but she was woefully unprepared.…

    • 1422 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Throughout the novel, her and her family take on different roles, they test their trust and forgiveness for one another, and obtain the acceptance of their lost dreams. Jeannette took on a huge role as a kid. From earliest…

    • 1073 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    America Diary Entry

    • 1137 Words
    • 5 Pages

    Begin typing your response here. “It was dark, very dark. I couldn’t see anything at first, let alone make out outlines of objects. All of a sudden it was as if I was opening my eyes for the first time, I could see everything all around me.…

    • 1137 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Marie is characterized through the stream of consciousness narration as an overly optimistic, suburban mom that is trying to make up for her own traumatic childhood.…

    • 647 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Seeing into the future, knowing the harshness of the disease and that wheelchairs would be a part of our life, we realized we’d have to find a house with bedrooms downstairs--or at least enough space downstairs for the family to sleep. By the grace of God, we sold our house quickly and bought another a few miles away. We originally called the “new” house the “Battleship Sikorra” as it was somewhat dilapidated and painted an inglorious grey. The carpets crumbled when we walked on them. But it had “a lot of potential.”…

    • 1332 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Great Essays

    Share Our Strength Brings World Hunger to a Halt Communities just outside of Little Rock, Arkansas are deprived of food and jobs. A woman named Heather is the mother of 3 beautiful children; although, they all have struggled through the curves of life. Heather explained to the Share Our Strength volunteers that it was one summer day that changed her thoughts about life in an unbelievable way. Share our Strength volunteers state her exact words, “Heather told me about a day last summer when she decided to check on her neighbor’s daughter. It was late in the afternoon, and she knew that…

    • 1187 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Katelyn’s Identity vs. Role Confusion Stage Factors Katelyn, a Caucasian female (age 15), lived with her father Parrish (age 41), older sister Anastacia (age 17) younger sisters, Emily (age 12) and Brooke (age 10) in Minnesota after going through entropy in the family. Katelyn’s mother did not have an honest relationship with her father, Parrish, which led to her parent’s separating leaving Katelyn and her sisters having to adapt and cope to their new acquisition. After having repeated arguments and dealing with four children, Cynthia (age 40), the girls mother, decided to move out of their families home and into her new boyfriend’s house. The after-reaction of Cynthia moving out led the girls to create a rigid boundary with their mother.…

    • 895 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    It was just another day on the plantation. A meager breeze rolled through the willow trees, the sun was shining down on a blazing summer day glistening down on John Horbeck as he stood upon his perfectly-painted, white deck in which wrapped around his stupendous house. He stood watching, scrutinizing every move of the diligent slaves he possessed. This was his plantation, everything had to be flawless. The bricks had to be made precisely and the pecans had to be picked meticulously.…

    • 2304 Words
    • 10 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Have you ever wondered what it would be like losing both of your parents, and have the one important thing in your life go missing? Well, this horrible scenario happened to Mickey Bolitar in the book Shelter, by Harlan Coben. In this book Mickey has moved from town to town all his life, but his parents have decided to settle in a small town in New Jersey, to finish out high school. At the activity for new students Mickey meets a girl named Ashley and soon gains lots of feelings for her and cares about her to a great extent, but soon after Mickeys dad had an awful fate in a car accident and his mom was taken to rehab, Ashley disappears. Mickey acquired a couple new amazing and permanent friends on their adventure, as they put many clues together,…

    • 1072 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The movie Shelter (2007) is a story of a young man Zach who had dreams of going off to art school, but his dreams are taken from him because of the need to take care of his needy sister and his nephew. He takes a dead-end job and focuses his time drawing and surfing. He eventually falls in love with his best-friends brother Shaun; Shaun is older and begins to influence him to follow his dreams of going try for art school again along with come to terms with his sexuality. Shelter has a great examples of the building of relationships, the difference of cultures, the influence of individual differences, the dark side of relationships. And I believe that this movie and my life have a lot of mirror image topics and scenes that represent me and…

    • 1112 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Sunday is Church day By Widler Limage Limage family productions Home Address: 5105 Excellence Blvd Tampa FL 33617 Church Address: 300 East Ave Tampa, FL 33604 Copyright, November 18, 2016 Sunday, November 13: It was an early Sunday morning the alarm of the cell phone rings Peterson and Amy were awake getting ready to go to church. They have three children together two boys and one girl their name is Jake, Wade, and Amber. They live in a beautiful area in the Tampa Bay in a tall, narrow, traditional row townhouse near the beach. The apartment was on the fifth floors on the south side of the building facing the ocean.…

    • 2020 Words
    • 9 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Lucy Aldagamseh ENC1101 M/W 1:30 Descriptive essay Lucy Aldagamseh ENC1101 M/W 1:30 Descriptive essay It was about two years ago when I got to visit my favorite place on earth, or at least I thought it was. Around the house, it 's either as silent as mice or the halls are spread with laughter.…

    • 1106 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Have you ever wanted something so bad that just couldn't stop thinking about it? Well that happened to me. It was a sunday and I was sitting listening to my pastor, and then he mentioned something about a camp this coming summer, then I remembered how fun the camp was last summer, there were ziplines, hiking trails, swimming, kayaking, and a lot more, it was three nights but it was super fun!! But then I told my friend "Hopefully my parents will let me go, because it is the last year I will get to go before I have to go to the older one" now I was getting worried!…

    • 790 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays