Hope is being able to see there is life despite all of the darkness. In the story “The Last Gas Station” by Shirley Ann Grau, tells how life is dependent on hope. The story reflects the childhood days with the siblings and father. They lived by the side of a four lane highway where they owned a Gas station. The story is about how circumstances can change life and relations and leave us lonely. Sometimes it may leave us with a ray of hope.
In the beginning, the author tells about the house she lived with her father and her siblings, Joe being the eldest and then Mark. As the author was the youngest among them, she believed everything what her eldest brother Joe told her. He told her that there was a high bluff near the house where you could look down on a river that was twenty feet across and he caught crawfish in the pools there sometimes (Paragraph 1). Also he told her that on nights when …show more content…
She became lonely and there are things that bothering her right now that never bothered her before. There is no electricity when she tried to turn on lights. And food, Joe left everything for her. Now she has no one to share her feelings. She has been left alone and everything is quiet now. She is not used to the quiet. Everything seems to be quiet and she was all alone. Being lonely is one of the worst things and she always thinks that she should have gone with him. But it’s got to be so far. She climbs the roof to look off that way, and there wasn’t a single thing moving for miles and miles. She really regrets not going with Joe. Everyone in her life left her or family for their own reasons. Loneliness really bothered her so much and she says that, “When the next car passes she will run out in the highway so they have to hit her or stop for her, if there ever is another
In the beginning, the author tells about the house she lived with her father and her siblings, Joe being the eldest and then Mark. As the author was the youngest among them, she believed everything what her eldest brother Joe told her. He told her that there was a high bluff near the house where you could look down on a river that was twenty feet across and he caught crawfish in the pools there sometimes (Paragraph 1). Also he told her that on nights when …show more content…
She became lonely and there are things that bothering her right now that never bothered her before. There is no electricity when she tried to turn on lights. And food, Joe left everything for her. Now she has no one to share her feelings. She has been left alone and everything is quiet now. She is not used to the quiet. Everything seems to be quiet and she was all alone. Being lonely is one of the worst things and she always thinks that she should have gone with him. But it’s got to be so far. She climbs the roof to look off that way, and there wasn’t a single thing moving for miles and miles. She really regrets not going with Joe. Everyone in her life left her or family for their own reasons. Loneliness really bothered her so much and she says that, “When the next car passes she will run out in the highway so they have to hit her or stop for her, if there ever is another