Basement

always around the corner, seems to wait to jump, but rather than he is jumping into his imagination. Firstly, he is introduced to us, when he was in the elevator as he goes to the basement. He thought it would be a weird place. However, when he gets that place, there was nothing, just an empty and meaningless basement. He always takes the elevator to the 14th floor, where he spends his much time to his work. At the end of this story, Martin does not use the elevator, instead that he uses stair.…

and said they came back today. One soldier said, “why are you wearing armor?” My parents said they heard someone was coming to their house and heard noises coming from the door so they wore armor and went to the basement to be protected. The army felt regretful for destroying the basement door and apologised. Another soldier said, “where is Lombardi?” My parents said he died from heart failure. The army feels pitied onto my parents and prayed for the “deceased Lombardi.” The army left. Our…

throughout the book to create a symbolic connection between life and death. An example of Vonnegut using these colors is when Billy Pilgrim is an older gentleman in the basement of his home where temperatures were “down to fifty degrees…” (Vonnegut 27) and “his bare feet were blue and ivory” (Vonnegut 28). After sitting down in the basement typing a story for hours “barefoot, and still in his pajamas and a bathrobe…” (Vonnegut 28), Pilgrim is on the thin line between life and death. His feet…

The novel, The Book Thief, was published in the year 2005 and falls under the genre of historical fiction. In the novel, death narrates the story beginning in 1938. Liesel Meminger is presented as the book thief and is faced with many hardships at the beginning of the novel. She has lost both her parents including her little brother, Werner. This girl is faced with agony and death at such a young age in her life. This forms Liesel into a person who isolates her inner humanity and compassion…

morning son, before you go outside today I need you to clean up the basement. It's a big mess down there" Mr. Lloyd said. “Come on dad,” Myles replied. “I am meeting my friends at the park to play basketball today". “Your friends can wait but your chores come first. Being responsible, disciplined, and accountable will take you far in life. Always remember that son,” Mr. Lloyd answered as he left Myles’ room. Myles heads for the basement huffing and puffing, disappointed that his plans have been…

[Cover: My cover’s illustration is in black and white. It shows a close up of a doorknob, with a reflection coming off of it of these little people dancing.] [Page 1] “Mom! Dad! Sarah will not get out of my room! She keeps pushing buttons on my Xbox!” Stated Michael, who just turned thirteen, and his little sister Sarah, is four. [B&W illustration is a 2 page spread: It shows Michael in his bedroom sitting at his desk trying to play a video game. As his little sister Sarah has this…

really close to each other. He signed her after nightmares, played his accordion for her and read with her. Then Papa did something unthinkable at the time. He brought in Max, a Jew, and hid them in their basement. Liesel becomes friends with Max for the couple of years that they hid him in the basement. More bombings happen and one ends up killing Liesel's foster parents. Editorial: The book The Book Thief in my opinion is an really entertaining book. One really cool thing is that the…

not receive the key to the basement filled with wine. Devlin makes a suggestion to Alicia that she should encourage Sebastian to host a party as well as announce his new wife, in which he does. After Devlin gives Alicia this request, she leaves to complete this request, and a wide shot is being captured at this time in which a view of Sebastian’s dark mansion is filmed. To complete this request, Alicia’s must grab a hold of the Unica key from Sebastian to the basement filled with wine, in which…

I’m in my basement crouching in the corner shaking in terror, hiding from the outside world. It’s to dangerous to go outside, people screaming, shouting in horror. The room lights up from the street light flickering outside the window. Up stairs I listen to dad’s loud footsteps as the beams in the basement creak as if they're going to collapse. I hear footsteps making their way down the old brown rickety stairs case “ milla “ my dad says in a trembling scared voice I reply “ dad? “ with a…

dog shit for tanners, while the Toshers waded the Thames at low tides for metals. The Night Soil Men cleaned cesspools in basements and yards. However, as in any supply and demand economy, Night Soil Men became expensive and in a city wracked with poverty many dwellings with two and three families sharing rooms were growing extremely large mounds of excrement in their basements and yards that flowed onto their streets. In addition, the wealthy at the time were enjoying the new invention and…