Basement

In the chilly month of October of 2007 my parents, sister & I moved from an apartment to my aunt and uncle’s basement across the city in Woonsocket, Rhode Island for a long year. Once we moved my whole family had suffered negative experiences. In the beginning, we were adjusting to live in such a confined area. First, my sister was the lucky one. She was old enough to where she would stay at her friend’s house majority of the time but when she did stay at my aunts she slept on the couch. I…

Palatine, Illinois. Undoubtedly, my sisters and I were extremely confused about why we were at a funeral home at six o’clock at night on our vacation. After laughing, our parents explained that the funeral home had a miniature golf course in the basement, which was available to play when no other funeral services were active. Since our parents are known pranksters, we took this with a grain of salt and proceeded inside. After introducing ourselves to the funeral director, he told us a…

taken, in and out of the country. I’ve traveled out of the country a total of 5 times, and I’ve been to Orlando, Florida in 2011. Other than that, there wasn’t much to write about. Except this one time my basement slightly flooded. Over the summer my family used to sleep downstairs because the basement is naturally colder. I woke up one morning pretty early. I went to use the restroom, but as I stepped out the room I felt something…

does a precise job in portraying WWII and in describing the shelters, which tended to be,”... a nice, deep basement. Twenty-two people's crammed themselves into it” (Zusak, 373). During WWII, many cities in Germany would have a shelter or a place for people to hide when the sirens would go off, meaning there was an air-raid about to take place. These shelters tended to be deep and large basements with a sturdy structure. Markus Zusak does not just do a good job of keeping the book historically…

to 20 women in Ferguson, Missouri. Travis was first charged with two women named Alycia Greenwade and Betty Smith, both from the Missouri area. The FBI later believed Travis had been connected to 10 different unsolved murders. Travis would use his basement as a torture chamber for these women and mostly were prostitutes. There has been little information about…

Max's father was in prison everyone was afraid of Max, he would stay in his basement which became his room. But Freak was always there for him, In the end they were both separated by Freaks death.The themes of Freak the Mighty are, isolation, friendship, and acceptance. To begin, Max isolates himself because he feels like he doesn't belong or fit into society. Max is huge for his age and he hides in his room in the basement because everyone is afraid of him since his in prison father, Killer…

was finish my work and relax. I streamlined to the basement guest room so I could work in a confined space. As a kid, focusing for extended periods of time was challenging. Entertainment…

hit her in the side to see if she would wake up causing the abrasions on her skin. He got his parents or they found out what happened and staged her murder. Pattsy wrote the ransom letter and someone tied the knots on the garrote and put her in the basement wrapped in the blankets. Burkes…

Frank in. The sheriff knew if the turned Frank in that, the whole town would find out about his crimes and begin immediate judgment. This made the sheriff decide to hide Frank in the basement. Also by the Sheriff not jailing him, due to fear of what the small town population would think, and putting him in the basement, it lead to the killing of Marie. This is because he was not under proper safety jurisdiction. In that case, the…

When it would get too cold outside, our plan b was the basement but only in the day. At night the basement was truly the scariest place just because of how old it looked. In the basement, all the rooms surrounded the stairs in a circle. Each room seemed to connect to each other besides two, which were my grandpa’s room and an empty room that was our play room. Because…