Holding hands

The House of Usher: A Glove A glove can only be of use when a hand is inside. When a hand is inserted into a glove, it is able to achieve the purpose for which it was created. Some of these purposes are protection, warmth, and style. Without a hand, a glove is nothing; limp, lifeless, and useless. The glove in this analogy represents the mansion in the short story “The Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allen Poe. The hand would then represent the inhabitants of the house. When the Ushers…

to stop his mother leaving. She kissed on his cheek. Then she passed him to the host teacher, he started whining immediately. I got down to greet him; he hugged me so wildly that he pushed me down on the floor, which made him laugh. Then I hold his hand and walked to the window to see his mommy driving away until we couldn’t see her car any longer. Then he seemed much happier and followed me to the art area. I encouraged him to pick up a paintbrush but he just he leaned on me, watching the…

In the book Peace like a River how hands are described represent the characters souls. How the hands are described can tell us as the readers what type of soul or personality the character has. Reuben describes Roxana's hands as looking like they have done hard work. On page 179 he says “Roxanna Crawley was standing there looking thirsty; did I mention her knuckles before? This woman had worked.” This could mean that Roxanna has a soul that has drive and determination to get things done, but…

he was born in a hut in the middle of nowhere. As the days passed by, Ponijao was starting to develop fine motor skills. Fine motor skills (or dexterity) is the coordination of small muscles, in movements-usually involving the synchronization of hands and fingers-with the eyes. The complex levels of manual…

required kids to use both their hands to do something (ex: putting glue on an eye). Within my observations, most kids had an easy time using both their hands and…

to whether or not he was going to loosen the ribbon garter of her stockings. Now she'd have to wait much longer to find out. He wasn't idle, however, and Violet almost giggled at the rigid and jerking movements that Lorelei briefly suffered at the hands of her 'companion' as he no doubt untied her dress for her. No words were exchanged, and Violet fought to submerge a very unwelcome (and inappropriate) feeling of jealousy that he and Lorelei might well get up to this kind of thing all the time…

How could anyone ruin a handshake? This experience rarely happens in Hawai’i, but frequent when meeting others of diverse backgrounds. In The International Bank of Bob, the author, Bob Harris, quotes that, “I’m still awkward about where to put my own hand in response, so I make a joke out of it, and Hamid and I share a fun moment of goofing around (6).” There are many ways of meeting new people, such as a handshake and a hug and kiss, but no one is expected to know which gesture to use when…

getting as close as he could without escaping his prison. Ruby Ann hadn’t realized it, but she moved, too. One foot followed the other, bringing her closer to him until she could reach out and touch him. Or he could touch her. Her breathing became labored, her heart pounding in her chest and she felt hot. Too hot. She remembered seeing him for the first time the previous night, watching him as a wolf and then the man walking around after his transformation, completely naked. The thought made a…

Every small teasing comment, touch of Karmen, smile, exchange of endearments or whisper and wink between them, just caused Duke's anticipation to increase. Whilst the teasing and talking was fun, and added to his appreciation of the woman, it also increased his desire to do something about it, and prove himself to be a man of his word, and to discover if Karmen was a woman of hers. Not that there was much doubt in his mind, from the first view of her up on stage the previous night, she'd exuded…

A Zweenie named the Silver Bullet was watching his favorite show called "The Simpsons". Zweenies are very tall aliens that live in a different universe in a diffrent time period but still have the things that are in the human world. Then his father leader of the Zweenies called him on his "Smart TV". "Son, Petunia is in your area and is ready to kill the entire planet". "Dad I wont let that happen", said Silver Bullet and off he went to save the world. Five minutes later, "At least I paid for…