Story Musgrave

Introduction Many of us experience heartache and pain. Many of us experience the loss of someone we hold dear to us. The Semmes is a humble family, devoted to one another and always stood for what they believed in and what was right. This is their story of hope through many years of suffering they endured as a family over a loss that no family chooses to experience. Its times like these that love of a family has to dig down deep inside and somehow find the strength to go on, though you leave…

that it can be seen as being lustful or lacking tenderness. While, in “Cherrylog Road” there is imagery and symbolism which makes it harder to decipher the story. For example, James Dickey writes about a kingsnake that is slithering on the floor as the narrator enters the junkyard. This is supposed to symbolize temptation because in the story of Adam & Eve, Eve got tempted to eat from the forbidden tree by the snake. Both writers use similar and different approaches but achieve intriguing the…

Rye by J.D. Salinger is about a boy named Holden Caufield who’s 16 years old (Salinger 21), getting over the fact that he’s just been expelled for his fourth school in the past couple of years. The story takes place in the late 1940’s. The plot is the events that take place in a novel/story. The story begins with Holden just getting his bad news. He doesn’t waste anytime packing his stuff and getting off the campus since he flunked out cause he hated the school and everyone in it. After yelling…

Can you recall a poem that use collision sounds Answer- jingle bells Write your own story using the letter bank of onomatopoeia sounds below. Draw a cartoon strip using the sounds to depict your story Ouch, click, pitter patter, thump, whisper, whizz, cheep, chortle, arf, neigh, purr, chug chug, honk, tick tock, zoom, snip, rat a tat tat, cuckoo Invent your own onomatopoeia words of the following Trees swaying in the wind Children playing in the ground Piano playing Different Jungle sounds…

Max is More Than Just a Story of a Boy and His Dog The 2015 film Max is an entertaining family film because of its story about a family overcoming loss, its outstanding acting, and its kid-friendly action scenes. The film Max follows a teenage boy, Justin Wincott, and the military-trained dog he is left in charge of after his brother is killed in combat in Afghanistan. The dog, a Belgian Malinois named Max suffers from post-traumatic-stress-disorder, putting additional strain on the Wincott…

Have you ever read a story blindly and just couldn’t understand it so you made assumptions about it? That is what happened to me. I recently read Tartuffe by Moliere, after my first read of the story, I thought it was not relatable, virtually impossible to ever happen, and just not funny. However, after understanding the cultural background, the life experiences of the author, and the author’s purpose for writing these stories, I now see this literary work as a strong satire that is relatable…

1. What do you know about the mother of the story? Mama is the narrator of the story who is a rather large lady who works very hard to support her family. She is brutally honest of both her daughters, Dee and Maggie. She also seems resentful of Dee’s education since she fantasizes about them reuniting with her on a television show where Dee is very appreciative of her. 2. When we have a first-person narrator, we have to decide if she is reliable or unreliable. Do you trust this narrator? Why…

Brief Plot Overview My story will be split into two sections, following three interwoven, though not necessarily chronological, plots. The first section commences with an indistinguishable person searching their cluttered apartment for an undefined object. Eventually this object is revealed to be a wig, as the person recently experienced total and unexplained hair loss. No remnants of hair were found in their apartment. As the person is generally reclusive and unsociable (though, notably, not…

Maxim Martin Mr. Hickey C Block/ 3rd Period 8/22/14 The Secret Life of Bees Reader Responses 1. PROTAGONIST “As I stepped inside my room, he stopped inside the doorway. ‘I have to go settle the payroll for the pickers,’ he said. ‘Don’t you leave this room. You understand me? You sit here and think about me coming back and dealing with you. Think about it real hard.’ ‘You don’t scare me,’ I said, mostly under my breath. He’d already turned to leave, but now he whirled back. “What did you…

word theme with the word subject or topic, however, when it comes to fiction a theme is more than just a subject or topic. A theme is more than what happens in a story and seldom sum up to a life lesson. A theme or themes aren’t immediately made known or written in a topic sentence. On the contrary, a theme links all the elements of a story together and reveals something general and universal. For example, in “Sonny Blues” a simple message would be “drugs are bad for you” however, there is a…