Walk Away

Katherine Mansfield’s “Miss Brill” paints out the life of a lonely woman on her typical Sunday afternoon. She puts on her fur and walks out to a local park just to observe her surroundings. She takes a seat at a bench and watches as the people pass by and as the orchestra plays its music. As the story progresses, the orchestra’s music changes depending on the mood of Miss Brill. There even comes a point where the music almost makes her cry. She is so enraptured by the people at the park, this so…

over at the bright green sour apple candy, then back at my mom for affirmation that she wasn’t paying attention to me. Then as we started to walk away to go to another aisle I grabbed the candy and put it into my pair blue jean overalls pocket and began to walk away like nothing happened because I didn’t want to look suspicious.…

with bus service. If students were forced to ride the bus, not only would it be inconvenient but also unfair. Bus stops within a bus service can either be close to a student’s house or far away. If they are close then it wouldn’t be much trouble to wait for the bus. Unfortunately for those who live a long ways away, it would be inconvenient. If it was freezing cold or it was storming, then those kids would have to endure the weather and suffer because they are forced to wait. Students with…

we had crossed the street and arrived at the park, Sophia lit up with Glee. She pulled tighter on the leash rushing me to walk faster. As we walked to the pathway entrance, My dad and I had noticed a large metal fence blocking the used-to-be parking lot all the way down to the children's park. We had not seen any workers to ask what they are doing, so we continued with the walk. There were a lot of walkers in Franklin Park. Their clothes varied from sweat pants and sweaters to professional…

dropped the book into her lap, chewing her lip. "I should take Back Up for a walk, we've been neglecting him." Pouting at her pooch, Back Up picked his head up and Logan felt himself smile. Watching them walk away, tiny blonde pitbull and her dog...…

“TITLE” Melinda found her voice by three different people. Those three people were not really her friends, accept for herself. But when she was telling the truth about a dark secret she was feeling better about herself and was also talking a lot more. The first person that help her was Andy Evens. He help her attacking her so she stood up for herself and was also treated real bad by him and she didn’t really fall for many tricks that he had up his sleeve. Melinda also help herself by doing…

world with new challenges and people. Social justice novels do just that. A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park and Don’t You Dare Read this, Mrs.Dunphrey by Margaret Haddix are both great social justice novels and when put against each other both do well in telling a story and presenting challenges to be overcome by the main character(s). One of them, however, is a true story and has a very satisfying finish. A Long Walk to Water is really enjoyable for the reader to learn about the…

is a young boy in a tribe called the Dinka tribe. They are enemies with the Nuer tribe. A war breaks out while Salva is in school and his teacher tells him to run into the bush away from home. Salva is a character in Linda Sue Park's novel, A Long Walk to Water. The book describes the struggle for Salva, who had to run away because a war broke out. The outline of the story shows that in reality, many kids face this trouble. Salva proves that people are capable of being able to survive on their…

Ponyboy, Two-Bit, and Johnny walk to Two-Bit’s house with Cherry and Marcia so that they can give the girls a ride home. As they walk, Ponyboy and Cherry talk about Ponyboy’s brothers. He notices how easy it is to talk to Cherry. When Cherry asks Ponyboy to describe Darry, he says Darry does not like him and probably wishes he could put Ponyboy in a home somewhere. Johnny and Two-Bit are startled to hear that Ponyboy feels this way, and Johnny says he always thought the three brothers got along…

brother taught him how to walk because he wanted his brother to be a normal kid. He was ashamed of his brother who was five and couldn’t walk, but he wouldn’t tell his brother it in person. “When Doodle was five years old, I was embarrassed at having a brother of that age who couldn’t walk, so I set out to teach him. We were down in Old Woman Swamp and it was spring and the sick sweet smell of bay flowers hung everywhere like a mournful song. ‘I’m going to teach you to walk, Doodle,’ I said.”…