Alice Gordon Monologue

Then he cut the rug open and right as the rug opened a shadow came out. Then all of the sudden the carpenter disappeared.

There was a little boy John and his family was living through the Great depression. His mama and papa owned a farm in the valley. John and his sister Carrie had to go to school barefoot during the summer and only got to wear shoes during the winter because they couldn’t buy shoes for the summer because of how poor the Great Depression made them. So every time John and Carrie went to school in the summer they wouldn’t wear shoes and the ground would burn their feet because of how hot the cement would be from the weather. One school when John and Carrie got to school, they got “new” books. The books were old books from other white schools because the white schools would throw the books away and give it to the black schools. This would happen because black people wouldn’t be treated like how white

Screaming Jenny is a tale from West Virginia that was about a woman named Jenny who was set on fire and ran in front of a train. This all began shortly after the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad was built, and there was a small shed/shack that was really close to it. Jenny didn’t have much money at all and was struggling to support herself. One day when she was eating her soap a spark came flying out of the burning fire onto her wool blanket. She didn’t notice at first by the distraction of her soap broth, she was aware of her burning clothes after it had started to roast her skin. She jumped up and ran outside, screaming for help and just running trying to find someone or something that could help. As she kept running her screams became more terrifying,

the experience but he tries to downplay it so as not to frighten the children.

Authors use literary devices to help the reader understand the message or theme. Literary devices are a key hint as to what the author is trying to tell the reader instead of just flat out stating the lesson or message. Throughout "Live to Tell", "Refresh, Refresh", and "Man From the South" the author 's use suspense to show the emotions the characters are feeling.

Do you ever just feel like ripping someone limb from limb and tearing into their flesh? Oh, of course you have. My urge to do so continues to grow, stronger and stronger every day.

In 1900 one night in Lidtke Mill there was a horrible incident. A young boy was playing by the water. Out of nowhere he got pushed by a guy covered in black. The kid didn’t know how to swim so he drowned.

“AAAHHH!!!” she screamed. Right then she noticed that the bodies were her father and John. She immediately turned around and ran to try and get out of the woods. When she was running she noticed that the figure was standing at the entrance. She turned around and ran deeper into the woods. While she was running she didn’t hear only her footsteps, she also heard someone else’s footsteps. She turned her head to see who it was and saw the man chasing after her. He was catching up fast, but she quickly hid behind a tree. She looked around the tree and didn’t see anybody.

Man, I hate being alone. At least, I was alone before I had found Sophie. Cute little thing she is. All fluffy and soft. And since it's winter, she's like a portable heater for me. It gets pretty cold where I'm staying. Speaking of that, its cold right now.

I woke up at six o’clock in the morning and was too excited to go back to sleep. I really tried to go back to sleep, but my heart rate was too high. I got really bored just lying in my bed, so I decided to go wake up my dad. I walked to my mom and dad’s room and gave my dad a light touch on the back. His response was,” Go Back to bed it’s too early.” So, instead of going back to bed, I went downstairs and watched T.V for an hour and a half. After that, my dad finally came downstairs and we were ready to prepare for Deer Camp.

Suddenly, the rusty old speaker beeped, (onomatopoeia sound) “Sam Todashi, please report to the Principal's office NOW!” Sam was completely puzzled when Sam noticed people were staring at him, (sight) with a terrified face. Uh oh, not good… Sam thought. When he entered the Principal's office Mrs. Jones was sitting on her brown comfortable adjustable chair (sight). She told Sam to sit down and she asked “What did you do with the two yellow detention slips I gave you?”

We went to sleep last night after our argument.Zara started crying after I asked her that question so I decided not To Push It Any Further For Her Own Sake.That Didn 't Mean I Would Stop Trying Thought.

We walked around with them for a little bit, after a while we got bored again. So we started to chase each other again. We moved away from our mother so she wouldn’t tell us to stop again. We got frightened that she was going

The fish are belly up in the river now and the corn grows like hay. That’s why Daddy had to leave. Heading West, where a Man can be new again. Brother and I asked to go with him. Mother helped him pack, Grandfather sat in his chair watching. Grandfather’s tongue is a hollowed out wasp nest, Brother said, no bite left. We could feed him anything and he wouldn’t taste the difference. But Grandfather still tried to talk them back together, In the South we would, Daddy’s at the door, tipping his hat off to us Up North we have to,