The Catcher In The Rye Creative Writing

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The distinctive colors of autumn emerged from the tops of the trees and fell onto the hard ground preparing for the lengthy, desolate winter. An autumn gust delivers wind, chilling the air and blowing both clouds and trees. The breeze rushes the leaves into a dance making the dead leaves look almost alive as they twist and turn. The early morning mist shrouded the gates of Geneva like a blanket of darkness and hides even the smallest segment of the vast doorway. “The gates always looks like this at sunrise in autumn” my father exclaimed trying to rid the unnerving thought of the mist from my mind. He had a nurturing way about him. The crackling of leaves under feet promptly got my attention. The cold feel of death struck me and I felt an eerie sense. As I peered behind me, a shadowy figure that I could not make out seemed to move from the fog and past the gates. The sight pulled me into a trance of thoughts until I became almost completely oblivious of my surroundings. What could that be? I thought to myself. And like clockwork, my father soon came and pulled me out of my daze with a sharp, “William!” I jolted up from my transfixion and walked along the path after my family. Tucking the alarming thought of the shadowed figure into the back of my mind and I …show more content…

I swung open the front door in a yearning to tell the others what I had seen when the sweet aroma of savory food hit me like a brick wall. The rich bouquet of stew had wafted into the air and grabbed my nose like a fisher catching a trout. The smell of the food, prepared by Justine, guided me safely into the kitchen as a lighthouse guides a vessel at sea. The warmth of the broth spread throughout my body each bite made me think less and less of the frigid temperatures outside. The delightful sensations brought from the stew made my mind go weak and think nothing but the warm comforts of home. The thought of the obscure outline of a man in the shadows had completely slithered away from

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