Sarah-Jane Primrose Thompson was eager for the day to end, as it was her birthday. Tonight she was going to Tuesday’s, the finest restaurant in town. It was the last session of school and the day was finally beginning to wrap up. Sarah-Jane was not paying any attention in the slightest, just watching the clock, waiting for the minute hand to strike the twelve then… BANG! Sarah-Jane jumped at the sound of a hand thumping onto a desk. Not just any hand, no, this hand just happened to be attached to a certain arm. Now you’re wondering what’s wrong with this arm? Well, you just wait! This arm just happened to be attached to a certain body. Even that’s not too bad except for the fact that the body belonged to her teacher, Mr. Bongglues. “Well,well,well …show more content…
if it isn’t Miss Thompson.” Mr. Bongglues smiled a smug you’re-going-to-get-in-trouble smile. Oh oh!
Thought Sarah-Jane, This could get nasty. “Everyone leave except Sarah-Jane.” Unfortunately when Mr. Bongglues was finished with Sarah-Jane, the poor girl had more homework than she could carry. Unfortunate [don’t try that word on your English teacher] it was history, her worst subject [how else do you explain G-’s every time the subject was mentioned]. Unfortunately est [the most unfortunate imaginable] she was going out for dinner tonight and the project was due tomorrow. Sarah-Jane felt like things just couldn’t get worse. However, as soon as she got home Sarah-Jane was so tied up in getting prepared that she totally forgot about her mega homework task. Oops! After the party, everyone headed to Sarah-Jane’s house so that her younger siblings could go to bed while their Aunt Josie gave Sarah-Jane a blue watch. Suddenly remembering her homework task Sarah-Jane raced upstairs and tried to set her new blue watch for two hours but instead accidentally set it 1st of February 1893. Suddenly she saw a ship appearing and Oh help! Sarah-Jane was in 1893 wearing a uniform for the S.S.Dicky. The ship was just about to leave when the captain realized that they were one crew member short. Sarah-Jane tried to hide from Captain Bettie but he saw her. The Captain gave Sarah-Jane a lecture about not missing the ship in
future. “But there won’t be any future for this old rust-bucket!” cried Sarah-Jane. She watched Captain Bettie’s face turn as red as a beetroot. “Up there,” the captain was so angry, “NOW!” Sarah-Jane wanted to argue but saw no point in doing so. Seventy-two hours later the S.S.Dicky gave a sudden jerk. It rocked back and forth like a toy boat in open seas. The crew were abandoning the S.S.Dicky so, Sarah-Jane being inexperienced, followed suit. Sarah-Jane saw sharks circling her and thought it was probably time to get moving. So she set her watch for the 26th of August 2007. She saw a desk appearing and felt relieved. The next day she handed her project in. Mr. Bongglues was astonished. “Sarah-Jane I’ll have to give you an A+!”
There is a slight glimmer of hope when the school year ends and the girls all receive their report cards. They stand eagerly in the hallway, none of them can break their gaze at the slips of paper in their teacher’s hands. Pashtana finishes 15th in her class and in this moment looks forward to a new year in the 8th grade. Unfortunately, Pashtana and her family were living off of $7 a week, a dollar to spend a day. She soon got married to her cousin and has not been back to school since their last day.
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman begins with a note from the editor, who is a local schoolteacher near the plantation where Jane Pittman lives. He has long been trying to hear her story, and, beginning in the summer of 1962, she finally tells it to him. When her memory lapses, her acquaintances help fill in the spaces. The recorded tale, with editing, then becomes The Autobiography of Miss Jane.
Abigail and Becky Reed were called by their mother “The September Sisters”, because their birthdays are only a day apart and they pretend that they’re best friends. Abby and her younger sister Becky are always at each others throats. But really, they delight in making each other miserable. Then, Becky disappears in the middle of the night, causing the jealous-filled Abigail to become more envious as searches for Becky start and she is disregarded. The distress of Becky’s disappearance soon haunts Abby when the first day of school approaches and Becky’s disappearance is still fresh on everyone’s mind. Abby is described to have been a person ...
Mitch spends every Tuesday with Morrie not knowing when it might be his dear sociology professor’s last. One line of Morrie’s: “People walk around with a meaningless life…This is because they are doing things wrong” (53) pretty much encapsulates the life lessons from Morrie, Mitch describes in his novel, Tuesdays With Morrie. Morrie Schwartz, a beloved sociology professor at Brandeis University, was diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), which most people would take as a death sentence. Morrie viewed it differently; he saw it more as an opportunity. This is because he does not follow the so-called “rules” of society. These rules come from the sociological concept of symbolic interaction, the theory that states that an individual’s
Throughout the movie I noticed that Mitch and Morrie fell under many of the theories that we have discussed in class. In particular they covered Marcia’s role confusion theory, Kübler-Ross’s denial and acceptance theory, and lastly Erikson’s identity achievement theory. The characters Mitch and Morrie fall under these three theories which I will explain below.
After Jane has been at Thornfield for a while, she is somewhat frightened by the laughing she hears while a fire breaks out in Mr. Rochester’s room. The frightening laugh gets Jane wondering if that person has committed this. Jane is able to put the fire out and save Mr. Rochester. After the fire incident, Mr. Rochester leaves for about a week or so. Since Jane and Mr. Rochester are secretly in love she constantly wonders when he is coming back. When he writes and says that he will be back soon with guests, the house begins to get ready because they don’t usually have guests. When everyone arrives, Jane sees that Mr. Rochester is sitting next to a women name B...
In the short story "weekend" by Ann Beattie, there is one main central conflict between the main characters of Lenore and George. This conflict arises from that fact that George and Lenore have a child together, live in the same house, yet they have no apparent relationship. George is always bringing back women to the house in front of Lenore and she hides how it hurts her deep down. George’s character is portrayed as an alcoholic older man who does not seem to care too much about anything that is going on around him. While Lenore is shown to be a “simple” woman who just lets George walk all over her by showing up with younger girls and who rarely shows emotion. Although Lenore is not as simple as she leads on to George, she has a lot of emotion buried inside of her that she does not always show, and her character is a lot more complex after a second glance.
"Take a paper out of the box, Davy.” "Harry, you hold it for him." Mr. Graves took the child's hand and removed the folded paper from the tight fist and held it while little Dave stood next to him and looked up at him wonderingly. "Nancy next," Mr. Summers said. Nancy was twelve, and her school friends breathed heavily as she went forward swishing her skirt, and took a slip daintily from the
As Jane grows up and passes the age of eighteen, she advertises herself as a governess and is hired to a place called Thornfield. Although journeying into the completely unknown, Jane does not look back, only forward to her new life and her freedom at Thornfield. This particular journey marks a huge change in Jane’s life; it’s a fresh start for her.
Jane wrote an advertisement for her services in the local newspaper. After a while, Jane was contacted by the head servant at Thornfield Hall, Mrs. Fairfax, to be the governess of Adele Varens. When Jane arrived at Thornfield, she got to see the whole building except for the third floor, where a worker named Grace Poole worked alone.... ... middle of paper ...
The main character’s name of “Countdown”, written by Deborah Wiles, is Franny. Franny Chapman is eleven years old and tells the whole story from her point of view. Some ways to describe Franny are brave, insecure, and curious. She expressed these traits and feelings while she told her point of view on her current state of
Helen tells Jane that most students felt bad for Jane and Jane goes to speak with Miss Temple about how she is not a liar. Jane recounts her childhood to Miss Temple to explain that she is not a liar and Miss Temple writes a letter to the apothecary to see if what Jane is saying is true. Mr. Lloyd writes back saying that Jane is telling the truth and Miss Temple offers Jane and Helen food as Jane is branded innocent to the school. Jane focuses on her academics as she is really good at art.
After the death of her parents, Jane lives in the house of her aunt, Sarah Reed. Sarah only allows Jane to stay in her house because of a promise Sarah made to her brother who was on his death bed. However, Sarah regrets her promise, despises Jane from the beginning, and blames her for every disturbance between her own children...
The Story of An Hour is an emotional rollercoaster that portrays social sanctions, struggles of women in the late 1800’s, and even death. During the 18th century women had very little education. Schooling and work was left to the men; any intention of a woman attending school or earning an income was looked down upon. Such restraints forced women to take care of the house, children, and any religious obligations while men were absent working to provide for the household. Kate Chopin’s thesis is throughout the late 18 hundreds women were stuck in controlling and emotionally detached relationships.
Years ago I had the most terrifying, shocking day of my life. I had between seven or eight years when this happened. The day before the accident, all my family was at my grandfather’s house. We all were eating the food my mother and my aunts brought, telling jokes at the dinner table. Meanwhile, I was playing with my cousins in the backyard. Everyone was enjoying the family meeting. As the time passed by and everyone was about to go home, my mother suggested the idea that we all should go at my grandparent’s ranch next day, since everyone was in town we all could have the chance to go. Everyone liked the idea. It was the perfect time to go because it was a weekend. As they all agreed to go, they begun to decide who bring what to the gathering. Who would have thought that thanks to that suggestion, I would lead me to the hospital the day of the reunion.