“It comes to $28,000.” “Thanks Jack, I’ve been looking for a vintage Volkswagen for all my life. Brian’s been dead for about three years now, thanks to Gang-X. I got over it three months ago and I wanted to do one more thing in memory of him, get this car. We’ve been wanting one since we turned seven and here it is!” “Come on. We’re gonna be late,” said Jack. “Okay, but I’m driving.” It took an hour and a half to get there. It better be a gnarly game. “These are tremendous seats,” Jack said. “Only the best for the seventh game of the NBA championship.” That was a month ago, Cavs triumphed. That was before Jack broke his femur and I found the note. The note that was like a punch to the gut. The note that would forever change my life. …show more content…
I was getting out of my car when a piece of metal caught my eye. It was a ransom note made out of iron found at an old abandoned mine across town by the race track. It had gone through a lot. It was severely bent and and had rust in every nook and cranny. The letters were crimson with blood. Underneath all the rust and blood it said:“I’ve got to call Jack.” “Hey I came here as soon as I could,” gasped Jack as he panted from running. “It’s been two hours, and I saw you out at the coffee shop as I drove by. Plus you drove here, your car is parked out back.” “Heh, well I couldn’t get here soon because I had a doctor’s appointment for my arm then I went to grab coffee and…” “Whatever your excuse I don’t have time for it. We have a serious crisis on our
...rich 363) We know that for Lyman, the car doesn’t mean anything to him without his brother, so he sends the car off into the river just as his brother had done. The car has always symbolized the bond between the brothers, sometimes sad and sometimes happy, the car always shows the readers the type of bond the two brothers shared.
Richard Louv attempts to question the modern consumer culture of the United States by juxtaposing the complexity of purchasing a modern “Mercedes SUV” with the simplicity of staring out the window of a car. Louv uses a multitude of images to remind his audience ¬¬ who are likely the same age as he is ¬¬ of their childhood experiences. Louv also uses personal anecdotes to promote the drastic differences between simple wholesome actions and the modern consumer culture. His use of rhetorical questions also helps the reader in his/her attempt to understand that, “people no longer consider the physical world worth watching.” Louv’s use of technically specific words like, “municipalities” helps him to qualify his statements. The use of rhetorical
Celie believes she has no power or say against her father and the choices he makes for her. Alfonso begins to talk about choosing a husband for Celie because he has grown tired of her and is ready to get rid of her. Alfonso also gets bored with his wife, and starts to gravitate toward his younger daughter Nettie again. Celie offers herself to Alfonso in an attempt to save her sister. Alfonso accepts her offers and has sex with her instead of Nettie, while his new wife is sick. Alfonso uses Celie for sex tries and in an attempt to turn the other girls against her he badmouths her and says that she’s a bad influence. He says Celie "ain 't fresh" (isn 't a virgin) and that she is “spoiled” Alfonso sees women as objects and once they have been
middle of paper ... ... As I reached to pull the covers back over myself, I heard something brush against paper, and metal rings pressed into my arm. Cautiously reaching with my hand, I pulled out a notebook, open to the first page, with a pen slipped in the spiral ring. On the page was written the following: “Thought you might need these!
“We need a new vehicle so the terminator doesn’t know what car we are driving.” Then Jackie finds aold red Ford Windstar that was in good condition to drive. “Get in”, says Jackie. Then we were back on the highway, and I fell asleep again and a few hours later I awoke and saw a semi truck following us.
There once was a water droplet named Raine, she was thousands of years old. Her routine consisted of going through the water cycle, she got to see new things each day and explore. Sometimes she ended up in the same place, but most of the time she got to see new things. In this story you are going to hear about one day when Raine went to Fruitvale.
A yellow skinned man wearing a gas mask and orange prison clothes stands in a large glass box. Another man walks in wearing a tailored suit, black tie, gasses, and a name tag. He sits down in a chair. “Now lets see what your in for... arson, tampering with lethal chemical compounds, bank robbery, and and 24 acounts of murder, and that's just in the past week, It seems like you're going to be here for a while.” He fixes his glasses.
Inside the envelope, the letter written on what was visibly a piece of discarded scrap paper said, “ Mr. Fischer, I have a $10,000 bounty on you - dead or alive. You stole cattle from my ranch and I know you took them and sold them to Mr. Andersen and he took them to Fort Worth. By sundown Saturday, you will be dead. Your men will not be able to save you from this!” Mr. Fischer called to his men, and let them read the letter.
The following morning, the brothers notice that their father’s car is substantially damaged from what looks like a hit from the night before. Soon, the Sheriff takes in Judge Palmer for questing as he was the prime suspect for hit and run case wherein the victim, now dead, was
At 19, I thought I knew it all. Admitting I was confused, nervous and fearful didn't cross my mind, nor did confirming inabilities. Just like a vintage bottle of wine, I have greatly improved with age! Gone is the over-confidence and ridiculous sense of entitlement that defined my youth. Somewhere on the journey from bright-eyed to now, I realized learning is a process and involves small steps.
Spring was finally here! I love seeing the beautiful gray flowers and the light gray sky, and those weird white things that move around sometimes. It wasn’t too hot to take a walk and go to the park for a few hours either. I loved pretty much everything about spring, minus the weekly brushing of my dense fur. Can’t my owner tell I don’t like it when I growl?
One day, my friend and I were having a random conversation* while we headed to Oxford Bookstore in a rickshaw. As we stopped at a red light, several prostitutes jumped on us and started biting our ear. Soon, after much explanation from my end, they realized that just because the signal has a red light doesn't mean that it's a red light area. Much of the aforementioned ear biting stopped.
By the reading of it, Volkswagen management expressed what seemed like genuine shock when the EPA and California’s Air Resources Board revealed their joint findings regarding the automaker’s manipulation of US emissions testing for diesel cars outfitted with a particular 2.0-liter, four-cylinder engine.
Fixing her hair in the round mirror , Fiona climbed down the stairs, careful not to make any sound. The street was dark and silent as she reached the crossroad. Taking out her phone she called her best friend Dylan, to whom she said a simple "I'm ready. Pick me up." and then she hung up. Fiona waited for five more minutes , before a black car pulled over just a few meters awa...
As a tree hugger, owning a Jetta that dashed alongside for 42 miles on a gallon of diesel turned into the great of each universes. what is greater, it turned into an untruth. My higher half, Holly Flood, said she had a sense that she'd been "hoodwinked," and from that point ahead she's pledged by no means to purchase another VW. i'm no longer totally positive. Be that as it may, i used to be happy for the modern-day week to see the concurred phrases for the nearly half of million folks who possess the littler diesel-motor autos in the U.S.