A Brief Summary Of Bloody Bones

In the story ‘’Young Goodman Brown” the protagonist lives in a Paritan community and is married to his wife Faith of 3 months. In the time period the story takes place there was much speculation about witch craft and the devil causing harm throughout the village.

The Haunting by Joan Lowery Nixon is a mystery novel about how a teenage girl learns about the brave women in her family who did not even go near their famous haunted plantation, Graymoss. Fifteen year old Lia Starling just received the message that her great grandmother is giving her mother Anne, the property of Graymoss plantation. It has been kept in good care since Charlotte Blevin’s, (Lia’s great, great, great grandmother) grandfather died during the Civil War. Her parents dreamed of having a large family with a dozen unadopted children. But her parents refuse to listen to anyone about the evil spirits that haunts Graymoss. Lia gives her all to find out who or what the spirits wants even when she is scared to death. In the end, she solves

How does Carter represent gender and explore gender issues to create meaning in either ‘The Tiger’s Bride’, ‘The Courtship of Mr Lyon’ or ‘The Bloody Chamber’?

A little girl, named Sophia walker, was given a large doll by her parents. It was a gift from her great grandmother who had sadly passed on. Sophia was instantly unsettled by the doll, it had big black eyes that seemed to follow you around the room. Sophia, had the impression that she was expected to take the doll, because she was well raised and didn't want her parents to be upset by not taking it. The doll's name was Suzie, which made Sophia even more scared of it. Sophia thought to herself, “It was just a doll. There was nothing to worry about.” So she put her mind at ease.

Book Summary- In Fablehaven, two kids, Seth and Kendra Sorenson are dropped off at their grandparents house while their parents go on a cruise for “family reasons.” When they arrive at their grandparents house, Grandpa Sorenson acts suspicious when the kids wonder where their grandmother is. Grandpa Sorenson introduces them to Lena, the housekeeper and Dale who helps with yard work. He then leads them to a spacious attic space where there are many things to be entertained with. Grandpa only has two rules for Kendra and Seth: No going into the woods and never enter the barn. Kendra is given three keys, over a couple of days she finds that one key goes to a jewelry box and one to a dollhouse. In the dollhouse, there are two more hidden

It was Halloween night and Elizabeth was at the pumpkin patch picking the perfect pumpkin for the pumpkin carving contest on her street. She saw her best friend, Lindsey, down the street so she ran down to meet her.

In the dead of winter, in the year 1936, snow as covered the frozen ground. There stands a big white and blue sign that reads, Winchester’s Manor. Standing on this land right in the middle of the wheat field is a coffee colored WOMAN holding a five-year-old GIRL. The woman is looking around and swinging a stick back and forward as if she sees something that is not there. The woman places the little girl who is wrapped up in a blue wool blanket on the snow-covered ground. Suddenly, she runs off as if she is casing away something, the little girl is crying and reaching out toward the woman.

Mattie and Ethan, just after going down a hill in a sleigh, decide their only option to be together, is to die together. Their plan, run the sleigh into the big elm tree. This, if hit dead on, would kill them instantly. They go to do it. The sleigh slowly starts to go down the hill.

As the family is driving along, the grandmother awakens from a nap and recalls “an old plantation that she had visited in this neighborhood once when she was a young lady” (189). This recollection happens while the family is driving through the town of Toomsboro, GA. The grandmother is extremely manipulative and selfish and coaxes the family into visiting the old plantation by lying to them with the possibility of finding hidden treasure. The name of the town is only a slight indication of the terrible tragedy that is yet to come. It is no

The book, Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison, is about relationships between family members, the social class, “white trash”, and abuse. In the book, there is a young girl by the name of Ruth Anne Boatwright, but goes by the name of Bone. Bone’s mother had her at the young age of 17 years old. Her whole life, Bone, didn’t have a steady father figure. Anney Boatwright, Bone’s mother, married a man and out of that relationship, her sister was born. Soon after Anney married him, he died in a tragic car accident. The next man she married was Glen Waddell. This is when the problems came. Glen Waddell had some issues of his own and throughout the book, he took it out on Bone. At this point, Bone and Daddy Glen’s relationship throughout the book took a turn and their relationship consisted of physical, sexual, and emotional abuse.

Jordan Cross has returned to Holiday, Montana after eleven long years to clear out her late aunt’s house, put it on the market, and figure out what she wants to do with the rest of her life. Soon, she finds herself facing the town that turned its back on her because she was different. Because being labeled a witch in a small town didn’t earn her many friends…especially when it wasn’t a lie.

An hour after the moving van parked in the driveway of 406 Clybourne street in Clybourne Park the younger family waved at the van when it slowly moved away and they went inside when the van was out of view. The family worked together to put away their belongings and they stood hand and hand and they took a breath of fresh air. Beneatha went first to her room to put away her stuff then Ruth and Walter went next and Travis left to go hunt for his new room. They all left until Mama was left there alone looking out the big window. Mama gingerly stepped to the window and put her plant down smiling in thought. When the door bell rung she jumped and went to the door. At the door was a white woman and when the door opened and saw mama she flinched and said “Hello, I’m your neighbor it’s nice to meet you.” She said “I’m Susan it’s nice to meet you.” She said this slowly, deliberately like she’s talking to a foreign person and Susan put out her hand and mama did not reach for it her face was just a blank stare. Then after a while mama stammered “h-hello I’m Lena Younger its very nice to meet you.” And she reached out and shook Susan’s hand and Susan quickly took it away. Then she said “Well I just came to say,” Susan took mama’s shirt and pulled her face so close to mama’s that their noses were touching. “stay out of our way, we will stay out of your way if you stay out of ours.” She shoved mama into their brand new house and slammed the door so hard that

The story begins in a rural house where a man and woman live without children, near a walled garden tended by a frightening witch. The first line of the story tells us that they yearn for a child. It is clear that there exists in this house an almost tangible feeling of desire

The story is set in a small town in rural Maine. Stephen King had the inspiration for this novel when he was in Science Fiction class and the novel he took was Dracula. The main part of the story starts on September 5, 1975, and lasts about a month. The book ends with Ben and Mark's return to 'Salem's Lot on October, 1976. The town is named after a pig named Jerusalem that lived back in the 18th century. The main roads in the town are Brock Street and Jointner Avenue, which divide the town into quadrants. 'Salem's Lot is a small town. When new people arrive to the town, they are under the glance of everybody. This is because newcomers are a little bit refused, or in other words, it is not that easy to be confident with people from town. The Marsten’s House, is an evil house inhabited by the ghost or memory of Hubert Marsten, who killed his wife and himself when the main character of this novel, Ben Mears was nine. This creepy house sits on top of the hill, watching the whole town. In 'Salem's Lot, everyone knows everyone else. In some ways, 'Salem's Lot is charming. There are some traditions or, better said, ancient works that by those days still were running: a milkman still makes the rounds each morning, people govern the town themselves by town

Located within the maritime community of Diggs, Virginia, just north of Gloucester, you will discover a small unincorporated village nestled in Mathews County that is virtually basking with chilling secrets that are the prelude for things to come once you dare to tread down the hidden paths that stream throughout the gnarled trees with menacing branches that mimic fingers, housed within the thick foliage that has been their home in the dark, eerie woods for centuries. Lying just beneath the umbrella of trees, there is an ominous promise to the living souls braving the haunted and discontented forest that something is going to happen once they have made the decision to continue on the haunted path that leads to mystery, intrigue and a