A Short Story : A Story?

I walk into the Moore’s house, and go upstairs. I see Alice on the bed, and tell her. “Hey, I did it with Alec. Oh, and I also told him I loved him, and he said it back. I think I wanna marry him.” “Ok slow down there Anna.” “I know, I’m sorry its just the happiest I’ve felt since what happened.” I know, and that's fantastic lets just not ask him to marry you yet.” “Yea, I know. I should probably get some less revealing clothes on.” “Yea, I’ll be downstairs.” She tells me.

Rachel is a survivor of the Holocaust. She has lost all her family except for grandfather and her younger brother, Yacov. In the concentration camps, the Nazi took advantage of her in the most horrifying way. They beat and branded her. After the war, she was released and smuggled into Palestine. She had hoped to reunited with her grandfather but instead she was put in a home with many other families. The Jews, her own people, shunned her and would go near her. They called her horrible things like tradior and Nazi. They bullied her until she thought she was worthless, unloved, and ugly inside and out. Rachel closed herself off from others. It was through her friends, family, and faith that she finally started to heal. This process was not easy.

After that point it was a bit of a blur. She couldn’t keep track of the days she spent there. The woman explained everything to her; that she was going to be sold, that she had no choice in the matter, and that no one would help her. No one knew that she was missing and no one cared. The building was heavily guarded. Rachel didn’t even know what country she was

Rachel is a generally nervous person throughout the course of the story. She constantly worries about what the town, and more specifically her father, might think. Lawrence and Lee establish this when Rachel goes to the jail to visit

At the onset of the novel, Rachel learns that while she is seven months pregnant, her husband Mark is involved with another woman. She views herself as the victim, being blamed for the affair by her husband – “I sat there on the couch with tears rolling down my face and

  The Reverend instills fear in Rachel to eliminate her autonomy and stop her from seeking thoughts differing from what she has

After Sarah hides her brother in a cupboard and is arrested by French police, she is brought to Darcy labor camp. Soon after her arrival, she is ripped away from her mother and father and when she escapes with her accomplice Rachel they are hidden on a farm by French couple Jules and Geneviéve. Rachel’s

During her daily trip, she looks out the train and examines a couple named Scott and Meghan. She has no relationships with these characters but she calls them Jess and Jason, idolizing them. Rachel can describe them very clearly and knows a lot about their lives just by seeing into their house for seconds twice a day. Rachel relates to this “perfect” couple easily because she used to share similar moments with her ex-husband Tom. In a sense, Rachel is jealous of them. In the beginning, she just watches everyday but something changes and then it all is different. Rachel witnesses Meghan kissing another man and she does not think much of it until in the next couple days, Meghan goes missing. Rachel takes matters into her own hands and decides that she needs to figure out what happened. Watson felt obligated to tell Scott because that is how she lost her husband Tom and she was concerned about this seemingly perfect couple. She works up courage and goes to the police to report what she has witnessed and what she knows about the couple. The police were confused and skeptical of her story due to not being able to validate

Rachel’s attraction to John leaves her with an inner moral dilemma as to conform to and uphold the Amish values, or to give in to her desire and break the cultural rules and be with John. There are several scenes that reflect Rachel’s nonconformity. In the ‘Barn building’ scene where Rachel serves John first emphasise that she is breaking her cultural values in order to be close to John. There are also signs of nonconforming when Rachel removed her bonnet before embracing and kissing John. When Rachel dances with John to the music in the ‘breaking the rules’ scene, she is taking a large step in devaluing her culture as she dances with an ‘English man’ who is not her husband. In the ‘bathing’ scene where Rachel deliberately exposes herself to John, she is inviting him to take advantage of his attraction to her.

Rachel receive a letter from her mother's family that her grandmother has passed away. Her mother was not aware that her mother had passed away. When she was reading the letter to her mother, she did not say anything and no tears fell down. Later at night she could hear her mother crying. To this day every once in awhile she could hear her mother crying. Rachel stayed for a little longer in Suffolk, but eventually left. Her father told her not to leave, but she did. A couple of months later her own mother passed

After Rachel was finished with Rocky she decided that she was going to obtain a job. A few weeks later she started dating Dennis. Dennis was a musician and he will sit with sheets of paper in front of him. When Dennis introduced her to his family they all accepted her, but were shocked that she was white. She eventually moved in with Dennis. However, she started yearning for her family and called. She received news that her mother was sick and went to visit. While being there she learned that her father was having an affair with another woman. Eventually, he started to ask his wife for a divorce. While she was there her sister made her promise that she won't leave her, but she broke the

Rachel gets extremely upset about that and starts drinking because she still is not over Tom. She wakes up the next morning having no memory of what happened on Saturday. Rachel receives several voicemails and messages from Tom saying both he and Anna are frightened and wants to call the police. Rachel thought, “ I don’t know what I’ve done. What did I do?

When Jacob finally arrives in Haran, Jacob falls in love with Rachel and offers himself to her father, Laban, in return for her. However, on their wedding night, Laban tricks Jacob by switching Rachel with his eldest daughter Leah. When Jacob realizes what happened, he demands that Rachel be married to him as well. Unbeknownst to him, Rachel could not bear children as she was “barren”, however since God was

Jacob (escaping the rage of his sibling, Esau) wedded both daughters of his uncle Laban. Be that as it may, his marriage to the senior sister, Leah, came not by decision but rather by fraud.

Then Natalie, Jonathan, and Rachel had left to go to the basement of Rachel's castle where Jonathan’s soul had once been trapped inside one of the portraits. they went to go find out why all this was happening because no one knew when ms.northe would be back. They got to the basement door that opens on its own, like something inside has been waiting for them. the further past the door the colder it got. While they were standing in the hall Jonathan said “he feels many presents in there” as Rachel signed that “I am not welcomed here”. At the moment she said that came a guard coming out of the room they were headed to. Mr.Smith punched him in