A Short Story : Lisa And The Lisa's Story

During Christmastime, the family trades simple gifts to one another. Francie attends a Christmas event for the underprivileged children, where all the kids are too proud to accept any of the offers. When a small child wants to give away one of her dolls to whoever is named “Mary,” no one stirs. Francie, not wanting to let the gift to go to waste, lies about her name to bring the doll home. Although all of the other children keep their pride, she loses it, and feel embarrassed.

This way, if you looked at her face all you would see was a beautiful woman with piercing blue eyes and a warming smile.

Coming from a lonely and abusive home Mary had to find happiness outside of her house. Her mom made a friend from their church and she happened to have a three month year old baby. Mary always occupied the Richardson’s by helping with baby Alyssa, while also distracting herself from reality. Meeting the Richardson’s ended up being Mary’s worst nightmare. One night the Richardson’s went out and asked Mary and her mother to watch Alyssa.

So Yolanda and KrinkleMouse worked all through the night. They divided, multiplied, subtracted, and more. They finally got the sleigh back together when they got a message; an urgent message to deliver thirty more houses of gifts! So they raced to the team of reindeer and tied them back to the sleigh. KrinkleMouse helped by hopping on his dog sled and following Yolanda.

Santa and the elf named Sylvester, the village wizard, had just completed trying out and approving the new, hold everything, toy bag. Sly, Santa, the tailor, and some other elves loaded and unloaded the bag several times. Each time they had the same success as before, it worked great.

Dorothy Allison's voice is one of authenticity, experience, and wisdom. This is apparent in her recounts of her mother's death and rape by her abusive stepfather as a child. She uses her storytelling as a way of sorting out her inner demons and memories of her broken life, “the [story] I wish I could make you hear,” as she says, because “the need to tell [her] story was terrible and persistent, and [she] needed to say it bluntly and cruelly, to use all those words, those old awful tearing words” (39, 42). She strives to get to the root of her own unresolved issues and, by her own admission, “[works] to make you believe [her]”:

The young girl was sitting in her room, brushing her favorite doll’s hair while humming a sweet melodic tune. Her doll was made of brown fabric with pieces of yellow yarn tightly stitched to the doll’s head. It had black button eyes and a pink sundress on. This doll was Haddi’s most prized possession. Haddi’s doll was given to her by her mother when she was a baby, right before her mother had passed away.

She pulls her scarlet coat closer wintry wind pushes by. Her delicate features scrunch up in discomfort as the bitter air pricks skin. Maria squints her radiant, jade eyes at the multitudinous papers posted on the wall and sees the multiple reports of missing people. As she warily strolls further down, she notices a large chalkboard covered with an innumerable amount of names. There is space beside the name Alma, and Maria furrows her eyebrows in confusion while searching for a writing tool. Her fingers desperately dig into the snow and uncover a small piece of white chalk. She scribbles her name down, and as she turns around her eyes find a doll that looks identical to her resting within the shop. Her emerald-colored eyes widen like saucers as she inspects the doll. The urge to go to the doll burns bright inside her, as if she is a moth to the flame. She looks at the oddly shaped door, her stomach churning in suspicion. The door is jammed and she gives it one final push with her shoulder, turning around in disappointment. The door opens to reveal her look alike, within her reach! Maria darts towards the doll, but not before nearly tripping over a moving object. Her breathing grows ragged as the doll heads over to the door, its entryway shutting. Her eyes slowly move back to the center table, where the doll no longer stands. Maria's green orbs finally rest on the doll. While debating whether

However, when their mother came through the door and told them of a hungry family, the 4 women did not hesitate in giving away their luscious breakfast to those in need. The children delivered the food to the family and “a poor, bare, miserable room it was, with broken windows, no fire, ragged bedclothes, a sick mother, wailing baby, and a group of pale, hungry children cuddled under one old quilt, trying to keep warm”(24). The sisters realize what a harsh environment they live in, and because the setting is so pessimistic, they try to share the little wealth they have so that everyone may live long full lives. The setting in which they live, houses many people who have even less wealth than their own family. However, because of this dreadful place, they try and make sure that their community, or their family, is taken care of, even at the expense of their luxuries.

Most people tend to think of themselves as an individual, but does this really prove to be true? The tendency to conform to societies “behaviors” is often stronger than ones own personal beliefs, however, every society is different and lives by their own certain behaviors. Shannon Cain’s protagonist Lisa in “The Necessities of Certain Behaviors,” is forced to quickly adapt to the new village she has stumbled across.

His stomach let out a loud grumble. He knew he shouldn’t eat at this time of night, but he was starving even though he had eaten dinner only a few hours ago. He turned his chair towards the door but stopped mid-turn when he caught sight of a limp ragdoll, its eyes huge black buttons with the smallest of smiles resting against the door frame. Jack shook his head, and thought to himself what an odd looking doll that is, it was quite creepy as a matter of fact. He looks back up only to see that the doll is no longer there. Now a bit confused, he got up to see if it had fallen behind the door. As he walked towards the door it started to close on him, he sped up his walk and caught it before it completely shut. He stuck his head around the corner, and oh what a surprise, the doll is nowhere to be

At around 5:15 p.m. this worker arrived at Amber’s home. Amber and the children greeted each other with a hug and kiss. Amber then instructed the children to put their things away. Amber then provided the children with a snack. When the children finished their snack they wanted to watch TV and play with the toys they had gotten for Christmas. Amber told them they could go to their room

Toliver laughed, and then was surprised when Santa turned and looked right at him. Toliver smiled at Santa, and Santa smiled back. His eyes were so blue Toliver could see them from halfway across the room.

When Melinda started her first day of high school, she suffered from peer pressure with her best friend- who had just left her, and everyone had hated her because she ruined a party during summer break by calling the police. Melinda knew that no one knew the truth, but she was afraid to speak out about it. Laurie Anderson used the allusion of Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer

This story reveals the little girl’s happiness by showing her excitement about Barbie dolls when they were in the flea market.