Ambra In Lorna's Things Fall Apart

I see her sometimes wanderin' around like she's sleepwalkin', with a blank expression on her face." (36). Lulu is not acting like a normal human should, Wandering with a blank expression like she doesn’t know what’s going on. The reader is intrigued and wonders why whe is crazier than the other children, and what has caused this. Clive Barker also adds a water attraction to Lulu’s character and this is one of the biggest foreshadowing moments in the story that gives you a big hint as to what is going to happen.

Meanwhile, Seth disobeys the rules and goes off into the woods. On his adventure, he spots an old shack covered in ivy and vines. He notices an old women that is gnawing on a rope that she is tied to. She asks Seth if he would come inside and share a cup of tea with her. Seth asks if she is a witch, then she becomes very furious and puts a curse on him. He sprints of like a cheetah and runs away from the “witch”. The next morning, their grandpa asks them “What do you suppose makes people so eager to break rules?’’ He keeps his eye on Seth. Seth explains to his grandpa that he was just very curious and that he met a creepy old lady. His grandpa nods and changes the subject. They are given some milk (the magical one) by Lena she said that it would give them the power to see “what is really out there.” Seth shows Kendra a hidden pond with gazebos, a boardwalk, and a boathouse. Grandpa explains that his yard is not a place for endangered animals, but for mystical creatures such as fairies, trolls, and imps. This land is known as Fablehaven and it is owned by lots of people, passed down every few centuries. He also explains that the old woman in the forest was actually a real witch. Her name is Muriel Taggert and the knots were her punishment for trying to put a curse on Fablehaven. After meeting

While going through a hard time of her husband being gone and he grandmother passing away, Lilia wanted so bad to cross into America to have her family together. An old friend of Lilia’s from school offered to help get her and her child across to America. Seeing that she trusted the man she decided to allow him to help her. Lilia and her baby had to go with different coyotes. She went to the house of the man that was to be her coyote; he took Lilia to a woman coyote that would bring the child across. After leaving her baby with the woman, Lilia and her coyotes started their journey in a truck. She was to ride on the back that was covered with the man that was not driving; along the journey, the coyote raped her. They arrived at a river, which she had to swim across. Once across the water, she had to wait in a junk yard in the back of a car for someone to show up and call for her. She was taken to a house, where she would get her new identification, a new life. This is where she awaited for her child and her husband. While she was waiting she had to cut and dye her hair, she also watched a man being murdered. Day’s passes and her child never arrived, but Hector did. Hector was grateful to see his wife, but very upset that his child had not arrived. Hector, Lilia, and Miguel tried to figure out how to find the child, but had no luck. Hector asked his boss and his wife to help but they also had no

What did she want with him anyway? Didn’t she understand that he didn’t want anything to do with her or his family? Everything relating to his family was best pushed into a corner and never looked at again. And now that he was finally about to free himself for good, he had to take a petty child along with him.

The house had an unusual smell to it that Bryan couldn’t quite his finger on it. Miguel had never minded any of the people in the village had always believed the story ever since they were a young child, but there showed no evidence of this so called “Witch”. old lady on the corner of Babylan St. because he always knew it was just a folktale,so they wouldn’t go into a stranger 's house.

Spreading blood all over there walls and doors, one women threw a chicken’s head to represent the aunt. When the villagers were in the house the destroyed everything in it; the kitchen was filled with shatter glasses from the bowls and throwing the pots. The women next door entered their house with a broom swiping the negative dust above Kingston’s families head giving those negative spirts and every one of the villagers looking down upon Kingston’s family. When leaving their house, the villagers made sure that they took sugar and oranges and rubbed it upon the selves; it made sure they weren’t cursed from the disgrace the family had. Some stole the rest of the bowls and clothes that were not broken or torn. It was time for the baby to arrive and the no name women gave birth to her new born baby in a pit. Kingston’s remembers the next morning going to the family well noticing that it was plugged and noticed that the aunt had killed herself and her newborn baby in the family well. Making sure that Maxine Kingston doesn’t say a word to her father, her mother repeats again to her to not say a word to her father or to

Not only is she forced into an arranged marriage, but she has no love for the boy that she is about to marry. From the day that she is arranged into a marriage and thereafter, she must deal with the fact that she will belong to someone else and that she is going to be the property of her husband. Her departure begins when her own family treats her “as if [she] belonged to someone else” (51). This shows the beginning of her departure because it is the start of the trials that she must overcome and deal with to continue with her journey. To make matters worse, Lindo’s family has to leave her because of a flood that wiped out all of her family’s land. Another trial that she faces is to get out her love-less marriage. She must leave safely while also keeping the honor and dignity of her family name intact. In order to overcome these trials, Lindo must transition to the fulfillment stage.

Luel is known for their wine merchants and marketing. Alani’s mother was a pottery marker. Alani’s father was a chef. The Vine’s family has a medium-sized sheep dog. Both parents worked on their farm and plantation. Earning the title of the best cheese & wine merchants in Luel. She and her parents are all Pseudodragon Skin Changers. Alani helped her parents with everything they would allow her. They treated her with great care and protection. The sheep dog was born with a fetal illness that caused it to pass away. Her father helped her burry the dog in the yard beside their house. Her father one day disappeared when he went into the forest to pick some of the local wild fruit. Alani’s mother went to try and find him. She later came back with no information. As the days rolled on, her mother grew sicker. Alani was soon left to do all of the chores as well as running the business. About a year later, Alani was doing her daily mother checkup. As she opened the door to her bed-ridden mother’s room; the strong scent of iron clogged up her lungs. On the bed, half of her mother was eaten with a small stump of a tree taking root in her mother’s stomach. The ten-year-old Alani tore the monster from her mother’s corpse. It’s maw was open, exposing it’s blooded sharp rows of teeth. Before it’s tendrils could grab hold of her – she snapped it in half. Taking it outside, she burned it. She spent of the day setting up a proper burial for her mother in the back

Two minutes. All views simply fading from her mind into thin oblivion as her eyes focus on the rich soil path leading to the train station, always crowded by ghosts with no conscience; however, now the ghosts are transparent as no one is present. Walking towards the isolated tree, Adriana stands in perplexment as to why her true love is absent. A moist drop lands on her cheek, as a metallic smell arises opposite of water from rain. Her hand leads up to wipe the liquid, as a sharp intake of breath is audible when wide emerald eyes meet a blush red rather than clarity- A sharp hum fills her mind, starting gradual but heightening in sound, piercing ferociously through her ears, and numbing her mind. Her airway blocks as if someone has sharply dug their hand down to her soul, and latched onto her heart. Adriana’s chest heaves up and down rapidly, struggling to allow the once sweet air within. Hesitance clouds her conscience, as her eyes hesitantly trail to see the source of the bloody rain that falls from the sky. His round nose, his dusky complexion, frilly careless hair, black pants that cling to strong legs, and a white stained shirt that fills with winds that once were familiar. Her thoughts only stray to denial and nothing

Lil once had big dreams of living under the carnival lights and being a star in her own right, but her children only see her as the dotting mother and wife. During the pregnancies that Lil endured she became dependent on the experimental drugs Al supplied and as a result dependent on him. Lil spends her days cooking and sewing under the big lights, but never again truly runs the Fabulon. The drugs, or her grief keep her from morning the loss of her children, and she spends her

Larissa could hear her the fear in her mother’s voice. She could also hear the sounds of the pirates. She figured she should, perhaps, let the matter go and run inside. But she was so far away from the house, and the pirates were quickly approaching, and Larissa was so small, and her legs weren’t long enough, and she couldn’t run too fast,

The stairs creaked under her feet as Esperanza walked down the stairs and onto the cold hardwood floor. The house was dark and the atmosphere sad. Mama and the rest of her family were nowhere to be found. She looked down at her hands and remembered the day before when she had pricked her finger on the thorn of a rose, harboring bad luck. Had the rose really caused that much trouble? She couldn’t believe how much something so small could change her life so much.

She knew if she kept her child, her child would too experience a life with no freedom.

[Waverly] whined, starting to cry” (200). Without a word being exchanged, Waverly suddenly understands her mother’s “frailty” and realizes that she never meant to “guile” or take advantage of her. As such, she feels sudden guilt for assuming the worst of Lindo, and fears Lindo has died while she had those terrible thoughts. Simply by observing her mother, Waverly breaks through years of misunderstanding, and, “in the brief instant that [she] peered over the barriers [she] could finally see what was really there” (204) inside of Lindo. Not malice, but deep love.

She wanted Elise to be brought home and cared for by other members of the Lacks family.