Casey Barclay's Short Story

Amanda becomes a woman bent on finding her daughter either a job or a husband and finding out why her son disappears every night. To help her appear strong and willful, Amanda escapes to her own days as a young girl, finding more than seventeen gentlemen callers, and allows herself to believe her life is stable enough that her daughter and her will be financially taken care of. These facades crumble when she realizes her daughter has never been capable enough to find either a job or a husband. While these expectations of Laura hurt her, they allow her mother to escape to her days of being flaunted over and adorned by men. Once she does see her daughter is struggling, Amanda has to face the fact that her daughter will always be dependant upon her mother. These realities continue to affect how her children act and the results of the

Sally is not even eight grades and she gets married. Her husband is a marshmallow salesman that she meets at a school bazaar. She moves to another state where is legal their marriage. Sally tells Esperanza about her house and domestic objects that she owns. Sally says that she is in love, but Esperanza believes that Sally just gets married to escape. Sally 's husband gives her money to buy things, and she enjoys this aspect of being married. Sally claims to be happy, except when sometimes her husband gets angry and one time he kicked a hole through the door. Her husband doesn’t let her go out, talk on the phone, see her friend or even look out the window. Sally spends her day sittings at home, looking around at the pretty things she owns: the towels, the toaster, the alarm clock and the drapes.

“That’s why they were only taking a few things at a time; they weren 't really coming for ivory and paintings. They wanted me!” Even when she wasn’t in her room she was always afraid of something. “I always dreaded that my parents would divorce. It was my third biggest fear, right next to the fear that one of them would get abducted by heartmen on the road to Sugar Beach, or my first fear, that I would get sucked into the lagoon by neegee.” Out of all three fears only one seemed to happen. Her parents relationship finally came to an end after a lot of fighting, disagreement, and cheating. “Daddy, I hold your foot, don’t leave us. Daddy, please, I beg you” she cried that day. From then on, except the servants and cook, “it was only women at Sugar Beach.” Even after dealing with something so hard in her life that wasn’t even what affected her the most.

Summary: Janie Crawford is a southern African-American woman who grows up under the care of her grandmother. Janie’s mother has her at seventeen and soon after Janie’s birth she becomes a drinker and stays out late until she leaves for good. Janie’s Nanny’s background of slavery makes her push Janie to be someone she could not be during her days. Nanny urges Janie to marry Logan Killicks. Janie is not in love with Logan, but Nanny and others push Janie to marry him. Janie thinks if she marries him, then she will start loving him. However, a marriage not built on the foundation of love will not last. While Janie struggles with her relationship with her husband, “she knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman (24). Janie’s marriage with Logan diminishes her idea of a loving and romantic relationship. Janie spends a little over a year with Logan under miserable conditions, until she marries Joe Starks not long after. Mr. and Mrs. Starks move to a new town where they meet friendly townspeople. Not long after, Joe

After hearing about her father’s lose she was a complete wreck. A year after the star player of the Los Angeles Bullets death, Miranda lost everything. Her mother never had a job and always depended on her husband. Miranda and her mother found it hard to live in Los Angeles because they were not economically stable, so they decided to move to Boston. They got a mini apartment for the two of them. The apartment had two bedrooms, a dining room, a kitchen, and a bathroom. Some

She hates her life in the mall and often wants to just go home. At home, there are more problems to deal with. Her heartbroken newly single mother (point to Mother’s picture) made a new friend named Lydia (point to Lydia) who’s slowly changing Havens’ s mom. Haven’s mom is newly single because the man of her dreams, Mac McPhail (point to dad) had found the woman of his dreams, Lorna (point to Lorna), also known as the “weather pet” to Haven and her mother. Her dad has been a newscaster for the sports for years. no one suspected a thing until the new weather girl came and there was a lot of chemistry on set. (point to the news set) She also has an older sister who’s named (point to Ashley’s picture) Ashley who is shorter, curvalicious, and gets a lot of boy attention. Haven had gotten sick and tired of all of Ashley’s boyfriends. Haven feels very ugly and gigantic next to her sister (point to the picture of the to girls) Ashley had finally settled down with Lewis Warsher (points to Lewis), her fiance, who is boring compared to her sister’s audacious personality. Lewis and Ashley met in an ice cream shop and it was

With her husband's outrages and seclusion, she did her best by taken care of the situation with care and calmness, especially in front of her children. Surely, when alone, she would breakdown from the pressure, sadness and changes. A family that would once take walks together on Sundays now had to deal with the father's outrages and drinking problems. Ben, the narrator, was only eight years old at the time and even his young fragile mind noticed that his life would forever be different.

In the short story Casey At The Bat the author uses humor to tell the story. I think the author does it to explain the depth and meaning of the story. The author makes it where we expect something totally different then what`s about to happen. Also I think the author uses it to tell the story better.

“Your aunts and cousins are growing restless waiting on you. This is my second glass of wine. I need a little buzz to tune out Lisa and Renee’s shady remarks. The catty criticism began as soon as they walked in the door. They’re downstairs kissing your father’s ass like he’s the hold Messiah.” LaTonya hisses. “But enough about those miserable heffas, I have something special that’s the perfect finishing touches for tonight.” She hands Mya a small Tiffany’s jewelry box.

For a moment Déjà vu swept over Ian, he could not remember much. The alarm sounded so peculiar, the ring went the same pace as a hospital monitor and had the pitch of a scream. Turning off the clock, Ian then threw on a white collared shirt and tucked it in his grey suit pants. Standing in view of a 5 feet mirror he fought with a tie he begrudgingly hated. It had seemed as if he would never get the tie tied correctly. Juliet walked in the room with a tight lipped smile. “Can I help you with that?” she said warmly. “Yes I can’t seem to get the stupid thing right,” Ian retorted. “How is the brain injury treating you?” Juliet humorously announced. “A small price to pay for you to be moving in, extremely worth it” replied Ian gazing into her eyes than caressing her lips once more. “You do know, you don’t need a job working with my father Ian don’t you?” Juliet said looking into Ian’s green eyes. “I don’t want a job, I want his reverence” Ian retorted boldly. “Well, if for some reason it doesn’t work out, it isn’t the end,” she murmured. The alarm clock could be heard from the other room echoing through the halls. “I thought I turned that off,” Ian said, his eyes widely opened. “Is everything ok love?” Juliet curiously asked. “Yeah, just a bit of Déjà vu, honey,” Ian replied kissing her

Amber's life had always been a breeze, suddenly everything fell apart. Her father had his own business and was doing very well in life. Then they lost everything due to her father's unorthodox decision to engage in drugs. Around the same time they found out he had cancer and that Amber was with child. After her father passed away, Amber delivered a beautiful baby girl named Annabel, who brought the light back into Amber's life. The first two years of Annabel’s life were tremendous; Amber attained a job, went to school to receive her GED, and started college immediately. Although it didn't last, she revamped herself for her daughter's sake. When Annabel was four years of age, she witnessed her mother get molested by a stranger, and that lead

Lacey Cash glanced at the lime green Timex watch on her left hand as she pushed the silver key into the overused Kevo Bluetooth electronic deadbolt on 19 First Avenue Mont Lamberte. It was 3:00 p.m. and she was scheduled to meet with Mr. and Mrs. Lavish at 5:00 p.m. Lacey had managed to secure the two hours she needed to complete the house inspection before the Lavish couple arrived with the real estate attorneys. She had spent two hours yesterday going over all their opinions and they had made an offer, which was accepted. The Lavish were a nice young couple. They were expecting twins and they were due in a couple of weeks. Needless to say, they were anxious to move into their own home before the new arrivals.

ALLISON (30’s) is a high-powered investment broker, who is disillusioned when she’s overlooked for a promotion. Her boyfriend, SCOTT, wants to marry her, but it’s not the life she wants. Allison decides to follow her dreams.

The Color Purple In Alice Walker’s The Color Purple, Celie was very neglected and abused by many people. She was raped and got pregnant by her father. Celie's mom died and she had to face her father alone while trying to protect her sister Nettie from him.

The story revolves around Garrett who grieved over the death of his wife, Catherine. As a way of release, he put his sadness into words by writing love letters addressed to his late wife, then place them in a bottle and throw them out in the sea. And Theresa Osborne, a 36-year-old mother of one named Kevin and a divorcee, is a Boston newspaper columnist. This book tells of a love that is everlasting and unbreakable.