Elarks: A Narrative Fiction

Phoenix Jackson's faint mind and physical structure was no obstruction to the insurmountable love she felt toward her grandson. Phoenix demonstrated this on numerous occasions throughout the story.

In Gregory Maguire's novel, Wicked: the Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West happen before the novel by L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. In Baum’s novel of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, portrays the role of the Wicked Witch of the West being wicked. We have no background or personal preference to understand her life of the Wicked Witch of the West (as known as Elphaba). But in Maguire’s novel, Wicked: the Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, shows how Elphaba traits of a monster are similar to a typical monster that portrays in people's eye. Elphaba is an ideal model of what we see in a monster would be like: abnormal, scary looking, and blunt behavior. She is a target of gossip to those who do not even know

Some nights the sky wept stars that quickly floated and disappeared into the darkness before our wishes could meet them. Under these stars and sky I used to hear stories, but now it seemed as if it was the sky that was telling us a story as its stars fell, violently colliding with each other. The moon hid behind clouds to avoid seeing what was happening” (Beah 80).

He pictured Kiowa’s face. They’d been close buddies, the tightest, and he remembered how last night they had huddled together under their ponchos, the rain cold and steady, the water rising to their knees, but how Kiowa had just laughed it off and said they should concentrate on better things. And so for a long while they’d talked about their families and hometowns. At one point, the boy remembered, he’d been showing Kiowa a picture of his girlfriend. He remembered switching on his flashlight. A stupid thing to do, but he did it anyway, and he remembered Kiowa leaning in for a look at the picture – “Hey, she’s cute,” he’d said – and then the field exploded all around them.

I had woken up extra early that morning to watch it all happen. To watch part of my life that had been ever so dominant disappear in a small gold 96’ Saturn. I watched it carefully, not thinking that these few moments would be our last, but that they would be the last that we were in some way equal.

The thirst for something stable is evident as the children show their awe of the physical world. As an adult explains the stars to Mazie, Olsen writes: "As his words misted into the night and disappeared, she scarcely listened‹only the aura over them of timelessness, of vastness, of eternal things that had

The townspeople lit their torches to look for the lost Mekone in the dark. They had searched far and wide when all of a sudden, a beautiful blue light illuminated the darkness. The people looked up in awe and understood that the light was the spirit of their lost Mekone. She was finally with the sun, her groom, illuminating the darkness while he lit up the blue skies. They worked together day by

Tom opened his eyes the sunlight creeping through the cracks of his small cabin. He lives in the potato fields of Idaho surrounded by woods and a pond next door.It was blazing hot the sun scorching everything beneath it. He went out to the fields looking for some potatoes which is all he would ever eat. He would occasionally go fishing or hunting, Using what his parents left him to cook meals and catch wildlife . He is lonely the only company he has was his horse. He was twelve years old and living on his own. His family had left him to find money when he was five promising they would be back in a year .Every morning when he wakes he says to himself this is the day, and goes out and looks at the horizon waiting for them to show. Its has been

The light gazed upon him as he set out on the river bank, fearful of the plague that had left his family bloody and still. He hunched over and stared at the water, and laid still. He heard the water drop, twinkling from the rain as it began to pour, and saw a light. As his emotions overcame him, he jumped forward and fell to the ground, putting his hand out as he saw things.As if the light had merged with darkness, yin and yang, and with a last breath, he let himself out. He reached closer and imagined his family, gasping at the sight of warmth.

A lot of time had passed since he’d last seen Archie. Then again, a lot of time had passed since he’d last seen anyone, really. The ordeal with Groudon- and by that, he meant nearly boiling everyone on the planet alive- had left Maxie a shadow of his former self. Where there was once a proud, hot-tempered man with the power of an entire organization behind him, there was now a guilt racked and depressed 40-something who didn’t a friend in the world. (Which wasn’t true, but Maxie wouldn’t listen to anyone who told him so- not even his admins.) Most days were spent inside, brooding and imagining how that day could have gone so horribly wrong, if not for that child. The talented trainer who bested and tamed Groudon where he could only stare on

“Your shorts are above your fingertips, and the straps on your shirt are much too thin. I’m going to have to ask you to call your parents to pick you up, so you can go home and change into something more school appropriate”

While she is up there one night, she witnesses a meteor shower. However, she wonders whether the “bursts of light” (Staples 64) that she sees are the results of “the Americans shooting the stars out of the sky” (Staples 64). With her careful word choice, the author lets us know here that Najmah’s outlook on the stars has changed hugely from before, and that she now views the stars as symbols of fear. (STEWE-2) There is an even more drastic change in Najmah’s mentality in the stars after the deaths of her mother and baby brother.

Phoenix communicates with everything she encounters. This symbolizes her love despite the difficulties she is facing. When we find out at the end of the story why Phoenix is going to town, it shows her love even more. It is also significant that Phoenix has a good sense of humor. She is able to laugh at herself, which states that she is a content person. Every difficulty she faces she just laughs and overcomes it. Another reason she is communicating with the things she encounters is that she fills that she does not have a voice when talking to anyone else.

1.- Health and Wellbeing (How are you going?) – Elspeth is attending her Psychologist and Psychiatrist appointments as needed.

My freshman year was kinda good! When I came here I started going to Elsik Ninth Grade Center. It was weird for me, I felt weird in my first day because I didn't knew nobody also didn't know how was to be in a school like Elsik because basically was my first year in houston. Everything was new for me I saw a lot of people that most likely were so childish and disrespectful. Boys hanging out making a lot of noise. So because I didn't speak English a special teacher take to a room to take a test to know my knowledge about the English language and then I took right and I didn't know what to say so I was about cry I felt like the most dumb girl in the world at the same time I was mad to myself, the teacher saw and told me to come down so