Let The Girl Live

when she picks him up from the police. How does this quote show us how she

In the second movement, the girl stands up and walks away from her companion to end of the station so that she effectively distances herself from the influence of her male companion and enables herself, evidently for the first time, to realize what is in her own mind. According to Renner “Thus, figuratively speaking, the girl’s movement to a point where she can look out to the other side of the station shows the freeing of her mind from the control of the American and her development toward discovering her own feeling, represented figuratively by the other side of the valley she now sees for the first time” (32). Throughout the third movement, the girl appeals her mind for the first time. “She is again physically on his side of the station and the decision, but her mind remains on her side, to which she tries to persuade him by implying that her pregnancy could mean something to him and allaying his fear that they would not be able to “get along” with the added burden of a child.” (Renner 33). In the final movement, there is turning point where Stanley Renner offers a key sentence in the story when the woman serving drinks informs the couple of the imminent arrival of the train, the man picks up the bags to carry them to “the other side of the station.” appending great significance to the word “other,” Renner argues: “What the girl’s outbursts have made clear is just how strong her resistance

In the whole of the novel, O’Brien is constantly doubting and internally fighting with himself and his feelings, but now he is battling with the knowledge that someday his innocent daughter will grow up and want to hear the truth. In The Field Trip, O’Brien decides to bring his daughter to Vietnam and relive his experiences: “‘Like coming over here. Some dumb thing happens a long time ago and you can’t ever forget it.’ ‘And that's bad?’ ‘No,’ she said. ‘ That’s weird’”(O’Brien 175). Tim O’Brien deliberately adds in this trip because he wants the reader to understand that even though it was a life time ago, it still sticks and affects him. In addition, the reader gets a glimpse into the naive behavior of Kathleen proving O’Brien’s point to protect her from the truth and try to keep her young. O’Brien makes sure to tell the stories on their trip to distract Kathleen from the true horrors that occured in Vietnam. Another reason O’Brien tells stories to Kathleen is the hope that one day she will grow up and live in the stories like himself: “The thing about a story is that you dream it as you tell it, hoping that others might then dream along with you” (O’Brien 230). Kathleen could be, in Tim’s mind, a way of preserving his stories and making other people believe and remember with him. O’Brien repedelty states,“

Going out in a journey with no idea of what might await further is an act of extreme bravery and perhaps, also, foolishness, that, nonetheless, is evidence of the level of the problem’s gravity.

Up until line 16 the reader is unaware the ponie the man is referring to is a girl. When Wright uses the word “she” (line 16) in reference to the ponie we then see that the author wants the reader to know it’s gender. Wright is letting the reader know that the man longs for the companie of a woman.

She was playing into the theme of innocence… she was 9 in the book and age aften with innocence. I feel guilty sometimes. Forty-three years old and I'm still writing war stories. My daughter Kathleen tells me it's an obsession, that I should write about a little girl who finds a million dollars and spends it all on a Shetland pony. In a way, I guess, she's right: I should forget it. But the thing about remembering is that you don't forget. You take your material where you find it, which is your life, at the intersection of past and present. The memory-traffic feeds into a rotary up on your head, where it goes in circles for a while, then pretty soon imagination flows in and the traffic merges and shoots off down a thousand different streets. As a writer, all you can do is pick a street and go for the ride, putting things down as they come. That's the real obsession. All those stories. This a good quote, and another to sum up the authors feeling of her innocence. "Like coming over here. Some dumb thing happens a long time ago and you can't ever forget it." (Field Trip.183). This is a quote to how kathleen feels about vietnam, And her ignorance to it. and at the end of they day, the role that women played was a small one…. But still a significant one… and even the smallest role can make a big

Another character important in the story was Chris. He was a soldier in the war. Supposedly, he was engaged to Alice but from the way he treated her, one would question it. Also, he was cowardly because he ran away from her rather than telling her how he truly felt, he said, "…A plane can get further than a car". Also, the reader may believe he is running away from his feelings because of something deeper. Maybe the war had injured him emotionally or mentally. These factors will definitely make it hard to discover what is true.

~ The author’s point of view is that “I’ve been there I know what happened because I know what I did” . He

Also, because the Lady is an imagined character within his dream, I feel as thou he made her wish for her existence to be kept a secret as a way to keep a divide between her and what he perceives to be the rest of the world. If so, then he would be able to enjoy her love and company as well as the benefits from the wealth she provides him, without introducing her to the life he knew before her. So he would have the life he felt he deserved without introducing her as another variable into

In all versions the girl seems to have died some years ago which means she is a ghost or spirit. Also, most versions that the man gives the girl a coat or jacket and when she disappears that the coat is left in the back seat or sometimes taken with her. Which makes the man go out and search for her ("The Vanishing Hitchhiker." Snopes.com.). The little girl also always disappears before they reach their destination.

In the story An Unexpected trip, it could appear at the beginning that something may have happened to her grandma because of they way the author had just been talking about her, but by toward the end of the story all thoughts of something happening to her Grandma were gone because the story took such a sudden turn and that was something at the beginning that I did not expect. In The Run it also demonstrates the theme, expect the unexpected. It does because at the beginning you think nothing could ever happen to the character in the story and then it turns into an apocalypse type of

The story follows the path that Frances, a writer from San Francisco, takes when she finds out that her husband is having an affair. Patty, France's gay best friend, tells to Frances, "you know when you come across one of those empty shell people...there came a time in each one of those lives where they are standing at a crossroads...someplace where they had to decide whether to turn left or right." The story is a struggle in which Frances decides to either stay in the comforts of her sadness or transcend her tragedy by falling in love with life. Patty changes her tour plans in midst of a recent pregnancy and decide to gifts her plane

In “Pegasus Descending”, James Lee Burke main character Dave Robicheaux yearns to find the reason behind the murder of his past best friend Dallas Klein from 25 years ago when Klein daughter suddenly appears in New Iberia. Robicheaux finds a connection between the sudden suicide of the town’s good girl and the appearance of Trisha Klein. He does not believe that the end of the town’s good girl Yvonne Darbonne was a suicide but rather a homicide. For instance, he writes,“ I awoke at four in the sunrise and sat at the kitchen table in the darkness and listened to the sound of the wind”...” It’s the language in her diary. There’s no self-pity or anger in it “(39). Burke character Robicheaux goes on to indicate that the ruling of Yvonnes death

It looks like the author’s purpose of this story is to make readers think and decide on their own what really happened to that woman.

With the next two lines, "Perchance he half prevailed, To win her for the flight" (21-22), we see that he almost persuaded her. She had to choose between him and "the firelit looking glass and warm stove-window light" (23-24). She was comfortable with what she had. She had warmth and caring where she was and these were things she felt he was unable to offer her.