My Hands Became Slippery With Sweat By Lonnie

One night the narrator encounters a red-haired girl standing in the snow without any shoes on, in just a bathrobe. She is clearly distraught and claims that "He doesn't love anyone…his ex-wife, or the one before that…and he doesn't love me" (11). The narrator takes her to the dean's house and thinks that "she is beautiful and she was someone's red-haired daughter, standing in a quadrangle how many miles from home weeping" (10). The girl reminds the narrator of the daughter he once had. Evidence of this when the narrator thinks, "I thought of her as someone's child, which made me think of ours, of course" (21). He suspects that the girl is having an affair with his professor after noticing that she shows up at the professors office and the professor calls her his "advisee" with a sly grin. After witnessing this he calls in

The protagonists best friend a girl named Lonnie is categorised as the typical ‘normal’ girl, she is polite to adults and boy crazy. Through the descriptive language used it becomes evident her friend is two-faced (polite to grownups only when they are present), quote “Lonnie wore the composed polite appreciative expression that her disguise in the presence of grown-ups. She laughed at them and was a ferocious mimic, and they never knew." She is more adult, a good friend, and the manner in which she is presented indicated that she is from a higher social class. "It’s beautiful, said Lonnie, in her mild, sincere voice."

Up to this point, the reader might think the young wife was an innocent youth, singing and dancing her way through life, wearing white dresses and driving her older husband crazy. But there is a dark side to her personality too.

Through audio and symbolic codes, the original story of Cinderella is played out with poor little Cinderella wishing to attend what she sees as the 'festival of her dreams'. Florinda and Lucinda care very little for their step sister Cinderella who is forced to tend to their every need. She is aware that how she is treated does not equal to how she behaves, however sadly, can do very little about it. "Never mind, Cinderella, kind Cinderella- nice good nice kind good nice-" and with an outburst of laughter they slap Cinderella to the floor, due to her making one simple mistake, leaving her there without sympathy. As the Stepsisters and evil stepmother depart for the festival you watch as the contrast in class becomes much more prominent. As the three board the carriage all adorned and in luscious ball gowns, Cinderella stands looking up to them in not even 'hand-me-downs' but merely and literally, rags. Cinderella represents a responsible, supporter of the family unit who takes her obligations seriously as represented through in her clothing of which are brown and various other darker shades. In search of help, she turns to the only person she can really talk to, her enchanted weeping willow. Acting as the fairy godmother, she grants her wish, and at this exact moment in time, Cinderella truly believe she possesses everything she could have ever wanted. However, later goes on to say "You

The auditorium bell rang and the audience began to quiet down and take their seats. The dance teachers and class parents begged, “girls please stay quiet and stay in your order it’s about to begin.” The young dancers just kept twirling in their tutus and stomping their tap shoes against the marley floor of the stage. As the recital began, the giggling of the dancer’s excitement became more persistent. When the introduction ended it was time for the young tap class to take the stage, the curtain closed so they could get in the correct place. The curtain opened and the teacher said, “ladies your music is on.”

In the short story “The Stolen Party” there is a girl named Rosaura that thinks she was invited to a party at her best friend’s house, but her mother doesn’t want her to go. She talks to her mother about the party and tells her she will die if she can’t go. Finally on the day of the party her mother starches her dress, washes her hair and shines it with apple vinegar. When Rosaura gets to the party she is asked to pour the juice, pass out the hot dogs, and pass out the cake. Then all the children at the party play games and don’t include Rosaura, but she doesn’t know this. A magician comes to the party and asks a boy to hold the monkey, but the fat boy drops it and the magician asks Rosaura to hold it. Then, Herminia (Rosaura’s mother),

Anna Beth has dreamed of dancing the dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy ever since she tried on her first pair of ballet slippers on. She was mesmerized by the tenderness of the Sugar Plum Fairy and would rehearse for hours until she got it perfect. Her only competition was Ellen, her best friend. The two girls helped each other with everything—especially dance. Even though Ellen was not as experienced as Anna Beth, she had surpassed most of the peers in less than a year. She would also do whatever it takes to get the role.

One day Donnamarie was in her class and she was doodling on a piece of paper out this journal that wasn’t hers and Mrs.Mote was so mad and Donnamarie didn’t know why she was so mad and Donnamarie thinks she is taking it was out of what it should be.

The next day was Sunday and so Annie went off to church. She hated it and tried her best to focus instead of remembering every detail of the wonderful night before, particularly the memory of the blond boy she had met. Linda, one of Annie’s friends sat beside her. Annie notices the change in Linda’s behavior, noting that last night at the dance she was laughing and funny, while at church she was grave and reserved. “I hated being here,” Annie states. Some of the boys from the dance at the Sewickley Country Club were there, too, with a sullen look on their faces, and Annie assumed that they hated being there as much as she did. The difference between her and the boys, however, were that they probably had fought with their parents on attending

It appeared to the young blonde girl named Rapunzel that the House of Mouse was even more packed than the night before. It was extremely hard for the short, petite girl to make her way through the crowd of people who flocked to the center of the club. What on earth could be causing so many people to want to crowd around the club. She squeezed herself past a few people, dodged a few people who almost danced all over her, all while saying. “Excuse me.” She knew the likelihood that they could actually hear her was slim to none, but still she spoke the words. She was just that type of person, she was never rude to anyone and went out of her way to say apologize, even when she wasn’t at fault.

She was probably not expecting that the hardest part of it all would start with her doll. She set the dark skinned doll next to her on the plane thinking nothing of it before a man known as Mr. Norton strolled to her aisle. He picked up the doll and exclaimed that he had never seen a doll of such color. When Mr.Norton makes these remarks to Carole its very obvious he finds these sort of things very strange. Carole, being a mixed little girl, seemed like the most strange of them all to the man. Leading him to conclude that he needed to know what she was.

First, Miss Brill had imagined them as “the hero and heroine” of that play who had “just arrived from his father’s yacht” and then Miss Brill prepared herself to listen to their conversation. The boy wanted to date the girl, but she is embarrassed because of Miss Brill’s presence. Consequently, instead of hearing something that would contribute to her imaginary play, Miss Brill is forced to see her real condition when the young boy referred to her as a “stupid old thing" and questioned: “Why does she come here at all – who wants her? Why doesn’t she keep her silly old mug at home?”. Besides that, the girl made fun with Miss Brill’s fur by comparing it to a “fried whiting”, and insisted on deny the boy’s desires as long as Miss Brill stayed there.

Dmitri awakens from his slumber. He dreamt of Anna dancing around white roses. He got an idea to not only meet her at the local theater but to bare gifts as he knew she loved candles. He quickly got up and made his way to the local flower shop to purchase flowers for Anna. Dmitri walked into the theater with the gift in hand. Dmitri carefully waited for Anna to arrive as he expected Anna to bring her husband. As the moments passed Anna arrived with her husband as Dmitri expected. Anna sat in the third row. Dmitri watched as the music filled her cold, lonely face with brightness and happiness. The instruments meant nothing to him as they were just that, merely instruments. Dmitri became very bored with the music and slumped in his chair. As soon as he thought all hope was lost Anna’s husband got up to go smoke. Dmitri quickly took this opportunity to remake his acquaintance with Anna. The flutes and trumpets got louder as he got closer and closer to her. He tapped Anna on her shoulder and asked, “Is this seat taken?” Anna 's face was in shock as she turned white with pallor. She could only mutter out a weak "No." Dmitri sat down and gave her the gift. Anna was still speechless as she could not believe the man she loved was in front of her. Dmitri started the conversation as he knew she was at a loss for words at the moment. “I thought if I left Yalta I would forget about what we had. When I moved back to Moscow it became very clear no matter

Mathlide was so tremendous. She was prettier than any other woman present. Mathlide was elegant, graceful, and smiling of joy. All the gentlemen stared at her, asked her for her name, and very eager to be introduce and know who she was. In addition, they all longed to waltz with her. Even the minster himself expressed his desire to dance with her as well. Mathlide danced intoxicated with all the admiration, the new desires, and the feeling of utter victory. So, dazed by all the emotions that she was wrapped in. She completely forgot about her husband who had been sleeping since midnight in a little abandon room. After a fun and delightful night of living out her dreams. Mathlide and her husband departs from the ball at four o’clock in the morning. Unfortunately, the luck of the couple disintegrates when Mathlide discovers the beautiful diamond necklace her friend leaned wasn’t around her neck. In panic and despair Mathlide and her Husband go in seek for the necklace. Her husband left to search for the necklace but when he returned at seven o’clock in the morning. He found nothing. He went to the newspaper office to offer a reward. He even went to every cab company. Mathlide waited all day for his return. When he returned home with a pale face he insisted “You must write your friend that you have broken the clasp of her necklace and you are having it fix.” Mathlide too prideful to admit her mistake. She suggested to replace the necklace.

You all know the story of Cinderella but do you know the story of Ella. There once was a girl who lived happily with her two stepsisters and stepmother. One day a letter came in the mail saying that they were invited to the prince's ball. Ella and her steps sisters celebrated but there mother was not pleased with the invention. Ella knew something was wrong and she was going to get to the bottom of this. That night her stepmother called her near the fireplace her sisters were sleeping, she said “ Ella my deer you shall not go to the ball there is danger there that's awaits your arrival.” Ella didn’t understand what her stepmother was talking about she said “ what danger awaits, of it’s so bad why haven't you stopped me before.” “Ella my deer you were too young to understand you still are trust me i’m doing this for your own safety.” Ella runs upstairs and weeps in her bed until she has fallen asleep. The next morning she starts planning, she will go to the ball but without her step sisters and mother knowing. That night she starts crafting her dress. She had finished with a beautiful pink gown with bows and glitter, her plan was starting to go in action. On the night of the ball she came downstairs with the dress on. Her stepmother was in disbelief, her reaction was, to rip the dress into shreds. Ella's stepsisters try to stop her but they still didn’t understand what was happening.They were too late Ella's dress was already ruined. Ella ran to her room and wonder why this