Short Story Chapter Summary

Dorothy Allison's “I'm Working on My Charm” is a story of a young sixteen-year-old girl who works as a waitress with her mother. As a young daughter coming to the same field as the mother, the mother becomes a role model here and supports and helps her daughter on becoming a good waitress. She makes sure the environment her daughter is working on is good and that she is aware of the Yankees. Yankees doesn't see waitresses on the same level as they are. So, the mother is worried how her daughter will deal with Yankees and makes sure she knows how to handle different situations. The daughter is taught to use her charm to influence people. Also, Mabel, her mother's friend, teaches her how to bet on tips from customer. This story illustrates how an older person can be a guide for younger ones to be successful and accepted in the society.

The war had not dampened Charleston’s spirit. Nor had it altered its social events calendar. The invitation to Colonel Andrews birthday party arrived shortly after lunch two days after Thomas abandoned Allie at her grandparent‘s home. Then, not soon after, an invitation to the annual May Day Ball arrived.

Naoko coughed nervously and continued, “It’s just an idea but I’d like to at least try it out to see if it’ll even work and since you’re said to be really god with kidō I thought you could help me.”

Skyhold, for all its fancy tapestries and burnished gold candelabras, was so poorly insulated that come autumn, its corridors became cold and gloomy as tombs. Frost left its fingerprints smeared across every surface, and when the weak heat of bodies desperately huddled for warmth began to melt it, the smell of damp hung heavily in the air. It was a scent that imbedded itself in fabric and left every man's shirt soggy and limp, punishing mankind with dank bedsheets and clammy, mottled skin. No corner remained wholly untouched, but there were a few spots where the windows opened a touch more, and as such, the walls were a little drier, and the ventilation fresher.

The astringent scent of antiseptic stung the air of the E.R., the strong aroma barely masking the smell of sickness and death. Booker paced the floor of the waiting room, one eye on the clock, his need for a cigarette intensifying with every step. Three hours had passed since the paramedics had cut Tom free from the bathroom pipe and transported him to St. Mary’s. In that time, the young officer had remained unresponsive, his mind locked in the memories of his past, oblivious to what was going on around him. For Booker, however, escaping the horror of the situation was not an option. He’d waited for the detectives to arrive, and like a scene from a movie the director had decelerated for dramatic effect, he’d watched

“Here we are. Once I open this door, we’re going to attack fast and hard.”

Plot: It seems like the spotlight is always on the new baby and Fili thinks no one cares about him

Enough was enough! thought Mr Jewel. How dare this young whippersnapper keep asking him questions? So, from his pocket, he grasped the watch on its chain and swung it in the air.

‘Lord Fox!’ yelled a voice. The sound rang through Lord Fox’s head, bouncing and echoing all the way until he snapped back into consciousness.

Summary The story starts out with the main character, Tom Joad, being released from prison after being held for four years for a conviction of manslaughter. He makes his way back with a preacher named Jim Casey (a man who gave up his calling due to belief that everything is holy) to his family’s farm in Oklahoma only to find that his farm along with all the neighboring family’s farms deserted. Muley Graves, an old neighbor, wanders by and tells the men that everyone has been “tractored” off the land. Most families, he says, including his own, have headed to California to look for work. Tom finds his family at his uncle’s house packing up to find work. His family had followed advertising fruit picking jobs in California. They thought of the trip to California as their only hope of getting their lives back on track. The road to California in a rickety used truck is long and tiring. Grampa Joad dies on the road shortly after the family’s departure. It seems the entire country is in flight to the Promised Land of California. As the Joads near California, they hear ominous rumors of a depleted job market. One migrant tells Pa that “20,000 people show up for every 800 jobs” and that his own children have starved to death. Their family moves from one crappy camp to the next, looking for work, struggling to find food, and trying desperately to hold their family together. Noah,one of the Joad children, abandons the family. Later, Connie, a man who is married to Toms pregnant sister,

In 1941, Lina Vilkas is fifteen years old when a group of Russian officers beat on the door of her home in Lithuania. Her mother answers and the officers rush in, placing the family under arrest but without any information why they are being arrested. Lina suspects it is because of her father and his late night meetings with people of the neighborhood. Lina, her mother Elena, and her ten-year-old brother, Jonas, are taken to a railroad station with many others. There, they are loaded onto train cars, crowded like cattle. Shortly after, the train cars leave the station. On the train, Lina meets a seventeen year old boy named Andrius. Andrius is a well-minded and stable but has to act slow so he won’t be taken away by the guards and separated from his mother. Lina realizes she doesn’t like him that much after she sees him teaching her brother to smoke a cigarette. There is a young woman on their train car who was taken from the hospital moments after the doctors cut the umbilical cord of her daughter. The child dies of malnutrition during the trip and the mother, Ona, who became sick and crazed after the death of her child, is shot in front of the group at a station a couple weeks later. Before they leave the station, Lina sneaks away from the train car with Jonas and Andrius to find their fathers after they heard that there were men in other train cars behind them. Lina and Jonas find their father and he believes they are going to Siberia. Lina and Jonas return to the train

Mark parked the borrowed car. He, Axel and Eva walked half a block to the spaceport’s employee entrance. They remained hidden until a woman in coveralls steered a hover trolley up to the guardhouse. She motioned for him to leave, then took his place. He disappeared before she let the three Terrans in the gate.

The evening before, Kendrick asked Aileana to spend the day with him. He told her he wanted to show her Scotland’s bonnie highland countryside. He wanted to spend the time to get to know her better. She thought that would be a wonderful idea and she would be ready the next morning for their little adventure.

and Charlene was a Priestess. The Library was not just scrolls it was a living powerful force.”

They swung so fast from branch to branch, Jerusho’s gasps and pants disappeared entirely. One of the twins called out every so often to confirm their direction. Janto’s bones ached. With each new grab, a pain spiked from his underarm to his elbow. They wouldn’t be able to keep up this speed. Nap’s breathing was ragged, and he had appeared to be the fittest man in the group. Yet the mysterious person leading them had no problem setting the pace. He even grinned back at them between calls. In the middle of one such stare, he dropped straight down and out of sight.