Short Story

The car pulls up, a women gets out. She introduces herself as Frau Heinrich, the social worker, she tells Hans and I that the boy died on the train. This angers me, we were told a boy and a girl. I yell at the social worker, Hans says “ Calm my love, no one wanted or intended for the boy to die.” I accept the fact and ask, “Where is the girl?” she is sitting in the car, I say “Out” and she still does not budge. I yell “ What’s wrong with this child?” I swear at a crowd of onlookers that has formed, the crowd eventually dwindles. After several minutes of slowly coaxing the girl, Liesel, out of the car. Hans takes her hand in one hand and her bag in another.

family. As the story progresses they are herded into train cars in a scene of panic and chaos. The train

The fire had blocked off an exit. “Go, run!”, Kalyca screamed. She went up to the coach and grabbed the driver’s shoulder. “Wait”, she ordered. The man obeyed frightfully and she sprinted over to them.

Lionel, who’d ridden ahead for a time, brought his steed closer. “You don’t want your little ones caught up in this mob,” he shouted above the frenzied cheers. “There’s a gathering on the training field, a party, and our wives are there, so I’ve been told.”

train any more, it’s so jammed packed. The train finally stops and everyone is told to get

People don’t often think about the stories of their fellow subway riders, especially not when they’re taking the last train of the night. Usually, people are focused on their destination and their own lives while riding the subway. However, Last Train asks the viewer to leave their own world and listen to the stories of people that are riding this particular last subway train of the night.

Then there were shouts and the pounding of feet, and the socs jumped up and left me lying there, gasping. I lay there and wondered what in the world was happening- people were jumping over me and running by me and I was too dazed to figure it out. (Page 7). This statement represents the external conflict that Pony boy was encountered with.

She took the bicycle and walked it down the sloping road towards the ferry. There was little traffic. At one point she called Yen’s name and then realized how foolish this was. She stopped at the ferry landing and looked out past the dark gates to the boats. No one was there. Again, she called Yen’s name (Bergen

The station is placed “between two lines of rails”  purposely to show her position at the station that places her in-between both hills- forcing her to choose a side. The train station is a focal point between the present and the future time that they have to make their decision before getting on the train. Usually when found in stories, places such as train stations, bus stations, and airports give stories a sense of transition or being in-between experiences. Since the express wasn’t coming for another 40 minutes, the topic of the abortion is brought up. It’s as if the time that they are waiting for the express from Barcelona is the amount of time that the couple has to make their decision. The couple sits at a table in the shade, outside the building while they wait for the express from Barcelona. A bamboo-beaded curtain hangs in the doorway of the bar. Bamboo is hollow, so when you look at it from a certain angle, it is a ring.  This represents the womb as empty if they decide to go through with the abortion.  If there is a string that runs through the bamboo, it makes it seem like the space is filled, much like a pregnant belly would be. On the American and the girl’s luggage, there were “labels on them from all the hotels where they had spent nights”. The luggage can be seen as an outline of their journey that has brought them to

Daniel: The family was forced to leave their home at 5:00 a.m. and head to the civil control station. They were on a train for about a day and a half on the ride to the assembly center. Finally, after the uncomfortable ride the family arrived

two women emerge from the train to meet the gentleman. In all of the commotion

As I approached the train station, the amount of commotion was very minimal, though it was 9:00 at night, nevertheless, a few people were waiting for a special event. One of the first diesel trains of the US will come tonight. The prototype of the diesel train will arrive tonight in 5 minutes. Though the real diesel train will come and give us a ride at 10:00 tomorrow. The train is near the arrival time, so the conductor with the giant scissors is ready to cut the ribbon. Allowing the train to chug in like a gleaming diamond. Majority of the passengers start to get worried, they hear a noise, but they don't know if it is the real train of something else. Then the conductor cuts the ribbon be for saying the train has arrived at last and just

“I fell,” Madge answers through gritted teeth, clutching her calf tightly as she blinks out tears from her eyes as quickly as she can. It was just her luck that she’d fall off the wall like a complete idiot right after being told to quit. Maybe the odds really weren’t in her favor.

Stacy tugged and tugged at her foot but it wouldn’t budge. She began crying; it was the same thing all over again. I ran over to the little rundown shack where you can change the direction of the train and barged through the door. The air inside the shack was filthy and filled with dust. There were so many buttons and levers, I didn’t know what to do. Stacy kept screaming for help and I kept yelling back that I was trying. The sound of the train grew louder and inched closer and closer each second. Out of panic I switched the lever and right when the train was about to hit Stacy, it switched tracks. I ran over to Stacy to see if she was alright.

It was a very short walk, before they were entering a railroad tunnel; Cinder thought as short cuts went it was rather dangerous. “Hey guys, why are we walking into a railroad tunnel what if a train comes?” Cinder had Tazzy tucked under her arm covered by her coat when he popped his head out and explained. “This is not for trains; if you look closely you will see there are no tracks.”