Short Story: The Door Opened

Ally Nickerson is in the 6th grade at her seventh school of her life. Before her new teacher, Ally dreaded school and created clever distractions that sent her to the office instead of doing her school work. Mrs. Hall is taking administrative leave for she is about to give birth to a baby. Her replacement is Mr. Daniels who finds the inner Ally. Instead of sending Ally to the office, Mr. Daniels tries to help her. He finds many different ways to engage her with her disability. For example he invites her to play chess after school with him. Ally finds chess very interesting because she can make her plans all in her head. Ally gets to know two new friends this school year, Kiesha and Albert. Albert has some hidden secrets. He shows up everyday

After breaking Scott heart in Middle school , Hailey stopped hanging around with him and Stiles an gain new friends. On the start of her Junior year a man who know her bites her the night before school starts ;Hailey freaks out about it and tries to forget it, but when the night of the full moon approaches

In the short stories The Lamp At Noon and The Painted Door by Sinclair Ross, the use of setting is a tool to help emphasize the relationships of both marriages in each story as well as helping support the motifs of loneliness and isolation. However, this use of setting is much more effective in The Lamp At Noon as opposed to The Painted Door.

Deej Logan was just like any normal high school girl. She woke up on her first day of school and combed her hair, picked out the “perfect” outfit and headed out the door. What she didn’t know is that after that day nothing would be the same. Nothing that day seemed to be going right. At school drama was swarming all around her, not exactly what she hoped the first day would be like. By the time the last bell of the day rang she was more than happy to get out of that school. She drove home as quickly as she could but as soon as she got home she realized that she had forgotten to pick up her sisters. “Great.” She thought sarcastically as she sat back down in her car and drove off. Just then she pulled out her phone to message one of her friends about her awful day. That one decision changed everything. Before she had a chance to send the message Deej veered off into oncoming traffic and was killed on impact.

One day Carrie was walking down the hallway, they hallway had white walls and white tiled floor with one colorful tiled tile. Alison was walking towards her. When Alison got closer to Carrie she started bullying her by saying very mean and offensive things to her like

Meet Melinda, She's is attending her first day of 9th grade at Merryweather High, And it did not go so well. All her old friends don't talk to her. Other students laugh at her. Rachel says she hates her. Melinda really wants to tell everything to Rachel, but she can’t speak. Melinda calls her English teacher Hairwoman, because she hides behind all her hair. Melinda's doesn’t like her Social Studies teacher, she calls him Mr. Neck. Lunch went pretty bad. She didn't have anybody to sit with because all her old friends are mad at her for what she did, then a guy hits Melinda with food and then she ran out of the lunchroom. Mr. Neck makes Melinda stop, and expects an answer but since she can't speak,she gets in trouble. After that, she had Art

Sinclair Ross wrote the short story “The Painted Door” in 1939 for Queens Quarterly, a magazine, in Canada. Within the short story Ross emphasized the struggles of experienced by those on the 1930’s Post-Depression Canadian prairie. He does this by describing one day where a farmer named John makes the nineteen-mile march across the snow-covered hills to his father’s home, to make sure he is okay before the blizzard. Meanwhile John’s wife Ann is at home with their young neighbor Steven having dinner and playing cards. As the night wares on the two sleeps with one another and John, who has finally made it home, turns back out to face the blizzard and freezes to death. Through this harsh and realistic short story Ross highlights the importance of loyalty, sacrifice, isolation, and aging.

When it came time for the track meet, Chloe was one hundred Percent ready to compete. As she was running, she twisted her ankle, but she didn’t stop. She continued to run until she passed the finish line, running much faster than anyone else, especially Kyana. After everyone was finished, Chloe went over to Kara with a huge smile on her face. Kara, Chloe, and her parents talked about her win the entire walk to Chloe’s house. Chloe was so happy that Kara helped her be ready for the track

Scott overhears Kelly, Julia’s best friend, asking Julia is she finished her book review. The only people that do book reviews is the club that writes the school newspapers. Therefore, Scott decides to join the school newspaper club, so he can try to get closer to Julia, only to learn that Julia was a guest and never actually joined the club. Scott also finds out that Kelly and Julia are planning to join the drama club. By giving Scott another chance to get closer to Julia, he decides to join the drama club. After a horrible performance, Scott joins the stage crew, later to find out that Julia did not even make the cut. After failing twice trying to get closer to Julia, Scott finds out that Julia is running for student council. So again, Scott decided to run too. As usual, Julia does not make student council and Scott does. With piles of homework, a new baby brother on the way, and tons of activities to do Scott is barely getting enough sleep. After learning how hard starting high school was for him, Scott decides to start a survival guide for his upcoming younger brother. Later in the year, a new girl, named Lee, comes to J.P. Zenger High

One night, towards the end of November, three teenagers were out past their town 's curfew. The teenagers knew that if they were caught, they would be in more trouble than they had ever been in before. These three teenagers were the oddest group of friends, Ethan was the goody-two-shoes of the group- always following the rules, he was a skinny kid standing about six feet tall but there was not one ounce of muscle on his body; Jackson was the star of the lacrosse team- he never paid attention to what anyone told him, especially adults, he was only about 5’10”, but built of pure muscle; and then there was Brooke- she did not know much about anything and she did whatever her boyfriend Jackson told her to, she was blonde and strikingly

When Phoebe moved to her new school she made many friends, but she just made one mistake. Her anecdote begins at South Hadley High School. She was 15 years old starting at a new school. Moving from Ireland to Massachusetts must of been hard but she started out great. She made new friends and was enjoyable to most of her classmates. But one day she made the mistake of dating one of the most popular guys. When they started dating she thought people would be

It is Melinda’s first day in high school and she has no friends. She gets on the bus and she sits down by herself. When she gets to school there is an assembly. She goes in the gym and sits on the bleachers.

Amanda got to the hospital and heard the news that Jared, her oldest at 17, had heart failure and needed a transplant. She didn’t even know what to say, she was speechless.

It was a peaceful and normal first hour. Well, at least for the people in it. Everyone was yelling, and the teacher had just given up on trying to stop them, and now was just browsing for a retirement home in Key West. I looked up at Jordan, who was my best and only friend. Her spiked blond hair was never put down, even in the toughest rain. Her tan legs sat on top of her desk, and her pine green eyes scanned the school newspaper.

Amanda Perkins has died, Lila’s cousin and Stephanie’s best friend. As the crowd of black drifted to the open gates of the church to wish her blessings, Lila weeped in a tiny corner, desperately trying to keep her voice low. She didn’t want anyone to hear. Amanda was murdered. Who could have done this to her? Amanda had disappeared about 17 weeks ago. She went out running and never returned home. Lila’s aunt, aunt Allie, had filed a missing persons case but the case was never solved. Uncle Jonathan gave up while Aunt Allie had hope. She always believed that Amanda would return. When Amanda finally did return, she was already dead. Killed by someone who hasn’t been identified yet. Stephanie slumped down the aisle to where she was supposed to sit. That seat was facing the open casket, where her BFF lay.