Short Story: The Main Ideas

Sam escapes her reality and tricks herself into painting this picture of her father to avoid coping with the actuality that he doesn't truly love her.

When Sam got up, he saw that his wife was murdered and the he called on his close friend to come over … and see what happened to her. When Sam’s friend came, Sam told his friend that his wife is dead and then they called police.

Bella goes in while Emma is getting candy from the small stand. Bella sees Sarah and Nathan at the snack stand together. Bella wonders how her best friend could betray her like that, with the guy she liked. Bella stormed away from the movie. Bella ran to the bridge over looking the beach where she goes to when she needs to be alone. While Sarah was chasing after her, Bella tripped and fell into the water.

The same night, Sam went to her school dance with her best friend by her side and also the foreign exchange student her grandparents were hosting. The geek that had a crush on her would not leave her alone the entire night. Due to this fact, Sam decided go to the auto body part of her school and was sitting in a car. She just wanted to be alone because she was her crush Jake and his girlfriend dancing and she was getting upset. As she was sitting the geek came along and they began to talk , as they were talking in the beat up car. He told Sam that Jake was asking about her like and she got really excited. After, the geek told her this Sam started to practice talking to Jake in the hallway but could not find the right words. Later, that night when the dance was over she saw Jake in the coat closet but froze and did not say anything. On the other hand, Jake froze too when he saw her and did not say

The episode starting with Sam hallucinating that he was in bed with Toni. I believe that Sam would rather endure both his feet being burned then lose control of his mind. When he became lucid you could feel his pain and humiliation at giving Toni any answers. Sam looked so relieved to see Dean alive his entire demeanor changed. When Mary appeared you could see Sam’s surprise and wonder.

6). Sam's friends are starting to worry about him. Ordinarily an attentive and engaged man, Sam has become withdrawn and sullen. He has lost weight, is constantly tired, cannot sleep, and hasn't been showing up for church meetings or to go to his son's soccer games. In

Hannah goes and walk up to Owen and tells him that she forgives him. They fist pump, then show is

This scene starts off with Sam conversing with Dana and asks her to teach his younger siblings how to read and write. She then told Sam she needs to get permission from Rufus in order to be able to teach his siblings. Days passes and things were going pretty smooth until an event took place that changes the course of the plan. Rufus decides to sell Sam leaving his sister belligerent toward Dana and calls Dana a whore. She then starts approaching and Dana was now in deep fear of her since she was a field hand and had the strength to give Dana a good beating. Before Sally could lay a hand on Dana, Rufus interferes and orders Sally to continue working. Dana tries convincing Rufus that he was making a vast mistake and he was about to destroy all he had preserves, but Rufus replies by hitting Dana which forces her to stumble backward and fall to the ground. Dana felt betrayed and she walks back to the cookhouse with utter disbelief. When she arrives there, she warms some water and takes it to the attic and was about to attempt a dangerous action. “... washed my knife in anti-septic, and hooked the drawstring of my bag over my shoulder. And in the warm water I cut my wrists.” (239) Dana is not a type of girl that could be predicted easily and almost all her doings her random. She would conquer all barriers that gets in her way to stay

she thinks the more she comes to realize that she had lost her identity along the way. She in

Sam’s name is cleared after Tibbs discovers that Sam could not have been driving two different cars at the same time. Tibbs acts on his instincts and finds the abortionist that Delores was going to. The abortionist tells Tibbs that someone else paid for the abortion; Tibbs pursues Delores outside for more questioning. The killer, who is the man from the diner that refused Tibbs, Henshaw, confronts Tibbs. With impeccable timing, Purdy’s gang shows up and holds Tibbs at gunpoint. Tibbs proves to Purdy that Henshaw got Delores pregnant, not Sam. The tables-turns and Purdy attacks Henshaw, but Henshaw kills Purdy in self-defense. Henshaw confesses to his crime and said he never meant to kill Colbert and only wanted to rob him for money for Delores’ abortion. The story

The fireworks had just ended leaving large smoke clouds in the sky, and the large swarms of people made there way to the front gate. Lauren reached into her pocket and pulled out her phone to check the time. She clicked the lock button on the side a few times before realizing I had died. She sighed heavily knowing she had probably missed Camila’s good night text. Something they had done every night around the same time for the last 4 years.

everything she's found out and asks them to back off. Johnny, Kris and Jules are fighting

Lastly, his family, after hearing the whole story, thought it was sad. Sammy, who understood everything that had happened, did not. In this way he separated himself from his whole family; he thought in such a different way that he could see things in a light that they could not.

Short stories can be bland and boring. As you read some of them, you can feel emotion or just read a boring story about how something changed their life, but these three stories are interesting because they develop horror. These short stories use different elements to create horror. “The Tell-Tale Heart,” “A Rose for Emily,”, and “The Lottery” develop horror/gothic elements.

conflict eventually led into a fight between the two of them while the “school” teen’s