Short Story : ' The Sparkling Sun Shined Against The Windows Onto The Furniture '

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.

Little by little, children finish their meals and get ready for naptime. The children dump the remainder of their milk in the same sink where they wash their hands. Slowly children go lie down on their own. One of the TSS’s turns off the lights on that side of the room. Kayla puts on a rest time cd and goes to start cleaning up the kitchen. I ask what kind of music is playing but Kayla is not sure. Alyssa gets blankets for any children who need them. Kayla tells her the children only get their blanket if they are settled down. Seeing the children start to fall asleep I get ready to leave. Saying goodbye to Kayla and Alyssa, thanking them for their time.

“How ya doin’?” Topanga asked as she peeked into her daughter’s bedroom. A frown entered her face when she realized Riley had barely packed. “Sweetie, we are leaving tonight. The truck has to be loaded.” Topanga reminded as she grabbed the empty suitcase off the floor and started packing the clothes in Riley’s closet. “I’m not going, Mom.” Riley protested from her bed. “You are going Riley. Moving is apart of showing you the world. Now why don’t you help me pack your room?” Topanga answered. Riley sighed as she removed herself from her bed and started towards her desk. Slowly, she loaded the items from her desk into the box. “Fine, I’ll go, but I am not going to like it.” the usual cheerful Riley huffed.

It was an average day for the Jones family of Rockroad Drive. Laura and Billy Mr. and Mrs. Jones’s two youngest children were playing Soccer outside while their older sister Anna was in her room practicing her gymnastics and writing a new song for her band, The Galactic Wonders, to play at the upcoming school dance. Mr. Jones was downstairs watching the Dallas Cowboys on their flat screen television while Mrs. Jones was outside watching Laura and Billy play Soccer helping keep score when all of a sudden they heard a humongous squeal from Anna’s room. Mr. Jones ran up the steps as fast as he could to only find out that she had fallen off her bed while practicing her back tuck for gymnastics class and had probably broken her arm in

Isabel stopped at the front bike rack to wait for her 2 brothers and 3 other sisters in elementary school. Isabel’s family lived 10 minutes from the school so they always walked to school. Isabel had been waiting 10 minutes when Andrew and Fern finally arrived. Even though Fern wasn’t part of Isabel’s family she walked home with them. Now everybody was accounted for and they could head home hand in hand.

Josh was thankful and appreciative of the woman’s kindness. They slept for a while, being very tired. The lady helped them start off so they would not be hungry and still sleepy. Josh told the woman about his family in Chicago and why he had to go. The old woman allowed them to write to their parents. Josh immediately refused, but he said if Joey wanted to he could. Joey wanted to write a note, he knew he was not leaving Josh because they had to stick together. Sad, the two left the house in the early afternoon. They really liked the lady who fed them well and kept them warm.

In a small town in New Hampshire, Webbs and Gibbses families live in there. In the morning, the mother of each family wakes up their kids, give them breakfast, and dressed them for school. When the children leave, the two mothers start to talk to each other. Emily Webb and George came home from school. George is having a hard time doing his homework. Emily is really good in her class. After a few years, George and Emily are going to get married. George went to see Emily, but Mr. Webb reminded him that he shouldn’t see Emily on that day because they were getting married. When Emily and George were on their way to home, Emily asked George that he is forgets everyone while he is busy playing baseball. Mrs. Webb fears about losing her daughter.

Mary-Kate and Tyler Johnson were coming back from school, one sunny day. Mary-Kate was 14 years old, while, her brother, Tyler, was 17 years old. The Johnson family were Jewish and lived in Berland, Germany, along with other Jewish families. Mary-Kate and her brother,Tyler, were the only children. Their house had two bedrooms, one bathroom, one kitchen, a little kitchen, a living room were there was her father's favorite chair next to the window. Katy was happy with what she had, but her brother, Tyler, not so much. Her father, Bruno Johnson, worked at a Jewish factory. And her mother, Mary Johnson, worked as a

This worker arrived to Brandi’s home at 10:00 am with Jarred and Zoey. Jarred and Zoey walked to the back yard and entered the home through the back door and this worker followed. When the children entered the home they hug their mother and was asked by Brandi if they wanted to eat cereal. The children said yes and Brandi told them she would make it for them soon. While Jarred and Zoey waited for Brandi to make breakfast the family sat and talked for a minute. They talked about serveral things including the game Jarred was playing and they talked about the cats. After a few minutes of interaction Brandi got up and made cereal for the children. In addition to cereal, Brandi also made Jarred bowl of Tortilla Chip.

The father arrived at the library at 4:08 P.M. with food for his children. The children were dropped off at 4:00 P.M. As soon as Yvette spotted her father, she shouted, “Papa, papa” and asked her father to sit next to her at the sofa. They quickly moved into a room to eat and talk. Holding a stack of books, Yvette followed her father. Gabriel asked his father an iPhone but his father declined. Sebastian participated in the conversation about iphone and Android. Yvette, on the other hand, tried to call for her father’s attention while sitting in his lap. Moaning and whining, she called, “papa, papa, look” and flipped the book’s page. After talking to his son, the father read books with Yvette. He invited his children orange juices and

“Dad? Wha-” he was cut off by his father shushing him loudly. In his dad’s right hand, he had held a flashlight. He motioned for his son to follow him. Thomas reluctantly got out of bed, wondering what his father wants this early in the morning. He looked out the window. The night was still dark, with small spots of light from fireflies that were flying around. The two made their way through the old house, avoiding the floorboards that creaked and trying not to make too much noise. They went to wake up Thomas' sister, Nova. When shaken awake, she gave Thomas a confused look. He just shrugged at her, indicating he didn’t know what was going on, either.

It was the last day of school, Kaylee rode the bus home just as she does every other day. When she got home, the key to her house fell out of her hand and into a ditch. She couldn't find it, her brother helped search for the key but it was nowhere to be seen. Their mom wouldn't get off work for another two hours, so they had to sit outside in the hot sun waiting for her. She reached into her backpack to get her phone so she could call her mom. After she realised her phone wasn't in her backpack she decided to go sit under a tree for shade. After sitting under the tree for a while, the sun started to set. Their mom finally got home and they went inside. She told her mom that she had left her phone at school. Since it was summer break she couldn't go back and get it. Her mom told her that she wasn't getting another phone since she left it at school. Kaylee snuck out of the house to go get her friends. Kaylee, Destiny, Alyssa, and Lexi all walked to pinkston.

The bright neon yellow walls of my room glowed as my screen lit up my face. My eyebrows were knitted together in concentration. I heard the front door swing open causing me to break from my focus.“Alana, I’m home and have a surprise.” I wonder what surprise she could be talking about, my birthday isn’t for another 6 months, and she doesn’t plan things for it this early. I swung out of my room and down the steps to find my mom holding 3 giant presents and a grocery bag. I looked around to see piles of flattened boxes laying on the ground in the living room. “No.” I whispered. She wouldn’t, she couldn’t. “No, n-n-no, no, no!” I screamed in defiance, running to the stairs, skipping steps to get away from my mother as fast as I could.

“You got into a car accident,” replied Hailey, “the kids are okay don't worry about them but i'm going too get you out.” Mrs.Karen started to get a pit of doubtness, as if something went wrong it was all her fault. She breathed heavily. Shaked. Then got the strength to make a quick nod okay. As Mrs.Karen tried too calm down, Hailey wrapped her in a blanket that she had found in her car so the

“Watch it Tyrek!”I cry.Tyrek just smiles and runs off.I rub my shin,moaning.Tyrek sprinted back with two popsicles,one cherry which I take,and the other lime,which he keeps. “What?Is little miss June mad?”Tyrek crooned.”Oh shut up will you?” I say,licking my already-melting popsicle. We live right next to each other,so we visit each other by opening the loose wooden panel in the gate and letting ourselves in or out.Right now we're sitting on Tyrek’s porch my pet dog, or our dog, Sprinkles in between us.”So,what are you going to do after school this year?”Tyrek asks. ”Well,I might be joining the newspaper,I mean like,be a writer or something.” Me and Tyrek are now moving from Martin Luther Jr. elementary to Martin Luther Jr. Middle school.Kind of a coincidence if you think about it. “I should have known,” Tyrek says. “What do you mean?”. “I mean,I knew you would have done something as boring as doing stories for the newspaper and whatnot.”. “Really?Then what are you gonna do?” I ask,a smug smile on my face.But it quickly fades away when I see the other June,or Corky,as I like to call her,walking toward us. “Oh hey Tyrek!” she says. “I just wanted to give you an invitation to totally FAB birthday party!”. “Oh hello June!” Corky says,a sooo fake smile on her face. “I would like to invite you to my B-day,but um.. oops!I guess I have no more!” Corky,said twirling her short curls.Notice I’m still using her nickname..ha! “Ok Cor- I mean June.I never wanted to come anyway,” I say a