Summary Of Amy Gumm : A Short Story : The Story Of The Story

Dorothy and her friends finally got to Emerald City. They finally got to see the Wiz and he told them that he would not grant any of their wishes unless she killed the wicked witch of the West. Dorothy and all of her friends were really disappointed. Eventually, Dorothy and her friends went to see the wicked witch of the West and the witch was very mean to them. The witch really wanted Dorothy’s slippers but she refused to give them to her. Dorothy is starting to get discouraged because the witch seemed to be more powerful than she was.

Trista had always been a normal kid except for her stories. It wasn't that they were disturbing or horrific, they were just unusual. Sometimes they seemed exactly like the kind of thing you'd expect from a kid, but other times, I'd have to look at her and wonder how she came up with such things. It started when she was four, shortly after our dad split, leaving the two of us on our own.

Dorothy Allison's voice is one of authenticity, experience, and wisdom. This is apparent in her recounts of her mother's death and rape by her abusive stepfather as a child. She uses her storytelling as a way of sorting out her inner demons and memories of her broken life, “the [story] I wish I could make you hear,” as she says, because “the need to tell [her] story was terrible and persistent, and [she] needed to say it bluntly and cruelly, to use all those words, those old awful tearing words” (39, 42). She strives to get to the root of her own unresolved issues and, by her own admission, “[works] to make you believe [her]”:

Jane and I grew up in grade school together. She was in the class ahead of me, but her and I were still friends. My father was into politics and involved himself in whatever he could with Jane's dad. Since our fathers were away quite often, we would spend a lot of time together. Since Jane didn't have a mother, my mother would often include Jane in whatever my sisters and I were doing. We would have great talks together talking about what we wanted to do when we grew up. Even though neither one of us knew what we wanted to do, Jane was someone that always had the biggest heart for helping people. She was always talking about the stories her father told her about President Lincoln, and even though she didn't know how, she knew she wanted to be someone to make change like he did.

One of my nicest friends when I moved from Azores, Portugal to Minot, North Dakota in 2005 was Nicole Hamm. Nicole and I met at the CDC in Minot Air Force Base, in September of 2005. Ever since we met each other we have became unseperatable, until she moved to Florida in the summer of 2015 but we still talk. When we first met she was kind, and caring. There was never a day where she didn't make me laugh so hard that I was crying. When I first met her, we played 20 questions. My first question was what is your favorite color? Yet, her answer was neon purple ( not purple it had to be neon purple). As we kept playing I found that she likes to play Legos, and Minecraft with her younger brother and that she loves to watch Monster High and My

Seeing the girl's acting to prevent harm mark and her silvershoes, the witch instantly understands that Dorothy is super powerful. But She also sees that Dorothy doesn't know her own power, so she captures into slavery the girl and sticks the Lion out in the front yard to starve. Nice. Many weeks or maybe months pass until, one day, Dorothy can't take it anymore. She throws a bucket of water at the Evil Witch, and the witch melts in a very dramatic fashion. Then the Winkies (who Dorothy frees, of course) repair the (human-size doll to keep birds away/very skinny person) and the Tin Woodman goodas new so they can all go back to the Emerald City and claim their

The Lion mentions "Melted! Well that is good news, indeed, "said the man "who melted her?" "It was Dorothy" said the Lion gravely."(100). On her quest back home Dorothy learns about life 's trials and successfully completes her task, while maturing and finding her new self-confidence and understanding as she passes test after test. We can connect to this hero archetype because in our lives we have come across an individual who has helped or saved us from a difficult situation or problem. The devil figure in the novel was portrayed by the Wicked Witch of the West, she is shown as the most evil and conniving character in the novel. She threatens to kill Toto and Destroy Dorothy and her friends in order to obtain the silver shoes. This archetype connects to our life because everyone has an individual in their life who causes some trouble or problems in our life. Scott Francis points out that "Archetypes force us to delve deeper into them, characters to see them as not just character I or Librarian but as a type of person who responds in very specific ways to the conflict within your story". All the archetypes affect the storyline in minor or major ways, such as the devil figure, without that figure in the plot, Dorothy would have never been able to develop as a character.

It wasn't until Ashley pointed out a light down the road did we start to notice the sound of barking. I was so nervous that it was a guard dog to notice Abby escaping my grip. She was running to the light, hollering at the top of her lungs, 'puppy'.

“How did conflict change Amy?” is a good question. Conflicts have changed Amy in many different ways. Whether it was bad, or for the greater good, she did change a lot. Sometimes, others did not accept Amy’s changes. Throughout In The After are many examples of how these conflicts have occurred and how they affected Amy.

In my life there have been many times where I have been taught important lessons or supported by others, but my most prominent memory is from sixth grade choir. In this moment in time, Mrs. Symans taught me a very important life lesson about attitude and hard work. I initially did not appreciate this because it upset me, but as I continue to progress through school and life, I’ve realized how much this particular memory, along with the help from others, has helped me over the years.

Amy sits in the driver's seat of the car. According to her father two o'clock on a Sunday is the best time to drive. It's 'too late for brunch and too early for barbeques'. Her hands grip the steering wheel tightly.

I hear the doorbell ring, but I don’t leave the room and assume Amy rung it in an attempt to make me leave. I hear her talking, but I don’t budge. I look down at her book and I still wonder how she reads so much when they look so boring. I hear her yell my name, but I know she’s trying to trick me into leaving. She tries calling for my help again, but it still won’t work.

“She spends what little time you let her be in the house with him. When you kick her out, she walks to the office and spends the day sitting at my desk. What do you propose we do then, Alice? She is still your daughter.”

On her journey, she met a scarecrow who wishes to have brains, a Tin Woodman who ask to have a heart and a cowardly Lion whom admitted that he has no courage and wanted to ask the Oz. They have encountered several obstacles one of those is when they were saved by a thousands of mice.

As Tan continues with her story, she expresses the hardships that she and her mother went through when she was younger as well as when she was in college herself. She explains how her mother was often not seen the same by other people because of her language barrier. “did not take her seriously, did not give her good services, pretended not to understand her, or even acted as if they did not hear her” (Tan, 2006, P.3). This was Tan’s personal experience of her mother being shunned and avoided for not speaking the right kind of English. Later Tan would experience the same type of treatment from her employer attempting to steer her away from her career in writing. She writes “I started writing nonfiction as a freelancer the week after I was told