Summary Of Lucynell's Short Story An Hour At Home

After a long day of pondering who the murderer was, Officer Darren decided to go out for a drink at the local pub. He saw Mr. Craill across the bar, and watched as he ate a huge meal consisting of a hamburger, fries, beers, steak, and mashed potatoes. It was quite peculiar that Mr. Craill was able to afford such a meal, because he did only have a part time job at a small town burger joint. Several things seemed suspicious that day about Mr. Craill, especially the fact that the gate that separated Craill’s yard from Dorothy’s yard was open along with Craill and Dorothy’s back

The story starts with three main characters Mrs. Crater, Lucynell Crater and Tom Shiftlet. It is the afternoon and Mrs. Crater and Lucynell are watching the sunset whenever Tom Shiftlet walks up their driveway. Tom attempts to start a conversation, but Mrs. Crater seems to be annoyed by him. The reader slowly learns that Lucynell can not talk.

After Lucy was returned, I did everything I could so nobody would touch Isabel. Soon, Ralph, my lawyer and Sergeant Knuckey knew bits and pieces of my story and all wondered “Why are you protecting her (Stedman 264)?” I told Ralph “‘I should have protected her better. Protected her from me (Stedman 264).” ’ One day, Isabel told the truth.

What was going through his head, obviously, was not what she expected. He started to walk out the door without her help and before she knew it, he was gone out of sight. She sat down thinking he was going to come back, but as time went on, she started to feel anxious and scared and called the police after going out looking for him. The police brought him back, not knowing that in the back of the police car, he had passed away.

Diamond was so excited about her new furniture purchase that she could not sleep. She stayed awake all night trying to help her Aunties clean. She told her Auntie Mahogany about the 24-hour grocery store for food. Realizing that no one ate, Mahogany agreed to go grocery shopping and she wanted to locate a place to eat. Ebony agreed the Cascade/Camp Creek area had many nice places to eat that were conveniently located to the house for a quick meal. The following day, Ebony remained at the house to await the delivery of the furniture. Diamond begged to stay home, but she received instructions to go to school and be surprised when she came home. The company delivered the furniture as scheduled. The girls wanted to know what to do with the other items and Ebony requested that they place them in

That night, Bob left his mansion and Joana stayed home. When Bob left a dim, dark figure slipped in and Joana didn't see anyone come into Bob's mansion. She got up to go to the office because she wanted to work on a paper for a case since she was a lawyer. While she was walking to the office she wanted to take a shower before she got to work and because she wanted to go to her comfortable bed after she finished her case. While she was taking her shower she

As Jamie fell in to a deep sleep the murders that are “George and Lisa” quietly sneak out of the house and into the woods to check in on their victims. The murders arrive at the spot of the cellar and open it up to find two very weak people that are desperate for food and water. The murders threw in some food and water so they would survive even thought they were dying to kill them already. The couple knew they had to be quick because Jamie would wake up soon and he would notice that they are not there. The murders quickly hurried home to Jamie and made sure to make breakfast this time.

After Lucy Lurie was viciously raped after 3 men force their way into here farm house, she becomes incredibly distant as if she wants to disconnect from life. When Lurie comes to terms that his daughter was sexually violated and he failed to save her, the pain awakens his emotions and says, " And I did nothing. I did nothing to save you." (Coetzee, pg157) With Lurie's subconscious raging, he begins to feel extremely guilty.

First part of the story billy was looking for a place to stay when he came along the “Bed and breakfast” and decided to stay because it was up his price range, he was the only one staying, and the lady who owned it aka the ‘Landlady’ was so convincing he didn’t believe she could possibly hurt anything or anyone. The text says “She was about forty-five or fifty years old, and the moment she saw him, she gave him a warm, welcoming smile.” “She seemed terribly nice.” This quote is telling the readers that Billy believed she is/was nice and welcoming and when billy said “she seemed terribly nice” you can tell that she is very convincing. The second paragraph will be about the Landlady and what/how she could say something in a way to make everyone

Elle’s mother sleeps in much later now with father’s gradual absence. The day was still young, fresh like the dew on the ground, and Elle figured she still had some time to leave the house. She opened her bedroom window, struggled a bit to lift her tiny legs over and out the window, but she managed. She walked to the bus stop and got on the bus

Tossing and turning the whole night through, Louise had slept very little, while trying to forget her awful experience with Mr. Cassidy. “How could they declare his house a historical landmark? It doesn’t make any sense,” he whined, remembering how he angry she was when she left him at the garage. Now she had some errands to do before her important luncheon with the new mayor’s wife and she needed to control her emotions. While driving down the street, she was concentrating on how her diamond ring sparkled in the bright sunshine and not on her driving. As she drove by the city park, she never saw the ball bouncing across the grass neither the boy and the dog chasing it until they were already in the street. Looking up, she slammed her brakes,

Time passed. The townsmen took a few steps to the sea. He was not scared, or upset. Considering. He was sent to kill her. But a short night together, he got too close. He had witnessed. That was enough. A story only one would be lucky enough to tell personally.

When Dickon brought the tools he said, “The garden is in bad shape.” Ben Weatherstaff started to see that Mary is starting to be nicer and friendlier to other people. Dickon was a boy who can talk to animals. The garden needs to be tended so Dickon and Mary are going to help take care of the garden. At night Mary heard loud disturbing crying in the hallway. She walked down the hallway and opened the door to the room. In the room she saw a boy named Colin in his bed crying about his lump on his spine.

Satisfied with the tree he chose Hudson set a bunny trap and baited it with a small apple slice. This process went on for some time going tree to tree till little Elliot, whose legs no longer wanted to walk, started to whine and complain nonstop. After Lori and Hudson could no longer take the seven year old's complaints they walked back to town. Unhappy that they only set eight traps they planned to go back the following day. When they got back into town they went straight to Lori and Elliot’s house. Since her aunts inn was close to her home and they were hungry for lunch after the little forest trip, they all headed to the inn. It was a short walk and now in front of the inn Lori admired it. the way the wooden sign that had “Aunt K’s Inn” with a light pink paint surrounding the name of the inn. Once in the building Lori and Elliot followed by Hudson all walked up to the front desk and rang the small gold colored bell that made a cute ding sound. When Lori’s mother walked out she had a small smile on her face seeing her two only children. After seeing his mother Elliot complained that he was hungry followed by Lori and a agreeing Hudson. Knowing that she wouldn't be home till late at night she went to make them all lunch so they won't be starving by

You could tell that someone had already touched her because she had fingerprints on her beautiful face, and the laces from her shoes were taken out. There were open wounds on the bottom half of her body that were made by the hungry vultures. The smell of her corpse was so pungent that it would make anyone want to vomit; the smell reminded him of rotten eggs, roadkill, and sewer water. The blood that she was laying in had turned into a dark red that had hardened over a long period of time. He couldn 't look for too long because all the thought about death started to come back into his mind again. Wanting to escape the horrible thought, he ran like a cheetah released to the wild.