Talia Pocket Watch

I felt lost and unable to express myself to others. Just like Ricky, I closed myself off from everyone around me. I wanted to be alone. After her death, I began to wonder: How could this be possible? Why do bad things happen to good people? Why? Similar to Ricky, I tried to make sense of her death. Andrea and Julio were so young, so naive, and full of life. They had a great amount of life yet to live. However, one day I tried to view the situation differently. Andrea was fearless, like Julio. She “dared to disturb the universe” as the novel quotes. She had lived every moment to the fullest –and I began to take comfort in

 Upon arriving at his house he quickly learns the ropes of his father’s way of handling things. Tre’ was not there for five minutes and his father had him raking up the leaves in the front yard. Later on that night his father fills him in on the other rules of the house. This showed me that there was a good discipline in the house. That type of discipline helped Tre’ out in the long run and changed his life for the better.

Stepping out of the car I analyzed the environment around me. A gust of fresh air flowed swiftly through my hair and caressed my face. The temperature outside was mildly warm and humid. Rays of sunshine blazed down upon me and begun to heat up my black t-shirt. The black and rough asphalt crumbled beneath my feet as I walked. I could tell that it was recently paved because of how smooth it was when I slid my shoe across it. Sweat collected on both of my palms because of the anxiety I gathered prior to my visit. Everything on my body seemed heavier at the time. The necklace dangling around my neck. My phone and wallet that rested in my pockets. It was the result of all of the built up tension within me. I had no idea what to expect.

“Is she, they dont answer such questions don't volunteer information, not over the phone. The next 10 seconds were thundurus cataclyning my wife standing there numly with the phone in her hand as is fi were some unidentified object she'd found in the street” (the Chicxulub, page 3) This shows how the mom is shocked and dismayed to find her daughter was in and auto accident. So this is an event is someone's life that had invoked a change in emotion because the character expression showed panic or being astonished that this happened. There for, this event shows how the thought of losing her daughter frightened her. It unearthed her whole world. This shows that the thought of losing someone you love can change everything for

I had been crying since I woke up that day and I was still crying. My sobs had droned on in the background as this stranger touched and sifted and opened each tiny piece of my life. As I watched her, I thought about how private my backpack and its contents always seemed. They were mine, They were to be kept or revealed as I saw fit. But now, I was in the

They both adored their father. Sammy was not sure entirely why because in his eyes he was a failure, but he hoped that when they grow up they will not make the same mistakes in life that he did. Anna was a curious as they come. She came home from school everyday with some new fact that she learned or a new book that her teacher gave her to read. Sammy loved listening to his daughter tell about her day and all of the new things she had learned, and he felt that he learned something new from her every time they talked. Noah was always happy and he got that from his mother. Even at six years old he was always positive. He gave his father encouragement at the end of the long days by simply asking his father how his day was and telling him that everything would be okay. It pained Sammy to know that his children both knew what was going on with the family’s financial situation, but how could they not know? After all, their mother just got laid off and they hadn’t gotten a new shirt or a new toy in months because of every penny going to pay for food and their

Her eyes worked fastidiously, from the top of their heads to the tips of their toes and then back up. Some of the young men caused her index finger to minutely flick to the left and others caused it to minutely flick to the right. This is how her father died.

She'd reacted as hoped, and when her second hand lay over his, he felt the compassion and sympathy in that touch. "Thank you, Mirella." He'd whispered, with lips trembling, before he managed to shake off the memories of his lost beloved, and continued. Pickett's gaze didn't leave the young woman's for a second, and neither did his brain stop ticking. The man was curious to see her reaction to his revelation, expecting it to be dramatic, and he wasn't in the least

World’s held their breath as one single tear rolled down the cheek of a broken queen. Not a sound was uttered as the breath was released and Penelope wiped her cheeks clean of any sign that she had been mourning as she slid out from between the blankets. She crept through her house, though it could have been a stranger’s without her lord to make it a home. As she stepped onto the soft grass a warm wind whispered in her ears.

Mrs. Honor recorded outside of the door way for roughly five minutes. As she recorded, the infant continued to cry. Mrs. Honor thought to herself, “this

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.

The alarm clock blares on the tattered brown nightstand next to the bed. It is the only part of Casey Barclay’s day that is predictable. She opens her eyes and groans at the thought of what the day will hold. She hears her twins, Alexander and Abigail in the next room. They are eight, and already fighting over whose turn it is to hold the IPad, even though it’s only 6 a.m. She reaches over and turns the alarm clock off, her diamond engagement ring catches her eye as it does a little dance, sparkling in the sunlight. It is the most expensive thing in all of her house. It is also only the second thing that has given her hope in the nine years since the factory left, and it’s hard to have that after her last marriage failed so miserably. She

When Mrs Loisel realises she has lost the piece of jewellery, she panics and looks for it, unfortunately nowhere to be found. Slightly afterward, she experiences the first stages of loss: denial and isolation. Readers, who have lost maybe a person or something dear to them, can relate to this and understand how she is feeling. The impact is so strong that she sits, we can imagine, immobile, on a chair with ‘her mind a blank’. She sits with no thoughts, as if her brain was an empty slate or nude piece of paper.

The preacher leaves the front of the church and waves her forward. She rubs her sweaty palms together. She takes two deep breaths, putting her left foot out in front of her followed by the right. She begins walking towards the lone, dark wood casket. Her best friend lied beneath the closed doors. She makes her way to the front and faces the crowd clothed in mourning clothes. She glances around the crowd, noticing the red eyes and used tissues.

Lorenzo took his eyes off the road to look at Cassy. She looked beautiful, in her designer dress. The diamond necklace that she was wearing seemed quite expensive. He didn’t know much about her, but he was sure of one thing that she wasn’t short on money. He drove for a while without saying a word, at the other hand; Cassy wanted him to say something to take her mind off of things that she was thinking about. She was thinking about Ty; no matter how hard she endeavored to forget him, but he was lurking somewhere in her consciousness, ready to attack her mentally when she was most vulnerable. Whenever