The Buick And The Driver Analysis

1.) In the twenty-fourth paragraph, after all Donna has been thorough, "she screamed." Donna finally lets loose with this expression of terror, even though she is now relative safe inside the car because she was holding pressure and once she got in her car she probably realized that she could have died. In paragraph 23 it states, "And suddenly it occurred to her that if she had not automatically rolled her window up as she brought the Pinto to a stop...she would now be minus her throat. Her blood would be on the wheel, the dash, the windshield. That one action, so automatic she could not even really remember performing it. She screamed." This tells me that she screamed because she was having a lot of pressure on her when was trying to escape from Cujo and she realized that, that one action saved her life and she could have been dead by now.

In part one of the novel, the narrator looks back in her life and tries to see how she used to be, in order to become who she wants to be. She is on a quest to find her father back in her old hometown, and as she’s there she does not remember any of it. She did not have the best family life because her mother would call her uncivilized and her brother was in the war. She does specifically talk about a childhood memory where her father made her brother stay in a cage, until one day he “escaped” and started drowning, which is always in the back of her mind. A family friend, Paul, tells her that her father is missing and she is relieved because he never forgave her for her divorce, so as long as he is alive she does not want to find him, symbolizing

The book is not linear, the story jumps around and reveals the end earlier in the piece. He writes to engage, to make you want to know what happens in “The Book Thief’s” life. The narrator gives a hint of what is coming, then goes back and replays the situation. This style of narration engages the reader and urges a connection with the protagonist, Liesel. The narrator offers the reader a choice to join him on a

     One of the most important scenes in the story takes place in the vehicle. The grandmother spots an old family graveyard that once belonged to a plantation. She tells the children that the graves

theres a homeless man that live on the streets of DC, he had nothing and no where to go. one day he thought to himself, i want to do better but he didn't know where to start. i had met him on a school event called YSOP and we worked out in Washington DC homeless kitchen. Watching him for the next three days opened my eyes and showed me that if you really want something you have to motivate yourself cause sometime no one will.

The main character, Edie, provides the narration of the story from a first person point of view. She tells her story based on an event from her past. Because she narrates the story the reader is unable to be sure if what she tells of the other characters is completely accurate. Because one does not hear other character's thoughts one could question whether Edie

In the beginning, the grandmother is reading the newspaper where she then learns about the Misfit who escaped prison. The grandmother says, “I wouldn’t take my children in any direction with a criminal like that aloose in it. I couldn’t answer to my conscious if it did” (O’Connor 485). This quote foreshadows as the accident happened with her guidance on the road it is what led them to steer off the main road. They were on and into the arms of who they call the Misfit and his

With no regard for the law or to the dangers involved, Dillard describes throwing snowballs at moving cars as a source of entertainment. Unexpectedly one drivers of a black Buick, darts out towards her after having been hit. This chase proceeds over hilltops and through

(1) The story is being told in relation to the kidnapping in the beginning of the story in South Alabama. I know this because in the story in paragraph one sentence two it states " We were down South, in Alabama--Bill Driscoll and myself-when this kidnapping idea struck us". When I read this I realized it meant that they planned to kidnap someone.

Towards the end of chapter 15, when the angry mob comes to the jail to harm Tom Robinson, Scout and Jem happen to be there. Scout, being a child, doesn't understand the full extent of the dangerous situation. In her innocence, she recognizes Mr. Cunningham as one of the men there, and asks innocently, "Hey Mr. Cunningham. How's your entailment gettin' along?... I go to school with Walter...and he does right well.

It looks like the author’s purpose of this story is to make readers think and decide on their own what really happened to that woman.

In the short story “The Red Convertible” you will find some important elements that are integral to the support and development of the theme brotherhood. First, you will see how the road trip gives a lesson in the story. Second, you will discover how the war affected the relationship of Lyman and Henry. Finally, you will understand the symbolism of the red convertible and the link it has between both brothers. One important element that has a powerful lesson in the story is the road trip. While Lyman and Henry went on a drive one afternoon, they met a girl named Susy in the middle of the road. Susy had her hair in buns around her ears and was very short. They let her jump in the car and

Two more pertinent points are made by the author, in regards to the grandmother, follow in quick succession; both allude to further yet-to-be seen gloom within the story. O’Connor writes of the grandmother “[s]he didn’t intend for the cat to be left alone in the house for three days because he would miss her too much and she was afraid he might brush against one of the gas burners and accidentally asphyxiate himself” (1043) and of the way she is dressed “[i]n case of an accident, anyone seeing her dead on the highway would know at once that she was a lady” (1043). These two observations are innocent enough on the surface but provide true intent on the foreshadowing that O’Connor uses throughout the story. It is these two devices, irony and foreshadowing, that I feel are prominent and important aspects of the story and are evidenced in my quest to decipher this story.

There are three types of drivers in this world: competent, overcautious, and reckless. After driving for many years in frustrating rush hour traffic, one might find there are three types of drivers, competent drivers who keep the flow going, over cautious drivers who cause slow and backed up traffic, and reckless drivers who weave in and out of traffic causing one near death experience after another. Trying to sort out what type of driver a person might be is an extremely challenging task. In a person's own mind, they think they are the aggressive type of driver, or the cautious type, but no one will ever admit that they are reckless kind. In most cases they’re too oblivious to these classifications and all other

The last thing he saw was not the windshield shattering, its fragments reflecting shards of light that reminded onlookers of a grotesque, snowy Christmas. It was not the look of terror on his wife’s face as she saw the truck speeding towards them. It was not even the truck itself, a sixteen-wheeled death sentence handed down for an untold crime. The last thing he saw was himself. In the rearview mirror of the convertible ahead of him, his reflection was distant, almost insignificant. And yet that recognition of self still gave him a small sense of stability in a world that he knew would soon lack any such comfort. And then there was black.