The Ever Growing Limb

“I told you sweetie, she is in a better place right now. She won’t be coming home.” She looks up at me with tears in her eyes. “That’s not fair! Why would he leave us?” “It wasn’t her fault baby girl,” I say tearing up. “I WANT TO SEE HER NOW!” Amelia starts screaming. “You can’t see her!” I shout back.

Kenan is one of the few people who are willing to see and believe the good things in others. Even if some of them treat him with no respect. For example, Mrs. Reistovski is a neighbor that treats Kenan rudely, she comes to visit Kenan and his wife Amila without a permission and all she does is complain. She complains about every possible thing and blame it on others without admitting her own faults. One day she came to visit and the baby was sleeping. Keenan told Mrs. Reistovski that the baby is sleeping and if it is possible to lower down her voice while she is speaking. Instead, Mrs. Reistovski continued to speak louder than before and the baby woke up screaming. Mrs. Reistovski left the apartment saying, “I hope you’re better with children than you are with plants.”

Every single day his older brother would try to help him to stand on his own. After hours upon hours and days upon days eventually Doodle would stand on his own. One day while their family was eating they had a surprise for them. Being Doodle standing on his own, so they had their family gather around in the living room his older brother brought Doodle in, with his wagon. Their family watched in amazement as Doodle stood up. Doodle’s mother got up ran to him and hugged him. Doodle told their family it was his older

Seeing a person she completely looked up to, showing signs of weakness was too much for her to handle. "My father was a strong man who could whisk a child upon his shoulders and go singing through the house. “How could it be that my father was crying?” The world had lost its boundary lines. My mother, who was small and soft, was now the strength of the family; my father, who was the rock on which the family had been built, was sobbing like the tiniest child” Where did I fit into this broken picture?

The author starts off by recalling his personal experiences with phantom limbs. A young boy had a phantom limb phenomenon. The term phantom limb was first used by Silas Weir Mitchell in 1872. Phantom limb seems to occur because of the images created by the images of the body and makes the person always believe that it is all there even after an amputation. The body is basically trying to make sense of the amputation. It is not actually caused by incorrect neural activity. It is actually more built from the part of the brain that creates the mental image of the body. Turns out on 90 percent of amputee actually have a phantom limb experience. Researchers have tried to treat phantom limb with the mirrors and Virtual Reality.

When joe got back from shopping for new shoes he had left them in the living room floor, that was a big mistake! In Traverse city Joe was getting ready to leave his house he went in the kitchen to get a snack, “but wait” he exclaimed in an agerily tone. Joe looked at his dog disappointed and dropped his cupcake, the dog had chewed up his favorite shoes! Hi mouth dropped and fell to the floor, there was pieces of the shoe all over and it was his brand new shoes.

The phantom limb pain the woman is experiencing is described as a painful condition of the amputated limb after the stump has completely healed. It is a chronic pain that occurs in more than 80% of amputees especially those who suffered pain in the limb before the amputation. Theories suggest that phantom limb pain results from redevelopment or hyperactivity of cut peripheral nerves, scar tissue or neuroma formation in the cut peripheral nerves, spinal cord deafferentation, and alterations in the thalamus and cortex. More so, the CNS integration, which involves reorganization and plastic modifications of the somatosensory cortex, effects the receptors in perceiving the pain of the amputated limb despite of the limb itself being absent. In addition,

Papa and the boy were camped out on the beach and the boy started asking papa questions about his health. The boy first asked “‘Is your leg going to get better?”’ (McCarthy 270) and papa responded ‘“Yes”’ (270). Then the boy asked if he was just saying that to make him feel better and Papa said no. Lastly the boy said “‘it looks like it really hurt”’ and papa said ‘“It’s not that bad”’. Images are shown about the friendly relationship between the boy and papa because the boy is really worried about papa. These quotes represent how much love the boy has for his father because he is concerned about his state of being. Papa used such short answers because he didn't want the conversation about him to drag on, and for the boy to worry about him. The author chose to include this passage to show the love that exists between the boy and papa. The tone of the passage is thoughtfulness because the boy is concerned for his

The shepherd boy went to search his treasure, following his personal legend. He gave six sheep to the old man The king of Salem for the directions of the treasure. The boy learned many lessons in her way to find his treasure. For example, one story of the book was about a tradesman who teach a boy the correct way to find the happiness. The message that the story was trying to teach the shepherd was that he never has to forget where he come from, and what he had before because that is his real happiness. In his way, the boy met a young boy that stole all his money making him do a promise to himself. “I promise that I’ll make my own

She was at her limit. She spent most of her time contemplating on why her son keeps lying to her and what does he gain from it. The mother kept asking herself but she didn’t have the answer. Eventually, she got the courage to tell him that he has to show some respect, but he responded by telling her to kneel down in front of him. The mother was frightened locked herself in her bedroom.

After acquiring the paw, his wife tells him to wish for two hundred pounds, so he did. Nothing happened at first, but the next day they discovered that their son had died, and the people their son worked for gave the Whites two hundred pounds for his work at the shop. Mr. White fainted, and his wife screamed. After burying their son, Mrs. White began to go crazy. She told her husband to wish their son back to life, so he went and got the paw, and made the wish.

“ARGH!” Lucy screamed as she stomped up to her room. “Life is so unfair, girl!” She told her husky, Thorn. Thorn barked in reply. “At least you understand me.” She said as she sat on her bed.

Once upon a time, Goldilocks was running from the bears when she tripped and fell into a hole. When Goldie woke up she was confronted with three furry heads.Goldie put on a friendly smile, which told the Hares Goldie was greeting them.Goldie tried to move but she stumbled because of her hurt foot. Mr.Hare looked at Goldie and held his tiny paw out. Goldie grabbed the tiny furry hand that was held out. When Gildie stood up Mr.Hare noticed that her foot was all red and puffy. The Hares took Goldie into their house and laid her on the couch. A few days later, Goodies foot was not getting any better since she fell. Godie, at that time was getting very impatient, getting bossy and pouty all the time about nothing.The Hare family was getting

“Sorry about that, have a good day,” Amaru told the lady as she was walking away. "Whatever," the women spat. Amaru then dialed someone else to come down and take care of the rest of the people in line. Soon enough one of her co coworkers came down and started on the next customers. “Thank you, I'll be right back,” Amaru said to her coworker Sandrah. Amaru then went to go find rasta, after looking basically throughout the whole store she finally found him. He was in one of the cleaning closets in the back, pacing back and forth. “You okay?” Amaru hesitated, Rasta turned around and gazed at Amaru with teary eyes ‘Amaru that lady was so mean, why would that lady think it's okay to talk to not just me, but anyone in that way?” oh Amaru, that just not right. Rasta said now crying in Amaru Skinny arms. “Amaru, if we are going to start this babysitting business, we need to start it now! I can't take much more of this. He finally said through his tears. Amaru was shocked to hear rasta say this. At one point, That's all Amaru would ever talk about is her future babysitting business, Rasta would just laugh it off. "You're right! I just need you to

I couldn’t let someone, whom I loved dearly, pass on. I felt my heart crumble into pieces, but I knew that if I wanted to be strong, I had to put it back together. I didn’t want to do it, but I had to leave. I had to be strong.