The Talking Phone Short Story

Texts can be interpreted in many different ways. Phone Call by Berton Roueche, is a short story drama about a delivery man whose truck breaks down and gets into a bit of trouble. This short story is a good example of how you can find two very different readings in the same story. The dominant reading is that the male is innocent and the woman is just paranoid and overly suspicious. The resistant reading is that the female is innocent and has the right to be suspicious and the male is guilty with the intent to take advantage of her.

Instinctively, Kate reached into her jacket pocket and read the message on her phone, informing her that her phone had only enough battery life to make one call. Immedialtely, Kate knew who that call would go to, she dialed the numbers praying that they would pick up...

Cell phones; also known as thing that the human race revolves around. But how can we blame ourselves? You can do almost anything on your phone, right there in your hand. Most of us wouldn’t last a day without being able to check Instagram or text our friends. You can communicate with anyone anywhere. It’s hard to think about where we would be without them. Most likely, nowhere near where we are today.

Heather starts to bubble over and takes a leap of faith. She jumps in the car with her friend Chit to head west to go find herself and be who she wants to be. In a note she says to her family, “by the time you read this, I will be somewhere on the highway heading to the rocky mountains with Chit. I’ll call when I can. Don’t worry.

5 days after the questioning Maurice’s Mom and Icy come to visit Maurice. His mom wants Maurice to write a letter to his older brother Will, because Will is getting in alot of trouble and she wants Maurice help Will change his ways of being bad. Icy talks to Maurice about school and her grades and about her friends, and wants Maurice to write letters to her every week so they can talk. Later that day a kid named Luis gets in a fight with the one kid who that came from prison and Maurice tried to break the fight up and Mr.Cintron thought that Maurice was fighting but it was actually Luis. Mr.Cintron wouldn’t believe Maurice that he wasn't fighting so Maurice and that one kid went to solitary confinement

Turning off the TV, Andrew grabbed his keys and rushed to the garage, angry for not being more cautious. Driving down the street as fast as he could to get to the cleaners, he said, “I wonder if Margaret has her phone. I will call it,” he said, pushing the buttons, he waited, and said, “Oh, no; it went directly to voice mail. She must have turned it off, but why would she do that?”

I reach over to hit the snooze button on my alarm clock, for what feels like the 100th time tonight, however I’m completely awake now and realize it wasn’t the alarm, it’s my phone. My heart is pounding so hard, because I know it must an emergency, for someone to call me this late. I dialed the number back with my hands trembling, finally I hear this little muffled voice that I didn’t recognize at first then I realize its Jamie. She said, “Please come and get me, I need help” I asked her where she was but she couldn’t even tell me, then the phone went silent.

The kids from the prep school came down and took over-everyone had basically forgotten there was a school on the hill as well-and for some reason, they had stayed up there for a few days. Probably planning their over-the-top interest is what everyone assumed. Sam and his newly found girl best friend that he has had a crush on, investigate the student's intentions, and notice that they all behave weirdly. Sam, being appointed as the head of the fire department for saving the child, goes and does as they tell him, and stays at the station. Not long after him and his friends have been there attempting to cook, night nears and they hear a girl screaming.

Scott overhears Kelly, Julia’s best friend, asking Julia is she finished her book review. The only people that do book reviews is the club that writes the school newspapers. Therefore, Scott decides to join the school newspaper club, so he can try to get closer to Julia, only to learn that Julia was a guest and never actually joined the club. Scott also finds out that Kelly and Julia are planning to join the drama club. By giving Scott another chance to get closer to Julia, he decides to join the drama club. After a horrible performance, Scott joins the stage crew, later to find out that Julia did not even make the cut. After failing twice trying to get closer to Julia, Scott finds out that Julia is running for student council. So again, Scott decided to run too. As usual, Julia does not make student council and Scott does. With piles of homework, a new baby brother on the way, and tons of activities to do Scott is barely getting enough sleep. After learning how hard starting high school was for him, Scott decides to start a survival guide for his upcoming younger brother. Later in the year, a new girl, named Lee, comes to J.P. Zenger High

Paul sees that while the schedules and classes at Tangerine Middle School are the same as at Lake Windsor Middle School, the two schools are very different. At Tangerine Middle School, boys and girls play on the same teams. Theresa proudly tells Paul that last year the soccer team placed second in the county.After school, Theresa introduces Paul to the team coach, Ms. After practice, Paul panics when he spots his mother leaving the school office.But, she tells him that, as she was transporting it, the IEP that he does not want Tangerine Middle School to have disappeared out of his folder somewhere between Lake Windsor Middle School and Tangerine Middle School.The next day,When

“Oh I see where we took a wrong turn,” Kelley sighed with relief, “We have to take a right and then go straight all the way to that bridge.” They began walking, all relieved that they found a way out of the sticky situation that they were in. “I see our mom,” Will announced as they walked up towards their mom. Finally they reached Kelley and Will’s mom, “Why do you all look so nervous and sweaty?” Their mom questioned. All four of them laughed, “Just a bit nervous from the rides,” Makayla stuttered with an uneasy look on her face. Kelley and Will’s mom just looked at them and replied with, “Alright well it’s about 3 o’clock now, we have about four to five hours left before we need to leave so when it is 6:30 come and meet me back here and then we can leave.” Kelley nodded in agreement and laughed, “Yes ma'am.” Several hours passed by and it was now time for these four crazy teens to get going, “I’m so glad we found that map,” Kristin stated as her and Will walked out the exit gate. “Me too, I don’t know what we would of done without that map,” he whispered

As the three of them were about to get on a school bus to avoid a cop car, Connor hears a storked baby crying and feels bad for it so he runs over to see how it is doing, but he got caught by the house owners. The rule of storking is that if you are caught, the baby is yours. Connor takes the baby and Risa is not happy about it. They all get onto the school bus for some high school they do not know. When they arrive at the school, they plan to stay in the girl’s bathroom until lunch then they will sneak out in the commotion.

One day, Melinda tries to run away from Mr. Neck, and she finds a janitor's closet that hasn't been used in a long time. She thinks it's a perfect hiding spot and she also cleans it up after school. Later that day, Melinda went to a pep rally with Heather ,even though she didn’t want to go. Some girls behind her asks if she the one that called that cops at Kyle Rodgers end-of-the-summer party. At dinner one night, Melinda's parents get on Melinda's back about her grade and that she can do better. After Melinda leaves her parents start to fight. Melinda decides to at least try. She starts focusing in science class. Her science teacher, Ms. Keen, is very smart. So is David Petrakis, Melinda's lab partner. Mr. Stetman, Melinda's algebra teacher, is also very smart, but he can't convince the class why they need to know algebra. Heather joins a group, called the Marthas. The Marthas make Heather decorate the teachers lounge for Thanksgiving. Heather convinces Melinda to help her. When Marthas come into the lounge to see what Heather did, they aren't happy to see Melinda. Heather says Melinda is the first person at school to talk to her. Siobhan (one of the Mathas) says, "She's

“I would like to do the same, I just don't want to go home” Katelyn announced

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