What Really Happened To Abram's Sacrifice?

After meeting her husband, LJ, Arline’s delicious cooking prompted her husband to suggest that they deliver the food to the shut-in in the community. This act was much appreciated by those who would not have received a home cook meal. Soon after her wares were well sought after. Many requested her to prepare

When Henry gets home and starts dressing for dinner Elisa nervously waits on the porch for a reaction on her appearance from her passionless husband. “She looked toward the river road where the willow-line was still yellow with frosted leaves so that under the high grey fog they seemed a thin band of

Opening her heart, Charity listened with her soul’s ears. One of the singing voices, rose mournfully above all the others. And as she listened, she heard her say, "All the memories I have, they are beautiful within my mind, but they do not feed this hunger, deep inside my soul. "

Inside the county jail, the officers looked at me with disgust and distrust. Then proceeded to tell me that “the colored entrance is in the back”. So I exited the jail, my face burning in embarrassment. I don’t know what I had expected. Walking around the jail, I came to the colored entrance where I was greeted kindly by the elderly African-American man who let me inside, and lead me to where Rosa was being held. He let me inside her cell, and I took my place in the chair across from her at the small and dingy table.

For many years of her childhood, she was constantly teased and abused because she was different. Even through the abuse, Jodee always stayed kind and caring. One person she helped was her high school friend Noreen. Jodee befriended the lonely girl in her speech class, later she learned how much it helped Noreen. Noreen, just like Jodee, was constantly harassed for being different, leading her to have no friends at the high school. Jodee gave Noreen someone to share her pain with, and gave her someone she could trust in. Another person Jodee helped was Marianne. Jodee helped her by working with the deaf children at Holy Ascension, treating Marianne like the little sister she never had. She was an outcast from regular children and the deaf children as well. This was due to the fact that even compared to the deaf kids she was different, and they couldn't understand her.”... A small bungalow, though the home was in need of repair, the yard was well tended” (Blanco 27)This made what Jodee did even more important,because Marianne wasn’t exactly the most wealthy, so she had a life just as bad at home as at school, meaning so much more to have Jodee act as her big sister.. Jodee also helped Rodger, a special ed student in her high school. She worked on a prom for the special ed kids since they were not invited to the regular prom for their school. He was able to feel like he was just a regular student for one night of his life. She

Vivian longed to have a personal conversation with anyone. Susie took seven minutes out of her day to have a popsicle and chat with Vivian. Seven minutes is all it took; it would not hurt anybody to take a couple minutes and have a conversation with an individual in need. The discussion that Susie had with Vivian soothed her of her uncertainty of her fate. “...Now is the time for simplicity…” the simple act of kindness plays a compelling role throughout the suffering that Vivian

In this part of the story, a mother, father, and soon-to-be-born baby is living in her school, taking refuge from the scary Dust Storm going on outside. The kids house them happily, give the man work, until one day the mother is giving birth, and Billie Jo is the first to arrive besides the teacher, she feels it her job to block the doorway to keep the kids out. She has many thoughts during this. “I keep the kids out and listen behind me, praying for the sound of a baby, crying out into this world, and not the silence my brother brought with him.” It shows that even though this terrible accident has happened to her family, she hopes and prays and hopes that it doesn’t happen to anyone else. Another act of kindness happens later in the story when she runs away from her house, despite her father having the need to stay, “like a weed, he has planted his roots here, but I’m no weed,” she runs away to start over. On the train to the next city over, she sneaks into a boxcar meeting a strange man. “I feed him two of the stale biscuits I’ve been hoarding and save the rest. I’ll be hungry tonight, with giving away my day’s biscuits away. But I can see the gaunt of hunger in his cheeks, and I think he needs it more than I do.” Despite being broken by the loss of her father, she still gives away her food, in spite of the

Lucy expresses the turmoil inside of her, describing the drastic differences between them stating “But nothing could change the fact where she saw beautiful flowers I saw sorrow and bitterness” (28). When upon the train with Mariah and the children, the narrator says “The other people sitting down to eat dinner all looked like Mariah’s relatives; the people waiting on them all looked like mine” (30). In describing this scene, the narrator shows the line drawn between her and her employer that she constantly is seen as an outsider, simply a “visitor” in their eyes, and although they may be welcoming, she will always have a different place them then in this world. The author is using setting to help bring these notions and themes to life, the usage of the flowers, snow and train ride also help set the scene of segregation.

Susan Hill encourages the reader to feel sadness for The Woman when we learn about the circumstances of her death. She makes us pity The Woman because ‘she died in hatred and misery’ and she also died alone and isolated. Not one person loved, cared or even liked her. Hill makes us sympathise with her as no one would like to die knowing that no one cherished them, and that no one would miss them.

While in the elevator the narrator says, “ He remained tense in the trembling little box, his eyes fixed on the numbers over the door that blinked on and off so haltingly, as if at any moment they might simply give up. Sometimes he forced myself to look away from them, to the emergency stop button or the red alarm

Gentle laying her hand to rest on the drivers arm, she asks him to put down the gun. Reluctantly he did not, approaching Abram to look if the odor of liquor is present, and upon doing so, he inquired about the man’s condition and her guard. Insuring Viola is in no danger, the driver sat in his cab while the two of them began their chat sitting upon the freezing stairway! As his heart split open, spitting out the trails and tabulation’s of months got by. Tears ran slowly down his cheeks, laying to rest on Viola’s hand held so tight within Abrams. A few tears were put out within the Viola's heart, not to make a show of them, “strength is important”, reminding herself throughout Abrams

The movie then fast forwards to a stormy night when Babette, a French refugee, came to them for help. A good friend of hers and former acquaintance of theirs, Achille Papin, recommended the sisters to Babette. Papin knew the kindness of the two and knew they would take a stranger into their home, especially a stranger in need of shelter and love. In France, Babette had been a world class chef. She loved to cook, it was her passion. When she began to work for the sisters (for free) she no longer was able to cook gourmet meals. She was only given a budget to prepare dried cod and ale-bread, the staple diet for those who lived in Jutland. Even though she could only prepare simple, cheap, and rather unpalatable dishes, she still put her heart and soul into each dish. Her love of food was apparent if you watched her cook, she took time to add spices which she picked herself or had specially ordered to the corner store to add to the normally bland dishes and made them her own. The differences in the food was apparent when Babette was unable to cook the soup for one of the elderly followers, so the sisters prepared the dish instead. The was an obvious look of disappointment on that man when he looked into the dish and realized it was not Babette who had made it. Her presence with

Susie is the narrator of the story. She has been raped and murdered and feels enormous pain, even in heaven, for what has happened to her. However, she also presents careful connections about herself, family and friends. In these, we see her great love and compassion for those she misses dreadfully. We must not forget that she is also a character who must be examined for her own grief: Susie

Everybody goes through a traumatic experience in their life be it small or big, but this experience shapes who you become. In A Mercy by Toni Morrison, we follow a series of narratives from first person to third person. These narratives help us get a better understanding of life back in Virginia during the late sixteenth hundreds. Through Florens and sorrow we experience tragedy and an understanding of the different effects it has on people. Morrison illustrates how one can either grow stronger or weaker because of tragedy through characters like Florens or Sorrow.

Deep in her own mind, she considered how much it might hurt her to try and wrest the perfect chair from the ground and hurl it at the perfect walls. For a brief moment, she dreamed of it. The wall would shatter into a thousand pieces, armed guards would come streaming down the left hallway—for that was the direction they brought her from—and none of them would dare harm her. She was a Bellus and what were they, except Labor? She pitied Labor. It didn’t do for a Bellus to think on the heaping amounts of food Labor got—the seasoned stews, the rich chocolates, the buttered breads, or the creamy cheeses—so she pitied them and continued to dream. Her thoughts turned to how she would walk over ruined wall and glass and back out onto the teetering city walks without a single care in this or any other world. Her sister would