The Adventure of the Empty House

like living in Poppy's house, which is an unhappy place. Eleanor would much rather hang out in her (currently empty) grave, and the gang had better take her there stat—or else. In the middle of the night, Zach, Alice, and Poppy set off to do just that. Inconveniently, though, Eleanor's grave is a few hours away in Ohio, so they have to go through a lot to get there. Along the way, the game these friends have been playing after school seems to unfold into a real-life adventure. They take a super sketchy

her voice was lower than before, barely above a light whisper. West rolls his eyes, pushing the three other boys back into the living room and out of the back screen door that separated the blazing heat of the outdoors from the cool interior of the house. Mother turns back to me, wrinkles in her forehead, as if she were thinking of a way to let me down easily. “Sara,” she began, raising her voice enough for it to be considered a normal volume, “your brother is right.” She takes a breath as if she were

My stomach grumbled as I quietly tiptoed across the freshly mopped wooden floors of my house. Nearly slipping, I gently placed my hand on the cold metal doorknob of my playroom. As I twisted the doorknob a creaking sound of the door pierced the hallway of my house. Surprised by the sound, I quickly closed my eyes, hoping that I hadn’t woken anyone up. I decided it would be best to just throw the door open then take my time and let the squeaking sounds disturb the rest of my family’s sleep. So I did

What do you think of when someone asks you what culture is? Some may say the differences of a nation, social class, color, race and religion. This is Google's version of culture: “the arts and other manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively.” I am a boy of many secrets or personalities and I have a different cultural identity from everyone else, there is no such thing as two individuals having the same cultural identities. Every trait that you have makes up your cultural

discuss the younger boys’ adventure, the narrator describes the house, where his father yells: “From it travels a flat thread of sound, and you feel yourself go empty listening to it.” Everybody has some recollection of this feeling - the feeling when the rollercoaster drops over the tallest peak, when a secret escapes into the world, when a parent uses one’s full name - and the second person point of view incites the fear that the narrator feels. He describes the feeling as empty; when all of the courage

The hero’s journey is a common template of many stories, where a hero goes on an adventure, and returns with clearer vision, awakened, or transformed by new knowledge he or she had not had before. In the dystopian novel, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, set in the 24th century, the main character, Guy Montag, goes on his own hero’s journey to learn of literature that has been long outlawed and burned by firemen, while occupying a job as a fireman himself. In the oppressive society that is his world

under their king Dain. The woods are filled with fewer Goblins, who have either ran away or are scared and in hiding. (p.267) Chapter 18 (The Return Journey) In my prediction, Gandalf will leave Bilbo with one last offer and that for another adventure. Will Gandalf tell Bilbo why he thought he was so important at first? I can reflect on Bilbo’s current mood that he wants to go travel more now then be home, in his little Hobbit hole. Chapter 19 (The last Stage) Solution: Gandalf was not with the

The rest of the ride was smooth and silent, at least on the outside; inside of me I felt like a soda bottle someone had shaken up long enough till it was about to explode. All the resentment I had felt for Patty had came up again on the one hour drive. I couldn’t believe her! She should’ve told me it was a dine and dash. Here I was, driving around, sticking my neck out so she can have her night of fun, and she doesn’t even bother to tell me what we’re doing. I didn’t say any of this to Patty, and

Emily is strong. She is wise. She sits with Natalie at her own house late at night at an impromptu visit with tea ready. She is balancing a half-full teacup on her knees, and right now, Natalie thinks she has all the answers to life and the whole bloody universe in the crook of her lively little mouth. “But you’re such a good person,” Emily is saying, like the word could ever be bent and twisted to apply to her at all. She makes a vague, fluttery gesture with her long fingers and her face is so

Love is not always an easy adventure to take part in. As a result, thousands of poems and sonnets have been written about love bonds that are either praised and happily blessed or love bonds that undergo struggle and pain to cling on to their forbidden love. Gwendolyn Brooks sonnet "A Lovely Love," explores the emotions and thoughts between two lovers who are striving for their natural human right to love while delicately revealing society 's crime in vilifying a couples right to love. Gwendolyn