(Waiting For) The Ghost Train

of the mind like juice, forcing the writer to turn to some desperate plucking and hair-tearing. The worst thing is the prelim sticky mindedness about yourself and things you’ll need to do or be. Trivialities get more talkative. I gloss through the ghosts of Tinder dates past, like Gabriel, who humidified my room with boar sweat and skin, watermarks at 6am. Or Irene, who I bet still likes me. I forgot to clean the bathroom. I wonder what’s

them about my mother? I don’t know anything. She was my mother” (40). Despite years of having Suyuan as a mother, June feels as if she never really knew anything about her. Each daughter in The Joy Luck Club experiences these same feelings. In the midst of her divorce, Rose Hsu Jordan does not ever speak up for herself. Her mother, An-mei, learned the importance of speaking up for herself. An-mei learned this lesson after her mother’s death because, “on that day (An-mei) learned to shout” (Tan

how the smallest things can hurt you the most. A word, question, statement, action, even if you don’t even know about the fact the what you are saying can hurt a person. Everything that I have never thought was bothering me came back like a bullet train, even the many uncomfortable situations I have hidden behind a joke. On my way back home Ifemelu came back to my mind, maybe I should talk to my cousin about it? She has gone through something like this before, but as I was reaching for my phone in

“Come home, Charlotte. I’ll be here waiting.” Spinning on her heel, Charlie marched back over to the man, dragging a chair out. “What did my father mean ‘the threat’s been eliminated?’” “California was behind the assassination attempts. All of them. There was a whole unit living in the city

1. Everyone on the island begins to lose their minds once people begin to die. For example, General McArthur begins to speak to Vera about, “waiting for the end” (pg. 81) and, “No one is leaving the island” (pg. 82) once Anthony Marston and Mrs. Rogers die. He is coping with the terror by trying not to care, and thinking about his dead wife Leslie. However, he is finally killed when sitting alone, watching the waves. His death causes even more chaos and terror among the remaining seven. Dr. Armstrong

“Unfortunately, I’ve already paid Bane for the stone. But if you tell me where it is,” he studied the drapes, “I’ll tear up your aunt’s mortgage note and guarantee you that the ghost will be gone before you get home. Then everything will be just as it was before. Perfect.” I blinked. “How could you know about the ghost unless—?” “I have a crystal ball in my bedroom that enables me to gain mystical insight.” He giggled. “I can see the past, understand the present, and foretell the future.” I

GCSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE UNIT 3: DESCRIPTIVE WRITING The Descriptive Writing task in Unit 3 is worth 7.5% of the subject award and is marked out of 20. The mark given for each of the examples provided is supported by comments related to the criteria given in the specification for (i) Content & Organisation; (ii) Sentence Structure, Punctuation & Spelling. A notional grade is indicated in each case, based on the way that the same mark scale for Writing has been used in the past, and consistent with

animal-like qualities and mental inferiority when compared to whites. In addition, both novels took liberties in fictionalizing aspects of their narratives – the presence of a real underground railroad in The Underground Railroad vs. the appearance of the ghost of Sethe’s dead daughter, Beloved, in Beloved. (2) Perhaps the most effective and dramatic aspect of The Underground Railroad was Mr. Whitehead’s decision to present characters with little or no background information and then detail that information

Compare and contrast how Wilfred Owen and Isobel Thrilling portray the horror, suffering and inevitable disillusionment of war in their respective poems. The two poets that I am going to compare and contrast in this essay both write from a different perspective of the war. They are writing about different poems, Owen writes about the 1st world war and Thrilling the 2nd. Both poets are in a different setting when they write these poems, Thrilling is back at home whereas Owen is in the middle

founder of the local industrial plant and its first general manager. All Paul's career is before him, waiting for him. He is a candidate for a better job, and he might grow up in the hierarchy of the American industry to be offered the seat of general manager of the state industrial division. His wife Anita relies on him and she still keeps telling him to be a correct son of his father. She trains him in the hierarchy rules and opportunism. He feels he should follow his father's tracks, but he is