Berton Roueche Phone Call

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STATEMENT OF INTENT I am planning on adapting and transforming the short story Phone Call by Berton Roueché, by writing a prequel that explores a day in Mrs Timothy's life. By doing this, I am hoping to show why Mrs Timothy is so suspicious of the young delivery boy and the way she acted the way she did. I’m going to try to achieve this by showing the readers a news report that caused Mrs Timothy’s views on the younger generation to be one of instant distrust. The short story represents Mrs Timothy as being unnerved by the delivery boy's presence and being paranoid and untrusting. My idea is to show how this was only because of what she saw on the news report and not actually like that all the time, and show how while …show more content…

If she was the one assaulted she would feel safe in her house instead of elsewhere, where others can get to her. "Because the person who attacked her took advantage of her kind nature of helping people. According to the radio report, the young man who attacked her appeared at her door asking for help. She let the man in with no qualms, and while she was elsewhere attending to a phone call, the young man was attempting to steal the woman's' items." Mrs Timothy sat there listening to what her husband was saying and thought about all the strangers she let into the house on a daily bases due to her music lessons and shivered. Reaching over the back of the lounge for the throw rug, she wrapped herself up in it as Mr Timothy continued his story, oblivious to his wifes' thoughts. “Unlucky for the woman, her phone call ended to fast, and she walked in on the offender, who panicked and pushed her out the way so he could escape, but when he pushed her, he pushed her into the cabinets. The impact caused the glassware inside to come down and smash around her, injuring her …show more content…

They both turned their attention back to the screen where the report on the increase in attacks from the younger generation was starting. Over the news, it covered ten different people who each told their own stories about how the younger generation had caused them bodily harm, stole from them, or broke into their homes. Each story portrayed the younger generation as hooligans and violent people, and as Mrs Timothy watched the report, her opinion of generation X grew worse. "I can't believe how these young people are acting towards their elders; our generation would never act that way towards our elder.” Mrs Timothy was appalled by these behaviours and now was worried about the people she let into her house for the first time for lessons, who she had no idea who they were or what their actual intentions were. When Mrs Timothy turned off the light for the night and was laying in bed with her husband, she felt him turn towards her, “Hey, can you do something for me?” Curious about what he wanted she questioned him, "what is

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