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The plot tells of a young boy named Phillip and an old black man named Timothy. Phillip and his mom are on a boat to the United States. Their family has always looked down on black people. Then during the night there was a rumble a Phillip fell of his bunk. A German sub-marine hit their boat. They got up put on their close and life jackets and got in the lifeboat.
Then while the life boat was being launched it tipped and everyone fell in the water. Phillip was swimming frantically for his mother but before he knew it he was knocked unconscious by something big. When he woke up he was in a life boat with a old, ugly, black-skinned man. The man said that he got knocked on the head really bad and he was happy to see that he was awake.
The sun was really hot so the black man told him to give him his close so he did. Then the man tore some wood from the boat and made a shelter with the close. Phillip said wear are w wears my mom but the man said she’s not here but she’s probably in a different life boat. Phillip was really thirsty so the man opened a hatch in the boat and took some water out of a keg. He only gave Phillip a half a cup so Phillip asked for more. The man said they must spare as much water as possible.
It was almost dark when the man said maybe some flying fish will jump in our boat for us to eat. Phillip didn’t like the idea of eating raw fish but he was hungry. The next day Phillip woke up and his eyes were blurry he hey there’s something wrong with my eyes. So the man took a wet towel and put it on his head it started to get better. Then Phillip fell back asleep and when he woke up it was dark. Phillip screamed what time is it the man said ten then Phillip its nighttime right the man laughed no its morning. Phillip screamed I’m blind the man was shocked he said here look at the sun, and he pointed Phillip to the sun Phillip said its still dark. During that night he asked what his name is the man said my name is Timothy. Phillip said do you have a last name the man said no Phillip was shocked at this then Timothy said lets get some sleep we have a long day tomorrow.
Raspberry gets an idea to clean elderly houses. Her friends complain when they go in the people homes but they have no choice but to stay because they get a lot of money. One day the girls was working and they finished and got their money. When Raspberry came home their door was open and all their furniture was gone. Raspberry ran into the house and went straight in her room. She checked under her bed and in her drawers but all her money was gone. Raspberry mom came home and all they can do is just cry. Dr.Mitchell called and Raspberry mom told him the story he rushed to the house as fast as he can. Raspberry mom was just crying and crying. Dr.Mitchel got a warm rag and put over Raspberry mom head and rubbed her back until she fell asleep. Raspberry knew this was the time to ask Dr.Mitchell some questions. She asked him about him and her momma
The next morning a man named Jack Dodd called and told the Hardy's to come quickly. The police were looking for someone who had stolen a car. The police thought they found their man. They found Jack Dodd's fishing rod in the trunk of one of the stolen cars. Jack told the police that he had not put it there and that he was being set up. The cops handcuffed Jack and his father and took them down to headquarters. Later on the police chief came to the Hardy's home telling them that the Dodd's had taken off in their station wagon. The Hardy's had known the Dodd's for a very long time and it just didn't seen like them to break the law.
- First the blacks had asked city official to build a pool in the negro community. the city officials said they couldn’t comply with this request because it would be too expensive. Then they asked if two days out of each week the blacks could use the pool.
by ice, a man in a bad way is found and taken aboard. He is later
Lt. John Dunbar was lying on a hospital bed, leg totally mutilated. Barely conscious, the man over heard the surgeon say he could not amputate this mans leg as tired as he was. Dunbar didn’t like what he heard, so when the surgeons left, he grabbed his boat, and he slowly slid the boat up his mutilated foot biting on a stick to relive the massive pain.
The movie was mainly taking about a free black men, who was a carpenter and violinist with his family live in Saratoga Springs, was tricked by two white men to Washington D.C. then he was sold to different
Davy Crockett is in his home town campaigning for his third and final term in congress. He has rallied his followers outside the local saloon. The crowd is angry because they have been waiting to see Davy for hours. One of the men yells out “if Day Crocket does not feed us we all should tie him up and beat his flesh raw”. Davy Crockett’s aids heard the conversation and hurried to tell him. The aid took off live a bullet shot out of a gun. He ran as fast as his legs could move. The aid found Davy in one of the back rooms of the saloon. He told Davy the men waiting for him to speak were mad. They were tired of waiting and many of them was hungry. He told Davy the men threaten to harm him if food was not provided. Davy told his aid to go to the local market and get a basket full of fish. Take the fish to towns cook and have him prepare and serve the fish to the awaiting crowd. Davy’s aid went to the market with the little money he had and purchased a basket full of fish. Davy’s aid took the fish to the local cook to have the fish prepared. The aid told the cook Davy needed him to cook the fish. The cook told the aid “I would be glad to prepare the fish, however I need money to purchase fire wood and cooking oil to cook the fish. Davy Crockett’s aid rushed back to where Davy was practicing his speech. The aid told Davy he needed money to pay the cook before
When the man first approached the dinner the waitress though he was like anybody else suffering from the great depression just trying to get things for free from people. At the beginning the man just walked to the dinner with a humble self being, asking to buy a loaf of bread. Immediately the waitress Mae being a stereotype and thinking he was trying to trick her said that the bread was for making sandwiches only. In response the man says that he needs the bread to feed his children because it’s a long road ahead of them to California. The waitress then tells him that if they sell bread their going run out to make sandwiches. The man then tells her that he’s hungry but needs to make a dime do all of his family. This gets Mae to change her reaction and change her mind because she’s starting to feel more and more sympathy fo...
“Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see. There is an interest in that which is hidden and which the visible does not show us. This interest can take form of a quite intense feeling, a sort of conflict, one might say, between the visible that is hidden and the visible that is present.” (Magritte)
The captain’s stupid younger brother was a sailor on his ship. And he went crazy and was locked in the front bedroom where barney sleeps for 20 years. When the Captain was out in the South Pacific they picked up a shipwrecked sailor. The guy they rescued bunked with the crazy brother. And the next morning the sailor was dead the brother had strangled him.
Two young boys Andrej and Tomas are forced to live their life traveling from town to town scavenging for things to keep them alive whilst caring for their baby sister Wilma after soldiers tore them away from their family. Experiencing their family being ripped apart and loved ones murdered before their eyes the boys are left questioning what did they do to deserve this? The boys have learned to live
The man got his daughter and wife and they saw it too. They all went to the living room and sat on the couch. The man then thought of an idea. He said “I wish for this dumb old monkey’s paw to go away. All of a sudden, the monkey’s paw vanished.
Lennie and George decided to go the pool hall one night. There was a girl there that got Lennie’s eye. She was wearing a bright red dress. It interested Lennie and he grabbed her sleeve and wouldn’t let go. The girl was full of fear because some stranger wouldn’t let go of her dress. He held it tighter and tighter and wouldn’t let go. After that night he found out that the girl was pressing charges against him. Every day the police were on the look out for Lennie. But George and Lennie escaped from the town by hiding in a ditch until nightfall. After the night of lying in a ditch Lennie and George started to hitchhike. They hitchhiked all the way to Salinas Valley, California. They got there the next day which was their destination.
The Mariner then sees a ship in the water nearby, his mouth is dry because he is dehydrated so he sucks his own blood so he can yell to the incoming ship. The shipmates are happy because they thi...
There were very many people taking videos of these ocean creatures until this lady’s Iphone fell into the water and everyone put their phones away.The lady said”my phone fell in the water, put your phones away immediately!” There was this man named Jerry that hollered” watch out there is a shark beside us hold your kids back.” All of a sudden this little boy fell off head first and he was drowning then there were a pack of sharks heading straight for the child. This man threw a rope around the child’s leg and yanked it tightly and pulled the child up before the sharks could eat him. Everyone was rushing around and screaming toward their rooms,and some just standing there waiting for their orders for their