The cool, autumn wind blows breezly through Springtown Falls. Mild, is the air, as 16 year old Jake walks home through the large and green forest, as the bright sun smiles down on him, after a tremendous day from school. As he is on his way, Jake stumbles upon a cardboard box. Questions begin to emerge in his head. What could be in there? Who left it here? Was it meant to be found? Should I open it? Jake doesn’t know what to do, so decides to takes it home with him. He then makes his way down the hill caring the not too heavy box. Once home, Jake wanders in his room, setting the box carefully on his desk. A couple hours pass, as the box sits there, aching to be opened. Jake is overwhelmed with anxiety to open it, so ends up doing it. Inside …show more content…
“Ok, have fun,” both of his parents respond. “ You're not going to ask where I’m going? Or, you're not going to critize me on how to stay home and do homework?” Jake announces back with an oddly weird tone in his voice. “No, because your father and I have decided that we should let you live and have fun a little bit”, Jake’s mother replies. Jake doesn’t answer back and leaves his house, heading toward the party that is two-blocks away believing that the contraption does grant wishes. At the wild party, Jake lets loose and has some fun. He also danced a bit, but all he wanted was to go back home and wish again. So, that’s what he does. This time, Jake wishes that he’ll be rich and is anxious to know if it will come true or not. So, he goes to sleep quickly. The next morning his parents call him down to the table. “We have big news!” shrieks his mom. Jake looks at his dad and mom waiting for them to spill the joy already. “Your father has gotten a promotion” replying his mom, before Jake’s dad could have a chance to talk. “Thanks amazing,” announced Jake. All he was worrying about, is that since his dad got a promotion, that means he will be getting paid much more than before, which leads up to them becoming rich. That means his wish did come …show more content…
Berry’s heritage,” pronounces Jake in a very stern voice. He then lays the contraption back on his desk. The next day, a lawyer comes to the house to give Jake money that was from Ms. Berry’s heritage. Jake is surprised, that yet again another wish has came true, but is also happy because now he has more money than ever. A little while later, Jake’s parents tell him that his Aunt Terry has passed away. Jake is not that sad because she lives all the way across the world and hasn’t seen her since he was 6. Slowly, Jake pieces everything together. He figures out that once you wish, you pay the consequences. That is why his Aunt Terry and Ms. Berry died. Jake doesn’t know what will happen if he continues to wish and he doesn’t want to find out. So, he throws everything back in the box, tapes it up aggressively, and carries it back to where it was found, the woods. He puts it back in the same exact location and waits. Jake watches in a green and thorny bush close by, as the new claimer steps
Although Jake was spared his life in the great war, he lost another part of his life and future. Jack tries to compensate his lack of any real future with Brett or any other women with his passion for bullfighing and other frivalties. In John Steele Gordon’s article, “What We Lost in the Great War” Gordon laments the loss of hope and future the generation of the war felt. The characters of the novel, and especially Jake, exemplify the lack of direction felt after the war. Their aimless drinking, parties and participation in the fiesta is an example of the absence of focus in their life.
They talk to their dad and he tells them that he worked with a man called Lice Pecking. He says the he also worked on the boat and he could testify on the fact that Dusty really did dump his waste into the ocean. It turns out he is kidnapped and is unable to testify. They meet his wife Shelly. She tells them that she will help them stop Dusty’s Casino scam. She tells him that she wants to work as a bartender in Dusty’s Boat. She tells them that one night she stays late and sees Dusty dumping the waste from the ship. A few days later he goes to a small pond and sees a park ranger putting up signs that say the water in the pond is contaminated from human waste. Since there are many boats docked in the harbors its impossible to see what boat the waste is actually coming from. They then get the idea to color the waste with a very bright dye and allow after us seeps out the trail of brightly colored water will be tracked back to dusty’s boat. They then go into a food store and purchase 35 bottles of Fuchsia dye. They then tell Shelly their plan. They tell her that Noah will hide in a box full of rum and wait till it is picked up and placed on the ship he then will go into a restroom and Shelly will tack on an out of order sign.
The man with the yellow suit then goes back to Winnie Foster’s parent’s home, where he tells them he’ll help them get their daughter back if they give away the ownership of the woods to him. Winnie’s family makes the deal, and the man in the yellow suit goes back to where the Tuck family was to retrieve
...ut Jake in a confused state of his life. His love has always been the river, giving him hope, peace, friendship, brotherhood, and love. The river gave him everything but has now taken away his only brother for no reason at all. No matter how much he tries to get away from his past, the river is his life and has become his home.
If he could only find it before the thing outside got in. A perfect fusillade of knocks reverberated through the house, and he heard the scraping of a chair as his wife put it down in the passage against the door. He heard the creaking of the bolt as it came slowly back, and at the same moment he found the monkey's paw, and frantically breathed his third and last wish.
The Great Gatsby – Chapter 7 Summary Chapter 7 was another important chapter in this book, it started off with Gatsby deciding to call off his parties, which he had held primarily to lure Daisy. He has also fired his servants to prevent gossip, and replaced them with connections of Meyer Wolfsheim. On the hottest day of the summer, Nick drives to East Egg for lunch at Tom and Daisy's house. When the nurse brings in Tom and Daisy's baby girl, Gatsby is stunned. During the awkward afternoon, Gatsby and Daisy cannot hide their love for one another, and Tom finally notices their situation.
...nally, the falling action begins when Jake retrieves Mariana’s number. He is ecstatic because he has avoided giving her all of his real information, and he was also very sexually attracted to her. The story ends with Mariana driving away without Jake’s valid information. All in all, I believe that this incident was a positive experience for Jake. He appeared to be the dynamic character because he developed immensely throughout the tale. In the story it stated that he was so busy thinking about his “freedom” that when he finally looked up ahead, but it was too late and he had already hit the other car. After the panic, lies, attraction, and deception that occurred Jake made it without harm due to the distress that his lack of documentation brought. This lead to him maturing, and wanting to better himself for the future in order to achieve what he often dreams about.
Jake does not reject the church as he begins to pursue religion lightly, although he doesn't want to be very close to the church just yet. Although he is not happy for the injury God has given him, he seeks religion as a lifestyle as he seeks for a way to live in a society while he is looked down upon
Threats made him great because they made him think about what he was going to do with his life if he did not behave, and his future didn't look so bright. Also, others not reacting when he misbehaved made Jake a greater person because he just wanted attention and when he didn't get it he stopped. Finally, discovering his passion made Jake great because it gave him joy and he started to relate to others and want to also give them happiness. To summarize, Jake went through a lot, his parents were in jail, he moved in with a new family, and was threatened to be locked up. Jake's life was an emotional roller coaster, and he could have sat around feeling sorry for himself. But instead, he helped the Applewhites, worked hard and tried to please others. He realized that he could change his future. He stepped up to the challenge and made a difference in his life. Jake became
The Great Gatsby tells a story of eight people during the summer of 1922 from the observation of Nick Carraway. It's a story about trying to achieve the unattainable, deceit, and tragedy. It takes place around the character Jay Gatz who becomes Jay Gatsby in an attempt to change his persona and attract his long lost love, Daisy. In Nick's telling of the story, Nick and everyone who knew Gatsby, thought he was great. Gatsby threw lavish parties at his beautiful mansion every weekend. He had money, even though no one really seemed to know how he made his money. Gatsby spends years of his life trying to win the heart back of Daisy Buchanan. When they met years ago, he was in the Army and didn't have much money. Daisy came from a wealthy family and she couldn't marry a poor man. This is what drives Jay Gatz to become Jay Gatsby and impress the girl to get her back.
Jake’s friend and show to Judge that Garret is a good boy and make him give to Jake Garret a second chance. And what do you thank happened? Maybe this quote will help you to guess: “I should have known before. Nobody was coming to stand behind Jake. Not one solitary soul”. Without parties, free beer and pizza nobody needed Jake. Those hundreds and hundreds teenagers who went to his parties, call themselves Garret’s friends just disappeared. Even Didi, did not showed up. This story tells us how selfish and villainy people could be.
As depicted by Scott F. Fitzgerald, the 1920s is an era of a great downfall both socially and morally. As the rich get richer, the poor remain to fend for themselves, with no help of any kind coming their way. Throughout Fitzgerald’s, The Great Gatsby, the two “breeds” of wealthier folk consistently butt heads in an ongoing battle of varying lifestyles. The West Eggers, best represented by Jay Gatsby, are the newly rich, with little to no sense of class or taste. Their polar opposites, the East Eggers, are signified by Tom and Daisy Buchanan; these people have inherited their riches from the country’s wealthiest old families and treat their money with dignity and social grace. Money, a mere object in the hands of the newly wealthy, is unconscientiously squandered by Gatsby in an effort to bring his only source of happiness, Daisy, into his life once again. Over the course of his countless wild parties, he dissipates thousands upon thousands of dollars in unsuccessful attempts to attract Daisy’s attention. For Gatsby, the only way he could capture this happiness is to achieve his personal “American Dream” and end up with Daisy in his arms. Gatsby’s obsession with Daisy is somewhat detrimental to himself and the ones around him; his actions destroy relationships and ultimately get two people killed.
Although Happy grows up to become more financially successful than his older brother, he lacks even a spark of self-knowledge or capacity for self-analysis. He does however share his father's capacity for self-delusion, declaring himself as the assistant buyer at his store, when, in reality, he is only one of the assistants to the assistant buyer.
The novel ends with Jake in the pits of disillusion. He breaks ties with all friends unceremoniously. He has unfulfilled sexual desires, and the realization that he has misplaced his love in Brett grips him to the core. Yet these bitter realities, these dark bottoms of the ocean may be the saving gems he would need to regain his lost self, the very important guideposts that he would need to touch to be able to rise to the surface of the sea, to be able to see the light again and ultimately to know his true self again. Similarly if he Jake is the personification of the Lost Generation, it might just be that this utter disillusionment might be the very forces that would impel the Lost Generation to find itself once more and rise again.
She thought that this was a horrible, tragic comedy that her and Jacob will always live on to laugh about. “Yeah,” said Emily finishing her story, “I would have to say that was the best memory that I’ve ever shared with my older sibling, Jacob, but there is that one time I went to Jamaica. Though, that’s a whole other