Historical Fiction

1223 Words3 Pages
bulb-icon

Recommended: The effects of war on children

“Lily, you are not leaving this table until you eat all the food on that plate”, Lily’s grandmother said as she sat at the dinning room table with the same stern look on her face Lily had seen a million times before. The 11x17 dinning room had green walls, adorned with multiple paintings of elegant dancing women and a beautiful oriental rug, which covered the dark hard wood floors. The large oval dinning table, where Lily stubbornly sat, was a frequent dinnertime occurrence for the Frankfurt family. Expecting Lily, with her sandy blonde hair and emerald green eyes, to shrug her shoulders, scrunch her freckled nose and complain in her whinny voice, which her grandmother knew customarily came next, was shocked to hear Lily’s response. “Omi, you never let me leave the table without finishing all my food, you always save leftovers, and when something spoils because it has been in the fridge too long, you look sad when you have to throw it away,” Lily said looking straight into her grandmother’s eyes. “Lily, I do not want to be wasteful. You know that”, Lily’s grandmother replied. Annoyed with always receiving the same answer, Lily spit back, “My friends moms don’t like wasting food either, but it doesn’t seem to physically hurt them when they have to throw it away!” Realizing her sudden outburst, Lily rapidly tries explaining herself uttering, “It’s just today in history we learned about World War II, and, well, I know we are German and I thought maybe it had something to do with that…” Cowering, she looks up at her grandmother with her childish eyes filled with curiosity and the slightest bit of fear, worrying, she might have overstepped. Lily watched her grandmother’s facial expression transition from startled to sad, while her ey... ... middle of paper ... ...aby, okay? We will find something to eat.” Allowing doubt to ooze out, I let the heat from the burning fire and Mama’s arms completely consume me. For that moment, the world around me lost all meaning, and I was just a child. The next moment is one I will never forget. “People of Erzgebirge, meet in the town square, there is an important announcement. Everyone’s appearance is necessary. People of….” The message kept repeating over the loud speaker. I felt Mama’s arms around me become rigid, and completely still, her face conveyed a deep thought, and I sat there waiting for Mama to do something. The mysterious announcement hit the town of Erzgebirge with panic, dirturbia, and fear. Walking towards town square, I watched the men and women, swiftly moving in the same direction, whispering their own biased allusions of what the announcement could have to do with.

Show More
Related

  • Carol Shaw Graham's Short Story 'To Sleep Under The Stars'

    434 Words  | 1 Pages

    To begin, Cecilia is resistant to abandoning her class trip to help her grandmother after her surgery. Once they had arrived at grandma’s house, they check on grandma and Cecilia soon realizes that “Grandma looked tired, but she was so happy to see them Cecilia felt a little better” (1). Cecilia is not happy about skipping the trip but seeing her grandma made her happy. You can tell that family is getting through to her. Altogether, Cecilia is beginning

    Read More

  • Rewrite of the last chapter Of Mice and Men

    695 Words  | 2 Pages

    As dusk was abroad, pictures began to climb out of Lennie’s head. The first one was a little fat old woman, wearing bull’s-eye glasses and a huge gingham apron with pockets. She was starched and clean, standing in front of Lennie with her hands on her hips, and frowning disapprovingly at him.

    Read More

  • The Possibility of Evil by Shirley Jackson

    1090 Words  | 3 Pages

    The theme that has been attached to this story is directly relevant to it as depicted by the anonymous letters which the main character is busy writing secretly based on gossip and distributing them to the different houses. Considering that people have an impression of her being a good woman who is quiet and peaceful, it becomes completely unbecoming that she instead engages in very abnormal behavior. What makes it even more terrible is the fact that she uses gossip as the premise for her to propagate her hate messages not only in a single household but across the many different households in the estate where she stays.

    Read More

  • The Southern Family In 'A Good Man Is Hard To Find'

    1246 Words  | 3 Pages

    Having been raised in the south has allowed her to believe that she must be catered to as a woman no matter how old she gets. The grandmother constantly refers to herself as a lady and has made herself a priority in her sons life and has a difficult time being considerate of other peoples feelings. At the beginning of the story she tries to convince her son Bailey to change the destination of their planned vacation to where she would like to go. In order for grandma to go see her old house in Tennessee she must convince Bailey that his family may be in danger after a

    Read More

  • An Analysis Of Blue-Collar Brilliance By Mike Rose

    1103 Words  | 3 Pages

    In the story he tells us how he and his father would sit and wait at the restaurant his mother worked at. How is mother would whirl around the restaurant “pencil poised over pad, while fielding questions about the food” (9) calculating each step she took. “She walked full tilt through the room with plates stretching up her left arm and two cups of coffee somehow cradled in her right hand. She stood at a table or booth and removed a plate for this person, another for that person, then another, remembering who had the hamburger, who had the fried shrimp, almost always getting it right.” (10) He described his mother’s calculated steps and how she had to modify her behavior for the needs and wants of each guest and table.

    Read More

  • paper

    751 Words  | 2 Pages

    ...ey have surrounded her with. She longs for a deeper connection with her past, but she realizes this is not to be, at least not as far as her family is concerned. She must adhere to the role of the loyal daughter as it has been established through many generations, and strive not to shame the family as her aunt did many years ago.

    Read More

  • The Story Of Felipe Trujillo

    1160 Words  | 3 Pages

    “She was more of a mother than a grandma, really. She always took good care of us and treated us as her own,” Felipe said. When Felipe’s grandmother finished checking on him she lectured him on how he should not do things that would put him in danger. Afterwards, Felipe’s grandmother punished him by not allowing him out of her house, and forcing him to help in the house chores. “More than actual work, I just had to learn how to cook and learn how to make some natural medicine. I also had to buy, from my way from school, all the necessary ingredients for the recipes. It was horrible! My hands stunk of plants for weeks! And it seem like a never ending training, I mean you would think a family could not have so many recipes, but no, it just have to be my luck.” Felipe said.

    Read More

  • A Family Apart Analysis

    2079 Words  | 5 Pages

    Then she saw a greasy china plate that had bread crumbs, cheese and sausage. The pungent of cheese made her stomach grumble. The man was very rude and insulted her because she couldn’t read. Then Frances headed home and on her way, she bumped into a girl with a nice, green, winter coat. She imagined her Ma in that coat, twirling around with a smile on her face. The girl’s mother said a rather offensive sentence about Frances and walked away with her daughter.

    Read More

  • Narrative Essay On Tamale Making

    1481 Words  | 3 Pages

    I arrived at my grandma’s house in bewilderment. The smell of flavored pork and freshly made red sauce wafted out of the windows and rose with the sound of laughter. The family was already there: all four of my aunts elbow deep into bowls of chicken, pork, sauces; my cousins and a couple of uncles with rolled up sleeves spreading

    Read More

  • I Found Timelessness at Grandmother’s House (Grandma's House)

    1107 Words  | 3 Pages

    I slowly opened the front door -- the same old creak echoed its way throughout the old house, announcing my arrival just seconds before I called out, "Grandma!" She appeared around the corner with the normal spring in her steps. Her small but round 5'1" frame scurried up to greet me with a big hug and an exclamation of, "Oh, how good to see you." It was her eighty-fifth birthday today, an amazing feat to me, just part of everyday life to her. The familiar mix of Estee Lauder and old lotion wafted in my direction as she pulled away to "admire how much I've grown." I stopped growing eight years ago, but really, it wasn't worth pointing this fact out. The house, too, smelled the same as it's ever smelled, I imagine, even when my father and his brothers grew up here more than forty years ago -- musty smoke and apple pie blended with the aroma of chocolate chip cookies. The former was my grandfather's contribution, whose habit took him away from us nearly five years ago; the latter, of course, comes from the delectable delights from my grandmother's kitchen. Everything was just as it should be.

    Read More

  • Fiction Essay

    1214 Words  | 3 Pages

    Fiction stories are those stories not true or factual and are created by the author. These stories are imagined by the author and narrated to the reader. The reader has the opportunity to add their own imagination to the story to make the reading even more enjoyable. Fiction relies on the imagination of the author and the imagination of the reader along with the elements of fiction. Fiction readings are in the form of realistic and non-realistic. When discussing these two types of fiction readings two stories come to mind. The realistic story that comes to mind is the story of “A & P” by John Updike. John Updike is “…considered one of the best of American writers of fiction and poetry” and his story of “A & P” proves to be an ideal example of fiction (V., and Zweig 370). The non-realistic story is “The Fox and the Grapes”, which is found in Aesop’s Fables. Both of these narratives contain elements of fiction easily identified and therefore entertaining to discuss. Characters and point of view are two of the elements of fiction found in these two short stories. Discussion of these two elements, expand on the knowledge of fiction stories through examples and definitions.

    Read More

  • Symbolism In Jamaica Kincaid's Girl By Jamaica Kincaid

    1060 Words  | 3 Pages

    “Girl” makes the impression that the mother wants the daughter to take over the “women’s” work around the house as well as she tells her which day to wash the white clothes Monday, wash the colored clothes on Tuesday, and she is teaching her how to iron her father’s clothes the way he likes them done and how to sew on a button; “This is how to make a button-hole for the button you have just sewed on.” (380) The mother also is teaching her daughter how to cook for the family. “Cook pumpkin fritters in very hot sweet oil,” (380) so that everyone will eat them. The mother also discusses table manners, “always eat your food in such a way that it won’t turn some-one else’s stomach.”

    Read More

  • Miss Marsalles

    1056 Words  | 3 Pages

    Right away, they notice that the sandwiches and little iced cakes Marsalles had left on the table had likely been there for hours, as Clegg recounts that “[she desperately] tried to tell [Marsalles] not to put [the food] all out ahead of time” (Munro 294). This is not only confusing and irritating to the characters of the story, but also pulls the heart strings of the readers, as they recognize how much pressure she faces to please her guests. And finally, one of the most prominent reasons readers can sympathize with Marsalles for having these parties is because she is an old woman. She is close to passing away, and so she may feel that she needs to provide as much as she can before she goes away. This is demonstrated when she invited special needs students from Greenhill School to her party, surprising, and even angering, everyone who attended.

    Read More

  • Detective Fiction

    1161 Words  | 3 Pages

    The most important part of any type of book or story is that it be interesting. This proves to be particularly important in detective fiction as well. What could be more interesting than having a crime committed in front of you, given all (or most) of the details and still not be able to figure it out? This is exactly how detective fiction authors draw people into these stories and books. By weaving an intricate and interesting plot full of fascinating characters, and all types of details about the crime, readers get drawn into the plot and cannot stop reading until they find out the solution to the mystery. Simply put, readers are drawn to detective fiction because it is so easy to become completely engrossed in the stories. The trick of the author is how to create such an environment to keep readers coming back again and again to the genre.

    Read More

  • Message in a Bottle

    1068 Words  | 3 Pages

    “Oh honey,” I answered, sadly acknowledging my daughter’s hunger, “ I wish it was. Actually, I’m not quite sure what it is. Help me clean it off, will you?” Emily and I began scrubbing the dilapidated, seaweed covered object in the warm waves of the Atlantic. “Wow, That’s not at all I expected.” I answered as I rolled an old bottle in the water. “At least we can get some money for this at the recycling center. Not much, but if we collect enough bottles we could get some lunch!” I looked hopelessly at the bottle.

    Read More

More about Historical Fiction

Open Document