I run a hand through my long, wavy black hair, enjoying the way my fingers slides smoothly through the silky strands. I shiver slightly as a particularly cool breeze blew past me, raising goosebumbs up and down my bare arms. "C'mon Dora! Just one more hour!" "Don't. Call. Me. Dora! You said 'just another hour' two hours ago! You drag me and Alex out here because you said you wanted to 'catch a tan'. Well, news flash, sis. We've been out here by the lake for over four hours and your skin still resembles the color of Elmers Glue!" I bite down on my lip to keep from laughing out loud, but a snicker still escapes me, and I slap my hand over my mouth quickly. Penny turns towards me and glares, her blue-gray eyes flashing as she props her hands on her hips and glares down at me, the wind making her long wavy blond hair fly around her. While she tries to look intimidating, I can't help the bark of laughter that escapes me, and her eyes narrow in response. "Oh, and I suppose you agree with my sister, huh? Like always?" I roll my eyes and sit up straighter, crossing my legs and placing my hands on my knees. The slightly wet grass scratches at my bare legs, and I scratch my knee with my left hand while adjusting the straps of my two piece bathing suit with my right hand. "That's not true! Geez, when the hell was I dragged into this argument?" Penny huffs and turns around, stalking past her sister. "Hey, where are you going?" Izzy calls out, crossing her arms and shifting her weight to her right leg. We watch as Penny walks out on the dock and, when she gets to the end, sit down, her legs dipping into the dark blue -almost gray- water. "You better not get in the lake! We're about to leave!" Izzy hollers, frowning. Penny ... ... middle of paper ... ... was already sitting up, rubbing her tailbone, and I watch as realization slams into her features. We were sitting smack dab in the middle of the now frozen over lake. "Did you do this?" I whisper, looking around in awe. Penny's jaw drops, and she squeezes my hand tightly. "I...I-I think so..." "Penny! Alex!" I turn my head to see Izzy screaming out to us, who is still sitting on the dock, her face a mirror of ours. I shake my head slightly while shrugging, telling her that I had no explanation. "I-I think we should...go home now..." Penny whispers, her voice cracking as her eyes fill with tears. The realization of what had just happened was finally coming, and my shock was already wearing off. Getting up slowly as to not fall on the slippery ice, I pull Penny up with me. Wrapping my arms around her shaking shoulders, I say, "Yeah. Let's go home now."
“No,” I answered hollowly. “I can’t say you did.” Her eyes looked down to the floor until she built enough courage to continue her story that I knew I couldn’t avoid.
“I love you, I’m going to stay with your father and Nia, she can’t survive out there,” she sadly said.
cracks a wicked smile full of razor-sharp teeth as she sees his head turn, and
"Rachel!" Franklin says. He kneels beside her and craddles her in his arms. "Are you okay? Why would you do something like that? I'm so glad your alive."
Mirror, Mirror on the wall who is the fairest of us all? A famous line from a renown fairy tale now warped by Gregory Maguire in Mirror Mirror. 7 year old Bianca de Nevada, dwells in Montefiore, Italy in 1502, with her father, Primavera, and Fra Ludovico. A found mirror is taken to Montefiore, which sheltered Bianca is told never to leave. Cesare and his sister Lucrezia Borgia soon arrive at Montefiore.
“But mom I don't want to go inside. I don't like school!” I whine. I slam my fists down on the car seat tray, my fists start to turn pink and red.
In Spirited Away, Hayao Miyazaki introduces a young girl named Chihiro. She’s brought into the Spirit World through the curiosity and greediness of her parents. Miyazaki makes her life problematic because of the simple nature of humans. He realizes that the different negative characteristics that humans have within them lead them to trouble, even children. He claims that “I 'm not going to make movies that tell children, "You should despair and run away".” (Hayao Miyazaki Quotes) With this in mind, Miyazaki attempts to show children that they’re capable of overcoming problems even at the young age that they’re at. Within the spirit world, the apparitions have negative plans for humans, specifically for the future of Chihiro. As if it wasn’t enough for him to put the young girl in a setting with Spirits/Ghosts, he makes it so that these apparitions have negative plans in mind for the humans that they come in contact with. Miyazaki does this in order to put Chihiro in a situation that the audience would see as extremely difficult.
“No Evie keep going,” smiled Dad. I sighed, which was hard to do even above water because of the mask.
Kate tramped her way through the soggy snow, and stopped beside her friend. "Why are we out in these wet, cold trees? My feet are freezing! When you said you wanted me to come out with you to your grandparents' farm, I didn't think getting ourselves turned into popsicles was part of the deal."
Summary: In the quiet town of Malgudi, in the 1930's, there lived Savitri and her husband, Ramani. They lived with their three children, Babu, Kamala, and Sumati. Savitri was raised with certain traditional values that came into internal conflict when she took Ramani, a modern executive, as her husband. Savitri has endured a lot of humiliations from her temperamental husband and she always puts up with his many tantrums. To find solace and escapism, she takes refuge in 'the dark room', a musty, unlit, storeroom in the house. But when Ramani takes on a beautiful new employer, Savitri finds out that her husband has more than a professional interest in the woman. So, at first, she tries to retreat to her dark room. But she realises that hiding in there won't help. So she tries to leave the house. She stayed with a friend in another village. But after staying there for some time, she can't help but think of her husband and their children. What would happen to them? After doing a lot of thinking, she finally decides to go back home. In the end, Ramani has finally stopped seeing Shanta Bai, the other woman, and I guess you could say it's a happy ending. It's now up to you to go and guess the rest. Savitri is very much real. She is basically quite like most people. They treat problems like that. They find ways to escape it. Like booze, drugs, suicide, etc. In Servitor¡¯s case, she stays in the dark room, and finally, leaves her family. As I was reading "The Dark Room¡±, I felt compassion towards Savitri. I can clearly see that she was a confused woman. It was depicted through the first part of the story wherein her son was ill and she told Babu, her son, not to go to school that day. But Ramani intruded upon them and said that Babu has to go to school and that his illness is merely a headache. Savitri didn't know what to do then. She was concerned for Babu¡¯s health, but at the same time, she didn't want to argue with Ramani. In the end, Babu had gone off to school. As for Ramani, I felt like shouting at him while reading the novel because of his bullying.
The Movie was entitled Awakenings. This movie was based on a true story. Penny Marshall is the Director and Story by Oliver Sacks. The screenplay is by Steven Zaillian Penny The one who first encountered Oliver Sack’s book was Walter and Laskers as undergraduate in a University and be an optioned it in a few years.. This movie received different awards like New York Film Critics for Best Actor. Awakenings movie become Box Office and collect $52 million and it distributed by Colombia Pictures. It tells the story of Neurologist Oliver Sacks it discovered the effects of the L-dopa drug. This film touches my heart because of the feelings that the characters portray.And also I know what’s the real feeling of a patient who suffered in a Parkinson
In a broad sense, are group related Truman’s experiences in The Truman Show to existential ideas about freedom. Existentialists believe that humans are free, but this freedom is often a burden. In exploring Truman’s life, we saw different ways in which Truman was exercising this freedom, as well as ways where his freedom was taken away. In analyzing certain impressionist paintings, we also saw these ideas represented through art.
Spirited Away is a Japanese anime movie by Hayao Miyazaki and produced under Studio Ghibli. The film was first released in July of 2001, and became the most successful film in Japanese history, grossing over $274 million dollars worldwide. The film was so successful, it even overtook Titanic (top grossing film at the time) and because the highest-grossing film in Japanese history with a total of $229,607,878. (Johnson, G. A.)
In this “Digital Age” that we currently live in, it becomes very easy for an individual to become infatuated with the amount of social media outlets available on the internet. Platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat all revolve around the idea of showcasing one’s personal life for the sake of receiving positive feedback or attention by peers and strangers from the outside world. An episode of the Netflix sci-fi anthology series, “Black Mirror,” decides to tackle this topic in a surreal yet imaginative way. The episode in particular, “Nosedive,” investigates a hypothetical future or alternate universe where social media profiles and star ratings have become the norm. The plot revolves around a young lady named Lacie, who