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Under the Rug It was a regular night when a guy named Ben was reading a book in the living room. He was in the middle of a sentence when he heard a CRASH in his bedroom. He put his book down for a minute or two and waited to see if it was him or it was something in his house. he didn’t hear anything else but silence so he picked up his book and started reading again,he didn’t hear anything for the rest of the night. The next morning he got up to make a cup of coffee. Ben was getting ready to go out to get the paper when he heard the same CRASH but it was not in the bedroom this time it was in the same room he was in. Ben was not very sure what it was or what it wants but it was very scary. It chased Ben out of the house and into the driveway. when Ben went back inside his house was a mess all the carpet was torn and all his food was scattered on the floor and the walls. The …show more content…
Ben was in a very good mood UNTIL… he found his garden all messed up his flowers were all over the yard and his veggies had not little not big it was a size I can not explain very well. Get this Legend tells it the flowers and the veggies spelled the word GET OUT. GO AWAY. It scared ben he ran into the house and then the house was torn ripped and more the pictures were terrible the glass his whole house was ruined and then ben said I give up! The creature was in under the rug and in a very deep voice he said “GET OUT or something will happen to you or your grandchildren whatever is your choice” it said “Move out or lose a child what is it I will give you a 30 days move out or bad things will happen.” A month went by and the old man was still living in the house. The object appeared in the rug and the old man said “I am not moving I was here first and You can’t take it from me.” The voice spoke and said “I warned you”! and the whole neighborhood heard a yell but Ben was never to be seen
This boy named Rodney was at a boarding school and lost a huge fortune because his guardian lost it for him. Then he had to leave and go to New York City to try to make a profit. There on the train to New York he met this guy named Joel who was a salesman on the train there was a sudden jolt and Rodney and his new friend Joel got out of their seats but Rodney left his box of jewelry on his seat and someone stole it. They followed the thief to a village. A lady told them where he was headed then told the thief to give back the jewelry box. He gave it back to Rodney. Later Rodney and Joel
He arrived with the mexicans however, he did not leave with them as he was offered a full time job for the rest of the summer. He accepted the job mainly because he could not stop thinking about the farmer's daughter, Lynette. It was then that he had a steady job and fell in love for the first time. This is where he worked from sun up to sun down.. This went on for weeks. Alice, Bill’s wife would always bring him food and Bill would always pick him up. Until one night, Alice came and got the boy. She told him that Bill was in town and would be home later, however, Alice work the boy up at two in the morning and sent him to town to retrieve her husband. The boy found him in the bar in a huge poker game with lots of money. A huge fight broke out and the boy was told to grab the money off the bar and when the fight finished outside they left. Bill gave the boy almost two hundred dollars of the money. The next night there a sheriff’s car in the driveway. The sheriff was there looking for the boy. He said there was a poster of him in town. Bill told him “he busts his balls for me” that he was a good kid. Again,another life lesson, that working hard had paid off for him. The sheriff told him that if it all checked out he would bring him back. However, the Sheriff took all his money and threw him in a jail cell. It was there that he broke out and ran. He hitched a ride to Oregon. He was pissed and mad. He fell asleep in the man's car on the way to Oregon. When he awoken he was offered some coffee and doughnuts. However, before eating them a peasant came through the windshield and killed the man. The car was wrecked and the boy was scared. He got out of the car and headed down the road. He then picked up by Hazel. She took him to her farm, fed him and cleaned him up and he was grateful for that. Hazel took the boy to the county fair. This is where is ran in to the sheriff that had took all
He ran to his brother's house and I knocked again. This time they both told me to go away. I almost cried! I just wanted to play with them. They told me, "Not by the hairs of our chinny, chin, chin!" I turned to walk away and just then, I sneezed so hard that my hat blew off my head. I turned back to get my hat and sneezed again! This time I blew the house of sticks down. I was so embarrassed! My friends, the pigs, came running out of the rubble, and scampered away. I ran after them to ask if they wanted to play catch. They ran into another house. This one was really nice. It was made out of bricks. I knocked on the door and they told me to go away again! I started to cry. When I cry a lot, I sneeze a lot. I sneezed and sneezed and sneezed some more. I heard them laugh at me! I started to get mad and wanted to tell them to stop, so I climbed on to the roof of their house and tried to yell into their chimney, but I slipped and fell right in.
From start to finish. The old man examined how each individual water droplet splashed once it reached the ground one after the other. He would lay on the bed and watch how the raindrops fell from the roof and how reunited they became once they landed. His rusty, most prized, phonograph, played in the background, the sweet melody of The temptations singers, soothed his ears. The rhyming beat of the instruments made the man feel young again and brought back part of the happiness he once carried with his significant other. “I guess it’s time to get up and make my breakfast already.” he said, as he looked at the clock.
The car would not go, and none of the electronics in the car would work either. We were just sitting there in silence. All I could think about was how we were going to get out of this terrible place. It was as if our life was flashing before our eyes. Suddenly the radio turns back on. Jingle bells is playing and the music was turned up as loud as it goes. Immediately we all scream. We were all speechless and didn’t know what to do. Jingle Bells only played for a short time and then the radio just went to static. It was as if we would never get out this
Olivia was told the next day that she could add any feature to the house that she wanted. Of course Olivia has to add a slide. Who doesn't love slides?! She got told she could add another feature if she wanted to do so. Olivia decided to add a stream that brings her food in bed. The last feature she added was a tumble track. The tumble track wouldn't fit so they got one that folded up into a tiny trampoline. Sometimes she would put the tumble track
The story starts out with Kevins birthday party, at his birthday party kevin receives a camera from his family. A few days later Kevin learns that the camera doesn't work quite right. At first whenever he took a picture it came out as the same thing over and over. It was a big black dog running in front of a white picket fence. Then Kevin and his father have a discussion on wether or not to keep the camera, Kevin decides to keep it. The next day Kevin brings the camera into Pop Merrill the man who owns the shop where the camera was bought. Pop tells Kevin to bring the camera back in the morning and he will take a look at it. So Kevin goes home and has an idea he tries three other brands of film to see if that changed anything. He took five pictures a piece with each film, they all came out as the dog picture.
On the first week at Grandma’s, a man named Shotgun Cheatman died. Everyone in the town went to the funeral because he was the well known assistant to the Mayor. The funeral was held in Grandma’s house and a creepy thing happened that night when Tom the cat crawled inside the casket. The next day, Joey, Mary Alice and Grandma left the house and walked across fields of tall grass and “cow pies aplenty” to Salt Creek to go fishing. They found an old wooden boat and Grandma rowed the boat out into the creek. While on their fishing adventure, they encountered a cottonmouth snake that fell into the boat and a party of drunken men on land dancing in their underwear.
My brother and I push the rusty metal of the way and we climb through the hole and finally we start running. The guy starts chasing us then my brother and I climb over a fence and run into the forest. When me and my brother go into the forest we find this dog. My brother say’s it’s so cute then I say do you want to keep him and my brother say’s yes. So we start walking with the dog then we see the dust and we try to find a place to hide. Then the dog runs away and my brother and “I say comeback.”
His mother died when he was young and now is studying to become a geologist. He doesn't have many friends nor enemies. Then a rich big game hunter named Madec offered Ben a job which in return he would get a large sum of money to pay for a semester of college. All Ben had to do was to be a guide for Madec to find Bighorn Sheep in the Mojave Desert. As Ben and Madec were scoping out their surrounding in the desert Madec saw something move on a mountain. Madec immediately took the shot thinking that it is a Bighorn Sheep, he rarely ever misses a shot. Madec went up to the mountain where he shot and saw what he killed and told ben that it was a female sheep nothing important. Ben still went up to look seeing that it was actually an old prospector. Ben was petrified he didn’t know what to do. He told Madec that it has to be reported as an accident. Madec does not want it to be reported because then it will affect him because he is very important and busy. Ben still wants to report it to the sheriff, Madec decides to hunt Ben
On Thanksgiving Louis went across the street to eat with Jud and Norma. After eating he went back home and fell asleep. He woke up to the sound of the phone ringing, and when he answered it was Jud on the other end. Jud told Louis that he had found a dead cat in his yard and believed it was Church. Louis rushed right over to see it really was Church, and he worried about how to tell Ellie.
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.
He found his way to the house and he hid in the attachment to the house where all of the pigs were kept. He spied on the family for a while and randomly doing good deeds. One night the ground was frozen and the De Lacey could not get their vegetables out of the ground, so the creature decided to dig all of the vegetables up that night. The De Lacey family woke up the next morning to having all of their vegetables dug out of the ground. So soon after that the landlord of the De Lacey family came to collect their rent, but the only one home was the grandpa of the De Lacey’s. So the grandpa started talking to the man and the man decided to push the grandpa down. Then the Creature came out and grabbed the man and threw him and made him leave. The grateful grandpa who appeared to be blind told the Creature to come...
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.
In my words, Sociological imagination is a way for a person to look at their life as a result of their interaction with society. It can explain why a life is lived with way it is lived and all events, decisions, successes, and failures that have occurred. In my life I have encountered many situations, problems, opportunities and events. I can use my sociological imagination to examine these and figure out why I am the way I am and also why I have chosen to do certain things