colorless nature of the city contrast harshly with the warmness inside the tumbledown pail home, along with the dazzling color of the factory interiors. This movie had different kinds of emotions such as laughs (every 30 seconds of the movie), tears of joy (when Charlie finds the golden ticket), mercy (the way Burton depicts the social misery of the Bucket's family is really emotive), amazement (the
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a young man about to take on the world, I was going to be a father. I honestly don’t remember how I felt when she first told me. I think mostly I was just numb. I remember her sitting across from me in the passenger seat of my Volkswagen Beetle, tears streaming down her face, gasping for breath through her sobs. She was terrified. I was too, but I knew I had to get my act together and try to be strong for us both. I mean, I was the man, right? I stretched across to her seat and tried as best I could
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informs Biff about how Willy has changed since his abrupt arrival, he says to his mother he will try to calm him by looking for a business job. As soon as he lets Willy know he is going to apply for a “real” job Willy is distracted and overwhelmed with joy. Linda for once sees a sparkle in his eye while living in the present and then realizes that Biff gives him life. “I’m not worried, darling, because this morning he left in high spirits, it was like the old days! . . . Oh, that’s wonderful, Biff, you’ll
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passion for life. I felt a desperate need to express myself to all the people gathered to remember him, to remind them of him. But I left out so much. The words I spoke were light, reminding everyone of his humor, making them laugh quietly through their tears. I didn’t speak of the two days in which I had waited, with bated breath and breaking heart, to know whether he lived or died. A chance meeting with a member of his church had informed me of only the slightest details of the accident. Being
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Did you hear me? OFFICCIALY! I have never felt so good in my entire life, not even on my best trips! Last night he said so many fantastic, unbelievable things about me, and then he asked me, if I wanted to get together! I am out of my mind with joy, I can’t even put it into words. I have to get ready for school, but I will tell you everything about it later. I have to use extra time on my looks today. Oh I wonder, what I am going to wear. P.S. Fawn invited me to another party, I can’t wait!
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on from there. Over 30,000 people enter the Boston Marathon every year just to run and witness the excitement live. Most of the time, the runners don’t finish. But, the race itself isn’t what makes it so exciting, it’s the sound. The music. The joy. The fans. The Boston Marathon has always been such an exciting event. One of the top events that people watch and show up to yearly. Ever since the Boston Marathon became a tradition, people have run the race in honor of different people and just
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enjoy a lifetime of leading, sharing, and giving. I have seen him spend his Christmas Eves taking gifts of food and joy to indigent families. Often when his bank could not justify a loan to someone in need, my grandfather made the loan from his own pocket. He is a real-life Moonlight Graham, a man who has shown me that characters like Dr. Graham and Mr. Finch do much more than elicit tears and smiles from readers and movie watchers. Through him and others in my family I feel I have acquired the values
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The Tryout Bring Bring Bring … What is that noise I think to myself. I ask my mom “what is that noise.” “It is the timor for your baseball tryout.” she says , after I heard that I get on my cleats. I walked outside and got in our truck. When we start driving I get butterflies in my stomach because we are going very fast and my tryouts are right around the corner .I got to the tryout and I see my best friend , he asks me to play catch I say yes so we start throwing the ball around. As we are playing
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Daddy’s Little Girl The day my daughter was born my life was changed forever. I had been married a little over a year and found out that we were expecting our first child. Was I ready for this? What kind of father would I be? I was just twenty two; I wasn’t ready to be a father? What if I was like my father and was abusive to my child, so I prayed to God please do not let me be that way. But ready or not I had a child on the way and I had to grow up fast. For me, the day started like any other
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Mia Dysthy is a child who is a basket case full of various emotional, mental, and physical problems, all of which bring constant and daily hardships into his young and upcoming life. With all this abounding pressure Mia at times does things that they don’t mean to do, this is one of those times, after an argument with their parents Mia ends up running away. Sad, heartbroken, with spirits crushed an exhausted Mia get on a bus, which they end up sleeping on only to wake up in a completely unfamiliar
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