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up to Heaven by Roald Dahl ALL HER LIFE MRS FOSTER had had an almost pathological fear of missing a train, a plane, a boat, or even a theatre curtain. In other respects, she was not a particularly nervous woman, but the mere thought of being late on occasions like these would throw her into such a state of nerves that she would begin to twitch. It was nothing much - just a tiny vellicating muscle in the corner of the left eye, like a secret wink - but the annoying thing was that it refused to

Ana’s portrait Ana is thirty-five (35) years old. She is a Mexican, so she was born in Mexico. Her hometown is Puebla. She has two children who remained to live in Mexico. The elder daughter, angel who is thirteen (13) years and the second, misa who is seven (7) years. She is divorced. It is an immigrant. She left Mexico to arrive to the United States illegally in one thousand nine hundred ninety five (1995). She decided to leave because she and her family were very poor. Her living conditions

a doctor. “Light-coloured suit”, she liked the sound of that. Clearly this was a man of style and taste. She tried to contain herself as she walked in, not get too excited. Tried not to imagine herself swanning into his surgery with two Harrods bags swinging under her arms, or sitting in a fancy restaurant ordering hors-d'oeuvres, or arranging her porcelain figurines on his mantelpiece. Trinkets to remind her of her past life. The dull thud of loneliness as she woke to face each hollow day in Kingsbury

girl whose head was bent down towards her shiny new shoes."Look at me when I speak to you, Elizabeth." Garibooli lifted her face and looked across into the blue eyes. She had been taught to look away when an older person addressed her. But then, she realised, Mrs Carlyle was not Eualeyai or Kamillaroi so it must be different for her. She looked at Mrs Carlyle's sky-coloured eyes, noticed the wrinkles that danced around her tightly wound(1) mouth and the thin layer of powder that dung to her skin."You

lady » arrives. Winterbourne is cautious when he meets her, on her side she doesn't pay attention to him and looks « neither offended nor flattered ». We are acknowledged that they come from Schenectady, New York, where their father still lives, and after a little conversation Daisy Miller talks to Winterbourne as if « she had known him a long time ». To her the only negative point in Europe is the lack of society. She says she was very well liked and popular in New York, the young man is seduced and

LOVE STORY What can you say about a twenty-five-year-old girl who died? That she was beautiful. And brilliant. That she loved Mozart and Bach. And the Beatles. And me. Once, when she specifically lumped me with those musical types, I asked her what the order was, and she replied, smiling, "Alphabetical". At the time I smiled too. But now I sit and wonder whether she was listing me by my first name - in which case I would trail Mozart - or by my last name, in which case I would edge in there between

a concierge who has supervised the building for 27 years. She is an autodidact in literature and philosophy, but conceals it to keep her job and, she believes, to avoid the condemnation of the building's tenants if they were to discover how cultured she is. Likewise, she wants to be alone to avoid her tenants' curiosity. She effects this by pretending to indulge in concierge-type food and low-quality television, while in her back room she actually enjoys high-quality food, listens to opera, and reads

CHAPTER 9 : PHOEBE AND CLIFFORD Hepzibah, overwhelmed by misfortune and by the literal and symbolic shadow of the House, comes to realize that she cannot restore to happiness her gloomy brother Clifford and she cannot be a comforting presence to Clifford. She tries to entertain him by reading aloud to him, but her voice is a kind of croak. He also finds the books she chooses uninteresting, and he cannot bear to look at her withered face and hideous appearance. So, we may wonder why is Phoebe, and nobody

PART ONE Narrated by Antoinette, Part One of Wide Sargasso Sea focuses on her childhood in Jamaica. Section one (p3 to 7) In this section Antoinette tells how her family and herself grow more and more isolated, after her father’s death. She lives in a place called Coulibri Estate with her mother, her handicapped brother Pierre, and three servants, Christophine, Godfrey and Sass. The Emancipation Act of 1833, i.e. the abolition of slavery, has left the family, like other slave owners

grocer’s to buy some vegetables and dessert. Then she comes back home and tries to “do everything right and natural”. 5 A few minutes later she got up and went to the phone. She knew the number of the police station, and when the man at the other end answered, she cried to him, : “Quick ! Come quick ! Patrick’s dead !” - “Who’s speaking ?” - “Mrs Maloney. Mrs Patrick Maloney.” - “You mean Patrick Maloney’s dead ?” 10 - “I think so,” she sobbed (2). “He’s lying on the floor and I think he’s