Preview

Mr. Shiftlet's The Life You Save May Be Your Own

Good Essays
Open Document
Open Document
348 Words
Grammar
Grammar
Plagiarism
Plagiarism
Writing
Writing
Score
Score
Mr. Shiftlet's The Life You Save May Be Your Own
The Life You Save May Be Your Own An old woman and her daughter Lucynell who is mute, is sitting on their porch when a man named Mr.Shiftlet came to their home. The two woman have never seen this man before. They wondered what he may want. It was the Perfect time for a gentleman to approach them. The old woman was trying to marry off her mute daughter. However, Mr. Shiftlet approaches the women and asked if he can assist with any handyman work for them. Mr. Shiftlet not realizing what he just walked into, he took the jobs. The jobs were cleaning and fixing the farm and fixing their broken car. Mr. shiftlet worked day and night on his duties. He would Smoke cigarettes all the time while doing

You May Also Find These Documents Helpful

  • Powerful Essays

    Joe decides that Mary is so obnoxious and he is tired of her bossing Mike around when Mike is the only one working late at night at Phillies. While Mary is outside yelling at Mike, Joe sneaks outside where there was a phone booth was and called the police on her to see if they can calm her down. Ring! Ring! Ring! The police finally picked up the phone. “What's your Emergency?” asked a male police officer. Joe answered “Well this crazy lady named Mary Field has been yelling at the bartender at Phillies.” “ She is complaining about her food being apparently it is taking so long.” “I want to see if you guys can please help me calm her down I am too scared because if I tried she probably would hurt me.” The police responded “this sounds like a silly situation, but we will help you, be there in a few minutes.” The phone call was over and Joe sat on the little bench outside and waited for the police to arrived. Joe got scared because he heard a door slamming. He looked back at the restaurant and saw Mike with Mary's food. Joe noticed that the police just arrived. The police and Joe were watching what Mary was doing to Mike. She was screaming and yelling at him, but he had the food in his hand. Mary grabbed a fork and got so mad that she threw a fork at Mike and the fork hit Mike's head. Suddenly Mike fell back into the counter ledge in a slow motion movement, drops Mary’s food on the sky blue floor, and fell unconscious.…

    • 1045 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Kathy has just seen the doctor about her haemorrhoids, which she is very embarrassed about. Once she leaves the surgery, the receptionist collects Kathy’s notes and puts them down on the magazine table while she tidies the reception area. The receptionist forgets to pick up Kathy’s notes and goes back to work. Later in the day, Kathy’s neighbour, Janice, comes into the surgery for her appointment with the nurse, and sees the notes. She sees Kathy’s name on the front of the notes, thinks they belong to Kathy and starts to read them. She finds out that Kathy has haemorrhoids. Being a good neighbour, Janice goes to the pharmacy and buys Kathy some haemorrhoid ointment, which she takes to Kathy. Kathy is very embarrassed.…

    • 378 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    She works in a garden and farms and cultivates just as well as a man and never fails to amaze her husband of her skills. The story starts with her husband asking her to go into town for a nice dinner date night after he goes into the hills with their sun to look for some steers. As her husband goes off with the son, a stranger comes along their ranch and seeks for directions, as he is lost. His wagon cover reveals that he is a repairman for scissors, pans, and all other sorts of tools. He strikes a conversation and seems to be extremely interested in Elisa. However, there is slight tension within their conversation because it is obvious that he is looking for work to feed himself for the night, but she does not want to give in to his marketing scheme. He advertises that he can make any old tool or pan look brand new and it will be of an advantage to Ms. Allen; it is not until he asks for her chrysanthemums as a gift to an old lady friend down the road that Elisa begin to loosen up. Flattered by his praise to her planting work and feeling as if she should owe him something, Elisa digs out some old aluminum stove pots for him to fix. As he is repairing them, she asks him about life on the road and shows that she would love to live like a man despite his comments that it is dangerous for a woman to live like him. She pays him fifty cents and jokes that he might be coming along some new competition on the road because she too, can ring out the dents of any pots and sharpen scissors better than anyone else out there. They say their farewells and Elisa begins to get ready for dinner. She showers and…

    • 702 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    During the 19th century a young African American boy and his very poor family lived in the South. The boy’s father is a small farmer and the family is stressed because of money problems and it is a really rough time for them. Sounder the family dog goes hunting is very close to the father and goes hunting with him every night. Each day the boy’s father and Sounder come back from hunting empty handed. One morning the boy wakes up and smells delicious food and sees that there is ham being cooked. The father came back with ham but he stole it and knew theft was wrong but he didn’t want to see his family suffer. The family hadn’t h ad a decent meal in a long time. Not long later, three men accuse the boy’s father of stealing the ham. Right in front of the boy the three white men…

    • 502 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    Travis Young is calling his father to come and eat, Ruth Young, Travis' mother told him to sit down and eat his breakfast. Later Travis asked is the check was coming tommorrow, his mother didn't want him to think about money she told him to finish up. Travis explained why he was asking, he told her that this was the morning that he was supposed to bring fifty cents to school. His mother replied with an attitude she told him she did'nt have fifty cents, but Travis then replied with saying his teacher said they must, but his mother didn't care what the teacher said. Ruth just wanted Travis to eat his breakfast. Travis asked if she thought grandmama would have it. That made Ruth mad, she told him no and to stop asking grandmama for money. He told her he never did anyways. Ruth said his full name in…

    • 395 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    weighs his options - when deciding to kill Captain Torres. The barber ponders “Murder or hero?…

    • 255 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    One Halloween there were two grandpas they were at their houses.Then out of nowhere there was grandpa jimmy.Grandpa jimmy and grandpa jake were best friends.Grandpa jake was at the door giving kids candy and grandpa jimmy was refilling the candy bowl.Later that night grandpa jimmy thought it would be funny to pull a prank on grandpa jake so he did.Grandpa jimmy put a remote under the rug.One hour passed and grandpa jake has not notice.”Time to act” said grandpa jimmy.Grandpa scremed and said “there is something under the rug” and grandpa jake run so slow to his bedroom.When he got their he almost passed out.He got up and scremed and almost passed out again.…

    • 629 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    The story begins when an old friend of the Narrator’s wife, Robert, was coming to visit. The Narrator’s wife used to work for Robert when she lived in Seattle. He was a blind man. The Narrator’s wife was previously married to a man in the military and they had no money. She read something in the paper about reading to a blind man and she took it. The Narrator’s wife eventually became so unhappy with her life that she divorced and…

    • 448 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    because of winn dixie

    • 570 Words
    • 2 Pages

    Otis was the man who owned the pet shop. He didn't want to give Opal a job cleaning the pet shop, but Opal said "Thanks, I'll be here in the morning," before Otis could even say a word. The next day, Opal was there to work. She was already cleaning the windows while Otis was sitting comfortably on the floor playing his guitar. When Opal had finished the windows, she…

    • 570 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    her and him

    • 964 Words
    • 3 Pages

    Richard is once again looking for a job but his searches land him at a local sawmill. But he leaves many of the workers have missing arms so he thinks the job is unsafe and quits immediately and thinks to himself that he will only focus on school. Richard is felling very sad because he can’t find a job and is very hungry but get’s some great news that he is named valedictorian of his class. The principle congragulates Richard for his success but then tells Richard he cannot read his own speech to the audience because they will be mostly white. He tells Richard that if he reads his…

    • 964 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    In the short stories of "The Life You Save is Your Own" and "The Magic Barrel", both of the protagonists share similar and differing characteristics. Both of the protagonists are not reliable narrators, and lie to themselves and others.…

    • 440 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    Canada's Legal System

    • 1571 Words
    • 7 Pages

    John Q does not have the right health insurance to cover Michaels surgery, the hospital decides to send Michael home if the Archibald family does not come up with a deposit. Even thought Hope Memorial Hospital makes a revenue of $75,000,000 a year for doing 300 surgeries, that each cost $250,000, they decided to release Michael when they come up short with the deposit. John Q is faced with a moral dilemma to put his son to rest or fight to save his life. According to Jessica Firger, " many Americans are insured, but many still avoid seeing doctor's because of high out of pocket expenses." The family decides to sell everything they own to pay for the surgery, and even after doing so it still was not enough to pay for the surgery. The hospital decided to send a young boy home who was in need of a heart transplant because the family could not afford to pay a cash deposit. It is a moral principle to help those in need, especially since Michael is a young boy who needs the transplant to save his life. The hospital was not acting on this principle. Everyone is entitled to live and by the hospital considering to send Michael home knowing he did not have long to live they deprived him of human life. The hospital took away Michael's right to live by refusing to put him on the donor list because receiving the money was much more…

    • 1571 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Good Essays

    Flannery O'Connor

    • 994 Words
    • 4 Pages

    want; Mr Shiftlet wants a car and the mother wants someone to take care of her daughter instead of…

    • 994 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Cpr Demostrative Speech

    • 863 Words
    • 4 Pages

    Gain Attention: Imagine you’re out at a lake in the summertime with a bunch of friends. Everybody’s having a great time, the suns shinning, people are laughing, when suddenly one of your friends disappears under the water. You laugh, thinking he’ll come back up but after a minute, you’re not so sure and go in after him. When you pull him out, he can’t breathe, has no pulse and you know someone has to perform CPR, but who? What if no one anywhere around knows how? And you’re too far away to get medical attention? What would happen?…

    • 863 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Alf, a dustman, told his wife that he worked for a corporation when they got married. On mornings, he left home dressed in a smart black suit, and then changed into overalls to spend the next eight hours in his workplace. After day’s working, he takes a shower to wash off the stink on his body before he changes back into his suit. Day after day, this had been lasting for over two years time as his fellow dustmen kept his secret. His wife will never learn the truth because Alf just get a new job and he will soon be working in an office.…

    • 105 Words
    • 1 Page
    Satisfactory Essays