Essay Example
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ENGL1310
Dr. Barry Pomeroy
Sept . 7 .2013
Summary of George Bowering's " A Short Story " It was that slightly disappointing moment in the year . The Jacobsens did not discuss things. They spoke short sentences to one another in the course of a card game . Donna Michaels had an attractive honey-blonde in her early twenties , was about 4 kilometers from the Jacobsen house . She may think about taking a Valium before she arrived there , she got out of the car or took a Valium . She made a trivial wish and walk slowly back to the dusty car . Donna had driven 400 kilometers to be there , but she did not want to go inside the house . She could not stay in that family where her first love . Next , she did not offer the interruption he was waiting for . She just smoked her cigarette . She pictured him lying on her , brought by her to the margin of success . The spare bedroom of the Jacobsen house was also a kind of store-room . It contained a gun-rack in which one could find a pump-action shotgun ,a 22 calibre repeater rifle . Donna walk down the slope , not flinching when a clacking sprinkler spun slowly & soakt her dress from the waist down . It was really dark out now ,& she could see the lights of the retirement village on the far side of the lake . Donna walk till she came to the dirt road with the row of couchgrass down the middle ,& followed it till she arrived at her ponderosa . Now that her eyes were adjusted to the late spring darkness of the valley , she saw a bat flipping from direction to direction above her . I am very old ,Donna thought, I am not very old &here I am already . She pick up the shotgun & fired the other barrel , & threw it over the side of the hill
ENGL1310
Dr. Barry Pomeroy
Sept . 7 .2013
Summary of George Bowering's " A Short Story " It was that slightly disappointing moment in the year . The Jacobsens did not discuss things. They spoke short sentences to one another in the course of a card game . Donna Michaels had an attractive honey-blonde in her early twenties , was about 4 kilometers from the Jacobsen house . She may think about taking a Valium before she arrived there , she got out of the car or took a Valium . She made a trivial wish and walk slowly back to the dusty car . Donna had driven 400 kilometers to be there , but she did not want to go inside the house . She could not stay in that family where her first love . Next , she did not offer the interruption he was waiting for . She just smoked her cigarette . She pictured him lying on her , brought by her to the margin of success . The spare bedroom of the Jacobsen house was also a kind of store-room . It contained a gun-rack in which one could find a pump-action shotgun ,a 22 calibre repeater rifle . Donna walk down the slope , not flinching when a clacking sprinkler spun slowly & soakt her dress from the waist down . It was really dark out now ,& she could see the lights of the retirement village on the far side of the lake . Donna walk till she came to the dirt road with the row of couchgrass down the middle ,& followed it till she arrived at her ponderosa . Now that her eyes were adjusted to the late spring darkness of the valley , she saw a bat flipping from direction to direction above her . I am very old ,Donna thought, I am not very old &here I am already . She pick up the shotgun & fired the other barrel , & threw it over the side of the hill