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Brandon’s mother counted each money for his lunch before giving it to him, but he wanted more money for other things, but his mother never understood. Brandon saw her mother purse opened and grabbed all the coins he could find, there he also finds something saying five years, he asks his mother and she tells him that they give this out to people how have left their drinking habits, she also tells him that he was the reason she left drinking, and he has Fetal Alcohol syndrome because of her. He gets angry and tells her that it’s all her fault that he is not good at studies and he doesn’t have any friends; he leaves his house in anger. He meets his old classmate there. They used to always beat him up. They tell him that they want to be friends with him, they ask for money and throws them on the roof, and tells him to get it, when he was climbing up the roof they hear cops coming, they all started to run and they give him a plastic bag with marijuana in it. He hides it in his front pocket and thinks friend, I have friends.
Valerian was five when his mother took him to red square mall. His mother leaves him there as she wanted to go pay her respects to Commrade Lenin. He sits there for all day then police comes and takes him away with them. When Valerian turned seven he was sent to orphanage, there he always used to miss her mother and waited for her to return. Their kids always used to make fun of him of that he still thinks his mother is waiting for him there. When he returned 16 he got send to army. Valerian works in the mechanics garage, sweeping and staying out of the land lady’s way. He gets a letter which says “meet me in red square at noon” signed squid. When he goes there, there is a short line up of people waiting to enter, he follows them there, when he enters he sees the man his mother had gone to meet Comrade Vladimir Lenin, the father of revolution. He wanted to get out from there so he goes and sits in the corner. A man comes and pats him on his shoulders, and gives him lunch to eat. He takes him to his office and there he meets architect of revolution. They take him to gates of heaven where people are smoking and taking drugs. He runs from there and sits down against a tree and keeps an eye on the shed door, and waits.
The story takes place in the night time, around 11:00 o’clock. Luella Bates Washington Jones is a large woman who works late at a hotel as a beautician. She carries a large purse that has everything in it but a hammer and nails. One day a man decides to rob Mrs. Washington to buy a new pair of blue and suede shoes. Mrs. Washington realises the boy’s intentions and swings her purse which causes the boy to fall on his back. She picks the boy up with his shirt front and shakes him until his teeth rattled. She notices that the boy’s face is dirty and tells him to come to her house to wash his face. He follows her to her house and does as he is told. The lady offers him a dinner since no one was at his house to cook supper. Later on the boy notices the remarkable change in Mrs. Washington. She turns from a frightfully aggressive, physically commanding woman to a gentle, motherly type. As the boy was leaving, he wanted to say something other than thank you ma’am, to Mrs. Washington, but his lips moved, he couldn’t even say that as he turned at the foot of the barren stoop.
The story starts off with Carolee Mitchell seeing three police cars parked in front of her house, a motorcycle like a slanted stress in the middle of the intersection, and half a dozen of more police cars parked up and down two blocks of her street. She notices that the whole neighbourhood was outside without proper attire for the cold weather. Police officers were telling them to clear the street, and return to their houses but no one seems to be obeying their orders. Carolee believes her street is safe, and it was unlikely that anyone would kill anyone else on the street, where every child had his own bedroom, and most men wither studies or basement workshops to go to. Carolee thinks she should go empty the dishwasher and come back because nothing was really happening. She notices a young man, sitting with his head down on the curve of the laurel hedge by the lily pond. She believes she should call someone but is puzzled who to call. The police was there, so was the ambulance. Later, the television announces that a suspect has been apprehended on. When her husband comes home, she tells him about the guns and the field glasses and dogs and cameras but she didn’t tell him about the hurt man, by the laurel hedge. After watching the news, her perception of the safe street changed and she was afraid. The major theme of the story is media impact because in the beginning she looked at the whole situation as she was watching a television drama, therefore it didn’t seem real to her. But at the end of the story she realised that it wasn’t unreality and she became afraid.
Tahmina’s family owned a field with opium poppy. Tahmina was an expert with poppies even at the age of 12. She and her brother Zameer used opium plants to earn money. Being poor they were in debt of Mr. Najibullah for their purchase of basic needs of life. They grew opium to return their debt. One day when Tahmina and Zameer were harvesting opium, two bulldozers entered their yard to trample down the poppy plants as the police said that growing opium was illegal as people in Paris got addicted with it. Tahmina, Zameer and their mother made a chain of their hands in front of their field to save it from destruction bit it was all invariable, the bulldozer did not stopped moving and it destroyed the whole opium poppy field. Tahmina’s family hopes to live a debt free life and have a bright future have vanished with the destruction of their harvest. This was a big shock for the family. When their father returned the village he was told all that had happened. He went to his loaner and when returned back. He told Tahmina to accompany him the next day to meet Mr. Najibullah. Tahmina’s father sold her to Mr. Najibullah as he had failed to pay his debt. When Tahmina came to know this she tried to run but her father held her firmly and walked back to the house. Her father was very sorry for Tahmina and cried but Tahmina was calm as she thought her sacrifice would get rid her family of the debt they owed.
The story The Interlopers mainly revolves around two main characters named Ulrich von Gradwitz and Georg Znaeym. Ever since they were boys, they have fought over who owned the land, which is in the middle of their lands, as their grandfathers did for years. One evening both characters try to hunt each other down and they meet face to face alone, just then lighting strikes and a tree falls over both men. Since they were both under the tree trunk, they start to argue with each other and whose men will come first to the save them. Ulrich then takes his wine out of his pocket and drinks wine and offers Georg some as well but Georg refuses and tells him he doesn't drink with his enemies. After a while Ulrich asks Georg to forget their quarrel as it seems that they both are going to die, and they should die on good terms and asks for his friendship. Georg agrees after a long time and they both join their voices and scream for help, yelling as louder as possible, hoping their men will hear their voices. Suddenly, they see figures coming from the woods; hoping it’s their men but then they realize it’s just a pack of wolves.
