They arrived at The Starlight palace Hotel, it looked so amazing and luxurious, the Starlight was the first hotel to be built in Floggolopia, and it was being updated each year as new technology came out. Daniel was in his element as most of the technology used in the hotel was his own that he had designed, he was happy he finally got to see for himself how it worked on a different planet. They were escorted up to the room they were staying in; it was like a house, with a lounge, four bedrooms, a bathroom, and a small kitchen with a fridge and an oven. In the lounge was a huge 60 inch 3D television and in each bedroom there was a 30 inch television. The first thing the kids done were run to the bedrooms to decide which room they want. Daniel and Brenda found the master bedroom and started unpacking all their clothes and putting them in the wardrobes. Rachel managed to get the biggest of the other bedroom, she had just gone in and dumped her cases on the floor and collapsed on the bed, James had got stuck in the with the smallest room, but he wasn’t worried about it as he was just glad to be there, he laid on the bed and turned the television on and started flicking through the channels, Patrick was in his bedroom unpacking his stuff and putting it away. Once he put his stuff away he went out into the kitchen to get himself a drink.
Brenda and Daniel came out of their bedroom “You ok son? Said Daniel
Patrick said “Yeah, I’m just glad we are here now, means we can relax properly”
Brenda turned to him “Well don’t get too relaxed son, we are going to get something to eat in the minute” then she turned to Daniel and said “Can you go and check on the other two for me please dear”
Daniel said “Yes love, not a problem”
Daniel walked into the first bedroom, it was James’ room “Turn television off and come out please son, we are going for something to eat” he came out walked into Rachel’s room, he see her passed out sound asleep so he laughed to himself and walked up to the bed and started shaking her shouting “Wake up”
Rachel woke up in a mood “Go away dad”
Daniel said “No, get up, we’re going out for something to eat”
Rachel got up off the bed and walked out the bedroom into the lounge followed by Daniel where Brenda, Patrick and James were waiting for them, they looked at the hotel brochure which had a list of all 32 different restaurants in, and what types of food they sell. They decided to go to the burger restaurant where they made many different types of burgers Earth and Floggolopia style.
While they were there Brenda said to them “What do you want to do tomorrow?”
Daniel said “I thought we could just have a relaxing day tomorrow, we are all tired from the journey here”
Rachel turned to Brenda “Yeah, dad’s right for once, but can we go and relax at the beach, the weather is hot enough for it”
Brenda replied “Sounds like a good idea, how do the rest of you feel about that?”
They all agreed, so that was the plan, after they finished their meal, they went back to the room and went to bed as they were all tired. Brenda shouted to the kids “Goodnight, sweet dreams, we shall get up when we wake up, there is no rushing around tomorrow”
The next morning Rachel was the first one up, she came out of the room and went to the kitchen to see if there was anything to eat for breakfast but there wasn’t so she sneaked into Daniel and Brenda’s room and see Brenda’s purse on the side, so she went over and took some money from it and left the room. She went down to the shop to buy some food, when she got into the shop she was approached by a shop assistant. She noticed the shop assistants name was Ramani, he was only young himself, he looked about her age, and she thought he was a good looking boy. She looked at his eyes, they were a deep purple colour that really amazed her and she couldn’t stop looking at them, it was like she was in some kind of trance. With a smile on his face he said to her “hello, can I help you with anything?”
Rachel said smiling back at him and giggling “I’m alright thank you, I’m just looking for something for breakfast”
Ramani said “Ok then, but can I recommend something for you? It’s something that is very popular with the humans that come here”
Rachel said still smiling at him “What’s that then?”
Ramani replied with a laugh “Coco Pops, they get imported from earth, a lot of people that come here like to stick to their own food, I just think that they are too scared to try something from Floggolopia”
Rachel laughed “Ha-ha, you’re so funny, and for that I will try something from here just to show you that not everyone from earth is the same, so what do you recommend from here then?”
Ramani still smiling at her said “Well there are always the Mandigoot eggs and the Nocabian meat”
Rachel had an intrigued look on her face “What are they then?”
Ramani said “They are just like your eggs and bacon but from totally different animals and they have a lot more flavour to them, I’ll even give you a discount if you try it”
Rachel said “Why you going to give me a discount? Is it out of date or something?”
Ramani’s smile turned into more of a big grin “No, no, it’s just, well, I think you are kind of pretty”
Rachel turned as red as a beetroot with embarrassment “Thank you, and as you put it like that, I will”
Rachel bought the food and left the shop, as she was walking away, she looked back and noticed that Ramani was staring at her and smiling, she smiled back and jokingly blew him a kiss, laughed and waved. As she was walking back to the room she could not stop thinking about him, she was having mixed thoughts, first she was thinking “He was so nice and cute” yet she was also thinking “He’s not even human”. When she walked back into the room, everyone was out of bed. They all noticed that she had a really big smile on her face and that she seemed really happy.
Brenda looked at her “Where have you been?”
Rachel said grinning “Down the shop to buy some bits for breakfast”
Daniel turned to her “And where did you get the money for that?”
Rachel said “Mum’s purse, I sneaked in to your room while you were both still asleep and got it”
Brenda glared at her “You did what? You know that is wrong”
Rachel said still grinning “I know, I’m sorry mum, but I got enough for everyone, I wasn’t only thinking of myself”
Brenda and Daniel looked at each other with confused expressions on their faces. Brenda said to Rachel “Ok then, are you alright honey? You seem rather happy for some reason”
Rachel put the food down on the kitchen side “I’m just happy to be here mum”
Still looking confused Brenda said “Ok dear, well you go and get yourself washed up and I’ll prepare what you have got for us”
Rachel smiled “Alright then, see you in a bit mum” she said as she walked into the bathroom.
Brenda looked at Daniel “Something is going on with her, she is never this happy”
Daniel said “I know, she’s acting really weird”
Brenda looked in the bag “Well, I suppose I better start getting this ready”
After Rachel came out the bathroom, they all sat down and had breakfast, they all really enjoyed it.
Patrick looked at Rachel “What made you get this then little sis’, thought you would have got something from Earth not here”
Rachel said “Ramani said it was good, so I decided to buy it”
James laughs “Oh yeah, who’s Ramani then?”
Daniel looked at her “Yes, who is Ramani?
Rachel blushed and had a huge grin on her face “It’s just the boy who works in the shop”
Brenda said “Yeah right, just the boy who works in the shop, more like the boy you like who works in the shop”
Rachel went embarrassed “No! Don’t be stupid, he’s not even human, he just has amazing eyes” and she got up and quickly got up and walked into her bedroom”
The others laughed at her and Brenda shouted to her “Come back out here, we are only joking about with you, come on, we are getting ready to go out now”
Rachel came back out of her room with her bag which had her bits in for the beach “I’m ready, let’s go”
On the way out of the hotel they had to walk past the shop that Ramani worked in, Rachel tried her hardest not to look over but she couldn’t resist, she turned to have a quick look to see if she could see him, there he was, standing near the front of the shop but he had his back to her, as she was looking, Ramani turned round and see her, he smiled and waved, as she waved back to him Patrick saw and laughed.
Rachel quickly turned round and looked at Patrick “Shut up and leave me alone Pat”
Patrick was laughing at her and he called the others “Hey that must be Ramani”
They all laughed and Rachel said to them all “Shut up”
Brenda looked at her and said “We are only trying to wind you up, and it looks like it is working, he does look like a cute kid though”
Rachel just ignored her and the others and carried on walking.
It was a beautiful day outside as all the suns were shining, when they got to the beach, the water was calm and the sand was warm and soft on their feet. They sorted out all their beach stuff and relaxed on the sand .
After a few hours at the beach they decided to go back to the hotel. That evening they had planned to go out to one of the other restaurants for a meal, so they all had to get showered before they went. When they got back to the hotel Rachel had a sly look at the shop while they were walking past but Ramani wasn’t there which disappointed her. They went up to their room and started sorting out what they were going to were to the restaurant.
Brenda called out to everyone “who is going first in the bathroom”
Rachel shouted “I am”
Then Patrick called “Then me”
Daniel shouted to James “You go in after your brother James”
Brenda turned to Daniel and said “You can go in after James dear, and then you can take the kids down to the bar so that I can just enjoy a relaxing bath”
Daniel said “Ok dear, if that’s what you want”
Once they were all ready, Daniel said to the kids “Come on then, we are going to the bar for a few drinks before we go to the restaurant as your mum would like to have a nice relaxing bath”
Patrick said “Ready and waiting, so are the others”
Daniel called out to Brenda “See you in a little while dear”
Brenda called back “Ok, see you down there, I won’t be long”
Daniel and the kids left the room and headed for the bar. When they got there Daniel said “I’m going to start off on the soft drinks until we have dinner, what would you guys like?”
Patrick said “I’m going to do the same, don’t want to feel tipsy when I’m eating my dinner”
Daniel looked at James and Rachel “You two are definitely having soft drinks”
They got their drinks and went and sat down and started chatting about the holiday and what they were going to do while they were there. Time went by and they finished their drinks, Patrick said “Another drink anyone?”
Daniel said “Just another coke please mate”
Patrick said “You sure you don’t want one of the Blue Waffles, I’m going to have one this time”
Daniel replied “Oh go on then, I’m sure one while we are waiting will not hurt”
Patrick looked at James and Rachel “Same again for you to”
James and Rachel gave Patrick an evil look. Patrick took the drinks over to the table and sat back down and carried on drinking. Daniel said “Your mum is taking a while, I am going to go back up to the room in the minute and check on her, find out how long she is going to be. Will you be alright keeping an eye on these two for me Patrick?”
Patrick said “Ok, tell her to hurry up and get down her, I’m hungry, oh and these two will be just fine”
Daniel finished his drink and left the bar, he made his way back up to the hotel room. When he got there he went in and called out to Brenda but there was no answer, he went over to the bedroom and opened the door to see if she was in there but she wasn’t so he went to the bathroom door, he knocked on the door as he knew that she didn’t want to be disturbed but there was no answer so he opened the door. There she was, Brenda was dead, she had been savagely attacked and killed, and her body was in pieces, her arms, legs and head had been ripped off, she had big chunks out of her body that looked like they had been bitten out of her as if something had been eating her, there was blood everywhere, sprayed up the walls, the bath was overflowing as the taps were running and the mixture of water and blood was covering the whole of the bathroom floor. Daniel fell to his knees, he was in floods of tears, and then something snapped in his mind, he got up and grabbed the phone, and he dialled the number for the Floggolopian Police.
When they answered he cried to them “My wife, my wife, she’s dead, somebody killed here, help me please”
The officer on the phone started laughing “Calm down sir, there is no need to panic about it, soon enough you will be with her again along with every other human here and on Earth”
Daniel dropped the phone to the floor, and he quickly got up and ran back to the bar as fast as he could, as he was running back he kept hearing screams coming from all the rooms as he was passing them. He got back and spotted Patrick, James and Rachel, they saw him and noticed that he was covered in blood, they got up and ran over to him.
Rachel shouted “Dad, what’s happened? Where’s mum?”
Daniel still in tears said “She’s dead, we are all going to die”
Patrick grabbed him “We need to phone the police”
Daniel said “I did, they are the ones that told me we are all going to die”
James began to cry “Why dad? Why?”
Daniel replied to him “I don’t know son, the floggolopians are turning against us, we need to get out of here, they have emergency pods somewhere in the hotel that will get us home, we need to get to them”
Patrick said “But where in the hotel are they? We need to find them now”
Daniel grabbed Patrick tightly “I know we do, but I don’t know where they are”
Rachel screamed and pointed behind Daniel, he turned around and behind him there were three floggolopians with a crazy look in their eyes, suddenly, there was a lot of screaming coming from behind them, and Rachel looked round and saw everybody was being attacked and she started screaming in fear again. With the three floggolopians in front of them and the group of them behind, it seemed that they had nowhere to go. Out of nowhere Ramani ran and jumped at the three in front of them and knocked them all down, he quickly got back up and shouted to Daniel, Patrick, James and Rachel “Come with me now, and I will keep you safe”
Rachel said “I trust him dad, I think we should go with him”
Daniel looked at her “How can you trust him? He’s one of them”
Ramani shouted at them all again “Will you please come now before even more get here”
Daniel looked at the others “Let’s go, come on”
Ramani ran over to Rachel and took her hand, and they all started to run away. The three floggolopians that Ramani had knocked down got back up and started chasing them, Ramani let go of Rachel’s hand and said “Keep running down this corridor until you get to the pool area and go into there, I’ll catch up with you”
Ramani turned round and started running back towards the three floggolopians that were chasing them. Daniel and the kids kept running fast down the corridor, Rachel stopped to look back but she couldn’t see Ramani, when Daniel noticed that she had stopped he ran back to her, he was about to get to her when an air vent in the wall burst open and a couple of floggolopians reached out and grabbed him by the arms and started pulling him towards the vent, he was screaming to Rachel “Go run, go, now”
He was struggling to get away so much that the floggolopians grabbed him by the legs then they both managed to grab him round the waist, they pulled him into the vent his body being bent the wrong way made a huge snapping noise where his spine was just shattered to bits, Rachel was frozen, she was so scared and in shock from what had just happened, blood started pouring from the bottom of the vent. One of the floggolopians began to climb out of the vent towards her when Ramani came running along and grabbed her arm and pulled her away and they ran and caught up with Patrick and James, they got to the pool area, they looked round up and down the corridor before they went in and there was a lot floggolopians running towards them from both directions.
They ran into the pool area, there were parts of bodies and blood all over the place and the swimming pool looked like it had been filled with blood. Rachel nearly threw up at the site of it all and closed her eyes “I can’t take any more of this”
Patrick said “We need to hide somewhere”
Ramani said “That’s no good, we are better off if we keep running, they have a really good sense of smell and they would find you straight away so there is no point hiding from them at all”
Patrick shouted at him “How do we know you aren’t just saving us for yourself to eat?”
Ramani looked at him “Don’t you think if I was going to eat you, I would have done it by now?”
Patrick just gazed at him “Well you better be telling the truth, if you try anything I will kill you myself, come on then, let’s get out of here”
They started running again, James tripped over one of the slides that go into the pool and fell down it, the others hear him scream, they stopped and looked back at the slide, but they didn’t see him anywhere, then they noticed blood started to flow out the bottom of the slide. Patrick screamed as he saw his brothers’ hand come out the bottom of the slide “James”
The doors to the pool swung open and all the other floggolopians started to barge through them, Patrick shouted “Quick run”
Rachel cried “But what about James?”
Patrick said “It’s too late for James, he’s dead, and I’m not going to let the same thing happen to you, now move”
Patrick and Rachel ran with Ramani leading the way, they ran through the doors at the other end of the pool area. Ramani said “It’s not that far now, we are nearly there”
As they were running down the corridor, a door opened and someone jumped out and grabbed Ramani, he shouted “just keep running, there are signs leading the way, I’ll be there soon”
Patrick and Rachel kept running and they notice the sign leading the way to the emergency pods, they turned the corner and there not far down the corridor were the pods. They slow down a bit in case any floggolopians are hiding waiting for them, they walk along the corridor looking all around them when Ramani came out of a door in front of them, he said “Quick, come on, they are coming”
Patrick looked at him “How did you get here so quick?”
Ramani explained quickly “Easy, I knew a shortcut, and once I managed to get away from them, I used it, I would have explained that way to you but it’s complicated and you would have got lost and I was a bit busy at the time, so just come on”
They started moving faster and reached the pods, they started to look for one that was still there as some had gone, they finally came across one, somebody had already tried to get it but it looked like they had been caught and killed as there was a thick trail of blood leading from the pod and a foot left inside. Rachel saw the foot and started to feel sick again, she went in and kicked the foot out of the pod.
Ramani ran in and started looking at the controls “Rachel, where do you live? You can set the pod to go straight to your town”
Rachel said “We live in the Isle of White, in England”
Ramani started typing in to the panel “Ok, that’s done”
Patrick was standing outside the pod keeping watch for the floggolopians that were chasing them, Ramani turned around and said “Get in Patrick now, we are ready to get out of here”
Patrick said “Ok then, let’s go”
As Patrick turned to get into the pod he was grabbed, he started to get pulled back, a couple of floggolopians had hold of him by one of his arms and one of his legs, he was clutching on to the door frame with his other hand trying not to let go. He looked into Rachel’s eyes “I love you sis, now go keep her safe Ramani”
With that he let go of the door frame and hit the button to close the doors, the doors closed quickly chopping off his hand as he was being dragged away.
Ramani looked at Rachel “We need to go, if we don’t you will end up dead to, and I don’t want that to happen and then I would have failed your brother”
Ramani hit the launch button and the pod sped off from the hotel into the sky, he said “We will be back to your world in about 6 hours’ time, these pods are ten times faster than the shuttles you came here in. sit down Rachel, we are safe now, I am sorry about your family”
Rachel started to cry “You risked your own life to help us all, it wasn’t your fault, if it wasn’t for you, we would be dead to”
He put his arm around her to comfort her, she cuddled into him and said “We hardly know each other but you have done so much for me, can you tell me about yourself please? It will help me take my mind off things for a while”
Ramani asked “What would you like to know? There really isn’t much to tell”
Rachel looked him in the eyes “I want to know everything there is to know, why are you not like the others? How old are you?
Ramani stroked her face “you are so beautiful, but anyway, I am 14 of your years, the reason I wanted you to live is because I like you a lot, which is why I also wanted to protect your family, I never wanted to see you unhappy. I never did like the idea of hurting people, it’s murder, we wouldn’t do it to one of our own, and so why do it to someone else? And then when I met you, it made up my mind for sure”
Rachel smiled at him “Well I like you to, but what do you mean 14 of my years? And do you mean that you would have gone around killing humans if you didn’t meet me?”
Ramani said “One of your years is three of mine, but when it comes to growth, we grow the same as humans so we are biologically the same age, and like I said I never liked the idea of murder, I would have just gone and hid somewhere until it was all over. Why don’t you lie down and go to sleep for a while? I’ll wake you up when we get close to earth”.
Rachel laid down and went off to sleep, Ramani sat there and watched her sleep, she was slightly jumping as if she was dreaming. A few hours later Earth became visible, Ramani woke Rachel up, he said “Look, there’s Earth, we’ll be there in about ten minutes”
They watched it getting closer and closer, Rachel help Ramani’s hand and said “Thank you”
Ramani said to her “You don’t have to thank me, I just want to keep you safe”
A few minutes later the pod landed on Earth, it opened up and they got out, they were about a mile away from the house so they had to walk there. Ramani took Rachel’s hand again and they started walking. When they got there Michaels car was there, Rachel was happy to see it there as he was the only family she had left, keeping hold of Ramani’s hand she sped up a bit and headed for the front door, she pushed on the door and it opened, there was Michael standing there, when he saw her he put his arms out ready to hold her, she went over to him and gave him a hug.
Michael said to Rachel “Are you ok my love?”
Rachel cried to him “They’re all dead Uncle Mike”
Rachel and Ramani looked at each other, he started laughing and said to her “I’ve got a confession to make to you Rachel, when I said I didn’t like the idea of killing humans, I was lying. Truth be told, I did kill people, and I set your family up to die, I wanted to keep you alive so that I could share you with my father who has been down here on earth nearly all my life”
Rachel said “No please don’t, I thought you were different”
Ramani laughed again “You humans think you can come to our planet and take over and get away with it, things were fine before you came along, and now all we get is your people coming there for holidays, treating us like slaves”
Rachel looked at Michael “Don’t let him hurt me Uncle Mike, please”
Michael looked at her and smiled, and then he looked at Ramani and said “Hello son, it’s really good to see you”
Rachel screamed and Michael grabbed her by the hair yanked her head back so far it broke her neck and killed her instantly, and he began to bite huge chunks out of her, Ramani walked over and started ripping and eating other parts of her body, with Rachel’s blood dripping from their mouths, they looked at each other and started laughing.
The End
Commentary
I have used dates as a timeline and a clear indicator of what period the story is written in. This also opens the reader’s minds and encourages them to believe that anything can happen and anything is possible. As this story has not happened yet and is set in the future, this helps the reader to think about what could happen and what their future may hold. It opens up the possibility of other life forms across the galaxies and planets merging as one nation. The story opens within past tense and this continues throughout. I have chosen this method and style of writing as it helps the reader to understand what is going on and takes them on the journey alongside the characters. It was important to me to add real life landmarks such as the Spinnaker Tower and places such as the Isle of White and Portsmouth as i believe that this again, adds realism to, both, the plot and the characters.
I have used similes to describe actions and emotions, for example, as red as a beetroot. I used this simile to express Rachel’s embarrassment this also portrays her as vulnerable and childlike. I have used Imagery in order to build up a picture within the readers mind, making them see the story as it is intended to be. Within the story a three examples of the imagery would be ‘the air was breathable, it had clear and clean running rivers and streams, the seas and oceans were crystal clear where you could see right down to the bed where the sand was a beautiful white colour and had beautiful brightly coloured fish’, this one would be a visual imagery and ‘Suddenly there was a lot of banging around and Rachel came storming down the stairs and slammed her suitcase down in the passage’ and finally ‘The shuttle kept rising and soon the shuttle was surrounded in darkness and in the distance was earth getting farther and farther away’. I have given a full detailed account of the shuttle taking off and this helps portray the impending disaster and the fact that they may never return. These different forms of imagery help the reader to imagine what the planet looks like and the noise of the shuttle. I have use Alliterations to describe the world Floggolopia, I described the seas and oceans as being crystal clear, and I have also used alliteration when describing the appearance of the fish. The alliterations I have used suggest to the reader the beauty and the life of the planet. Crystal clear is also a clever use of Metaphor.
The two twists in the story show where the human’s trust for the floggolopians is too much, although they have got on for many years by this point in time it shows that the Floggolopians turned out to be evil cannibal aliens and their plan was to trick the humans by pretending to get on with them but really never get along with them as they led them to believe but destroy them and end all human life as we know it, this also portrays the humans as being gullible and naïve, showing them as weak and powerless. The other twist at the very end of the story is also to do with trust, but it was more of a friendship trust, Michael, who had pretended to be the family friend and just like part of the family ended up being a floggolopian himself, and also him being Ramani’s father which was dishonesty from both Michael and Ramani. The floggolopians finally turned on the humans as they were sick of being treated like slaves when the humans took their holiday there for example where Ramani says “You humans think you can come to our planet and take over and get away with it, things were fine before you came along, and now all we get is your people coming there for holidays, treating us like slaves”, also a main issue that the floggolopians had with the humans is that they had ignorance and unwillingness to eat the floggolopian food and just normally by the food that had been imported from Earth for example when Ramani says “Coco Pops, they get imported from earth, a lot of people that come here like to stick to their own food, I just think that they are too scared to try something from Floggolopia”, this fuelled the anger within the floggolopians and ultimately led to their deaths.
The story itself started off a slow story, explaining different parts, first where the two planets come together, then 13 years on with the Lisbon’s, then the trip to Floggolopia starting off a nice one with a bit of what sounds like romance between Rachel and Ramani, next being where the floggolopians turn against the humans leading to Rachel and Ramani getting away in the emergency pod only to get home and find out that Michael is really a floggolopian and he is Ramani’s dad and that together after 14 years, they were going to have their first feast together and it was going to be her, so the Lisbon’s family holiday turned into a nightmare holiday and their lives started ending quickly through the story saving Rachel to last, ending her life instantly and tragically.
On the return to Earth Rachel and Ramani seemed to get close, but this was Ramani leading Rachel into a false sense of security, the way he told her that he liked her and she also told him the same, makes the reader believe that perhaps he is a nice floggolopian and not the same as all the others by being a vicious killer for example where Ramani and Rachel are in the emergency pod and he says “One of your years is three of mine, but when it comes to growth, we grow the same as humans so we are biologically the same age, and like I said I never liked the idea of murder, I would have just gone and hid somewhere until it was all over. Why don’t you lie down and go to sleep for a while? I’ll wake you up when we get close to earth”. I wrote this story hoping that it has many effects on the reader such as shocked, thrilling and leaves them in disbelief.
Overall the story is structured through the development of Rachel’s character. The example for this is when the story starts by introducing the family she is a lazy teenager “Rachel who was 13 years old and went to secondary school but wasn’t doing too well as she never listened and was always getting in trouble”. At the point when she meets Ramani her attitude changes and turns her more in to a love school girl where she meets him for the first time in the shop and can’t help but gaze into his “deep purple eyes” and where she turns “as red as a beetroot”. When her mother gets killed, she finds out she becomes scared and realizes what else is going to happen and even more so when people start being killed all around them “Rachel screamed and pointed behind Daniel, he turned around and behind him there were three floggolopians with a crazy look in their eyes, suddenly, there was a lot of screaming coming from behind them, and Rachel looked round and saw everybody was being attacked and she started screaming in fear again”. After she and Ramani is in the emergency pod, she seems to calm down as they are away from the planet and she turns back slightly into the love sick school girl but is also very upset about what has happened to her family and she thanks Ramani for being there and looking after her and cuddles up to him and falls to sleep “Rachel laid down and went off to sleep, Ramani sat there and watched her sleep, she was slightly jumping as if she was dreaming”. At the end of the story when it becomes clear to her that she is also going to die by the hands of Ramani she turns to Michael for help as she is scared, for example “Rachel looked at Michael “Don’t let him hurt me Uncle Mike, please” but when she realizes that Michael is also part of it all she knows she has no hope for herself but doesn’t have time to show any emotion as she is killed instantly “Michael looked at her and smiled, and then he looked at Ramani and said “Hello son, it’s really good to see you”.