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Anne pulled a screwed up five pound note out of the pocket of her worn out jeans with her shaking hand and handed it to the el
Anne pulled a screwed up five pound note out of the pocket of her worn out jeans with her shaking hand and handed it to the elderly cashier, picked up the small paper bag and slowly walked out of the shop. Anne was 5 feet and 7 inches tall with long golden shiny locks that flowed past her shoulders and blue eyes that always shone like diamonds and made her stand out from everyone else you saw walking the streets and she had a figure people would die for. To everyone else she seemed and looked perfect but under her clothes there were many marks on her soft, fair, unblemished skin given to her by her own flesh and blood, her mother. This showed and proved she was not and neither was her life, far from it in fact. She slumped against the steps outside the shop and placed her bag down on the ground beside her. Holding her head in one hand and rubbing her tender beaten skin with the other where her mother had beaten her the previous night. Her eyes started to fill up and tears started to trickle down her beautiful unmarked face. She was sat there in her own little world watching the real world pass by, she could only think of the events of the night before, feeling the pain once again of the ghastly tight grip of her mothers lanky, sweating hands around her neck, she could remember trying her best to unleash the grip on her neck from her mothers evil clutches but as she did her
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Ebony Wilbert Comp.II Comparison Paper The Lady with the Pet Dog is a very unique fiction story originally written by Anton Chekhov a Russian writer born 1860. His style of writing consisted of masking his fiction realistic. The Lady With a Pet Dog was in my opinion a romantic drama type of fiction. The first scene takes places in Yalta were the two main characters meet Dimitry Gurov and Anna Sergeyevena. Both are trying to escape the unreal and loveless relationships of there spouses. Dimitry was older than Anna but he found her very attractive. He had watched Anna for several days. No one knew her name she was known only as the lady with the pet dog. Due to the white Pomeranian dog seen walking behind her. Finally he was given the chance to approach her while dinning in a public garden. Slowly the affair progressed to intimacy and they fell in love. Shortly Anna had to return home to her husband. After Anna left Dimitry could not deny his love for her so he went to Moscow to try and ease the loneness he felt for her. They began to have an affair again not sure of what is to come next. Joyce Carol Oates was an American writer who was raised in upstate New York. Also a writer who likes to write from a realistic point of view. In 1972 Oates revised the short story The Lady with the Pet Dog making it American and more modern. She does so by changing the setting to the
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