Elsie's Mother example essay topic

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Tamiya Anderson September 17, 2001 Fairytale Author Monica Killing Pages 122 In this essay you will be reading about a fairy tale. The main characters are Elise, Frances and Joseph. The both believe in fairy and are tiring to proof that they are real. They have never seen a fairy but she new they ingested. She felt that she had to proof that fairy's are real for her brother. Elsie Wright scoped a curled leaf into the stream called cot tingley beck.

On the forest floor beside her stood an elegant table and eight chairs made from twigs and dried flower petals. On the table were eight plates made of eucalyptus leaves and eight acorn cups, which Elsie was filling with water. Where are you?" She called softly. Please come...

". Elsie had never seen the fairies she was inviting to her feast, but she knew her brother, Joseph, had. He had even drawn pictures of them, which he kept in a folder in his bedroom. But Joseph was gone now.

Every afternoon during the year since his death, Elsie's mother laid flowers at a headstone that said: Joseph Wright, 1905-1916, beloveds on of Arthur and Polly. He shall give angels charge over thee. Please come" Elsie whispered again. No one seemed to hear her.

The stream twisted through the small waterfall. Elsie's mother thought the beck was a dangerous place. She feared Elsie might trip and fall and get hurt, or even worse. But Elsie thought the beck was the most magical place in all of Yorkshire. A deep sense of peace came over her whenever she was here. It was almost as though were beside her again.

Elsie looked longingly into the woods. Tomorrow her cousin Frances was coming. Frances's father was missing in the war and her mother was dead. Elsie didn't know if she wanted to share the beck with her cousin.

Frances might think fairies were a silly notion. She might even laugh at the fairy dollhouse Joseph had begum and never finished. Suddenly, Elsie heard her name ring out through the woods. Her mother was calling her. Quickly but carefully, she packed the table and chairs back into their shoebox and ran home. She raced through the kitchen and partway up the stairs, then stopped and turned around, a bit out of breath.

When Mother came back into the house, Elsie said innocentiyYes?' '.