| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Amy Foster by Joseph Conrad: room.' They laid their hands on him. Having
had a glass or two, Mr. Swaffer's foreigner tried
to expostulate: was ejected forcibly: got a black
eye.
"I believe he felt the hostility of his human sur-
roundings. But he was tough--tough in spirit,
too, as well as in body. Only the memory of the
sea frightened him, with that vague terror that is
left by a bad dream. His home was far away; and
he did not want now to go to America. I had often
explained to him that there is no place on earth
Amy Foster |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Betty Zane by Zane Grey: not a beaver-skin was left. Then the trader would move or when the Indians
sobered up they would be much dejected, for invariably they would find that
some had been wounded, others crippled, and often several had been killed.
Logan, using all his eloquence, travelled from village to village visiting the
different tribes and making speeches. He urged the Indians to shun the dreaded
"fire-water." He exclaimed against the whites for introducing liquor to the
Indians and thus debasing them. At the same time Logan admitted his own
fondness for rum. This intelligent and noble Indian was murdered in a drunken
fight shortly after sending his address to Lord Dunmore.
Thus it was that the poor Indians had no chance to avert their downfall; the
steadily increasing tide of land-stealing settlers rolling westward, and the
Betty Zane |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Mother by Owen Wister: "The change of May into June, and the change of June into July, did not
mellow Ethel's bitter feelings. I remember the day after Petunias
defaulted on their interest that she exclaimed, 'I hope I shall never
meet her!' We always called Mr. Beverly's mother 'she' now. 'For if I
were to meet her,' continued Ethel, 'I feel I should say something that I
should regret. Oh, Richard, I suppose we shall have to give up that house
on Park Avenue!'"
"I put a cheerful and even insular face on the matter, for I could not
bear to see Ethel so depressed. But it was hard work for me. Some few of
my investments were evidently good; but it always seemed as if it was
into these that I had happened to put not much money, while the bulk of
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