Monday, April 5, 2010

We All Begin in a Magazine

A family of four, live in a small coastal town. And in the summer when the town looks it's greatest and becomes popular with tourists, the mother looks in The Times to search for a new house to live in for the duration of the summer. The mother has been looking for a new house for three summers in a row. The first house that she has looked in was owned by an African man who built house in the poor parts of Africa. The second house that was found by the mother was owned by an architect where just about everything was done by a push of a button. The third time, it was a house owned by a couple which was in the middle of getting a divorce. Finally in June the she saw a an ad in the newspaper stating that there was a house available for three weeks and with reasonable rent. So the parents came to a conclusion that they will definitely rent that house. As the family of four was moving into the house, the kids were exploring each room. It was a large house that you could tell was being lived in. When the family was getting used to the house they were reviving many phone calls which became very irritating and annoying. The next day the family was woken up by the sound of the loud doorbell. It was a woman by the name of Ms Waters, a pale woman in her late forties and with thinning blonde hair. She was the editor of a popular magazine. The mother had recognized her from the magazine. Ms. Waters insisted on interviewing the mother for a television show on the "Brain Drain." the mother had then told Ms. Waters that she writes and publishes books as-well. Ms. Waters was very impressed and decided to give her a job position. The mother was extremely nervous when it came to meeting the camera crew and interviewer. Those two weeks went by rather quickly and when the taxi came to pick up the family to go back home the mother did not want to go. Would you want to go back home if you received a job offer like this?

2 comments:

  1. So did the story just leave you hanging,not knowing if they were going to go back home? If so, why do you think the author did that?

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  2. The story did end off in a cliff hanger. I feel that the author did this for the reason that the author wanted the reader to end the story the way the reader wanted it to end.

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