Literature Unit

from "The Treasure of Lemon Brown"

"Greg noticed that the door, once boarded over, had been slightly ajar" (180).

from "The Treasure of Lemon Brown"

"[T]he dead would commence to rocking with the beat" (182).

from "The Treasure of Lemon Brown"

"Lemon Brown squeezed Greg's hand in his own hard, gnarled fist" (183).

from "The Treasure of Lemon Brown"

"A rush of warm air came in as the downstairs door opened, then there was only an ominous silence" (184).

from "The Treasure of Lemon Brown"

"He vaulted over the outer stairs and pushed tentatively on the door" (180).

from "The Treasure of Lemon Brown"

"Greg, except for an involuntary tremor in his knees, stood stock still" (181).

from "We Alone"

"This could be our revolution:/To love what is plentiful/as much as/what is scarce" (14-17).

from "Fear"

"A Memoir by Gary Soto" (subtitle)

from "Fear"

"Frankie T. [...] had me pinned on the ground behind a backstop" (paragraph 1).

from "Fear"

"the yearnings for something to love" (paragraph 9)

from "Bandaids and Five Dollar Bills"

"By morn she remembers no pain, just the void,/And her kids wish the world had a door" (31-32).

from "The Elevator"

"The elevator trembled and began its ascent" (33).

from "The Elevator"

"Perhaps its baleful atmosphere was due to the light from the single fluorescent ceiling strip, bleak and dim on the dirty brown walls" (31).

from "The Elevator"

"Maybe it was simply the dimensions of the contraption that bothered him, so small that it felt uncomfortably crowded even where there was only one other person in it" (31).

from "The Elevator"

"Perhaps the problem was the door, which never stayed open quite long enough, and slammed shut with such ominous, clanging finality" (31).

from "The Elevator"

"And even if she did, his father would see her, he would realize how peculiar she was" (35).

from "The Elevator"

"Her features seemed very small, squashed together by the loose fleshy mounds of her cheeks" (32).

from "The Elevator"

"She wore a threadbare green coat that ballooned around her" (32).

from "The Drummer Boy of Shiloh"

"Beyond the thirty-three familiar shadows, forty thousand men, exhausted by nervous expectation, unable to sleep for romantic dreams of battles yet unfought, lay crazily askew in their uniforms" (330).

from "The Drummer Boy of Shiloh"

"Run off from home or joined legitimately, boy?" (333)

from "The Drummer Boy of Shiloh"

"He lay next to it, his arm around it, feeling the tremor, the touch, the muted thunder" (335).

from "The Drummer Boy of Shiloh"

"Move the blood up the body and make the head proud and the spine stiff and the jaw resolute" (335).

from "The Drummer Boy of Shiloh"

"His face, alert or at rest, was solemn" (330).

from "The Tell-Tale Heart"

"So I opened it--you cannot imagine how stealthily, stealthily--until, at length, a single dim ray, like the thread of the spider, shot from out the crevice and fell full upon the vulture eye" (85).

from "The Tell-Tale Heart"

"Above all was the sense of hearing acute" (82).

from "The Tell-Tale Heart"

"I myself, in the wild audacity of my perfect triumph, placed my own seat upon the very spot beneath which reposed the corpse of the victim" (87).

from "The Tell-Tale Heart"

"Anything was more tolerable than this derision!" (87)

from "The Tell-Tale Heart"

"[I]t was the low, stifled sound that arises from the bottom of the soul when overcharged with awe" (84).

from "The Tell-Tale Heart"

"[F]or it was not the old man who vexed me, but his Evil Eye" (84).

from "The Tell-Tale Heart"

"I resolved to open a little--a very, very little crevice in the lantern" (85).