In the space below, write a full narrative description of an event in your memory; you may write a prose piece or a poem. a prose piece must be at least 300 words and a poem should be at least 150-200 words. regardless of the form you choose, your piece should not exceed 500 words.

Men came inside our house

Carrying a hammock with someone in it.

The man in the hammock looked so pale.

I just then realized it was my father

But he was so pale and lifeless.

I stood at the corner speechless.

Then the rest was a blur…

I don’t remember what I did.

The next image I saw was a man

Dressed in white shirt and black pants

Lying stiffly on a bed.

He looked dark and bloated

So different from the pale body in the hammock.

What did they do to my father?

Who was that man lying on the bed?

Years later, I saw a picture of the man on the bed.

My mother kept it hidden because it looked so different.

They said it was a picture of my Dad

But I couldn’t believe it was him.

He looked so different from the man in the hammock.

What could have happened to his body in just a few hours?

Was it replaced by this hideous corpse lying solitary and still?

the answer:

in the first part of the story running is all that matters to squeaky. running gives her confidence and defines who she is. at the beginning of the story she says that other kids call her mercury because she runs very fast. in the text she refers to herself as "miss quicksilver".

the line that provides the best evidence that squeaky has self-confidence is

" and i continue with my breathing exercise, strolling down broadway toward the ice cream man on 145th with not a care in the world cause i am miss quicksilver herself".