ipl-logo

After Amy Efaw Analysis

1474 Words6 Pages

““Well?” Her mom steps forward, flicks this quick, embarrassed glance at the man, then glares back down at Devon. “Hey, I don’t care how sick you are” - her mom reaches down- “there’s no excuse for-” Her mom snatches the blanket. It flips up and away, like a flag blowing in the wind,” (Efaw, 10-11). This quote is in the beginning of the book called After by Amy Efaw. This quote explains when Devon would not answer the police and Devon’s mother got very annoyed and ripped the blanket off of Devon. Both the mother and the police officers had a very shocked look on their face. Devon looked down and saw that there was a puddle of blood underneath of her, she started screaming for the blanket back. She was rushed to the hospital, and they believed …show more content…

That is why the police came to Devons house. At the end of After by Amy Efaw, Devon goes to court and gets charged for attempted murder and gets put in the Remann Hall Juvenile Detention Center because she is only 15 years old. “The man squats down to Devon’s level and puts out his hand, doing that routine greeting thing. He waits a second for Devon to take it, then drops his hand, unshook. “Feeling kinda crummy today, huh?” Devon just stares at him, her eyes dark and unblinking. She can not process why he’s there exactly. Why he’s looking at her. Is he just being Mr.Polite before he makes his move on her mom? Pretending he actually likes kids or something? Devon’s seen that routine before. Plenty of times. “Devon!” Her mom is beside the man now, and her smile is gone. “Sit up and show some respect! What are you trying to do, embarrass me?” Angry lines crease her face, but she makes a fake, nervous laugh. “Come on, answer him!” He’s a police officer, for God’s sake!” Police officer. Devon’s eyes widen as the words register. Her eyes flit to the man near the door, the one in dark blue. Two police officers. “Hey! Are you listening to me?” Devon can not move, can

Show More
Related
1648 Words | 7 Pages

If you contact police, she will die.” During the time of her kidnapping, Stephanie Slater kept calm and did what was asked of her. However, she had no idea that she was being held captive by Julie Dart’s kidnapper/ murderer. The police were involved this whole time with Slater’s colleagues. When he would call to set up a time for a pick up of the money, the police were recording, Sams had no idea.

Read More
594 Words | 3 Pages

It was evident that Lynne had been sexually assaulted and strangled prior to her death. Due to Steven’s appearance with Lynne, two days earlier, Steven became the immediate suspect and was taken into

Read More
1667 Words | 7 Pages

“Sometimes I scare me, too.” To Alexei’s credit, he doesn’t follow. I can feel him watching me, though, his blue eyes tracking my every move. “You know I’m here if you need me, don’t you?” he calls out.

Read More
699 Words | 3 Pages

At the second door, 82-62 Austin Street, he saw her slumped on the floor at the foot of the stairs. He stabbed her a third time. ”(Pg 129) . The police got their first call from a man that was a neighbor of Miss Genovese, they were there in two minutes. “The neighbor, a seventy year-old woman and another woman were the only persons on the streets.

Read More
756 Words | 4 Pages

In June 2000, fourteen-year-old Kenneth Young’s life was about to take a dramatic turn. After being pressured by his mother’s drug dealer, he was forced to participate in a series of armed robberies. As a result of this, only at fifteen years old, Kenneth Young was sentenced to four consecutive life sentences. On May 31, 2014, two twelve- year -old girls were charged with the attempted murder after stabbing another twelve-year-old nineteen times. If convicted the two girls can face up to sixty-five years in prison.

Read More
624 Words | 3 Pages

The police gave a report which said that the twenty-eight-year-old was alone with his four-year-old stepson, named Nathan, and his three-year-old son. Nathan was found dead in the bathtub of the apartment building with bruising on his head. Police say that these bruises and injuries are not consistent with Andrew Evans’ story. Andrew Evans told the police that while the boy, his stepson, was taking a bath, he drowned accidentally. Evans also said that Nathan must have slipped and fallen while in

Read More
1346 Words | 6 Pages

"I think now is the best time," a smile graced her features for a moment but the woman's dark eyes lacked any mirth. "Do the guards know you are here?" the captain spoke up again, following the dark haired woman's gaze - she eyed the group of officers in a strangely familiar fashion. Malik raised one of his eyebrows expectantly. "They do."

Read More
1109 Words | 5 Pages

He slipped his arm out of her grasp. "I don't understand what's happening. Couldn't you tell me what everyone is doing here?" "It's not just here," she told him. "it's at all the Ministry buildings!"

Read More
1103 Words | 5 Pages

Since Devon died in the shooting his sister Caitlin and his dad have been struggling to see each others point of view when it comes to Devon especially when it comes to his room. “Not since The Day Our Life Fell Apart and Dad slammed Devon’s door shut and put his head against it and cried and said, no no no no no. So I can’t go to my hidey-hole in Devon’s room anymore

Read More
663 Words | 3 Pages

“Nunya,” Khalil says, meaning none of your business. “What you pull me over

Read More
320 Words | 2 Pages

The characters in the book are shown to have real human psychology when put into stressful situations. Some emotions that are shown in the book is compassion, fear, paranoia, and overconfidence. The first emotion is compassion which the protagonist Amy gives to the Starlings who are unaware that they are in danger by the man in the black, even though Amy and Dan are competing against them they show compassion because it is a basic human survival technique to save your own species. Another emotion that we see in this book is fear, right after the bomb exploded Amy and Dan were picked up by their Au pair. During the car, Amy was explaining what happened but kept on stuttering.

Read More
1364 Words | 6 Pages

Ok, this is more serious than I thought [Police walks back to car, and gets on radio. People from crowd watch as he talks for a minute. He walks back to crowd] Police Officer- I need everyone to stay calm and wait until back up comes to get Pete 's body, and to get Charlie, so we can start questioning.him. We need to question all of you, actually.

Read More
622 Words | 3 Pages

"Come on we can go out to eat" she said putting him on the floor. Getting the both of their jackets Demi grabbed her purse and car keys picking up Aiden before heading out the door. She got Aiden in his car seat turning on the small tv she had in the back for him playing his favorite tv show. " Yo what's up Demi" the boy Taylor said.

Read More
280 Words | 2 Pages

Gilman develops setting in “The Yellow Wallpaper” by describing the connection there is between the house and the narrator. The narrator tells us that the house is three miles from the village, that it has walls and gates that lock, and separate little houses. This gives us a sense that the house is isolated from society. Within the house the narrator is greeted to a “big, airy room, with windows that look all ways”. The windows in her room ,that look out everywhere, are “ barred” forbidding any sort of escape.

Read More
583 Words | 3 Pages

The crowd slowly disperses as the sergeant sticks his head out at the bookseller... "We will no doubt be needing testimony from you both as the case proceeds..." "Yes" They drive away... The bookseller turns to his assistant, rubbing his chin.... "This is a little much don't you think?"

Read More

More about After Amy Efaw Analysis

Related Topics

Open Document