Tress MacNeille Essays

My hero is my mother. She has been there for me all my like and she cares about me and my sister more than anything. My mother will get anything I need even if she doesn't have much money, she always finds a way to get what I need and I appreciate that. My parents don't make a lot of money so sometimes we go a night without eating dinner or we’ll have to find something to make and eat or we just eat leftovers from the night before or a couple nights before and if there’s only enough food for my sister

When I was a kid, I didn 't really get that many toys for Christmas or my birthday. I had some toys. The only one one I would choose out of them is a Captain America shield that shoots out disk and you have targets that you can hit drop distance away. The place I got the the Shield was at Target and it was the newest Toy out so there were only like a couple left in the store. When I saw the Toy I begged to my parents to buy it, but they didn 't listen. Then when we were walking around I realized

be a nice and relaxing night by myself , but it quickly transformed into a aggravating night I do not want to have again. Transformation obviously creates fear. This can be seen in the following three stories as well. Oate’s “Where is here”,Arthur Tress’ “Dream Collector” and Julio Cortazar’s “House Taken Over” uses transformation of an ordinary person and an ordinary setting to show us how easily circumstances can change .     Joyce Carol Oate’s “Where is Here” transformation scares readers because