Assignment

Your Task: Rewrite the hospital scene where Johnny's mother comes to visit. In your version, the nurse does not turn her away, but lets her in the room. Imagine Johnny's reaction. What would Johnny's mother say to him? What would Johnny say to her?

You are writing part of a narrative, not a script. Sentences, punctuation, and paragraphs should appear the way it would in a book. Use the book or passage above as an example. Pay special attention to the dialogue and how the author starts a new paragraph each time she changes speakers.

Thursday, May 21, 2015

David Huck

               A nurse appeared in the doorway. "Johnny," she said quietly, "your mother is here to see you." Johnny opened his eyes. At first they were wide with surprise. then they darkened. "I don't want to see her." "Shes your mother, I am sending her in," the nurse said. "Johnny," his mother said softly, " How did this happen?" "Why would you care?", Johnny said. Johnny's blood pressure was rising quick. "Johnny we want you to come home", away from those hoodlums." Your father got a new job, he is making enough to support us, and to move us out of this place." Johnny suddenly passed out.  "LEAVE NOW", he said. Then, there was a long pause before his monitor flat lined. "NO", his mother cried. "if it wasn't  for the hoodlums he was with, he wouldn't even be in this mess!" A long passed before all turned to normal, but a different kind of normal. Nothing would ever be the same, Johnny was dead.

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