1. The Stone Diaries
... thing that makes her happy. While Daisy was all alone in the dim room lots of things, passe thought Daisy Goodwill's mind. She thinks that if she would write an autobiography, later in life, that it would be the results of a narrative text full of gaps and voids. The long days of isolation, of silence, the torment of boredom - all these ... pressed down on me, on young Daisy Goodwill and emptied her out. Her autobiography, if such a thing were imaginable, would be, if such a thing were ever to be written, an assemblage of dark voids and unbridgeable gaps. This is how Daisy sees her life...
- Word Count: 1810
- Approx Pages: 7
- Grade Level: High School