... in the day time, unchained in the front yard at night. The house of Zapote Street is in the current architectural cliche: the hoity-toity Philippine split-level suburban style-a half-story perched above the living area, to which it is bound by the slope of the roof and which it overlooks from a balcony, so that a person standing in the sala can see the doors of the bedrooms and bathroom just above his head. The house is ... . It was they who had closed the front gate. A policeman volunteered to enter the house through the back door; Gene said he would try the front one. He peered in at a...

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• Approx Pages: 20
• Grade Level: High School

... from coming down. Nat tried to lighten up the situation by cheering up his children with jokes about the birds. When Nat goes upstairs to check on the bedrooms he realizes that the birds have gotten into one of the bedrooms. He gets furniture from the other bedroom and stacked it at the top of the stairs. They listened for the news bulletin that was going to give them instructions on what ... to do. It never came on and we can, at that moment, sense the graveness of the situation. That marked the end of the BBC and Nat ... sad and fearful for Nat and his family. Du Maurier creates this...

• Word Count: 4405
• Approx Pages: 18
• Grade Level: High School