English, 07.09.2020 02:01 carsonbake
When the Spellman family moved next door to us, my mother swore the Lord himself sent them to test her good nature. See, our block was pretty quiet until the Spellmanâs came. There were some senior citizens, the newlywed couple, Mr. Tatum the librarian, and us, the Middleton family, and we didnât live any way like the Spellman family did. We kept our lawn cut, turned off our lights at 9PM, and went to church every Sunday. The Spellmans had a different life style all together. The first thing that you must know is that there were sixteen of them, all different ages from twin babies to grown men. That part is only relevant because each Spellman had a loud personality, and sixteen loud personalities is a lot of volume. They played loud music all hours of the day and night, had crowds of noisy guests coming and going, and every one of those sixteen Spellmans must have owned a bike that they kept resting in the front yard. Living next to those Spellmans almost drove my mother insane. If she wasnât shaming them for not attending mass, or complaining to her sister Jackie about the way the Spellman girls dressed, then she was shoeing the Spellmanâs dogs out of our yard or filing noise complaints with the police. My mother had never been so busy. She was even organizing a âgood neighborsâ committee to discuss ways to improve the neighborhood. All she ever spoke of any more were the Spellmans and their wrongdoings. One Sunday afternoon after church service, my mother was driving old Ms. Parker home to her house on the hill when we got a flat tire. My father was out of town at the time, so it was just me, my mother, and old Ms. Parker. All of us together might have been able to get the spare tire out of the trunk if we put our wits together; but as far as changing the tire, letâs just say that we were at the mercy of the good Lord. Since old Ms. Parker lived so far up that hill, not a lot of traffic drove by us. It had been about fifteen minutes since the last car passed when we heard the rattling and puttering of an old pick up truck as it pulled over to assist us. The Spellman boys ran up on our car like a NASCAR pit crew. Before my mother could even protest, they had ushered us out of the car, thrown the car on a jack, and took the tire off. âHer spare is flat,â said the middle one to the big one. âGive her ours,â replied the big one, barely acknowledging the sacrifice. The Spellman boys whizzed and zoomed around the car and like that we were back on wheels. My mother was stunned. âI donât know what to say,â she stammered. The big one said, âWell, the Lord said love thy neighbor, and we are neighbors, right?â After that my mother started acting like a neighbor. The next day when the Spellmanâs dogs went traipsing through my motherâs flower garden, she put out a bowl of water for them. When she saw the Spellman girls walking out with nothing but a halter on, she lectured them about being upright ladies and offered them sweaters. And when she heard the Spellmanâs music through our walls, she tried to dance a little bit. She even invited the Spellmanâs to be part of the good neighbors committee. So she finally took a page from that book she was always thumping and became a good neighbor herself, and the neighborhood was a better place because of it. A 1. Which of the following is best described as the inciting incident of the story? A. The Spellman family moves in next door. B. The narratorâs mother gets a flat tire. C. Mother starts the âgood neighborsâ committee. D. The dogs walk through momâs garden.
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