A Few Words

Paraphrase:

 Flapjack said "here it is" as he hit a long-used gun on the defaced table. Wallace moved the gun off the letter he was writing started with the word MaMeave and put the fresh paper in his pocket while bending it. Calmly, Wallace leaned on the sofa ,with his eyes closed, smoking a cigarette. Flapjack with the same interest grown up with him since the elementary school ,which always made Wallace uneasy, told him not to withdraw. While bending towards Flapjack trying not to hurt his own injured leg, Wallace smoothly said if he had told that he wanted to back out. With his back to Flapjack, Wallace went towards the kitchen turning the tap on. He told that he would see Flapjack at eleven-thirty so Flapjack left the house. Starring at the gun on the table, Wallace chose a cigarette with ifs circling round his head, Wallace couldn't believe that he listened to Flapjack's suggestion of robbing but it was late and the rent was due tomorrow. With Flapjack being late, they heeded for Leroy's store. On the way, Wallace was thinking about cancelling the robbery and getting back home as Meave couldn't force him to leave the house for the late rent or so. Entering the store after repeating the plan, Wallace stood next to the magazine shelf pretending to read. There were five people including a police officer and an old lady bargaining on a paste. Releasing a breath as the cop left, Wallace frowned as Flapjack was disappeared. Since he found out there's no time left, started walking to the counter. Wallace warned Leroy to put all the money on the table. Meanwhile, the old lady started screaming and swinging round the store. With Wallace shouting, the old lady ran out of the store with three pastes hidden under his dress. Leroy putting money on the table with indifference, Wallace got angrier as he didn't like his cold and familiar eyes. Leroy started talking an as soon as he reached the word daddy, Wallace marked his head. Leroy fell on the floor and Wallace snatching the bag and started running. He felt as he could now walk properly because with all of that money, not the rent will be late again ,not the starve would come back to him and the boldest one was that he could find a job even bum legged. As he reached home, the phone started ringing... Wallace told Flapjack that he couldn't get so much money so that they couldn't share the amount which they had talked about before.

Continuing the letter started with the demand of getting back to his Meave, he wrote that he changed his mind on and would stay there.

Summary:

 With the rent that was late, Wallace started writing a letter to his love and saying that he wanted to get back to Samson,the small city he lived there before. with the sound of a gun put on the table, Wallace realized that his friend called Flapjack had returned. Flapjack asked Wallace not to back out on the robbery and after Wallace put the letter in his pocket he recalled that he had no other choice but to accept. The rent was due tomorrow and he couldn't cry over the milk. After a while, they heeded for the Leroy's store which was a small but rich one controlled by a black man who had too much lip and pride with a wife and a girlfriend. After the store was deserted, Wallace marked Leroy's head and runed away with the grabbed money without finding the disappeared Flapjack. Answering the ringing phone at home, he told lies to Flapjack including that he earned so little money and they couldn't share it as they had talked about it before. After leaning against his sofa, he continued the letter this way: "well, I changed my mind. The city just picked up and now everything is different."

 Keywords:

Keywords(paragraph)1: gun, wallace, Flapjack, letter

Keywords(paragraph)2: a few words,hello,  MaMeave, coming back, Samson

Keywords(paragraph)3: back out, motion, lame, cigarette

Keywords(paragraph)3: smooth, excitement, apparent, full blast

Keywords(paragraph)4: life, broken furniture, father, war, robbery

Keywords(paragraph)5: late, wipe, weak, turn out, tokens

Keywords(paragraph)6: wait, leave, before twelve

Keywords(paragraph)7: convenience store, magazine rack, playboy, old lady, fuss

Keywords(paragraph)8: tomato paste, fake smile, aisle

Keywords(paragraph)9: dark old man, hiking up the prices

Keywords(paragraph)10: mutter, late, eleven-fifty-eight, missing

Keywords(paragraph)11: hands on the counter, compress, temple, screaming

Keywords(paragraph)12: swing, cold, angry, indifference

Keywords(paragraph)13: money, paper bag, strap

Keywords(paragraph)14: pride, crack, tear, fell

Keywords(paragraph)15: screw, death, grab, squad car, phone

Keywords(paragraph)16: straight, twenty, hang up, lean

Keywords(paragraph)17: change his mind, pick up, different, city boy

Questioning:

1. Why the letter is called a few words?

2. Why does he calls the girl MaMaeve but at the end he changes his mind about getting back?

3. Why did the man attended the war?

4. Why Flapjack disappeared in the store?

5. Why he didn't have money?

6. Why when Leroy used the word daddy, Wallace lost his fuse?

7. Why Wallace hate indifference?

8. Why did Wallace and Flapjack choose the Leroy's store?

Notes:

Wallace: a man who pretends that he loves a girl called Meave. He is a good person and the starve has leaded him to robbery.

The thing about him which bothers me is that if he didn't love the girl why he called her MaMaeve? And if he didn't want to get back home why he started the letter and wanted to bother the girl by telling that she won't come back? And why didn't the boy end the letter by telling yourwallace?

Flapjack: a man who wanna help Wallace but he doesn't know how and he is drunk most of the time.

Leroy: a shopkeeper that resembles Wallace's father as Wallace says "his eyes cold and familiar"