I need to write a biography of an elevator (personifying it). It's depressed because of how old it's gotten over the years. How should I start my essay? The elevator needs to be vibrant at the beginnning. Please help. I have writer's block.
2006-09-25 12:47:16 · 7 answers · asked by Just another pretty face 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Homework Help
"Oh, but it's been a long ride, no pun intended. Up and down and down and up, like the weather and the change of seasons, one thing remained constant, and that thing was me. How the brass of my doors and plates gleamed! The little lights that signalled the floors were brighter then, my ride smoother, perhaps a little quicker, to boot.
If these walls could talk, well, since they can't it makes no sense to think about it right? But what if they could talk...?
2006-09-25 12:57:00 · answer #1 · answered by The Mystic One 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Back in the day, I enjoyed life. A great many of women went down on me. Never once did I fail to rise to the occasion.
(Talk about being a young elevator full of energy and fashionable, how all the young ladies loved to ride you. Speak of the ladies caressing your your buttons, holding onto your rail, riding you up and down, again and again. Over time, you age and don't work so well as you once did. And the people riding you are older too, and less exciting. Then proceed to how you creak now and sometimes cannot rise to the occasion, needing help to get up sometimes.)
Heheh. Fill the essay full with double entendres.
2006-09-25 20:25:09 · answer #2 · answered by Gin Martini 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Huhwhaaa? Either you or your teacher has one heck of a creative imagination, that's for sure....At least essay subjects have improved from when I was in school (back in prehistoric times, shortly after we mastered the technological innovation known as "fire").
You're on your own about starting your story, but maybe you could slip in some sort of small joke about trying a course of antidepressant meds in the hydraulic fluid. Teachers are human (yes, they are! trust me!) and can use a grin now and then.
(I'm STILL trying to imagine a "mood elevator" for an elevator.....wanders off in search of strong coffee, gently whacking head in attempt to reboot brain)
Good luck!
2006-09-25 20:28:32 · answer #3 · answered by samiracat 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My life has had its ups and downs over the years but lately it seems I'm always down. There was a day when I was captained by young men in impressive uniforms who greeted each passenger and guided their passage announcing each floor and the wonders awaiting them at each floor along their journey. But alas, those days have passed and the technological marvel that I once was I am no more. ........
You can finish the rest but that was a fun topic. I can see this being a great topic. Good luck!
2006-09-25 19:57:30 · answer #4 · answered by white_yack 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
"Hang on Ellie, Here comes Mr. Watson withe his fat wife" Mr. Jackson Oppenheimer said out from the corner of his mouth. He hated those two the most. They always wreaked from stale sweat and all the garbage food they consume.
The Watson's moved into this penthouse apartment a year ago.
Of course they had to move into the top floor. Jack smirked at remembering when Ellie Through her pulley and They had to walk up the last 5 flights to the 10th. "Are you ready El" He Said. " You know El, We've been together for 43 years to date. It's been a long time girl".
" Hi Jack" Mr. and Mrs. Watson said in at the same time both trying to enter El the same way. Half of both of them momentarily got stuck neither in or out. And neither of them would budge. It was always a battle of whose in first. El's was an old lady and her years were showing. Her door safety switch would always activate from those two.The last one in inside would have to suck their belly in and hold their breath until they got off the first floor.
And that was a challenge. Poor Ellie, she would groan and strain even before she moved.
All Yours good luck, Zip
2006-09-25 20:34:04 · answer #5 · answered by ? 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Your elevator can be depressed because it is old and soon the building is going to be demolished. He could be going down memory lane and reminisce about the celebrities who travelled up and down that old hotel and the things that happened on the way up or down. Your imagination can do the rest. He could be thinking of suicide... Go down in a flash !
Good luck dear Heart.
2006-09-25 19:56:23 · answer #6 · answered by montralia 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Ahh, the good old days! I remember the shiny, wonderful times when I was a new elevator, taking passengers up and down to their destinations... their dreams!
2006-09-25 19:51:23 · answer #7 · answered by Elkie 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋