"Connie, you ain't telling the truth. This is your day set aside for a ride with me andyou know it," he said, still laughing. The way he straightened and recovered from his fit oflaughing showed that it had been all fak
That part where Arnold pretends Connie already agreed to go with him is troubling because it feels manipulative and fake.
n. Ellie turned for the first time and Connie saw withshock that he wasn't a kid either—he had a fair, hairless face, cheeks reddened slightly asif the veins grew too close to the surface of his skin, the face of a forty-year-old ba
I didn't find that Arnold's friend was even older than him.
He looked at her. He took off the sunglasses and she saw how pale the skin around hiseyes was, like holes that were not in shadow but instead in light. His eyes were like chipsof broken glass that catch the light in an amiable w
This paragraph vividly portrays Arnold’s image and makes readers sense that something is off about him.