The Stranger

By : Chris Van Allsburg be retold by: Jocelyn Flores

Mr. Bailey was on this car then he hit some thing. he thought is was deer but was not a deer. it was a man. The man want to run away but the man lost his balance and fell. then the man got up again ,but Mr. Bailey helped him to the truck.

Mr. Bailey drove home to help the stranger. He helped the stranger inside. Mr.Bailey helped the stranger to feel comfortable. Mr. Bailey asked a question to the stranger, did not answer the question. Mr. Bailey thought that the stranger does not knows how to talk. The doctor came and said the stranger had lost his memory .

Mr. Bailey give him some clean clothes. The stranger joined the Bailey for dinner. The stranger watch Katy take a spoonful of hot soup and gently blow on the soup. Then the stranger did the same. Then Mrs. Bailey shivered she said there is a draft in here tonight. The next morning stranger was outside walking across the yard and two rabbits took a hop in his direction. He picked one of them up and stroked its ears. then the rabbits hopped away. The rabbits look back like the try to say are you come with us?

Katy sat with the stranger on the sun high . The geese are flying in a perfect V shape flying south for the fall and winter. The stranger can not stop looking at the birds. Two weeks later the stranger sill not remember who he was but Bailey did not mind. Mr. Bailey said that he like the stranger to be round it was because he had one family. The stranger was so happy with use said Mr. Bailey he said to his wife .

Another week passed but the weather did not change and the weather was the same. It felt like it was still summer. it was if the season have not changed. the weather was warm and the pumpkins grow larger than ever. the leave one a tree were was green as like three week before . One day the stranger went on the highest hill on the farm. the stranger was puzzled and sighed. the trees were bright red and orange.

The stranger said that it will be better that all of the trees were red and orange. The next day the stranger can not look at a tree. The stranger knew something was wrong. the more the stranger thought it about it the more the stranger got more upset until finally he could think of nothing else. Then the stranger ran to a tree and pulled off a leaf. He held it in a trembling hand and without thinking blew on it with all his might.

The next day the stranger decided to leave. the stranger packed and went out the door and Baileys went to say good-bye but the stranger disappeared.