I have just read the text A Good Night's Sleep by Brian McCabe, and will now in the following couple of pages, give you, the reader, a summary of the story (A) and then go into an essay about some of the finer points of the story (B).

Lockhart is lying in bed fighting his archenemy, his insomnia. When he hears a soft bumping against his flat door, which doesn't stop he gets up and goes out to investigate, opening the door he finds a young homeless girl lying on his doormat.

Lockhart and the girl start talking and Lockhart finds out that she is homeless. Lockhart re-enters, because the girl asked him for a cigarette, when inside, he thinks trough his options, should he, just lock the door behind him? Offer her his son's room? Or call the police and have them take care of her?

He goes back out, gives her a cigarette and offers her his son's room, but she replies, "No way" and, "I've heard that one before", she thinks that he is going to ... do something. There he looses his patience and leaves her, and goes back to bed.

In bed Lockhart rethinks his actions and climes back out of bed to talk sense into her, but then he hears voices outside, its his neigh

The text is written in an easy to read language, but after the text it reads adapted from "A Good Night's Sleep", but we do not get any closer information of what, if anything is chaged, maybe it was made easy to read just for us students. But it is a pretty good shot story and I would most likely like it even if it was 'harder' to read unless it was really extreme.

Then there is the girl; she's a young girl but she has already lived on the streets for some time now, she has probably run away from home. She used to stay at a hostel but they don't let her in anymore, the reason for this is not clear, but since then she has slept in stairs, and apparently on doormats. Living on the streets most likely influences ones personality heavily, and I think it has made this girl more defensive, this I get from her first reaction to George offering her a bed for the night, namely, "no way!" Maybe once she accepted the offer, and someone did something to her, rape could be a possibility. Throughout the story she is scornful and hostile. Once and only once she talks with no hostility but with politeness, this is when there is a door between them and she bids him goodnight, earlier I said she is defensive, and in this situation there is a door between them that defends her, so she doesn't have to.<

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Approximate Word count = 872
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)