Resumo de The Invisible Man

THE INVISIBLE MAN

"ELAINE, get down here immediately! You will be late for school if you don't hurry up!"

Elaine, promptly, fingered a brush through her silky auburn hair, took her cool mint lip-gloss, slipped on her favorite platforms and then briskly charged down the stairs, with an effervescent feeling in her body. On the way to school she met up with her boyfriend. As she saw Joe approaching her she smiled. Joe was the only one who seemed to be truly loyal to her these days. She could tell him absolutely anything and he would believe her. As Joe caressed Elaine's neck, contentment pervaded her soul. However, little was she aware that this contentment would not prolong.

After school that day, Elaine came home in complete and utter consternation to discern that something vile and unexpected had occurred. Elaine always in a paroxysm of excitement ran up the spiral staircase and discovered her room was torn to shreds. The beautiful Laura Ashley comforter her aunt had given her was dismantled from it's canopy bed. Her stash of money and other precious assets were strewn about in the heaping mess of her bedroom floor. Looking into the closet, she found all of her favorite and most expensive garments were matted to the hard and cold floor. Worst yet, she couldn't seem to remember where she had stashed her emergency kit. This was something Elaine hid somewhere safe, so that if something did happen she would have a mini-survival kit, consisting of clothes, food, jewelry, and old pictures she had from her birth parents. Since her parents died when she only nine she wanted to preserve the few vague memories she had left of them.

Whisking ominously, Elaine decided to forget about the emergency kit, grabbed some items out of her closet, and then made a mad dash to the bottom of the staircase. Without looking back Elaine lamented for her Aunt and Uncle. After about five minutes of calling out their names, Elaine, now quavering, gave up and resorted to the guesthouse where she could seek security. For awhile nothing happened. All she could think about was the strange mess in her bedroom. She had a premonition that something both evil and perilous was going to transpire, and of course, she was right. As Elaine cautiously moved away from the chair she was sitting in; she maneuvered back to the front entrance of the guesthouse. In a hurry she ran back to the main house, but was stopped immediately after she felt a hard and extensive blow to her back. As Elaine fell unconscious to the floor, she heard a man cry belligerently, and glanced up to see who this awful person was. Regaining her strength she examined the contour of the man's face. From what she could tell, he had dark, wavy hair worn slicked back from his face. His face was cold and vicious looking and his eyes were a steely gray. In remorse he said, "Miss I hope I didn't hurt you. I thought you were someone else." It was obvious that what this man said was a misleading, for the tone in his hoarse voice revealed a writhing attempt to restrain himself from indignantly proclaiming that he was not the least bit sorry. In contempt Elaine stared at him and said scornfully, "Well you should be I was injured because of you." She picked herself up and left him standing alone on the front boulevard of her house and meanwhile, hoped whoever this man was would go away.

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