Green River Community College
English as a Second Language Program

Word Processing I - Answer

This is the model to follow for Worksheet I on word processing. Check your paper with this model.

John Avery

Stuart Little

    In 1945 an author named E. B. White wrote a book called Stuart Little. Mr. White wrote this book for children, but it is a story that adults love too. Recently, this book was made into a popular movie which is now showing in theaters. Now another group of children and adults are enjoying the story of Stuart Little because of the movie, but many people will probably still like the book better because of E. B. White's wonderful ability to write well.

    The story is about Stuart, a small mouse who is part of a human family. Stuart is very small, just over two inches tall, but he doesn't let his small size get in the way very much. He has many adventures in the family home and outside also. He has a brother named George and a mother and a father. One time, his brother lower him into a sink drain to save his mother's ring. She was very grateful and called him her hero. His biggest problem is, of course, the family cat. 

    Stuart had a love in his life, Margalo a bird, who one day flew away. Stuart decided to go and find her, so he went on a road trip into the country. His travels brought him to a town called Ames Crossing, which is beautifully described by the author. It is probably one of the best written paragraphs in American literature about a small town. Read it for yourself here.

    "In the loveliest town of all, where the houses were white and high and the elm trees were green and higher than the houses, where the front yards were wide and pleasant and the back yards were bushy and worth finding out about, where the streets sloped down to the stream and the stream flowed quietly under the bridge, where the lawns ended in orchards and the orchards ended in fields and the fields disappeared over the top toward the wonderful wide sky, in this loveliest of all towns Stuart stopped to get a drink of sarsaparilla." 

    E. B. White wrote about a mouse and his world for children, but the beauty of his writing and the spirit of this small creature make it a story for all people, young and old, who enjoy a good story that is well told.

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