An ivory tablet in the infant's cask recounts the story of his sinful origins and is preserved for the child by the monks of a monastery in the fishing village.

The author of Luke recounts the story of Lazarus and the rich man, which shows people in Hades awaiting the resurrection either in comfort or torment.

The Hollywood film Air Force One ( film ) starring Harrison Ford recounts the fictional story of the hijacking of the famous aircraft by six Kazakh ultra-nationalist terrorists.

Herodotus recounts the story that Cynaegirus, brother of the playwright Aeschylus, who was also among the fighters, charged into the sea, grabbed one Persian trireme, and started pulling it towards shore.

He somehow became crippled, and although Origen recounts a story that his leg was deliberately broken by his master, Simplicius states he had been lame from childhood.

Herodotus visited Egypt in the 5th century BC and recounts a story he was told about vaults under the pyramid built upon an island where lay the body of Cheops.

The " patriarchal history " recounts the events of the major patriarchs Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, to whom God reveals himself and to whom the promise of descendants and land is made, while the story of Joseph serves to take the Israelites into Egypt in preparation for the next book, Exodus.

The story Heart of Darkness focuses on Charles Marlow as he recounts an exotic adventure to a close group of men aboard a sailboat anchored in the Thames Estuary.

Laputa: Castle in the Sky ( 1986 ) recounts the adventure of two orphans seeking a magical castle-island that floats in the sky ; My Neighbor Totoro ( Tonari no Totoro, 1988 ) tells of the adventure of two girls and their interaction with forest spirits ; and Kiki's Delivery Service ( 1989 ), adapted from a novel by Eiko Kadono, tells the story of a small-town girl who leaves home to begin life as a witch in a big city.

The Quran recounts the story of when the descendants of Adam were brought forth before God to testify that God alone is the Lord of creation and therefore only He is worthy of worship ( Quran chapter 7, verse 172 ), so that on the Day of Judgement, people could not make the excuse that they only worshipped others because they were following the ways of their ancestors.

Bede recounts Oswald's generosity to the poor and to strangers, and tells a story highlighting this characteristic: on one occasion, at Easter, Oswald was sitting at dinner with Aidan, and had " a silver dish full of dainties before him ", when a servant, whom Oswald " had appointed to relieve the poor ", came in and told Oswald that a crowd of the poor were in the streets begging alms from the king.

At a banquet in Book 2, Aeneas tells the story of the sack of Troy, the death of his wife, and his escape to the enthralled Carthaginians, while in Book 3 he recounts to them his wanderings over the Mediterranean in search of a suitable new home.

The film recounts the story of Mitchell's life and how he developed the design for the famous RAF fighter.

She recounts her story to the headmistress, who readmits her.

Hollywood Babylon recounts a story that Valentino had given Novarro an art deco dildo as a gift, which was found stuffed in his throat at the time of his murder.

* The Duel, a short story by Joseph Conrad, recounts the story based on true events of two French Hussar officers who carry a long grudge and fight in duels each time they meet during the Napoleonic wars.

Cambyses's lost army also appears in Biggles Flies South ( 1938 ), and a 2002 novel by Paul Sussman, The Lost Army of Cambyses ( ISBN 0-593-04876-8 ), recounts the story of rival archaeological expeditions searching for the remains of his army.

The Great Train Story, a model railroad, recounts the story of transportation from Chicago to Seattle.

In Greek mythology, the story of Leda and the Swan recounts that Helen of Troy was conceived in a union of Zeus disguised as a swan and Leda, Queen of Sparta.

To wit, the New Testament recounts a story of a Samaritan woman asking Jesus about the appropriate place to worship, Jerusalem or the Samaritan holy place at Mt.

As author Bill Tilman recounts, " wrote long after in a letter to The Times: The whole story seemed such a joyous creation I sent it to one or two newspapers '".

This sentiment has been echoed by writer Todd McEwen, who called it " gorgeous ," and wrote a short story " Cary Grant's Suit " which recounts the film's plot from the viewpoint of the suit.

The play recounts his story in flashbacks as Brutus makes his way through the forest in an attempt to escape former subjects who have rebelled against him.

Georges Iscovescu ( Boyer ) recounts his story to a Hollywood film director at Paramount.

`` The Rocking Horse Winner '' is also a story about a boy's love for his mother.

It was, of course, a little boy's fantasy of winning his mother to himself, and replacing the father who could not give her the things she wanted -- a classical oedipal fantasy if you like -- but if it were only this the story would be banal.

We are also struck by the fact that this story of a boy's love for his mother does not offend, while the incestuous love of the man, Paul Morel, sometimes repels.

Herodotus's recitation at Olympia was a favourite theme among ancient writers and there is another interesting variation on the story to be found in the Suda, Photius and Tzetzes, in which a young Thucydides happened to be in the assembly with his father and burst into tears during the recital, whereupon Herodotus observed prophetically to the boy's father: " Thy son's soul yearns for knowledge.

Several films followed in the next couple of years, including two 15 minute shorts that are still shown regularly in Norway today, Veslefrikk med Fela ( Little Freddy and his Fiddle ), based on a Norwegian folk tale, and Karius og Baktus, a story by Thorbjørn Egner of two little trolls, representing Caries and Bacterium, living in a boy's teeth.

In Thomas Pynchon's 1964 short story " The Secret Integration ," a boy's dreams are affected " when the thing in the sky, the Heaviside layer, was right for it.

The play's action is something of a detective story, involving the attempts of the child psychiatrist, Dr. Martin Dysart, to understand the cause of the boy's actions while wrestling with his own sense of purpose.

The story tells of a normal boy's descent into a dream world of snow that he finds preferable to the " dirty ," mundane world.

The first part of the story deals with the snowman's attempts to understand the appliances, toys and other bric-a-brac in the boy's house, all while keeping quiet enough not to wake the boy's parents.

In the Family Guy episode, Business Guy, a cutaway gag retells the story of the thumb sucker, however instead of the tailor, it is the boy's mother who cuts off the boy's thumbs.

* In his 1959 short story, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, ( included in the book of the same name ) Alan Sillitoe wrote about a boy's time in a Borstal for robbing a bakery.

Only later did it become clear to most reviewers that Kosiński was neither the boy in the story nor did he share any of the boy's experiences, as revealed in a series of articles in newspapers and books .< sup >( 2 )</ sup > The depicted events are now widely known to be fictional.

It still uses Tchaikovsky's original score, but completely scraps the original plot and characters, instead supplying a new story about a boy's efforts to re-connect with his mother.

His most famous films were The Apu Trilogy ( 1955 – 1959 ), which tells the story of a poor country boy's growth to adulthood.

* 2003: Sonia Nazario, Los Angeles Times, " for ' Enrique's Journey ,' her touching, exhaustively reported story of a Honduran boy's perilous search for his mother who had migrated to the United States.

In the same story, the young boy's doubts about himself provide an internal conflict, and they seem to overwhelm him.

The book is a children's story about a boy's Caribbean adventure with his grandfather, reworded from the original folk lyric of the song " Sloop John B ".

Jonas and the Sky Tent, which relates the story of a young boy's fantastic experiences in a magical circus bigtop, has been described as Chagall-like poetry.

Anna seems convinced by the boy's story and asks Clara and Clifford to meet him.

It tells the story of a young boy's friendship with a jaded middle-aged woman.

The revised screenplay by Contreras and Kirschner omitted the reading-themed story arc, instead emphasizing the boy's journey from cowardice to courage.

On one hand, this is a story about a boy's coming of age.

# The Hill — A story about a boy who tries to keep his great-grandfather's land from being sold by the boy's father.