This story is about a young lady named Cecelia. She is new to a city named Prexter -a city of churches. Cecelia went to real estate person named Mr Phillips. Mr Phillips showed her the town and told her that every person that is in this town lives in churches that are right next to each other. She was looking forward in starting a car rental business so she asked him about whether or not is this a good idea. Mr Phillips said that no one owns a car here and that if someone owns a car that means they are going somewhere. He also said that the people that live in Prexter don’t often go anywhere but starting a car rental business might be a good idea. While walking pass many churches they opened a door of a building and entered a good sized room which was perfect for Cecelia. This room had a bed, a rug , tables , chairs , lamps, also there were windows that were on all four sides and last but not the least four huge bells that hung in the centre of the room. While looking at the bells Cecelia questioned about whether or not these bells rang. Mr Phillips answered yes to that question. Before Cecelia could ask anything else, the doors of the other churches started to open and people came out and started staring at Cecelia and Mr Phillips. A young man from the crowd finally yelled that Mr Phillip’s is lying, everyone in this town owns car, and there is not one person that lives in Prexter who doesn’t own a car. Cecelia asked Mr Phillips about whether if this was true and he answered yes. Now Cecelia wanted to leave the town and did not want to start a car rental business since there was not one person who didn’t own a car in Prexter. But Mr Phillips gripped her arm and stopped her from leaving the town. He told her that she is not going anywhere and that she has to start a car rental business in Prexter........
Saturday, March 27, 2010
A City of Churches- By: Donald Barthelme
" Sometimes believing a person could be a deceit " 
This story is about a young lady named Cecelia. She is new to a city named Prexter -a city of churches. Cecelia went to real estate person named Mr Phillips. Mr Phillips showed her the town and told her that every person that is in this town lives in churches that are right next to each other. She was looking forward in starting a car rental business so she asked him about whether or not is this a good idea. Mr Phillips said that no one owns a car here and that if someone owns a car that means they are going somewhere. He also said that the people that live in Prexter don’t often go anywhere but starting a car rental business might be a good idea. While walking pass many churches they opened a door of a building and entered a good sized room which was perfect for Cecelia. This room had a bed, a rug , tables , chairs , lamps, also there were windows that were on all four sides and last but not the least four huge bells that hung in the centre of the room. While looking at the bells Cecelia questioned about whether or not these bells rang. Mr Phillips answered yes to that question. Before Cecelia could ask anything else, the doors of the other churches started to open and people came out and started staring at Cecelia and Mr Phillips. A young man from the crowd finally yelled that Mr Phillip’s is lying, everyone in this town owns car, and there is not one person that lives in Prexter who doesn’t own a car. Cecelia asked Mr Phillips about whether if this was true and he answered yes. Now Cecelia wanted to leave the town and did not want to start a car rental business since there was not one person who didn’t own a car in Prexter. But Mr Phillips gripped her arm and stopped her from leaving the town. He told her that she is not going anywhere and that she has to start a car rental business in Prexter........
This story is about a young lady named Cecelia. She is new to a city named Prexter -a city of churches. Cecelia went to real estate person named Mr Phillips. Mr Phillips showed her the town and told her that every person that is in this town lives in churches that are right next to each other. She was looking forward in starting a car rental business so she asked him about whether or not is this a good idea. Mr Phillips said that no one owns a car here and that if someone owns a car that means they are going somewhere. He also said that the people that live in Prexter don’t often go anywhere but starting a car rental business might be a good idea. While walking pass many churches they opened a door of a building and entered a good sized room which was perfect for Cecelia. This room had a bed, a rug , tables , chairs , lamps, also there were windows that were on all four sides and last but not the least four huge bells that hung in the centre of the room. While looking at the bells Cecelia questioned about whether or not these bells rang. Mr Phillips answered yes to that question. Before Cecelia could ask anything else, the doors of the other churches started to open and people came out and started staring at Cecelia and Mr Phillips. A young man from the crowd finally yelled that Mr Phillip’s is lying, everyone in this town owns car, and there is not one person that lives in Prexter who doesn’t own a car. Cecelia asked Mr Phillips about whether if this was true and he answered yes. Now Cecelia wanted to leave the town and did not want to start a car rental business since there was not one person who didn’t own a car in Prexter. But Mr Phillips gripped her arm and stopped her from leaving the town. He told her that she is not going anywhere and that she has to start a car rental business in Prexter........
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Was there a reason why man wanted her to start a car rental business in Prexter, if everyone already owned cars?
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Yes there was a reason that the real estate man wanted her to start a car rental business because so his city which was prexter could be the what you call "perfect city" which had all the businesses that a city or a town might require. (Prexter had all the businesses except for a car rental business) And in prexter since everyone owned a car there no one opened a car rental business which made Prexter at a second place position from another town that had all the businesses. That is also why this real estate person wanted to fool the person who was new to Prexter and knew nothing about this town.