Literary Essay

Have you ever acuratly predicted someones date of death? In the story Numbers. Jem has a clairvoyance ability that enables her to read the dates of death of people in which she looks into the eyes of. Although this ability may be useful on some ocasions, it is mostly useless and scary.

Jem first relized she could do this when her mother died on the same date as the numbers that showed every time she looked into her mothers eyes.

Since then, she is tries to avoid looking in peoples eyes. She feels that it is scary to know when a Human is going to die.

Even though she gives a lot of effort into not looking into peoples eyes, it still happens on a daily basis.

One time, when she was talking with someone on the sidewalk. She saw an old man consuming some kind of food object that he pulled from a trash can. The old man noticed them and looked rright into Jem's eyes. As Jem saw that he was going to die really soon. So she went with the person she was walking with to see him die. I guess she was curious because they chased him do66wn all the way to the road will a car crashed into him. He was sprung up 50 feet in the air and fell to his death. It was the first time Jem witnessed a Human die and it only happened because of Jem's clairvoyance ablilty.