There once lived a girl named Bessie that lived in Prattville, Alabama. She was 19 when she died. Bessie was the type of person that loved her family and friends, and she was very sociable. The only things that Bessie didn’t like was liars and apples. Bessie birthed two kids, in which were twins.…
A childish student named Holling Hoodhood is in 7th grade and lives in Long Island, New York. But when he gets to school on the first day he begins to think his English teacher, Mrs. Baker “hates his guts”. Calling on every student but Holling to go to church on Wednesdays is why Holling believes she hates him. Dashing home from school he explains to his family that he thinks his teacher hates him. Everyone tells him he is wrong and his dad tells him to pretend she likes him because he might get a business deal with the Baker family.…
Tom was thrilled when he woke. He was excited because today was the 150th anniversary of the peace that had been brought to the only community left in the world known as Esterville. There would be a big gathering in the town square, everyone had to go to the gathering. It was a rule that Ester had left.…
G why did Mr. Ewell lie? Y lowest of the low R lowest of whites R trying to get power R laziness Y Hero R wants to be hero R raise his family stature R wants to be famous G as you can see Mr. Ewell lied for two reasons, one he was the lowest of the low, and second he wanted to be the town hero.…
Miss Pitts said that back then if people did get suspicious there wasn’t much they could do besides move and people would move all the time but as they moved other people would move in. Miss Pitts said that they rasied there food they had hogs and chickens duck and cow…
“Tell me more about english life,” I pled. As we sat by the river, my friend Levi began to tell me about the amazing restaurants, movies, and the exciting English life of the twenty-first century. I was mostly intrigued by the clothing and fashion that did not exist at all in my town. I longed to leave the Amish community. The more I learned more about what I was missing, the more I realized I had to escape this dreadful town of Lancaster, Pennsylvania.…
Set in the late 1800's, William Faulkner's short story, “Barn Burning”, tells a tale centered around the complicated relationship between two characters: an empathetic, ten-year-old named Colonel Sartoris Snopes (Sarty, for short), and his tyrannical father, Abner Snopes. Typically in life, a father is a son's first role model – they expect their fathers to be the caretaker of their family; the one to provide, protect and encourage; to always have his family's best interest at heart. In Faulkner's story, Abner is quite the opposite. Abner is a bitter, manipulative, aggressive man who has a knack for burning down the barns of his superiors out of drunken rage and revenge. He repeatedly asks for his young son, Sarty, to lie on his behalf because…
J.D. Vance’s memoir entitled Hillbilly Elegy, is a captivating story that elucidates his tussle, toleration, and triumph of growing up a “hillbilly” in the Appalachian region of America. This region runs through eastern North America, stretching from Alabama to New York and covering every hillbilly neighborhood in between. Vance, a proud hillbilly himself, grew up in this region, but spent a majority of his time in Jackson, Kentucky and Middletown, Ohio. Vance begins his memoir by describing his definition of “home,” which he then reveals as his great-grandmother’s house in Jackson. Although some of J.D.’s fondest memories are in Jackson, his grandparents, Jim and Bonnie Vance, retreated from this town when his grandmother became pregnant at the age of thirteen.…
While Crooks was upstairs reading his favorite book, California Civil Code of 1905, his dad called for him from downstairs. “Boy, stop reading that darn book and help me with feeding the chickens. One of the two roosters got out and are fighting again, and now I have to go and break it up before it gets messy.” Crooks put down his book, but right before he was about to open the door to go outside his mom called for him from the kitchen. “Crooks, that nice, young kid Georgie and his brother Tom were here earlier.…
In William Faulkner’s short story “Barn Burning”, Faulkner narrates the tale of young Sartoris, a young illiterate boy with a deep sense of familial ties and the ability to distinguish right from wrong at a young age. Sartoris’ (Sarty) family has a deep devotion and loyalty to defending their father, Abner from any crimes he’ll commit, but most famously for barn burning. Sarty is the youngest in his family with his father, brother, his two sisters, mother and aunt all looming over him and influencing him. Sarty is very impressionable, inarticulate, and even untouched by education, but the boy still holds a deep sense of justice. As the story progresses we see Sarty take on challenges that any normal child would find daunting, but for Sarty, the events of getting beaten or defending his father are just normal.…
In West Virginia, a little over 100 years ago, a man named____ Culver was out working. He met a lovely Native American women by the name of ______. They quickly initiated a relationship and he thought that she was bigger than life itself, but the thing that was stopping them from being together in public, was her. Back then, Native Americans were looked down upon in a way. She got treated poorly and the townsmen didn’t want her there, they were threatening to kill her…
“What stays in the Family” is a memoir by Lorna Crozier about a secret that she hid throughout her life. Her father was a drunk. Not only does she have an alcoholism father, but also have a manipulative mother. From a young age, Lorna Crozier suffered profoundly from her mother’s pragmatism. She was warned to keep her father’s issue a secret, since then, Crozier endured the guilt of tricking people, and the shame was torturing Crozier every single day.…
The Donnelly’s were a family who emigrated from Ireland because of the Potato Famine. They immigrated to London, Canada. In Canada, they were not the most favourite family in their township. In their township which was called the Biddulph Township, there was a lot of violence which was shown by sheep killings, arson, fights and by murders. This shows that the township was not very peaceful and there was a lot of problems and violence.…
“To Be Or Not Be; Poetry Is The Question” Does anyone ever like getting a bad mark or grade during their time in school? That uncomfortable feeling when getting a bad mark is the same emotion Linda Pastan portrays with her main character, a woman is both a mother and a housewife. Pastan’s character is not pleased with this grading system that her family has thrust upon her. Grades define her worth and as Pastan writes, she is disappointed and threatens to “quit” being a mother.…
Particularly in the Road, where all moral and cultural institutions known to humankind have been extinguished, religion and the belief in supernatural beings are at the forefront of the father’s thinking. In a world where humanity and kindness are mostly extinct, it is evident that the father adheres to the thought there might be a God-like figure. Religious and spiritual terms are often used throughout the novel, although the man often doubts the existence of a God and repeatedly curses him: He started down the rough wooden steps. […] Coldness and damp.…