Landen's Argumentative Essay

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It was Thursday, September 21, and Karl was getting ready for school, but his friend Landen was not. Landen was a bad influence on Karl and made Karl do many bad things he should not be doing. Karl was in 8th grade and his friend Landen was 15 years old. It was Karl’s favorite period language arts with Mrs.Brown but Landen made Karl skip that class. Karl listens to Landen and sprays painted a wall at the school because Landen called him a wimp. As Karl was spray painting his teacher, Mrs.Brown saw him so he bolted the other way and hid. Waiting for the period to be over Karl just sat there until he heard the bell, but Landen was saying good job you did it to him. The period was finally over and he walked inside the school and went to his second-period math class. Karl was hoping that Mrs.Brown didn’t get a good look so that he would not get in trouble and go to the office. As the day went one Karl got more nervous and started talking to himself which would be to Landen. When he starts talking to himself in 8th period and people looked at him. The science teacher was worried about him so she called his parents Mr. and …show more content…
Karl’s parents asked where was he and Karl did not respond to them and said leave me alone. Karl was grounded and he was sentenced to 2 weeks no phone. But Landen could not handle that and was screaming at Karl, so Karl just shut him out. The next day he woke up and went to school and saw Mrs.Brown and she told him to go to the counselors. So instantly he knew she saw him spray paint. So Karl went to the counselors and they said that he needs to stop letting him be controlled be his imagination. When he got home, he grabbed a knife and told Landen to come out so he can watch him kill his parents but that was a setup. When he saw Landen, Karl said are you ready. As Karl quickly turned he hit Landen in the chest and he was gone, it was a good relief for

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