Amir prays in the hospital. He grabs a white bedsheet, and prayer rug, and faces west so that way he can pray. He forgotten the prayer so instead he justs mumbles a few words. Amir then realizes that god is in his…
Maria shared that for the first 5 years of their marriage, they travelled back and forth from San Luis, Arizona to Salinas, California. Maria reported that each year they would stay in a different house. Maria stated that living in Salinas was renting a room in a house where they usually had to share the house with two other families. Maria shared that Jose always worked on the lettuce fields. Jose worked picking up lettuce where he then passed it to another person who was in charge of wrapping and packing.…
When they went to the bush all Salva could think about was finding his family. Most men with guns are either rebels or from war. While Salva and Uncle were going through the desert the bumped into men with guns. The men began shouting, “Sit down!” “hands on your heads!”…
Then on his birthday, he was blowing out his candles, when his older sister slammed his face on to the cake. Nick Graham his best friend, had many great memories together since they have been best friends eternally. One day, Sal went over to his house and nick left the room. Sal thought it would be a magnificent idea to hide behind the door and scare him. So when he went to go in his room, he then jumped out and Nick screamed out like a girl.…
T, Teresa, Jacklyn, Tzippi...it doesn’t matter what you call her— Tzipporah is the best friend you can ask for! Tzipporah is caring, positive, intelligent, social, and funny. Even when she can’t get out the punchline of a joke because she’s laughing too hard, her laughter is contagious to everyone! Not only is Tzip hilarious, she’s also very talented. She is a master at writing, drawing, dancing, and ice skating.…
Ronalda is 15 years old and lives with her grandma. She is hispanic , but her grandma was from Guatemala on her mom‘s side of the family. Ronalda has lived with her grandma since she was only 3 years old. When her mom went to jail, Ronalda stayed with her grandma Maria. The problem was that Ronalda was the whole time by herself.…
Ruby returns with fresh coffee and a tiny birthday cake crowned with two large candles in the shape of fives. After she lit them, she and Clemmy Sue sang the Birthday song. As soon as Estelle Louise blows out the candles and wishes her wish, Ruby removes the smoking candles, and saunters back to the kitchen. A while later Ruby reappearances and asks if they were ready to meet Miss Ta Rot. Nervously they nod yes, and follow Ruby to a booth in the back of the Diner were Beth sits.…
And everytime i saw ash. It was different. I really felt bad and wtupid for blocking out thr only person that wanted to be friends with…
When I read this part of Baca’s story, I immediately thought of a time when I was unsure of what I was seeing. My father and I were going on a road trip when I was 15. He finished his shift at work around 10pm, and we had 6 hours of driving ahead of us. He asked me to stay awake to keep him company, so I drank one of those small bottles of caffeine that used to be around before 5 Hour Energy hit the market. We drove through the wasteland of Nevada where few cars pass and there are no towns for sometimes a hundred miles or more.…
•Salvage of Hue• Domonick. Christoff •Chapter 1• South Vietnam, Hue Mar.3.1968 The time was 1:43 P.M.…
Everyone has a dream in their life, such as playing a professional sport, writing a book, or becoming a news anchor. Everyone is chasing after it and they will do anything they can to accomplish it. You are probably thinking about your dream right now. That is what this screen adaptation of Victor Salva’s “Peaceful Warrior” conveys in an exciting, sad, and inspiring kind of way.…
'In the book, A Long Walk To Water, a sudanese boy named Salva had to overcome hundreds of deadly challenges, survive a war, walk for over one thousand miles in harsh terrain with unknown dangers, lead thousands of boys to safety, and even live in an entirely new country but no matter how hard the challenge was Salva always came through. In this essay I will talk about how Salva overcame all his challenges with his persistence, help from his his uncle, and memories of his family. Salva’s Uncle has saved Salva many times throughout the story. It started off with Salva at school. He was suddenly attacked by soldiers and was forced to flee his home and go into a bush with a group of people who were ambushed by soldiers that left him behind.…
There are over 20,000 Lost boys in Sudan. In the book “A long Walk to Water” show how Salva had many challenges that he faced before, during, and after the Sudanese Civil War. Three reason that show the challenges Salva faced before, during, and after the Sudanese War are that he had to take care of cows and had to do school work, to keep on walking even though he was hurting, and how different the weather was. First of all the only worry he had before he started walking was taking care of the cows and school work.…
“‘You need to come to church with your family. I don’t care what you say,’ my mom told us every Sunday. In the Catholic Church, they never explained it to children. It was all about, you can sin and do whatever you want during the week, but then on Sundays you would come and repent. All we learned was the same things,” Jason said this matter-of-factly while sitting on the couch at his friend’s Tony house in the middle of the Colts vs. Jets game.…
De Vivre Sa Vie Maari Sugawara Ten years ago, he was nineteen and she was about to turn twenty. She was a beauty but not the typical kind, if you see a picture of her you wouldn’t be overly impressed but seeing her in real life makes a big difference. She was dressed rather casual when he first met her; she wore a blouse that showed her shoulders. They were good shoulders, nice and smooth, not too skinny but just skinny enough to see the structure of her bones through her soft skin when she moved.…