Let me ask you something; How would you feel if a family member had any type of cancer? The family member is very close to you. How do you think a 14 year old would feel? This is one of the questions they ask in DRUMS, GIRLS+DANGEROUS PIE, by Jordan Sonnenblick. The protagonist is Steven Alper.…
RJ Palacio’s realistic fiction novel Wonder demonstrates the reasons why Summer sits with August and how her motives for being with him change. Specifically, feeling bad, having fun, and liking the same activities as him. Primarily, a boy named August started going to school for the first time in September. This was very hard because August has a malady Treacher-Collins syndrome.…
On January 22, 1990, John Doyle was born at Cooper University Hospital in Camden, New Jersey. Shortly after his birth, John experienced respiratory problems. John’s doctor was concerned for his well-being, so John was placed in intensive care. A week later, John’s doctor allows his parents to discharge from the hospital. After leaving the hospital John’s parents take him back to their home in Audubon, New Jersey.…
Consequences How would it feel to lose a best friend? The novel Tears of a Tiger by Sharon Draper is a realistic heart-breaking story that takes place in a typical late 1990s high school environment. Four best friends, who play basketball, were out driving under the influence one night after a victory for the team. That night those friends suffered a dramatic loss of a best friend named Robert due to a car crash.…
A boy named Lorie has a friend named Charles who is very mean and disobedient. Lorie sees everything Charles does and goes home and tells his parents. For example, Laurie told his parents that “That today charles hit his teacher for hitting him”. Also he said charles pushed a girl to the ground and then kick her till she started bleeding. Charles show a lot of unacceptable actions throughout the story.…
“Follow your passion, be prepared to work hard and sacrifice, and, above all, don't let anyone limit your dreams.” ("Donovan Brainy Quotes)Rudy Ruettiger and Shawn Grim knew and lived this quote. Rudy Ruettiger has a big dream of playing at least one game for the big college of Notre Dame. Shawn Grim was also a football player but he had a different dream in mind.…
Ezekiel Stevens carried his little brother Simon on his back as he and his sister marched down the hill, like they had seen the soldiers do. The green summer grass felt good on their feet while the warm sun shone through Ezekiel’s blonde hair. “I’m gonna miss you Ezekiel. War took dad and I don’t want it to take you to.” said Ezekiel’s sister, Ada. John Stevens was killed 8 months ago fighting for the Union and now it was Ezekiel’s turn to fight.…
Speak Melinda is doing great in school, has many friends and she is happily content with her life, but why did this change over the course of summer vacation. Here’s how it all goes down, nobody wants to talk to her and no one wants to be her friend because she simply called the police at a summer party. At Merryweather High School, Melinda Sordino starts her freshman year with a bad start. She does anything she can to avoid and get away from here teachers. The one and only teacher that she doesn’t hate is her art teacher, Mr. Freeman.…
Michael’s Story “Michael!” Kate shouted. I looked behind me and in a split second the bully was on me, throwing punches at my gut left and right. My friends couldn’t do anything with James blocking them off. Each punch was like someone hitting my gut with a cinder block.…
Bang. Dead. Another shot in the city. The short story “All about Suicide” by, Luisa Valenzuela, translated by, Helen Lane is about a man named Ismael that only could escape his past one way, which he thought was through murder. The story shares moments in Ismael’s life that had built up anger and remorse inside of him throughout the years.…
This Story is about Brent Staples Experience. Every Time people see him, They always think that he is a rapist , Burglar , a terrorist , or a part of a gang member but he really doesn’t do anything bad, he grew up as a good person. According to the author it says that “I was surprised, embarrassed, and dismayed all at once.…
“On the bridge’ by Todd Strasser is my favourite story that we have read in class. This story is about a boy named Seth and a boy named Adam. Seth wanted to be as cool as Adam so he bought a denim jacket and tried to make it look like he has been in many fight just like Adam. One day they were smoking on a bridge and scaring people. Seth didn’t smoke so he held it to his mouth.…
Growing up as a Vietnamese boy in Tulsa, Oklahoma was difficult. My parents had been recently divorced shortly beefore we made the move from San Jose, California to my current home. My father wanted nothing to do witeh us, so my mother, sister, and I moved to Broken Arrow when I was six years old. My Mom chose to move to Broken Arrow because she had some friends who had also moved here from California a few years before us. She heard of their successes and happiness in this new town, and sehe hoped that we would find the same prosperity.…
To be honest, I hate school with a passion, yet I love learning as much as living. As a child, schooling created a feeling of loneliness and sadness that echoed throughout my life, even now. I didn’t meet the standard levels for literacy and was separated from my classmates in elementary school for special reading and writing classes. Also the lack of freedom to say and move the way I wished to, and the rebellion that stemmed out of me in middle school due to these limitations. Finally, the conforming in high school to appease my mother, friends that drove me over the edge, yet even now I feel the same bull-crap in college.…
The story is about a young boy whose parents take him to a boarding school where he is threatened by one of the boys. The story takes place in a wealthy…