Importance of Friendship Essay

“Percy Jackson and the Olympians,” is a story about a young boy named Percy Jackson. He has had a troubled life where he is constantly getting kicked out of boarding schools. He meets one of his best friends named, Grover Underwood. Grover was exceptionally nice to Percy and he never figured out why until it all came down to one day. On a class field trip to a history museum, Percy finds out that his Pre-Algebra teacher, Mrs.Dobbs, is a monster. Percy pulls out the pen that Mr.Brunner gave him…

"Listen, Soda, you and Ponyboy," Darry said as we strode down the street, "if the fuzz show, you two beat it out of there. The rest of us can only get jailed. You two can get sent to a boys' home." (S.E. Hinton 17). In the story ¨The Outsiders¨, by S.E. Hinton, Darry Curtis is a very important character. Darry Curtis is responsible, serious, and hardworking. Ironically, Darry is actually very responsible, and not just in one way, in many. Darry is responsible because once his parents died he…

In “A Rose for Emily”, William Faulkner most often uses first-person plural perspective to make the reader feel like a part of the story. The frequent use of “we” also allows the narrator to describe the story’s events as if from the perspective of the entire town. Based on evidence from the text, the narrator appears to be a man. Throughout the story, they give bits of gossip from the townspeople or things the townspeople have done. While doing this, the narrator frequently uses “the…

The dictionary defines the word loyalty with one of its definition by saying “the state or quality of being loyal; faithfulness to commitments or obligations”. Which is true because loyalty can also be a feeling someone can have by A word can be defined with different definitions and can also be defined by using many examples. Each person can interpret the meaning of a word differently due to their own way of thinking. The meaning of loyalty is used to be able to define a person's personality or…

If love is blind, I have been greeted by the darkness since the day I’ve met Thomas Rogers. When we were younger Mr. Rogers was sweet and kind, he always put others before himself. I loved him through everything. I loved him even after the days, when he would take his stress and anger out on me. I loved him. But he didn’t love me. They say everyone is different behind closed doors and Thomas was one of them. He always fooled me, he would always apologize and promise he would not repeat himself…

When I was in high school, I found myself in a mildly toxic friendship. I met her in the seventh grade and while at that time I found her to be one of my best friends, as we got older the friendship began to grow more strenuous. Occasionally it turns out that people can end up being a completely different person than who you think they are. When I was sixteen years old, I realized just how tough it was to maintain a true friendship when the girl that I thought was one of my closest friends…

Edwin Ortiz ENC 1101 Professor Francis 17 July 2016 Searching For Your Soul Mate Ever wonder when the day will come when you finally find the one you will call true love, my world, my everything, or soul mate? We go out with friends to parties, bars, clubs, and any social events that come up. We talk to many different people, some more than others and probably start some type of relationship, but later on see it was not what we were looking for, so you are back to being single and out on the…

The Tragedy Paper is a story that starts with an albino, teenage boy named Tim telling his side of a tragedy that shook an entire high school for years to come. Tim tells his tragic story through a series of CDs that are given to another teenage boy named Duncan. The book itself revolves around a tragedy that no one dares to speak of while being tied together with a teenage romance. The book keeps the interest of the younger readers and serves a good purpose for learning about tragic stories. I…

The story is about a kid named August Pullman who has a type of mandibulofacial dysostosis and hemifacial microsomia because of a multifactorial inheritance. He has a sister named Olivia (but they call her Via), Daisy their dog, and August’s parents. He has been homeschooled because of the surgeries to fix his face until he was old enough to be in fifth grade. His parents enrolled in a school called Beecher Prep and brought Auggie to school for a tour around the school. He gets to meet the…

Michael Joseph Jackson was born in Gary, Indiana on August 29th, 1958 to Joseph Walter Jackson and Katherine Esther Scruse. Michael had 8 siblings, 5 brothers and 3 sisters. (Sullivan, Randall pg. 587) Michael and his mother were very close and he learned a lot of his character from her. “The lessons she taught us were invaluable. Kindness, love, and consideration for other people headed her list. Don't hurt people. Never beg. Never freeload. Those were sins at our house. She always wanted us to…