Catch Me If You Can

What do blood, excitement, and frustration have in common? Fishing is always fun but when you don't catch anything, it can be frustrating. If I could, I would go fishing every day On the Fourth of July I was a nice warm day. I got out of bed, but everyone else was asleep. (Compound) I got breakfast. I was so hungry, I could eat a horse. (Metaphor) Every else woke up after I ate breakfast. When everyone was ready for the parade, we left. After the parade, my dad and I went home to get fishing…

I mewed to a black kitten lying in the corner. “Where is your mother, little kit?” For a moment, it was silent, then the kitten said, “I-I don’t know where Mom is. Who are you?” “I’m Leopardson. What is your name?” I asked. “My name is Shadow,” the kitten replied. “Shadow suits you. You look like a shadow, and I will help you find your mother,” I replied. Shadow hesitated, then asked, “Isn’t that going to be hard?”…

Statement: “I believe that my family likes to be outside.” Being outside can mean more than just walking out the door. To my family it is when we spend most of our time together. Growing up in rural Vermont has made the most of my ability to use that time. Whether it be on a mountain, in the woods, or by a stream I am hardly ever by myself. My parents grew up this way and I am thankful they have given me the same opportunities in life. A opportunity that I was given is skiing.I started skiing…

pertinent of which being the desire to stay alive, even if they die trying. Everyone in Catch-22 wants to make something of themselves, whether it is to seem intelligent, to become famous, or simply to return home alive. The black comedy and absurd happenings described in Joseph Heller’s Catch-22 demonstrate perfectly the ironic and dire fear of mortality found in the hearts of all mankind. In the early pages of Catch-22, the reader witnesses one cynical, irreverent soldier, Captain Yossarian,…

browns. It felt like we were only talking for ten minutes but i looked at the clock and it was on five minutes until the game started. I told my friends i will catch them on after the game and rushed downstairs to where my dad had his feet kicked up on the couch looking like he was ready for the game to start. I sat next to him and asked do you think they will win he said hopefully. Finally, after waiting for what felt like hours the commercials to passed by, the camera scanned the whole field…

It all started on the 14th of August 2017. My teacher made my peers and me write an essay. The topic was where you would want to travel. I said to myself I want to go to Texas. The essay we had to do inspired me to go to Texas. I then decided I would like to hire a guy to tour me and my friends around. We are go to go to cool places like Dallas and Houston and we would even get to go to Arlington. I would like to travel to Texas and while I am there, I would visit the cities of Dallas, Houston…

cloud in front of me. My hands melted into it as if it were a pillow, a large pillow with never-ending fluff. I clawed the cloud with my hand and threw myself into the soft heap and I drown myself in. “Welcome abroad to the Destiny’s Bounty, please stay seated the entire time and enjoy the ride.” said a woman as if she were singing a lullaby. My eyes wandered towards every horizon as I started to ascend upward. Everything around me was foggy, the type of foggy that makes you want to throw out…

I had mixed feelings about the conclusion of "The Locket" by Kate Chopin. The ending of the story got me fifty percent happy and fifty percent predicted. I did not predict the end of the story as it was unexpected in my eyes. I had suspicions as the story gave subtle hints about but it kept my suspense throughout the story. Overall, I was highly surprised about the ending in "The Locket." Though, At the very end, it is said that the Locket is stolen and I highly believe it was stolen. "It…

book. I did not matter to me if i could not understand it. “Soledad Brother,” is a book compose on letter wrote them from George to his family and friends. Read the book and learn other's perspective about their lives, because i see something from you, but i don't see the same thing on me, which means we are all different on perspectives no matter what. All letters give us a message to communicate not only on George’s perspective, also in our perspective because we can relative to was happening…

yes, so I asked my mom and she said yes, so I got on my bike and me and Jonathan that is his name. We stopped at the store to get us a snack. Then we set off again we had lots of fun on the way, but we finally got to the pond it took a little bit but it was worth it. We got off our bikes and set up our fishing poles. I went to a different stop, then I usually do to see if I can catch fish in a different spot. A first I did not catch anything but I cast that fishing bait into the pond and two…