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work. Topanga, who would spend her day at home, would make sure Auggie got on the bus for first grade at the correct time. Seventeen minutes later, Riley reappeared in the kitchen dressed in a floral patterned dress and navy ballet flats. “Ready Daddy?” she said while slinging her backpack over her right shoulder. Riley kneeled down and hugged her little brother. “Have a good day!” she wished him well before standing up. Topanga kissed her daughter’s forehead and slipped lunch money into…

hugged me and told me to never run away again. She started yelling about how I could have been stolen, or killed by a car on the highway. She also explained that Los Estados Unidos was much further away than El Serro and that one day we would see my daddy again. After my encounter with El Chino and a good scolding, I learned to never run…

“I think I can; I think I can; I think I can.” She had me say it over and over until I knew that I couldn’t. Mommie Dearest, she was sometimes, because as she always said to me, “sometimes she was good, and sometimes she was bad and sometimes she was just very very very horrid.” That was the little girl with a curl right in the middle of her forehead… Me, that was me. So my life could be about early childhood neglect, abuse or whatever the…

Welcome Home - Radical Face This song fits nicely with the part of the book when Bechdel comes back for her father’s funeral. She comes home to old memories of working with her dad and playing with her brothers. She also revisits old relationships with her relatives that have been completely or slightly severed. In ‘Welcome Home’, the singer also addresses the topic of old relationships, ‘Ships are launching from my…

Stephen King’s novels The Shining and It are incredible examples of the exploitation of children in the 20th century horror-gothic genre. As American cultural historian David Skal notes, King’s novels “brim with fantasies of sacrificial children” (1993: 362). In The Shining and It, children play a significant role as victims who are being threatened by terrifying monsters. These monsters take very different forms but are nonetheless horrifying. The presence of the child in King’s novels must be…

Two weeks ago in reading the students read the story Hugs for Daddy. This story is about a girl whose father is in the military and she is getting deployed. Before my teacher had the kids start to read, she asked who has a parent in the military. In my classroom at Lincoln Elementary almost every student had a parent…

vivid blue sky and we ate cheese, dill pickles, and soft, sweet bread that smelled like honey. Afterwards you played in the sand with Rachel and made an enormous castle and Willy searched for gold in the warm sand with his little green shovel. Later daddy took you both swimming. It was a joyful afternoon. I remember watching all of you laughing and splashing at each other in the cool water. By the end of the day Willy was thoroughly sun burnt and I smeared cream all over his sweet little…

Brie Del Castillo Ms. Hunt ELA 12, Period 2 8 December 2017 Daddy Issues and Angel Dust Many loved child stars are remembered for the well-known characters they play in movies and television series, but with their squeaky-clean start and pure image, it is hard to come out of that persona as they get older. Going from child actors to well-being adults, it is hard to get away with anything that is not ‘kid friendly.’ Some child actors gracefully grow up into humble adults while some former child…

He decided to sit in the car for a while but Zo was growing impatient because Havannah had texted him almost an hour ago and told him to meet her at home, but her car was not there. I wonder does she know? Women were known to have strong intuition, maybe Havannah felt death around the corner. He knew it was a possibility that she’d already heard about Papi, it was a big possibility that she may have gone over to Missy’s mansion and found her dead. “Could this bitch be tryna set me up and trap me…

The most clear and profound one is when the teacher goes out of her way to insult the child by reminding him (or clarifying to the reader) of his father’s absence; “’We know you don’t have a Daddy.’” (136). This abuse could be tremendous to anyone, especially a child. Apparently, this child was afraid of this as he explains “I was shaking, scared to death.” (135). Later in the story the speaker describes a situation with a wino eating food…