Head Boy

alone who Jesus was and why I was drinking his blood-but my mother corrected me when upset assuring it was actually just wine and the body just bread. I was hoping communion wasn 't like a wedding; I had just realized that I wasn 't really as into boys as I was girls and knew what child marriages were-yeah, at 7 I panicked about all sorts of things like rape, natural disaster, and child marriage. I touched all the dresses reaching inside the plastic outer covering.…

Roll of thunder hear my cry Character analysis In the book roll of thunder hear my cry, written by Mildred D.Taylor, Stacey is a young dark skinned boy. Who faces challenges with his race and friends. He also has trouble growing up, wanting to be the man of the family, while his dad is away for work on the railroad. He feels responsible for the things that are happening with his family. Today I will be talking about stacey, a character in Mildred D.taylor's, book Roll of thunder Hear my cry.…

ways like between two teams of horses,” finally coming to a head (7). One could say that the two teams of horses pulling Sarty are between his morality and his loyalty to his family and his father. One critic, Virginia Fowler, argues that it is Abner that causes the shift in Sarty’s thinking. In the scene where Sarty is struck by Abner, and Abner’s w first time doing so, explains why he hit his son. According to Fowler, “Abner makes the boy aware, first, of loyalty as a conscious mode of…

lessons that a woman should search for love her entire life. Woman have become much better, in my opinion, in modern day of being independent and doing their jobs, being athletic and enjoying life just as men do. Children at a young age, girls and boys, should learn that happiness and dependence should not come from another human, but from doing what makes them…

I was born on May 5, 1997 in The Northwest Hospital. I was born into a caring and loving family. My dad’s name is Timothy and my mother’s name is Joanne. I don’t remember much when I was a little girl but I always remember my family being a little different. When I was very little, around 5 months old, my father had a stroke that paralyzed his left side. This changed his whole life but also impacted mine. I don’t remember my dad being healthy. I have always seen him walking with a cane and…

The Small Room As the handle was pulled, I breathed in deep, and exhaled just as hard. And that was the end, My whole life leading there. “Everyone off!!” The Guard shouted. I sat in the back of the bus, young and fearful of the things to come. All fifteen or so of us shuffled off the Bus in a straight line. As we all walked through the small court of the prison, I could hear the inmates who had gathered yelling at the top of their lungs…”Fresh Meat”, “Little Lambs”, things along those lines…

was Manuel. He was only serving time for a couple years. I, was stuck here for life. I'll admit what I did was wrong, but the kid had no respect. It all happened one early morning while I had been ordering the workers to pull something when a young boy stopped working to as he said "take a breather". I had strict rules that you can't take any breaks, so I told him to get back to work or else. He didn't get back to work so I may have hit him a couple times. The kid had suddenly fallen to the…

The time was coming for Amy to leave the hospital. Her injury started to heal while leaving a very enormous and ugly scar . Then again she felt the urge to exaggerate when she met a young boy on a beach who asked her about her scar. When the young boy asked if a shark did it, she directly responded: "Yes, a shark had done it ." She directly admitted it without further discussion. She probably didn’t want to remember the horrible scene that happened to her since her…

their family live and worked beneath it. Colonel Sartoris, named after Abner’s previous employer whom he fought in the war with, sits in a makeshift courthouse as his father stands trial for burning his current employer’s barn down. The trial reaches a head and the Justice of the Peace calls on Colonel Sartoris to testify. As he approaches the Justice of the Peace, William…

always been unique in appearance. His wintery blue eyes and silver hair weren’t features you would normally expect from a child, and it has always seemed set him apart from everyone else. Aside of his prominent physical features, he was a normal little boy with an older brother, two younger sisters, and loving parents that would do most anything to see their children succeed. Boston enjoyed playing sports and working on his parent’s farm. He would often go hunting with his father and was…