Rude boy

Boys got special treatment by adults constantly because of the special treatment I am able to pick out sexism fairly fast. The special treatment influenced me enough to make me realize how widespread sexism had gone. Growing up a girl I could see how girls were treated differently. For some unknown reason the phrase boys will be boys was a boy’s way of wiggling out of any situation. An adult would say boys will be boys and somehow whatever they did was justified by the fact they were a boy. They…

The Invention of Hugo Cabret is a true depiction of a child-centered text. The story introduces a young boy named Hugo who is thrown into a life full of struggle after the death of his father. Once a sacred child, Hugo is pulled from school and discovers a new way of life, as he converts into the very definition of a working child. After the abrupt disappearance of his drunken uncle, the young boy finds himself alone within the walls of a train station, where his uncle had both resided and…

Paper Towns by John Green tells the story of the adventurous Margo Roth Spiegelman, the cautious Q, the mischievous Ben, the genius Radar, and the fabulous Lacey. The theme of this incredible novel is leaving one's comfort zone, every character in the book somehow leaves their comfort zone, and they all face a reward afterward. Jacob Lawrence's The Labor shows the theme of Paper Towns by using movement, negative space, and color. In the story, Margo leaves her home in Orlando Florida, and…

Summer Essay 17 The challenges one faces by going through adolescence may vary vastly because each individual is unique. This lesson is shown in the short story by Doris Lessing, “Through The Tunnel.” A young boy, Jerry, takes a risk while on vacation with his mother to show himself he is no longer a child. He faces some challenges, and trains himself to accomplish going “through the tunnel.” In the short story, the author Doris Lessing, demonstrates the hardships one goes through adolescence…

“Stop!” a man’s shout rings through the streets as a man sprints down an alley, chased by those in clinking, shimmering armor. The walls surrounding them were fashioned of dull, stone bricks that stacked on top of each other formed odd patterns with minuscule ledges. The first man was shrouded in a black cloak but he wasted no time in scaling the wall on his left; he was favoring his right side as blood trickled down a gash in his shoulder. The man was flying up the wall, over half way up when…

the poem would be about a young boy going on a walk or an adventure given that there is a whole stanza focused on him, and that the title talks about a walk. I thought it was interesting that it mentioned his race as if it were significant to the whole poem. As soon as I saw the word Vietnamese, I automatically subconsciously thought of the Vietnam War. The first stanza also serves as imagery. Through it, I imagine a young malnourished darker skinned Asian looking boy who is standing in a wooded…

In the short stories, “ Brothers are the Same” and “ Through the tunnel,” both have completely different authors that portray a young boy attempting to pass some kind of ritual into manhood. Beryl Markham, the writer of “Brothers are the same”, creates a young, African warrior determined to enter the gateway of becoming a man. While Doris Lessing, generates a boy no older than eleven to experience his rite of passage of leaving his boyish self. To go in more depth, both stories share struggles…

The Boy Who Drew Monsters Will MacDonald The Boy Who Drew Monsters by, Keith Donovan, was a great read over the summer. Keith Donovan is an American novelist, the author of the national bestseller The Stolen Child, Angels of Destruction, and Centuries of June. This book takes place on the coast of Maine, in what the Keenan’s call their dream house. A young boy, Jack Peter Keenan lives alone with his two parents and is home schooled by his dad while his mom is at work . Jack Peter is trapped…

The Watsons go to Birmingham by Christopher Paul Curtis is a historical fiction novel set in 1963 Flint, Michigan and later Birmingham, Alabama. The beginning of the story starts off at the Watsons house in freezing Flint. Then their grandma’s house in Birmingham. At the time Birmingham was a very scary place to be if you were black, and was a lot more racist than the Watson’s home in Flint. The main characters are brothers Kenny, and Byron. Kenny is ten years old and is a exceptional student,…

Here is an 6 years old little boy who is so intelligent everyone wanted to call him a weirdo or nerd, but he doesn't care what people say he is a little boy who hates who he is and thinks that he should have never been born and hates that he is a third child, he doesn't get any attention he is not the favorite, but here is this brilliant little kid who get chosen to go to battle school and become a solder this took him 4 years to show them that he is good enough to be a commander for the army at…