Rude boy

The mother has three different tones, which can be sensed throughout the reading: nagging, serious, and demanding. The nagging tone can be seen when the mother says, “don’t squat down to play marbles-you are not a boy,” (Kincaid 44). The serious tone when the mother is giving advice is, “don’t sing benna in Sunday school,” (Kincaid 44). Demanding tone can be seen when the mother is telling her daughter to do chores and behave like a woman. “Wash the white clothes…

In “Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, a book written by Benjamin Alire Saenz, Aristotle Mendoza and Dante Quintana are two fifteen year old boys living in El Paso, Texas. One day, when going to the pool, Aristotle, or Ari, meets Dante who offers to teach him how to swim. After this encounter, the boy’s friendship bloomed, and they grew closer and closer, putting aside their differences in personalities and developing a great relationship. In the beginning of the book,…

The Chosen Affinity: Uprising 1 They all said life would be better here. Trapped in a tiny train with about 6 other people. We were around 15 years old, some older, some younger, three guys and three girls. The train took off yesterday with no known location. My twin brother and I had received a letter in the mail a few weeks prior. Mine came with a one way ticket and a letter my parents had quickly snatched from me and would not allow me to read. After they had fallen asleep however, I snuck…

The short story, The Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemingway, is about a unlucky fisherman named Santiago. Everyone in the village thinks badly about him because it has been so long since he has caught a fish. Santiago has an apprentice named Manolin. Manolin still fishes and learns from Santiago despite Santiago’s bad reputation throughout the village. After Santiago has a dream about his childhood, Santiago takes his boat out further than any other fisherman has gone before. As Santiago is…

introduces Jose as a young boy who experiences a change in his rite of passage in his personality as he undergoes liminality. I. Prior to liminality, Jose is a teenager boy who is ingenuous and has a lack of experience to loving a girl. A. Jose is naïve because he thinks that receiving perfect test scores will make Estela notice him. 1. “But when the quizzes had been returned and Jose bragged, ‘Another A-plus,’ Estela didn’t turn her head and ask, ‘Who’s that brilliant boy?’ She just…

My Father’s Dragon is a story told from the viewpoint of a son describing a heroic adventure of his father as a young boy. The father meets an alley cat who describes how he can rescue a sad baby dragon trapped on Wild Island. With the help of the cat and quick thinking, his father is prepared to meet the wild beasts of the island. This book would be fantastic in a 3rd-grade lesson about sequencing and inferencing. The students can describe context clues and follow the timeline of the story to…

The Great Snowboarder So one day a boy named Evan 16 yrs was hanging out outside with his friend Nathan 16 yrs. All of a sudden they hear a big noise. BANG ! “What was that?” Nathan said. “i don't know,” said Evan. They both went to the highway where the noise came from and they saw two cars severely damaged, so they tried to see if the people were ok. They weren't ok and they were very hurt. Evan ran back to the house and to get the truck. He got back right away and they loaded the hurt people…

Fishing “No!!” I screamed as I saw my dad’s fishing bobber fly off the line and land on the other side of the murky, dirty pond. His last words I heard echoed in my mind “Don’t break or lose anything on my fishing pole please Emma, you are responsible for it.” My friend Liz ran over to me, she followed my gaze to where the bobber landed in the water, she didn’t say anything. “I tried to tie my Dad’s bobber on, but as you can see I didn’t do very well. I have to get the bobber,” I said with a…

All stories have conflict, a good side fighting the evil side, order versus chaos, in a seemingly endless cycle. In a book called Lord of the Flies by William Golding, a group of kids are stranded on an isolated island, which brings out their true selves, some being chaotic and savage, others being logical and orderly. The island is divided into two groups, The Hunters; a large group of savages that only wanted to play, hunt, and ignore rules, and those who just wanted to get home. In the play…

In James Joyce’s novel, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, the protagonist, Stephen Dedalus, explores the different phases of his life. He grows from an innocent young boy to an independent adolescent man. Throughout his maturation, the experiences and interactions he has with the surrounding world affect his development and shape his personality. The impact strongly comes from influences, like family, religion, and people who interact with him on a daily basis. Joyce suggests not only…