Say Anything...

bully me for my lazy eye of how it would move all of the sudden and say how ugly it was and how ugly I am. One day at lunch Derek came up to Lila and gave her 12 roses but she yelled at him and didn’t take them.…

Miss Anything? and Ex-Basketball Player contributes to the development of their themes. In Did I Miss Anything?, the author uses each stanza as a response from different viewpoints, the teacher and the student. The stanzas are organized in a way that the different viewpoints are interchangeably respond to “Did I Miss Anything?” The sarcastic tone in the poem expresses how a teacher feels when students ask if they missed anything when they were absent in class. For example, the speaker says,…

short story “Raymond’s Run” - By Toni Cade Bambara, protagonist Squeaky, is a young girl who is in charge of taking care of her handicap brother. Squeaky also keeps her title as the fastest runner. She always is making sure no one is doing anything ,or saying anything rude to her brother Raymond. While as a reader, I think Squeaky acts differently from the other girls. Squeaky also is a young black girl trying to always be the best at running and take care of herself and her brother Raymond. In …

dad had to say and he didn't listen to his dad. On page 18 it says, “He stood to go upstairs, thought of the lecture that probably awaited him if he did anything except shut himself in his room with his math book, and started walking down the street instead.” This is showing that Greg doesn't care about what his dad has to say. After meeting Lemon Brown when he leaves the abandoned apartment, he is smiling when he thought about the lecture he would get from his dad. On page 26 it says, “Greg…

Christopher Boone. In the novel, Christopher has difficulties with social interactions and communication. Yet, he is skilled at science and math, things that people might not had expected from an autistic person. When Christopher says that he could do anything at the…

Assignment 5 Pico says that everything that the others had said to describe human nature was great reasons but did not get deep enough in to the core of human nature. He said all the things that were brought up did not give humans any better status then angels in heaven. Pico goes on to say that he believes he has come up with man is the most advantageous of all the creatures, therefore requiring the highest respect, not only from the beasts on earth but the stars in heaven. Pico says it is the…

talking to people and wearing what she wants to wear. Millicent is not allowed to do anything without asking her big sister: “You can't say anything unless your big sister asks you something or tells you to talk to someone. And you can´t smile, no matter how you're dying to¨(Plath 6). The other sorority sisters tell you what to do. Some examples would be not being able to smile or talk to anyone. The character says she wants to…

Everyone Has the Power to Achieve Anything The meaning of the quote “ The most common reason people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any” (Walker) depends on the way you look at it. You could look at it as saying that some people are too scared to say something or stand up for what they believe in. That some people feel as if they don’t have the power or self-confidence to do so. This quote is also saying that some people never try to make a change because they don’t think…

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D Salinger centers around a boy named Holden. Throughout the book Holden is depressed and is having a hard time fitting in. He lost his brother at a young age. He has been expelled kicked out of four schools and is scared to face his parents. He then goes to New York to try to escape the loneliness. In Holden’s case, all of these events bring him down and lead him to self harm and depression, but as J.D Salinger shows us this can all be overcome by letting someone…

of the ones that affect him the most are Greaser, Hero and Hopeless. I would say these because hopeless affects him because he is hopeless for his parents so he thinks that he has no chance of getting anywhere in life like when he says, “I think like it when the old man’s hittin’ me.” Johnny sighed. “At least then I know he knows who I am. I walk in that house and nobody says anything. I walk out, and nobody says anything. I stay away…