The Idiot Boy

good as boys,” she said, talking about a pickup game she won at recess earlier in the day, against a group of boys. Next, Daily Mail says that an 11-year-old girl is tackling the Philadelphia Archdiocese after it banned her from playing on the Catholic Youth Organization football team because of her gender. Caroline Pla has played football since she was five, but the all-star offensive guard has now been told this will be her last season with the Romans in Bucks County due to an 'all boys' rule.…

On one, the boy is attacked, and the father quickly decides to use one of two bullets to kill the man holding his son at knifepoint: bullets conserved for the pair to commit murder/suicide if the situation became dire. During another, the pair flees a group of marauders…

Boys are Falling Behind in School Look around and there will be boys trying to be better than girls and girls trying to be better than boys. It’s in our nature to compete against the opposite sex. Although, if you were to step into a classroom of an Elementary school, you will see almost all girls with their hands raised, ready to answer a question. Boys’ educational achievement is actually going backwards, as girls reach new academic heights. Evidence from dropout, graduation rates, grades, and…

The comparison of “The Grail” and The Road by Cormac McCarthy contains similarities and differences. Even though the manuscripts of The Road that were distributed are brief, there is a sense in the readings of McCarthy’s intentions. Starting with “The Grail” version being substantially different from the published novel in the beginning, then going into the dream the father had in The Road; its correspondence with the version of “The Grail”, and lastly the similarities that are placed at the end…

mixed up syllables. “Men and boys to the right, Women and girls to the left.” An interpreter commanded. I looked to my mother, a distraught look on her face, I couldn’t bare to lose her. Mother held on to us boys as tight as she could. Father had to pry her cold hands from Hansy. Mother didn’t cry like most of the other women, her face was stone as Father pushed her towards the left. The four of us waited in the almost mile long line, filled with Jewish men and boys of all ages, for what felt…

“Dennis! Dennis!” Mac sounded frantic. Dennis raced across the parking lot toward the gas station. “I’m coming, Mac!” he yelled to his friend, and burst into the store. Mac was at the counter. When Dennis walked in, Mac pointed to the back of the store. The door of the men’s bathroom was slowly creaking open. Just then the door swung wide, and a man appeared. The man’s hair was matted and disheveled. His clothes were ripped and dirty. Parts of his skin were covered in deep purple and black marks…

You can talk to them about anything and everything. At this age, swearing is a part of our language. When I am cruising with the boys, there is swearing in almost every sentence because in that situation it is accepted. That is just how most guys talk. It helps give personality and emphasis on the topics we talk about. But on a first date? I don’t think so. Swearing is a very…

two very different things. Adults often glorify war and see it as an emasculator, even as a necessary part of progress, but the cruel reality of war only brings death and ruin. The narrator is not named in the story but is a boy who is merely six years of age. This young boy becomes an unfortunate victim to the disaster that is war. In Ambrose Bierce’s short story, Chickamauga, the young boy’s childlike innocence in the beginning is proof that war changes people and forces them to grow up,…

Racism is one of the most controversial issues all around the world. Even after allowing African American’s freedom and equality in the 19th century, racism is still very alive during the 20th century. Battle Royale by Ralph Ellison uses irony and imagery to reveal a young man’s battle of searching for acceptance in a world still struggling with racism. While reading, a lot of questions are raised. What is happening is the most common question. The story does not really walk you through a lot…

“The Power of Love to Transform,” recounts one of her personal experiences adopting a child from an orphanage. Lantry adopts a six-year-old boy named Luke who is profoundly unfamiliar with his surroundings and is unrelenting uneducated. Luke was left on the steps of Lantry’s hotel room by unwelcoming orphanage workers who knew very little about him. The small boy, seeming frightened and bewildered, cries hastily and desperately tries to escape from the room. While trying to flee, Luke runs into…