The Idiot Boy

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…

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 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…

rivals gang members. Boyle shifts back to reminiscing over Homeboy Industries office days. Every day after school, young adolescents and teens stop by the office to converse with the staff or play games. During this timeframe, Boyle befriends a young boy named Betito. The two begin calling each other “da real deal” in reference to a Pollo Loco commercial. Not long thereafter, however, Betito is killed in a drive-by shooting. Thus showing how Father G try to be successful to give Betito a second…

Within the book Unbroken, by Laura Hillenbrand, focuses on the life of Louie Zamperini. The first six chapters revolve around the upbringing of Louie. It describes him as a very rebellious young man who did not know when to stop. Louie’s life is very different from that of my own not only because of the upbringing that he went through by having a poor family but also in the ways that we both act. While Louie can be described as rebellious and defiant, my own life can be described completely…

Analysis of the music video Stressed Out The music video of the song Stressed Out by Twenty One Pilots begins with a middle-aged man in a red beanie blue t-shirt and gray jeans He is riding a tricycle down a road in what appears to be a family-friendly suburban area where winter is approachingThe tricycle is old fashioned and has ribbons coming out of the handle bars The man has a backpack on his shoulders which is covered in doodles His hands and neck appear to be covered in a sort of dirt or…

experiencing hormonal changes these things are what young girls look to becoming. And when they don't, the feel so insecure and some even disgusted with their own bodies. Seeing this type of “perfection” everywhere seems like that's how we have to be to get boys attention.…

Billy Joe tried to do just that. As I went in to poke my large, pointed nose into the man’s skiff, a Portuguese man-of-war came along. I panicked and quickly let go of the bait and instead of drowning the man hid under the cover of his small and powerless boat. The jellyfish left and I began to taunt the man once more. Two days had passed and the man showed no sign of giving up but only sign of pushing forward. I started to fear that the man would win. He still did not know how gigantic and…

silence. Johnny and his friends were playing in woods by the cemetery and heard a bell ringing. Being curious the boys went to investigate the sound. They peered out of the trees to the side of the cemetery. What they saw were graves and grave markers looking as eerie as ever in the moonlight. What drew their attention to the new grave none of them ever knew but as they watched the boys saw…