This Boy's Life

“Santa.” “What?” “Call me Santa.” “… What do you want from me, Santa?” she repeated. “See those gifts?” He pointed to a table in the corner, stacked with toys and appliances. “Wrap them. I’ll be back with more.” Suddenly the Christmas-y tentacles reached out and dug into Dianna’s pockets, taking her and her boyfriend’s wallets. “What are you doing? Please, that’s all of my boyfriend’s Christmas money!” “I’m sure he’ll be happy to know it was used to for good. Have fun with the elves.” He…

This week, I was able to be more involved in the actual teaching within the classroom. Last week, I monitored student behavior a lot and made sure that everyone was on task when they were supposed to be. However, this week I taught morning meeting and skills block. During morning meeting, we would listen to the daily announcements on the overhead, then I would call everyone down to the carpet to sit in a circle. We began each day with a friendly greeting. This week it was “Brown Bear…

Horowitz says this to Holden because he wants him to realize that the fish naturally survive this way. Even though the ducks are surrounded with ice, they let Mother Nature take its course by waiting it out and knowing they are going to survive. Horowitz goes on to say, “If you was a fish, Mother Nature 's take care of you, wouldn’t she?” Then he says, “You don’t think them fish just die when it gets to be winter, do ya?” . This relates directly to Holden because he is…

Westcliff Wraith Hayden Andrews and her parents pulled up to their new house in Westcliff, California. “Well, this is it!” Hayden’s parents announced to her excitedly. What did they expect when they showed her this? “It looks like it’s 1,000 years old.” Hayden said, unenthusiastically. Hayden always seemed to have this sixth sense on getting good or bad vibes from people or places, and this place gave off major bad vibes. It was kind of weird, but Hayden decided to give it a shot. Her…

about it, do not be fooled, as it could lead to death. Field states, “The Nun’s Priest’s Tale says that even those who do not like his tale can benefit from it.” Field says that everyone who reads this tale can learn the lessons, and the meanings of the story. People can use these lessons in everyday life and can teach someone to be more opened minded about things. Chanticleer also references the Bible: “The Book of Daniel”, as Daniel too had dreams of what would happen in the future. Not all…

I've never seen a grown up pretending to be a 13 years old girl on you-tube before, must be a new low. Oh, I think that is a compliment, how old do I look do you think? Now I'm a little confused, why did you think I was an adult? Was it the fact I challenged you? Communicated in a grown up way perhaps, I would be really interested to know. You answered nothing of what i wrote, you denied that i have even read the bible without knowing me, you don't know my age or background. No, I went down…

very slow paced week but it did not feel like it took to long to be over. Which is a good thing. For the whole week we had 2 main projects we worked on. The first one throughout the morning and then the second one during the afternoon. So everyday this week was the exact same but I liked it. For the first two periods everyday we worked on a physics project, which was making a mouse trap into a race car. It was interesting, on Monday morning no one had any idea of what we would be doing but Mr.…

young boy who loses his hand, and ultimately his life, while working with a buzz-saw, presumably on his family’s farm. The speaker remains an observer throughout the narrative, presenting the poem in the first person. The use of first-person narration establishes an intimacy between the speaker and reader, so that the reader sympathizes with the speaker and not the “they.” “They” remain ambiguous throughout the poem, but “they” might refer to the boy’s family, as the sister is specifically…

Shakespeare’s Macbeth, in which Macbeth claims that life is little more than a shadow of impending doom, and that each person merely plays his part until he is no more. Centuries later, Robert Frost incorporates a similar theme on the subject of death in his poem “‘Out, Out -’”. Unlike many of the other writers who have preceded him, however, Frost does not use aged characters of wisdom to portray this theme. Rather, Frost chooses to address this topic through the story of a young boy of modest…

the writer uses 1st person narrative voice to convey his views towards the boy’s death. His perspective shows that he knows what is going to happen. This builds up tension through the use of the verb “wish”. The poet also talks about how he wishes they “Call it a day”. This manifests the writer’s sympathy for the protagonist who eventually chops his arm off. The quote makes the reader interested…