What happened? Why did I do this? Where am I? It was a dark stormy spring night. There was once a kid named James Heinzenberg, his parents were very rude and demanding. It was like James was their slaves doing everything for them and not getting a minute to himself. One day, James thought it would be a great idea if he were to run away, and that’s exactly what he did. Through his window, he went and he was off into the woods. He brought nothing but a flashlight because he didn’t have much. He was wearing a shaggy white t-shirt and jeans he got from his closet, and a hat. He was in the woods trying to turn on the flashlight but it was not working. He kept trying and trying but it would not budge. Later then he opened up where the batteries go and he realized he had none. So the only light source he had was the light of the moon beaming on him and the stars gazing upon him. There was nothing in the woods but the only things he heard were owls, wolves or dogs, and …show more content…
He decided since he was so hungry that he would go get some food, but the only place that was open was the convenience store at the gas station and there was no one at the front desk, so he decided to steal some chocolate bars, chips, and a bottle of water. He grabbed everything he needed and then walked out the door without realizing that the door had a scanner that causes it to trigger an alarm and that’s exactly what happened and then James was caught. The police came and so did his parents. “Mom, Dad!” they were hugging for about a second and they were so happy. Then James’s parents realized that he had complained that he does too many chores and feels like a slave. So after that, James’s parents decided to change their way of parenting and not to treat James like a “slave.” James told his parents everything from how he escaped and how he found a bear and it chased him and he almost stole from a store. Then James agreed to never run away ever
But the car James was trying to get in was his car, he had lost his keys. The group of teens got out the car & beat James and robbed him.
After talking to Aubrey Rubenstein James Mcbride learns that all jews had moved out of the area says Mcbride. Also he learns that his family has taken over the slaughterhouse that james mother’s family owned as a child ( Mcbride 224). James also learns that not all white people treated blacks like if they weren’t the same. He says “ I found it odd and amazing when white people treated me that way, like if there was no barriers between us” (Mcbride 224). When James learned that all the jewish people had moved out he asked a lot of questions.
James had a complicated family life as a child first from his mother was married three times. His first father was a pastor and left to go teach the gold miners in California about God. He sadly died from cholera and was laid in an unmarked grave
Later James is ordered to stand down because it was taking too long to defuse a bomb. James was deliberately ignoring him and risking his life, his military groups and the surrounding innocent civilian lives by continuing to mess with things in
In the beginning, James didn’t listen to his mother and left the house when she went to work that night. This isn’t the only wrong thing he did. Near the middle of the story, James climbs a pole and writes on a sign. Kris, one of the people who want him to do this, tells him that it’s illegal. James starts to realize that this wasn’t the right choice after a different club comes, a bunch of high schoolers.
James begins with the ID stage. He houses aggression towards knowing his background and understanding his sense of self. He is trying to understand what is good and bad with his own racial identity. The Ego aspect of James is that he is trying to satisfy his need of understanding his roots. James toward the end of the book explores places that his mother grew up to better understand his Jewish roots.
James loved it in Louisville because of all the freedom. James liked hanging with “Big Richard”, which was Jack’s husband. During his time in Louisville, James spent most of his time with Big Richard, and Chicken Man at “the corner”. Out of everyone on “the corner” Chicken Man was the brightest. Chicken Man saw something in James that nobody else did.
Once the story starts James has a big decision to make. The author Eve Bunting includes, “ But tonight is going to be different, tonight we’re going out,” this tells me that JAmes is going to leave
James’s dad had 2 dogs, but they were “His dogs' ' meaning that the dogs would do what his dad wants but not what he wants. “...I am not allowed to bring him inside to sleep at the end of my bed … Bucky is a hunting dog…” James is hopeful for the kitte because James has never had a pet that he could do homework with and sleep with, so James says that “it’s going to be my pet,” in hopes of having the kitten as his companion. Furthermore, James doesn’t have many friends.
In the book it says, “We have to make sure mom’s not still waiting at the bus stop, so we play checkers a while.” This shows James disobeyed his mother and left the house
The book blood on the river is about Samuel who was an orphan. Samuel got transferred to captain smith as a page and they sailed to the new world with some other colonist. Jamestown conflict was to survive because the colonist had to get there own prey and build shelter. Samuel was aggressive Charaterin the beginning of the book, he was caring in the middle of the book, and he was loving at the ending. Samuel was very aggressive in the beginning of the book “Blood on the river.”
This proves that although James is trying to or into his family, his emotion(s) put a major roadblock in his path. Another reason that supports this idea is on page 4. While and after the kitten is dying, he lets his emotions pour over and doesn’t care what his family sees of him, only about the dead kitten.
James then meets Aubrey Rubenstien who was very kind and treated him as if he was just like him, in some way that was indeed true. Aubrey was really surprised to see him. He got on the phone with a family member to let him know that he was there. it only showed how surprised
He holds a big white shining ball in the sky for the moon at night. And when it was morning the little flashlights went off and he took down the big ball and picked up a big yellow bright ball and held it in the
This information was considered by many as a highly classified one. All of them, mainly those who hated James to the core knew what The Undying James mean. When the chaos started 100years ago, a deadly virus spread all over like a deadly plague. The dead arose from their slumber and whichever get bitten joins their ranks.