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The book Fist Stick Knife Gun by Geoffrey Canada is a compelling personal account of growing up in some of the most dangerous areas and how he decided to take what he learned on the streets to create something different for future generations. The first story starts out when Geoffrey was four years old. That is the age he realized violence was a part of life. He tells a story of his brother’s jacket being stolen at the playground. Geoffrey assumed his mother would intervene and help get the jacket back.
In the stories “Seventh Grade” by Gary Soto and “Charles” by Shirley Jackson the authors made these stories with unique settings. In “Seventh grade” it was about a boy named Victor, who walks in the first day of middle school and wants to impress a girl named Teresa he tries every way he can to get her attention, he even tries scowling. Finally when he tries to impress her he just makes a fool out of himself trying to speak French when he did not know how, but Teresa went to it and asked him to help her with her french he knew this year was going to be the best. In the story “Charles” it was about a boy named Laurie who went to to kindergarten, he would come home from school every day with crazy stories about this kid in his class named Charles who gets introble all the time and does so many bad things in school. When finally Laurie’s mom went to a teacher conference the mom asked about the Charles and the teacher replied saying that they had not Charles in their class.
Segregations of family members is shown in both stories, this is a dilemma that the characters and family members need to cope with. Another example these two short stories need to cope with is the disappointing result of many people dying in war. Many of the people that fight in battle hardly make it out alive, the death results are higher than the amount of survivors. The story, The Sniper, deals with innocent deaths, "A man's head and shoulders appeared, looking toward the sniper.
This short story is literally about the time when Ralph’s father bought him a pen. With the pen, he wrote stories on Sundays, and even though this seems pointless, it was important to Ralph because he remembered this memory. These are two examples of the many stories that make up Ralph’s
5. What are the narrator ’s purposes for telling these stories? How do their reflections add to the theme of the stories? Use specific quotations to support your ideas.
The very first page of this book we are presented with a letter from Alex, who is obviously leaving home. The letter I believed was a really cool way to give us the background of the story we needed to know on a personal level. This was our first look at Alex. He seems excited to be out in the Alaskan bush. Not too many people would be excited about that.
While reading the 5 fiction short stories there became a common pattern between 3 stories and the characters in them. These stories are “The Rocking Horse Winner” by D.H. Lawrence, “I Stand Here Ironing” by Tillie Olsen, and “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”. Every character has the mindset to possibly fulfill their goals to better and/or change their lives. “The Rocking Horse Winner” is about a boy named Paul who wants to win his mother’s love and attention. By giving her the life she always wanted.
“At its most basic, every story is an attempt to answer the question What happened?” (Norton 85) One of the most significant elements in a short story is plot. Plot is construct by authors and they rearrange the character’s action in a consequential way to shape our response and interpretation (Norton 85). In "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" by Joyce Carol Oates and "Sonny's Blues" by James Baldwin, they use similar plot styles that contributes to the process of maturation for characters in the stories.
The narrator starts the story off by reflecting back to when Sonny was a young boy. He then compares his students to Sonny and realizes they could end up like him one day. For that reason, the narrator starts to doubt his
Skateboarding, growing in popularity each year, has sparked controversy in communities nationwide. Communities are facing difficulty in building skate parks quickly enough to handle the growing demands of skateboarders, many of which use their respective towns and cities as playgrounds, upsetting local citizens for various reasons. Skateboarding, though completely innocent in and of itself, is accompanied often by a certain criminal atmosphere, which is why it should be limited to designated skate parks, sidewalks, and the skaters’ private property. Some view skateboarding as a fun recreational activity, but others have different experiences; skateboards and skateboarders can cause damage to public and private property alike. Even a frequent skateboard rider conceded that he might “scratch your pretty marble ledges,” or that his board might hit a pedestrian (Source B).
The scene then changes to the narrator’s childhood, a lonely one at it. “I lay on the bed and lost myself in stories,” he says, “I liked that. Books were safer than other people anyway.” The main narrative starts as he recalls a
Sherman Alexi learned how to read he would look at the pictures and imagine she was reading by just observing. Alexi was really smart he learned how to read at very young age he demonstrated that he was at a higher reading level than his classmates. In the tribe, Indians are expected to fail Alexi refused to fail he wanted to prove he could be best in front of Indians and non-Indians, Alexi realized that the way to succeed was to read anything she came across to she would read anywhere and at any time. Sherman Alexi became a writer he visited schools to teach Indian students how to read and write he wanted to provide them with help that he wasn’t provided with when he was in school. In comparison of both stories would be that when someone has the help or the motivation to achieve that person will be able to without any hesitation but at the same time they need to learn how to focus and realize that its them who want to
Baldwin’s creative style in both stories effectively gives his audience perspective and insight into these themes, permitting a deeper comprehension of how they relate to the world outside of his stories.
One of the things in my life that have challenged me is my first time on a roller coaster. It all started when one summer we decided we were going to go on vacation to Salt Lake City. We would try and find an amusement park to go to. We found one named Lagoon. We got there and they had a lot of roller coasters.
New experiences come challenges and anxieties that can be overwhelming if not handled and dealt with wisely. Making the
