They pull up to a gate and an officer. The officer tells them to turn around and they decide to sneak in. As they entered they try to find Sonny’s dad by going through the junk and finding bodies of other
One night Brian thought he heard a gunshot so he started to yell for help, but he realized the gun was shot very far away. A few days later he followed animal tracks and
Instead of going straight home, Tom decided to take a little detour. As he was driving, Tom noticed a path he’d never seen before, so he decided to go down the path. Once on the path, the sky suddenly turned dark. While Tom was driving, he came to a point on the path that was blocked by a tree. Tom got out of his car to remove the fallen tree from the path.
As he rounded the corner to one of the old buildings in his small town he saw her on the ground covered in her own blood crying silently now as she struggled to breath. He quickly called the cops and told her it was okay and tried to be as soothing as possible. Grateful for the help she tried her best to focus on her breathing rather than the man that had just made an attempt at her life. As the ambulance rounded the corner Billy Bob Jr. took her up in his arms and rushed to the back doors of the van just as the paramedics came out to help.
“Something very beautiful happens to people when their world has fallen apart: a humility, a nobility, a higher intelligence emerges at just the point when our knees hit the floor.” (Marianne Williamson). Touching Spirit Bear by Ben Mikaelsen, focuses on a boy named Cole who doesn’t care about anything and does whatever he wants. He ends up beating up a fellow student and goes to jail for it, but has a chance to get out by going to an island to “change” for the better. In fact he does end up changing for the better and overcomes some of his big challenges.
Then all of a sudden, something very spooky start happening. Every time I came to the end of the block and stepped off the g*****n curve, I had this feeling that I never get to the other side of the street. I thought I just go down, down, down, and nobody'd ever seen again. Boy did scare me." (197).
“In the two years since she had last looked on the school, Francie changed from a child to a woman.” Page 485, A Tree Grows In Brooklyn This coming-of-age novel written by Betty Smith has been a hot topic on whether or not it should be read by ninth graders. The novel follows a young girl named Francie Nolan as she grows up in a rough neighborhood in Brooklyn, NY from 1902 to 1919. The novel brings Francie’s hardships to life and shows her journey to adolescence; when she finally sees the flaws in her life and truly understands the reality of her surroundings.
He walked past the barn, past the remains of the farm house, and out onto the road not looking back, knowing that if he did, he would go crazy like Snowball. As he was walking away, he heard something behind him. A light, but constant buzz was coming from the road. A van had passed him. The people jumped out at him and beat him, bruising him, and broke his right front leg so he can’t escape.
The short story “The Thing in the Forest'' by A.S Byatt is a story full of mysteries and mysterious events two young girls go through together. The author Byatt makes use of imagery and symbolism to convey strong underlying meanings and help develop the plot. The main purpose of the story is to use imagery and symbolism through beings and places the two main characters Penny and Primrose encounter and the life events they experienced respectivly. Over all the symbolism gives a perspective on how war might be seen by a child and everything associated with it. The first instance in which we see imagery and symbolism used to convey wartime is the “thing” in the first.
ile planting my flowers, yesterday, Doodles, the cat, meowed to go outside. I let him out on the deck, thinking I could keep an eye on him while working. Afterall, I know all the areas he visits. Imagine my fear when I didn't see him! My husband and I called, walked the neighborhood, drove around, searched everywhere.
While he stands to look at the greasy character in the dirt, he envisions headlines, pitted faces of police interrogators, the glow of handcuffs, clank of metal bars, and the big black windows rising from the back of the cell (Boyle). Convinced that he had murdered a man in cold blood, the protagonist is dragged back to reality, and he knows there will be repercussions. Nonetheless, his remorse is momentary as they all spot the half- naked woman that was with the bad character. Like animals, they pounce on her with the intention of raping her. However, before they could do anything to her, a car pulls over, and they are all caught in the headlights.
During his trip on the HMS Beagle Darwin made his discovery that greatly impacted society. On December 27, 1831, the HMS Beagle launched its voyage around the world with Darwin aboard. Over the course of the trip, Darwin collected a many of natural specimens, including birds, and plants. The focus of his new studies was the Galápagos Islands off the Pacific coast of Ecuador. Some neighboring islands had animal populations that were largely similar to that of the continent, while others had a different array of species.
Culture is the way of living with an abundance of customs, ideas and attitudes which then becomes passed down from one generation to the next. Numerous cultures possess their own traditional cultural universals such as: religion, tools, weapons, food, and clothing. “The Education of Little Tree,” a movie by Richard Friedenberg, an orphan boy named Little Tree continues to live his life with his grandparents while learning Native American traditions. In everyday life, Grandpa and Grandma passed down various Cherokee cultural traits to Little Tree. Grandpa passed the cultural trait of appreciating nature to Little Tree.
Suddenly a dark figure appears in the distance. And then another, and another, until there are about 15 grown men standing about 500 feet away from them. The group of boys are frozen in fear. One of the boys in the group broke the
Into The Woods The musical “Into the Woods” by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine is a metaphor for life in many ways, but the most prominent one is the woods symbolizing life itself. The prologue song “Into The Woods” is about each of the character’s dreams and wishes. Cinderella wishes to go to the festival, Little Red Riding Hood wants to deliver bread to Granny, and the Baker and his wife want to have a child, even though the witch cursed their lineage.
