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Personal Narrative Essay: America's First Star War

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In a small city in Cheese Lake California, there lived a boy named Billy. He lived in a three bedroom house with his mom, dad, and sister. His whole family loved Star Wars;yet no one in the family was as enthusiastic about Star Wars then Billy. Standing at 4 feet 8 inches tall and with curly brown hair, Billy looked pretty short with his over sized Star Wars clothes on. In elementary school,Star Wars shirts were the only thing that Billy would wear to school, so he was planning to do the same middle school. The new Star Wars clothes and the new backpack that Billy and his mom bought made Billy pretty excited about showing it off at school. Today was August 11, Billy’s first day at Blue Chesse Jr high. Billy and his mom saw Billy’s elementary school friends with their mom at the gate so Billy and his mom joined them. The principle announced that the first …show more content…

When they got home, Billy right away demanded to go to the clothes shop and buy new clothes. Billy’s mom assumed right away that Billy was teased of his clothes. “ Are you sure you want to stop wearing all these cool Star Wars stuff?” His mom asked. “ yes!” Billy answered in a desperate voice. Billy’s mom right away took him to the clothes shop and bought new clothes for him. Billy later also asks for a new back pack, so Billy’s mom couldn't do anything but buy it for her son. The next day, Billy started to wear his new clothes to clothes, Billy thought that if wore all these clothes, he would be accepted by other students at his school. Billy missed seeing Star Wars on his shirt, and he didn't like the clothes that he bought; however Billy was doing this for his social life. Other students at school were very surprised about how Billy had changed himself, so more and more students wanted to become friends with Billy. However one day after school, Billy’s mom wanted to have a conversation with Billy because she was worried that other students could actually permanently change who he

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