Ralph Anthony Research Paper

First Anthony carried a huge gym bag and a school bag. He was on the cross country team, so he had to come to the morning practice. After the practice, he always took a shower, out on the fresh cloth and take out his roller to relax his leg muscles. He was always dreaming about to become a national runner, earning his pride over others students. After he went to the classroom, he took out his protein shake and drank it to recover his muscles. He was too focus on the sport so that his grades were not really good. He had a C in his English class and a D in his math class. He did not like to pay attention in his class because he always put his headphones in his ear to listen to rock music. He knew that he was not smart enough so the sport was

He was born and raised in the United States, so he could not speak Korean very well. He was a party boy. He wore the different fashionable clothes every day and he did not care about school. All he cares was to have fun. However, due to korean traditionally strict education, his parents wanted him to maintain at least a 3.5 GPA. If he could not maintain this requirement, his parents will cancel all of his entertainment and his money resource. As the result, he always carried a amulet shaped like a pen around his neck with one word on it, paeseu, which means “pass” in Korean. The funniest thing was that he had a dance routine for every single test. During the final time, he did the dance three times and he said that was his respect for the biggest test of the year. I bet he cheated every single test because there was just no way he could get an A by watching TV shows on Netflix all day in the classroom. He also carried a pendent on his school bag with crossing arrows on it, and he said this was representing friendship. Just like the quote in the book The Things They Carried, “They shared the weight of memory. They took up what others could no longer bear. Often, they carried each other, the wounded or weak(Tim O’Brien 39)”. In summer school of my junior year, I was taking driver’s education and the last actual test required a third passenger to be in the car. I was really nervous that I could not have any friend and the teacher said If I could not get a person come in 15 minutes, they would cancel the test and I had to take it next year. I called Andy and he came in school with his bicycle, sprinting. I passed the test eventually and my driving teacher said at last “You had a good