Then Herbert showed up and told Ida about a secret meeting that the school board had set up to keep the school closed for good until the next school year started. Ida and Tom told everyone that they knew about the meeting and asked them to go to it. Ida and the rest of the children won the fight between keeping the school open and closing it. A couple of days later the county examiner came to give the tests. Mary and Felix were the first ones done with their exams.
The 57 Bus by Dashka Slater is compelling nonfiction following a real story about two teenagers who faced the consequences of a life-altering crime. In 2013, an assault, considerably a hate crime, took place on a city bus in Oakland, California involving an agender teen, Sasha, and a black teenager, Richard. With ample detail, Slater describes the lifestyles of both characters, such as how Richard didn’t grow up in the best environment but was still a good person. Sasha, on the other hand, was constantly surrounded by supportive people; they were named Luke at birth, but decided it didn't apply to them correctly and identified as agender. While riding home on the bus, Sasha falls asleep and Richard, not intending the harm that occurred, lit
Consequential Decisions Many people challenge the following idea: how far can a prank go before it is no longer a joke? Richard Thomas, a 16 year old African-American male, battles this idea in Dashka Slater's narrative nonfiction book, The 57 Bus. While on the bus with his friends, Richard gets pressured into lighting a sleeping person’s skirt on fire as a funny prank. The prank immediately gets out of hand and results in his arrest and the hospitalization of the victim. Intended as a joke, the media views Richard as a terrible monster for what he’s done.
Elijah Singh Mrs. Kaminski-Moss ENG1D January 12th 2022 The Fire That Started It All Finding a good book can be a daunting task, especially for teenagers. This book however unfolds a thrilling, yet heartbreaking real life tale that would appeal to the average teenager. The 57 Bus By Dashka Slater is a novel that uncovers the true story of an agender person being set on fire in a transit bus by a teenage boy.
Brooke Atkins Mrs. Simon English 2 6 March 2023 The 57 Bus Essay Have you ever made a split-second decision that had unintended consequences? Slater’s credibility as a journalist and author is clear in the depth of research she undertook to write the book. The 57 Bus is a true story written by Dashka Slater, which narrates a tragic incident that occurred in Oakland, California. The book describes an incident in which Richard, a sixteen-year-old African American boy, sets fire to the skirt of a white, Sasha, an eighteen nonbinary teenager, who was sleeping on the bus.
Everyone starts to look for her, but she can’t be found. Junie B. really has to go to the bathroom, and because it’s an emergency, she calls 911. Her mother, who was very upset, comes to pick her up at school. in order to help her feel more comfortable on the bus, she finds
In the San Francisco Bay Area of California, nearly 500,000 people identify as gay, bisexual, or transgender out of 7,753,000 people. Sasha in the book The 57 Bus identifies as genderqueer and is a part of the LGBTQ community, Sasha is later set on fire by a teenage boy named Richard on their way home from school because Sasha was wearing a skirt. In Dashka Slater’s The 57 Bus, Sasha and Richard are similar in their love and compassion towards friends and family, yet are very different in how they act outside of school.
Is it a homophobia? “I don’t have a problem with homosexual’s. I have friends that’s homosexual’s.” In the novel The 57 Bus by Dashka Slater, we experience the life of an agender person named Sasha, formally named Luke. Sasha walks us through their life and their internal and external changes while simultaneously fighting for their life as their friends Andrew, formally known as Samantha, Michel, and their parents Karl, and Debbie cheer them on.
Never play with fire; it could ruin your life and someone else you don’t even know. In the novel The 57 Bus by Dashka Slater, a true story novel focusing on themes of homophobia and arson. A 16 year old boy named Richard, lit an agender’s skirt on fire. The reasoning behind his actions was because he didn’t agree with transgenders, saying: “I don’t have any problem with somebody if they like men. But what if you do too much?
Intro The 57 Bus takes place in Oakland, California where a black teenager named Richard burned an innocent teen because his friends thought it would be a funny joke to pull on someone they didn't even know. The victim was Sasha Fleischman who was agender (gender nonconforming). Richard and Sasha's lives are changed for forever . My inquiry question is can someone's sexual orientation be considered a hate crime in court?
And afterward, they switch jobs and go off to them the next day. The scene is the same because it is in the school
After lunch they went back to the church , it was on fire. While pulling up, Ponyboy overheard how a bunch snuck into the church before it set flames. Jonny and Ponyboy knew it was their fault, so they jumped out of the car and bolted into the church. As Ponyboy was getting the last kid out of the window, the roof started to cave in while Jonny was still inside. Jonny had a broken back, sever burns and ended up
They ended up going on their way to the beach, but a seagull flies into the car, and in the ensuing chaos they rear-end a car on the bridge and break their car's
With Ponyboy and Johnny being the nice kids they are the tell Dallas to leave them along making get upset and leaving. After that the girls hang around with them for awhile until their boyfriends show up drunk and angry that two other guys are talking to their girls. The girls go home with them and Ponyboy and Johnny leave. Later that night they run into them again and they remember them starting a fight. Bob one of the Socs gets killed in the fight by Johnny in fear that he was going to kill Ponyboy.
In the short story, ‘’Charles,’’ many readers believe it is too easy to see the twist at the end. I agree with the statement because Laurie’s parents never gave him enough attention, he talked about Charles oddly, and also did not treat his parents nicely. To begin with, Laurie’s parents never gave him enough attention. This is why he creates Charles and his head and acts the way he does. He also acts terribly in school and that gives him attention from the other kids, and this gives him another reason.
