In Tim O’Brien’s story “Notes,” he discusses his fellow soldier “Norman Bowker […] [who hung] himself in the locker room of the YMCA” (149). Bowker symbolizes the pain that many veterans experienced, and how they sadly found their only escape through suicide. Yet, veterans potentially could have survived and even thrived if they had access to resources such as therapy, psychiatrists, and psychologists. When organizations supporting the idea that veterans should have opportunity to obtain these assets proposed this concept to The House Committee members, “members repeatedly balked at the notion that Vietnam Veterans required special counseling programs to help readjust” (Scott 38).
The Tornado One day In 1997,There were five friends playing on the TV and then they all asked if they could play together and then they all did play together and all the kids names are Jimmy John Jack is one name and Ding Dong is another name and Supper Guy and Spooky Guy and also Chad is very smart at everything so he always comes up with the ideas they all live in Texas and there town name is COOCOOLOOLOO DR. and they all want to move because of there town name but there parents said NO so they can not move to a different town and they also just all ate dinner a bit ago and a few hours later there was really strong wind and then it formed into a TORNADO and all the TV’s lights and everything turned off “What is going on” Jimmy
Paul was in the garage heard an engine start and remembered something. Paul remembered riding his bike home one day and getting his in the head by a man in a ski mask, holding a metal baseball bat with two hands in the passenger seat of a van the looked familiar. Paul ran home to tell his parents. He knew it was his brother Erik that did it, but they didn’t believe him. Well, because There Erik was sitting on the stool in the kitchen of their old home doing homework.
They then nearly beat him to death. They gouged out his eye, cut his private part of and put it in his mouth, and then shot him in the head. After that they threw his body, tied to the cotton-gin fan with barbed wire into the river. 3 days after his report of being missing the corpse found his body and pulled it out the river. The only way he was identified was by the ring his mother gave him on his
With all the excitement around getting Archie off the train, five-year-old Timmy Baker watched the men take Archie down the train's steps and place him on a stretcher at the back side of the Millen Depot. Timmy wasn't supposed to get off in Millen. His Aunt Madge was waiting for him in Atlanta. But Timmy saw Archie being taken away and thought he should get off too. His daddy, Jake, had told Timmy to follow Archie's instructions.
One day my sister Dakota, my uncle Raven, my mom, and I went to a farm the day before Halloween. At first we were just going to get a few pumpkins but then, I saw a corn maze. I asked my mom “ Can we go in it, please,” My mom said,” If it is free.” I told her thanks. We went to a pumpkin patch to get a couple pumpkins.
After reading this great antiwar novel “All quiet on the western front” by Erich Maria Remarque I have felt such deep emotions towards the life of these soldiers who fought during WW1. The writer Erich Maria Remarque was ultimately trying to tell the story of how this young generation fought for their lives and for the fatherland. A generation that was lost because of the true horrors of the war. Paul and his friend were just teenagers at the time, the iron youth of Germany from what they called it. when the war broke out they immediately enlist and gave their lives to the fatherland.
This occurred on Jimmy’s seventh Halloween; it started several days before this holiday. Excitement took over him, the thought about going to every single house in the neighborhood to get candy. The mother of this young child had bought a banana costume for him, which she thought was cute. At school, Jimmy won the costume contest and his friend Tommy won second place with his hit dog costume. After school jimmy’s mother picked him up, and he would not stop talking about getting a lot of candies.
Once upon a time, there lived three hungry Civil War soldiers, named Timothy, Sam, and Albert. The fact that they were all Confederate soldiers was basically the only similarity they shared. Timothy was a handsome thirty-year-old. He was known among his friends as a gallant soldier, never afraid, and a kind friend to all who came into his acquaintance. On the other hand, Sam, an old man known as “Sour Sam,” was exactly that: sour.
Raymond was made fun of by a lot of people and was watched by his little sister, because he was “different”. She made sure he didn’t do anything bad and end up hurt. Raymond would run down the street with Squeaky, his sister, because she was his caretaker. For instance, in the story, he would like to splash in rain puddles causing his shoes and cuffs to get soaked. Or he would run across traffic and scare the pigeons.
Every day of our lives we are faced with the opportunity to believe and tell many tales, whether true or false, and exaggerations of daily events. Life is almost like a game of cards, we’re all given cards and it’s up to us to decide what, when and how we’re going to play them. Tim O'Brien uses the theme of storytelling in his book, The Things They Carried, to teach lessons from the war, and allow us to understand the baggage that he along with his fellow men carried. When storytelling the main idea is to connect people to the stories being told and the past to the future.
For the butler knew it would be heard by the neighbor. The old man’s heart beated and he died. He went and went to go see if he had a pulse. The butler had taken the corpse and chopped it up into pieces first the head then the arms and the legs. He had taken the body parts and took three planks and placed them inside under it.
In the beginning there was only a path that was traveled by many, each from a different place. There were different Gods from other worlds and some were just there for the endless ride. Our god named Silas didn’t own a world yet because he had seen that they were hard work, but he knew he would eventually have to create one to live up to everyone 's expectations. One day he was traveling the path and came across a human, her name was December and she was from another land. They decided to walk together.
There was a boy who went by the name jeffy he liked to play hockey and he was very good at it. He was about 5,10 had blonde hair with brown eyes, Jeffy was not the biggest kid he was pretty skinny. Everyday after school he would go to the Windom Arena and he would skate and practice playing hockey. One day after he was done skating he went upstairs to the dry land room and he was working on his clap bombs and and his top cheese snipes. When all of a sudden he heard a loud horn and a scream so he dropped his pucks and stick and quickly ran down stairs to see what was going on but when he arrived there was no one there.
He begs God to take him and blames his ugliness and paleness as to why God wont take him. The three men hear him talk about Death, and begin to ask where they could find him. The old man then gives the three men advice on how to find Death. The old mans advice was that they will find Death under the oak tree. “If you're so anxious to find Death, turn up this crooked path; for in that grove I left him, by my faith, under a tree and there he’ll stay.”
