This particular event happened during lunch time. Some of my classmates had finished eating, and one in particular, Nick, had decided to play with some of his friends around a tree stump. Nick, being the troublemaker that he was, decided to mess around with the tree stump itself. He kicked it, and his buddies laughed. They all started to mess around with it.…
In fifth grade we took a field trip to see the Cleveland Orchestra, but on the way back to SJJ, one of the buses broke down. Two of the buses had to combine and everyone on the combined bus sang songs the rest of the way back to school. The breakdown ended up holding up the buses back at school from leaving from 5 to 10 minutes.…
My teacher had the audacity to yell at me in front of all of my classmates, instead of just pulling me to the side and talking to me in private.…
It was time to get back in class so we lined up outside of our classrooms waiting for the teacher to arrive and take us inside. The…
“A&P” written by John Updike is a short story about a young boy named Sammy. He was 19 years old and he was working at A&P mini market. One day, there were three girls shopping at the store wearing bikinis, and Sammy was surprised yet adore these three girls, until one day he quitted his job because he wanted to be their hero, but unfortunately, the girls didn’t even see him. John Updike was trying to describe Sammy as a typical youth who is trying to get some attention.…
“Its kind of a funny story” is kind of a funny story. It's about 15-year-old Craig Gilner, who attends a prestigious college prep school that will set him on his way to the right college, the right law school, and the right job on Wall Street --- assuming he can bring up his 93 average. Studying for his school's entrance exam occupied Craig for months, and he was proud of his perfect score. Now, though, the school is a huge source of stress for him. He feels scattered and depressed, and even though he really likes the doctors who are helping him with his depression, he can't seem to make what he refers to as The Shift, a move back to normal life. When he calls a suicide hotline, they suggest that he go to the emergency room. From there, Craig spends five days on Six North, the adult psychiatric floor of his local hospital.…
John Updike's short story, "A&P" is fictional in a sense that it has a common pattern that leads the reader through a series of events. These events began when three young ladies in bathing suits walk in A&P, and catch the eye of a young man named, Sammy. He seems to favor the chunkier girl of the three that walk in to the store.…
One’s final moments often leave many questions. “What will my final thoughts be?” or “What would my final statement to the world be?” Reflections on death are often avoided because death can be terrifying but, if forced to think about it, what would you do in the final moments of your life? The author of An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, Ambrose Bierce, wants the reader to focus on his or her final moments and how they might unfold. The author is able to make the reader feel as though he or she is actually sharing the protagonist, Peyton’s, terrifying experience and provokes reaction and deep feeling. The plot is intriguing, unique and takes the reader on an emotional rollercoaster. By using character development, the author is able to make the main character personable and relatable. Additionally, the setting and it’s description, pulls the reader into the text and transports him/her to Peyton’s world. The author hooks the reader with these elements and ultimately forces him or her to reflect on his/her last moments of life.…
On third grade, a man with a tie, went to the classroom and told the students that according to his assessment the students have to take a special tests to determine if they were gifted, which means if they had natural abilities , their own talent. Then the professor told the students to get off of their seats and leave the classroom. On his fourth grade after a boy told him that the principal demanded him to deliver his parents a letter that explained them that he was suspended from school for agitating violence ,which is the state of agitation or turbulent change or development. On his fifth grade, a lady told him that the CAT and DOG could run, but he asked himself if he was writing cat and dog on the board. Then the lady said that he did not have to be worry if he spelled wrong he just had to do the best that he could. On sixth grade a lady turn his chair to face the wall, but the other students chair face the teacher and the boy was in this position for the rest of the year they never call him anything, they never said a word, but the problem was that the boy never said anything…
I did not remember how the conversation between teachers and parents stopped. The scene I still remember now is that we got out of the office silently, and every student walked with parents away in different directions. I did not know what would happen to them, but this was what happened to me. My parents and I got into the car and had remained silence for about five minutes. The time passed slowly, like as the time and air around me were freezing. Finally, the silence was broken at a waiting for a red…
In the fictional short story entitled "A Small, Good Thing" by Raymond Carver is one that emotionally ties the reader to the story. The story opens in a bakery with the mother ordering a cake for her son Scotty for his birthday. The mother, Ann, describes the cake to the baker, who seems not to be a people person, in great detail; this showed the reader of the close relationship the mother and son shared. Ann tried her hardest to be friendly to the baker but he continued to give the feeling of dislike, so she placed her order and left.…
It was time to go to our next class, so we had to clean up the room before we left. Then someone said we should take a picture to remember before cleaning up. We did and then started cleaning. Some of us stayed back to clean up. There was confetti all over the place, food on the floor, and pieces of balloons. We got a vacuum to clean up, but it broke and smoke started to come out because of the confetti.…
Six years have gone by, as so many winks, since I came to the capital from the village. During all that time there have occurred many of those events known as “affairs of the state”, a great number of which I have seen or heard about. My heart does not seem to have been in the least affected by any of them, and recollection now only tends to increase my ill temper and cause me to like people less as the day wears on. But one little incident alone is deep with meaning to me, and I am unable to forget it even now.…
“Okay kids let’s head back to the bus. Our trip is over now.” My classmates have all gathered around to see why I was making all that noise. We begin to shuffle back to the bus, whining the whole time.…
The second bell rang and everyone rushed back to their respectively classes. This lesson was Geography lesson which I do not enjoy most. A new teacher step into the classroom and her fierce looking face really scared my class to total silence. She told us she has seen our Geography results for last year and told us if we work with her, we would be able to achieve better results. Everyone started to jeer at the teacher. In the end, the teacher managed to convince us.…