Doug Swieteck is a 14 year old boy with a life that is anything but desirable, he lives in a small town he hates in upstate new york, has an abusive father, a brother who is scarred from the Vietnam war and another brother known for being a criminal. He tries to find happiness in the small things like his mothers smile and joy, drawing birds, his friend lil and his baseball jacket that used to be owned by a baseball legend. Once these things start disappearing his mother stops smiling his fathers job is in danger and his jacket is stolen. He overcomes this and against the odds makes his life better with the help of noble people like the librarian and his teacher. This book is very emotional and one of the most heartbreaking parts is when they…
A book starting with a story, a story about a seven-year-old girl named Keri playing with her best friend Janna on a zip line in her backyard when she prepared herself to break her arm. Fast-forward eight years to events that Keri in no way could have prepared herself for, her older brother's unexpected suicide. After losing contact with Janna for many years, Janna makes a sudden reappearance with an idea, what if Keri’s brother was murdered? For this paper I will be predicting, evaluating and questioning.…
The tittle of the book is Fade by Lisa McMann. The main character is Janie. Janie is in her senior year and is going out with a boy named Cable. Cable is one of the main characters as well. The main problem in the story is that there is a sexual predator at Fieldridge High. Captain needs a volunteer to scope out the sexual predator. The job could be risky because nobody in Fieldridge High is talking. The problem in the book causes Janie to make decision. The decision affects many characters in the book and there are many reasonable arguments against and for the decision made.…
My prediction about this book that there are a group of kids who are all not being able to fit into a group and is in able to make it possible to fit in with others. The main character in this book name is Steve Nugents and he lives in Burnstone Grove. In the book Steve has a brother named Welton, and his dad his mother died do to Breast Cancer and Welton died because he hung himself in his room.. Dad has had a very shaky ending after that he does not take both of those deaths very good and finds himself becoming depressed. Dad also sent Steve a way to Burnstone Grove it is not a house but is a class to prevent from drug addicts to committing suicide. Like on page 24 it shows an example of how his dad is very depressed that sometimes when he…
I am reading”The Bass, the River and Sheila Mant” by WD Wetherell and I am on page five. This book is about a 14 year old boy having a crush on a girl named Sheila Mant. Throughout the story he does many things to get her attention. As the story goes on he is stuck between two choices. Which one will he choose? In this paper I will be questioning and connecting.…
Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key is a book that opens the door into the mind and life of a boy with hyperactivity issues. It introduces parent abandonment (leaving him with his grandmother) and students with special needs. The author builds kid friendly humor into the story while at the same time making readers take a real look at a few of the steps Joey and his mother take just so Joey can be mainstreamed again after he harms another student. It took me a minute to realize that I read this book when I was in 4th grade and I’m glad that I had the chance to come back to it as an adult. I see Joey’s behavior a completely different way.…
After accidentally throwing a book at his teacher, he was told to leave the reservation so he wouldn’t lose hope. As a result of leaving, Junior lost his best friend, gained a new friend, had an identity problem and now he feels to blame for the deaths of his sister. After leaving the reservation, Juniors sister mary got married and moved to Montana. Furthermore, Mary lived in a trailer home with her husband. After drinking so much one night Mary and her husband knocked out in their bedroom. Therefore, someone left the stove on and as a result of that, mary and her husband burned to death. Mary's dream was to write a romance novel but because she lost hope, after Junior left the reservation mary ran off to live her romance novel. At the funeral, Junior ran into the woods where he saw rowdy crying, “It’s all your fault… your sister is dead because of you left us. You killed her” (211). As Rowdy ran deeper into the woods, “I had killed my sister” (211). Afterwards Junior was starting to lose hope but his friends at Reardan gave him hope by standing up for him when he walked into class late. In conclusion, even though Junior left the reservation, lost his best friend, gained new ones, had an identity problem and blamed himself for the death of his sister Junior had a bright future…
Summary: Daniel goes to school with all the other kids. He is in the first grade.…
In America, when any sort of tragedy strikes the nation, citizens consistently turn to media outlets and politicians in order to determine the facts of the tragedy and how they should feel about it. Citizens want to know if they should feel sympathetic, annoyed, or even enraged. This is why citizens of the United States find it so important to determine the presidential candidates’ thoughts and feelings on tragedies and if they can agree with them. With the recent shooting of Terence Crutcher, many news outlets have covered the fact that Donald Trump claims he was troubled by the shooting. Despite there being only one event, news outlets can cover the event by using different framing techniques so that their audiences develop the desired opinion.…
In my book, we follow the life of a high school football player. His name is Miles the plays linebacker. He has somewhat of a hard life. His father is always on him to do his best in football because the wants him to go farther in life than he did. His mother is a caring and loving lady that helps him no matter what. His friend Zach is a decent kid until basically forces Miles to take steroids saying that they were like caffeine pills. Miles soon finds out that the rest of the team was taking steroids. Miles is confused whether the should continue take the steroids even though he know the affect they have on your body.…
Ben is nine years old. He is in the third grade at Children’s Nation Elementary School, a quality school with rigorous curriculum and high academic achievement. Ben is from a poor neighborhood. His parents are both working extra time to pay for his tuition. Ben is one of the top students at school. He started to cut himself two months ago. I intern at the school, supervised by Dr. Brown. I have been counseling Ben for a month, twice a week. There are two more school counselors at the school.…
Right, I’m going to be completely straight forward with you. I’m writing this book as a 15 year old boy, unsure as to where he’s heading in life. I’ve been kicked out of school with next to no qualifications and basically I’m fucked for life. This book may also end up being written into my 16th year as a human being on Planet Earth. I know what you’re thinking, ‘this book is going nowhere for me’, but trust me, read on and I can assure you this story may end up being very moving for you. You might cry, as some people who have read a much shorter version of it have ended up doing so. It’s not the most pleasant of stories but maybe could teach you a lesson if you’re a young person reading this, or, if you’re all grown up, even bring back some memories and familiarities from when you were a child.…
Not every boy has the same luck like Mark Salzman. Many of them try to fight against obstacles, and many of them lose their hope when they fight against obstacles because they still lived at Juvenile Hall. For instance, Francisco is another boy at Juvenile Hall. He used to be a very bad boy, so the staffs that worked in the prison always said that he was a big troublemaker. However, he felt sorry about what he did to his mother. In order to pay for the Attorney's fee, his mother borrowed a lot of money from the others. Not only did she borrow the money, but she also sold out all her stuffs. This made Francisco feel guilty when he faced his mother. He wanted to carry her in his arms and cry. However, he said he would never do like that because he had to pretend that he was stronger that he had been before. He made sure that he won’t ever make his mother worry again. Therefore, he didn’t want to send his letter to his mother even though the whole writing class inspired him to send…
The book begins with the rescue basically, of this young boy named Dave Pelzer. During an examination by the school nurse Dave said he ran into a door, the nurse reminds him that he said that the week previous. Dave then changes his story saying he was playing baseball and got hit by the bat accidentally. This leads to the nurse examining Dave further, having him take off the torn clothing and revealing the scar on his stomach from where his mother had stabbed him. Dave is brought to the teacher's lounge and a police officer asks him to tell of his mother and the abuse and he hesitantly did so. The chapter then ends with the police officer taking Dave to the police station and while going down the highway the officer tells him he is free and…
Benjamin Button played by Brad Pitt, who was born with a special needs and physical attributes of an old man with all of the side effects of aging. His father could not deal with the birth defects, and was not able to handle the sight of this child. As a result of this he abandoned the child at birth, leaving him at a home. Young Ben was then raised with the issues of this abandonment, being different, and feeling different with the thoughts of dying at a young age instead of the invincibility that most children experience when young. I thought this was hard enough as it is, however Ben also was instilled with many fears due to his physical abilities and being handicapped to thrive. Ben was often told that he couldn’t do things due to fragility which continued to feed his feeling different. He was not feeling like he was getting older like everybody else in the world, instead of growing older Benjamin is growing younger, taking off a year each birthday instead of adding one. He would watch the people around him, people he cared about, pass on. However, while he was feeling the loss in his life from their passing, he was able to learn from them. He was seen as an 80 year old man, and often treated like one, which helped him learn a lot. He saw one of the granddaughters of someone in the house with whom he had fallen in love with, and wanted to play with her. Throughout the years he was able too, despite being judged for his appearance, he eventually was able to gain a relationship with her. When he was 17 he was feeling younger than his stated age and was able to go on a journey that spanned different countries. For once he was enjoying life, different lifestyles, and traveling, all while still experiencing loss and all that goes with that. I could closely relate with what he was doing in the moving towards enjoying life to its fullness and facing the fear of going outside of one’s comfort zone and…