on day on the last day of school the students were taking a test and a student toby was copying of his friends Matt paper because he didn't study. Mrs. Jewels caught them and turned them into and apple. The whole was class was upset because she turned Matt into…
The movie focused almost entirely on the love story between reformed playboy, Verigible Woods (aka, Tea Cake) and Janie. However there were so many more layers to the novel, including studies in developmental psychology and cultural anthropology.…
It was Nine O’clock, Pedro Juanito and his family had just arrived at their new house located in Woodgrove, California. As soon as they got in the driveway everyone began to feel relieved after eight hours of flying and driving from Mexico. Before Pop could turn the engine off everyone opened their doors and ran inside to see how astonishing their new house was. Everyone except Pedro was excited because Pedro had just got used to life in Mexico and he didn’t want to move. After everyone looked around and assigned rooms, everyone went to bed for school and work except Pedro, he just sat there wandering what his new school would be like and if people would like him. After around 30 minutes of thinking Pedro finally got tired and went to sleep…
Theme is a quality in a book that determines how well it flows. If a theme is presented throughout a book, it helps the book be more consistent and help tie it all together. In Pictures of Hollis Woods, belonging is the most important theme, and it is shown in many places throughout the book. When Hollis feels like she belongs, she shows the people around her a different, and much more real side of her personality. When she met the Reagans’, the first foster parents that she felt she belonged with, the Old Man had always talked about how she was such a good kid, while previous foster parents only looked down on her. Before she felt she belonged, she did not express positive feelings at all. She did not trust anyone, and was closed off when communicating with others. When she found the Reagans’ and felt the effect of belonging, it completely changed her attitude towards the people around her. She showed compassion for the Old Man, Izzy, and Steven, and with Josie later on. That was something she never did before she felt she belonged.…
I walked out of Miss Shnyzer’s office. It had been about an hour ago that Toby Kavner, my name, was called over the loudspeaker. I walked over to my mates, Max Lavell, Jimmy Cass and Dylan Dolan, who were tossing their apples over the wrought iron fence. They are too busy cracking jokes about some homework. I plump down beside Max and start crunching down on my ovalteenies.…
During a snow storm Ann’s husband decides to travel on snowshoes to his father’s farm to help him. John gets ready and to brave the oncoming storm to his father’s house; Ann does not want him to go and leave her alone. Against Ann’s requests he leaves anyway. Without consulting Ann, he stops by their neighbour Steve’s house and asks s if he will come over to help her and keep her company.…
She seems to be romantically involved with L.B. ‘Jeff’ Jeffries, an outgoing magazine photographer confined temporarily to his apartment due to a major leg injury. In this relationship, Lisa seems to be the one in the relationship with a strong desire to get married and is madly in love with him, whereas L.B. “Jeff” Jeffries has no desire whatsoever and he believes that she is incompatible with him. While confined to his apartment, Jeffries takes interest in gazing his surrounding neighbors for interesting photos for future news. Since he has nothing to do in the day, he often watches his neighbors through his large window in his home. He particularly takes an interest in his neighbor Lars, a travelling salesman and his wife. Jeffries hears an argument that implies a controlling, jealous wife. Later, he suspects a murder has taken place in the Lars household in connection with the disappearance of the Mrs. Lars.…
On a hot and sunny day in Los Angeles, California, there were two friends who were talking about what they were going to do on vacation. Allison and Conner were the best of friends ever since they were young, and they always hung out together. They even took many martial art classes together just in case if they faced any danger. Conner had blond hair, blue eyes, and was wearing a gray football t-shirt and khaki shorts. Allison had brown, long hair, brown eyes and always wore blue jeans with a nice shirt. They always went on vacation with each other during the Spring so that they had to time to relax and have fun.…
After Doodle said that Mom ran out of the barn and started crying she cried for twenty minutes then she finally stopped and then she went into the house and sat down on the couch and watched TV. after we got done talking to Doodle in the barn we went inside put on a movie and we all fell…
There once was two little kids that were playing on their small, family farm. Nancy was seven; she loved playing Hide and Seek. Davey was four; he loved playing Kingdom. Their father was in his mid thirties. He typically spent over ten hours in the field each day; however, he still had to bring in over three-fourths of the crops, and in less than two weeks, it was going to get too cold for the horses to work in the field, so for the past week he had spent about eighteen hours out in the fields. Their momma was in charge of all of the housework. She made all of the meals and taught the kids. Since it was getting colder, it took longer to cook the meals; so, she hoped that her husband would be done on the field soon so he could help her with more of the housework.…
It was the first day of school in the ninth grade. Conner was a trouble maker, made bad grades, and skipped school. Then, one day he decided to go to school. Conner went to the principal’s office to ask how many classes he would have to be passing to play baseball. Principal…
In just a matter of months, Sarah has hastily experienced and heard things that she hadn’t thought she would. As she moved into her cousin’s home, she begins to see how the people outside her home assumed many things. Sarah learned about harlots, Quakers, and most importantly witches. At the young age of 9, you would think that a girl would be afraid of such precarious knowledge. But Sarah was different. She embraced it, but masked her enthusiasm to show her cousin that she was mature enough to know these things. “I did not want my cousin to think of me as an infant who did not know how the world moved (pg. 46 Kent).” Sarah accepted these mature thoughts and began to broaden her mind even more. “Through the many years since that time, I have learned that women show their true selves in a different way. Sharing secrets is the way in which women tie themselves together, for it reveals complicity and trust (pg.46 & 47 Kent).” Being with Margaret developed her perceptions about her external world. She is fed with new information and as a hungry child, she eagerly accepts. Sarah and Margaret begin to develop a close bond as well as the whole Toothacker family. In the beginning, it puzzles Sarah to why her direct family loathed the Toothackers. It took time for Sarah to understand why her parents hated them. Sarah, only being a child, loved the Toothakers for their kindness and accepting behavior, but…
During the 1920s, most of the houses people lived in were gigantic, beautiful and large. The house Jane lived in was a colonial mansion that had the characteristics of a haunted house. The house was in fact so huge that it gave the impression of living inside a mental hospital. When the family moved the house John, Jane's husband, placed her in a room in the attic. This room was a ruminant of a nursery for a little boy. By John putting Jane inside that room it showed how he really thought of her, as a little child. John saw Jane as a little girl and treated her as such by, calling her children's name like: "blessed little goose", and "little girl". Immediately after Jane went into the nursery room, she noticed how dreadful it was. The windows had bars which made it impossible for her to escape. Not only were there bars on the windows but the floors had splinters…
Lynda was 7 years old, when her relatives moved to her. She and her brother gave their room to their relatives and started to stay in TV room. Her parents had been fighting all night because of financial problems. Lynda and her brother were invisible at their home. In their house were depression, anger, and frustrating. One night Lynda snuck out and went toward to school. She met to Mr. Gunderson, the janitor in the school. She helped to her. In the morning, she met to her teacher Mrs. LeSane and started to cry. The only place that she could be happy was the school. Mrs. LeSane asked her if she wanted to come to her room early and do painting. Lynda started to come to early every morning and did her paintings. Lynda decided to draw some pictures to Mrs. LeSane. She made to Mrs. LeSane picture of nice house with flowers all around it. Mrs. LeSane pinned that picture board and asked to students to stand up and say the Pledge of Allegiance.…
It was settled, the Johnsons were relocating to Bellingham, Washington; since Papa cannot sustain the work in the country. John liked the idea of moving to the city, but Hilda and Lois were not so thrilled. Their house in Bellingham was modern, and John was delighted. From the window, you could see the magnificent Mount Baker. Papa and Hilda started talking about how Mount Baker was like God, making John feel awkward. The girls were a bit worried going to school even with John’s encouragement. After class, John’s classmate, Marvin, led him to the railroad tracks where he got him to smoke a cigarette brought by a fifth-grader named Pete. As they parted, John ran home in dismay, anxious that his parents might find out. When he got home, John saw Mama chopping down some onions, so he ate a piece to take the smell of the cigarette out. John felt guilty for smoking, but thought that at least he did something to please his father by chopping down some wood.…