Their friend Two-Bit comes along and then they offer to get the two girls home. On the way to Two-Bit’s house to get his car they talk about how they aren’t so different. While talking a Blue Mustang pulls up with Cherry’s boyfriend Bob. They threaten Pony, Two-Bit and Johnny. Cherry doesn’t like fighting and tells them she will get in the car with them if they stop. When Pony gets home it is really late and Darry is really mad at him, he slaps Pony. Pony tells him he is running away and leaves the house. He goes back to the Park where Johnny is and hangs out. He realizes how cold he is and decides he wants to go back home.…
How did this happen? How will this affect her in the future? These are questions being asked by readers in M.T. Anderson’s book Feed. The book is about a teenage boy, Titus, who lives in a society where a computer feed is implanted directly into people’s brains. His girlfriend, Violet, has a seizure which causes her to lose a year’s worth of memories. Later, when Titus visits her, something doesn’t seem right. She seems nervous about what the feed is doing to her mind. She also later tells him about how she wants to show she’s alive, or how she wants to live life to the fullest. It becomes clear that Violet has suspicions about the feed and perhaps, dislikes it.…
Missie gets pregnant but continues to do all the housework. Joe, one day, sees Missie chopping wood and stops her and takes over what she was doing.…
When a bunch of drunken Socs approach ponyboy and johnny, Pony spits on them after they harass him. Bob sheldon and some other socs beat up Johnny and Pony, but bob ends up drowning him in a fountain. As johnny lies anxious and afraid, he confronts Bob, and stabs him. accidentally killing him.…
In the novel a group of friends go to the moon for spring break. Planning to party and to enjoy the low gravity. But on the trip a hacker caused there feeds to malfunction hospitalizing them causing them to have their minds go blank. Titus a teenage boy meets a pretty and curious girl named violet.…
Suzy’s friends try to get Suzy and Valentino back together. Just as they begin to reconnect, a pregnant Nancy shows up surprising Suzy. Suzy storms out.…
While researching information on colonization I have found the inhumane treatment of natives appalling. Queen Elizabeth granted Sir Walter Raleigh money to send colonists to implement her rules and religion upon the natives in Ireland, Newfoundland, and Virginia. Sir Humphrey Gilbert made several trips in these efforts but was lost at sea. Several more voyages were made to the New Lands in efforts to colonize but failed. Jamestown was the first successful colony.…
Mike stuck up for her, and offered her a ride home because she had to wait an hour because she missed her bus. She was little sceptical, but she got the hang of it by the end. But then Mike was saying he was sorry about what they have done to her, and she lost it.…
Thankfully, the safe where they kept their money wasn’t tampered with. Silas the cat was unharmed, but Lucille was missing. Matilda was awoken from her dreams to find two looters breaking in! Once they saw that she was awake, they attacked her. Grandfather intervened and saved Matilda's life but got into a scuffle with one of the criminals and got wounded.…
He took at her accusing her of cheating and then stormed out. Suzanne woke the next morning with ever attention of leaving for her parents when the deputy showed up at her door with news that her husband was involved in a freak accident and died. The next few days just crawled by Beau’s family came and went, she told them of her pregnancy and promised to keep contact. One day she…
Their friend Jimmy contracts a cleaner he comes to the house and makes the gangsters clean up the mess that they made and the cleaner gets rid of the body and the car. They end up at a diner where Jules tells his partner Vincent that he is quitting his life of crimes due to the way his life was spared earlier, he believed it was a sign from God to change his life around. Then Vincent and Jules boss tells one of them to take his wife out and Vincent is the one that takes her out, while they are out he finds her very attractive. Vincent and Mia leave the restaurant and go back to her place, while Vincent goes into the bathroom to remind himself that he has to keep his hands off of her she finds a little bag of white powder and she thinks it is cocaine and snorts it, but in reality it was heroin. When he comes out…
Adam looks for Tessa and he found her outside, they go to Adam's house for her Christmas present from him. She realizes that she loves im and he loves her. They were alone in his room and they made love. She was supposed to go out dancing with Adam but before he comes over she gets a really non stop bloody nose and goes to the emergency room.…
Therese overdosed on sleeping pills, Mary stuck her head in the gas oven, and Lux left the car engine running in the garage, dying from carbon monoxide poisoning. The boys flee home and agree not to tell anybody about their experience that night at the Lisbon house. The bodies of the Lisbon sisters were found the next morning by Mr. and Mrs.…
Miranda and her new friends, Annemarie and Colin find a sandwich shop on the corner, wondering if they can get paid for a job there. The owner, Jimmy, agrees, but he does not wish to pay them with money instead he intends to give a free pop and a sandwich each day of their work. Miranda, Annemarie and Colin discover a Flintstone bank in the back of sandwich shop. Colin, wanting to see more of the bank, is pulled way by Annemarie insisting that Jimmy could find them. The next day, Jimmy fires the three workers, thinking that one of them stole the Flintstone bank, when it was actually Marcus who stole it. The workers write a card, give it to Jimmy and insist that they did not steal the bank. Jimmy believes them and let them work at the sandwich shop. He then tells them that he figured out who stole the bank. He thinks that it is Julia, a classmate in their class, and a best friend to Annemarie. He is racist, because he thinks Julia stole it because she is black. Annemarie, defending her best friend, gets angry, quits her job, and flees from the store. She is…
“It’s alright Victoria just breathe! You got this baby! Breathe take a deep breath. Calm down Victoria!” says Ruby. The doctor comes into the room and says, “You’re doing a good job, but at this moment she has stopped coming so we need to get you prepared to do an emergency C-section and bring this beautiful baby girl into this world. Now you can only take one family member back there with you. I will leave that choice up to you.” The family begins to look around the room and wonder who will be the one to go back with her on this special delivery. It’s narrowed down to two and it was either the Father of the child or the Mother of the Mother of the child. Now this brings me back to the day I had a major decision to make on rather I wanted to actually keep my child or have an abortion.…