The New Kid Short Story

There is not a single person in this world that does not want to belong to something. Every individual wants to feel like they have a purpose somewhere in life. in the poem “ June 23rd 1973” by Bruce Hunter two boys chase every teenage boys dream to fit in with the popular crowd and be accepted by all of them. The poem uses to two boys to portray the idea that people will go to extremes to be accepted and in that process can make some bad decisions. The short story “ The New Kid” by Murray Heyart is all about a young boy and his journey to be accepted. This story shows a side of a lot of boys particularly where the decisions you make to be accepted go greatly against your values and morals. Both of these pieces of reading demonstrate the idea
At some point in our life we all have, everyone has been the outcast at least once. In my life I have seen the good decisions people make to be accepted and I have seen the dark side of it as well. New schools and new kids can mean making a lot of changes to try and fit in as I discovered with my best friend. Schools in different areas have very different groups of people and some people change a lot to fit in at that new school. That can mean some bad decisions at times and the loss of old friends as you become a new person. In order to fit in at this new school my friend made some very downhill choices with his life. It started with the occasional night of drinking or smoking. Next thing before any of us could do anything he had quit football and quit his job quit going to class for the most part. Spent most of his time either getting drunk or getting high with his new friends at his new school. Sometimes in the journey to be accepted something you forget about the places where you already a part of something and without realizing it you can throw a lot away. You can lose a lot in the process of trying to get somewhere else. He made new friends but in doing that he lost the family he had a work. He Went from an aspiring student with honours and a league mvp to being basically nothing. He no longer had any involvement with anything and he lost everything he had going for him. By the time he was seventeen he had woken up in jail four or five times and been to rehab twice with no success. Everyone who originally accepted him had given up including his family. He went from having everything he could want to having nothing in his life. That was his decisions though everyone in life will make decisions to get where they think they want to be as a person sometimes that is not a great place but there's nothing you can do if you aren't the one making the