Red Ryder BB Gun Essays

  • Alice Walker's Beauty: When The Other Dancer Is The Self

    1000 Words  | 2 Pages

    into a tomboy at the age of eight. When she was eight years old she was out playing with her older brothers, and then something happened that changed her entire perspective in life. One of her brothers shot her right in the eye with one of their BB guns. Walker goes from being a confident child to a self-conscious and little girl. Throughout the next twenty or so years she tells about why she feels she has changed until one day, at the age of twenty seven, she realizes that she loves her eye and

  • Mr Adam Zyglis Political Cartoon

    676 Words  | 2 Pages

    only wanted a red Ryder gun for Christmas but his Christmas wish was denied by his mother, teacher and even Santa clause, they all said "you'll shoot your eye out." Finally, his father gave him a red Ryder as a present on Christmas. He took his gun outside and shot it at a target set on metal sign, the metal sign reflected the BB ricochets back at him and it hit the glasses off his eye. He really shot his eyes out as prophesied. Adam Zyglis depicted the image of the boy holding a gun using to signify