Leave Me Alone (True Story) Harjot Khaira At seventeen years of age, not much was missing from the imagination of the young boy. Connor Brooks and his younger sister Claire lived with their parents in the eerie neighborhood of Hillhood . With only a couple of blocks present in the lonely area, everyone was familiar with one another. Connor played for his local ice hockey team, the Hillhood Knights and Claire was a figure skater. The Brooks family was as normal as them come yet the innocent boy had not a clue as to what was coming his way in the nearby future. October 3, 2015. Connor was taking a stroll through his neighborhood, calming his nerves before their playoff game …show more content…
Connor was home alone as his parents had taken Claire to practice, forty-five minutes away. Being the dedicated athlete he was he was practicing his one-timer, and he made sure to leave his garage door lock and main door lock open so he could get back in. The rigid autumn wind pierced through his skin. Regretting his decision to come outside as he could easily turn into an icicle, he jolted back inside. He threw his stick back into the corner and turned the frozen door knob, locked. He went out of the garage and opened his main door, did not budge. Perplexed and terrified as he vividly remembered he had left both the locks open, he sprinted to his neighbor's house, old Mrs. Newlan. Not wanting to scare the old lady even more as she had seen her husband pass away in front of her a couple of weeks ago, he decided not to tell her why he was actually there and just tell her that he was visiting. A cup of green tea and a couple of childhood stories later, Connor got a call from his mom to come back home. He thought of an explanation as to why the doors could have been locked, did he accidentally lock them? His mind drew blank and his heart beat …show more content…
It has been a week since the abnormal lock incident and Connor had pushed the incident to the back of his mind. He’s been focusing on his upcoming tournament, in which games are played at dusk. His first game was a success as his team dangled their way to a 4-3 overtime win. It was now 3 a.m. with a 9 a.m. practice lurking hours ahead. Being the neat freak Connor is, he tidied each crook and cranny of his house heading off to sleep. After tossing and turning for hours, his eyes were coming to a rest as he heard a booming crash come from outside. He grabbed his flashlight and hockey stick in the corner of his room and opened the door with his foot. His stance ready to brawl any creature awaiting his arrival. He crept his way to where he suspected the noise to come from. To his surprise, nothing awaited him, only a knocked over toy box with mini hockey sticks scattered all over the living room. Yet again he was petrified for his and his family's well-being, so he called his dad downstairs and made him wander around the house, looking for what have caused the ruckus. No answer was yet again found, making the lonely night in bed seem longer than
The main character and narrator Andrea, who goes by the nickname Andy for the majority of the story, is a nine year old girl. She’s fighting an internal battle of figuring out her place in the world. In the beginning, she feels comfortable around her father, who plays an important role and defends her place in the presence on the hunting trip. Charlie Spoon and his son Mac were also characters on the hunting trip, and they play a supportive role and constantly questioned the appropriateness of a young girl on a hunting trip with men. Although her mom didn’t play an important active role in the story, she was a very important
Where they grew up, kids as young as 8 years old were recruited into illegal operations; Wes and Tony included. Mary tried everything she could, but had lost her sons to the wonder and curiosity that money brings. The important place a mother should hold in her son’s life vanished and she was left to take care of their mistakes. Later in their lives, both boys were caught in a heist that set them up for an entire lifetime in jail. Their arrest sent “cheering responses” from everyone in their community. The boys were not only involved with a robbery, but a murder as well. The word spread quickly about their sentences and a “collective sigh of relief seeped through Baltimore. At home, Mary wept” (Moore 155). Many families go through traumatic experiences comparable to Mary’s situation. The choices her sons made left her alone, parallel to the isolation the boys were experiencing as
Prudence Mackintosh has three sons who are grown up now that she raised in Highland Park. All three boys are different. Her oldest son is very well organized and willing do anything she asks him to do, her middle son is very disorganized, and the youngest son is very adventurous. Mackintosh supported them in their decisions and always helped them know how to chose right from wrong. Mrs. Mackintosh wrote a story about when her oldest son he didn't want to play football anymore, and how all the other boys made fun of him. To help him, she wrote a story telling how not all boys had to play football to be tough.
Throughout the novel the characters are put in these situations which force them to obtain information about the people they thought they knew. The center of finding out who everyone is was brought into play through the death of Marie. The story is told by David, only twelve years old, who sees his family an community in a different light for who they truly are under there cover. By doing his own little investigations, often times eavesdropping, David saw through the lies, secures and betrayals to find the truth.
The tribulations Connor encounters during the opening of the novel influences his spontaneous choices. Upon rummaging through his dad’s office in search for a stapler, Conner discovers the horrifying news that his life was soon drawing to a close. No other piece of paper could have container a more horrific message. Connor immediately decides to take matters into his own hands. His main focus is to escape this tragedy and flee to safety as quickly as possible. As rapidly as his fear set in, Conner’s
...tanding alone; explaining why Grandma Bradley’s children always ended up on her doorstep when they were confronted with trouble. Parents fear that their children will grow up too fast, being exposed to reality before they are ready but until children experience life for themselves, with all its complications, they can never truly learn the importance of family; as it is family that will stand behind its members no matter the situation. Charlie did grow up during the summer, he saw things he would not have otherwise seen but he learned the strength of family, something he could not have learned at home where he passively watched the world go by.
As the sun rises high into the midday summer sky, Bruce Carroll begins to pack his bag for the 6 months out in the wilderness. He has decided to make the 6-month trek along the Appalachian Trail. This choice has been hard on Bruce because he cannot bear staying away from his family. His daughter Lillian, is a blonde four year old who always has her pink blanket. The mother of Lillian is a dark-haired beauty. Everyday Bruce wakes up, he compares her to a super model.
When Novalee has her baby they become news famous. Novalee mother was watching the news when she found out which hospital Novalee was in, but Novalee is surprised and heartbroken to find out the only thing her mother was interested in was money. After Novalee is able to leave the hospital she decides to make a visit to Sister Husband’s house to ask is she can plant her buckeye tree there. Novalee and Sister Husband become very close so they take care of each other. Later in the novel there is a tornado that kills Sister but in her will she left the property to Novalee. Novalee feels bad for befriending her nurse, Lexi and her four kids and invites them to live with her on the
Jeanette had somewhat of an usual childhood compared to other kids in the United States. Where most kids don’t have to worry about if there are going to school or the money problems that come up, nevertheless Jeannette has to worry. Jeannette have to deal with her self center mother , her eccentricity father , her older sister that does not protect her and her brother that give up almost everything for her. Jeannette overcome it all and become the strong woman that all reader will believe she is .
Religion and human nature combined tend to create a superiority complex among those who perceive themselves as having better, or more, faith. Religion is generally perceived as singular, but humans choose to dynamically express their faith, whether that be by love or war. Gandhi, depicted the movie Gandhi directed by Richard Attenborough, in the face of Muslims protesting Hindus, declared: “I am a Muslim and a Hindu and a Christian and a Jew and so are all of you,” and that perception of himself and others influenced a mass ethnic and religious revolution that enlightened India. Gandhi opened the world to revolutionary ideas -- the strength in tolerance, the pluralism in religion, and the unification of all mankind.
Character Setting:Rafe Kachadorian an 11 year old kid who lives Hills Village and has an overactive imagination, he lives with his sister Georgina, her mom and used to live with his mom’s new boyfriend
The two sets of parents differed in parenting styles, The Block’s family demonstrate the difficult side of adolescents. Massie’s parents are resistant (neglectful) to their parenting and lack in awareness of their daughter’s development and growth. Their care free life style often leaves Massie feeling misunderstood. Claire’s parents the Lyon’s are quite the opposite, they are very aware of their daughter’s development of adolescents. They are consistently working on their relationship with Claire in trying to stay in tune to her emotions and experiences. The Lyon’s strive to be an encouragement for their daughter, instead of placing hard judgement to what they see. The parents of Claire work to have an open relationship with Claire, which results to Claire reaching out to her own parents when her challenges become too much for her to
A child’s coming of age is a universal and inevitable transition that Seth does not foresee or even expect, and until looking back on it almost thirty-five years later, he does not realize the true significance of his passage. That day Seth’s very foundations were rocked as his eyes were opened to the world and its ways. When the story begins Seth’s transition has already begun to take place, and the smooth and repetitive rhythm of his life that has always brought him so much comfort slowly begins to crumble. Even such a small and seemingly insignificant thing as not being allowed to go outside in June without shoes, something which he has always been able to do, puzzles and confuses Seth. The appearance of the odd and out of place stranger even further fascinates and bewilders the small boy. Seth’s world begins to spin even faster and stranger as he sees Dellie, a woman that he has always thought he knew so well and even refers to her as being methodical as a machine, violently strikes her son as he has never seen her do and later as Old Jebb questions Seth’s mother’s very words. Until that day, Seth has never considered the fact that things would ever any different than they always had been.
The main characters in this story were Zach Wahhsted, Alan Mender, and Joey Mender. Zach Wahhsted was a schizophrenic sixteen year. He often hallucinates voices and people; but when ever he would forget to take his medication, he would hear two voices that would tell him to kill himself. Zach had a hard time understanding what was real and what was in his head. Alan Mender was a seventeen year old who grew up in a rough neighborhood with his little brother and their mom, who was diagnosed with cancer. He has a kind disposition, but lives in rough circumstances. Joey Mender was a fourteen year old younger brother of Alan Mender, who also lived with his mother, he is temperamental and thought zach was just a retard.
Mare and her family lived in New York City. Her mother was a single parent who tried all her best to make sure that her children had all that the need. Sometimes Mara’s mother Shana didn’t have money, so they went to bed without food. Mara’s life was not how she wanted it to be. She wanted a big house, a father, and a happy big family. Instead her life was the opposite. Her dad died when she was only seven. When her father died, it ruined the family. Her father was the backbone of th...