Don’t you wish you could go back in time to change those bad memories? That’s what Lionel Sherbousekis going through in a short story called “Goin’ Fishin’”. Chris Crutcher wrote Athletic Shorts and the story “Goin’ Fishin’” is about a boy whose father loved fishing and while their family was fishing one day a boat full of drunk kids smashing into them but Lionel luckily save the boat before it hit and jumped off. This is what the main character in “Goin Fishin” was feeling when his family died in a boating accident. Lionel was always messing around and never made his father proud. When he saw his dad he was shaking his head at him. “If I had known my dad was going to die I would have made a special effort to decrease the number of times
When I was little I remember driving across country, going to Florida, and past neighborhoods that were anything but mine. They had old houses that looked like they were going to fall down any minute, real trashy looking. In Colorado, my house was nice and always kept up. I sat in the car wondering what kind of people lived in those run down places and what they were like. The answers came to me years later when I read the book, Famous All Over Town, by Danny Santiago. The main character, Chato, is a young Hispanic boy living in a neighborhood like the ones I saw when I was little. After reading the book, although I never thought I would have anything in common with people who lived like that, I learned that Chato and I have do have similarities, but we have more differences.
“Let me simply say that our Administration has been served by many outstanding men and women, but few can match – and none exceed – the skill and dedication you brought to the post of Special Counsel” (Colson 1976). President Nixon wrote this letter to Cuck Colson only one year before Colson was indicted for conspiring to cover up the Watergate burglaries. Not even Colson could tell you how this all started, but in his character as a young man it was evident that he could and would do anything necessary to complete a task that he set out to accomplish. Colson was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and graduated as valedictorian from his High School class of 1949. He rejected a full scholarship from Harvard University, and attended Brown University, also on scholarship, and then George Washington University Law School, graduating from both with honors.
The story describes the protagonist who is coming of age as torn between the two worlds which he loves equally, represented by his mother and his father. He is now mature and is reflecting on his life and the difficulty of his childhood as a fisherman. Despite becoming a university professor and achieving his father’s dream, he feels lonely and regretful since, “No one waits at the base of the stairs and no boat rides restlessly in the waters of the pier” (MacLeod 261). Like his father, the narrator thinks about what his life could have been like if he had chosen another path. Now, with the wisdom and experience that comes from aging and the passing of time, he is trying to make sense of his own life and accept that he could not please everyone. The turmoil in his mind makes the narrator say, “I wished that the two things I loved so dearly did not exclude each other in a manner that was so blunt and too clear” (MacLeod 273). Once a decision is made, it is sometimes better to leave the past and focus on the present and future. The memories of the narrator’s family, the boat and the rural community in which he spent the beginning of his life made the narrator the person who he is today, but it is just a part of him, and should not consume his present.
While reading “Need” by Joelle Charbonneau a sentence that jumped out at me was when the main character was really confused and said “I don’t understand” because there is a site that her friend Nate is currently on getting free things by just inviting people onto the site. The sites name is called Need. When her friend Nate wants something he just has to type in what he would like and the site Need would give him a task type thing for him to do in order for him to get what he wants. One of the “tasks” that Nate had to do was invite 5 friends to their site. This made me think if you type in something that you want well how would it get to you or how will they know if you did the task or not. Would you have to videotape it if it’s a dare? This
In Daniel Wallace’s novel, Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions and Tim Burton’s film, Big Fish, the relationship between the dying protagonist, Edward Bloom and his estranged son, William Bloom, is centrally to the story in both the novel and film. Like many fathers in today's society, Edward Bloom wishes to leave his son with something to remember him by after he is dead. It is for this reason the many adventures of Edward Bloom are deeply interwoven into the core of all the various stories Edward tells to mystify his son with as a child. Despite the many issues father and son have in their tense relationship as adults, Daniel Wallace and Tim Burton’s adaptation of Wallace’s novel focalizes on the strained relationship between Edward Bloom and William Bloom. In both Wallace’s novel and Burton’s film, they effectively portray how the relationship between Edward Bloom and William Bloom is filled with bitter resentment and indifference towards each other. Only with William’s attempt to finally reconcile with his dying father and navigating through his father fantastical fables does those established feelings of apathy and dislike begin to wane. With Burton’s craftily brilliant reconstruction of Wallace’s story does the stories of Edward Bloom and his son blossom onto screen.
Even though we believe there are so many happy things around us, these things are heartbreaking. The poems “Tips from My Father” by Carol Ann Davis, “Not Waving but Drowning” by Stevie Smith, and “The Fish” by Elizabeth Bishop convey the sorrow of growing up, of sorrowful pretending, and even of life itself. The poem “Tips from My Father” depicts an episode of the life of a father and his son. The pain from the childhood, the betraying of a lover, countless secrets are settling during the period of life, which can absolutely not be shared and understood by others.
Adolescents are often faced with the effects of misfortunate friendships. In Todd Strasser’s short story, On the Bridge, the main character, Seth Dawson’s ultimate success is the maturing of his understanding of his own self-identity as a result of ending his brief, tumultuous friendship with Adam Lockwood. Seth’s understanding is driven by his traits of conscientiousness and self-reliance, which are also the key factors that lead to his ultimate success.
Attention grabber. Bob Dylan’s influential folk-rock music was a factor that helped shape the Civil Rights Movement and public views on civil rights. Dylan was a singer-songwriter born in 1941 who had his career take off at the height of the Civil Rights Movement (Infohio). Protest music and other forms of demonstration art were prominent during this time period, with Bob Dylan and other artists such as Sam Cooke, Pete Seeger, and John Coltrane, leading the way. Bob Dylan’s music was influential during the Civil Rights Movement, popular during the time period, and performed at many civil rights rallies.
Setting: This book starts out in this kids house his name is crash. Then they go to the arcade. That is where they spend most of the story. Then close to the end they go to the riverside.
He feels that his dad is disappointed in him that he tries to not be a coward to not let his dad down.”Not only are you skinny and weak and bad at sports, his expression seemed to say,but you’re also a coward”.(line 22-23) Martins dad thinks low of his son he thinks his son is a coward and weak.But martin does not want to disappoint his dad so he tries to act like the elevator and the elevator does not scare him.”When are you going to grow up and act like a man?Are you going to be timid all your life?”.(line 136-137) Martin tries to tell his dad about what has been bothering these past days. Yet his dad just thinks he is over exaggerating and does not pay attention to
I still remember the day as if it were yesterday, the day I reeled in my first yellowfin tuna. The morning started off as any other morning, wake up, shower, and dress but this day I ended up on a boat destined to head for the oil rigs off the coast of Louisiana. It was a long and cold ride out to the rigs, about one and a half hours of hitting waves as we all cuddled up at the stern.
Benton feels that its okay for him to try to impress his dad because he knows he won't be able to achieve it because nothing that he does makes his father proud. He is always disappointed in him. “Benton Sage had, since he was a young
Within ten minutes, the three of us were making our way across the uneven blood stained boards of the fishing pier. I must say, I had an uneasy feeling when we finally arrived at the end of the pier. From the shore the pier seemed short, but in reality the wooden planks carried us out into the ocean approximately the length of a football field. To make matters worse, when I looked down over the shaky, wooden, guardrail I realized if I fell in, I would be gone forever. Oh well, I was here to fish and that is just what I was going to do. After all, I knew how to fish; I have caught plenty of fish in my day.
The song “Jesus take the wheel” by Carrie Underwood teaches us, we can’t do it by ourselves; sometimes we need a little help from God. I believe this is true because we can’t always control what happens to us. Carrie expresses this theme well in her lyrics when she says “Jesus take the wheel, take it from my hands”. She is asking God to help her, she is on the road in a situation where she can’t control and she needs his help. Carrie then goes to say “and then for the first time in a long time she bowed her head to pray, she said i’m sorry for the way I’ve been living my life. I know I’ve got to change”. Carrie here in this statement saying she is sorry for the way she has been living and she is asking him to help her change and for his forgiveness,
It was a bright and shiny day few clouds to be seen on Pineview, the water was rough due to crowded waters. But that didn't matter much, because we were anchored in a cove that was great for fishing. My parents were on the beach with there friends partying and enjoying the golden rays. There wasn’t much to do for me and Chase— my older brother— so we got really bored, quickly. Chase decided to fish, Chase sadly beat me to the fishing pole before I even had the thought to fish, I had to wait until chase was done before I could use the pole. He moved to the bow of the boat — a good spot where we