Miles decides to go to a new school called, Culver Creek Boarding School, for his junior year of highschool. This is where he meets his new friend and roommate Chip Martin, or better off known as “Colonel”. Colonel then introduces Miles to some of his friends Alaska, who is a mystery in her name, and Takumi that is just kinda there throughout the story. Miles’s new friends throughout the story help him survive the new school by showing him around and even give him the nickname “Pudge” for how little he is. They explain to Pudge how Culver Creek has a social standard on campus. Introducing him to a lifestyle of smoking cigarettes, drinking, and dodging the dean of their school for all the trouble they cause. Due to Culver creek being a boarding …show more content…
school, there are some pretty rich snobby kids that attend the school, these students are called the “Weekday Warriors”. Before:Towards the middle of the book, Pudge meets a girl named Lara from the help of Alaska.
Pudge then goes on a triple date to a basketball game with all his friends. On this date he meets Jake, Alaska's boyfriend. Later on in the book you start to see Pugs love for Alaska unravel. He even stays on campus with her for Thanksgiving to try and get with her, but is unsuccessful. One day Pudge and all his friends decide to pull a prank on the dean of the school. This prank involved drinking at the barn, dying the weekday warriors hair blue, messing up progress reports, and finding out why Alaska acts the way she does. They then all find out that Alaska watched her mom died right in front of her when she was just eight years old, her father blaming everything on her for not calling 911. Nights later after the prank, Colonel and Alaska are in her room drinking, Pudge along with them just not drinking, to celebrate the epic prank. Alaska being drunk she makes out with Pudge then gets a phone call from her boyfriend Jake. After the phone call she insests on leaving that night so Pudge and Colonel help her sneak of campus to dodge the school …show more content…
dean. After: The next day all of the students are asked to gather up in the gym.
This is when all of the students then learn about Alaska dying in a car crash last night. Colonel and Pudge are devastated at the news, feeling guilty that it is their fault she is dead. They are both caught up in how Alaska died, what caused the accident, their own guilt, and whether or not Alaska committed suicide. They then seek answers from other people about Alaska's death. Pudge in the meantime wonders about Alaska on who she was and what he wanted then to be. Later on, Pudge and the rest of the gang decide to pull the most epic prank ever a Culver Creek High School in honor of Alaska, which the prank was a huge success. Eventually, life goes on without Alaska in it for Colonel and Pudge. They come to terms that they might not ever know really what happened to Alaska that night. One of Pudge's classes was religion and his former teacher asked him, “how does one get out of their own labyrinth of suffering?” Pudge then writes about getting out of his own labyrinth, of suffering over
Alaska.
Miles Pruitt is the center of this story; he is going through life in attempt to avoid the hardships it throws at him. He has to cope with the misfortunes that come with love, and by the end of the story, Miles will finally come to realize that his decisions to go through life untouched will not pay off.
When being introduced to the characters, sometimes we learn about their appearance, personalities, profession, or history. Miles is a single man who does not have a successful love life. His first love, Carla Carpenter, was a distant girl (by choice) who ended up marrying Miles’ brother Dale. When Anna Thea Hayworth came along, Miles seems to fancy her but never did anything about it. He has nicknamed her Thanatopsis, but she married Wayne Workman, Staggerford’s principal. Miles does not get along with Wayne, probably due to his liking of Anna Thea. As for nonromantic relationships, Miles has is a friendship with the librarian Imogene Kite. Miles describes her as “too tall and bloodless to be attractive” (Hassler 29). On impulse, Miles kisses Imogene for no reason; this proves that Miles is desperate, lonely, and incapable of having clear feelings.
They set the pary up in Doc's lab, which is also where he lives, one night while he is away on a trip, and the party end ups starting before Doc even arrives. Doc happens to be very late getting back from his trip, and when he arrives home at about dawn, the party is already over and his lab/home is competely trashed. After the party, a bad feeling overpowers the town for a long time. Many people in town blame Mack and the boys for the party going so wrong. Many other unfortunate events begin to occur after the party. A storm beaches several fishing boats, and a man falls asleep on the train tracks and loses his leg. The Bear Flag is shut down by crusading women from the town, and Dora loses the business that would have come from three conventions that are in town. Worst of all for the boys, Mack’s puppy, Darling, gets severely ill and begins to waste away. The boys have no one else to go to about Darling, so they decide to go see Doc. He tells them how to take care of Darling, and she gets better very quickly.
Residential schools were institutions funded by the government for young indigenous peoples. The idea was to kill the Indian in the children, and to create Westernized youth. Many children revolted the idea, while others accepted it. Crucial development occurs in a child's mind between the ages of five and eight. In the novel Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden, a story is told of three Cree people who have experienced Residential Schools and who have been forever changed because of it. Xavier, Elijah and Niska are ripped from the comfort of their naturalistic and self sufficient communities and thrown into materialistic environments where they are shamed and defaced. Each of these characters experienced the Residential schools in extremely different
(Barron) It is the story of Gene and Finny, two opposite friends who are approaching graduation and the high probability that they will be sent to war. Phineas is a risk taker who shrugs off the rules at the first opportunity, "Phineas didn't really dislike West Point in particular or authority in general, but just considered authority the necessary evil against which happiness was achieved by reaction, the backboard which returned all the insults he threw at it." (A Separate Peace: 11) Because of his manipulative personality, Phineas is able to get away with many things others at the Devon school cannot. "The Devon faculty had never before experienced a student who combined a calm ignorance of the rules with a winning urge to be good, who seemed to love the school truly and deeply, and never more than when he was breaking the regulations, a model boy who was most comfortable in the truant's corner. The faculty threw up its hands over Phineas, and so loosened its grip on all of us."
due to weak funding in the educational system. Milloy makes the readers wonder why certain schools do not live up to the standards of others in nearby towns. Although a play ground was built for this school, Maurice may never be able to play on it because he must learn how to walk, talk, and eat all over again. People take forgranted the daily rituals of life and if put in the shoes of a parent of this boy, one would realize how tragic this accident was and even the effects the education system has.
6th grade was not all that bad. That is before the incident however. Going to school was fun for the most part, the classes were difficult, friends were plenteous, and the food was good. Life at Lancaster Country Day School was swell, again, before the incident. Now, said issue somewhat killed my image at the school and saved it at the same time; it also made me question others. Were my friends really my friends? Or did they use me to as a sick and twisted way to formulate drama? I had a friend. I had many friends really, I was friends with the whole 50 people in my grade. But this friend, this friend was different. Her name Mady Gosselin. Yes, the Mady Gosselin from Kate Plus 8. We had been close, I talked to her almost every day. However,
"Compressed emotions," that is the explanation a teacher once gave to the ongoing question, "What is poetry?" He said it was someone's deepest emotions, as if you were reading them right out of that person's mind, which in that case would not consist of any words at all. If someone tells you a story, it is usually like a shell. Rarely are all of the deepest and most personal emotions revealed effectively. A poem of that story would be like the inside of the shell. It personifies situations, and symbolizes and compares emotions with other things in life. Louise Erdrich's poem Indian Boarding School puts the emotions of a person or group of people in a setting around a railroad track. The feelings experienced are compared to things from the setting, which takes on human characteristics.
P encourages Arnold to be better in life. Mr. P is responsible for Junior’s fight against hopelessness and his wish of not giving up hope and realizing dreams. Mr. P, at first, appears to be your average teacher who hates their job, stuck in the middle, and can’t achieve a higher level job. Everyone thought that Mr. P looked really weird. He was only 4 feet tall, had no hair, but had dandruff, there would be food stains on his shirt, visible nose hair, and weighed maybe 50 pounds but only when he’s carrying his 15 pound briefcase. But the strangest thing about Mr. P is that sometimes he forgot to come to school. He tried to start a reservation Shakespeare Theatre Company, but failed miserably. Oftentimes, students would have to be sent down to the housing compound behind the school to wake Mr. P, who is always napping in front of his television. He sometimes teaches classes in his pajamas. He is fairly popular among the students, as not much is asked out of the students. On Junior’s first day back to school, he is given a Geometry book. But on the first page of the book, he sees the words “This book belongs to Agnes Adams.” Agnes Adams is his mother, which meant that the book was over 30 years old. Enraged by this thought, he threw his book at Mr. P. Consequently, Arnold is suspended for a week. Mr. P goes to talk to him. He talks to him about his sister, and how she used to write romance novels, but then suddenly stopped, and telling Junior things about
Furthermore, Where could Miles have acquired things he said, to have him expelled from his
When he finishes the book he gets upset and throws the book through the window. He wakes his parents up ranting about how could she teach children this book it is stupid and why is there not a happy ending? Pat is having trouble regulating his
As Ralph, “the boy with fair hair” matured to the boy with “matted hair”, his perspective matured from haughty to compassionate. Early on, Ralph believes that “Piggy was an outsider, not only by accent, which did not matter, by fat, and ass-mar, and specs, and certain disinclination for manual labor”. He rejected Piggy’s “proffer of acquaintance”. He believed “this was [the children’s] island, [that] it was a good island”, that, “until the grown-ups come to fetch [them], [they] will have fun". However, by the end of the novel, Ralph understood that deep down the children fear the island, “the littluns, even some of the others, [talk and scream] as if it wasn’t a good island”. Empathy develops through experience and understanding of truth. Scout thought “Boo was about six-and-a-half feet tall, dined on raw squirrels and any cats he could catch”. At the beginning of the novels, Ralph nor Scout understood the true nature of Piggy or Boo. However, their respective experiences mean “the end of innocence”. Scout and Ralph begin to differentiate between empathy and authority, good and evil. Scout realizes “[Boo] was real nice, and most people are, when you finally see them”. Ralph recognizes the importance of his “true, wise friend called Piggy”. Yet concurrently, they see “the darkness of man’s heart”. Man discriminates even when doing so harms
Charlie engages with Sam and Patrick’s group of friends and begins experiencing a new life. During the course of the school year, Charlie has his first date and first kiss, he deals with bullying and begins to experiment wi...
The next unclear situation is when the Governess learns of Miles’ expulsion. This is one of the main mysteries within this story. The question, “What does it mean? The child’s dismissed his school,” is the only question that the reader has throughout the conversation between the Governess and Mrs. Grose (165). Even though their conversation does inform the reader that the school has “absolutely decline[d]” Miles, it doesn’t clarify what exactly he has done to be expelled (165). The Governess comments, “That he’s an injury to the others” and “to corrupt” are her own opinions as to why Miles was expelled (165, 166). Nevertheless, her comment does not help the reader in any way because the remark in and of itself is unclear. Her first comment suggests that Miles might be causing physical harm to other students but her second ...
French fries are my favorite fast food item. Sometimes, I don't even need chicken tenders or a burger. I just need those darn fries. I have recently been presented the question, ¨What is the best fast food restaurant in Springfield, Missouri?¨. Well, my friend, I present Culvers. Culver's has the best french fries by far. They have the right amount of salt. They're always warm. The fries that I find anywhere else are always too salty, or not salty enough. Or they are too soggy. The fries from Culver's have the perfect balance of everything. I will always love Culver's and their fries because of their promise for good, natural, Midwestern sourced food items.