Friends Are Your Family - Original Writing

1404 Words3 Pages
bulb-icon

Recommended: Influence of the family in the socialization of a child

Friends Are Your Family - Original Writing

Mya stared at the wall wondering what the next three years had in

store for her. Doubts ran through her mind, would she enjoy her new

start? Would she find friends just as special as her previous ones and

most importantly would she finally fit into the diverse & independent

lifestyle here? These thoughts were then disturbed by a knock at the

door, followed by an entrance by her mother. Mya jumped up and smiled

trying to hide the worries racing through her mind, hugged and kissed

her mother then watched her walk out again.

She couldn’t show her weakness, not now. It was Mya who was determined

to move once she discovered that her father had an opportunity for a 3

year placement in reason a new exciting upbeat city. However it was

only now that she realised how ‘different’ everything was turning out

to be.

BEEP BEEP BEEP the sound rang through Mya’s mind, not allowing her to

sleep another second. She turned off the alarm, staring at the ceiling

she wondering if she should drag herself out of bed and finally start

at the local high school. Like always, if she feared something, she

would go to any extents to put it off. It was her way of dealing with

problems. Mya found it easier to ignore her problems. She had been

through so much in the past, which is largely why she was conscious

about who she would open to. However she had no more excuses that her

mum would believe to put off school anymore, therefore she had no

choice today but to finally face her fear.

A sick feeling arose in Mya’s stomach as she walked in the classroom;

she glanced around trying to find a face that looked inviting, but she

was too late, everyone had seemed to have established their friendship

bonds already.

The lesson started to drag, Mya’s mind started to drift outside the

classroom, as she looked outside the window, old school memories came

Show More
Related

  • House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

    948 Words  | 2 Pages

    ...ieces to complete her mold. Why should she have to be tied down and not pursue what she likes?

    Read More

  • Theme of Friendship in Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson

    823 Words  | 2 Pages

    On July 20, 1958, a doctor by the name of Artemio Bracho contemplated the idea of a World Friendship Day. The World Friendship is a foundation that honors friendship and fellowship among all human beings, regardless of race, color or religion. This day has been recognized in several countries and is used today. Friendship is established on loyalty and being there for your friend in their time of need. In Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson, the protagonist, Isabel, created several relationships with other characters that were constructed on loyalty.

    Read More

  • Growing Up Empty by Loretta Schwartz-Nobel

    668 Words  | 2 Pages

    There are many policy issues that affect families in today’s society. Hunger is a hidden epidemic and one major issue that American’s still face. It is hard to believe that in this vast, ever growing country, families are still starving. As stated in the book Growing Up Empty, hunger is running wild through urban, rural, and even suburban communities. This paper will explore the differing perspectives of the concerned camp, sanguine camp, and impatient camp. In addition, each camps view, policy agenda, and values that underlie their argument on hunger will be discussed.

    Read More

  • Barbara Kingsolver Called Home

    1391 Words  | 3 Pages

    Summary and Response to Barbara Kingsolver’s “Called Home” In “Called Home”, the first chapter of the book Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year in Food Life, Barbara Kingsolver presents her concerns about America's lack of food knowledge, sustainable practices, and food culture. Kingsolver introduces her argument for the benefits of adopting a local food culture by using statistics, witty anecdotal evidence, and logic to appeal to a wide casual reading audience. Her friendly tone and trenchant criticism of America's current food practices combine to deliver a convincing argument that a food culture would improve conditions concerning health and sustainability.

    Read More

  • Dorothy Allison's This is Our World

    979 Words  | 2 Pages

    In her work, “This is Our World,” Dorothy Allison shares her perspective of how she views the world as we know it. She has a very vivid past with searing memories of her childhood. She lives her life – her reality – because of the past, despite how much she wishes it never happened. She finds little restitution in her writings, but she continues with them to “provoke more questions” (Allison 158) and makes the readers “think about what [they] rarely want to think about at all” (158).

    Read More

  • Blood Brothers by Willy Russell

    689 Words  | 2 Pages

    “Blood Brothers” by Willy Russell Blood Brothers seems to have been set in the 1970s/80s around Liverpool. There is a lot about striking and major redundancies in it. Also about people moving "out of Liverpool" into the "country" ( Skelmersdale ), in order to provide better housing and better prospects for everyone. The social climate of the working class appears to highlight the differences between working and middle classes.

    Read More

  • Brotherly Love in Sonny’s Blues by James Baldwin

    1188 Words  | 3 Pages

    James Baldwin, author of Sonny’s Blues, was born in Harlem, NY in 1924. During his career as an essayist, he published many novels and short stories. Growing up as an African American, and being “the grandson of a slave” (82) was difficult. On a day to day basis, it was a constant battle with racial discrimination, drugs, and family relationships. One of Baldwin’s literature pieces was Sonny’s Blues in which he describes a specific event that had a great impact on his relationship with his brother, Sonny. Having to deal with the life-style of poverty, his relationship with his brother becomes affected and rivalry develops. Conclusively, brotherly love is the theme of the story. Despite the narrator’s and his brother’s differences, this theme is revealed throughout the characters’ thoughts, feelings, actions, and dialogue. Therefore, the change in the narrator throughout the text is significant in understanding the theme of the story. It is prevalent to withhold the single most important aspect of the narrator’s life: protecting his brother.

    Read More

  • Michael Lassell's How To Watch Your Brother Die

    1132 Words  | 3 Pages

    Love, as with all other things, brings pain and suffering. Suffering is an emotion individuals encounter everyday, some more than others. “How to Watch Your Brother Die”, Michael Lassell uses point of view, dialogue, and contrast of language to better exemplify the challenges of homosexuality in today’s society through the eyes of an orthodox straight man, and how the death of a homosexual brother has influenced the main character’s attitude towards his brother, his brother’s lover, and life itself.

    Read More

  • Personal Narrative: My Grandmother By Kendrick Lamar

    700 Words  | 2 Pages

    Moving on to discuss another personal family tradition, I distinctly recall how my grandmother would always sing whenever she would cover over to visit. She possessed one of those deep, full voices that would resonate throughout the entire home, leaving no empty space untouched by her music. In total, she performed a rotation of five folk melodies, each of which were always sung a degree off key. According to the stories my parents have told me about their childhoods, my grandmother inclination towards singing was present even when my mother was growing up almost forty years ago. As a stubborn child, however, her near constant singing caused me great frustration, often driving me to leave the room whenever her voice would rise too high in

    Read More

  • Song Of Myself By Walt Whitman And Perry Farrell

    1832 Words  | 4 Pages

    Worldviews differ from person to person. Disagreements often arise over controversial issues such as race, gender, politics, and sovereignty. In “Song of Myself” by Walt Whitman and in the liner notes to the 1990 Jane's Addiction album Ritual de lo Habitual, vocalist and songwriter Perry Farrell address such divisive issues. Despite having been written more than one hundred years apart, both men share considerably similar opinions in their works regarding the treatment of social structure and personal freedoms. Whitman and Farrell address their passionate desire for equality among men, women, and people of all distinct backgrounds, as well as people’s entitlement to individual rights and truths. Conflicts as these hold significant weight in the hearts of people, therefore change is progressive and does not come quickly or easily. Thus, such issues continue to persist as popular subjects of discussion in society and writing as evident in these two works. Both authors seem to set forth the issues they find in the world and suggest the necessary means for change. The overall tone of both pieces suggests that natural worlds have transcended the need for order, law, and religion which human society is built upon and indicates that because American society has moved farther away from nature, progress toward a better world has been slow.

    Read More

  • So Much Water So Close To Home by Raymond Carver

    1300 Words  | 3 Pages

    In the story "So Much Water So Close To Home" a young girl is raped, killed and found in a river where four men are fishing. What makes this story interesting is that after discovering the body they did not report it until after they left, three days later. When one of the men who discovered her, the husband of the narrator, Stuart returns home he doesn't tell his wife about the incident until the following morning. Because of this, Claire believes that all men are responsible for the murder of the girl. Due to these facts she acts irrationally, suspiciously, and with distrust not only towards her husband, but also to all men in general.

    Read More

  • Love by William Maxwell

    1018 Words  | 3 Pages

    Love has many definitions and can be interpreted in many different ways. William Maxwell demonstrates this in his story “Love”. Maxwell opens up his story with a positive outlook on “Love” by saying, “Miss Vera Brown, she wrote on the blackboard, letter by letter in flawlessly oval palmer method. Our teacher for fifth grade. The name might as well have been graven in stone” (1). By the end of the story, the students “love” for their teachers no longer has a positive meaning, because of a turn in events that leads to a tragic ending. One could claim that throughout the story, Maxwell uses short descriptive sentences with added details that foreshadow the tragic ending.

    Read More

  • A Way of Being by Carl Rogers

    924 Words  | 2 Pages

    In the book by Carl Rogers, A Way of Being, Rogers describes his life in the way he sees it as an older gentleman in his seventies. In the book Rogers discusses the changes he sees that he has made throughout the duration of his life. The book written by Rogers, as he describes it is not a set down written book in the likes of an autobiography, but is rather a series of papers which he has written and has linked together. Rogers breaks his book into four parts.

    Read More

  • Character Analysis of Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll House

    2013 Words  | 5 Pages

    possibility that she might be using this as a coping mechanism to forget her past

    Read More

  • The World is Too Much With Us by William Wordsworth

    700 Words  | 2 Pages

    William Wordsworth's poem The world is too much with us is a statement about conflict between nature and humanity. The symbolism in his poem illustrates a sense of the conviction and deep feelings Wordsworth had toward nature. He longs for a much simpler time when the progress of humanity was tempered by the restriction nature imposed. Wordsworth is saying in this poem that man is wasting his time on earth by not appreciating nature around him. He is looking but not beholding. "We have given our hearts away" (4) means that we have sold the part of us that is from the earth (man which is from dust) in order to make other things more important than appreciating life; such as, money or advancement in employment or just acquiring more "things." In Latin, the word "Pectus" can mean heart, but it can also mean the entire body, or the soul. Wordsworth is saying that we have given our very souls away.

    Read More

More about Friends Are Your Family - Original Writing

Open Document