Josh Bell(Filthy McNasty)l is an active, hard working, ambitious, 12 year old, but that’s not all to him and his twin brother JB. These twin twisters will knock you off your feet on the court and in the street. They are the masterminds of their junior high basketball stardom. Although they are twins they could not be more different. Josh is one inch taller, can dunk and has golden locks to fly him to the hoop, but the fact that they are different makes them work so well together. Though they couldn’t have learned all of their tricks without the help of their all-star father Chuck “Da Man” Bell. After their father’s career abruptly ended, he made his goal to train his boys to follow in his footsteps. Their mother keeps of all of Bell boys in …show more content…
line when things get too excited. Everything is perfect just the way it is to Josh, but things start to change. JB is known for his skills and his bets, so at one game he makes a very intense bet with his brother Josh. He bets one of Josh’s locks that he will make the last basket of the game. Now the bet seems very unlikely to Josh so he goes through with it, even though he is a little doubtful about it. Since JB is the master better he wins, and Josh has to pay up, but his parents hate it so he has to get it all off. Things are already starting to change for Josh, but then JB meets the new girl “Miss Sweet Tea”. At first Josh is happy for his brother but then JB starts to slowly spend all of his time with Miss Sweet Tea and Josh starts to feel lonely and forgotten. He wonders if it will ever be the same between him and his brother.JB is not the only one that Josh is worried about. After Josh and JB discover that their father is injured which is why he stopped professionally playing basketball, Mr.Bell starts to have fainting spells while playing or when he gets very tensed up. Josh’s father is the only other person he can really spend his time with. While everything is happening with his father Josh also tries to spend time with his brother by helping him with his girlfriend troubles. While JB is off with Miss Sweet Tea and his father is getting worse Josh feels alone in the world and that everything around him is changing. The next game is different JB starts to do everything with his girlfriend including going to the game with her, so Josh and his father ride together to the game, but then they get pulled over by the police. They don't get a ticket but they are late to the game, so Josh misses the first half. When the second half starts and he gets to play, he’s a little bit on edge all of the drama that happened before gets to him and his messes up the play. JB calls his name in anger and just makes Josh explode he was going to pass all along but now he goes a bit too strong and breaks his brother's nose. So now things are even worse JB won't speak to him, he gets benched from the team for consequence, and his father wants to coach basketball even though he is getting sicker. Josh tries constantly to make his brother talk to him again but no such luck. He wants his brother back but he has to prove to JB that he didn't really mean it. The team is being lead to victory after victory by JB they are going to the playoffs next week. During the playoffs game their parents leave the game early because their father he has a bad fainting spell and needed air. JB makes the final shot. The team will play in the championship. After school's out for the winter Josh and JB start acting like normal again but Josh is still lonely most of the time.
Then the Bell boys go to the rec center, JB goes of with Miss Sweet Tea and Josh plays a one on one game with his dad. Josh is beating him, and then Mr.Bell steals the ball and tries to show off to the people watching and tries to dunk but before he does. He got a heart attack he collapsed of the court and JB splashed his face. Josh remembered the cpr lesson in PE and tried it. No pulse. Mr.Bell went into a coma everyone was devastated, but it didn't last for long he woke up the day of christmas eve. They had a little family reunion in the hospital room but Mr.Bell had to stay in the hospital for a while. The day of the championship game, the Bell family(minus Mr.Bell) were going to start to go to the game, when a call comes that their father had another heart attack. Mrs.Bell leaves to the hospital and tells the boys to go to the game. JB doesn't want to and follows his mother to the hospital on bike. Josh thinks that his father would want him to play so he goes to the game. During the final 5 minutes JB shows up in the bleachers sobbing. Josh keeps playing till the final second, sobbing as well. He makes the final basket and they win the
championship. Chuck”Da Man”Bell died the day of the championship due to a massive heart attack. After the funeral, the family had a funeral party with the relatives and former teammates. Josh can't stand being with all of those people, he still can't believe his father is dead so he goes outside and tries to make 50 baskets in a row, his father did this when he was alive. On the 49th shot he closes his eyes for a moment and someone speaks he thinks its his father, but when he opens his eye its his brother with their fathers championship ring. JB tells him that their father told him that Josh deserved it. He gives the ring and starts to leave, but Josh tells him to make the final basket. JB turns around, leaps and crosses over the basket. The Crossover is a fantastic about about life, hard work, and changes. It is told in poem version. It has won two awards; the Newbery award, and the Coretta Scott award. It captures the tale of a basketball loving, african american family’s life. I like this book because it tells a story that may be quite predictable; a family that overcomes hardships, but in this particular book they don't really tell the full story. The author gives some room for the reader to add other events that might happen. It is also based on a sport, instead of something more academic, or art based.
In the book, “Eleven Seconds” by Travis Roy, he talks about himself about what had happened to him during his hockey game and how he got injured in his hockey game. Roy becomes part of, and moves on from, many different “homes”. All the different homes remain significant throughout his life. Even though these different places are not permanent homes, he experiences a sense of home that remains important to him. Here are three examples of the “homes” Travis Roy becomes part of and how each of them had such an enduring influence on him. Those three “homes” Roy finds significant in his life are, Maine, Boston, and Shepherd Center.
Literary villains are all around us. For instance, Voldemort from Harry Potter and Darth Vader from Star Wars. What makes a villain? They will go through anyone or damage anything to reach their goal. No matter how small or how tall they are, anyone can be a villain. One of the worst literary villains is Erik Fisher from Tangerine, written by Edward Bloor. He is a liar and a thief. Those traits are what makes the best villains. Throughout the book, Erik shows that he is a villain through his vile and offensive behavior, his need for power, and his insanity.
Change is important, and if we do not experience change, then we become stagnant and will not grow in our everyday lives. In his novel, Hero, S.L. Rottman exposes the character change of the protagonist, Sean Parker. He undergoes change that one would believe is not possible in such a character, but with the help of a mentor, the reader is opened up to the changes that occur in society today. In S.L. Rottman’s Hero, Sean Parker’s experiences over the course of his community service change him from a negative and stubborn teenager into a wiser more sustainable learner due to the community service he endures and role model he encounters.
House to House, written by David Bellavia, is a memoir about his tour in Iraq, specifically the second battle of Fallujah in November 2004. Born in New York, the staff sergeant joined the war with the desire to be the guy who would play John Wayne in charge of the machine-gun nests as shown in the movies. Over the course of this novel, Bellavia successfully emulates John Wayne’s traits as a hero. He demonstrates valor and instinct leadership as he leads his third platoon into kill zones constructed by Fallujah’s militant insurgents. He uses his past relationship with his dad and the failure to live up to his standards to drive him to gain respect and satisfy his own status as a man tested by trials of combat. Bellavia exposes his readers
Andy goes back to school and talks to his basketball coach about how he feels about Rob's death and how his fiends and family feel about the accident. In addition, they discuss Andy's sentence because Andy keeps punishing himself for Rob's death. Everybody at school was crying during Rob's memorial service. Grief Counselors from downtown come to the school to try to get the kids to share their feelings.
On their way home from school Jenny and Willie hook up. Then on the weekend, Jenny, Johnny, Willie and his family decide to go to the lake. Willie and Jenny set the table for a picnic when Johnny is out skiing. Willies mom complains about him never being safe enough. Next it is Willie's turn to water-ski. As Willie was doing a 360° turn, he caught the tips of his skis under the water and he crashed. Willies dad was in shock, Jenny had to give Willie mouth to mouth, and save his life. The left the boat, got into the vehicle, and drove to the hospital. Willie ends up with a speech impediment, and problems walking. He ends up doing crazy things, like acid, and drinking. He talks to a counselor whom he really likes. Willie does not want to go into a Special Ed class that the school is referring him to. He feels hopeless, and even jealous of his girlfriend for her athletics. He tries to play racquetball, but his dad gets frustrated with him. That night he hears his parents arguing over him. He hears his dad say that he thinks it would have been easier if Willie had died in the accident. From there he suspects Jenny and Petey of getting together, and finds out that they are.
When Sam Meeker returns home from college in the spring of 1775 and announces that he has decided to enlist in the Rebel army, his parents are appalled, but his younger brother, Tim, is wide-eyed with admiration. When the brothers are outside together doing chores around their family's tavern, Sam confides in Tim his plan to steal their father's gun in order to fight. Tim protests, but he can do nothing to stop Sam. That night, Mr. Meeker and Sam have an argument about the war and Sam runs away from home. The next morning after church, Tim visits Sam in a hut where he is hiding out. He tries to talk Sam out of going to war, but without success. In the hut, Sam's girlfriend Betsy Read asks Tim which side he supports, and Tim has trouble deciding
The new phases of life and social context is predicated through the sum of feats and experiences as crises and adversity are usually the greatest motivator which propel individuals to become better than they were before. J.C. Burke’s ‘The Story of Tom Brennan’ (TSTB) is an example of the transitional process through entering a new, unknown area which acts as a catalyst for beneficial change. Obstructed by turmoil both mentally and physically, the protagonist Tom Brennan relieves his severe life in the town of Coghill achieving new standards in conjunction to Lisa Forrest’s article ‘Testing new waters after leaving the swimming pool’ (TNWALTS) is another type towards transitional change that explores the personal crisis and career changes over
Have you ever heard about the hippie who had to go to a Middle School after living on a remote farm in the novel Schooled by Gordon Korman? Well, Capricorn Anderson is a flower child who lives at Garland Farms until his grandmother, Rain, falls out of a plum tree, which changes this hippie’s life. Now, Cap has to go to a public middle school and live with Mrs.Donnelley, a social worker, which he is not prepared for.He is just a hippie with a soul of good, who is not prepared for physical fights, cursing, and even video games! He doesn’t understand this modern world; he’s as lost as a kit who couldn’t find her mother.
Christopher Johnson McCandless, a.k.a Alexander Supertramp, “Master of his Own Destiny.” He was an intelligent young man who presented himself as alone but really he was never lonely. However, he believed that life was better lived alone, with nature, so he ventured off throughout western United States before setting off into Alaska’s wild unprepared where he died. Some may say he was naive to go off on such a mission without the proper food and equipment but he was living life the way he wanted to and during his travels he came across three people: Jan Burres, Ronald Franz, and Wayne Westerberg. McCandless befriended these people, it is believed that he made such a strong impression on them that their connection left them with strange feelings after finding out about McCandless’ death.
Jake Barnes, a man damaged by the war who is trying to keep a grip on his religion as much as he is his manliness. Scared by the war, both physically, and mentally, he blames what happened to him on God himself. While he still classifies himself as a Catholic he does not consider himself to be a good one. Blaming God for the things that happened to him his prayers are misguided and he does not participate as much, thus why he calls himself a “Rotten Catholic”. Jake is a theist but he is on the verge of becoming an atheist. This is from his desire to belong to the church.
The Odyssey and O Brother Where Art Thou are considered a representation of each other in some ways and prove more similar than it is commonly thought. Although the overall persona of each portrayal is quite different, it still illustrates the same message. A good lesson to be learned from this comparison is to contemplate your actions to prevent bleak situations from occurring. The characters in these tales had to understand the consequences by experiencing it themselves. Acknowledging the time period that these voyages took place in, they didn't have anybody to teach them proper ways to go about situations.
Writing a story is pretty difficult. Writing a short story is even harder, there is so much that has to be accomplished; in both commercial and literary fiction! The plot, the structure, whether it has a happy, unhappy, or indeterminate ending. There must be artistic unity, chance, coincidence, rising action, climax, falling action. Most importantly there must be characterization. Characters make the story! “anyone can summarize what a person in a story has done, but a writer needs considerable skill and insight into human beings to describe convincingly who a person is” [page 168]
The pivotal character of Ernest Hemingway's novel, The Sun Also Rises is Jake Barnes. He is a man of complex personality--compelling, powerful, restrained, bitter, pathetic, extraordinarily ordinary yet totally human. His character swings from one end of the psychological spectrum to the other end. He has complex personality, a World War I veteran turned writer, living in Paris. To the world, he is the epitome of self-control but breaks down easily when alone, plagued by self-doubt and fears of inadequacy. He is at home in the company of friends in the society where he belongs, but he sees himself as someone from the outside looking in. He is not alone, yet he is lonely. He strikes people as confident, ambitious, careful, practical, quiet and straightforward. In reality, he is full of self-doubt, afraid and vulnerable.
The premise that show runner Vince Gilligan pitched was simple, “We’re going to turn Mr. Chips into Scarface.” It was a bold claim at the time that most television executives dismissed as a bad idea. You would take the show’s main character and slowly but surely turn him into the antagonist. This was unlike most shows at the time who dealt with antiheroes, they had almost always padded them out with sympathetic qualities or redeeming actions throughout their respective seasons like Tony Soprano or Vic Mackey of The Shield. No show had ever fully committed to the idea that its lead character could truly be a villain. Yet Walter White’s transformation from a down on his luck, cancer ridden teacher to a depraved drug kingpin named Heisenberg has