Book I: Introduction Walking out of the front door, Nicole felt free. No worries, no stress, nothing. Just a feeling of relief and satisfaction. After a long and torturing four years, Nicole had finally graduated from high school. The high school experience was nowhere near High School Musical, she thought. Instead, high school was more or less, the same as middle school, just with more people and more dramas. Laying on the Julia’s bed, a day after receiving their diplomas, the two girls are bored to death. Nicole and Julia have been best friends since Freshman years. Throughout four years of high school, they are inseparable, like sisters from different mothers. They shared everything things with each others. No hiding. No secret. Meanwhile, …show more content…
Afterwall, Nicole had decided to take a gap year to relax her mind, now might as well go explore places with her best friend. Before actually exploring someplace new, Nicole wanted to visit the place of her childhood, the place where she grew up in, her home back in Vietnam. Then, make a surprise visit to her dear mother. In this case, money was not an issue for Nicole, a student who just graduated from high school and have barely any clue about somewhere else beside her small town in Colorado. During her high school years, Nicole had been working part time a little convenient store that Julia’s family owned after school. With this job, Nicole had saved up a pretty decent amount money to begin her journey. Not to mention, she did buy herself a bike from her pay check and half of the money that her mom gave her which was meant for a car. Afterall, who needs a car when there’s a bike? In addition, Nicole was still hesitated, it was her first time traveling with an adult. I’m almost eighteen. Technically, I am an adult. Then, she soon scratched out the thought of traveling with only childish Julia. However, she has never been to much places beside home and school for the past four years. Nicole had no clue what to expect on her first trip. Or someone to expect along the …show more content…
Well, for herself, she didn’t pack much, only a few shirts and pants and a few personal belonging. Most of the space were filled up with gifts or things that were bought for the long, lost relatives that Nicole had no idea she even have in Vietnam. The day had came. In front of her aunt’s home, Nicole was tapping her feet while waiting for her shuttle to the airport. It has been 15 minutes, yet there was no sign of the shuttle. She tapped her feet faster and waited and waited until her patience ran out. Nicole took out her phone and decided that it was not wise to be a cheapskate in that situation to missed her flight. She called a cab instead. Less than five minutes, a sunray yellow cab arrived. Nicole put her luggages in the trunk and got in the back row of the cap. She settled down in the middle seat, farest away from the car window. In the middle of the road, Nicole realized an awful truth. She had forgotten her Vietnamese passport at her aunt’s house. The cab returned back to the original destination. Nicole ran back into the house, passed through her aunt’s shook face. She quickly grabbed her passport in her drawer and darted back to the waiting cab outside while swifty her last goodbye to her aunt who was still at
There is a slight glimmer of hope when the school year ends and the girls all receive their report cards. They stand eagerly in the hallway, none of them can break their gaze at the slips of paper in their teacher’s hands. Pashtana finishes 15th in her class and in this moment looks forward to a new year in the 8th grade. Unfortunately, Pashtana and her family were living off of $7 a week, a dollar to spend a day. She soon got married to her cousin and has not been back to school since their last day.
2) Hannah tells stories of her “other” life in which she attends school and looks forward to the weekends. As Chaya, her new friends are again shocked by the fact that she-a girl-attends school. Hannah explains that he...
In the short story, “The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien, each soldier carries many items during times of war and strife, but each necessity differs. This short story depicts what each soldier carries mentally, physically, and emotionally on his shoulders as long, fatiguing weeks wain on during the Vietnam War. Author Tim O’Brien is a Vietnam War veteran, an author, the narrator, and a teacher. The main character, First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross, is a Vietnam War soldier who is away at war fighting a mind battle about a woman he left behind in New Jersey because he is sick with love while trying to fulfill his duties as a soldier to keep America free. Tim O’Brien depicts in “The Things They Carried” a troubled man who also shoulders the burden of guilt when he loses one of his men to an ambush.
Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried storytelling mode allows his characters to empathize with the characters personalities and emotional burdens during the Vietnam War through the use of many elements of fiction including characterization, war settings, irony of situation, symbolism, and plot but most notably his technique of correlation between the weight of the stuff each soldier carried on them necessary for their survival in battle and the weight of the stuff they carried internally such as their doubts, fears, love and hopes. The story takes place in the late 1960s during the Vietnam War and the author begins the story by presenting the main character, Lieutenant Jimmy Cross, and provides insights of his feelings and thoughts by describing the tangible and intangible things he carries: letters and two pictures of a girl named Martha and his love or obsession for her. He also lists some of the personal items, delivering hints of his characters’ personalities to the readers and what these items meant to them. He writes how Henry Dobbins, “the big guy”, carries extra food supplies and his girlfriend’s pantyhose around his neck because he thought that it brought him good luck during battle.
Nicole on the other hand begins to become stronger within herself at this point. Nicole acts on her own to go to her father when she believes he is dying. Franz says to her "I must first talk on the phone to Dick" (250).
These days, as both characters ironically prove, it is difficult trying to be different when being different is a category in itself. Dave and Julia, the two protagonists of this book, are both the cool, “hipster” type kids that would burn themselves drinking their coffee because they have to do it before it is cool. Both of them think high school is the biggest cliché imaginable, which – when you think about it- it really is. How many of us fantasized over being prom king or queen? Having someone ask you out to a dance in the most romantic, over used fashion possible? Wanted to run for class president or some other office? These are the sort of things that Dave and Julia vow never to do during their four years of high school, until one day everything changes. As the summary explains, Dave and Julia start a pact (which they write down and title the "Nevers List") right before high school, swearing off participating in any of the "cliché" high school experiences that were just bound to arise. The list goes as
Tim O’Brien’s short story, “The Things They Carried” shows how a soldier balances his life at war and his personal life. The story is centered around the death of a platoon member at war and the horrible conditions of Vietnam. An unnamed male narrator tells the short story by listing the items the soldiers carried while in the Vietnam War. The items that Lieutenant Jimmy Cross carries are tangible items and intangible items. By creating a list, the narrator can describe the experience of the Vietnam war but also prepare the narrator to discuss the more emotional issues.
The Things They Carried is a collection of stories about the Vietnam War that the author, Tim O’Brien, uses to convey his experiences and feelings about the war. The book is filled with stories about the men of Alpha Company and their lives in Vietnam and afterwards back in the United States. O’Brien captures the reader with graphic descriptions of the war that make one feel as if they were in Vietnam. The characters are unique and the reader feels sadness and compassion for them by the end of the novel. To O’Brien the novel is not only a compilation of stories, but also a release of the fears, sadness, and anger that he has felt because of the Vietnam War.
It is exactly like how books and movies portray it to be. Everyone strives to be one of “those” kids that have everything that everyone dreams of having; a boyfriend/girlfriend, friends, social life, beauty, etc. In Merryweather High School, everyone wanted to be like the Marthas or the star jock, Andy Evans. Heather, the new girl from Ohio and Melinda’s only “friend,” tries so hard to be one of the “it” girls of Merryweather High. She does everything they ask and more.
I am reading the book “The Kidnapping of Christina Lattimore”, this book is about a girl named Christina Lattimore, Christina has an amazing life, she goes to madame De Jons school for girls, has a huge house, and a very wealthy family, But she is not happy. The story all starts with Christina and her best friend Lorna going to a hamburger place every friday but this friday, christian is waiting for lorna and as she is waiting for Lorna, Zach, the guy that works there walks over to her table with his wife, doesn’t really talk, then leaves, when lorna gets there they talk about a summer-in-france program that Christina really wants to go to but most likely can't because her parents. Later that day when Christina gets home, she realizes there's tape on the door and asks della, her hiuse maid why it was there, when della had no idea Christina ent to show her but it had disappeared, they checked the
When Carrie got on the train from Columbia City to Chicago she had only few cheap items in her trunk and her sister’s address on
Protagonist is Troy Bolton and Gabriella Montez. High School Musical is a story about two high school juniors from rival cliques - Troy Bolton,captain of the basketball team, and Gabriella Montez, a shy transfer student who excels in mathematics and science. Together, they try out for the lead parts in their high school musical, and as a result, divide the school. Despite other students' attempts to thwart their dreams, Troy and Gabriella resist peer pressure and rivalry, inspiring
Libby’s quest is to receive the perfect kiss from her major crush Zach Nash, the reasoning behind her wanting a perfect kiss started with an agreement with her best friend Nadine Tilson. “By our fifteenth birthdays we, Libby Madrigal and Nadine Tilson, will experience at least one totally real, sincere, meaningful, soulful, poetic, inspiring, knee-buckling, love-filled, journal worthy, insomnia-producing, appetite-reducing, mind-blowing, life-changing, unforgettable, undeniable, serious kiss.” (Libby) ‘ Obtaining this kiss will be harder than either one of the girls could possibly dream about. Libby soon will learn her parents making an “adult decision” by moving their entire family to the middle of nowhere ( Barstow) meaning a new school (Desert High School) and new boys. She also will face meeting her grandma who she was raised to think, died before she was born.
The story about the girl who was afraid to start high school Hi i’m Ashley and i have a little problem going on In a couple of days i will be starting high school i will be going Haygrove junior high school and i been told that not many people go there because there has been a rumor about how there is a old man and his family is hunting the school that is why i’m so scared to start school there i tried my best to ask my parents to change schools for me but they won’t do it they said they don’t believe in that type of ‘PARANORMAL’ stuff