Since a child, Stargirl had always seemed a bit… off. Her parents seemed to adore her weirdness, they even seemed to encourage it at times. To demonstrate, her parents called her Pocketmouse. They used it to so much that even she started referring to herself as Pocketmouse instead of Susan. But did her parents ever do anything about it? Of course not. She kept the nickname, until she changed it to Mudpie. Then Hullygully. And then Stargirl. But at the time, I knew her as Mudpie. She was my cousin from my mother’s side. My mother loved to spend time with the family so needless to say, I got to spend a lot of time with her. However, much to my mom’s dismay, her family moved away seventeen years ago. Yet I still have many memories with her, some …show more content…
She started going off about how she wanted to go outside and play. Mind you, there was a shower of rain going on. My uncle told her to be quiet. Five minutes passed and she started to whine again. Her dad was about to tell her something but he closed his mouth and handed her the newspaper he was reading. Mudpie yanked the newspaper out of his hand. She scanned the pages of the newspaper, looking for something. She seemed to have found it; I could tell by the way her smile grew wide. My curiosity got the best of me so I leaned over to see what she was reading. The gears in my seven year old head stopped turning once I saw that she was reading the fillers. “Seriously? That’s boring. There’s nothing to be excited about.“ In case you do not know, fillers are things that are not good enough for an entire story. For example, someone’s dog is missing, if so and so is having a flea market, etc. She ignored me and shoved the newspaper in my face, which slapped my right cheek in the process. “Look.” Her tiny finger pointed to a paragraph at the bottom of the page. I recall it talking about a lady who had died due to health complications. I felt bad as she was a close family friend to all of
Everything was going great at Oakville farm, I mean everything was normal and okay how it should be if you don’t count that the fact Donna came home late last night. She came home around two or three o’clock in the morning when it was pitch black outside, and believe me this isn’t the first time it ever happened either, maybe it’s not that big of a deal to you but to me it is, Donna here is the farmer’s daughter. While Mr. Salem is away she’s the one in charge of us,and because she’s the one in charge of us we haven't eaten in two days! Mr. Salem always made sure we were cared for, and was handled with love but , Donna on the other hand she just doesn’t care. There’s a lot of us here on the farm, we have a variety of animals here like horses,
Her mother had died after being hit by a reckless driver. Alice, a fifteen-year old, African-American girl, was now without her natural and most influential guide on how to cope with the powerful transition from girl to lady.
Sophia Garcia was a 14-year-old freshman who cared about her family, the latest season of Friends, and the Patriots. Being in a household with six athletic brothers, from a young age Sophia had the experience of playing numerous sports, her favorite being football. Unfortunately, her high school only offered football for boys, and in return, offered cheerleading for girls. However, Sophia craved to play for her high school football team. Upon telling her friends, they immediately rejected the idea of even her trying out, yet alone, being part of the football team as they joked that females can’t play aggressive sports.
“Straining his eyes, he saw the lean figure of General Zaroff. Then... everything went dark. Maggie woke up in her bed. “Finally woke up from that nightmare. Man… I miss my brother. Who was that person that my brother wanted to kill?” she looks at the clock and its 9:15am “Crap I’m late for work!” Maggie got in her car and drove to the hospital for work.
We don't see many people in the world who express individuality. However, we see popularity and amount of followers we have on our Instagram to represent our reputation in the public. In the novel, Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli, we can see that individuality can still be expressed even if the whole school despises you. The main character, Stargirl, demonstrates how to be yourself and how it's better to be yourself than to become someone else.
Song: Skyscrapers - Demi Lovato. *** "Ahhhhhhhhh!!!!!"I scream jumping up to see a guy in front of me. Jess rushes in. " Whats wron...
As she gets ready to face the battle field she fastens her armour and shield knowing how tough the world is to her she’s still trying to avoid the fear, yet she walks like an army shoulders up, head high and ego strong, but then it hits her hard that she is only just one solider, one that would do anything to get out of that mess. Is it because of the way she dresses? She prays that the world becomes more accepting when her infant and 2 year old daughter is grown. They claim she is oppressed but they commit the oppressing towards her. Can you still not see the emotions on her face or does the cloth on her head make you visionless to her identity? After all she is just a human being, her hijab is her protection, Dina is a soldier who has suffers the scars of an emotional war.
Judy pov Judy had been sleeping yesterday after what happened it wasn’t that late and she still had classes to go to but, she didn’t, not with her face mark like that. Needless to say it was an awkward day as her and Nick were basically trapped together in the room. It had been two days
My great grandmother Nita Marie Collins was the great that I spent the most time with as a child. She was my dad’s grandmother, while my other greats were about an hour and a half down the road, in East Texas, my “Granny” was right down the
As I sat down to observe Riley, it was the beginning of free time after playing outside. Riley was walking around the classroom with another little girl, Heather. Heather followed Riley around the room. Both girls had stars on them with their names on them (laminated yellow stars) which they carried around with them. Riley would walk around with Heather following her and every yard or so they would stop and Riley would whisper something into Heather’s ear. The two girls would giggle and smile and then keep walking around the room. The stopping
Today Jeanne is five years old. A cute frail pint-sized girl. Her nanny compares her skin to fresh white cream. Even in the summer it seems that the sun cannot color it. She has kept her large deep blue eyes which are unfathomable yet observant.
There have been a lot of people who have had a large significance in my life. Whether they be friends, or relatives. I decided to just choose the one I have known the longest. Kyra is my sister. She’s the oldest in our family. She married Grant Feenstra and has moved to Yucaipa, CA. She has a little boy now named Wyatt James. My middle name is James too, so I kind of like him already. She has probably had one the biggest influences on my life as a whole.
In Gone Girl, anger is mainly derived by many reasons and one of the main reasons is deception and manipulation. This main factor drives protagonists to their breaking point where their anger speaks loudly. Using interior monologue literary technique throughout the first and second half of the book, Flynn reveals more about their hidden anger as they boil inside without showing it. Interior monologue is defined to be:
The year is 2003. It’s the beginning of July in a small suburb town. A little girl sits in her backyard on a covered swing. The sun sat in a cloudless sky, casting shadowy patterns across the cushion on the swing. She can hear her younger sisters laughing and splashing in the pool that is just a few feet away. But she was not interested in swimming, because her attention was on the book on her lap that she had just gotten yesterday. Her feet brushing against the grass with every motion of the swing. Her eyes eagerly scanning the pages, trying to soak up as much of the story she could. Before her mom told her to put the book down and spend time with her family.
She could explain anything to me and I would understand straight away. She helped a lot for my education and always was there to help. My parents knew that she could teach me and show how hard it is these days and how hard I should work. That is why they always made sure I saw her enough but it never was for me.