Vinny And Joe-Boy Analysis

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How would you feel at a ravine where someone died? In a story the ravine, there is a couple of kids that go to the ravine Mo, Joe-Boy, Vinny, and Starlene.This essay is about two boys, 15 year old Hawaiian boys that are going to the ravine to swim and jump from the cliff where a boy named Butchie died two weeks and one day ago. In this essay, Vinny and Joe-Boy can be very similar, but they still vary from each other. Some things about Vinny is that he is cautious. On page four he is cautious because he steps around the footprint and hangs on the branches and vines to stay on the slippery path.On page six, he is confused because his mom has told him to never go to the ravine because it is forbidden and his father is telling him to go to ravine

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