West Grove High School, 1989, Camille and her lover Marcus stroll down the hallway holding hands just like always. Today seemed to be just as any other day but little did they both know their world would be rocked forever. From this moment forward nothing would be the same. They say secrets don’t make friends and it seems as if they don’t help you keep relationships either. Marcus and Camille were both the star athletes at West Grove. The halls were marked with their accomplishments and 2 state championships for each. Marcus was the leading scorer on the basketball team and the quarterback of the undefeated football team. Camilles achievements were very similar, leading scorer in the state and all star point guard for the women's team. …show more content…
It was now time for her to go on to college and play ball; she still thought about him everyday. She eventually heard rumor that Marcus chose to stay home and not pursue his basketball career to be with the cheerleader he had ruined Camille’s life with. Camille was so hurt by this. She knew she had to do something and take matters into her own hands. She started with a scrapbook; on every page she pasted pictures of them together in colorful ways. Under every photo she wrote the significance of it. “The last page..” she told herself, “..will be one to remember.” She put a photo she found on facebook of him and his new lady. The next day she traveled back to her hometown and found Marcus’ apartment, upset still, she ran up the steps. Scrapbook in hand, she knocks calmly on the door. Marcus opens up ad Camille politely asks to enter. Little did he know this would be the worst mistake of his life. She hands him the scrapbook and asks him to read it aloud to her. Crying, she listens to the shaky voice recite their perfect high school life. He gets to the last page and sees what she has done, unable to control herself, Camille pulls out a gun and tells Marcus that she wants him to feel the way she did that day and shoots him. Blood covers the photo of the two new lovers. Camille turns around and says, “Never again will he hurt” and exits the small
“Because I got to hold hands with Penelope and kiss her […] all of the other boys in school decided that I was a major stud. Even the teachers started paying more attention to me. I was mysterious” (Alexie 110-111). Through this passage, Sherman Alexie highlights the importance of peer and community relationships in the process of forming an
Up until recently filmmakers have tried to branch out from this style of film making to create a real to life story with passion. Enter Mosquita y Mari, a film that focuses on the building relationship between two teenage girls. Written and directed by Aurora Guerrero this film is an honest representation of life for a teenaged girl struggling with identity. This essay will give a brief summary of the film and characters while depicting an example of form and context as well as personal thought of the film and director.
The first chapter of the book begins with Savanna Getting ready for a New Years eve party. Her younger sister encouraged her to meet a guy named Lionel, who is the friend of Sheila’s husband. After Thanksgiving they talked on occasions and now he invited to meet her at this party. While she is getting ready she explains that she is moving to Phoenix and one of the reasons is because “the men are dead in Denver”. In the past nine years she has spent it living with three different guys and she just can’t find the right one. When she arrives at the party she is nervous and not happy about the way she looks, but that doesn’t stop her. She didn’t really know what Lionel looked like so she sat at an open seat. She hopes that this is the right guy and wants to have fun tonight. She waits for an hour and finally bumps into him and is surprised. They talked for awhile and then decided to dance, while they where dancing she is swept off her feet and believes that he is the guy that she has been waiting for all her life. After the dance is finished they return to their seats and that’s when she finds out that Lionel is at the party with another woman. Denise puts her arm around Lionel and tells him to dance with her. They left to the dance floor and Lionel turned around and gave Savanna a look of apology. Then she leaves the party to go home and watch Dick Clark on the television.
Rena Cohen had returned from camp high-spirited, anticipating her long-awaited senior year of high school. With only two days left to catch up with her friends, Rena called Malka Koenig and Lizzy Zimmerman and set up to see them at Cafe Bonjour. She couldn’t wait to hear how Malka enjoyed her lessons in computer programming and how Lizzy enjoyed her stay in camp. At the cafe, Rena realized something was wrong. Lizzy and Malka looked uncomfortable around each other and after just a few minutes, Malka got up and walked out. Lizzy refused to tell Rena what was wrong, so Rena got up and left too. When school began, things only got worse. Malka insisted that Rena was her best friend, Lizzy insisted that Rena was her best friend, and Rena wasn’t so sure she was friends with either of them. One thing was for certain: they were no longer the inseparable threesome everyone envied. As her year progressed, Rena grew more and more distant from her once undisputed friends. Their silence baffled her and she felt lost in the crowd; by twelfth even the loners had found their place in the grade. Malka became close friends with Tzipporah since they were both G.O. heads. Lizzy became friends with a girl named Riva. One day Malka approached Rena and told her she wanted to tell ...
The summer before ninth grade, Melinda and her friends attend their first high school party. Melinda meets a senior named Andy Evans. The two dance, talk, and kiss. As the night goes on, Andy becomes aggressive and rapes Melinda. In her drunken and terrified state, Melinda calls the cops but won’t tell anyone what happened to her. The entire school finds out Melinda is who crashed the party and everyone ditches her. During the early months of freshmen year, Melinda is without friends, and falls into a depressive state. She befriends a girl named Heather, who later ditches her due to her “low social hierarchy”. Rachel, Melinda’s former best friend, begins to date Andy. Scared and worried for her friend, Melinda decides she must tell her about that night. Rachel refuses to believe what she has to say and storms out. However, Rachel eventually believes Melinda the more she thinks about the story, and calls Andy out. When Melinda finally has enough courage to leave her closet for good, Andy locks her inside. The fuming man attempts to rape her again, but Melinda is not the same girl anymore. She slaps and scratches a...
She returns to the living room to find Lexi finishing her wine. Natalie sits down with a face of a caged animal, as if it had no choice but to stay and behave. Lexi looks and says, “That was your boyfriend and he is coming over?” Natalie nods and Lexi smiles and tells her it’s ok. She tells her the night went much better then she expected and its best not to cause you any undue stress. She offers her friendship. Natalie looks down with a sense of loss. Lexi gets up and prepares to leave; Natalie walks her to the door. At the door Natalie invites her and her brother to a party on Friday at her home. She tells her Doug will be there but it would make her happier with her situation. Lexi nods, and Natalie tries to retrieve one more kiss but Lexi retreats and says lets be friends. This way no one has hard feelings. Natalie smiles and accepts the rejection like a champ. They say
In the play The Crucible we find ourselves in a love triangle. This is between Abigail Williams, John Proctor, and Elizabeth Proctor. It is all over a silly man, that and getting caught for doing what is believed that a few teenaged girls were not being the proper girls that fit in this time frame. This was strongly frowned upon. Something that we realize as we read the play is that there is a major role between two women and this keeps both the trials and the issues alive.
Her mom hung up, those were the last three words Destiny would ever hear her mom say. She tossed and turned the rest of the night. Kisha came into the room to wake up Destiny. She had overslept, which made her and Kisha miss school. Kisha could see the pain in Destiny’s eyes. She knew she had to tell why their mom wouldn’t be coming home and that she moving to New York. Destiny told Kisha the horrible news. They both wept and held each other until they both fell asleep.
The next day Cassidy wakes Alexander up from his sleep with her screams. He rushes into her room to find her thrashing around with a nightmare. He wakes her up and tries to calm her down. Cassidy ask questions about her parents and how he knows them. Alexander finally tells Cassidy that he met them during an assignment they had back when they were in the FBI. Cassidy is shocked because she never knew her parents where in the FBI. He continues to tell her that her parents have been in witness protection since the day she was born. He takes her into his room and gives her a box filled with files her parents left with him years before. Cassidy learns her real name is Lucy Freeman and the man who killed her parents is Richard Sites. The next few weeks Cassidy and Alexander travel to different locations where Richard murdered his victims. Cassidy learns more about her parents secret
It was a typical day at Strion Middle School, and Felipe Jones was getting pushed around as usual.
As discussed in class, discourse is our communication. Furthermore, author James Paul Gee of “What is Literacy” defines discourse as an “identity kit” (Gee, “What is Literacy?”). Gee includes discourse as a combination of one’s thinking, acting, and language that is associated to a group of others. There are different kinds of discourses; two discourses that will be discussed in this paper are primary and secondary. Primary discourse is the “oral mode developed in the primary process of enculturation” (Gee, “What is Literacy?”). The primary discourse in this paper is the first-person experience I had in high school. Secondary discourse is “developed in association with and by having access to and practice with these secondary institutions” (Gee, “What is Literacy?”). School, work, and church are examples of secondary institutions. The secondary discourse in the paper is attending the University of Arkansas and writing this paper. According to Gee, “secondary discourse can serve as a meta-discourse to critique the primary discourse…” (“What is Literacy?”). Throughout this process I wanted to know if high school is destined. Was my high school experience awful or is there a sociological reasoning behind the events? With that, I have researched the social construct and applied it to my previous experiences enabling me to truly discover if high school is destined.
I attended Fort Pierce Westwood High School, a title-1 secondary institution, which on average does not receive a grade mark higher than a “C” from the state of Florida’s Department of Education. It was at FPWHS where I realized how privileged I had been to attend magnet schools from primary schooling up through middle school. My first day at the school, I witnessed a massive riot where mace and pepper spray were used to defuse the commotion that had broken out after the school was defeated by it’s rival school in the annual football showdown and upheaval surrounding several murders that had taken place over the weekend as well. Here I was entering an hostile environment full of turmoil and hurt realizing that I now wasn’t in my bubble of comfort
Years ago her young husband admitted to her that he was homosexual. Blanche was rightfully upset and angry with him. Minutes later her former husband shoots himself and Blanche places the blame on her reaction. Mitch tells her he needs her.
On November 17, 1998, I walked into the halls of Towers High School for the very first time. Nervous and afraid, I was introduced to the eight grade class president, John Hamilton. John was both charismatic and charming. He was the type of guy everyone wanted to be around because he gave off a feeling of security and warmth. When I first met Him, John made me feel welcomed. He opened his heart to me and from that day on, I looked for friends willing to do the same.
Will began going to a single parents support group as part of his plan to meet women. At the support group he met Suzie who eventually introduced him to Marcus, Fiona’s twelve year old son, on her and Will’s first date. Marcus gained trust in Will when he lied to a park ranger about how Marcus had killed a duck by throwing a rock hard loaf of bread at it. When Will, Suzie, and Marcus return they found Fiona, Marcus’s mom, passed out on the couch overdosed on pills in a suicide attempt. In order to help his mom get better Marcus tries to set up Will and his mom, but they were not compatible. Marcus also gets involved in a relationship with Ellie but he breaks it off in order to keep Ellie as a friend. Will had also goteen involved in a relation with Rachel, a single mom. In order to bring joy into his mother 's life Marcus sings at the school talent show. Will found out about his at a single parent support group meeting after begging Fiona to never attempt suicide again. Since Marcus was going to make a fool out of himself by singing this song, Will goes up on stage with him to sing. By doing this Will the subject of the joke and not Marcus. The following winter Will hosts a Christmas dinner with Rachel’s family and Marcus’s family. When the future of marriage for Will and Rachel comes up Marcus is against the idea because he believes that everybody needs a support system and that, “No man is an island.”