In the novel Whirligig Brent goes a party that Chaz plans. While at that party he humiliates himself by trying to talk to Brianna, the girl he likes. Brianna yells at him in front of everyone. After this happens, he gets in his car and leaves the party but he goes the wrong way on the freeway. He soon realizes that he is going the wrong way and doesn’t care. While driving the voices in his head keep telling him that he can end his life right now so he tries to. He lets go of the wheel, closes his eyes and lets the car drift left. The car crashes and the next thing he does is wakes up in the hospital. When he wakes up and gets released from the hospital and fetches out a newspaper which told him that he has killed a girl named Lea Zamora.
On a drive on Highway 50, through Nevada to see a real ghost town, Agnes finds a little girl named Rebecca who has been separated by her family who was looking Leister 's gold. The capper of the whole thing is that Agnes saw the whole thing in a dream, but she gets to the Goldberg Hotel and Saloon, she realizes the whole thing was real, especially the inside of her room. She soon finds out that the entire hotel is haunted by all kinds of spirits from past guests; which only serves to make Agnes 's vacation that much more interesting. She wants to find out what happened to the family. She knows with every fiber of her being that it was not just a dream, and that a little girl really did go missing in the night before Agnes showed up. Will they be able to find the missing kid or will a killer (called “The Cutter”) ruin their
Brent was the closest to Blake. He was his brother. Brent and Blake grew up together. They have memories of their childhood together and things to reminisce on. Brent remembers Blake was being curious and accidentally fired a gun. Luckily, the gun recoiled and drove the hammer into the web between the thumb and index finger . This accident left a scar between those two fingers. But when Blake became a drug dealer, He abandoned his brother before his death. Brent became heartless to the point that ,“I told myself to feel to feeling. I had already mourned Blake and buried him ... I skipped the funeral “(Staples,408). Brent probably knew his brother more than anyone. Brent throw away all the memories they shared because Blake was a drug dealer. I understand that Blake was ignoring his brother’s warnings and that made him frustrated ,but that 's not a valid excuse to not attend your own brothers funeral. The thing that broke this bond was the fact his brother was a drug dealer and that was his closest family member need to abandoned his
After getting humiliated at a party, Brent drives away drunk and decides to kill himself. Letting go of the wheel on the highway, he ends up killing someone else. He killed a girl named Lea. Her mom asks Brent to put up 4 whirligigs, one in each corner of the US. Since they were Lea’s favorite toys, they’re meant to be monuments representing Lea’s ability to make people happy. With wood, sum tools, a book on whirligigs, and a bus pass, Brent leaves on his trip to build the whirligigs.
One day Blake, Quinn, and their two friends Maggie and her boyfriend, Russ go to an amusement park together, called Darian Lake. They are clueless when they arrive as to how this event will change them forever. At the park, they ride on various rides. One of the rides was different from all of the others. It was the Kamikaze. It was a roller coaster, brand new to the park. As Blake got in line for the ride, his friends were right beside him. They were all excited to go on the new ride, but Blake was terrified. It reminded him of the time he was seven and his school bus got into a accident and went screaming over guardrails, almost to his death. He did not want to ride this new ride, however his friends pushed him to do it. Once on the ride, he was safely harnessed in and the ride took off, screaming down steep hills and loops. Everything was fine, until the structure started to shake and beams started to give way! There was now a twenty foot gap in the track! Blake thought it’d be the end of him and his friends, when he saw it. The coaster dove straight down into the gap, about to hit asphalt. Then the next thing Blake knew, the ride had ended. He waited in his seat, wondering what had happened. The ride had been built to give way like that. The coaster had still been on the track, when it fell through the big gap. He turned to the track and saw the beams that had fallen rising back again. It was all a stunt and everyone else had known about it except him! Blake went through the rest of the day shaken by it, until he met a girl at a game booth. He thought she was so beautiful and flirted with her for a little while. Her name was Cassandra. Then he won a prize from her booth, a stuffed bear. Inside the bear’s pocket, was an invite to another amusement park. He showed his friends, then looked back for the girl who’d given him the bear. She was gone and a new person was standing in her place, in control of the game. The new person didn’t know what Blake was talking about...
When thinking of a consequence, one usually thinks it is a punishment that will affect one’s life in a negative way. In this novel, Brent learns that that is not true since he experiences consequences which are good for him. One would think that hitting and killing another young teen could only have a negative impact on Bent's future. However, it actually results in a positive outcome for Brent in the end. The outcome of this was Lea’s mom’s wish for remembrance of Lea, “This is my only request. That you make four whirligigs, of a girl that looks like Lea. Put her name on them. Then set them up in Washington, California, Florida, and Maine--the corners of the United States… That’s what I ask.”(41) Lea’s mother wished that Brent would accept this journey across the United States to build these whirligigs, and though at first it seemed like a negative outcome, it ended up being a positive one since Brent was able to get away from his past and blossom into a better, more mature young adult. Another positive c...
There are many ways in which both Wes’s have taken steps down the right and wrong paths. They may have lived and grown up in the same cities, but they had different support systems and different events that made their destinies contrast. Perhaps if the Other Wes had a better support system, he could have gone down a much different path. From the very beginning, neither Wes had a father figure. Author Wes’s father dying from acute epiglottitis (which Wes witnessed) , and the Other Wes’s father leaving the picture. There is an occurrence where the Other Wes does come across his father, and neither of them know who each other are.”The strong smell of whiskey wafted from his clothes and pores. Wes and the man returned each other’s quizzical looks.”(25)
The narrator makes choices against his beliefs by allowing his academic performance to decline as a result of feeling excluded from school and peers. The narrator also begins to skip school and shows through his vast memory of hip-hop lyrics, that he is intelligent. It is not until his arrest for tagging, that the narrator experiences regret in allowing himself to earn a name in the game. It is this at this point, that the narrator reveals he has noticed a change should be made to improve the respect he has for himself. The other Wes’s passion and dedication to football consume much of his time, which allows his grades to begin to decline. When he is offered the job to be on the lookout for police officers, his first instinct is to decline the offer. However, after reasoning with himself that he would not be directly involved in dealing drugs, he accepts the job. In a state of aggressiveness, the other Wes quickly acts, generally resulting in violence. This quickly thought out resolution can be seen with the boy whom he pulls a knife on, with Ray in a violent confrontation about Alicia and the armed robbery that led to his life-sentence. Throughout his questioning, the other Wes admits he cannot feel nervous, as his fate has already been determined. As each Wes learned about respect through their family and the community, they were faced with the challenge of
In 1912, Great Britain was the place to be. With a mighty empire spanning the globe, Great Britain was the richest, the most technological, and the most powerful country on the planet. For everyone fortunate enough to be British, it was the perfect time to be alive. Or was it?
flames of their passions, in the deaths of the Beadsman and Angela, or the violent dreams of the
Mrs. Zamora asks Brent to place whirligigs in all four corners of the United States, so Lea’s spirit can live on. In order to do penance and try to make up for his mistakes Brent says, “I’ll do it” (Flieschman 42). The Zamoras did not judge Brent or shame him. When Mrs. Zamora met with Brent, she stated that she was learning to accept the fact that Lea was gone. This did not satisfy Brent because he wanted to be worthy to accept their forgiveness. He wanted to earn their forgiveness, so he went on the journey that they sent him on. This act of forgiveness of others ultimately set the journey in motion, and caused him to transform. A second example of Brent needing forgiveness from others is when he meets the artist woman in Maine, who makes Brent realize that he is a good person. After Brent gets everything off his
A battle breaks out between Mac and Ratched, after this, Charlie Cheswick and Bromden are sent for electro-convulsive treatment. Billy has copulation with Candy. Ratched intimidates him that she will tell her about his long-term companionship with Candy to his mom. As an outcome of her threat, Billy is under pressure and commits suicide. McMurphy is blamed for Billy’s death. McMurphy gags Nurse severely and tries to kill her. Orderlies save Nurse from McMurphy. Ratched sends McMurphy for the treatment. When McMurphy comes back to the ward, the Chief finds him in a terrible state. When Chief finds Mac lethargic, he notices blemish marks on his head, which demonstrate Mac was given lobotomized
Imagine that you are responsible for someone else’s death and you have to live with that for the rest of your life. You would try to seek forgiveness from the victim’s family but also try to find a way to forgive yourself for this horrible mistake that you made. That is exactly what the two main characters in Whirligig and Crossroads have to overcome. Brent is the character from Whirligig that tries to kill himself by drinking and driving but instead kills another person. As for Justin, he kills a mother and daughter by recklessly street racing. Both of them not concerned for anyone else but themselves and didn’t give much thought as what could happen. They now have to find a way to accept if the families of the three killed will forgive
Born in Sydney 1939, Whiteley was always artistic. The house within which he grew up overlooked the Sydney Harbour Bridge and the river, encouraging Whiteley to develop a love of the water and landscape. At the age of nine, Whiteley’s parents sent him to boarding school in Bathurst. It was then that a crucial moment occurred in Whiteley’s life. He read a book on van Gogh’s work and realised that he was a painter. ‘...about eleven I decided, and I quite deliberately decided that I would into an art’ (Brett Whiteley in Pearce 1995, pg 15). Whiteley’s time in Scots College helped him to come to love the countryside, and in his landscape works it became a prominent feature.
Billy Prior is another patient who Rivers treats at Craiglockhart and who for quite some time was completely mute. He is literally speechless because of what he saw in the trenches. Prior was an officer, however he did not hold any significant occupation before the war. He was a person who found meaning in his life on the battlefield and was made strong by that. As someone who always felt he had something to prove Prior was finally able to show his masculinity. His need to prove himself a man stemmed from his childhood with an abusive father, and he grew up constantly needing to prove his masculinity. However even on the battlefield Prior suffered, having a type of asthma that made him more susceptible to the gas attacks used in the trenches and more
“He’s not asleep,” Said a gravely male voice which caused Shawn’s heart to skip a beat. “Look at his heart monitor, Lilith; it proves he is awake.” The man said. Shawn heard light feminine footsteps get closer to his bed and a hand grabbed his chin by one hand and a slightly damp rag was placed over his nose and mouth by the other. Shawn’s eyes snapped open and he saw a young woman with slightly crazed blue eyes and a large just as crazy grin holding the damp rag over his mouth. Shawn started to struggle but soon his struggles weakened and he slipped into darkness.