Scary Story I looked up at the black sky. I hadn't intended to be out this late. The sun had set, and the empty road ahead had no streetlights. I knew I was in for a dark journey home. I had decided that by traveling through the forest would be the quickest way home. Minutes passed, yet it seemed like hours and days. The farther I traveled into the forest, the darker it seemed to get. I was very had to even take a breath due to the stifling air. The only sound familiar to me was the quickening
In Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home, Bechdel uses the theme of appearance versus reality to highlight her relationship with her father. Bechdel utilizes her illustrations and short sentences to reveal these things about herself and her father. Bechdel opens her memoir with a chapter entitled “Old Father, Old Artificer”. Bechdel refers to her father, Bruce Bechdel, as an artificer because she sees him as a skilled craftsman. Bechdel describes, “His greatest achievement, arguably, was his monomaniacal
My freshman year was suppossed to be my year, the year I was finally going to be in "Highschool".It was considered the most important year in my life, that I could've only dreamed about. You see,from the fifth to eighth grade i attended homeschool and smaller schools. Highschool was going to be big!I thought I was finally going to be considered a young adult.This very year 2012 would be the hardest year of my life. I remeber this year like the back of my hand. My bestfriends were Jatereus
an issue that night because most fifteen-year-olds would have been at home in bed. Because of my right to drive, my pride in being one of the few freshmen with their school permit came with its own benefits as well as consequences. The privilege to drive to school and back was a privilege easily taken advantage of. One of my rule breaking attempts was driving home from Jenny’s house at 1:00 in the morning. The plan to get home quickly almost backfired and I was almost stuck in a sticky situation
School affected Jolly in a positive and productive way. For example, when Jolly was a few weeks into school, “Jolly got a B one day and then three more B’s and then she did A work in typing and she had all her columns lined up on the what you call it the master list and that made another A.” (121) This means that Jolly is finally finishing school and is excelling.
As we finished packing up our gear and were just about to start to heading back for home I saw something flash through the ferns on the other side of the river. It was hard to make out because whatever it was had kept darting back and forth through the dank, dark shadows that the edge of the forest canopy had created. We then had left our fishing spot and during the short walk back I’d been forced to listen to my step daddy as he rambled on about how he used to pull Albacore and Bluefish out
This time we have together may look depressing to an outsider because he is sick, but to me it is also comforting because it formed a bond between us no one can take away. “Linda?” The stout dark haired nurse named Jewel called for me from the door way leading to the patient exam rooms. I stood with Michael in my arms and our diaper bag over my shoulder. “Dr is ready to see Michael now.” She completed, with a look of sorrow written on her face. My heart sank at that moment. She may not realize it
light a fire for them, and give each of them one pasty and a can of coke each, and then we will go to our work and leave them alone. They will not find the way home again, and we shall be rid of them." “But what if they imitate the old fairy tale of Hansel and Gretel, where they leave the trail of breadcrumbs and find their way home again?” “What would we stand to lose?” asked the step-mother rhetorically. The two children had also not been able to sleep for hunger, and had heard what
second. She turned off the alarm, staring at the ceiling she wondering if she should drag herself out of bed and finally start at the local high school. Like always, if she feared something, she would go to any extents to put it off. It was her way of dealing with problems. Mya found it easier to ignore her problems. She had been through so much in the past, which is largely why she was conscious about who she would open to. However she had no more excuses that her mum would believe to put
finally here. While prom night had some anxious moments, overall I had a blast. It was finally that time. When I arrived at Taylor’s house, I realized that I had left the corsage at my house. I had to scurry back home and grab it for the pictures. The night definitely didn’t start out the way I imagined it. We were scheduled to take pictures at Cain Hall at 4:00. When we finally arrived at Cain Hall it was 4:15. As we were taking pictures, our limo suddenly arrived to pick us up. We left at 5:15. Fifteen
that just don't start themselves." Billy knew that as he was walking away, but since he was the cause of all the fires he did not want anyone to know. He felt ashamed that the only way he could make money was to set fires and then get called in to the fire station as a part time worker. He had no other way to make money for his girlfriend and her Christmas present. He tried to keep living this life for as long as he could but he was not sure how long he could keep it up. If he were to
is walking home from a movie, he is jumped and beaten by a gang of Socs. At the last minute, his gang of greasers--including his brothers Darry and Sodapop, who raise Ponyboy. The next night, Ponyboy and Johnny go to a movie with Dally; they sit behind a pair of attractive Soc girls, whom Dally hits in his rude self. After Johnny tells him to stop, Johnny and Ponyboy sit with the girls, Cherry and Marcia. Ponyboy and Cherry start to talk and realize they aren’t that different. On the way, however
first day at the high school. I didn’t know my way around and was afraid I was going to get lost and be late to all of my classes. I walked into the building next to my older sister Morgan. People were crowding the commons and I didn’t know where any of my friends were. My sister turned to me as asked me where my advisory was, as that was the first class we were going to that day. I tell her the classroom number and she led me to the room. On the way there she described to me the general direction
shop up the road that she must go to before she retired for the day. Trés Chic was the store; it had the trendiest and priciest fashions on the whole street. Even though she was exhausted and was certain they were closing shortly, Georgia made her way there. As soon as Georgia step foot in the magnificent store, her mouth dropped to the floor. The clothes at Trés Chic were the kind of style she only found in European magazines. This store was THE PLACE to be! Gathering up as much as she could hold
Balancing School and Work Juggling work and school, finding time for having fun, and liking what someone does, these are some of the problems that plague young adults today. If a person that fits those requirements is looking for a little extra income, this writer knows just what the doctor ordered. Working as a waiter is a very fulfilling job, especially for a young adult student. With flexible hours and uniforms, decent pay, and working in a fun atmospherewith many different types of people
The economy is making it difficult for many us to do everyday shopping for necessities, let alone the ability to splurge on luxuries. An amazing way to save money is using coupons. I know exactly what you’re thinking. I also was one of those people that grunted and groaned every time I had to wait for someone to sift through their enormous stack of coupons. But that was before I had an eye opening experience at the grocery store one day. A lady if front me handed the cashier her stack of coupons
tonight. It frustrated him immensely that he could not go faster than 40 miles-per-hour without catapulting his car into the dark abyss. Although, this felt like a catch-22 as if he did not get home in the next hour the storm would be in its element destroying everything in her path. Who was he to get in the way of Mother Nature? Ava would be hyperventilating at the thought of her husband in danger. She’d most likely cause herself a premature birth and in this weather their child would be delivered
going to look for when I arrived a month later to attend classes. Everyone else was talking with their parents about their class choices and housing contracts. Some were even asking the experts at the podium questions about the university. But this was way beyond me because I had more important things on my mind. I remember seeing him rise a few rows in front of me with his mother. I'm not sure exactly what caught my eye first, but his light brown hair and rosy complexion kept my stare. He had on a
The Long Way Home: An American Journey From Ellis Island to the Great War by the award winning David Laskin, magnifies the struggles and difficulties that Meyer Epstein, Antonio Pierro and many other immigrants faced as they entered America during World War I. Laskin’s extensive education in historical writing is evident throughout the very detailed book as it almost comes to life. With a bachelors in history and literature from the prestigious Harvard University, Laskin has mastered his writing
that does not mean it will fill our hunger for love. Most of the time we take for granted what we received through our parents hard work and never stop and think or ask to ourselves, what would be if they were not there to assist in the ways they do. In A Long Way home, Saroo was born in a very poor family, which no matter the circumstances he loves his family and at a very young age start working to help with the house needs. They lived in a house “with brick walls and an unsealed floor of cowpats