A Comparison Of Laurie And Open Window

Lying is never easy, especially when the lie is to parents. Kurt Vonnegut Jr.’s story “The Lie” is about a boy named Eli Remenzel, who is on his way to Whitehill Academy, a school his parents want him to go to. But there is one catch, Eli knows he didn’t pass his entrance exam, so he has to go on a car ride with his parents to Whitehill with the thought looming over him. One lesson the story suggests is that people lie or hide things when they encounter a bad situation and tend to show it as well.

Betty (His foster mother) had asked him to get a towel from the closet, and he did what she asked but somehow there was urine on the towel and she decided to blame him. Then she followed him into the back bedroom and accused him of “pissing in the linen closet” but he had not done such thing. Then she took a heavy brush and swung it at him, hitting his forehead, he then fell on the floor with everything around him spinning. She then decided to keep swinging the brush at him, he tried to use his arms as a shield but they were too slow to respond, when she was done hitting him with the brush, she then began kicking him until he had blood gushing from his forehead and onto his body. She stopped when she noticed the blood, she forced him to walk to the sink (kicking him up). His head didn't stop bleeding so she had no other choice but to take him to the hospital, and made him explain how “ he had fallen out of a shopping

The “Lie” by Kurt Vonnegut, speaks about a boy from an affluent family getting rejected from a prestigious high-school. Eli, who is the boy in the story does not want to share the news with his family and thereby trying to “buy time”, tears the rejection letter causing a mix of events. “Barn Burning” by William Faulkner, is a story which relates repetitive events of a father who goes from town to town burning up people’s houses and thereby getting removed from every town. The boy in this story, Starty Snopes, who is an uneducated boy is being forced to believe that his father’s opinion is right. These stories, share a major relation with each other in the struggles these boys are having with their father’s inappropriate behavior and being

5 days after the questioning Maurice’s Mom and Icy come to visit Maurice. His mom wants Maurice to write a letter to his older brother Will, because Will is getting in alot of trouble and she wants Maurice help Will change his ways of being bad. Icy talks to Maurice about school and her grades and about her friends, and wants Maurice to write letters to her every week so they can talk. Later that day a kid named Luis gets in a fight with the one kid who that came from prison and Maurice tried to break the fight up and Mr.Cintron thought that Maurice was fighting but it was actually Luis. Mr.Cintron wouldn’t believe Maurice that he wasn't fighting so Maurice and that one kid went to solitary confinement

The stories that will be compared for this essay will be Everyday Use by Alice Walker and I Stand Here Ironing by Tillie Olsen. These two stories both share similar themes about motherhood and its difficulties especially in fairness between siblings. The two main daughters in both of these stories come off as feeling inadequate in comparison to their other siblings. The mothers in both the stories are trying so hard to make them feel deserving of happiness in life. The story Everyday Use is narrated in first and second person by the mother. The theme of this story to me seems like sibling rivalry and how their mother is doing her best to make sure that both of her daughters receive the same amount of respect. In this story a woman named Dee returns home to try and acquire some objects to show off to others. She is denied when she attempts to take some quilts that were promised to her sister which causes her to throw a fit about. The story I Stand Here Ironing is narrated in first person by the mother. The theme of this story is the regret. The main character, the mother, is struggling with her decisions on how she raised her eldest daughter since she had to send her away so much when she was young whereas with her other kids she kept them all through their childhood and raised them.

Laurie, at first, did not seem at all interested. But when Laurie’s father and I both said that we knew that he was Charles, he just stared at us. “Laurie, or should I say Charles,” said Laurie’s father, “Your mother and I are very upset at your behavior.” “Lying to us is never the right thing to do. Not to talk about all the other trouble you have caused. Kicking the teacher, yelling in the classroom, being fresh, and telling other kids to say swear words is absolutely not ok Laurie!” I could see that Laurie felt a sense of fear. “Laurie,” I said, “Your father and I are going to have to punish you for what you have done. But first, we need you to apologize to your teacher and all of the students for your behavior during the past couple weeks. Do you know what it means to apologize?” “It means to say sorry,” said Laurie. “Correct,” I said. “So when you go to school today, I will ask your teacher to give you a chance to have a word

So his mom got him into a art school he loved it but then there were two bullies who also loved him and their names where zeke and kenny but rafe also made a freind his name is maddy and he is a troublemaker. Anyway maddy invited rafe to some fun he was going to water balloon zeke and maddie new rafe was gonna want in so rafe said yes and they went to the top of the school and

WILLIAM stood at the back of the cider mill and stared over the makeshift classroom. Mary and Reverend Flowers stood at the front of the classroom. Forty students ranging from 5-years-old up to 18-years-old sat at tables arranged by grade level. Mary taught a lesson on long division to a group of 7-year-olds while Reverend Flowers monitored the rest of the students as they worked independently at their desks. Reverend Flowers walked to an 11-year-old boy in the second row who was doodling in the margins of a notebook instead of focusing on his reading assignment. Reverend Flowers grabbed the boy by his ear and yanked him out of his seat.

When they finally returned home from lunch D was already asleep in the car for her nap time. She usually wakes up around one-thirty, and her snacks are made for her before she is up. Her favorite snack is applesauce so her mother normally put a little bit extra for her with a side of whole grain crackers. When snack time is done her mother put on her favorite TV show on for her called the “Wiggles Gables”. While she is watching her show in the living room, her mother is preparing dinner. About an hour passed there was a knocked on the door, when Mrs., Smith went to see who it was; it was her friends and her oldest daughter returning home from school. D heard her voice, she run to the door and on the door on the door she run to the door with

Greg wakes up early this morning, today is the first day of middle school. The dreaded, horrible, and just plain boring middle school. This is a problem for Greg because he is wimpy and he is going to get bullied a lot. Greg is also super short because everyone in his class grew a lot over the summer and he didn't grow at all. Greg goes trick or treating with his best friend Rowley and they got scared by

Laurie had many traits that make him a more interesting character. One of these is being naughty and lying about it. Another trait is that he is in kindergarten. We know this because the author talks about how it is his first day of kindergarten. One more is that he is proud of what he did. We know this because when telling his parents about what charles did, the author writes, “Laurie whispered joyfully.” We also know this because he wanted to tell his parents about what he did, just not tell him about the fact he did it, so he made someone up,Charles. Theses are some of Laurie's Traits, they reveal a lot about the story.

Colby was six years old when he wet the bed. So he went into his mom’s room and told his dad that he kind of wet the bed. So his dad rubbed his face then went into his room and made him smell it, and abused him physically. Then his nana showed up to cook him breakfast, and she heard something banging on the wall in colby’s room. So she walked back there and saw that colby was being abused and ran into the kitchen to grab the phone to call 911. They showed up and put him in cuffs. He was dragged out of the house while his son was drenched in tears watched him scream bloody murder that he was gonna hurt him when he gets out.

In the realistic fiction story, “Charles” by Shirley Jackson, the problem of lying takes place at home. The main character Laurie, lies to his parents about what he did at school. By using a first person view with sentence structure, Shirley Jackson creates the lesson by using the problem, Laurie lying to his parents, which shows that it can pile up with consequences in the end.

He tells every detail which shows he is a self-centered child. In the story it states, “The teacher spanked a boy, though,” Laurie said, addressing his bread and butter. “For being fresh,” he added, with his mouth full.” This shows how Laurie elaborately describes events in his school. Laurie tries to dress up as a grown up boy and does not bother to wave goodbye to his mom. When he comes home, he slams the door and screams, “Is anybody home?” which illustrates he is seeking attention for himself. He doesn’t seem to take care of his baby sibling neither help his parents in any of the chores. It’s always about him. Laurie disrespects his father. In the story it states, “What?” his father said, looking up. Look down, Laurie said. Look at my thumb. Gee, you’re dumb. He began to laugh insanely.” This shows Laurie disregards his parents and does whatever he wishes. Next, Laurie is undisciplined. Laurie’s parents are focused on Laurie’s classmate “Charles” bad behavior and turn a blind eye to their own son’s bad behavior. They fail to discipline Laurie on multiple occasions. Laurie comes from school and slams the door, talks disrespectfully to his father on

The school he attends when he is a little older is a school by any means, but there is great turmoil. Often the older boys pick on the younger ones and while this may be brought to the attention of the director (the principle, headmaster etc.) the older boys would be punished but it would be so overlooked that as soon as they were finished being punished, they would return from their beatings and give them back tenfold to the young boys who told on them. This section is actually one of my favorite parts.