Aden: A Short Story

THE BOY HITCHHIKING on the back-country Kansas road was nineteen years old. He had been dropped there by a farmer in a Model T Ford who had turned off to the north. Then he waited for three hours. It was July and there were no clouds. The wheat fields were flat and went straight to the horizon. The boy had two plums and he ate them. A blue Plymouth coupe went by with a man and a woman. They were laughing. The woman had blonde hair and it was all loose and blew from the window. They didn't even see the boy. The strands of straw-colored hair seemed to be waving to him. Half an hour later a farmer stopped in a Ford pickup covered with a layer of dust. The boy clambered into the front seat. The farmer took

All of the indians are dead silent as the head back to the indians camp. Later that night an indian hears a herd of buffalo and once again gathers a hunting party. This time they are successful at finding the herd alive. All of the indians become very excited that they have found a herd and immediately take off with their bows and arrows to kill buffalo. Once they have killed enough buffalo to last them the winter they all head back to the camp and have a humongous celebration.

When we put the boat back in as we are driving down the bayou we see some duck swimming in the woods and we stop and pull up and tie off the boat and start walking to them. Well, as we are chasing them we jump some up but we don't shot. Well, when we find the ones we were chasing and we shot my dad hits one and it lays there and as we go to get it gets up and flies away. well we decided to go get the boat and the decoys and hunt there well on the way out my cousin gets the bright idea to try to climb over the log instead of going around it and I said ¨ have fun trying to get over that log¨ and he said ¨ I will.¨ When he gets to the top of the log and gets stood up he losses his balance and slips and falls as he is falling he drops his gun in the water and luckily it hits his legs and he catches it and when he gets up he looks like he is going to cry and then I bust out laughing and so does my dad then my cousin just starts laughing. When we got to the boat my dad said do you all want to hunt here or go were we normally do and we said were we normally do and he said ok. When we get there my cousin takes his waiters completely off and dumps the water out of them and puts the back on and when we get to our spot there ducks are everywhere. We end up going home with every body limited out which mean everybody kills their limit

A coming of age story is when the protagonist experiences climatic event that leads them to adulthood. The event is usually tough but leads to a realization or epiphany. The short stories “A&P” by John Updike and “Araby” by James Joyce both reflect coming of age stories. In the story A&P, the narrator, Sammy quits his job to stand up for the three girls wearing “nothing but their bathing suits”() In the story Araby, the narrator shows himself growing up through discovering his sexuality. In the stories A&P and Araby there are strong similarities in the plot and setting, however they are also different in the imagery and figurative language.

So when the sun was just about to go down you could feel the rumble of the ground shake. Almost as if it was an earthquake. The buffalo bull had brought his whole herd, the herd surrounds the brothers and the sister into a circle. The brothers moved close to a tree, and the sister followed. The buffalo had spoken to the sister and said, “Now that I brought my people here, would you marry me?” Again the sisters' answer was no. So the bull got angry and started to charge at the girl. Right before the bull could get her the brothers grabbed her and they climbed up to the top of the tree. When the bull saw them pull her up, he started hitting the tree with all his might, shaking it, as if it was the tree was going to fall over. Just as they reached the top and could not go any further, the tree started to grow. It grew so far up that when they looked down, they could see everything. The tree took them up into the sky, and when they started to appear towards the clouds they dismounted off the tree, and they all stood there looking at each

Sam was a very boy but he was very strong. He used to toss around and play with all the other kids even though he was the youngest boy in the tribe. One day after the men of the tribe went hunting a family of bears roamed into the area. Everyone started to panic. Everyone went and hid, except young Sam. Sam went right up

Thirteen year old Brain Robeson was on his way to visit to his father. (His parent's had divorced).but while he was aboding the plane. the pilot had gotten an heart attack and died. with shock(because the pilot dying suddnly) Brain drove the plane. but he crashes in to an Canadian wilderness. he is left alone. with only an hatchet in the wilderness. he drink lake water, Raspberry and birld meat everything he can eat. one day he was looking at the reflection of his face he noticed that he was changed. a new Brain!! one day

There he stood in the middle of the street. Luckily there were no cars coming so he ran right out of the street and started walking down the sidewalk. As he turned down the corner he heard a woman scream and he ran over to where he heard the scream. The thing was that he got there so quickly. The place was a mile away. The woman said a man shaped like a broccoli stole all the onions in the town.

“My old grandpa liked to tell those stories best. There is one about Badger and Coyote who went hunting and were gone all day, and when the sun was going down they found a house. There was a girl living there alone and she had light hair and eyes and she told them they could sleep with her. Coyote wanted to be with her all night so he sent Badger into a prairie-dog hole, telling him he thought he seen something in it. As soon as Badger crawled in, Coyote blocked

During recess one day at school, Henry, being the little bear he was, felt like climbing a tree. Except, there were no big climbing trees on the playground. In fact, the only tree on the playground was a very small tree that was just planted. Henry walked over to it. He looked around to make sure there was no one watching him. He really wanted to climb it. I am sure this tree is strong enough to hold me, Henry thought. He reached up and grabbed a low branch and began to pull himself up.

It was a cold day in fall, jerry was planting crops. He needs help to plant and grow crops so his dad and jerry went to town to buy a horse. He gets a plow horse to held plow the field so they can plant seeds and grow food before winter destroys the the farmland. Jerry was in middle school, everyday after school he comes home to water the seeds he had planted. When they get the horse the horse is stubborn to get the collar around his the horse was jumping up and down. After a while they finally got the collar on the horse. His dad became very sick so he could not help him. They started to lose money because they had to buy medicine and seeds, jerry had to do something to help his family get money. So jerry went everyday after school to work

This 12 year old boy lived in Los Angeles and his dad got a new job in Rhode Island and they had to move but something was really weird about their new house. His mom and dad said that his room is up in the attic, and it was really big up there. One night he heard something in the next room beside his. He went to see what he heard and all he saw was a stain on the floor but did he know that he messed up!! But he went to go see then things got a little bumpy!!

Mike Clark started riding horses when he was a young boy. His father was working the fields with the tremendously powerful draft horses Mike would ride on their backs. Ever since then he had wanted his own horse for riding. It was an ordinary day in 3rd grade for Mike Clark. He had been in Mrs.Kruschels class learning away. The school day was completely normal everything just as it usually was learning all the subjects, but of course he was thinking about horses and how he would love his own. The end of the school day came fast. Next thing he knows he’s on the bus on his way home ready to make that exhausting one mile walk home, but to his surprise his mom was waiting for him when he got off the bus. He hopped in the old Chevy pickup, as he and his mom were headed home to their beautiful farm; the only thing on his mind was to get something to fill his stomach as soon as they got out of the old pickup he started to run for the house.

But let me say that a lot has happened and it is good. Thank Adonai for that. Seriously.

No, I don’t think this is at all treating Jami differently. In fact, I’m honestly surprised she interpreted it that way, and I believe you used it as an excellent opportunity to explain to her how her words affect you.