John “Crash” Coogan is the typical jock; he lives in Pennsylvania and is starting his second year of middle school as a 7th grader. I thought the main theme of the book is don’t judge a book by its cover. At least what most of us have in mind as a jock? Crash had always picked on his neighbor Penn Webb because of his choices and his lifestyle until later he realized something about Penn that he was his meant- to- be best friend. Crash has a wonderful life, until life deals him a hand that he could not have expected. When Crash 's grandfather unexpectedly has a stroke, Crash instinctively steps back and re-evaluates his life without even realizing he 's doing it. Suddenly, his cool friend, Mike doesn’t seem so cool anymore. Things that …show more content…
The irritating thing is that Penn remains steadfastly friendly! And he has the friendship of the hottest girl in school. But, when Scooter, Crash’s beloved grandfather, suffers a stroke, Crash’s salty attitude towards life, friendship and himself comes to a crashing halt. Penn Webb decides to be friends with Crash, he is nice to him and offers him the one thing that is very important to him, and that his great, great grandfathers Mississippi mud. He thinks is has special powers and he wants to share it with Crash so that Crashes grandfather can get better after his stroke. The friendship that Mike and Crash have turns out to not really be a friendship that is good for them. Crash needs friends like Penn in his life. He doesn 't need bullies like Mike hanging around him.
Around Christmas time Crash had been playing tackle football with his Grandfather Scooter, his dad, Uncle Herm, Bridget and Abby when Scooter had an accident. Scooter had the football and was running for the touchdown when Crash had tackled scooter and he had a little bit of an injury. Then Scooter had been helping Abby which is Crashes little sister with an environment in their backyard for animals. Scooter had a stroke while on a ladder and fell which gave him a concussion.
Mike steals Penn 's essay from his desk. He balls it up and tosses it to trash before the teacher walks in. During class Crash get curious and reads the essay. He finds out a lot about Penn and his 93 year old
So when Wallace goes to football practice he is told he can't play until his detention is over.when he gets to the gym for his detention he was being judged by all the drama kids. Wallace starts giving suggestions for the play and starts becoming friend with the drama kids meanwhile not being in football has made him fall apart from his football friends. One day when on his way to the gym he hears everyone arguing he ask what's wrong and they explain that someone vandalised the play and wrote old shep dead mutt. Wallace is accused of this but then trudi davis saves him and convinces everyone to go his side. Mr.Fogelman notices this and tells him that he can leave the play. Then everyone hears the news and Wallace's team ask him to come back but he refuses and joins drama the play gets getting pranked and after the 3rd one they find wallace's scrimmage jersey but he was being framed and wallace loses everyone's trust and asked to leave. Then on the day of the play he finds the tape of when his scrimmage jersey and he figures out it was Dylan Rachel's little brother who was doing all the pranks was stolen and he goes on lookout at the play even though he not allowed to come then he catches Dylan and asks Dylan what is he doing dylan says it too late and that he attached a cherry bomb to old shep so Wallace goes running to stop it from exploding when he sees old shep he grabs old sheps pillow and he dives to
In this book, everyone was part of a gang and everyone looked at each other as either a Soc ,or a Greaser. Johnny, who has been abusively beaten while getting jumped and from his own father at home, and Pony save children from a burning house. No one would expect the hoodlums to risk their lives to save children. They have a reputation for doing illegal things and getting arrested. However, newspapers have stories on the two and labelled them as “heroes”. Dally, who was the toughest and baddest of all the Greasers, kills himself. The true reason behind this was because after going to the hospital to visit Johnny, he witnessed watching him die right in front of his eyes. Johnny’s death makes him rob a store and having the police intentionally kill him. The only thing that he loved was Johnny and his beloved thing was gone. This shows that Dally, even though he’s a Greaser and does all these horrible things, has feelings. Even people who genuinely knew him, labelled him as having no feelings. Also, Randy, who is a soc, talks to Pony about Bob and how he was just a regular guy who had his own problems. The only reason that Bob would act out and drink a lot was because his parents would never set boundaries. He just wanted for someone to tell him “No”. Cherry Valance, who was Bob’s girlfriend, even said that he was actually sweet. This shows that people are individuals and that labels don’t say who you
The book That was Then, This Is Now is about to really good friends Bryon and Mark starting to go their separate ways. Bryon was a 16 year old hustler who lived in a hood. His mother was poor and she had adopted his best friend Mark. Mark was an illegitimate who was adopted by new parents that got in a drunken fight and killed each other. Mark was a thief, and he always got away with everything that he possibly could do. Teen kids in there element who thought they could rule the world, everything was theirs and that nothing could possibly go wrong. They did everything bad together smoke, drink, jump kids for their money, steal, skip school, take drugs and get into gang brawls.
The book, Southpaw, written by Rich Wallace is a great book. The book tells a story about a boy named Jimmy but called “flem” going through hard times. His mom and dad are divorced and he was moved to New Jersey and now tries to fit in by joining a baseball team. The setting in the book takes place in the city of New Jersey where “flem” and his dad live in an apartment. The setting affect is that if “flems” mom and dad were still together he wouldn't have had to move away from his mom, old school, and friends. I know this because “ flem said”, “ I wish it could have worked out with my mom and dad so I wouldn't have had to move away from school and my friends.”
Sometimes the things in our lives don’t go according to our plan. They can even turn our world upside down.
Now they're in seventh grade, and Penn becomes an even bigger target: not only does Penn still wear used clothes, he joins the cheerleading squad. But even though Crash becomes the school's star football player and wears the most expensive clothing from the mall, he still can't get what Penn has; attention from both his parents and of the most gorgeous girl in school. In the middle of the story, his beloved grandfather Scooter is severely disabled by a stroke and was sent to rehab to relearn basic things. After going to rehabilitation¬¬¬, he can only say one word, which is “A-bye”. Crash no longer sees the fun in playing pranks on others and begins to realize that there are more important things in life than wearing new sneakers and being a sports star. He becomes friends with Penn Webb, and continues to have hope for his disabled grandfather who he loves and cares
In Spinelli’s book Crash, the lead character, Crash Coogan, has some major changes in his life over time. When Crash first appears in the book at age 7 he is demanding, rude, judgemental, and self-centered. For instance, Crash and Penn’s first interaction is very ungraceful: “[He] plucked the silly button off his shirt, dumped in the hole [he] was digging”. ( Spinelli 4) This explains that Crash does not respect others who are different than him. Additionally, Crash is obsessed with making others like him by making them fear him and feel like they need to be friends with so he won't hurt them: “ You’re going to be a flat-nosed baby if you don’t shut up.” (3)
“Unwind” is a fiction book about a world where kids are taken apart, and their body is used as spare parts for other people. There is some background stating that there was a second civil war fought about reproductive rights, but no real reason as to why the war started. Currently in society abortion is a sore topic for many people. Today, “unwanted babies” are killed before birth. This is known as abortion. However in the book abortion is outlawed, but unwinding was perfectly fine. Unwinding is when parents sign an order to have their child’s body parts given to a donation center while they are between the ages of 13-18. My question is how is this a better solution than abortion? By the time the kid grows up to be 13 the parents are going
Hanson claims that immigrants do not adapt to our society. He describes an accident that happen. An immigrant was driving a van that had a bald tire (625). He jumps into conclusion saying that the driver must have been intoxicated. Obviously, the driver ran away from the scene. This can explain a lot because she/he left. So, people might start talking about you. Typically, in some cases this happens because the driver is probably did not have insurance or driver license (625). In the essay he uses personal perspective with his ideas.
This book is about a boy named John “Crash” Coogan who lives in Pennsylvania and he has a new neighbor named Penn Webb. John likes to play football every since he was three. They met when they were in kindergarden going to first grade. John teased him and took his buttons that he wore. Penn said he was a “late baby”. He said his mother had him when she was forty years old. He was a late baby because he said that his parents couldn’t have any children then one day out of the blue she was pregnant. Penn and his parents are vegans. The Webb family are Quakers.
At the beginning of the novel readers meet the one person who does not call John "Crash," Penn Webb. Penn moves to John's Pennsylvania neighborhood on the eve of the boys' first grade year. Penn, a true nonconformist, represents so many things that go against what John believes in: violence, wealth, and athletic ability. Most important, however, is Penn's stance of non-confrontation. John tries repeatedly to tease, provoke, and harm Penn, but Penn does not engage in a confrontation with John. This sticks out to John because he is used to scaring people off or else being challenged by them. The years pass and John avoids Penn, who remains friendly to him. In sixth grade John meets Mike Deluca, the first person to equal John in terms of loving
On the first day at lunch Auggie sits at an empty table and a girl named Summer ends up joining him. She says hi and they become friends instantly. On halloween Auggie was excited to where his Boba Fett costume but changes his mind and wears his bloody scream costume. As he walks in the school he doesn’t feel mad at all because no one is staring at him. His face is covered with mask and no one knows it is him. He walks into his homeroom and sees Jack talking with a couple of other people. He gets close to hear what they are saying only to realize they are talking about him. He hears Jack saying that Jack was only his friend because the principal said to be. Auggie runs out of the room crying and goes straight home. The next day at the lunch table he tells Summer everything and ignores Jack that day. August decided to take a couple days off of school so Summer gives Jack a clue on why Auggie is ignoring him. After days of thinking it through Jack finally understands the clue meaning and feels very bad. After Julian tries to convince Jack to ditch Auggie, Jack punches him in the face. Many emails later, Auggie forgives Jack and Julian turns against
We always looking for love in our in our life. A woman looks for sweetheart who turns to be spouse. Mostly we find more love from our parent whom treasure and respect every step of the way. Love is almost inexpressible in some situation .we all or rather everyone wishes for unconditional love and more understanding in our differences. In the book a good fall particularly in temporary love stories it describes on how partners settle for whatever makes them feel good temporary, sex, money, entertainment and temporary approvals for other to penetrate for satisfaction.
Fall arrives in the city with crisp winds that brush leaves from the ground into the air in a slow churning whirlwind causing them to dance about, descending to the moist ground. A yellow cab is patiently circling the neighborhood in search of fares, which has been a twenty-year practice of Max – a stout, older man with a protruding belly that strains the buttons of his faded, much-wrinkled shirt. He slowly drinks a cup of lukewarm coffee and looks up at the dark, overcast sky, “Looks like rain today” he says. Knowing the streets of the city better than anyone, Max prefers to work on the east side around the old Elmhurst Cemetery. People don’t venture close to the cemetery claiming that they often see a young woman walking through it. Convinced she is a ghost looking for revenge, but this story never bother Max nor has he ever seen this ghostly young woman.
‘’Things Fall Apart’’ novel tries to bring back up cultural, social as well as spiritual basics of traditional Igbo (Ibo) existence from the year 1850 and 1900. The novel cannot be fixed like truthful societal and political old times of Ibo society since it is a work of invented story. However, the novel describes disagreements and apprehensions in Igbo society. It also depicts changes initiated by colonial ruling and Christianity. The author mentions that European colonialism operates as a powerful as well as well-built mediator of the change within Ibo society. Additionally, Christianity attracted the trivial associates of the Igbo society. Igbo and other societies were changed considerably due to this variety of deal with Europeans. A few societies expanded in dimension and authority as marketable centers, whereas others go through great losses in the course of slave invasion. Hostility also gets higher, and conflicts tactics tat are distorted due to the use of weapons.