Billy Is My Best Friend

John is a loyal person, and has a very assertive mindset. He seems to want to have social attention, because of the neglect he faces at home. John has a very hard home life, with an abusive alcoholic father. Other than him having an alcoholic father, John and I are very different. I am not, and never have been neglected in any way, and I do not choose to have the trust and friendship of people around me.

Caitlin loves Billy’s character even though he is homeless. Caitlin is fascinated with Billy’s character rather than what he has and his status. Caitlin is engrossed in Billy because he is clean. Billy keeps his clothes clean, himself clean and his carriage clean. In the passage Billy’s cave (p. 62).Caitlin says that his carriage is clean and warm. Caitlin is also attracted to billy’s character because he is not a normal hobo. Billy is smart, clean, polite and calm. In the passage Caitlin and mopping (p. 35).Caitlin says that Billy as ‘so calm’ when he exited McDonalds. This shows that Caitlin enjoys Billy’s company despite Billy not having any

Tyler is extremely independent, and believes everything has to be earned to be successful. He has been his independent self since the young age of 16. My brother has been living on his own for 3 years. Meaning he has been making his own money because he always tells me no one likes a mooch. Tyler didn’t have any older siblings, so it was up to him to look up to himself. Although he’s independent and thinks everything

SOCIAL HISTORY: He smokes two packs of cigarettes per day. He drinks a rare beer. He is divorced and lives alone. He is Protestant, has a 10th grade education, and works at Taylor Auto Body Repair.

Another element, characterization, the way a writer reveals the personality of a character, showed how oblivious Billy was. “Billy was seventeen years old. He was wearing a new navy-blue overcoat, a new brown trilby hat, and a new brown suit, and he was feeling fine. He walked briskly down the street. He was trying to do everything briskly these days. Briskness, he had decided, was the one common characteristic of all successful businessmen” (pg. 62). As young businessman, this was most likely his first trip outside of his hometown. His current goal was to become the best businessman he can and focused his priority on briskness because he thought all successful businessmen were brisk in their actions. Too innocent to know otherwise, Billy focused all of his attention on being the best possible worker and let his life itself on the line. The characteristics of the landlady should also have given Billy a bit of a worry. “She seemed terribly nice. She looked exactly like the mother of one’s best school friend welcoming one into the house to stay for the Christmas holidays” (pg. 64). Rather than noting the landlady as “extremely nice” or “very nice” Dahl chose to describe her as “terribly nice”. Billy was blinded by her kindness and didn’t see through the hidden threat.

The two people I'm choosing to write about is Patrick Dylan Sanders and Donavon Kane Cleckley. They are similar in four ways. Trustworthy because I can talk to them about anything and they won't tell anyone what I told them. Good friends because they are always there when I need them the most. Funny because they know how to make me laugh when I'm feeling down. They are smart because they have excelled academically. Patrick and I are friends, but we argue more like a married couple when we are around each other. Donavon and I are friends, but we don't get to hang out that much because we live in two different county. I taught them how to stay true to themselves and to never lose sight of who they are. Patrick has taught me that peoples do

Billy Collins was born on March 22, 1941, in New York City.Billy is the son of William Collins who was an electrician, and Katherine Collins a nurse. Father, William Collins, came from a large irish family in Massachusetts. Mother, Katherine Collins, came from a small farm in a low income city in Canada. Katherine quite her nursing career to stay at home and care for the couple's only child, Billy. Katherine was the one who taught Billy how to read, by reading poems to him. Both Katherine and Billy were born in 1901, and lived up into their nineties. (www.poets.org, www.enotes.com, www.theparisreview,org )

He is very supportive, understanding, helpful, smart, resourceful, brave and loyal to Tomi and the rest of his friends. For example, he gave hope to Tomi when he announced, “Dad thinks we can bring him home.” (Chapter 14, page 59, paragraph 5) To Tomi this is very important because after the bombing, the military took away his father and grandfather from him and put them into a military prison camp. Billy also understands the struggle of Tomi’s life and when he was supposed to move to another school, he convinced his parents to let him stay another year to stay with his friends. (Chapter

He was a Jewish kid growing up in a largely Jewish neighborhood during the latter half of the Great Depression and World War II. My mother was born in 1939 in Buffalo, New York during the War years and spent her early childhood as a practicing Catholic in a dominantly immigrant area of the city. Both were eldest children in their families and exhibited all the traits of first-borns. My father was the eldest of two boys and my mother the eldest of four, all of whom younger brothers. They are both extremely intelligent, hard-working and fiercely independent. I call them “depression babies”, which in addition to the War era helped mold them into the people they would later become and remain to this day. They met while my father was in medical school and my mother nursing school at the University of Buffalo. To say they were mavericks ahead their time would be appropriate. They married at a time, 55-years ago, when it was controversial for a Jew to marry a Catholic. It was a problem for my father’s father, Nathan and my mother’s mother, Irene who were also both exceptionally intelligent, although ironically discriminatory in the way they saw other ethnicities and multicultural people of color. By the time of their deaths, however, both were especially close and loving of my father and mother. I would say they more than accepted the differences in the other’s ethnic

Life as A Day There are no two people who will have the same life; the number of years, experiences, and quality of life are just a few of the things that may change/differ from one person to the next. However, life will always have a beginning and an end; the day(s) in between those two points is what makes up a lifetime. In the poem “Days” by Billy Collins, the temperance of life is portrayed as a day from start to finish as being synonymous of a lifetime; in other words, life is short and ever changing. Carpe Diem is what might be said by some.

The interviewee is a heterosexual male, Hawaiian Filipino and was born in 1945 in the city of Lanai, Hawaii. Mr. Anthony Sanchez is a retired Master Sergeant in the United States Army. He served in four tours in the Vietnam War. In 1960 he was a senior in high school in Lanai, he was the youngest of seven children and all his brothers had joined the military so he believed that that was also his path. In 1961 Mr. Sanchez graduated high school at 17 and was poised to be inducted into United States Army that very summer after graduation. The relationship I have with the interviewee is that he is my best friend father and we’ve been acquainted for over 30 years. He served as my mentor in my past carrier in the U.S Army and is deserving of my utmost respect which is why I call him Uncle, which is a sign of respect from my island culture.

Once Billy becomes capable of time travel and comes into contact with the Tralfamadorians, he simply goes through the motions of life but avoids falling into a defeatist attitude. Under the tutelage of the Tralfamadorians, Billy fashions a brand new perspective towards society and enhances his natural persona, “When Billy accepts the Tralfamadorian philosophy, the passivity that he has displayed his entire life—from wanting to drift quietly at the bottom of the YMCA pool after his father throws him in, to begging Roland Weary to leave him behind—is justified. If the future cannot be changed anyway, why even try?” (Farrell 9). Though the interaction with the Tralfamadorians seems to allow Billy an outlet to construct his own ideals upon the universe, he nonetheless continues along the same path as before. Billy becomes an extremist towards passivity in life rather than utilizing the experience to impart a strong impression

He really had such a bad time while recovering from autism. By the end of the day, he recovered from this illness and became cured. His family was composed of four members including himself, his brother, and his parents. He describes American culture as weird and different from what the one that his parents and ancestors embrace. When his family came to America, his mother was struggling, and she was having a difficult time in getting employed. However, his father did not have that difficulty because he already had the skills needed for starting a new business in the new land. Now, he is a college student, majoring in biology, and he is hoping of becoming a zoologist. He has a part-time job by working as a cashier in a supermarket. Recently, his mother had quit her job, and she wanted from him to compensate for this by having two jobs and be a college student at the same time. He likes to associate with a lot of people whether at the job, school, or anywhere. This is because he thinks that he is lovely, friendly, and someone who is willing to make friendships that could last

Growing up in a tight knit community means Billy is constrained to follow the traditions upheld by the men in his family, these include stereotypical male activities like boxing and mining. Due to Jackie, Billy’s fathers, status in the community people look up to him as a masculine figurehead, this role is soon jeopardised by Billy’s new-found passion for Ballet. One scene shows Billy coming home after ballet and running straight to his room in an attempt to hide his ballet shoes under his bed, his father walks past and asks what he is doing, Billy then hides his shoes and says he has lost his boxing gloves to which Billy’s father replies “They were my dad's gloves. You better take better care of them, okay?” This suggests Jackie wishes for Billy to continue the boxing tradition. The traditional violence of boxing is carried across into Jackie and his eldest son’s, Tony, activities. The two are seen as trailblazers for the frenzied

Golden eyes, brown fur, four legs, and a long tongue, what am I? If you haven't guessed already, I'll tell you, I am a dog, well, I'm not actually a dog, that’s just the answer to the riddle. More specifically, I was describing my dog. He is my living artifact, I say that because he is old, and because I have on other artifacts (that I know of) in my family. I guess we just aren't the sentimental type, at least not in a, "this object represents what we are" kind of way. However, to me, my dog holds a lot of sentimentality mostly through our experiences. I've never had a human best friend, and that makes Roscoe my one and only best friend, that is why I choose to make him my artifact. So, he represents to me hard work, responsibility, friendship, and loyalty.