Creative Writing: Sarah Marie Hope And Johnny Small's Encounter With Fate

In Chapter 1 "A Writer 's Choices", of Andrea A. Lunsford 's book Easy Writer, she outlines the choices that writers need to prepare for in academic situations. Lunsford explains the differences between social and academic writing and that it is important for a writer to effortlessly transition from informal to formal writing conditions. Lunsford continues with informing writers of the expectations in academic writing. To write with authority, directness and clarity are necessary in any high-quality academic writing. The author claims that having these items is so vital that she even lists several strategies within the chapter to meet this goal. While, it is important to have a clear text Lunsford also tells writers to consider an assignment and the reasoning behind the task. Lunsford requests that writers analyze an assignment to better understand a professor 's expectation; so the writer will be successful with the intended project. Next Lunsford explains how to choose a topic for an essay; however, she claims it is best to let it choose you by picking a topic that interests the author. After selecting a topic, Lunsford goes on to help a writer focus the text of an essay to reach their targeted audience. Lunsford wrote a list of questions a writer can ask to ensure their ability to communicate effectively. Now Lunsford asks writers to take into account their stance and tone. Once a writer knows the position in which they wish to approach a topic; at that point the writer

I comfortably drive my car into the desolate street, Perusing the deserted buildings, Smashes windows and rusted For Sale signs. The car locked up like Fort Knox. I observe the street for trouble. Two young boys look at me from afar as if I'm an alien. Do I stand out that much same greasy hair, expensive clothes, a smart car I suppose I am out of my comfort zone? “Mister, you don’t belong here” his hand gripped his switch. “Pony.... Ponyboy Curtis” I stammer “I live here or at least I did, I'm here to see two-bit’ The Boys turn around “geez his old now” the boy's chirp. The boys stroll away in awe that they saw the great Ponyboy.

Andrea Lunsford who is Louise Hewlett Nixon Professor of English and Director of the Program in Writing and Rhetoric, started the Stanford faculty in March, 2000. She obtained her B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of Florida, and finished her Ph.D. in English at The Ohio State University, in 1977. Andrea Lunsford established “Andrea Abernethy Lunsford” website that consist of home, blog, photo gallery, CV, downloads, contact, about, and login. This website home page shows above lists with pictures which are very helpful to know and tell what picture is it. For instance; home page displays that is showing a photographer is taking a picture of two people are standing

School has just let out for summer. John has daily chores to complete to help his dad with the workload of the ranch. John liked the work on the ranch he had a love for the land and the horses. Between his girlfriend, mom, and sisters john felt overcrowded with women and wanted to be away from them. When john got into the truck to leave he tells his friend “...Women! Between Kelsey my sisters and my mom I haven’t had a peaceful minute in weeks!” John was ready for a change of scenery.

She looked at him and ran off the stage. He then looked at the crowed and said “well I gotta go find her” and walked off stage embarrassed. Later that night he got upset at June and started to yell at her because he was on drugs. She then defriended him and tried as much as possible to avoid him. After three weeks of this, Johnny walks all the was from his hotel room to her house which is twelve miles away.

story is ecstatic to be away from home. As stated in the text, Johnny proclaimed, “'Aw, what

So the officer said, ‘is there a reason you stole that candy bar, son? Did you not have enough money or something?’ I wailed, ‘yeah… I guess so. I don't know… maybe I was bored. I'm sorry. I don’t want to go to juvenile hall!’ The officer replied, ‘look, son, I'm not going to take you to juvenile hall; you're way too young for that. But what you did is against the law and you can’t come back into this store again.’ I said, ‘well, my friends were doing it and said it was easy. They weren't caught and I didn't think I’d get into all this trouble!’ Then he said, ‘Wait, other boys are stealing? Could you tell me their names and do they live around here?’ I asked, ‘can I get a free candy bar and a lawyer if I do?’ He coldly said, ‘No.’ I divulged, ‘Okay. Reza is the one I've known the longest and his friend Kyle stole too. They live in the same apartment complex as me.’ Yeah, I was a douche for

Johnny walked into the living room, his stomach feeling queasy. His parents look his way in dull manner. They didn’t want Johnny home. They like him out with his friends, not bothering them. Truth is, they felt as if they wouldn’t be good parents even if they tried, so they thought “Why try?” They also didn’t want Johnny to end up like them so, they pushed him away and acted like they couldn’t stand him. Little did they know they were just hurting Johnny by doing so. They had planned to kick Johnny out on this night. They thought he would end up better off with the Greasers. So, when Johnny walked in his mother said, “Go pack your stuff and get out my house.”

The killers of Bob Sheldon, Ponyboy Curtis (14) and Johnny Cade (16) risk their lives and save five children from a burning church in Windrixville, Oklahoma. Cade is in critical condition at the hospital. Dallis Winston who helped these young men save the kids, is going to be in the hospital for another two weeks due to the severe burns on his arm. Cade suffers light burns on his back along with a huge bruise. These three young men were walking when they saw the crowd in front of the burning church. Witnesses said that when the young men heard the children screaming they ran to help without hesitation. According to Curtis, “Faintly, just faintly, you could hear someone yelling. And it sounded like it was coming from inside the church… I’ll get them don’t worry. I started a dead run for

“Later Joe, I’ll tell you after we leave this place and get farther from home. I don’t feel safe here.”. I didn’t know what to do so I felt like I had no choice but to listen. We got into Jackies car and started driving. As we were driving, I constantly tried to get her to tell me something...Just anything would be helpful. Little did I know just what I was getting myself

from in the room. Johnny see’s something out of a movie his girlfriend getting ran by three

Awaking out of his coma for Johnny was hard enough, then finding out that his true love was married was just a heartbreaker. “‘I couldn’t believe the news she was telling me’…” (King 195). He eventually has bigger problems that he must face. Once he saves the world from being destroyed, Sarah leaves her husband and realizes that Johnny is who she was meant to be with (King 543).

You can't catch anything!" Tommy exclaimed to Blake. The two young boys were playing catch in the park. It was a bright sunny Saturday afternoon. These two were best friends and always came to this park everyday to play catch. This park. The park they're parents would never them go to. This park was known for being a bad park. Anything bad anyone could think of had supposedly happened here. Blake and Tommy knew that, but it had the best baseball field. The baseball field was definitely not in good shape, but it would prepare them for any bad field they could play on.

Johnny had been with Ponyboy talking to Cherry and Marcia when their boyfriends came out of their Blue Mustang and spotted Johnny and Ponyboy with them. “Johnny was breathing heavily and I noticed he was staring at the

Again, the dark laughter echoed in her head. Shit, shit, shit. She was so damn stupid, so bloody arrogant. In spite of the sunglasses she wore to lessen the risk of overstimulation to her senses, the lenses were no safeguards against the weighted stares of the people on the bus, and Tung wasn’t here acting as a buffer.