Essay : A Ton Of Fun

The story I have chosen to discuss is Rick Moody, “Boys”. This is a traditional coming of age story. The great thing about how Rick Moody story is how he takes several small paragraphs to explain a large amount of time. A good example of this is when he condenses the two twin brothers’ thirty years experiences into one paragraph. The whole story is seen through the eyes of the boys in their childhood home. This story follows the two brothers through many changes throughout their lives, to the illness and death of their younger sister and father. The twin brothers are supposed to be living a carefree childhood running, playing, and being a child but they are thrust into situations that children don’t usually have to deal with at their age. Moody

D.H Lawrence’s The Rocking Horse Winner and William Golding’s Lord of the Flies view children as easily manipulated figures. D.H. Lawrence’s short story demonstrates how easily children, Paul, can be influenced into believing that money and luck indicate one’s level of happiness. William Golding’s novel tries to show that all children are evil and have savage impulses. A common theme in both of these works is that children create their own downfall and loss of innocence.

Several things that happen in this book are a result of what the father and son do in their relationships for

They’re always about something bad happening” (McCarthy 269). So by this statement, we know that the boy while empathetic, still feels negative emotions for himself. We feel as if the boy is what keeps the book going, the fire; he is the only one who can and will keep the story going because he is seen as something greater than all. After the father dies, we see that the boy finds a group of wanderers and joins them.

Additionally, they both grew up fatherless, however, the circumstances were different. Furthermore, both of the boys had run ins with the law, and neither of them were interested in school. Although these two boys had several similarities, just a few minor differences influenced the people they are

The life choices also made and impact on the lives of the boys and transferred into their adulthood.

Family relationships and society play fundamental roles in how a child grows and makes their own choices. How they are seen and treated by society can influence how the child acts. From how they are raised, to what values and morals they are taught will determine the child’s reactions to obstacles that come up in life. I will be discussing some major events in the book that stood out to me as to why two men who basically grew up on the same block, ended up on very different paths.

“In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make as ultimately our own responsibility” (Eleanor Roosevelt). Two boys with almost identical childhoods have made decisions in their lives that have changed them forever. Both named Wes Moore, the men lead polar opposite lives now because of the choices made as teens. While the mothers of the two, Joy and Mary, struggled to support their family and make the right decisions, the Wes Moores had extremely contrasting educations, and their family life and support was somewhat similar, but had many stark differences.

In A letter to the Playground Bully from Andrea, Age 8 ½ she talks about hardships and misery so delicately and with loads of figurative language it's easy to miss. Gibson gives her examples on why the bully is hurting her “A kid can only take so much punch before he's drunk off of his

Writing has many tools and devices that can be used to influence the purpose and meaning of the a piece of work. In the two pieces of work, "Private License Plate Scanners Amassing Vast Databases Open to Highest Bidders-which is written in a way that it is anti-license plate tracking- and "Who Has the Right to Track You?'-which is written to be for license plate tracking- many different tools and devices are used by the authors. These pieces of work describe the benefits and drawbacks of collecting data and tracking fellow citizens, but use different forms of pathos, ethos, and logos to portray what they are trying to say. Also, both articles state how many are opposed to this tracking, arguing that it is against the First Amendment,

When the side conflict arose when strangers were met, it was the son’s emotional compass that drove such conflicts. When the son was driven away from the other boy he saw, his empathy and fear for the boy is what drove his break down and repeated question, “What about the little boy? What about the little boy? What about the little boy?”(86) The tension caused by the son’s empathy for the other boy, and the fathers ultimate concern for his son is what prompted this conflict. The boy’s innocent empathy towards others was another facet of the plot that underlined the entire book. Its queer connotation in terms of the context drove the plot along. When another stranger named Ely was met, it was the boy’s empathy that drove his father to feed the old stranger. Ely would ask, “Why did he do it?” (172) and question a giving character in a very selfish world. His father would respond “You wouldn’t understand…I’m not sure I do.” The conflicting, and in the proposed status quo, radical helping nature of the boy really added a lot to the story. The relatable innocent character would highlight the darker aspects of the book, while all the same show the value of good. This aspect of the son’s emotional and youthful divergence is a prerequisite to many of the themes in the novel such as selfishness, love, and survival. The more moral character in the son is what allowed the novel to have a more

One crime-infested city, one drug consumed neighborhood, one identical name and two fates. Two boys who grew up under very similar circumstances, have one big difference; one became a success, the other became a convicted murderer. Both Wes’s live completely different lives, yet so close to each other. Although without knowing it, they were going through most of the same challenges. These two boys faced so much. Whether it's their family and their support, their environment they are surrounded by, or the choices and decisions they choose; they remained strong, and fought through all the good times and the bad.

Throughout the two short fictions, “Son of the Wolfman” by Michael Chabon and “The Red Bow” by George Saunders, we discover and more or less travel through tragedies in the main characters’ lives with them. Both tragedies about children, but contrasting in that one results in the death of a child, while the other is a birth. There are many internal and external conflicts within both stories in which they share multiple comparisons and contrasts. Many of these conflicts made me develop judgments about both characters and the choices they made throughout the fiction. While reading, I developed many perceptions about each character and each story; some with which could be obvious and some that have a more personal origin.

La Flesche’s book about Indians deals with these issues. In this book, a boy gets beat up because he is trying to save a boy from getting beat up, he writes, “And so it was the son of that man for whom I was all bruised up” (La Flesche 35). The boy was beating up kids because his dad beats him when he gets drunk. The kid wants to feel tough and powerful so he picks on kids smaller than him. In PTI, Junior's best friend Rowdy always beats kids up. This is because his dad drinks a lot and beats him and his mom. Junior tells the readers, “His father is drinking hard and throwing hard punches, so Rowdy and his mother are always walking around with bruised and bloody faces” (Alexie 16). Rowdy’s anger comes from being weak in his home, so outside his home he wants to feel

Successful Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island pedagogy requires efficient context knowledge as well as the knowledge of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island students learning needs. The topics covered will include Indigenous placement and displacement, the impact of socio-economic status on Indigenous students and the health and wellness of Indigenous students with the focus being on whole school and classroom practices, with examples of resources, to support teaching Indigenous students.