I Lost My Baby Girl: Larrie's Life

"Skipping", "humming", "loopity-loops", and "pirouetting" are silly things that everyone has done as a child, including myself. These reminders set me in a time machine back to my favorite days when the only thing important to me was my own happiness. Another less obvious reflection of a puerile mind is the "same story". In this tale of a young girl's game, Sandra Cisneros refers to a pretend play the girls have made up for their Barbie's' to act out. This play is referred to as "the same story" and really hit on what childhood playtime was all about. I remember doing the exact same thing as a child with my brothers (except we were cops and robbers), where we played out the same actions over and over, day after day. Cisneros recognized this to be common to all children and smartly places it for the reader to reflect on their past, as I did on my own.

Emmanuella was so happy when she got Joshua. She played with him everyday and cared for him. Until he died. She was so sad that something she wanted for a long time

Childhood is arguably the most exciting time of a person’s life. One has few responsibilities or cares, and the smallest events can seem monumentally thrilling. Often, people reflect on the memories of their youth with fondness and appreciation for the lessons they learned. Sarah Orne Jewett captures this essence perfectly in the excerpt from “A White Heron.” Jewett uses many literary devices, including diction, imagery, narrative pace, and point of view to immerse the reader in familiar feelings of nostalgia and wonder, and dramatize the plot.

When Lola was in the sixth-grade things went better for her, she was achieving good grades and she was able to maintain these grades and even made some friends. She won a contest and did some modeling for a local department store, she was able obtain clothes from this and attention She felt as if not people were jealous of her and her peers were envious.

The friends of the narrator, however, do not hide in the imaginary world of childhood and are maturing into adolescents. Sally, “ screamed if she got her stockings muddy,” felt they were too old to “ the games” (paragraph 9). Sally stayed by the curb and talked to the boys (paragraph 10).

Alyssa Laurin Welter passed away unexpectedly on March 9th of 2018 in a tragic motor vehicle accident off of Farmington and 198th in her hometown of Beaverton, Oregon. She was only 19 years old and a freshman at Western Oregon University.

In The Chase, Annie Dillard details in an essay about an adventure as a child in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Dillard describes herself as a seven-year-old by the activities she participates in with the boys from her neighborhood. It is evident as a little girl Dillard was very active and competitive enough to be playing football, baseball, and snow ball fights with boys. The text indicates about Dillard’s involvement, “Boys welcomed me at baseball, too, for I had, through enthusiastic practice, what was weirdly known as a boy’s arm” (Dillard 4). Dillard recalls a particular incident when she and the boys were throwing snow balls at vehicles passing by.

She will soon die just like her friend Bridget Bishop did earlier today. My son dropped into spasms of convulsions. His eyes began to flutter uncontrollably and he began to drool. I can't write anymore the grief is to thick.

Before May of 1940, Cornelia Arnolda Johanna ten Boom would have said her life was uneventful. But then everything changed. World War II started around September of 1939. The ten Boom family was not Jewish, but they had a strong moral and could not stand the ways the Jews were treated. The German Blitzkrieg ran through the Netherlands in May 1940 and mistreatment of Jews started in the ten Boom’s town a couple months later (ten Boom, Sherrill, and Sherrill 27). Corrie ten Boom was an assertive woman who is credited for saving hundreds of lives during the Holocaust through her acts of courage, faith, and forgiveness.

If it weren’t for the children, the game would never, eventually, come into existence, and if it weren’t for the game, the children would not be with Mark. The other reason besides buying the action figures for his co-worker’s children was to gain inspiration for the game. By the end of the book, Mark manages to get the hang of parenting. His children, as well as Lady A, end up adoring him. This book demonstrates Mark’s game for work as a symbol for his life.

Any mother will tell you that motherhood is a tough job. Even though women love to see smiles on their babies face, they get overwhelmed at times. Corrie Whyte, who is the mother of four babies, knows firsthand how motherhood can be. She has a two year-old toddler named Emily. She also has eight-month old triplets, Olivia, Jackson and Levi.

Imagine living your entire life inside your house only ever having seen your mother and your nurse. Imagine never being able to feel the wind on your skin, or grass between your toes. Imagine growing up never having friends, never having a sleepover, and never being able to anticipate going on a date. This is the life that Madeline Whittier has been forced to live due to an immunodeficiency that causes her to be allergic to practically everything. When a new boy named Olly moves in next door, Madeline begins to test her boundaries because conversing with Olly slowly opens her eyes to what she’s been missing all this time.

It was a late shivering afternoon, we collected the ferrets for dinner. I was driving to the hospital; Corrie remained lying down unconsciously in the back of the car. Now I will tell you what really happened to Corrie and I.

Stacey Gleeson, a mother from Cairns, was able to save her baby girl Giana when she had stopped breathing and had turned blue. As Stacey had dropped her iPhone in panic, she used the Siri function to call the ambulance right away.

Susie worries most about her gifted and petulant sister Lindsay. Lindsay is only one year younger but still is not told directly about what's happened to Susie; instead she hears telephone snippets and bits of conversations between her parents and the police. After hearing her father describe Susie's features, she asks her father not to lie to her, so he doesn't; but even answering her question, he can't face the truth of his words. Susie watches Lindsay sitting alone in her bedroom trying to harden herself. As the story unfolds, it is clear that Lindsay carries the hardest burden, because no one will ever be able to look at her and not think about Susie. By losing her sister, Lindsay is in danger of being robbed of herself.