Major Events In Culver Creek

1) The story takes place in Pinedale, Florida. Where a HIV-positive Pinedale High School student named Alejandro Crusan or Alex for short, was attacked while in his car. A witness named Daria Bickell says that she was a student from the same school, name Clinton Cole at the crime scene.

The film is set in the year 1959 in a Vermont boarding school named Welton Academy. This academy is a very strict all boys school that demands the most out of every student so that they are completely ready for university. The term that this takes place in welcomes a new English teacher, Mr. John Keating who attended Welton himself, and follows the transfer student Todd Anderson whose brother was one of Welton’s finest students. Todd’s roommate is Neil Perry, who comes from a middle-class family that made multiple sacrifices to put him into Welton. Neil’s father is extremely strict with his son and dictates his schooling and extracurricular activities. Friends of Neil, and later Todd, include Charlie Dalton the rambunctious one, Knox Overstreet the romantic, the very smart ones Steven Meeks and Richard Cameron, and Gerald Pitts. The movie follows the seven friends through the school term starting with how strict and very stressful the courses and teachers are then showing the drastic difference of Mr. Keating. The movie remains on the lives of the boys, mainly focusing on Keating’s class and how he wishes for his students to become free thinkers which leads to many different issues with the friends.

• What are the characters’ emotions, attitudes, and behaviors? What do these indicate to the reader about the character?

Scout comes home, frustrated about her first day at school. Scout’s positive expectations of school were crushed when Miss Caroline tells her to stop reading because she has been taught incorrectly. After school Scout explains her day at school to Atticus, and her teacher’s cluelessness and unreasonability. Scouts most valuable lesson from her first day of school comes from her father, where she learns to try to see situations from the others point of view. Ironically, Atticus teaches more to Scout and Jem, than their teacher, Miss Caroline,

This self-description of the narrator says it all. He gives a brutal, yet inflated description of himself and his friends that gives the reader a very round main character.

These bad kids with leather jackets, toothpicks in their mouths, and shades at all times. Tough, scary looking boys, stereotyping what “bad” is and that they do nothing but crazy, stupid things. “Bad” is what all boys are, they are up to no good, they drink, rape, and fight. As lost as these kids are, they feel like they belong nowhere, but they find a place, a place called Greasy Lake and there they want to find an escape. Realize that Greasy Lake is not all that fun anymore, these boys pretend to be rebels to be crazy teens, keeping the stereotypes about teens alive. With that, they start to do horrible events, start fighting a stranger, raping a woman, and destroying their car. Scared and afraid they all disappear to the forest and end up

The raiders night was taken place in a town called Nearmont takes us through the eyes of a football team and how flaws can make a team better than it already was. Matt an 18 year old is starting his senior year of high school. He is the captain of the Raiders it seems as though he has everything in the world, good grades, girls, football, but when an event happens that could change his whole life. What is the captain suppose to do about it? “Should we have stopped it, he thought? Could we have?”

The main character, Mo reminds me a lot of myself. She is always set out for adventure and is the most confident person in town. Much like Mo, I think of myself to be a very outgoing person, and I always love a good adventure. I feel like the author wrote Mo to be a character that the reader can relate to. There are so many sides to her personality, and the ones that you share stand out more while reading the story.

The raiders night was taken place in a town called Nearmont takes us through the eyes of a football team and how flaws can make a team better than it already was. As a team they are able to overcome there problems. Matt an 18 year old is starting his senior year of high school. He is the captain of the Raiders

When Scout comes home from the first day of school, she is very upset with her new teacher, Ms. Caroline, who criticizes Scout for reading and upsetting her new teaching

Stephen starts to attend school and play baseball with his newly met friends. In the town resides an antagonist named Will Henry. Will is a bully, and he constantly gets Stephen and Jenny into trouble. One day, they fight off Will’s gang, and are forced to serve detention with Mr. Tuttle, the town’s teacher. Eventually, Stephen and Jenny decide to leave town, and circle around behind Will’s house and pull a prank on him. They shoot firecrackers in his backyard, and they scatter all his family’s livestock. What they thought would be a funny prank soon turned out to be lethal, and cause much devastation and destruction. This harmless prank was misinterpreted by the townsfolk to be an attack by the mysterious Fort Leonard. Settler’s Landing fears this community, and believes that they have spies, and they have bad motives. That night, Settler’s Landing citizens attacked Fort Leonard. In retaliation, the Fort hired slavers that attacked Settler’s Landing. A terrible war took place, and in the end tons of people were injured and many were killed. Among the killed included Will Henry himself. After the battle, Violet comes to inform Stephen that his father had not survived his injuries. Stephen buries him, and must learn to move on from his past life as a salvager. Instead, he decides to call Settlers Landing his home, and continues his new lifestyle.

Miles Halter, or “Pudge”, is a new student at a boarding school called Culver Creek. In the book there are two parts a “before” and “after”. While at Culver Creek he falls in love with a beautiful girl named Alaska. Miles begins to find out that the more and more he falls in love with her he finds out that her life isn’t a great as he thought it was. He finds out that she is more complex and gets thrown into mischief and lies. When the unthinkable happens Pudge and Chip, the Colonel, must find out what really happened to Alaska the last night they saw her.

He finally finds the courage to talk to Lara after Alaska's death and he plays a role in the greatest prank the Creek has ever done even before the death. Miles apologizes to Lara and Takumi. Miles won't ever lead anyone, but that's because his strengths are internal instead of external like the personality of the Colonel and Alaska. The Old Man also helps Miles's brain keep thinking. The lectures he gives in World Religions class often spark interest Miles has about life, death, and life after.

At school, Charlie finds a friend and mentor in his English teacher, Bill. He also overcomes his chronic shyness and approaches a classmate, Patrick, and his stepsister Sam, become two of Charlie's BFFs. Charlie’s new found friends – Sam, Patrick, Mary Elizabeth and Bob - aren't exactly popular and are outcasts themselves. They are all seniors and often hang out at the Big Boy except Bob who doesn't go to school.

In a previous entry, I said I connected to the Miles the most due to his personality traits of being quiet and reserved. Also, he was looking to build his own independence by being by himself. As I read through the book, I was able to gain a better insight of the characters and how they have evolved throughout the book. So far I have read one out of the two sections in the book (the book is split into the sections: before and after), and the text has been revealing important background information about the characters that helped them bloom into their current state of mind. Over time, a perspective on a character can change with more known knowledge about them. The author started to reveal their childhood experiences and that explains why the characters sustain the personality