Marble Champ Quotes

Peyton Scott is a junior Husky who has been on CHHS Varsity Track Team for two years. She loves track because her parents inspired her to pursue it, and her dad is actually the varsity coach. Her goal is to continue being on varsity for her senior year and run for her dream college, which is anywhere in Southern California. If she's not at track practice, her favorite place to run is in her lovely neighborhood. Running on the track for her two hours practices really help her find her weaknesses and strengths. One of her favorite routines is running two miles a day. Peyton has learned to pursue her goals and always believe in

In the book the Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls The advice that the Dad gives his children could get them in trouble.One quote that supports this is “Dad had always said that self-defense was a justifiable reason for shooting someone.” This quote is interesting to me because this is a girl that is barely eight years old and is being questioned by the police about neighbors hearing gunshots, and she said it was in self defense. But she didn’t need to shoot the gun at all, first off Billy was shooting them with a BB Gun, and three of them were safe undercover behind a table, and the fourth child made it upstairs, they could have waited for him to get tired of shooting or run out of BB’s. But the way their father brought them up, gave them the

Adversity is a difficult or unpleasant situation. The quote “Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant” by the Roman poet Horace this quote is to be agreed with. The meaning of that quote is when something difficult occurs in life, it will reveal characteristics you didn’t know about yourself. To start, in Mexican Whiteboy by Matt De La Pena, shows that the main character, Danny, is struggling in life at the beginning of the book.

The first way they stay determined and work hard throughout the story is they both stay determined. Lupe stays determined in one way because she is determined to win the championship and secondly, she stays determined

         “The screw through Cinder’s ankle had rusted, the engraved cross marks worn to a mangled circle”(1). And that's my favorite quote from Cinder by Marissa Meyer. This science fiction book is a 5.8 level. I suggest this book to you if you like science fiction books but with a little twist on it.

"When Roger came to the neck of land that joined the Castle Rock to the mainland he was not surprised to be challenged… 'Halt! Who goes there?'"

The Glass Castle In The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, the family is having some struggles and problems managing them. It’s normal for a family to go through some problems and its brave of Jeannette to take part as a leader of the family. One quote that leads me to believe, Jeannette and her siblings will have to step up and act as adults, is “Dad had taken to disappearing for days at a time. When I asked him where he’d been his explanations would either so vague or so improbable that I would stop asking” (Walls 171).

They say the apple doesn't fall far from the tree, and Rodman Philbrick’s, Freak the Mighty, proves this quotes wrong magnificently through friendship, emotions, and destiny. All throughout the book the reader will get to see how judging someone on their appearance and heredity can truly change a person’s life, except with this book it is shown through a young boy named Maxwell Kane (the main character) and his best friend, Kevin as they go through many life changing adventures together. The reader will find themselves learning lessons that will change their own lives as they see Max conquering his problems of loneliness, neglect, and worry. Because the beginning of Max’s life was full of such things, he was taught to believe them and become

As Henry Miller once said, “Chaos is the score upon which reality is written” (“Chaos Quotes”). Miller seems to believe that no matter what actions we take, the world is destined to return to chaos. He seems to be right. Today’s world has been overrun by social issues such as hunger, segregation and depression. While government programs everywhere take action to prevent these issues, their efforts are futile. The truth is, to prevent these social issues, the world must kill the seed from which they grow. In Jeannette Walls’ book, The Glass Castle, she perfectly demonstrates how one social issue can become a source of many others. In the book, Jeannette’s father

The Glass Castle, a both heart throbbing and emotional story written by Jeanette Walls shares her life through her child eyes. Walls grew with a different lifestyle than what we would normally see today. A family that isn’t much of a family but is a sense of stability and security to her. Throughout her life her family has been through hunger, unstable homes, a drunk father and very little of outer family relationships. She struggled along with her brother and sister but with free-spirited parents for her that is all she needed.

The story ´´The Marble Champ´´ shows this because when Lupe was in the marbles competition it says everybody was easy to beat because she had practiced so hard. Furthermore, after the first time Lupe practiced it got easier every time.´´Practice, practice, practice, squeeze, squeeze, squeeze. Lupe got better...´´ This evidence shows, that after hard work things can get easier as you go along. I think Lupe realized this after she played at the marbles championship because everybody she played against was easily beat for her. And she realized this after she beat Alfonso, the neighborhood champ, she also realized that things can get easier after she practiced a few days and she got better and better. Therefore, marbles got easier for her every time she did it. She learned that her hard work payed

Arthur Ashe was captain of the U.S Davis cup tennis team and was awarded into the hall of fame in tennis. He once said “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” This quote means like for instances start where you are is liking accept of what you have and go on from there

In the story “Marble Champ” by Gary Soto the main character Lupe is determined because she works hard, is persistent,and above all she never gives up.

“When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”

“Don’t worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try.”