Personal Narrative: What It Means To Put An End To Fight

On January 3, 2009 around 11:00 PM the phone rang with what I thought was exciting news about my newly born sister, Tristyn ,but quickly turned to horror. I could heard the fright in my dad's shaken voice as he told me Tristyn had to go into immediate heart surgery because she needed a stent to open up the blood flow to her heart. Being eight at the time the only thing I could think about was how she might not make it. My dad said to me “look after your sisters, and tell them nothing about the surgery”, which terrified me more than before. I knew I needed to be brave and take charge of the situations for my sisters. Bravery is something I learned for a situation I never knew would happen.

On top of that, not only does Joe face physical consequences from the war, but Joe also suffers mentally from the war. In the explosion Joe not only loses his arms and legs but he also loses his sight, hearing, and throat. This leaves Joe with difficulties communicating and unable to move himself. Joe has no one to keep him company as he lays in bed day after day, not even knowing when it is day or when it is night. Joe struggles with this mentally and this leads him to go into a mentally unstable state.Joe has to overcome these obstacles of not being able to tell time and not being able to communicate, but this takes time and in the meantime Joe starts to suffer mentally. Joe ends up spiralling into a dark hole where he gives up on hopes of life and he wishes that someone would come and kill him. Not only is Joe suffering mentally because of his isolation but throughout the war he has seen a lot of gruesome deaths and treatments of bodies after the person is killed. All of the images he saw during the war as people were killed and left for animals take a toll on someone's mental state. Unlike most people Joe isn’t able

He does not understand why his own mother would do such a thing to him. During this moment, Joe begins to transition from precociousness to the confrontation stage. After he kills his mother, he is confronted by Shola, who tells him that his mother is good and she is not the devil. Joe arrives at the Church with his mother’s body being carried in his arms. He lays her at the alter and begins to pray for forgiveness and to say his final goodbyes. His father rudely suggests that he removes Nunu’s body from the church. Joe’s will for his mother and his emotions got the best of him when he confronted his father about the truth and him being his child. Joe was intensely outraged and sat the church on fire burning himself and his father. At the moment of Joe’s death, Joe was in the internalization stage of black consciousness. Joe began to have positive attitudes about his mother’s culture and beliefs.

Upon realizing his error, he calls the restaurant only to find the briefcase is no longer there. Joe immediately contacts Kenneth Colbert, who must then let the employees who’s information was stolen know what has taken place.

He did it, then he wanted to burn her inside the place. But his matches got wet. He went over the hill and down toward the lake for dry matches. I told them exactly how my mother had escaped,” (63). Joe seeked out to the round house to where the attack happened and explained what he thought happened, Joe was trying to figure out who was the attacker at this

One saturday night as megan was putting her son to bed the son wanted to know what his father did as a job. So jeff started the long story about how nasa now hates him. The reason nasa hates jeff is that he got into a fight with the head of nasa because they wouldn't let him take his baseball gloves to mars. The reason they wouldn't let him take his baseball gloves to mars is that they made of leather and could have some biological disease and it would also cost nasa 10,000 dollars to send his three baseball gloves up to mars. So when jeff got home that night he told his mom whom was reading the paper about how he wanted to take his baseball gloves to mars the

Inside the DMS someone opens a secure crate that was filled with pathogen experiments, they get out and start attacking the guards and scientists. Then Joe and his team go to release of the new liberty bell to protect the First Lady. While they’re there the liberty bell was armed with darts that contain the pathogen in them, so Joe has to chase down El Mujahid. But when he gets there he finds Ollie, one of his team members, laying on the ground while Skip, another echo team member, was standing next to El Mujahid and admits to being the mole. This really hit Joe hard

The past war experiences that continue to haunt Joe attribute to the recurring anti-war statement. Joe being haunted by his war experiences is evident from the relief he feels from not having to hear the noises of war anymore once he realized he has gone death. Joe comes to the realization that his hearing loss may be bearable by making the statement “He never wanted to hear the biting little castanet sound of a machine gun or the high whistle of a .75 coming down fast or the slow thunder as it hit or the whine of an airplane

After the realization overcomes Joe, he is able to piece together more and more what reality has in store for his future. He knows that he can’t live a normal life, but he just wants to be able to experience being outside, away from the prison that he is trapped in for the rest of his life. When he is finally able

A sequence of events leads up to Joe becoming almost completely isolated from the outside world. During his time in the isolated continent, Joe becomes addicted to narcotics; he escapes his pain and anguish by succumbing to detached and paralyzed state of mind. Throughout his journey in this secluded continent, he is faced with his hatred of the Germans and his desire to enact vengeance upon them for all that he has lost. When he meets a German geologist exploring the frozen tundra, he inadvertently kills him. Joe experiences ironic feelings of remorse after so many years spent obsessing over the destruction of the Germans. There was no gratification or fulfillment, for Joe, in the German man’s death. Joe felt repulsed and an abhorrence in himself for his

Part of the begining conflict was for Joe to find out that he was really hurt and what actually happened to him.

Johnny and shoved him. After shoving him Joe ran off Johnny told the principal. The principal called Joe's parents and he got in trouble. Later Johnny drove home with a smirk on his face. When he was on his way home he was delayed. He finally got home and took a nice soaking bath. The next morning he went to the bank and loaned some money.When Johnny was driving home he

While the kids were taking a test at a quarter after 11, I could see someone unusual outside carrying a bomb. "Who is that?" I asked. "I don't know, but he has a bomb!" Another student said. "Mr. Maneman, can I have a pass?" I asked. "Yes, but make it quick." He said. I ran up to the office to tell the staff that there is a person outside with a bomb. They looked out the window and saw him. "Ring

The whole time they were growing up he was the only thing that stayed the same in his ever-changing life. “… but it was the only childhood I was going to get. And Joe was just about the beginning and end of it. And now somebody had killed him. I sat there in the back of the police Chevorlet listening to a tiny voice in my head asking me what hell I was going to do about it.

Joe resolved to kill Joanna in order to escape her. “He believed with calm paradox that he was the