Sammy 's P.o. V. She Reached Out And Touched His Hand

I woke up this morning and something wasn’t right. I looked below my bunk. Matt was there sleeping happily and soundly. I then tried to get out of my bunk. Once I got down, my head felt light headed. My stomach was doing turns and I felt like I could be sick at any moment. I went to the bathroom and I looked like a ghost. I then decided to get ready for the day. I grabbed a pair of neon green jeans and a baggy black t-shirt. Next I went to the coach and laid there until everyone else got up. Chris got up an hour later and he was happy and cheery as usual. Suddenly I heard someone running to the bathroom. I got up and knocked on the door. I opened the door and that’s all I remember.

After Tea Cake ignores all the preemptive warnings of the approaching Hurricane Okeechobee, Janie gets trapped in a flood in the Everglades with a rabid dog. Witnessing this event, Tea Cake risks his life and jumps into the water to save Janie from this beast. Afterwards, Janie tells Tea Cake, “Once upon uh time, Ah never 'spected nothin', Tea Cake, but bein' dead from standin' still and tryin' tuh laugh. But you come 'long and made somethin' outa me. So Ah'm thankful fuh anything we come through together.” (Hurston 167). Janie’s quote demonstrates her gratitude to Tea Cake, who was the only person to truly treat Janie as an equal. By following Nanny’s ideals, Janie lived most of her life neglected in various ways by both Logan and Joe. However, when she finally abandoned Nanny’s dream and met her own needs by marrying Tea Cake, she experienced happiness for the first time. The life of security with little emotional fulfillment deeply contrasts with Janie’s new life with Tea Cake. Finally, she is able to experience true love instead of living as a mule under Joe and Logan, both of whom tried to shape Janie to fit their own personal needs instead of treating her as an equal . Although Nanny wanted to secure Janie’s life by marrying her off to a respected, landowning man, this resulted in unintended consequences that restricted her freedom and harmed her well being. Unlike

Final minutes of the first half winding down, my team was marching down the field with a purpose. Across the gridiron was our rival team, Mayfield, who we had beat the previous year in the state championship game. It was a cold November night and the stage was set, playing on their home field, “The Field of Dreams,” in Las Cruses, New Mexico in the semi-finals of the state tournament. Up 14-0, we had the ball and were trying to score before going into halftime. I was handed the ball for a running play and then it happened. Falling to the ground as if I had been shot, I had completely torn my hamstring. I was in complete shock as I lay on the ground. As the pain

So when Tea Cake asks her to go hunting with him, he is stepping away from the normal and being who he wants. Tea Cake also let’s Janie pick beans. Janie is from a place where the woman sit and look pretty. The days before Tea Cake asks her, he is always stopping by the house to check up on her. A couple days later, Tea Cake stopped by the house and said, “Janie, Ah gits lonesome out dere all day ‘thout yuh.

     I started to walk across the street to my friend Lacey’s house. Lacey lives just outside Detroit, but like my family, her family comes to the cape for the summer. Our families’ have been friends for about 10 years, but we normally don’t see or talk to each other during the year, only summertime seems to bring us together. Traditionally Lacey and I leave for the beach together,

After dis, you betta come git uh job uh work out dere”(334). Unlike in her relationship with Joe Tea Cake wants Janie to work with him and always be with her even if it means that she will be working in the muck. Tea Cake truly loves and cares about Janie, and she does back. Jaine’s content with her relationships and perspective on love has changed immensely while she is with Tea Cake. She now sees love as a wonderful and beautiful

It was a cool saturday morning in february, as I was violently woken up by my alarm clock. I rose out of my bed, and started preparing for my championship hockey game later that day. I got up out of bed and refreshed myself as I stretched. I grabbed my dress shirt and my dress pants and went to my parents room to iron my clothes. Not knowing that the iron was already on and hot, I picked up the iron. The iron fell on my foot, and I frantically grabbed it off the floor. I hoped that it wouldn’t start a fire. My foot was burning with pain. I knew in my head that today was going to be a struggle. Unfortunately, it had to be on the same day of my league championship game.

​The world spun as I got up off the ground, it felt like someone had hit me in the back of the head with a sledge hammer. I knew the play had moved down the field but I could not find it. The seconds seemed to take years to pass me by. I think I spun in a circle three or four times to find the huddle forming around the goal line for the field goal attempt. I half jogged, half stumbled my to the huddle barely keeping myself on my feet. I put my hand in the dirt, and watched the ball sail through the uprights. I miraculously made it back to the sideline, where the trainer could see that I was struggling just to stand. She made me sit on the bench and put me

It was a warm and sunny day. The bleachers were filled with people tentatively watching and cheering on the athletes. I sat anxiously chewing on my nails, awaiting the result of the 3rd down. I watched as my favorite athlete caught the ball and began running down the sideline. I jumped up on my feet screaming at the top of my lungs "Go, Go, Go". He ran past the 50 yard line. My heart began beating so fast, I thought it was going to jump out of my chest and land on my lap. Then he ran down the 40 yard line. My eyes started to sting because I refused to blink and miss one second. 30. My hands started trembling anxiously. 20. I started to feel the excitement bubble in the pit of stomach. 10. My breathing started getting heavier. TOUCHDOWN!!!!! The athlete spiked the ball and began doing a victory dance. The crowd went absolutely wild. I was so ecstatic, I started to jump up and down.

I walked to it, and all the sudden I was in a white jersey, and it read elite. The arena was wooden floor, and many many fans were filling the seats. I was wondering still where I was. I seen many of the NBA superstars like Stephen Curry, Russell Westbrook, and Lebron James on the sideline seats. My name was finally called over from somewhere. It was the bench with all other white jerseys in a huddle. I ran over to the huddle, and seen many of the NBA rookies like D 'angelo Russell, Karl Anthony Towns, and Jahlil Okafor. I gathered in the huddle, and our coach was speaking about our game plan. I was so confused on where I was still. Until D 'angelo Russell announced, “welcome to my career!” My eyes opened so wide with a surprised face. The scoreboard went off which told us the game was about to begin.

I am the edge guy so I have to make sure he does not cut back. Therefore I go around the edge and start chasing him. I am about to get the tackle when one of his teammates trips me in an attempt to block me. I fall towards the returner head first. My helmet hits his left thigh, everything just goes silent. The next thing I know, I see my coaches standing over me waving their hands and I see their mouths moving, but all I hear is this ringing in my ear. When I finally am able to hear them they are asking if I am okay and if I can get up and walk. As I get up to start walking to the sideline, my coaches are holding on to me just in case I fall. Then all of a sudden I feel this burning sensation on the right side of my neck. I reach up to touch it and there is blood all over my hand. I had lacerated my neck by hitting my helmet on the returners thigh so hard that my it jolted to one side.

Everything was gone I went to my parents room and my brothers room and there was nothing there. I just thought they could be playing a trick on me, so I just went to my bedroom and got ready for school, as i walked down stairs and the furniture was all back where it had been the night before. I thought maybe I had just imagined the stuff being gone, so I got breakfast and started walking to school. I went to school and was trying to focus on nothing but the game, but it was hard because of what had happened this morning. It was so strange that one moment everything is gone then the next it’s all there. During PE I talked to my coach about what I had learned the night before from watching the film, I explained to him how the D end on the weak side was slow to react to a read play coming straight at him, and the strong safety liked to blitz around the edge so we could just dump it right were he would have been. He thought that would be a great idea to do if I could audibel into it on the field. To prepare for the game I drank two gallons of water throughout the day. The wait for the game made it seem like it would never come, but I knew when it did I would be ready. I just couldn’t get the thought of what had happened later that morning out of my mind, and I had a head splitting headache. The game was about to start know we were out on the

The chills creep up my spine, uncomfortably I notice every single person there was watching my every move. We were going head-to-head with the Vikings, they did very well at intimidating our team to death, but inside I knew we could try. They had some tall buffy people that didn't seem afraid that our dignity was high and on the line. We couldn't waste it here, right now. Next, a loud Screech the referee blew her whistle, and at that moment we knew it was time. We played as if it was the Olympics, even though it was just for fun.Then, the ball went all over the court back and forth meanwhile the crowd screaming, cheering, and excitedly saying, “Go Huskies!”

She could still feel the shoes pulling at her grasp. ‘Then it’s okay.’ He reached across and touched her hand. ‘It wasn’t me, Dad. It was something else, like someone was moving my arms and making me talk’ His lips thinned.

The crowd was roaring like wild animals. Our teams had switched sides to start the second match and everything came into focus then. I could hear individual people cheering in the crowd, the student section was going nuts. The smell of the butter coming from the popcorn at the concession stands suddenly stood out to me. Most importantly, I could feel the yearning and the passion coming from my teammates. We wanted this win–bad. I was one of the leading hitters on the team and it was my job to produce the big hits for the team and motivate them to take everything the other team would hit at us. We started the second game and things were still going well for us! It wasn’t a fluke! We were playing well because we were working hard. If we didn’t hit hard they were going to pound it down, we couldn’t let up. So when our setter set me up and I saw out of the corner of my eye a triple block I knew I had to get it through their hands, but the ball was behind my head. In that split second I made a decision that changed my life forever. I swung away and I felt my shoulder pop and then the worst pain of my life went through my entire arm. I grabbed it right away knowing something was wrong. I’ve never felt pain like this in a game before. In that moment I knew that was the one. Every player knows what it’s like to get hurt. You get sprained ankles and sprained knees all the time, but this was the injury I knew had been coming to me. I looked up at my parents in the crowd and they knew too. Something was wrong.