Short Story About Moving Away

The story “Your Move” stood out to me the most because James and Isaac, the main characters of the story, left their house just because James was forcing Isaac to come with him to join the cool kids club. Also Isaac telling James to stop doing what he wanted to do and be like.

In life, especially as kids, we have choices to either be cool or respect our family's rules. In the story, “ Your Move” By Eve Bunting, the protagonist, James, has the choice to join the K- bones or keep the trust from his family. Therefore, he learns that caring more about his family is more important than caring about his so called “friends.”

The thing that kept Steven going was the thought that Jeffrey having cancer was going to be a mistake. During Jeffrey’s stay at the Philadelphia Children's hospital Steven was kept unnotified of how Jeffrey was doing. Apart of that he was getting no attention whatsoever from either of his parents. Steven felt forgotten and this brought anger. Through journals from Miss Palma’s class he wrote about how nobody had thought about how he was feeling about this situation. However when Jeffrey and his mother returned from Philadelphia Steven learned that the thoughts he had was wrong.

“Yes, well you have been stuck in Kallo, so it hasn’t had much to compete with. Just wait until I make you my favorite dinner—fried Crilieots,” smiled Flint.

“Chicken parmesan.” I replied, placing a pan on the stove. I move to get the spices out of the cabinet above my head and he moves with me. I giggle, then try to push him off. “Liam, I’m trying to cook.”

One day there was the new family moving into that one goes near or walk by. It was their first day in Douglas, Georgia. Their names were Tamesha Burch and Doran Burch, the dad. Jakobe Burch and Jamesha Burch, the twins, Doran Jr. Burch, their brother. They got out their cars and walked slowly into the house they opened the fence door. They walked on the stairs, they were creaking. Doran walked in first and yelled,’’Is anyone in here?’’ Everybody walked slowly behind him. They walked into the house and the door slammed behind them and they heard a loud screech from the backyard and went outside to see what it was………….there was nothing there. They walked farther out there a black cat jumped out of the bushes and limped towards the family and spurred on their leg. Doran asked,’’Can we keep him mom

But Santa added a little twist when it came his turn. The table not only moved, but switched ends in mid air. “Good,” Sly said, “Very good.” “Now please return to you seats at the table. Standing Sly looked at each one then sit down on their stools. “Gentlemen,” he said. “You have been taught this way to move things for only one reason." "And that is to help deliver presents on Christmas Eve.” It cannot be used to entertain others or to better position yourself."

“Whats for lunch today?” Maya had asked while rubbing her stomach. “I'm like so hungry right now!”

The year was 1994 and you had officially been with your boyfriend Tate for two years. You laid in his bed cuddling with him. He was talking to you about the world, his mother, his siblings, Kurt Cobain, and everything else. His voice had a calming effect on you and you thought anything he said would have relaxed you. “My mom gave me another speech about not knocking you up,” Tate said.

Before leaving the office, which was clearly designed by the driving force of the new Chief of Staff occupying it, which at a glance might have appeared to be more medical library than office; Katherine checked her watch for the time. It had been a long day and there were forty-eight more hours of it. God, she thought, would this day never end? But closing the door behind her, she put exhaustion aside and proceeded to take her place in line with the others – at the trough down the hall.

I picked up my heavy bag, intending to throw it over my shoulders but someone grabbed it from me before I could. I twirled around, intending to kick the thief before he could break through but he stopped me with ease.

The year was 1977, Marco had been dreaming of this day for as long as he could remember. Marco’s dream of digging a hole to China was soon to be fulfilled; although Marco’s dream was always thought as foolish by anyone he told. Marco was always persistent in whatever he put his mind to. Leading up to this day Marco had been preparing night and day, finding the best location to starting digging, and going over the formulas he had come up with to calculate how long it would take him. Marco left his small and cramped home in a lonely town seemingly in the middle of nowhere on his 25th birthday. He than traveled on foot, occasionally receiving a ride from a friendly stranger, to the location he had picked out years earlier .

“Hey, stop! This is the house” Gareth said loudly. The car screeched over to the side of the road, gravel spitting into the air. He got out of the car with the portfolio in hand. He always hated this part of his job; seeing the family’s faces when he tells them the news. He slowly starts the walk up the steps to the second story of the crummy apartment building. Maybe taking the girl from this place will actually be a blessing.

Ray charles always wanted to learn new things in his life from his mama. His mama taught him knew things like the numbers,alphabet,and how to spell words,and how to add and subtract. Mama gave him an advice. Rays mama wanted him to go to a school for the blind. But when she told Ray that he was leaving he was kind of sad. Ray told mama that he didn’t want to leave her.

It was Raoul, and I wished for him to go away. He knocked again then stuck his head around the door. ‘How are you?’ he asked with concern. Anger overcame me.