Short Story: Matty's Death In The Water

One time, Matt wanted some honey, so he foolishly decided to climb a tree and try to get honey from a bee hive, but that failed miserably and he fell into a river and was trapped in branches, but then Attean and his grandfather luckily saved him. Another time Attean helped him was while the time his family was gone, Matt struggled with collecting food, especially after Ben took his gun. So Attean showed him how to construct snares to catch all different types of animals. Then he was running out of food and clothes so the Indians helped him

In the book, Mattie starts out as a lazy teenager who needs to be told what to do by her over controlling mother, but throughout the story, she becomes more responsible and adult-like. For

At first Matt had no idea how to get in, until Ezperanza explained, “You can’t have two versions of the same person at the same time. … But when the original dies the copy takes its place.” (Farmer 367). Ezperanza was saying how Matt was El Parton and due to his DNA being identical to El Parton he could get in. Maria then asked, “Matt’s human?” and Ezperanza answered, “He always was.” (Farmer 367). Matt was never not human, instead he was a copy of someone, like a twin. Once Matt finally understood that he was human the whole time, he started to believe in himself much more. This made him confident, and made him realize that only he was capable of going in there due to his relation to El Patron, which means that he is the only one who able to put a stop to this insanity.

Matt is a middle class man who becomes obsessed with the need to get revenge on his son’s death. His son Frank is killed by a man named Richard. He is the husband and dads father of the women his son is in love with. This is what leads Matt into killing someone he wants pay back for his son death. Matt kills because he loves.

Although they are saying this in front of him, he stays positive. He entertains himself with the sawdust, and becomes friends with the bugs that start to live in the sawdust with him. He constantly thinks about Celia and Maria to stay happy and content with his new life.Matt stays positive by finding happiness in everything and not holding grudges. On page 147, Matt finds out that Rosa had been turned into an eejit because of the way she treated him. Instead of saying that she had it coming, he feels bad for her because she got the life sucked out of her body. Every time he got a horse, he would try to talk to her, to see if she would respond, but she never did. Finally, Matt made friends with people who believed him and believed that even though he was a clone, it didn’t matter, and this kept him

Mattie is a strong self confident mechanic, she pushes through the hardships and helps her friends do the same. Taylor arrives in Tucson, Arizona, with two flat tires, little to no money, and a small childtoddler given to her by a stranger. UMattie takes a look upon seeing Taylor,M having a rough time, Mattieshe invites her inside for some coffee and juice. (Chapter 3) When Mattie first meets Taylor, she sees that she is

When Mattie is to be sent away, Ethan and Mattie grow desperate looking for a way out of their impossible situation. They decide that it is better to die in a sledding accident together than live their lives apart. Ethan hesitates slightly, “But in a flash

Mattias saved his other by a boat across thin ice so she could get to the hospital. According to "Mattias Crossing", it states, "Just then the doctor cam into the waiting room... "Heard about your trip across the ice, Mattias. Your mothers lucky you were there to help her." The doctor knows how Mattias saved his mother, by going across the ice. Mattias never gave up to get his mother to the hospital. According to "Mattias Crossing", it states,

Mattie is now in the initiation step of the journey, where she will go through four parts; the first part is the challenges and the second is the abyss. Anywhere that Mattie went she faced challenges as how the hero’s journey’s writes, “Whichever direction the voyage takes… [she] puts [herself] more and more at risk, emotionally and physically…. always seem to strike the initiate’s greatest weakness: [her] poorest skills… [Her] most vulnerable emotions” (Harris and Thompson 51). A challenge that we see Mattie puts herself at risk and show her weakness is when see faces Tom Chaney and says,

While on the hunt for Tom Chaney, her father's killer, Mattie faced adversity in the face when she lost her arm, but for her sake, it was worth it. Mattie, Rooster, and LaBoeuf were on Tom's trail while chasing him through the woods and they finally caught up to him in the woods in the final battle scene. Earlier that morning, Mattie had shot Tom, winging him, but not killing him and he then took her back to Lucky Ned Pepper's gang's hideout. Later that afternoon, when Mattie shot him, the backspring of the gun knocked her into a pit of snakes and bats where she ended up breaking her arm and getting bitten by a rattler, but Tom Chaney was dead in the end. All though Mattie eventually had to get her arm aputated, losing her arm was definiteley

Finny is out of school for a while and Gene admits that he caused this on purpose and Finny is distraught about

Childhood drowning is the leading cause of death from unintentional injury. It has also been reported that in US, childhood drowning is the second leading cause of death among 1-19 years of children and adolescents (Brenner et.al, 2001).

SPLASH! and GOOOO! Seemed to be the only noise I could hear, but I wasn't the one swimming. Why was I there? It seemed like everyone I knew was swimming but I was here with a broken nose. This was one of the saddest days ever and felt like nothing was worse than not swimming. I was just hoping someone or something could cheer me up. It was a sunny day at Woodley Gardens pool and it was my first year on swim meet. When I was 6 during the summer of 2010, I was at the pool for a swim meet that my sister was in but I could not swim because I had broke my nose. It was a very warm day with a little bit of wind. It was very shaded where I sitting because their are a lot of trees at my pool. I was new so I did not know anyone. I was just sitting there doing nothing I was bored out of my mind. I had nothing to do, I really wished to could just swim. The doctor said maybe in like 2 weeks. Suddenly, the strangest thing happened to me, two girls came up to me. I was kind of scared for some reason. I had no idea why they were coming up to me.