Slower Than The Rest Analysis

In the story "The Scarlet Ibis" by James Hurst a young handicapped by is born with a large head, a small body, and a weak heart. As time goes on, Doodle overcomes many obstacles with the help of his older brother.

“Running nicely” is a short story written by Morris Lurie, about two orphan brothers: the protagonist, Moses, a twenty-two years old young man and the antagonist, Ben, his younger brother. The story is set during the night at ten PM, in the streets in suburban Melbourne. When the two brothers are running, Moses realizes he has difficulty accepting that Ben is getting older, and that his younger brother is now running faster than him. The author suggests that family relationships after a loss may result in being abnormal and can have consequences on one’s development and behavior. The author effectively conveys this theme through his use of characterization, narrative point of view and irony.

Lindsay Futch, Georgia Southern, penned this response to “Why I Didn’t Rush,” an article by Lorena Roberts that appeared on The Odyssey in 2016.

This modern world lives on people helping other people. The stories “Raymond’s Run” and “Everything Will be Okay” are two completely different stories, as one is about a boy who finds and helps a kitten, and the other is about a girl who like to run and looks out for her brother. Both stories share a common theme, however. The authors, Toni Cade Bambara and James Howe, respectively, both show that it’s more important to help others than yourself.

Turtle Wexler is a Thirteen year old girl who is feisty, pretty bratty, but very smart. She has pretty long braided hair She lives in a family with lots of different personalities. Her dad’s a bookie, her sister is marrying a doctor, and her mom is just…. Yeah we’ll just leave at that! Turtle loves kicking people in the shins, and she loves her long braided hair, she will not let anyone touch them. What she doesn’t like is when her mom treats her unfairly, and when she treats angela way nicer. Well, that’s Turtle!

As the old saying goes, “You don’t know what you have until it’s gone,” could also be related to the short story ‘The Scarlet Ibis’ by James Hurst about a disabled child and his brother, the narrator. The narrator was incredibly selfish and too filled of pride to realize that his brother’s life was a series of close calls all due to his own selfish desires. Doodle, being severely disabled, was only alive because of the persistent love and cruelty from his brother. The narrator’s main goal was to change Doodle to act like the other kids, only so he wouldn’t get embarrassed that his brother couldn’t walk. This ended up being non-stop training sessions, leaving the narrator filled with overwhelming pride. Throughout the story the brother’s feelings towards Doodle evolved in a major way, from hate and disgust, to embarrassment, and finally to love.

In the short story, “Scarlet Ibis” by James Hurst there holds an empty casket. William Armstrong is a little boy that’s expected to die as an infant because of his rare heart condition. According to his doctor, he would never be able to walk or take care of himself, everyone thought he was going to die at birth. After he was three months old and hadn’t died yet, his parents decided to name him William Armstrong, but his brother thought was a tombstone name. At two, they laid him on his stomach; he would overwork himself terribly trying to move. His doctor said it would over work his heart too much and he could die, but it still did not kill him. He finally learned how to crawl, and when he did he would crawl backwards. His brother said he looked like a “doodlebug”, he became known as Doodle. Doodle was living his life in a haven, because it seemed like he could not do anything with the conditions given to him. His older brother was sick and tired of it. He wanted a brother who he could play with, and it was as if he was ashamed of him. Brother decided to take matters into his own hands and concludes that he’s going to teach Doodle how to walk and run. One day, he pushes Doodle far past his abilities and thinks that Doodle can handle running for a long period of time. After Doodle’s brother ran away, Doodle had a heart attack. That Saturday before the first day of school, Doodle demonstrated persistence and he was audacious, but he was also fragile.

The benchmarking data is used when you want to compare your fitness tests. This data is gathered from a number of studies that allows you to see a normal range of results and allows you to make a judgement against a data that you have collected. Data will be generally put into a number of categories, including age and gender, which means that you will be able to compare your results with similar groups. Benchmarking data can also be used to compare your results with elite sports performers. By using benchmarking data you will be able to develop a fitness plan including target setting.

The story tells the audience that a wolf tries to trick a turtle into a race that should be impossible for a turtle to win. How could a turtle that is slow and small beat a wolf? Faced with this adversity, the turtle quickly realizes he can use assistance from other turtles to win the impossible race against the wolf. The little turtle finds help from other turtles and strategically places them in a position that maximizes his speed without ever having to run. This parable has taught many generations how to accomplish the unimaginable by thinking out of the

“I wanted to race algernon some more but Burt said thats enough for one day. They let me hold him for a minit. Hes not so bad,” (Keyes 120). Charlie Gordon has a good heart, but a very low intelligence. In Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes, Charlie Gordon is eager for a surgery that will hopefully triple his IQ and make him much more intelligent than the average man. After Charlie gets his operation, he meets a lab animal, a mouse named Algernon, who has had the same operation that Charlie had. Dr. Strauss, the man who started this all, has Charlie and Algernon race to solve mazes that measure Charlie's intellectual growth, which increases proving the operation successful. Daniel Keyes focused on multiple craft moves: simile, foreshadow, and personification to give the reader a way to associate the story with ways that they can relate to.

This is a book about love -- not only human love for an animal, but the love of a parent for a child, a man for his home, and a special love between two animals. Billy's family is extremely close-knit. His mother teaches Billy and his two sisters to read and write because the school is too far away, and when he turns eleven. Billy's father lets him help out in the fields. To complete the happy nest. Grandpa lives right down the road, and has the family over every Sunday afternoon for supper. There is security in this atmosphere of love. After leaving home for three days to pick up the puppies, Billy's mother breaks down and cries at his return -- this is punishment enough for Billy, and he

Through this story, the author shows how difficult life can be, not everyone has the possibility to live a quiet adolescence, sometimes you have just to grow up faster, be responsible and make difficult decisions from which depends the rest of your life.

“Shells” by Cynthia Rylant is a realistic short story about a fourteen year old boy who learns to live with his Aunt Esther and to live with change. In the beginning, Michael is a lonely boy that has no parents because they died. So he lives with his Aunt Esther who does not like Micheal. But ends up bonding a relationship with Michael. Soon, Michael decides to bring a hermit crab home with him one day. His Aunt does not really like the hermit crab but she lets him keep it because she wants Michael to be happy. In the end, Aunt Esther is trying to make Michael not as lonely by playing with the hermit crab and buying more crabs. She wants to have a relationship with Michael because she knows that his a having a hard time making friends at school

If you were given the opportunity to slow your childhood down and keep the freedom of youth, you would right? It’s not quite as easy for the main character of the story, The Moustache, written by Robert Cormier. This short story read by the 8th grade class consisted of a 17 year old boy named Mike who insisted on growing a moustache. He went to visit his grandma in her nursing home, and she thought Mike, her grandson, was her husband, because of the moustache he had and the older man look it gave him. Due to this, Mike realized that there is no reason to rush growing up and he should live his free life as long as possible. The author of this thought provoking text uses author’s craft techniques such as symbolism and word choice to reveal the theme, childhood and the freedoms that come with it, should not be rushed but savored.

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