Terrence And Jerry's Short Stories

In the book, the Truth About Stories, Thomas King sheds light on the power of stories. King explicitly enforces that one must take caution in the way he or she tells a story, since it will shape one’s thoughts, decision-making and future (2). Through the use of literature, King weaves his way through native history, anecdote by anecdote, informing his readers about the importance of storytelling. “Stories are wondrous things,” the author writes. “And they are dangerous.” (9). To prove this, King mentions two creation stories; the differences in these stories is the way in which they are told. The first is a famous native story called, “the woman who fell from the sky”; this story is told in a complex, persuasive way (10-20). This story discusses a society emphasizing the value of cooperation as the animals work together to create a better world (21-22). The second story, a Judeo-Christian biblical story, describes a Western Capitalist society. It is told in a historical, punitive and direct fashion, underlining a society of boundaries and punishment. King highlights that storytelling is not just simply telling a story, rather it is how the stories are told. King uses these particular stories to show how different stories shape people’s perspectives, which impacts their ideas, thoughts and decision making. Therefore he addresses how sensitive storytelling may be, for once a story is told, it can never be taken back (10). This is true in all realms of life, cautioning

What makes you different then someone else? Do you really believe that someone is different than you by the way they look? do we believe this to be true? Who’s to say we aren’t all the same? While undefined I think it is crazy how they are treated.

Over the past month our class have read short stories about African Americans during and after slavery. In the short stories that we have read each victim experienced a dark time in their lives, but each person experienced it a little bit differently. Each person somehow seemed to overcome their adversity to achieve their goals, which they became a better person for their ancestors who suffered. Three stories that caught my attention the most was The Wife of his youth, Incidents in the life of a slave girl, and Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglas. Each story the author identifies a theme or gives an idea to the readers. The short stories that I have selected, all of the stories have similar themes such as slavery, but each story

Trading blows for blows, Yuri managed to hold her own against them. Managing to avoid each strike, Yuri looked for an opening, trying to even her odds. Sabra used her vines once again, aiming them in Yuri’s direction. The vines entangled around Yuri’s legs, dropping her to the ground. Malessica’s body remained coated with concrete, enlarging her fist on the downed opponent. Yuri rolled out of the way, creating a blade to cut the vines off of her legs. Gaining some distance, she created an assault rifle, aiming at Malessica. Firing away at her, Malessica formed another scutum style shield. Malessica noticed the power of Yuri’s aura increasing, seeing her shield crumbling by the second.

While listening to the StoryCorps stories, three of the five that I chose to focus on all have something in common. Each story depicts in some sort of way that hard work goes a long way in life. The stories I listen to were, “Anytime they had a stunt to do with a black actor, they would paint these white guys in blackface.” “The way that I look at my job as a vendor, I am a professional athlete.” and “All of a sudden Dr. King drove down the street.” These three stories showed that when you work hard, good things come to you. The “black actors” story talked about two men who wanted to become stuntmen for real actors. These two men were rejected from many films but continued practicing in parks, and on the streets. They would dive off park bleachers

Sitting upon ammunition creates Col. Sanders smoked a cigarette. Looking up at the sky he thought to himself “ If this weather doesn't clear we won’t be hitting the beaches today my company ain’t going to like this.” “Colonel” pant…..pant “ We just got word that one of the big wheels called it in it’s about time to hit the beach.” Col. Sander slowly looked up, standing above him was Brooklyn nobody knew why they called him that, as far as he could tell he wasn't even from New York. “Hey Brooklyn check out that mitt flopper.” said Col. Sanders. Brooklyn looked and saw a Pvt. yes siring a sargent. Brooklyn replied “ He ain’t going anywhere.” Brooklyn walked away going to get ready for the invasion as he walked he seen that people had the book

One of the rioters said "you know you could trust me like a brother." Then the rioter says "You see we are two, and two are twice as powerful as one." Then the two rioters start to plan away to kill the youngest one so they could have more gold to themselves. They come up with a plan to play fight with him and then kill him. The youngest one couldn't

Even Casper has days where he can't summon the energy to say boo from under the doona. And sometimes Inky, Pinky, Blinky and Clyde – oh Clyde – just don't feel like chasing Pacman, 'cause maybe it would be nice if Pacman asked a question or two about them once in a while. Giving Clyde and Casper a run for their money is Sad Ghost Club. Created by Lize Meddings and Laura Cox, it's a place and products for all those not feeling happy. The pair met when they both had stalls at art events – Meddings was selling her illustrations, and Cox, a baker, would sell cakes. Meddings had drawn a comic about leaving the 'sad ghost club'. The sad ghost represented the rough time she was going through, and what was initially a deeply personal comic soon evolved

As my clammy hands were resting on my uncontrollably shaking legs, I was patiently waiting for someone to come out and tell me how Cierra was doing. What started off as a normal twelve year old sleepover, turned into a trip to the emergency room in a split second.

Craigslist is known for housing some of the creepiest people on the internet, but since its inception, the process of weeding through the weirdos has gotten much easier. To remind you that it's still not totally safe, here are five of the creepiest Craigslist stories. Proceed with caution, as they might cause you to lose your faith in humanity completely.

Jerry tell the truth that he doesn't have a mother. That he lie to the narrator that he really doesn't had a mother. So the narrator adopted Jerry. So jerry is now happy that the narrator adopted him. After that they they went to the city.Jerry went to school to learn like math,language art and science. Jerry got A in all classes. So Jerry was successful and pass 6th grade and the narrator is happy that she adopted Jerry.

On the cusps of the changing writing styles of American authors, Philip Roth is viewed as the leader in Jewish writings. Roth’s very realistic writing portrays the Jews as he views them in both their strengths and weaknesses. The distinct background and surroundings in which Roth grew up laid the framework for which the reader can view in his writings. Roth’s Jewish household shows where the Judaism in his writings originates from but the realist approach to his writings demonstrate the present day writing style. “Defender of the Faith” appears in Goodbye, Columbus and Five Other Short Stories, one of Roth’s best collections of stories and his first published set of stories. In Roth’s short story, Sergeant Nathan Marx is returning from a tour

In the world of baking appoints two out of many great leaders by the names of Gaston Lenotre (age 88) and Lionel Poilane (age 57). Chef Lenotre and Chef Poilane like many others were born into a family of Chefs. Although they were apart of great new methods of pastry cooking, it is also understood that a team of other professional cooks/chefs helped to make dreams of these two chefs come true. These were indeed two true legends that helped shape the life of pastry then and now. As the research goes on the interesting points of these men will be revealed (in a good way). The ages mentioned prior to, are the ages that they had lived to see and within that time frame were able to open the eyes of upcoming pastry professionals, also even to their

One Day Tom, Huck, Jim, and Howard were playing tag in an open wheat field south west of town. Until the chasing of one another led to the north end of road linking town to the wide and beautiful Mississippi river. The dirt road was as red as Jim’s red coat and smelt just like a horse’s ass. Because of the horse crap all along the age old dirt road. That’s when Howard stated that his mother told him not to go past the road but Huck and Jim convinced him it would be okay to head further north into the forest. 5 minutes after heading into the forest, the boys had found a huge stick pile. Huck then took out his pocket knife and said “well?... Let’s get to carving.” So then all the boys proceeded to carve out wooden knifes, spears, rings, and

Love has no bounds it has the power to destroy or make you stronger. The short story Beginners written by Raymond Carver differentiates between different ideas about love by recollecting characters personal experiences. After reading, it becomes apparent that being in love makes one vulnerable. This venerability can either be looked at positive or negative characteristic. When the characters bring up their involvements with love it become clear that in all the situations the commonality is venerability. One character who specifically struggle with the idea of love inflicting vulnerability is Herb.