The Stormchasers

“And the winner is”, the host of the show exclaimes as we all gasp, and to our surprise the channel switched and a worried weatherman says, “We would like to interrupt this broadcast to give you a weather alert. A tornado is coming so get in your basement and……”. And the power is out! You have got to be kidding me, I thought, that was the worst timing ever. But my anger disappeared as we started to gather supplies for the basement. “There’s already running water”, I hear her say to my dad as she gets up to go to the kitchen.

about her son’s well-being, and seems to feel guilty that she urged him to make the trip,

How does the storm help set in motion the action of the story? List the events caused by the storm.

Because the father was so involved with himself, he did not make the time or put the effort to develop a proper relationship with his son.

This story also paints the picture of a father who would not give up on regaining his time with his son. It shows the father desperately trying to rectify the mistrust issues he created because he stated to the boy when they were sitting in the diner after the highway patrol redirected them away from the snow-covered route home that she would never forgive him if he did not get the boy home for

Several things that happen in this book are a result of what the father and son do in their relationships for

The son however is the ‘faith’ within the story. He is the hope for a better future. The son is more trusting towards others and therefore becomes upset and quiet when his father doesn’t agree with him. “I’m afraid for that little boy” – The son has never seen another young boy and is frightened for him but his father shrugs off his pleas to help him and says “I know but he’ll be alright”. Towards the end of the book it appears that the father and his son become distant to each other due to their diverse personalities. It could however be seen that the son is a lot more knowledgeable about dangers and therefore does not need his father as much.

Parenthood was a factor in the boy’s life, this ideas gives you an insight on what he wanted the reader to convey. here are two different emotions running through this story from both the boys. In the author Wes Moore the emotion you feel while reading it is hurt and compassion.

Laurie Halse Anderson’s historical fiction novel Fever 1793 takes place in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania when the Yellow Fever epidemic is flooding through the city. The novel is focused around Matilda or as she is called in the book Mattie Cook, and her family. Mattie is faced with many difficulties throughout the novel, including sickness, death, loss, and learning how to be independent. By using personification and descriptive word Anderson creates the theme that fear can cause people to mature or act differently in situations. At the start of the sickness spreading, (pages 68-69 ) Mattie’s mother Lucile is sick in bed with, what they were told was “just a virus”.

The author Wes Moore recounts the time in chapter one, “Is Daddy Coming With Us?” , when he met his father who at the time was just a strange man. Wes states that “[he] looked at his mother… [moving] closer to [her] hip” (Moore 25). He continues by telling the reader that he automatically felt safer next to her. The reason for this text is to help the reader understand how many families can help with the development of a person. The author describes this event in full detail to show how Wes’ family provided him with a sense of feeling safe and sheltered.

When I was attending my ninth grade, we had an assembly speaker who told us about how a tornado ripped through his town. The day that his school returned to session, his English teacher choose specific romanticism texts that involved tornadoes and weather. He stood before us as “In my own neighborhood, I had something that those writers described as beautiful and pure. The way they described it, I started to enjoy nature’s purest forms. I became so interested. I think I took the writers too literally by their ‘following nature’ talk that I ended up becoming a storm chaser.”

When Bradbury explains to the reader that Peter and Windy would be in the nursery for hours at a time and would become distant from their family, proved that the parent’s should be involved in their children’s life. This is because the effect to Peter and Windy being distant to their family, was that they simply could not look their father in his eyes when he was speaking to them. Bradbury notes this by saying “Peter looked at his shoes. He never looked at his father any more, nor at his mother.” Both the parents and children then realized that this had become out of hand and should address the situation. Through the use of family dynamics in the short story, it is proven that Bradbury believes that any role in a family is needed to create a strong bond between family members.

“The Storm” is not only the title of the short story, but it is also part of the main setting that

“Storm Country” by Paul Crenshaw is about his own childhood growing up in Arkansas which is in the heart of tornado alley (Crenshaw, 2004, pg. 203). He explains his encounters with tornadoes and the memories that this remarkable but destructive storm left. Paul Crenshaw explained his story about a tornado in a descriptive way which gave life and meaning with every sentence. After I was done reading I started to think about my own experiences with storm watching during the day and even at night. I agreed with every point he made about the mesmerizing moment of when a storm hits by relating it with my own points about storms.

However, John fails to be involved in his son’s life and often neglects the boy in numerous scenarios. His son has been active throughout his years, always being involved in athletics and clubs. However, the father is never present at these events and finds himself lacking knowledge of his son’s interests. While talking with his son, he struggles to carry on a conversation regarding son’s baseball team because “he didn't even know what position his own son played, or even the name of the team.” As his son grew older, the cloud of neglect flourished suffocating the father and son’s relationship. During the evening, John comes to the realization that “his family had a life separate from his own.” His actions of neglect and indifference has caused a barrier between his family and himself. An example of this is while his wife makes a tasteful dinner, the father refuses to eat with his family and waits to eat alone once they have left the house. The relationship between him and his wife demonstrates the effects of his neglectic behavior. They seldom speak and this reflects upon his relationship with their son as