The Wilder Boy

They go back to Philadelphia it appears to be ghost town. No one is anywhere to be seen when. They arrive at the coffee house they see that they’ve been robbed and mother and Eliza where gone. The next day Mattie and grandfather eat breakfast. Then mattie goes to market and finds it empty when she find herself being assaulted by a older woman she rushes home and doesn’t tell grandfather. She goes to sleep and wakes to two men breaking in one man starts messing with Grandfather sword and almost hits Mattie she screams and tries to run but one man catches her. He tries getting information out of her. but grandfather finds them he tries to shoot him but gets away he then starts punching Grandfather he closes his eyes them Mattie stabs the man in the shoulder he screamed in pain and finally ran

Several years later there is a girl named Omakayas who is 8 years old and has parents a sister named Angeline and two brothers named Big Pinch and baby Neewo. As springtime is almost over Omakayas and her family will have to start building the summer birchbark house. After Omakayas is sent by her mom to get a pair of scissors from a women in town named Old Tallow who Omakayas has an unusual connection with. On her way back she encounters a two bear cubs and think they are orphans but once the mother bear comes out Omakayas is very scared and talks to the bear respectfully and then Omakayas eventually gets away from the bear. As the summer progresses Omakayas thinks about the encounter with the bears and Omakayas’s father Deydey finally comes home from his trip. As summer fades away and early signs of fall come in the family starts to move into the fall home in town. While moving in they are trying hard to harvest wild rice and other types of food. Meanwhile Omakayas talks to Nokomis. Nokomis tells her to

The guys did whatever the Indians asked them to until the seventh day. It was in the middle of the night and everybody was asleep except Daniel. He woke John Stewart and they snuck out of the Indians sight very quickly in hopes of finding their old campsite. They finally came upon there old camp and found that everybody was gone home.

They were on their way to turn themselves in when they reached the top of Jay Mountain and realized the church that they were staying in was in flames. There were kids surrounding the church and they noticed screams coming from inside, Ponyboy and Johnny had a feeling it was their

They knew that if anyone could get them out of trouble like this, he could. To find Dallas, they had to go to the home of Buck Merril. As the boys arrived and found Dallas, they explained to him what had happened in the park. Not phasing him, Dallas gave them $50 and a gun. He’d given Ponyboy a dry shirt and jacket to change into. Dallas had told them to buy a week’s worth of food and hide out in the abandoned church on Jay Mountain, in Windrixville. He’d told them to take freight train three-fifteen. The boys stayed in the church for a little over a week, until a fire had driven them

When they are out being bad they like to drive to greasy lake were they can drink beer, smoke pot and howl at the stars. One night they go down to greasy lake and mistaken a car for there friend Tonys and they lay the horn and flash there high beams at it. Turns out not to be tonys car but some strangers. The stranger gets out not happy and begins to fight the gang of kids in the mist of it all the narraighter drops his keys to his car. The stranger seems to be winning the fight until the narratoir grabs a tire iron from under his seat and hits the stranger across the head with it knocking the stranger out. Then another car comes down to greasy lake unable to find the car keys the group of kids runs away into greasy lake. While the narrator is in the water he finds a dead body. The other car turns out to be the strangers friends and they wreck the group of kids car. The narratoir and his friends wait till morning for greasy lake to clear out. Once it does they head back to there car when two girls arrive asking if they seen there friend who we presume is the dead guy in the lake. They tell the two girls no, and they respond by saying how it looks like they had a rough night, and ask if they want to party with them. The narraitoir says no and they get in the car and head

Tobias Wolff’s parents divorced when he was around 5 years old and Wes Moore’s father die when he was age 3. At the same time, fathers of both these men were missing from their life at an early age. Wolff writes, “For the breakup of our family five years earlier and the misery of her long violent affair, she was going to make up for lost time, and I was going to help her.” By moving from Florida to Utah, Tobias states “We are going to change our luck.” (Wolff, 1989, This Boy’s Life, chapter 1) Likewise, without the presence of a father, the mothers faced raising the boys alone. Just as Moore writes, “I tried to copy his walk, his expressions, I was his main man. That is one of only two memories I have of my father.” (Moore, 2010, The Other

Roald Dahl uses humour in children books he writes to manipulate the reader’s perception of events that occur in the books. The book, Boy is an autobiography written by Roald Dahl. It was his first book and it is a combination of real events in his life. Matilda is one of his fictional books that he wrote later on. Dahl uses events that are actually gruesome and quite horrifying and makes them humorous by using sarcasm, hyperboles, short sentences, imagery, similes and juxtapositions (rose96, 2011). Dahl uses a lot of adjectives to describe the characters in his books to portray them in a humorous way. He uses figures of speech to describe a character and to make this character unique.

In the opening scene is shows three boys playing street hockey, Jimmy, Sean, and Dave, when two men pull up in a car posing as police officers and abduct one of the boys (Dave) he is held captive and is tortured until he escapes. The movie then shows these three individuals in present day with their families. Jimmy owns small store which he runs with his daughter Katie, Sean who is a Homicide Detective for Boston and Dave who married and has a young boy.

Unfortunately, something that the boys have to fear is each other. When Jack breaks away into his own tribe, a battle between forces erupts. Jack would stop at nothing to be in full control by the end of the novel. These little, six through 12 years of age boys, resorted to beating, hunting and killing each other, and disturbingly, it came naturally to them. Simon and Piggy were the two

The family drove to their grandmother’s house near Fish Creek Canyon, Arizona. Rex and grandma have a colorful vocabulary, that Jeannette had caught onto. While in Arizona, Rex taught the kids how to use a pistol, bow, and a knife. The family later relocated to Las Vegas, where they settled for a month until their hotel burned down. Then they relocated to San Francisco. Finally they relocated to a place called “Battle Mountain” in Nevada. Rex gets a job there and the kids were sent to school at Mary S. Black Elementary. Rosemary gets a job as a teacher and leaves Maureen, who is two years old, with a baby

Father and Tim are stopped in Ridgebury by six "cow-boys," armed cattle thieves. The cow-boys ask Father where he is going with his cattle and then remind him that Verplancks is in British-occupied New York, and his beef will go to feed the enemy army.

When the parents arrive in Maine they get the news. Everybody starts to cry. The hotel is a saddened place right now. The parents of all the kids make a flight back to Sacramento.

First Brian starts his journey when he leaves his mother to go live with his dad with a hatchet his mother gave him as a gift and suddenly finds himself stranded in a rough rugged canadian wilderness. With just the single hatchet and the clothes on his back. He doesn't realize it then but he was luckily crashed by a lake for water and wildlife in and around the lake.

When they get there they are careful to not come into contact with another crank thinking this town might be their home. They go into one of the building and meet a couple of not-too-far-gone cranks that are curious as to why these new people are here. Ready to fight at any chance they are given the cranks promise not to kill the boys if they can get them a cure and to a safe place. The boys try and avoid further gone cranks and leave the town. The group soon comes into contact into the all girls group. They are ready to kidnap Thomas and then kill him. Thomas in hope that Teresa will still love him he willingly goes with them. He finds a way to escape and make it back to his friends. The girls then find Thomas once again and soon find out that the new addition to the all boys group was “with” Teresa. This infuriates Thomas thinking that this can’t be true. They then again take Thomas although it’s only the new boy and Teresa that go with Thomas. They take him up the mountain that is supposed to lead them to the safe house. The two tell Thomas that he is wrong about the safe house and how, according to his tattoo he is supposed to die. They then fight Thomas as they force him into a strange room thing inside the side of the mountain. Once inside, Thomas again can’t see anything because of how dark it