It's Kind of a Funny Story

One thing that’s great about short stories is how quickly they can ruin your life. Maybe you start reading one over your lunch break and, if it’s the right one, before that peanut butter cup you brought for dessert even has a chance to finish its melting shape-shift into some kind of sugary cement, the whole world has been destroyed around you and then rebuilt, and nothing is quite the same again. This happens whether you like it or not. Great stories practice this violent beauty on you in a variety

The story "The Half-Skinned Steer" by Annie Proulx could be classified in the Return to the womb arch-type. It fits that unit theme very well, mainly because the main character in the story, whose name is Mero, returns to his place of birth and childhood almost sixty years later. The one major event that leads him back home is the death of his brother Rollo. Mero had left the country out by Cheyenne, Wyoming to go and live in New York City. Over that time he had grown to become a fairly rich man

Brooklyn Alexa Johns, is a character for sure. She is constantly being funny and outgoing, it makes me wonder where she gets her spunk from. Her physical appearance is like the normal brown haired, bluish green eyed girl. Her hair is brown but almost a red color. In the sun her hair shines like brass. Her eyes are blue like the sea and green like the algae of the sea. The way she dresses tells you what kind of person she is. She’s comfortable, outgoing, and sassy. Her clothes totally show it. She

all the way up to promising to take me up to the mountains so we could do some father/son time, so the reason i chose my father is he has never lied to me. The experience I had with this project shadowing my father over the course of three days was kind of boring ,I just couldn't find any interest

where she explained how the future movies of the DC Extended Universe will be different from each other. “David Ayer’s Suicide Squad has such an amazing, brash tone,” Snyder said, comparing the film to Gal Gadot’s solo outing. “It’s fun and it’s about the villains, and it’s super-different than Patty Jenkins’

and abandoning those who love them the most. In The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, a novel written by Mark Haddon, Christopher Boone is the main character. Whereas Craig Gilner is the main character in Ned Vizzini’s novel, It’s Kind of a Funny Story. Both characters must find their way into society by fighting their fears and realizing who they are. As a

“The lowest intellect, like the highest, possesses a skill of some kind and takes a keen pleasure in testing it, proving it, perfecting it” (Mark Twain). “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” was one of Mark Twain’s first works and it helped people start to notice who he was. This short story was about someone listening to a man telling a story about a gambler and a frog. Although the story itself sounds a bit weird, that was one of the ways of writing that Twain was best known for. The

This year in my English class three books I read were the best books I have ever read. I could connect to these books well and they taught me valuable lessons. The three books that stood out to me were If I Stay, It’s Kind of a Funny Story and They Both Die at the End. These books had a theme that connected all of them. The theme that spreads across these books are life does not last forever, hold it close, we must work through it and live it to the fullest. If I Stay is a young adult fiction book

It’s a funny story that my mom always brings up. When I was about 2 or 3 years old we were sitting at the dining room table eating and I had a piece of ribs stuck in my teeth that I couldn’t get out. So my Granny popped her dentures out and said “Here Tank, you can use mine”. That’s disgusting but funny because I said “Unun Granny, I have my own”, and pointed at my teeth. I was something else. My mother went into labor on Christmas day. It was at about 10:30 pm. She sat home waiting on my father

marrying her. So the main conflict revolves around getting Katherine married. Some other conflicts that happen later on in the story would be “taming the shrew” by making Katherine obedient to her husband, and winning over Bianca for marriage. The most important poetic is plot, which is usually the case. Without the sequence of events in “Taming of the Shrew” it would not be a story.