Terry Kinney

My Side of the Mountain is a remarkable novel written by Jean Craighead George (1991). It addresses issues such as nature, independence and adventure. In the book, Sam Gribley, a boy from New York, runs away from home to live in the woods. Throughout this essay, I am going to talk about the things and the character traits that a person such as Sam needs in order to accomplish his or her goals. In the book, Sam’s goals were to reach indepence and to survive using the resources in the woods. For example

Waking up before the rising sun on the morning of the hunt left me feeling groggy with my eyes slow to open and close when blinking. Being extra quiet to not wake up my mother was a main challenge, trying to tippy toe around the cabin and dodging the creaky spots in the floor. Prior to eating breakfast, I began getting dressed. Due to the fact that I was in northern Minnesota, the weather was bone chilling and the wind would seep right through your layers onto your unexpecting skin. Once I had put

AAs she pulls into the driveway, Alice thinks, of course she has double doors. That's completely necessary for a one-person mansion. There’s also the whole other issue of Eden having a mansion just for herself in the first place, but Alice has already picked at this many times before. / St. Helena is dead. That is the entire and only reason that Alice has embarked on this six-hour trip down to see Eden, her younger and remaining sister. The eldest, Helena, has gone the way of their mother and abandoned

On that day, this world was almost changed forever. That day was March 30, 2016, young brother and sister, Christopher and Christina were at the CHOC Walk. Then, Christopher said, “ Let’s go, this is boring.” So, they started wandering off. Then, next thing they knew…... they were in a dark and scary forest. Then, Christina said, “ Let’s get out of here.” Then, a mysterious figure came out of nowhere and knocked the brother and sister out. Finally, they woke up in a room, strapped to tables, with

Kristin leaned back in the swivel chair to think about what she 'd written as she watched the sun slowly appear over the horizon. It filled the billowy clouds with pink and orange streaks that faded into the depths of blue morning sky. Kristin withdrew her holographic keypad and stood to stretch. She thought about how good it felt to write for the website again. She 'd started it up many years earlier, working with various environmental organizations to involve everyday people in small tasks within

I take a bite of a piece of cheese and survey the empty area of land. Usually sounds of animals fill the night, but there was nothing here, all remained quiet and empty except for me, I slowly lift a torn piece of bread to my lips as I stare deep into the darkness of the woods, when singing breaks through the silence of the night. I lurch to my feet and whip around yet still there is nothing to be seen but the emptiness. The singing stirs softly from somewhere deep in the woods, fragmented by the

My mother was never a strict woman. She kept rules to a minimum of one. It was short, simple, and easy to follow: don’t go into the woods at Grammie’s house. I would ask why, and she would tell me that sometimes people who went in didn’t come out. She said this the way a mother would explain where all the birds went during winter, or why the green left the trees in fall. It wasn’t an ominous warning, it was just a fact. Sometimes people who go into Grammie’s woods don’t come back out. When I asked

The Race To Work Today Michael woke up twenty minutes late he looked at his clock, Michael swore under his breath, he was in such big rush to get to work that he forgot to change his clothes. Micheal loves to race in his Nissan GTR he works at a car collision shop he hates working there but Michael continues to work there so he can work on his own car. Michael ran out of the house and missed a step and fell on his arm. Despite the pain, he got up and ran to start his car. Backing

Once upon a time there was an old and scary town with only a few people living there. One of those few people was a beautiful girl named Katherine. The town was ruled by an evil prince named David. He had an assistant named Sam, who was very young and only had that job because his parents abandoned him. Everyone who lived in the town feared David, so they stayed in their house. But Katherine was very lonely because her kids were at school and her husband died, so she liked to go out and explore.

I wake up with an ache in my side. “Uhh gym definitely didn’t go well” I say to myself. I get up, and go to breakfast. The smell of bacon wakes me up like a splash of cold water. My mom smiles at me, and I look at the newspaper my dad has. Something about a beast that killed 4 people, and a dog. “ What’s that about?” I ask. My dad says, “ Some beast about 2 miles up north killed some people. I wonder what it is.” “ Probably some bear right? Some black bear with a thirst of blood,” I answer