The Sticks

It has been a month since my parent’s divorce. I was torn. All of my world was beautiful until that one day where I would see my mom more than my dad. The problem is, I am more alike with my dad than my mom, so I like to hang out with him rather than her. We both have brilliant blue eyes and pale skin, but my hair is curly and his isn’t. That is the only difference. “Aleah!” my mom calls, “You have a phone call!” I rush downstairs to answer the phone. I bet it is my friend calling. “Hello?”

this is when the author states, “Jack held up the head and jammed the soft throat down on the pointed end of the stick which pierced through into the mouth. He stood back and the head hung there, a little blood dribbling down the stick” (p. 136). A good majority of the boys have become inhumane savages. For instance, it isn’t normal for a hunter to cut off an animal’s head, put it on a stick, and leave it in the woods. Jack and his hunters used to be the type of hunters that felt bad when they killed

It was late fall in 2009 when I quietly sat on the plane looking after my youngest brother who was restlessly sitting besides me. We were heading back to my hometown, Kotzebue, Alaska, for a reason I did not know about. Sitting without any worry at all, I over heard my mom quietly speaking to a friend in the aisle in front of us. My mom gravely explained to her that my father and brother are lost in a bitterly cold and extremely windy snowstorm outside of town. On that frigid October night, our hearts

I tightly gripped the blue, plastic, slippery, twig (hockey stick) in my sweaty, sticky hands when I swung the tiny, orange, plastic puck into the goal. The opposing team’s goalie, with sweat dripping down his face and fear in his eyes, gave me the dirtiest look anyone could have ever imagined. I soon realized, I had just won the hockey game during gym class. All the confused stares and silent but noticeable whispers lead me to question what was all the hot gossip. I achingly trudged down the toxic

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