Sharing A Room In the autobiography “Knots in my Yo-Yo String” by Jerry Spinelli, he talked about how neat he was as a child. Jerry was not always perfect, he had problems that come about in his life. That’s how the phrase “Knots in my Yo-Yo string” came to be. The string represents life or a day and the knot is a problem. A knot that I went though in my life was having to share a room with my younger brother. My brother and I had our own rooms at the time. He was eight and I was eleven. We live in a cozy three bedrooms house. One day our parents asked us to come into the living room. There were two bags on the couch and they told us to see what’s inside. Inside were delicious jelly beans and a black shirt. I unfolded the shirt and in big blue letters it said Big Brother. Then my brother unfolded his and it said the same thing. We both stared at our mom and realized she was pregnant. We were so excited, and later we find out it’s a boy. Our parents also told us that we would have to share a room, and we were fine with that. …show more content…
For that month we had fun playing video games and bunking together. After the baby was born the knot starts to begin. My younger brother starts making messes and doesn’t clean after himself. That is a problem for me because I’m a neat person. My parents have talked to my brother many times and he still does it.A year later I’m getting older and tired of sharing a room. I talked to my parents about the problem and they agreed. In our house we have a man cave in the basement that can be made into a room. Otherwise we would have to move houses for more room. After the first term of school my parents decide that we are going to move. They said that we will stay in Sartell and find a bigger house. Right now we are still in the process of moving, but I’m very
Foster explains that symbols can hold several different meanings, explaining how knots can portray both weakness and strength: “The thing referred to is likely not reducible to a single statement but will more probably involve a range of possible meanings and interpretations” (Foster 105). In The Shipping News, an expert on knots comments “The strangle knot will hold a coil well. It is first tied loosely and then worked snug.” (qtd. In Proulx 18). This quote symbolizes how Quoyle was tied to Petal⏤first the relationship was loving, and the knot was tied loosely. As the relationship progressed, the knot abruptly closed tight, capturing
Untying the Knot is about the speaker going into a forest to witness the changing of the season. The speaker, Annie Dillard, finds a snakeskin tied in a knot. She attempts to untie it but then she realizes, “that I could no more catch the spring by the tip of the tail than I could untie the apparent knot in the snakeskin; there are no edges to grasp. Both are continuous loops” (Dillard 5). Annie
Months later, I woke up and walked down stairs to make my oats. I walked downstairs and was looking for my Father. I looked everywhere in the house before I noticed he was no-where to be found. Then I walked into the living room and saw my Mother. She was hysterical. Tears were running down her cheek like the Mississippi flowed into the Gulf of Mexico.
One day my Mom, Dad, Brother, and I got the biggest news EVER! My sister was having a a a BABY!!!!!!!!!!!!! YAY
How can I described the feelings that are welling up inside? How do I control the temper tantrum that is, my little brother? How do I show my parents that I really do care about their feelings?
One day my mom and dad took me and my sister to California to visit my oldest brother. When we got there my brother picked us up and took us to eat then after that he took us to his house. The third day some of my brothers friends invited him to do laser tagging with us. My brother said yes and it was like a seventeen minute drive but we got there like at 10:00 pm. The place was pretty big and it was called laser X it had a big light up X in the front and lasers pointing up. We walked inside and it smelled like all arcades do and to the right you would see a pool table and arcade games.
The Hero’s Journey is a basic template utilized by writers everywhere. Joseph Campbell, an American scholar, analyzed an abundance of myths and literature and decided that almost all of them followed a template that has around twelve steps. He would call these steps the Hero’s Journey. The steps to the Hero’s Journey are a hero is born into ordinary circumstances, call to adventure/action, refusal of call, a push to go on the journey, aid by mentor, a crossing of the threshold, the hero is tested, defeat of a villain, possible prize, hero goes home. The Hero’s Journey is more or less the same journey every time. It is a circular pattern used in stories or myths.
My family had moved to Oregon when I was 7 into hunter’s run apartments and we moved AGAIN when I was 9 to SW Bonnie Meadow Ln, into a fairly nice house. Now, as older children do when they have younger siblings, I didn’t get much attention, but I did have many more responsibilities. Most of which were chores or keeping an eye on my brother, John, and my sister, Mikayla. Mikayla was by all means the closest to me at the time and John was just my younger brother whom my mother adored. Our relationships, however do change but that’s
It was the last Saturday in December of 1997. My brother, sister, and I were chasing after each other throughout the house. As we were running, our parents told us to come and sit down in the living room. They had to tell us something. So, we all went down stairs wondering what was going on. Once we all got down stairs, the three of us got onto the couch. Then, my mom said, “ Well…”
I remember my mom telling me how excited she was when she found out she was pregnant for me, even though she was not expecting to get pregnant and was not really with my dad anymore. She told me about the nights she would lay in bed and read to me in her belly. Mom never told me about the times she would be worried sick about how she would be able to support us, she never told me but I know it had to have occurred, my mom was not expecting me after all.
The names Thor, and even though I may be the only one that has the power to pick up the hammer, you’re the only one that has the special powers and abilities to give me attention, affection, to take me to my forever home, and to make me feel like part of a family again. I enjoy being around and playing with men and women, however, I haven’t interacted with very many kids so I’m not sure whether I like them or not. Though I do seem to enough playing with people, and so far my favorite is a rope which I absolutely love to show off my strength in a game of tug a war. Speaking about strength when you try and take me for a walk, I’m more than likely going to pull you around and walk you were I want to go. I know the commands sit, shake/paw, down/lay,
We blew up the kiddie pool and went night swimming, then ate a sleepover birthday cake, with tiny nilla wafer version of myself and my friends faces sleeping in twinkie sleeping bags. We slept in a tent in my living room that night and I exclaimed that I was going to stay up till 100 o’clock. One story that is the epitome of my family dynamic is when my sister almost burned down our house. I was about nine my sister was six and my little brother was three. My sister had been playing with a ball inside the house and she ended up knocking a burning candle off of the mantel, the candle fell and a large teddy bear under the mantel caught flame, my parents quickly noticed and put out the fire and the teddy bear was ruined with pumpkin smelling wax matting its fur. My mom proceeded to yell at my sister, and my dad proceeded to tell my mom to stop yelling at my sister, which turned into a fight between my parents. My parents love each other so much most of their fighting is because they hate not being on the same
Two-thirds of children who participate in extracurricular activities are expected to attain at least a bachelor’s degree, whereas only half of children that do not participate do (National Center for Education Statistics, 1995). Childhood is a very important time in our lives, a time when we develop many vital skills that follow us into adulthood. Some people laugh or scoff at us parents that keep our children to busy schedules. Those same people would also argue that our children should be allowed to have a childhood, to not be so tightly scheduled in their daily lives. Before jumping on that bandwagon, I would suggest doing a little research. Participating in after-school activities has shown to benefit children in many ways. Children should
When I was about six, I was spending the night at my grandma 's house. She had a camper van and I was playing inside it one day when I noticed a brown stuffed dog. I really liked the dog so I asked my grandma if I can have it and she said yes. I was really happy
We finish what we start. This was the motto that kept me going during the strenuous training period for a marathon. But prior to that, I must confess, I wasn’t an athlete. I was never interested in playing sports, except for recreational badminton. During gym class, I would walk three quarters of the time when it time for the dreaded mile run. I preferred staying indoors and sitting on the couch and watch movies. The first time I had heard about a marathon training program, called Dreamfar, in my school, I thought to myself, what kind of crazy person would want to run a marathon? Never did I realize, eight months later, I would be that crazy person.