With the buzz cut of a geek, Kenny Wright snuck his way into my heart. Kenny is a newfound middle schooler at a rundown middle school called Union Middle. He is a chess fanatic and rarely loses a game to his best friend, Arthur. Kenny get bullied at school because he lives with his grandma (who he calls G-ma), so everyone except Arthur calls him Grandma’s Boy. Kenny’s real problem is the D-Squad/Detention Squad who torment, bully, and hit him whenever there are no teacher’s around. One member of the D-Squad is Ray-ray Powell who is not a physical type of bully but instead a very irritating one. He always steals Kenny’s food when he has a perfectly good lunch just to annoy him. In the cafeteria, Ray-ray started a food fight with Kenny, and landed …show more content…
Kenny is bullied and has to do a speech in front of hundreds of people (I’ll get to that later). So, Kenny and Ray-ray’s chess lessons are moving on slowly but surely, and Ray-ray and Kenny’s tough lesson’s are basically non-existent. Ray-ray just make Kenny do outrageous things that in no way toughen him up. Then something good, bad, worse, and terrible happens; Ms. Yeti is fired. The good news is they can stop the chess lessons, but he bad news is this causes a riot in the town because she was the first good principal Union Middle ever had. The worse bad news is G-ma is running the campaign to bring her back, and the terrible, bad news is Kenny has to say a speech in front of hundreds of protesters as a student ambassador. Both of these conflicts are external because they are not coming from him but towards him. He is bullied by other kids and was chosen to speak by another person. People chose him; not he other way around. All the conflicts happening around him are taking place outside himself, not inside his …show more content…
Ray-ray does his part perfectly. His older brother is a legend at that school so he got Kenny to get in the car with his brother in front of the D-squad. This made it seem like Kenny was friends with a Union Middle icon. Also, Ray-ray and Kenny set up a fake fight right before the whole class making Kenny look like a tough guy that you don't want to mess with. Ray-ray ending up being a good guy that Kenny really liked. Even though Kenny’s first problem got solved, he still has the speech to deal with. It’s thirty minutes before the protest and Kenny has nothing. Thankfully Kenny then has a burst of inspiration. He realized that without Ms. Yeti, he would have never had become friends with Ray-ray, and that since she got fired, he would never meet new friends. He aggressively writes a wonderful speech with time to spear. His and other good speeches led the administration to bring back Ms. Yeti. Basically at that moment when he sees Ms. Yeti at school for the first time in a month, he realized all of his problems disappeared. Kenny is ready to finally focus on school and less on bullying and public
Kenny early on shows signs of being insecure when he deals with kids picking on him during the school day. Kenny likes
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Stephen Crane’s The Red Badge of Courage is a Civil War novel written in 1895. The novel tells the story of a young soldier who flees from the war, and subsequently is afflicted by mental anguish. Though the novel may be centered around the Civil War, the real war revolves around this anguish occurs in Henry’s head. From the onset of the novel, the protagonist tries hard to reconcile the mythological stories of past heroes arising from glorious battles with the ordinary and much less exalted experiences of his regiment. When presented with the knowledge that he may be moved to the front lines, Henry begins to deliberate over the war and glory he envisioned with the reality of the situation he is now in, and wonders if he’ll return ‘with his
In order to mold a group of people into a higher performing team, Kathryn had a challenging task ahead of her. Her plan to hold an offsite retreat with the leadership team was a fantastic idea. This was her first real action as the leader of DecisionTech, and it would soon prove to have a positive impact on the future of the company and the leadership team. Kathryn held firm to the agenda she designed for the retreat despite the team trying to give her suggestions on what they thought the agenda should be. When Martin sent Kathryn an email letting her know he and JR would be missing part of the retreat for a business
From the hood life, ghetto neighborhood, Three African-American made a pact to become successful doctors and face the obstacles that can lead them to down fall together. The Pact, a memoir written by Dr. Sampson Davis, George Jenkins, and Rameck Hunt, describes their story in the 1980s of becoming doctors and the struggle that they faced. The three Young men were each other’s motivator. They followed each other’s steps and helped themselves succeed. One of them is Sampson Davis, a kid who grew up in those bad circumstances but still made it through that path and became a doctor.
A major theme that is present in Jennifer Egan’s “A Visit from the Goon Squad” is destruction and recovery, it coincides with each other as the characters recognize themselves devastated by their egocentric and secluded way of life that deteriorate by the changes in American culture. Throughout the book, the main characters witness themselves striking rock bottom. For instance, Sasha observes herself gliding profoundly in destruction because of her stealing; “Hastily, mechanically, she reassembled the wallet, keeping the slip of paper in her hand, I’m just going to hold this, she was aware of telling herself as she tucked the wallet back into Alex’s pocket. I’ll put it back later; he probably doesn’t remember it’s in there (Egan, 18).
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“The third day- it was Wednesday of the first week- Charles bounced a see-saw on to the head of a little girl and made her bleed,” (1). In the short story “Charles” written by Shirley Jackson, Laurie, the main character of the story, is a young kindergartener who is able to run around causing trouble at school and at the same time, pretend that it is only another boy in his class that is making the trouble. “Charles” teaches you that parents do not know everything about their child even though the child lives in the same house as them. Laurie’s parents do not know what he is like at school. Laurie is flamboyant, and arrogant yet creative and those characteristics make him the perfect troublemaker.
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