The story “Checkouts” is about a girl moving to Cincinnati and she left her whole life behind. She didn’t enjoy it at first but she meets this boy called the bag boy at the supermarket. He lights up her eyes and likes her after he drops the jar of mayonnaise which she thought was cute and started to like him. He liked her little orange bow in her hair. Then she doesn’t see him again because their schedules don’t meet. She didn’t pick the checkout that he was in. She is in a state unacknowledged while he watches her go out in a state of fury. Then their paths cross and he sees her with a different boy and she sees him with a different girl and they are both with separate dates. The girl changes from the beginning to end by in the beginning she
This book is filled with many different stories from many different characters, such as Angel, Alma, and Alex. Angel is the smallest kid in his family, and he has a big brother named Weasel. Weasel always plays tricks on Angel, and Angel hates it. One day while Angel was taking a shower Weasel came out of nowhere and took a picture of Angel in the shower, at least Angel covered his body with the shower curtains. Weasel threated Angel to give him 20 dollars or else he’ll show the picture to every girl in Angel’s school Angel was really worried. Angel tried to get the photo away from him but there was no chance, but finally he came up with an idea. Angel took a naked baby picture of Weasel and threated him back, Weasel didn’t really care instead he made Angel do all of his chores, even pulling his dad’s weeds. After Angel’s dad came home Angel ran to him and said everything, but instead Weasel being mad at him he gave Angel his picture back and they got along. Alma loved to go to trick-or-treating she had the best costumes ever; she loved the smell of candy on a Halloween nights. Alma...
In conclusion, TifAni FaNelli , the protagonist of “ Luckiest Girl Alive,” by Jessica Knoll and I are not all similar and we could not be friends because she is very rude and manipulate people to get them to do what she wants. TiffAni and I have very different views of the world, how people view us, and the way we would react to the conflict is very different. The tragic twist that puts her in a vulnerable state after the rape in which she stuggled with made her become much meaner and made people look at her differently and how she views the world in her
Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson, is a story written in the first person about a young girl named Melinda Sordino. The title of the book, Speak, is ironically based on the fact that Melinda chooses not to speak. The book is written in the form of a monologue in the mind of Melinda, a teenage introvert. This story depicts the story of a very miserable freshman year of high school. Although there are several people in her high school, Melinda secludes herself from them all. There are several people in her school that used to be her friend in middle school, but not anymore. Not after what she did over the summer. What she did was call the cops on an end of summer party on of her friends was throwing. Although all her classmates think there was no reason to call, only Melinda knows the real reason. Even if they cared to know the real reason, there is no way she could tell them. A personal rape story is not something that flows freely off the tongue. Throughout the story Melinda describes the pain she is going through every day as a result of her rape. The rape of a teenage girl often leads to depression. Melinda is convinced that nobody understands her, nor would they even if they knew what happened that summer. Once a happy girl, Melinda is now depressed and withdrawn from the world. She hardly ever speaks, nor does she do well in school. She bites her lips and her nails until they bleed. Her parents seem to think she is just going through a faze, but little do they know, their daughter has undergone a life changing trauma that will affect her life forever.
The protagonist in this story is Carol Kennicott. She is a young woman attending college in St. Paul Minnesota. She wants to go somewhere in her life. She has gone out and gotten a college education so that she won’t have to be a house wife. She has an outgoing personality and is continuously trying to change the things around her. She meets a man named William Kennicott. They fall in love and move to the small town of Gopher Prairie. While there Carol tries to change her home, as well as all of the other buildings in town. Carol is identified as the protagonist because she’s the main character and she has a conflict to overcome.
When Novalee turns seventeen she finds out she is pregnant by her boyfriend, Willy Jack. Willy Jack was a jerk of a boyfriend. Novalee and Willy Jack were traveling to California for work for Willy Jack when Novalee had to stop to use the restroom and to buy a pair of sandals because hers fell through the floor of the old car. After Novalee leaves Walmart she is shocked to see that Willy Jack had left her with only $7.77 from the change at Walmart. Novalee had nowhere else to go and was forced to live in Walmart. Novalee meets a lot of people while staying in Walmart for example, she runs into Sister Husband who mistakes her for someone
The main story is about a character who is a 30 year old male who will experience life changing moments of his life. Mè-mere is an older woman that has brownish-grey hair, her husband Johan is a medic. Joseph is 29 yrs old and “Exdras Boulai…” who is 36 yrs old “... and I are going to be working on the cabane” said Félix. “And when you boys come back there will be a delicious hot chocolate and a steaming hot soup” said Mè-mere. “Ok” said Félix as he ignores what Mè-mere’s saying and is just packing up all of his needs and equipment to work on the Cabane. “Wait!! Beware of the White Owl when, you see it run” said Mè-mere. “Yeah cool” said Félix without even caring about what Mè-mere said. Then Félix emerged from the
The story revolves around two oddballs living in Omaha, Nebraska. Eleanor is a sixteen-year-old girl with curly red hair, and Park, a half-Korean sixteen-year-old boy. The two meet on a school bus and gradually realize they’re a lot alike, and enjoy the same things. Eleanor is starting 10th grade. She is the oldest out of all of her siblings. Her and her family lives crammed in a tiny two-bedroom home. All of the children share one bedroom. There’s only one bathroom and not even a door for privacy. Richie, the stepfather is emotionally and physically abusive to her mother and usually always drunk. Eleanor has to manage wearing clothes that do not fit her, and she is without a toothbrush even. Despite her ripped non-fitting clothing, she manages to patch them up and use her creativity to add to them. Eleanor does not only live in a stressful home environment, but is also often bullied by her classmates at school.
In the story a boy named Derek is getting bullied because he didn’t fit in with the other people. Everyone avoided him and acted like he was the pleg. One day this girl named Lila started getting gifts for her. He tried to give her roses and she wouldn’t take them and he started to cry, she felt bad and knew he would get called a cry baby. You should help people
As I began reading “Where are you going, where have you been?” by Joyce Carol Oates I found myself relating the experiences of Connie, the girl in the story, to my own personal experiences. She spoke of going to a friend’s house and having her friend’s father drive them to the shopping mall so that they could walk around and socialize or go see a movie. I found that this related very closely with my own experiences of being fifteen years old because it was always someone else’s parents driving my friends and I to the movies or to the mall.
A boy, named Jonathan, and a girl, named Cas, met in college their freshman year. Jonathan, instantly fell in love with her, but Cas has a boyfriend, named Butch. Butch is a big manly guy. Jonathan being a small, scrawny, and pasty boy is intimidated by Butch. Over their freshman year Jonathan and Cas become even closer as friends, while Jonathan falls more and more in love with Cas. Their sophomore year Cas breaks up with Butch or as she says they are on a break. Jonathan finally gets the nerve to tell her how he really feels. Although she is flattered by his love, she tells him she loves him as a friend and she is still in love with her ex-boyfriend. Their junior year Cas got back with her boyfriend over the summer. One day in the middle
To begin, the narrator discovers the fact that he has been and will be stuck in poverty for the rest of his life. When the young man went to the market to buy an attractive girl he liked a pot, he discovered truly just how simple he has been living his whole childhood. You see the young woman said she could not come with him on his adventure so he said to her that he would bring her something. When he got on the train, he strugg...
This story is about a teenage girl, whose first heartbreak leads to some rather unfortunate events. She tells us about her first love and her first kiss. “Two months, and a few amatory stages later, he dropped” her for a girl who was performing opposite him in a school play. Watching him with the other girl was more than she could bear and the night she went to see the play was “the beginning of months of real, if more or less self-inflicted, misery” for her. While baby-sitting one night, she made the fatal mistake of getting drunk. She then calls her best friend, who shows up with another girl and several boys, to help her with her situation. Before she was able to cover up the ill-fated events, the couple returned home unexpectedly. She then had to explain what happened to her mother. Her mother then buys a bottle of Scotch and goes to see the couple to discuss her daughter’s actions. She was forbidden to date again until she turned sixteen and she had to pay for the bottle out of her baby-sitting money. Her reputation suffered greatly until the fall, when another girl did something even more scandalous and people forgot about her. In the end, she discovered that she was completely over the boy and she learned a valuable lesson about how actions have consequences.
The story’s plot begins by explaining how the little girl is living on the streets trying to get through life by selling matches. This creates an immediate theme of sadness. The reader more than likely feels bad for the little girl and her family while reading the story. The little girl sells matches on the
Then the story switches to problems with money. She wanted to charge him out at Tiffany's then suddenly wants to make it on her own. Yet is real slow at looking for a job. When her husband is described as extremely wealthy, yet they didn't live that way. Ok.
Sammy is anxiously waiting for his girls to come to his register. After a while wait of him watching they finally come. He begins to check out and look at these girls at a closer distance than he was. He is blown away by the beauty that Queenie possesses and just as everything is about to be done, his manager Lengel comes over. At this point in the story things begin to go downhill fast. Lengel says to the girls that they should cover up more. With this, he embarrasses the girls as well as Sammy. The girls start to walk out, and Sammy boldly that he quits. Sammy is desperate for a new adventure, a new, more exciting life and he believes that those girls can give it to him. He leaves the store to only find that the three things he was looking forward to seeing, had left. Leaving Sammy in the parking lot with nothing but the dreary residents of the town around