Fighting Past And Present It was a bright and cold April morning when the old clock struck seven. Harmony Johnson, an ordinary 14 year old girl, had just moved from Ireland. Her family had moved to Georgia because her father Jack got relocated to work in Georgia as a chiropractor. Harmony is going to a new high school called Elk Creek High School. She is very distressed that she won’t make as many friends as she had back at Savanna High, but she remained courageous. The next day, Harmony was ready for school. She walked down the stairs quickly to see her steaming hot bacon, sizzling on the plate. Her younger brother, George, was already eating his pancakes with butter layered smoothly on top. Harmony’s mom was sitting at the table asking Harmony to sit down so she won't be late …show more content…
As the school bus halted at the bus stop, the bus doors began to open. One by one, kids started to get on. Harmony was one of the last people to get on the bus, but not the very last. There was another girl wearing a dark gray hoodie with black tights. She was concealing her face from sight. Harmony said, “Hey, I’m Harmony, what’s your name?” The girl stuttered and stayed quiet. Then both Harmony and the girl got onto the bus. Once the two girls got onto the bus, Harmony wanted to meet this girl. There were three empty seats left for the ninth graders to sit in, so Harmony sat down in one of the seats and asked the girl to sit with her. She said stuttering, “O-Ok.” Both girls sat in silence for almost the entire bus ride. Harmony asked her again, “What’s your name?” The girl said, “My names Hannah.” Then for the rest of the bus ride, both girls talked, and talked. Once they finally got to the school, Harmony was so surprised. She thought to herself how much bigger Elk Creek is compared to Savanna High. She saw a very tall, brick building with giant words that read “Elk Creek High.” The
There is a slight glimmer of hope when the school year ends and the girls all receive their report cards. They stand eagerly in the hallway, none of them can break their gaze at the slips of paper in their teacher’s hands. Pashtana finishes 15th in her class and in this moment looks forward to a new year in the 8th grade. Unfortunately, Pashtana and her family were living off of $7 a week, a dollar to spend a day. She soon got married to her cousin and has not been back to school since their last day.
Now I wished that I could pen a letter to my school to be read at the opening assembly that would tell them how wrong we had all been. You should see Zachary Taylor, I’d say.” Lily is realizing now that beauty comes in all colors. She is also again being exposed to the fact that her way of being raised was wrong, that years and years of history was false. “The whole time we worked, I marveled at how mixed up people got when it came to love.
High school sophomore, Samantha Baker woke up on the morning of her sixteenth birthday, hoping for an overnight transformation. While on the phone with her best friend, she stares at herself in the mirror, praying she had grown a few inches and a set of boobs. Much to avail, she has not and her day goes on just like every other one. She has the added pressure of being a bridesmaid for her older sister Ginny’s wedding, the next day. After being felt up by Grandmother Baker, Samantha deals with the ridicule and torment of her annoying little brother and takes the bus to school. During her study hall class she takes a silly quiz another friend had given her. The quiz ends up in the hands of her crush, Jake Ryan! The anxiety sets in.
Tom and Daisy were sitting across one another at the kitchen table. They were engaged in a conversation. Tom was talking intently across the table to Daisy with his hand covering her own, as she stared at the cold chicken that lay on the table.
We take our slurpees and the three of us get into Nish’s black wrangler. We drive past large estates at the end of Murray Hill. As we roll in there's a crowd of people just waiting for the party to be started, we decide to wait with the rest of the crowd. “What happened?” I asked my classmate standing next to me . “She’s just kicking people out that she doesn’t like.” All of a sudden I see a short brunette girl come out with a speaker she screams “EVERYONE COME
At the new place things are not as she expected them to be. In contrast to the rest of her family she has troubles finding friends and she feels like an outcast at school. Luckily she meets a neighbor girl who she becomes best friends with, but soon they are separated when the diarist goes to her grandparents for the summer.
“The Sanctuary of School”, an essay by Lynda Barry, shows the troubles that she goes through as a child in elementary school and how she finds an escape. The author catches the reader’s attention by saying “I was 7 years old the first time I snuck out of the house in the dark” (Barry 721). It makes us want to keep reading to find out why she did it and where she will go. The story matters because she is telling about how she was neglected and unhappy in her home but finds a place of relief. “They were short on money and long on relatives” (Barry 721). Barry’s parents cared more about their finances than their children, forcing Barry and her brother give up their room to sleep on the couch. Barry writes about leaving early one morning to go
Melinda was an outcast and loner in high school who was overwhelmed, fearful, and confused with her life and her environment at school. She was always silent in class and afraid to speak in front of people. Many students today might feel the need to fit in with other people so they wouldn’t have to be looked down upon. As we take a look at Melinda’s life we’ll be able to see how she handles her daily conflicts. In the book, Speak, Melinda Sordino, an incoming freshman at Merryweather High, starts her year off with a terrible start. She’s stuck with a mean history teacher, by who she calls Mr. Neck and a whole bunch of other weird teachers like her English teacher of who she calls, Hairwomen, because of her crazy, uncombed hair. Her favorite teacher would seem to be her art teacher, Mr. Freeman, because he seems to be the nicest and most reasonable. Every student, even her ex-best friend, Rachel Bruin, gives her nasty looks and treats her rudely. All this trouble started when Melinda called the cops at an end-of-summer party. Everybody thinks she did that just to bust them and get all the people in trouble but instead, she called the cops for something more terrifying. During the night of that party, she was raped by a senior who goes to Merryweather High, Andy Evans, by who she calls IT or Andy Beast. She was too scared and didn’t know what to do so she called the cops. Because of this, now everyone in school is disgusted and hateful of her. Though most of the students didn’t like her, she did become sort of “distant” friends with Heather, Ivy, and her science lab partner, David Petrakis. With all the drama, sadness, and conflict involved in Melinda’s life, she still seems to manage and finish the school year without ...
To start off Melinda is a freshman. The first year of high school. High school is tough, but it becomes extremely tough due to the fact of her having no friends. Plus home is not any
This story takes place during the end of the year when the students have to take standardized testing. They go through a week of testing and when the week is over, Theo and the other 8th grade scouts go on a hiking trip to relax and get there mind off testing. When they get back, April wants to meet Theo at Guff’s to tell him something important that she learned. When they meet they talk about the how April learned about the scandal by her old friend. April wrote a letter to the school board informing them, but not saying who she was, about the up rise of the scores.
Melinda starts school off in a bad way. She continuously gets in trouble with numerous teachers. She never does any homework. She mostly takes naps. Worst of all, in her mind, she has no friends. This does not change until she meets Heather, the new girl. Heather is...
When Bryce Loski was seven years old, he moved into a new neighborhood. A little girl named Juli Baker lived across the street. She insisted on helping Bryce and his family move in but was a little too pushy and had muddy shoes and Bryce was immediately annoyed by her. Juli was constantly at the door wanting to play; Bryce's dad made many excuses for him for several weeks. Bryce started second grade, Juli Baker constantly pestered him, following him around at school, This went on til seventh grade, when Bryce's grandfather Chet Duncan moves in with the family. Chet finds Juli different, special, kind of girl who's hard to come across. there was this old sycamore tree that Juli loved to climb and no one ever understood why. One day, the owner was going to cut it down the sycamore tree Juli's protest and dismay.
I awaken this morning with the aroma of bacon calling me to the kitchen. Upon my arrival I witness the table set for five, complete with imported European coffee, buttered toast, maple syrup, fresh squeezed orange juice, and a stack of pancakes so tall it continues to wobble trying to find a center of gravity. Alongside the table stands Isabella, a teacher, visiting us from Santiago, Chile. She will be our houseguest for the next six months and is eager to teach our family all she knows about South America, including its cuisine. Isabella, however has not forgotten the pancakes of North America, eaten on a previous trip and is looking forward to a reunion with the fluffy stack standing beside her. Gary has left the house early this morning hoping to catch up with his patients prior to their being medicated for surgery. The boys nearly trample Isabella over in their rush out the door to meet the carpool's blaring horn signaling the urgency of departure time. Matthew, blazing by the breakfast table, wraps a piece of bacon tightly in a blanket of pancake, dips it into the warm syrup and without breaking stride, runs to meet the waiting car ready to take him to school.
It was a typical day for Chad, going about the halls picking on every vulnerable person they saw, that was until he saw her. It was the first day in years Sophia had worn short sleeves, being scared that people might judge her for being ‘attention seeking’, but today she felt content with herself, brave enough to show people how strong she is. When Chad saw her scars, he realized every single one of these people had their own stories. That was the day Chad Willington had stood up to his friends. “Shut up, she’s just a girl trying to make it in high school and we are making it worst for her. So stop being such a typical jock and start being a good person. Everyone has their story that we don’t know about.” He then ran over towards Sophia, trying to save her from all this madness. “Hey, I’m sorry, I didn’t know that you had enough hard times as it is, I would’ve stood up to them earlier but I never really thought that people had their own stories.”
Bonnie the secretary introduced me to my new teacher. As Mrs. Bonnie was leaving the room, my new teacher Mrs. Evaheart introduced me to the class. As I stared at the class I couldn’t help but feel overwhelmed. I wanted to go back to my old school where I had friends, knew almost everyone, a place where I didn’t feel lonesome, a place anywhere but here. As I saw each and every one of my new classmates faces the utter dread that I felt slowly began to fade as I saw a familiar face. Seeing one of my former friends give me a renewed hope that maybe being in this school won’t be so bad after