Summary B chapter one in Unthinkable gets in detail about what happen the day of the accident, and why and how it happens. Scott was working for a lawn mowing company with a group of friends for the summer when a reckless driver made a mistake on the road causes the 18 wheeler scoot was on to lose balance. Scott was on the back of the pick up truck at the time the incident took place. Scott flew over board do to the hit and his right leg unfortunately got stuck in the trailer dragged him 324 feet on the road. He was in critical condition so the doctor gave his parents a chance to pick the leg get cut off or it does not. The parents pick to cut of the right leg. In chapter …show more content…
He would get a lot of infections but the thing that was making doctors curious is why the medicine was not working. Scott told the doctor he was using steroids so they found the leading cause of his problems. The most of chapter three was flash backs and old memories about his family and the things he did as a youngster. Threw out chapter 4 the chapter talks about his life in college. He is now a college student at Valdosta university. He has problems and a lot struggles academically . He was also part of a fraternity at Valdosta university. Scott talks about his life as at college mostly he was known for being outrageous and careless or reckless. Scott struggled with a lot of emotional problems as well as spiritual problems. He later on goes to a bible study with one of his friends named Steve who at first he did not want to go to the bible study at first. Steve questions his Christianity to the point where he gets offended so he starts to question his Christianity and he begins to get into his spiritual side. Chapter 5 and 6 is when things start to take a dramatic change from who he was at first. He finally gets in touch with his spiritual side.
The story kicks off right away as Duff is leaving his parents’ house in Richmond, Virginia. He is beginning his journey to Los Angeles to be a computer programmer. He leaves his home town in his used three-thousand dollar, white, Ford Escort. He bought the car from the owner of a pizza shop down the street strictly for the long trip. Duff didn’t care much about cars, as longs as they get him from place to place. Duff pulls onto the highway and drives for about fifteen minutes before something goes terribly wrong. A weird noise came from the front of the car and then a loud bang. The car rolled to a stop near a small exit. Duff looked at the engine, but had no hope of knowing what happened. So Duff called a tow-truck which took the car five miles west to a garage in a small hick town. The mechanics diagnosed that he had thrown an engine rod. This usually happens if the engine doesn’t get oiled enough. Duff had no idea of the last oil change since he had only had the car for two weeks.
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“A friend of mine, Barbara Silva, a nurse at Waltham school was driving to work on Route 128 when another car suddenly cut her off. For some reason the truck ahead of [that car] braked abruptly and [the car] banged into it. She slammed into [the car]. It was a horrible accident. It could have been avoided if [the other car] hadn’t jumped lanes.
Francis Scott Fitzgerald, also known under his writer’s name, F. Scott Fitzgerald, is revered as a famous American novelist for his writing masterpieces in the 1920’s and 1930’s. F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote about his extravagant lifestyle in America that his wife, Zelda, their friends, and him lived during that era. In fact, a lot of his novels and essays were based off of real-life situations with exaggerated plots and twists. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novels were the readers looking glass into his tragic life that resulted in sad endings in his books, and ultimately his own life. F. Scott Fitzgerald lived in a nice neighborhood, but growing up, he wasn’t privileged.
After being scared and returning the suit, the police catch and arrest Scott on his way out of the house and send him to jail. While there, he meets Hank, who visits to tell Scott that he made it a plan for him to steal the suit and gives Scott a second chance to be with his daughter, if he chooses to escape using the suit and help Hank with a mission. Scott realizes that this is the moment when his life will change, as it would be dangerous to escape from jail and be in hiding, but decides to accept the Call to Adventure anyway. If he completes the risky task that Hank has for him, to steal and destroy a suit called the Yellowjacket used for similar shrinking purposes, Hank promises that he will reunite Scott with his daughter, Cassie, the mother of whom prevented Scott from having visitation rights. Without the acceptance of the call, Scott would have instead found a low-paying job to have the money to pay for child support and to make his life stable again, which would be a very time-consuming process. By choosing to complete the mission, Scott will be able to be with his daughter after a much shorter amount of time as promised by Hank. This Call to Adventure made it possible for Scott to regain control of his life,
Mahoney was traveling north in the southbound lane at an extremely high amount of speed. The right front of the pickup truck hit the right front of the bus, breaking off the bus’s suspension and driving the leaf spring backward into the gas tank mounted outside the frame, just behind the front door. The spring speared the sixty-gallon tank, which had just been filled ten minutes earlier, punching a two and a half-inch hole in it. The gas tank caught fire and killed twenty-seven of the sixty-seven people on board. If the pickup had hit a few inches to the right, it would have been stopped by the bus’s frame rail instead of shearing trough sheet metal toward the fuel tank.
Scott flees to the cellar to protect himself. His wife, thinking that he’s been eaten by the cat, closes the door to cellar, trapping him in the littered room. In his time in the cellar, Scott creates shelter for himself and a source of water. He encounters a new foe in the form of a spider. After fighting it off and eventually killing it, Scott realizes he doesn’t fear shrinking as he once did. He has grown accustomed to the environment surrounding him. He makes his way outside and assures himself of his continued existence.
A) Steve’s Dad Leaves- After the trial Steve's dad moves away. He doesn’t say so directly but, he felt as if he didn’t know his own son anymore, so he left. This event links the climax to the resolution because it shows how after the trial he becomes a better person
After a basketball game, four kids, Andrew Jackson, Tyrone Mills, Robert Washington and B.J. Carson, celebrate a win by going out drinking and driving. Andrew lost control of his car and crashed into a retaining wall on I-75. Andy, Tyrone, and B.J. escaped from the four-door Chevy right after the accident. Teen basketball star and Hazelwood high team captain was sitting in the passenger's side with his feet on the dashboard. When the crash happened, his feet went through the windshield and he was unable to escape. The gas tank then exploded and burned Robbie to death while the three unharmed kids tried to save him.
At the beginning of the book, Scott had three best friends, Kyle, Mitch, and Patrick. His friends slowly drifted away for different reasons. Patrick had to move to Texas.. Mitch started dating a girl and spent all his time with her. Kyle joined the wrestling team, became a jock, and started bullying Scott. Despite losing all his friends, he made two new ones, Lee and Wesley. In the text it states that, “Wow. Two small words that meant a lot. My friends” (Lubar 275). Lee was a new girl at school who was labeled freaky and weird, even by Scott himself, became she had dyed hair and tons of piercings and loved everything to do with death. Despite her appearance and interests, Scott and Lee were brought together by their love for books. His other new friend, Wesley, was one of the scariest seniors in the school. They met when Scott had to bring something to the office and Wesley had gotten in trouble. Wesley started driving him to school and they became friends shortly after. This showed that Scott changed because he realized his old friends weren’t true friends. He was also able to look past the appearance and interests of a person and be friends with them simply because he knew that they would be true
It’s May 5, 2012. It’s a Saturday night after a stressful week of school. It’s an ordinary spring day. We had been at Truman Lake on the water all day, looking forward to a great night of racing. The sun rose up, the heat was reaching the upper nineties, and conditions were beautiful for a night filled with racing. My uncle had box tickets to the Impact Night at Wheatland Speedway. My mom, dad, brother, and three of our family friends all piled into our seven passenger SUV to head down to Wheatland, MO. Little did we know what was in store. The races started off intense and every race had at least one wreck. After a long day, we were driving home. Exhausted, I had just dozed off on my mom’s shoulder when out of nowhere on Highway 83, we swerved off the road to avoid getting hit head-on by a drunk driver. Sliding every which way through the ditch, we hit a school bus sign; only feet away from guard rail. Thanks to my dad’s retired dirt track racing skills and someone watching over us, everyone in that car is alive today.
Throughout Jessica’s journey of losing her leg, she acquires an enormous level of support and comfort from her family while she is finding her way. Losing a leg is something that nobody ever wants to happen, but Jessica doesn’t get this choice. Along the way of the process
As Stephen grows, he slowly but inexorably distances himself from religion. His life becomes one concerned with pleasing his friends and family. However, as he matures he begins to feel lost and hopeless, stating, "He saw clearly too his own futile isolation. He had not gone one step nearer the lives he had sought to approach nor bridged the restless shame and rancor that divided him from mother and brother and sister." It is this very sense of isolation and loneliness that leads to Stephen's encounter with the prostitute, where, "He wanted to sin with another of his kind, to force another being to sin with him and to exult with her in sin.
At the end of Chapter 5, Stephen realizes he must leave Ireland if he is to truly realize his role as an artist. He has realized the harmfulness of the two religious extremes he has vacillated between as a teenager. Both the completely sinful and completely devout lifestyles are false and harmful to Stephen, as both prevent him from experiencing the entirety of the human experience. He does not want to lead a completely debauched life, but neither does he want to live within the iron dictates of the Catholic Church. Ultimately, Stephen reached the decision to embrace life and celebrate humanity, uniting both the concern with spirituality of Plato's philosophy and the concern with worldly existence of Aristotle's philosophy.
Religion, besides the practical need for food and shelter is one of the most powerful drives in Stephen's life. Religion serves as Stephen's guidance and saviour yet it is also responsible for his tormented youth and distracting him from his artistic development. As a child growing up in a strict Catholic family, Stephen is raised to be a good Catholic boy who will follow the teaching of Catholism as his guidance in his life. The severity of his family is shown when his mother tells him either to "apologise" (4) or "the eagles will come and pull out his eyes" (4). Stephen is taught by his mother to be tolerant when she "[tells] him not to speak with the rough boys in the college" (5). Similarly, Stephen's father also taught him a Catholic quality by telling Stephen "never to peach on a fellow' (6). Evidence of Stephen following the "never to peach" (6) quality is shown when Stephen agrees not to tell on Wells for pushing him into a ditch. However, as Stephen matures into his adolescence, religion becomes his savior rather than his guidance. As Stephen's family condition declines, he sees priesthood as a way to escape poverty and shame. In fact, priesthood is an opportunity for Stephen's personal gain...