Sólo The Hit Rules are rules; they may seem to be solved by organization, although one key thing is that they are always meant to be broken, no matter what the outcome may be. A young girl in a small town, where everyone knows each other and everyone else knows you, and everything about you. She is the last human to be born on this earth; since her mom tells her stories that the men killed the entire woman race, because they wanted to end humanity. Sofia and her mother are the only women left. Life in a world of peace is pretty routine. It may be in the middle of nowhere, but the town is pretty basic but strict. Meals, naps, TV time, medication and lights out -- it all takes place according to a carefully crafted schedule. It helps keep everyone stable. Although these rules seem to not affect a female at the age of 14 named Sofia, she may be completely innocent, well other than her rule breaking. She stays up late and loves to break rules. Her day is simple. You can't exactly set a clock by it, but it never changes much. Either dinner, free time, exercise, breakfast, reading and sleeping. But all this changed the night a strange old man crashed his vehicle through her front door. Remember rules are meant to be broken in this town. As Sofia sits in the hospital wing looking at the item that was in her back pocket, lost; she thinks of the night that just happened. Sofia was getting ready for bed when this happened. She remembers it was getting dark because it was about three in the morning. Her mother was telling her about a face cleanser called proactive. The way her mother walked on out of the bathroom was her ticket to world peace. It was until Sofia heard a noise that sounded like the building was crumbling under her feet. A... ... middle of paper ... ...rom her tears that fell from her eyes, and are continuing to fall. Sofia wipes her eyes on her sleeve, gets up and walks away; she has a plan to follow. She will go home grab everything she will need, and head towards the forest just like her mother told her to do. No more tears she thinks to herself, she’s a new girl now, a strong one, and she is no longer going to be the weak and fragile one that she used to be. She will make everyone proud including herself. Her mother will have died for a reason, and she will make the reason unforceful. Sofia walks out of the hospital doors, and onto the outside world. Leaving her tears behind with the old her. She reaches in her pocket grabs the map, and begins on the journey that will make her mother proud. It all changes now. It’s the beginning of a new world. Sólo la vida leaves her lips as she walks off into the darkness.
A teenager comes home late from a party to find her mother waiting quietly at the doorstep. The mother points at the clock and asks where on earth her daughter had been all night. The teenager skulked out of the room. Mom had to stay firm, for it was two hours past curfew and her daughter never called. The punishment was simple: one week without a car. But the teenager raged about the house, hurling insults at her mother, slamming doors, and wailing about how it was all “so unfair”. It was then that her agitated father rose from his slumber, stomped to her room and raised that dreaded one week sentence to a month.
Sixth grade Jodee enrolled at a private academy and the first few months were without incident. Jodee reveled in having friends and tried to do everything right to stay in their good standing. The trouble started when she called her mother to leave a party early. Jodee begged her mother not tell what was going on with the twelve year olds—but they were all caught in the act. Monday morning at school she found her favorite suede shoes floating in a toilet bowl of urine with a note attached—“Bitch, this is just the beginning.” She was cruelly treated, spit at, beaten, and shunned on a daily basis. Her parents were sympathetic to her dilemma and finally forced her to see a psychiatrist. She was placed on medication that made her very sleepy. The psychiatrist said that “kids will be kids and that possibly she was looking for attention from her parents.
Two sisters, Rose and Bianca, journey through life to find their need for closure after their mother’s death. Rose a responsible, smart, and career driven girl wanted nothing more than to escape the path of her past but in the end, she found the most peace in going back to where all the memories were made. While her sister Bianca died for a trip down memory lane and the hope to communicate with their death mother, when in the end, Bianca had no desire for her past. The girls each got what they wanted out of finally talking with their
who wanted to enter her life, she is left alone after her father’s death. Her attitude
Her struggles are of a flower trying to blossom in a pile of garbage. Growing up in the poor side of the southside of Chicago, Mexican music blasting early in the morning or ducking from the bullets flying in a drive-by shooting. Julia solace is found in her writing, and in her high school English class. Mr. Ingram her English teacher asks her what she wants out of life she cries “I want to go to school. I want to see the word” and “I want so many things sometimes I can’t even stand it. I feel like I’m going to explode.” But Ama doesn’t see it that way, she just tells, Julia, she is a bad daughter because she wants to leave her family. The world is not what it seems. It is filled with evil and bad people that just want to her hurt and take advantage of
Nine year old Miranda’s sudden epiphany of womanhood occurs when her twelve year old brother, Paul, takes her on a hunting trip and shoots a pregnant rabbit, the symbol of fertility and rebirth. Although Miranda knew the process of having a baby and what it included, it never registered to her as it did now. The lack of a mother figure in her life has deprived Miranda of many characteristics an average nine year old girl at this time should have, including wearing dresses and fixing her hair. In this short story, the reader learns that events, such as Miranda’s encounter with the rabbit in the graveyard, can leave a lasting impact on a person’s life. When the effects of the events are negative, Porter suggests that the bad memories be replaced with the warm ones to give yourself a feeling of calmness and relief. When you have control over your thoughts, you have control over your
There are many levels of looking at rules. For example, on a more broad view, when parents tell their children that they cannot scream at and hit each other, they are telling their children a very common, yet important rule. It maintains the behavior of the children. Not only at the time being, but as well as throughout their life. Since they learn at a young age not to scream and fight with each other, they learn to...
I have also observed that there seems to be a strong set of rules in
Louise receives the news with overwhelming grief and tears where others would have been shocked into disbelief. Her grief is short lived as she begins to imagine her future alone. Any burdens Louise had felt were lifted at her thoughts of being free to live for herself. As she sits in her room digesting all the mixed emotions running through her mind and heart, Louise experiences the fact that her marriage of discontent was over. Unbeknownst to others, she longed for independence and a will of her own.
If rules were not created the world would be in chaos. The world would be up in flames without directions/rules. If they weren’t created criminals would be on the loose, they would have car wrecks everyday and no one would have a job and afford all the nice things they have as in money a house and a car. Everyone is at their best and can be their best when they do the right things like following directions. The world would be such a better place if everyone followed the directions/rules.
.... Failure to abide by these rules result in consequences, involving a beat down, injuries, or in some cases death.
Seventeen-year-old Juliette Ferrars can unexplainably kill others with a single touch. Juliette has been cast off from society and placed in an insane asylum after an incident in which she embraced a child, resulting in the child’s death. After spending 264 days in isolation, Juliette is clearly losing her grasp on reality, and struggling to prove to herself that she is not the monster that society believes she is, but she uses numbers and the written word to keep herself sane. In a hidden
For instance, the rules where family units must consist of parents and 2 children was a rule that had to be followed, and under no circumstances should that rule be disobeyed, “Two children—one male, one female—to each family unit. It was written very clearly in the rules” (Lowry 8). Rules in a society usually do not cover how many children should be allowed into a household, in most societies there are not any such rules. Later in the novel however, the rule was justified so that the community would not become over-populated and cause some family to begin living in hunger (a societal issue which had been eliminated from the community). While this rule is justified, the elders of this community should not be able to make such a decision for the greater good of the entire community. This type of rule, whether to have more or less than 2 children, should depend on the decisions made by each family unit separately. Because, if the only problem with having more than 2 children plus 2 parents in each household was hunger, the elders could easily make the decision to produce more food for each family. Another way the citizens of the community is placed under constant order is the rules which govern everyday life. Such as the rules where each family unit must share their dreams in the mornings and
Ten year old Annie John who grew up and lived in Antigua, goes on an internal journey to develop from a little naive girl to a women overcoming various obstacles. She tries being more comfortable with her mother and creating a closer bond despite the big age gap between her and her mother. The story she wrote and presented in class about her mother swimming and drawing patterns on a rock far from the shore. The story shows a common aspect of childhood; the parents are greatly relied on. The day will come when the mother has to leave with all of her teaching and the child has to face reality. Annie’s sentiment changes as she grows up and develops into an independent woman. The novel reflects this change through symbolism representing Annie’s development from a child to an independent woman.
In society is it generally been accepted that rules are needed to be able to function properly in our everyday lives. Laws are created to create civilized societies, without which society would begin to crumble. There are many views on how a good society should be and many theories put in place. Rachels’ provides us two separate theories that demonstrate two different ways we place rules on the society.