Jerk

        Being teased is so not fair. Many do it because your different or you have a problem. Jerk by Jonathan Frisen is about a boy named Sam who has tourette syndrome and is being discouraged because of it. Many think Sam Carrier is a freak because he twitches every minute. He is being discouraged by his step father ever since they found out when he was little. Sam thinks that Bill is ashamed of him because of his disability. But his mother loves him regardless. Another one is he has to go to this therapy session everyday after school to talk about his tourette. Sam loves to run but because the Coach said he can't on the track team, he can't. The reason being he can go in to spasm at any moment. Which I think is unfair. 

Charles VS Laurie

" The day my son Laurie started kindergarten, he gave up his little-boy clothes. He started wearing blue jeans, with a belt. He looked as though he were going off to a fight". This isn't something a typical parent would say. In this story Charles by Shirley Jackson, Laurie comes home everyday and has different stories about this other kid named Charles who is really bad and reckless. As the reader why is Charles so important?
    There was many different themes from child vs child, mother vs father, teacher vs student, to mother vs son. But the most important was Mother Vs Child because Laurie's Mother is starting to get worried that "Charles" is a bad influence. " Do you think kindergarten is to disturbing for Laurie?"I asked him.  " This Charles boy sounds like a bad influence." This shows that the mother was well aware that Charles was beginning to be a little bit to much trouble.
      The plot is easy to realize in this story because you know from the dialogue. In the start Laurie is going off to school for his first day if kindergarten. Then rising action started to occur when Laurie came home with his first Charles story. " But the teacher spanked a boy," Laurie said. " For being fresh." Laurie thought. " It was Charles," he said." The teacher spanked him and  mad him stand in the corner." There was a little hinting when Laurie had to think, why think about it if you knew everything? Then came the ultimate turning point were the mother found out there was Charles just Laurie. " I looked over the faces of all the  other mothers. None of them looked unhappy enough to be the mother of Charles. No one stood up and apologized for the way her son had been acting. No one mentioned Charles". Shouldn't that tell you something? Now this is the falling action: " I'm Laurie mother." " Oh yes," she said. "We're all so interested in Laurie."
"He certainly likes kindergarten" I said. " He talks about it all the time."
" He's has some trouble getting used to the school," she said. " Suppose his trouble might be from Charles' influence."
" Charles?" she said. " We don't have any Charles in kindergarten."
     Anything  is possible when your a little kid. But I didn't know that you could make a new identity to hide your faults was one of them. My reaction was that I was shocked that this little boy who is know less than three or four could come up with such a brilliant plan to hide his troubles. I think this is one of the best stories ever because you get problem after problem in the story which is just the rising action of the story. Till you get to the climax or the turning point where Laurie's mother realizes that Charles never existed. But I don't get why, why the fake person. I mean after all Charles doesn't exits.

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Stop the Sun

     Vietnam Syndrome is what most soldiers after war. Their body is present but their minds is still at war time. Terry's father has Vietnam Syndrome and sometimes when sitting at the dinner table his eyes wonders off more and more. In Stop the Sun by Gary Paulsen, Terry faces a problem were the only solution is for his for his father to talk about the war. Which is a pretty huge risk. As the reader, Terry to do that may bring a lot of change to the relationship he has with his father.
        The Problem or conflict in the story is that Terry wants his father to open up about Vietnam so he can "understand" it better. Which is true but he wants to know because his father did something that really embarrassed him. " His father was squirming along the floor on his stomach. He was crying, looking terrified, his breath coming in short, hot pants like some kind of hurt animal." This was the main reason why Terry was so interested. He became so embarrassed that he crossed the street when his father was walking toward him. But I don't understand why not ask him instead of doing all that research. The rising action in the story was when Terry went in to the Kitchen and asked his father about Vietnam. Which in the end made Terry feel so horrible about it. " No. Not that. It was a standing joke between them. When his father got around to explaining it to him they had already covered it in school. " It's something else,' 'Something pretty heavy judging by your face.' 'Yes' 'Well?' I still can't do it, Terry thought. Things are bad, but maybe not as bad as it could get. I still can't drop this thing. 'Vietnam' Terry blurted out. ,'No! his father said sharply . 'No that's another part of my life. A bad part. A rotten part. It  has nothing to do with this family. No'
      The turning point was when Terry realized that his father was about to break his silence about Vietnam. An how making him talk was all for the wrong reasons. "We were crossing a rice paddy in the dark.' he said, and suddenly his voice flowed like a river breaking loose.'
       

Eyes And Teeth

     The story eyes and teeth by Wanda Coleman is about her and Buzz, her cousin. In the beginning Buzz and Wanda are playing and having fun. Like they would jump in to a tiny bed with six of them. " Me and Buzz get along about like always." "Him tickling my feet till I cry uncle." You can tell judging by the game there playing they're little kids.

         The problem was that Buzz's mother point of view of him hurt Buzz's feelings. "I'm so glad that this baby did not turn out dark and ugly like Buzz. I can't stand to look at nothin' that black , like tar". This was the turning point because after this Buzz did not want to be around his mother." He became mean tempered, with drawn, and sullen.Since then Buzz and Wanda never saw each other again for twenty years.
             The resolution was that Buzz forgave him mother. An went to her funeral. But when he came to the service he was with his young wife, new car, and two dark skinned beautiful kids. " They're beautiful  and every one one of them looks like their father.

            

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