She acted as if nothing had happened & the next day took David to the hospital, trying to convince the doctor he has fallen off the top bunk of the bed. David declared, “But my fear kept the accident our secret. I knew if I ever told anyone, the next “accident” would be worse.” Once, David was dropped off at his Aunt Josie’s house & tried to escape. Mother found out about this & she smacked, punched, & kicked him until he crumpled to the floor. She also crammed a bar of soap down his throat & to think David attempted to escape his aunt’s house, because he actually missed her.
It described in great detail all the long nights of drug use and partying. I felt like I had been up all night with Kristina. The ending was not at all predictable. When Kristina returns to her mom's house to get clean from the drugs and to have the baby you believe that she will succeed. After she talks to her mother about not being able to provide for the baby and how difficult it was to love him, she decides to give the baby to her mother to adopt and raise.
I went to play with my friends, but they were mean to me. I walked into the coat room and hid behind a big puffy coat until I heard my teacher yell that recess was over. When I got home I went straight to my room and began to cry. I didn’t want to tell my parents I was retarded. I didn’t want them to know.
Gabe Tollin Tollin 1 ENC 1101 July 12, 2009 Memoir/Dr. Donnelly Blind Sided! It’s amazing how in life I could be doing everything right and not making any mistakes, but one idiot who does make a mistake completely changed my life. I remember pulling out of my driveway, and Amber my girlfriend was already asleep. She was tired that night and passed out literally seconds after sitting down and buckling her seatbelt.
One day his teacher gives him a letter and tells him not to read it until he got home, John was worried because his teacher never told him to read a letter at home before because he does not like John because most of the fights that John gets in are in school. He went home and went straight up to his room, he opened the letter and it said that John has been expelled from his school and that he gets to finish out the week; he went downstairs to tell his mom but when he was downstairs he saw his father lying on the couch and vomiting profusely, right next to him was his
Samantha Gearhart Professor Ballard Sociology 120 16 January 2011 September 11, 2001 “Mom, what happened?” I asked my mother, curious as to why she sat in front of the TV crying and calling my father frantically. “Nothing sweetie, go to your room,” my mother responded as tears rolled down her cheeks. September 11, 2001 was a day that changed history forever. Although I was only eleven years old, and had no idea how horrible it truly was, I knew that something terrible had happened. After my mother was able to calm down, and my father returned from work, they sat me down to explain what had happened.
She told me Mister Jeffrey became very upset with her and claimed she doesn’t care about his feelings and never has. She told me he wouldn’t even come to sleep in their bed that night. She said that this morning Mister Jeffrey was still angry with her and when she tried to speak to him he wouldn’t even look at her. At this point Miss Hilly was crying again. She told me that finally after a few tries of speaking to him that he just flipped out on her.
There are plenty of teens caught up in these dangerous situations, and like older women, the teenage girls feel they are somehow responsible for the abuse they suffer at the hands of the men whom they love and who supposedly love them. This phenomenon is common among abused women. They make excuses for the beatings they take and their abusers insist it will never happen again. And yet it does the cycle of violence never
When the check came, and Mama put the money down on the house, he said to her bitterly, intending to cause as much pain as possible, “So you butchered up a dream of mine—you—who always talking ‘bout your children’s dreams...”(95) Yes, he was upset, but there’s a limit to what you can do and say before it turns intentional. He gave up on his dreams, much like Beneatha did later on, and because of that, he lost his conviction. He didn’t go to work for 3 days, instead took Willy Harris’ car and drove off places, and went to the Green Hat and got drunk, for three days. Almost lost his job, putting his family into deeper trouble than it already was. “Ain’t that a sad, ain’t that cryin’ sad,”(104) was his only comment.
I never caught a break. I contemplated suicide many times. I would have been completely fine with taking my own life, but how selfish would that have been of me? My family is the most important thing in the world to me, and I would never put them through something like that. I tolerated the bulling every day until one day, in my senior year, Dick didn't show up to school for a whole week.