The narrator illustrates Flick Webb as the then version of our LeBron James or Michael Jordan. The main character of the poem works at berths garage because in high school he paid more attention to sports than his studies. Now because flick did not so well in school at the time he was probably forced to drop out of high school. After high school flick starts to work at a local garage. The narrator then back into the present to say what happened to Flick after high school.
Baseball Bats Are Not Just Used For Shattering Balls. gAs nice as people are you can not trust them. Clumsy Simon Glass is a nerd, a loser who occupies the lowest rung on the high school social ladder. Simon was better known as the textbook geek of his high school, who has no friends and someone everybody picks on; that is until Rob Haynes shows up. Haynes is a transfer student, who has something special instore Haynes and his gang of friends Young ,Bob, and Coop had a mission to turn Simon Glass from a total freak to a wanna be prom king.
Holden avoids interaction with people that could help him, and instead he talks to strangers all because he does not want to face reality. After he got kicked out of school he wandered to the city of Manhattan instead of going home to face parental consequences. Holden didn’t call his home phone to contact his sister because “she wouldn’t’ve been the one that answered the phone. My parents would be the ones. So that was out.” (Pg.59) He avoided all contact with his parents.
D.B Caulfield is Holden’s older brother, Holden looks up to D.B but is disappointed about D.B decision to go Hollywood, as Holden thinks it is an act similar to prostitution. Holden goes to school in Pennsylvania, not far from New York. The school is called Pencey Prep, plus it’s a private school for boys so you wouldn’t of thought he flunked school. Holden had many problems a school. This novel has very significant features, from ducks and fishes to red hunting hats.
The theme of friendship is shown in many cases in this novel, one of the main times is when Ishmael befriends James Scobie, even knowing that it would cause him to be bullied even more. Another time it is shown is near the end of the novel when Ishmaels friend makes plans for him and another boy from the debating team to see a movie and go over to each other’s houses in the holidays. Characters- Some of the distinguishing features about Ishmael are that he speaks like a normal teenage boy, although sometimes he uses words that most kids his age wouldn’t even know the meaning of. One of his main distinguishing features is that he is very shy and afraid to speak up or stand up for himself when confronted by Barry Bagsley, This results on him being picked on even more because the bully knows that he won’t stand up for himself of confront him. Ishmael is a bit of an outcast in the School society, he starts off having no friends but after the arrival of James Scobie and being forced into the debating team.
Title: Wonder Name: Jack Fitzpatrick Author: R.J. Palacio Due Date: Number of pages: 315 Per. 7-8a Genre: realistic fiction Summary: This book is about August (auggie) who is a boy that’s face is badly deformed. He is sent to school for the first time in his life, but he is scared of what the other kids will think of his face. Throughout this story, he is bullied but somehow still makes friends despite his face. Other characters in the book are: Olivia (via), Miranda, Jack Will, Julian, Summer, Charlotte, Henry, Miles, Justin, Jamie, and Mr. Browne.
Not only did he go on a journey, he went on a relatable journey. The fact that it is relatable helps because more kids around his age reading this book will consider him a hero, or someone to look up to. Pudge goes on a journey from a lonely, public school, Florida boy to having to leave his home state to go to Alabama and attend a boarding school. He also must start all over and since he did not do so great the first time, friends-wise, a second chance would not hurt. At his new school, he sticks out like a sore-thumb because he is not a new freshman, but a new junior!
Because his parents have died in a car accident, Ponyboy lives with his brothers Darry and Sodapop. Darry repeatedly accuses Ponyboy of lacking common sense, but Ponyboy is a reliable youth. Throughout the novel, Ponyboy struggles with class division, violence, innocence, and familial love. He matures over the course of the novel, eventually realising the importance of friendship and the feeling of respect. Though he is only fourteen years old, he understands the way his social group functions and the role each group member plays.
An example of this is the walk-a-thon where Josephine is put in charge of taking care of the back of the group but she abandons her duty as her friends convince her into skipping school to meet a celebrity. This is also the time where the peer pressure from their friends affects the decision making of adolescents. Themes Narration The narrator of
He tries to camouflage himself so he does not stand out as a rooinek because the kids at school bully and discriminate against him because of his English heritage. Hoppie recognizes Peekay’s pain and helps comfort him by saying, “That’s why you’re going to be the next champ, Peekay, you’ve got the reason. I didn’t tell you before, man. You now the bloke who beat me for the title in Pretoria? Well he was English, a rooinek like you” (73).