Telling the short stories and memories she has from her childhood really gives the reader a strong visual of exactly how deep the conflict was and the way of life it was for her. The image she creates when she says “I did not plaster the family vehicle with National Rifle Association stickers, and the hunter’s orange was never my color.” (Vowell p172) in paragraph one, shows she really does not support any type of firearms organization. She tells this story so well from a narration mode that you could almost see yourself in her shoes. Especially when she states “I had to remove revolvers out of my way to make room for a bowl of Rice Krispies on the kitchen table.” (Vowell p172) Even with her conflict between her and guns she still keeps her opinions about them and decides to stay determined about her political views on firearms. For a teenage girl this is pretty impressive.
Alvarez essay explains how her parents and media taught Alvarez self-worth. Alvarez’s explains how she grew up and learned to love herself. “As a young teenager in our new country, my sisters and I searched for clues on how to look as if we belonged here (Alvarez 92). Young girl sometimes find themselves trying to be like people they see on T.V. so that they can fit into the world.
explains that "they named me Ladybug, but they mostly called me L.B., which, through several misunderstandings early in my education, became Ellie (34)". Ellie does not know who her real father is and neither does her mother, so when Ellie was younger she tried to find her father. after searching, she saw an autographed photo from Jim Morrison other mother and wanted to see if his children had odd names as well. Ellie explained that "I thought Jim
At first Pattyn lashes out and is upset. It was just another reason to feel unloved by her father. But Pattyn begins to like it at her aunts; she finds love from her aunt a boy, Ethan, who seems to be her “forever love”. By the end of the summer Pattyn has to move back home. Ethan knows that Pattyn doesn’t have a very good home life so he gives her a gun, for self-defense.
His mother was known by the main remark that she stated that Richard (Nixon) everyday seemed to need her more than her other four sons. In Nixon’s life one of the chief paradoxes that a man raised by this calm and loving Quaker should have so rejected the Quaker inheritance. It is also another mystery that a child raised by a mother full of caring and love could have been so obsessed with hate (Brodie, 1981).
This becomes clearer when Kay introduces Sophie, the interviewer. The chapter switches to third person as ‘she switches off the tape’. This sudden switch is shown both in the language, where the word ‘switch’ is actually used, and the form, as there is a chapter break just before Sophie’s introduction. Three pages later Kay introduces Sophie by name, through Colman wondering ‘should he tell Sophie Stones’. This is relevantly placed, as we are starting to understand that Colman is being interviewed about his father, so the revealing of her name gives us a character to put to the voice.
“Father?” asked my eight-year-old daughter, Samantha. She stared wide eyed at the gun, then rubbed her sleepy eyes. “Where are you going?” she questioned again. I took a deep breath. Samantha held her arms out waiting for me to pick her up.
In Flint, MI a first grader brought a gun to school and shot a girl in his class. His mom was out of town for welfare to work. They had just moved into his uncle’s house which is where he got the gun. Why did his uncle have a loaded gun in the house and better yet to where it was accessible to the child? Why hadn’t his mother checked the house to make sure everything was safe for her children?
Between both articles I am able to firmly set my opinion on guns remaining a right. Both articles had a lot of information and it varied a lot between the different approaches, but for a topic like this I think that logic and information is better than just an opinion and some emotions. I am for having guns because it is a right given to us in the Constitution and it is a way to protect myself. I like shooting and I like when my dad gives me meat from the deer he shoots. There are a lot more pros than cons in this situation and Granderson was right: “There is no same shooting” and therefore there cannot be just one generalized solution to this issue.
Of course at first we can think that this text will be about love and passion with happy end, without any interesting facts, but in reality it isn’t so. The theme of this story is an eternal opposition between money and love. The round characters of this story are Old Anthony and his son Richard, the static characters are Aunt Ellen, Miss Lantry and Kelly. The main idea of this story is wealth (money – old Athony) and love (young Richard). As we know everything in our life depends on freak of chance, but old Anthony thinks that money can decide all problems of his life.