My experience was significantly different from Rodriguez’s. His life at home and at school is even almost exactly opposite of my own. My family played a key part in my life whereas his was almost nonexistent. I believe he took the wrong path. He completely ignored his family to just work obsessively in school, but took absolutely nothing away from it because he was only working to be recognized, not to learn.
He named himself a “scholarship boy”; a student with poor resource coming from an uneducated family who live in a foreign country but who has an enormous desire to improve himself. Unfortunately, to achieve his goal he forces himself to get apart from his own culture and his family. The miss of education of his parents was not helpful for him until the point that he felt dissatisfied and embarrassed of them. Even thought, they were always behind him; to make his success possible, “they evened the path” he said (627). His parents’ goals were really admirable.
Nick Ladd Professor Fair English 243 24 February 2014 In “Of the Coming of John”, by W.E.B. Dubois the main character was John Jones, and he struggled to find his own identity. Sent away to school with the promise of “When John comes home” (Page 166), he found that he had been kicked out. He still felt the pressure to do well from his obligations to his hometown, and after working pushes himself to get through school. With this education comes a “lifted veil’, for he can now see the world around him as all other educated persons can.
Fights had to be settled, bullying stopped, and the small kids set straight when they did things wrong. (225)”. Even when Peekay is the most popular kid in the school, he still feels like he doesn't belong. He's a leader, but not one of them. However even though Peekay is an outsider it doesn't stun him from becoming an outstanding student.
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.
4. Apply the process of perception, starting on p. 64 to explain the interaction between Jim and his father. Between Jim and his father there was a lot of assumptions made. The communication between the two seemed tense due to Jim’s father insinuating that he was slacking and could do much better in school. Jim feels as if his father is expecting too much from him.
Franklin was born in Boston N. England and was well raised by both his parents when he was eight; instead of becoming an apprentice to a trade like his brothers, his father sent him to grammar school and excelled tremendously. Unfortunately Josiah decided he couldn’t afford it and transferred him into a school for writing and Arithmetic. Franklin learned good amount of writing but he did poorly in arithmetic. By the age of ten, he was taken out of school because of the same issue. He was put to work in trade but none of the trades interested him.
The boy, nicknamed Ort, tells his story in the first person; readers will either find this charming or off-putting, depending on taste. Ort, whose parents are remnants of the hippie culture of the 1960’s, cannot cope with the town school and its slightly more sophisticated denizens. Though he lacks the toughness of his older sister Tegwyn, he reveals his strength of character by his mature reaction to his father’s death. Now lacking a paternal role model, Ort soon makes good the
William Sarmiento Sarmiento 1 Ms. Flynn English 98R 2002 September 26, 2012 Failure To Success Paul Logan said,” to thrive in college, you have to want to be there and you have to be ready to focus on work”. In the summary of Paul Logan “Failure to Success”, is about a young man who went from an A student, to a 0.0 student, to a 4.0 student, also went through being bullied, and embarrassed. In elementary and mid school he was an A student. When he went to high school things changed, he started under achieving, being in a huge school. Being a shy teenager with acne he was constantly bullied, teased and threatened.
Samuel Hammons Miss Herman AP English III 22 February 2013 It Looks Like a Job for a Grown-Up As a boy learning the ways of the world, what was right and wrong, what to say and not to say, or even what to laugh at; no one has ever influenced my decisions more throughout my childhood than my older brother, Chris. Even though he was never quite aware, my young eyes were constantly watching him. Chris was seven years older than me so everything he did was what I associated with being cool and/or mature. If imitation is the highest form of flattery, then no one could deny how much I flattered my brother. Almost everything he did, I imitated to the smallest detail.