I was made fun of daily and got beat up multiple times, mostly by Dick. If it was not Dick bothering me, it was his friends. I would make up excuses to my mom so I would not have to go to school and have to deal with the constant abuse, but even that did not help. Dick would take pictures of me when his friends would give me wedgies and post them on Facebook. I never caught a break.
Kevin Oliveira Professor Madritch Expository Writing Literacy Narrative- Final Draft 30 September 2011 A Leap of Faith School ended and the brisk summer air gave me the feeling of a new beginning. Unfortunately, with every new beginning there is a past that haunts. My friend Jarred betrayed me many times before last summer; that is why I cut ties with him for months. As time went on my true friends began to see the effect he had on their trust, so they too disconnected themselves from him. I hated the sight of him and even his name, but deep down inside I missed our old friendship that had lasted since we were in kindergarten.
He held one of his wives at gunpoint, and beat his wives often, one instance even being during the week of peace. Him being abusive caused him and his wives not to be as close, as they feared him. When Ikemafuna was stabbed in the back by a machete, he yelled out to Okonkwo to save him but in fear of looking weak (which comes from his issues with his father) in front of his friends he finished off Ikemafuna. When Okonkwo killed Ikemafuna, it had a negative effect on his family and in the long run lead to his alienation from them. Not only did Okonkwo’s outbursts lead to his alienation from his family, but also from his community.
She ended up telling my grandma she was pregnant, who was very upset about it, and eventually my grandpa found out. He was so 38 disappointed that he kicked my mom out of the house. She moved in with my dad, thinking things were going to be good now that her family was together, but little did she know that the next five months were going to be terrible. My dad was the total opposite of what she
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.
Married to John, and has 3 sons. Conflicts she encountered: * Elizabeth and John Proctor are in conflict with one another because John has had an affair with Abigail Williams, a young woman who used to work for them and whom Elizabeth fired due to her involvement with John. * Abigail hates Elizabeth for firing her and taking her away from close proximity to John, which causes her to be one of the wrongly accused people of witchcraft. How did she deal with the conflict? * Elizabeth dealt with her husband’s affair by coming to realize that she may have been partly at fault for her husband's unfaithfulness, because she was not always as warm and loving as she could have been.
After his year in Washington, Bundy transferred once again to Stanford University. Shortly after Brooks broke off their relationship and Bundy was reportedly devastated. His grades suffered which led him to drop out of college. Perhaps this is what set Bundy off on his killing rampage. Many of his victims had a strong resemblance to his first girlfriend.
But then that awful text message came, and I fell in a daze. Lost, confused, shocked. One of my friends from my youth group at church, Jack Williams, had committed suicide. It was hard. He went to a different school, so none of my good friends knew him and acted like I was overreacting.
“You didn’t make the team this year,” are the gut wrenching words that have the power to bring a high school athlete to tears. After reading the team roster posted outside the coaches office and not seeing my name on it. As a freshman, I had always heard the stories of how former players had reacted to the news of being cut, some left school in tears, some tried to beg the coach to give them another chance, some hit a wall and broke their knuckles and most spent the next month in isolation not wanting to face former team mates. It only made the pain worse to see the look of sadness on the faces of your friends. Until it happens to you, it’s hard to imagine the dull and wrenching pain that rushes through your body.
He wasn’t going to stop for a long while but luckily, Pheobe cried enough that he finally stopped. After he was done with me, I had to calm Pheobe down because she was still crying. She really was. Then what was even worse, he already knew I was kicked out of Pencey so I couldn’t even try to lie. So the bastard enrolled me into another school, but that didn’t go all well either and I ended up running away.