The police arrested him for stealing a pair of very important shoes that had belonged to Clyde Livingston. Bad luck? Or a curse from his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather Stanley Yelnats I? “His muscles and hands weren’t the only parts of his body that had hardened over the past several weeks. His heart had hardened as well.” Stanley was not the skinniest of all boys and digging all day in the excruciating heat would have been tough for poor Stanley.
They spent every day down by Old Woman Swamp and helped him learn how to walk, then eventually build strength to swim. ”Doodle was my brother, and he was going to cling to me forever; no matter what I did, so I dragged him across the burning cotton field to share with him the only beauty I knew, Old Woman Swamp… His eyes were round with wonder as he gazed the rubber grass. Then he began to cry.” (Pg.4-5) Conflict built up that summer at Old Woman Swamp. The narrator was very ashamed of his little brother Doodle, and pushed him to learn to walk, run, jump, and even swim. “Doodle said he was too tired to swim, so we got into a skiff and floated down the creek with the tide.
Quentin carries around a suitcase stuffed with books wherever he goes and finds excuses to get out of gym class. He is excitable and often confounds the other members and townspeople with his advanced vocabulary when jumpy. Jimmy "O'Dell" Carroll: is small and excitable, the most emotional member of the group. His father drove the town garbage truck, allowing O'Dell access to many useful items, frequently scrounged to further the group's efforts. He is always scheming ways of making money, from the failed iron scrap attempt—which took an entire summer, yielded a net loss of one dollar, not counting the destruction of borrowed equipment, and almost killed Sonny—to the profitable harvesting of ginseng.
It wasn’t long after he stopped playing with them that he started his own group called Blackbird. They played late night gigs in local bars where he lived. This became a problem for Stevie because he was staying out late and it affected his schoolwork and he started failing. After his grades started to drop his parents made him get a job at the local Dairy Mart washing dishes. Part of his job was to clean out the trash bin, which required him to have to stand on top of 55 gallon barrels with wooden lids that were used for storing grease.
Tom and Jerry are similar by the way they are motivated, strategize, and persevere. In Contents of the Dead Man’s Pocket, Tom loses one of his papers out his window on the ledge of his building and decides to go out and get it even though it will be dangerous. In Through the Tunnel, Jerry goes to explore the bay and meets three boys that go under water for long amounts of time to come up on the other side of the barrier of rocks. He decides to try even though he knows it’s dangerous and he doesn’t know how they even get through the rocks. Tom uses strategy to walk along the ledge without falling and get his paper successfully.
It’s really a “get the job done and leave” kind of a place. The workers clearly reflect the feeling of this bunk house. First Candy, he is one of the workers who had lost a hand probably due to a work related accident. He and Slim are the only ones actually talk normally to George. Candy opens up many behind-the-back stories and general info of the life in the bunk house.
They became great friends, and together, began digging a hole, attempting to make it to the outside. During this journey, Edmund learned patience, revenge, and how to read! Patience came around when they were trying to dig the underground hole to the outside. It took many months to finally reach something, and when they got a break, the ground above them began to collapse. The priest was trapped and Edmund had to get him out.
Narrative intervention The Aftermath Boys of Blood and Bone The physical demands of farm life were a job, but it takes Bob’s mind off the crude memories he endured during the war with Andy and Darcy. While cleaning out the septic tank, the smell reminded Bob of being stuck in the trenches under heavy fire for weeks surrounded by decaying bodies. Since being back from the war, Bob has been sleep deprived due to nightmares of the horrific bloodshed he had faced. Now he always kept a gun under his pillow. Every morning at exactly 0400 hours he would get dressed and pray for Andy and the men lost in that battle.
Stanley and his family are constantly unlucky because of a curse that was placed on his great great grandfather. Stanley and the other boys at the camp are forced to dig large holes in the dirt every day. He eventually realizes that they are digging these holes because the Warden is searching for a buried fortune. Stanley befriends many of the other juvenile delinquents as they struggle to deal with life at the camp. One day while digging Stanley finds a lipstick tube with the initials KB on them, we previously found out the history of the site and know realize what the warden is searching for.
HERMAN WEBSTER MUDGETT Deric Smith Herman Webster Mudgett, a man of great intelligence used his brains to burn, mutate, gas, perform surgery, dissect and suffocate hundreds of people. Mudgett lived a sketchy and hard childhood, even though he was born into a wealthy family. He was teased by the other kids in the neighbor hood. “One day, some of the older boys waited until the doctor was gone, then carried the screaming Herman to the doctor’s door and pushed him toward the terrible skeleton.” (Allison Lassieur, 20) Mudgett became very interested in anatomy after this incident. Mudgett didn’t only murder people he also was involved in fraud, forgery, real estate, insurance scams and bigamy.