I have a large empty house on top of Brickmore Hill, which I have been trying, unsuccessfully, to sell since 1995. It used to be a fraternity house for members of the Brickmore College baseball team, but on October 31, 1995, the boys at the frat had a Halloween Party that ended tragically. I prefer not to say anything about that party because the details are extremely gruesome. The sad fact of the matter is that, for 13 years, I have been unable to sell the house, and I am trying to keep it from falling into disrepair. On past Halloweens, the local kids have broken windows, and worse, so I need someone to stay there the whole night to make sure no harm comes to my building.
Malarkey Critical Evaluation Keith Gray’s emotional text ‘Malarkey’ is a text that not only deals with conflict but is also an emotional journey of the characters. The writer conveys the idea to the reader by characterisation and through the plot of the story. John Malarkey is in the wrong time, he has started at a new school, Brook High and the gang situated at Brook High ‘The Tailors’ take an instant disliking to him. They feel like he is a threat to them, they want him out of Brook High so they do there best to have Malarkey excluded from the school. They start off by stealing his bag and planting his maths teacher Mr Macallan’s wallet in it knowing he would get the blame because he couldn’t explain why it was there.
He started to perform badly at school and so, he decides to follow his sister’s steps and leave the house. However, he has nowhere to go, so he’s forced, suffering, onto the streets. With a sleeping bag, and £150 of savings of saving, he decides to travel to London. After his arrival to London, hoping for a fresh start, finding an apartment and a job were Link’s priorities. He finds an apartment advertisement with a negotiable rent, but after being bullied he is forced to take the apartment for a high price for 2 weeks leaving him with only 2/3 of his money.
The story’s main protagonist, Trevor, called "T" by the other boys, is a prime example of this, having moved into the neighborhood after his family’s sudden loss in social status. "T" is presented as having already lost his innocence, which is why it is he who suggests destroying Mr. Thomas’ home. The gang’s former leader, Blackie, is shown in the process of losing his innocence, as he starts out the story proposing relatively petty and victimless shenanigans for his group to accomplish. By the end of the story, however, Blackie is fully supportive of the plan to destroy Mr. Thomas’ house. Destruction and Creation One of the story’s most famous lines -- “Destruction, after all, is a form of creation” -- also identifies one of the story’s main themes.
Meaning that poverty has risen to a point where in order to make money people even kidnap children and make them learn these things working for them. These children will grow up and continue to do the same thing because this was the only mentality they were taught to be successful. There a clip where Jamal and his older brother Salim slums have been attacked by a riot and their mother is now died becoming orphans. After the riot they meet Latika, another child from their slum and she goes along being their third musketeer. They come in contact with this man name Maman who starts to take care of them but quickly learn that he is blinding children in order to make them more profitable as singing beggars.
In a matter of days, the film shows the dramatic change of Tsotsi’s character. He went from being a ruthless killer to being a loving father figure to the baby in less than a week. I think this is very unrealistic and it would never happen in the reality because you can’t become so attached to something so quickly and that something cannot have the power to change a man so drastically in just a few days. The change in the film is portrayed by the visits to Miriam’s house. The first time he enters her house it is by force when he threatens her with a gun, by the end of the film he asks politely if he can come into her house because the director wants us to believe that he has changed into a better man.
Simmons wanted to bond and tie the victim and discard her off the bridge. Simmons convinced his two friends that they would not be convicted for these acts because they are still considered juveniles (under the age of eighteen). On September 9th at approximately 2 a.m. met up with each other to carry out Simmons plan to murder the victim. Tessmer left the group after changing his mind, shortly after they met up. Simmons and Benjamin still decided to carry out the plan; they broke into the victim’s home by reaching through an open window and unlocking the back door.
“Orientation” meets the criteria for Goldwag’s rule of postmodern fiction story telling due to the way the character contradicts himself within the same sentence, “ This is your phone. Never answer your phone” (484). It is also expressed through the random series of events that appear to lack a plot. However, this is what Orozco is aiming for. He is comparing the real world to the style of his writing, which at first seems messy and insignificant but comes together at the end and
Trevor, once the son of an architect and once part of an upper-class family, ignores that he is a thief, and has resorted to plotting to destroy this “beautiful” house specifically from the inside-out with his gang of teenage boys who have already replaced their innocence with greed, cynicism, and rebelliousness in a post-war, blitzed London. Trevor’s experience in a London that has been reduced to rubble reveals that once a society has been singled out for destruction, it becomes instable and slowly crumbles from the inside-out like an infection. Trevor’s anger over his family’s shift in social status motivates him to destroy Old Misery’s house; providing a rich irony and proves most teenage boys’ actions contradict their words because he calmly neglects the fact that he is a thief. Trevor admits that the house is “beautiful” and quite an exquisite relic for a building. Old Misery’s house is where the old man spends and will spend a vast majority of the rest of his life.
About right now, Joey is late for an audition, Spongebob is writing an essay due in five minutes, College students are too tired to pay attention to their A&P lecture and parents are putting off their morning meetings until the afternoon! And do you know what causes all this chaos? Just five syllables: PROCRASTINATION. From the ‘I’ll do it later’ excuse to the ‘Aw man, I can’t believe I put this off until the last minute!’ worrying. Procrastination is ruining our lives!