"Sandcastles" by Jesus Hardwell The setting of "Sandcastles" by Jesus Hardwell takes place in the summer of a remote crescent shaped beach. Three best friends ran, played, and explored, as they had nowhere else to be. When one thinks of a beach setting like this one, it brings about happy thoughts of relaxation, children laughing, playing in the surf and sand. When the boys run into a strange woman on a remote stretch of the beach, who has a darker plan for herself that day, the woman deceives the boys into helping her to ultimately end her life. The setting of the story is connected to theme loss of innocence.
While Bethany’s dad talked to Myrlie, Bethany overheard her father say “She doesn’t know anything about Elizabeth.” Bethany realized that her parents were abandoning her without an explanation, but she begrudgingly settled in. Myrlie showed Bethany the way to her room for her grandchildren that had never been used. Myrlie then took Bethany back downstairs, where she correctly guessed all of Bethany’s favorite foods. The next day, Bethany told Myrlie that she is a swimmer, so Myrlie took her to the YMCA to swim. While they were there, one of Myrlie’s friends noticed Bethany and mentioned that she thought she was Elizabeth.
Grayson is an incredible and breathtaking autobiographical narrative; written by Lynne Cox. The book chronicles the amazing journey Cox takes while going on her normal swim to Catalina Island. Lynne Cox tells the story of her miraculous ocean encounter that happened when she was seventeen and training for a big swim. She tells her real life tale about being in the Pacific ocean with an abandoned baby whale that strayed from his mother while migration to Baja, Mexico. The characters change in this story which takes place in only five hours change drastically.
LOCKIE LEONARD ESSAY Lockie Leonard – Human Torpedo is a novel exploring the experiences of two teens falling in love. This novel was written by Tim Winton. Lockie Leonard is 12 and three quarters, he loves surfing and has just started at a new school. I think this novel relates to all teens especially year 8s because Lockie Leonard and his girlfriend Vicki Streeton are both going through puberty, popularity, love etc. Loneliness and Friendship Lockie and his family have just moved from Perth to a small coastal township of Angelus.
Cori Schumacher, the world’s leading women’s longboard champion, has always dreamed of becoming a professional female surfer at an age as early as twelve. However, her journey to success was not so much of a smooth ride particularly because very few women in the surfing and longboarding industry are ever able to earn a living by doing what they are best known for. In fact, after Schumacher competed for her second world longboard title in 2001, the young surfer soon realized that she could no longer support herself financially. Schumacher now has a job as a waitress at Naked Café in Solana Beach, California and though she still surfs every day, she continues to feel the need to stand up for the exploitation of female surfers. Much like other
Bethany HamiltonBethany began surfing when she was only 11 years old. She was a young professional: winning contests and even getting a sponsorship with Rip Curl. On October 31, 2003, she gained national attention when her arm is devoured by a 13-foot long tiger shark. She has now made an amazing recovery and returned to surfing. The author of a successful book, Bethany continues to participate in many surf competitions.
Can a lovely young lady captivate a young man enough to make the young man give up what they love the most just to have a chance with the young lady? In the “ The Bass, The River and Sheila Mant” by author W.D Wetherell a young man, also our narrator, starts to slowly fall for the young lady, Sheila Mant, that has moved into the cottage next to him for the remainder of the summer. As he observes her from afar he starts to notice that he is not the only one who has noticed the young siren. He starts to notice that other older men have also taken interest in Sheila who always happens to be outside sun bathing. Our narrator after trying to catch the attention of Sheila he finally approaches her and gets her to go with him to a annual carnival that he will take her to by means of canoe.
People come from all over the island to dive here, since the water is extremely clear allowing you to see all the different sea life. When the tide is low, small tide pools are created. My children can spend numerous hours playing in the pools. They’re either looking at all the colorful fish that are trapped or just sitting in the pools, cooling off from the hot Okinawa sun. Sometimes they get overly excited going from one pool to another and slip on the coral reef, which can put a damper on all the fun.
Her father had a nice job, which sometimes kept him away, but he always brought gifts for his family, to show his care for them. Meanwhile her mother was the hostess who entertained anyone who knocked on her door, and provided everyone with gifts. The life before the war comfortable, yet filled with embarrassments at times from the cultural ways of her ancestry, even though they weren't strict followers. She describes her life as always being surrounded by people, friends of parents, who visited constantly, which vexed her because her mother could hardly find time to herself and with her daughters. The deep generosity of her family shows the good morals that she grew up with, as her mother taught her and her sister that "Indifference is the worst fault of all" .
The existence of God is always doubted but the faith should never be doubted and the faith of believing in God should always strengthen with the stories of the past and the happenings of the present. One very good argument used to believe in religious experiences is the story of St. Bernadette; Bernadette was a young girl with sever health problems such as cholera which impacted a lot on a 14 year olds life. While out walking with her sister and friends, due to her problem she was not able to keep up with them. She was just about to cross the stream when a gust of wind directed her to a grotto where she saw ‘The Lady’ for the first time. After a few times of Bernadette seeing this many crowds started to form and follow Bernadette to this grotto where to Bernadette ‘The Lady’ would be awaiting her.