Cherry is smart and dreamy like Ponyboy, and they have a good conversation. Seven Excerpt Responses “You cant win against them no matter how hard you try because they’ve got all the breaks and even whipping them isn't going to change the fact.” Chapter 1, Page 11 In this scene in the story, Ponyboy is asking His older brother Darry if he can participate int he gang rumble. Ponyboy recently got hurt in a church fire so Darry thinks it would be good for him to stay out of the fight but Ponyboy still really wants to. I think this excerpt is important to the story because it shows how daring and how Darry is telling Ponyboy with all mighty. It is a form of hyperbole because it is exaggerating what is going to happen.
His dad could sell anything, it was an innate trait he had, but Tommy Boy didn’t seem to have the skills. After the death of Tommy Boy`s dad, the family business is in need of some major sales. In desperation, Tommy Boy is sent on the road to make the annual sales trip. Tommy Boy and his road companion Richard Hayden learn a lot of hard lessons before they learn how to successfully convince a client. Here, are five things we can learn from this untraditional sales team.
John Kelly son grew up in a small town in Maryland; he has two younger brothers, a mother and his father who had very serious brain cancer. He was diagnosed with the cancer when John was only eight years old. He is now twelve years old and he is struggling in school and getting in trouble with fights. His mother is so busy taking care of his father and his younger brothers that she isn’t paying enough attention to John to know about his slacking grades and the trouble he is getting into. One day his teacher gives him a letter and tells him not to read it until he got home, John was worried because his teacher never told him to read a letter at home before because he does not like John because most of the fights that John gets in are in school.
The Blind Side Michael Oher is a seventeen year old guy that was basically all alone; he was just all by himself because his mother was a drug addict who left him and his other brothers when they were little. He was living with one of his family members but it didn’t seem enough so the family members he was living with decided to try to get Michael into Wingate Christian School. But it all worked out actually thanks to Coach Burt’s persuasiveness to let him in because he knew Michael could be a great part of the football program they had at school. Things were really odd and strange to Michael when he had his first day at Wingate Christian School because he hadn’t been at school for so long and because he didn’t knew what students and teachers were discussing
Ansel started school, yet he was a poor student and hated going to school due to the great quake which scared him for life by breaking his nose on impact from the ground. Charles Adams took his son out of school and had him privately tutored. Charles also bought Ansel a year pass to the Panama Pacific International Exposition. The Exposition included exhibits on painters, science, machinery, and
Phil had a heart attack because he was so stressed out from work, and he didn’t have a life outside of work so he was always stressed out. Everyone should have a hobby to enjoy, something that is not stressful and that gives them a break from everything else in life. Phil worked so much that his son didn’t know what he was like and his wife had been missing him for years. Family life is very important for a married man and Phil didn’t have that in his life. Now he is dead and his wife left widowed and his children
Jay Gatsby - Ever since his impoverished childhood in rural North Dakota, Gatsby longed for wealth and sophistication (American Dream) —he dropped out of St. Olaf’s College after only two weeks because he could not bear the janitorial job from which he was funding his tuition. Though Gatsby has always wanted to be rich, his main motivation in acquiring his fortune was his love for Daisy Buchanan, whom he met as a young military officer in Louisville before leaving to fight in World War I in 1917. However, Gatsby's 'love' for Daisy could also in turn be seen as a selfish obsession, since his dream of being with Daisy was never deterred by the fact she had a family, moreover a young daughter. Gatsby dedicated himself to winning Daisy back, and
Also Jack has only just graduated high school: “Part of the reason I made it is that my folks pushed me.” He didn’t like going to high school, maybe because he was bullied by the girls in his school. That is why the relationship seems so fake; he does not know how a real relationship should be. This is also the reason of the title: “Lies.” It is only in his head, because he is lying to us. The fact that he is a projectionist could also describe how he is looking at movies all day and is dreaming away to the romantic movies where everything ends good and they always live happily ever after. He describes his relationship with Katy almost like a romantic Hollywood movie.
It was during that time he was given the nickname “Teddy” by his parents, and he hated it (Biography.com). Theodore was weak as a child, but did not let it stop him, in fact; it encouraged him to work on ways to strengthen his muscles to become stronger. Theodore and his family traveled to Europe and the Middle East when he was ten and again when he was fourteen (Biography.Com). When he overcame his illness, he enrolled in college at Harvard, and his father died during his second year. He did not allow the loss of his father to hinder his growth,
Many years after his father’s death, Truman sees his father in town while going to work. Simultaneously, two bystanders remove his father from the set on account that he is not supposed to be there. The shock of seeing his supposed, dead father being forcefully removed by strangers causes Truman to begin to question reality. Truman has a flashback to his school days where he sees a girl and instantly falls in love with her. Unfortunately, she is not the girl with whom the producers want Truman to fall in love with.