* The boy tripped. Step Two: * Driving through the intersection, the car crashed. * Looking down the ice, skating quickly into the zone, the player scored. * Running down the street, texting on his cell phone, struggling to keep his balance, the boy tripped. * Walking into her room, watching her brother search through her drawers, the girl screamed at her brother.
Pages 123-124, lines 8 – 28, Pro Taberna, Clementis (In Front of Clemens’ Store) Clemens, however, did not run away, but hurried as fast as he could to the store. After he arrived there, he stood in front of his store motionless. He saw the doors wrenched off, the store torn apart. Eutychus was standing outside the store with his Egyptian thugs, and he was smiling. Eutychus while laughing said, “My dear fellow!
“The Box Man” Barbara Lazear Ascher The Box Man was at it again. It was his lucky night. The first stroke of good fortune occurred as darkness fell and the night watchman at 220 East Forty-fifth Street neglected to close the door as he slipped out for a cup of coffee. I saw them before the Box Man did. Just inside the entrance, cardboard cartons, clean and with their top flaps intact.
He considers carrying things through the streets undignified, and refuses to do it himself. On Christmas morning, Malachy and Frank attend Mass with their father and go to collect leftover coal strewn over the Dock Road so that their mother can cook the pig’s head. Pa Keating meets the boys on the street and convinces the landlord of South’s pub to give them a bag of real coal. They drag the coal home through the rain, passing cozy houses. Children laugh at them from inside the houses, taunting them and calling them “Zulus” because they are smeared with black coal.
An example of some of the things that George Henderson says in his paper about poverty is, “Poverty is staying up all night on' cold nights to watch the fire knowing one spark on the newspaper covering the walls means you’re sleeping child dies in flames. In summer poverty is watching gnats and flies devour your baby's tears when he cries.” In the novel Enrique’s Journey, by Sonia Nazario poverty is everywhere, some places are just worse than others like families living in shacks, only being able to eat one meal a day. These authors and others are pointing out an indisputable fact. Poverty is everywhere and everyone needs to be doing something about it. Sonia Nazario describes a very graphic picture of children without one or any parents, food, shelter, and clothing, which many Americans choose to ignore and go about their business like it doesn’t happen here and around the world.
While Annie and the boys have their ice balls ready, a black Buick driving in the distance headed their direction. When the Buick was about to go by, they spread out, took the snowballs, and flung the snowballs at the unsuspecting vehicle. Annie and the boys soon discover that throwing snowballs may not have been the wisest decision when one of the ice balls hit his car’s windshield. Suddenly, the Buick stops and the driver opens the door. The driver of the Buick is so upset that he starts to run after the children.
Shockingly, the car stopped. A man came out of the car and started chaseing all the kids. All the boys split up except Mikey and the main character. The mad man decides to follow these two boys block after block and never gave up. As they were running, the man finally caught up to them and grabbed them by their jackets.
Even though both storied were on a cold day, they took place in totally different places and atmosphere. The characters were both being chased by an elderly figure/authoritative figure, but they were chased for entirely different reasons. Rodriguez was being chased by the police for playing on a basketball court, while Dillard was chased for throwing snowballs at a man’s car. The consequences also diverge from each other because Rodriguez was arrested after the police caught him and on top of that his friend died while
Screeching tires and the sound of glass breaking pulled Antonio from his daydream as he neared the pub he saw an army of policeman dragging men out from the pub and throwing them in to the back of police vans. The men who fought back were beaten with batons and handcuffed their faces pinned to the ground. Antonio hears a familiar voice, it is his friend Baldo, both of his arms are pulled behind his back by two police officers, he is kicking his legs and shouting for the officers to let him go. Antonio rushes over to his friend and shouts at an officer “what isa going ona?” The officer immediately pulls out his baton and approaches Antonio, “here’s another one” the officer calls out, “right, in to the back of the van calmly and you wont be hurt”, “what have I done” calls Antonio, “what has Baldo done, what have all of these men done, these are my friends good hard working people, they do not deserve this treatment”. Antonio is smacked with the baton right in the gut, he bends over clinging to his stomach and the officer strikes
Batman’s saga begins with a smoking gun and a promise. Up until that fateful night, he was merely the young son of a wealthy family in the crime-ridden Gotham City. He was on his way home from a night at the cinema when mugger violently killed his parents. Young Bruce Wayne, orphan, channeled all the pain and hate he felt on that night into a promise to himself that was as simple as it was naive: to end crime in Gotham. As he sat alone in the rainy alleyway by the corpses of his parents and listened to wail of GCPD police sirens, he took the first steps of his journey of self-actualization that would last him his entire life.