Paul’s Case The short story Paul’s Case by Willa Cather, is about a boy named Paul that is a troublesome teenager trying to find himself. As the story opens he is at a meeting with the school’s faculty and the school’s principal, over the discussion of Paul being suspended from school a week ago. The faculty members have a hard time understanding Paul but at the same time feel for Paul and want to give him the benefit of the doubt. Paul works as an usher where he loses himself at work with his obsession over art and theatre. “When the symphony began, Paul sank into one of the rear seats with a long sigh of relief, and lost himself as he had done before the Rico” (81).
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. With only £9, Link is thrown out if the apartment, jobless and depressed. On the streets, he struggled facing verbal abuse, rubbery, very cold weather and nowhere to sleep. On a small doorway, Link meets a homeless boy, Ginger, whom helps him survive on the street. Shelter, an army expert, discharged after 29 years due to his mental health grounds is now in the picture.
Chris Gardner the main character in the movie has a young son and a wife. Chris and his wife always fight about the rent and bills. They are a poor family leaving in an apartment and cannot afford to pay the rent. They have to sell at least two x-ray machines a month to pay off parking tickets, bills, and rent. The wife ends up leaving Chris and his son because they are unable to afford everything and there is too much arguing, therefore they are not meant for each other.
His home life isn't the greatest - he has lost his mother and his father Jackie is an alcoholic and cannabis smoker. Billys older brother is in outrage all throughout the movie. These negative vibes that Billy is surrounded by within the home is something that doesn't stop Billy from wanting to be something more. Jackie and Tony work for the mines and are in protest as they have been left without a job. Throughout the movie we see their struggle as they battle with no money.
His name is Daniel and he lives alone in a rented portacabin. He gets paid by painting graffiti illegally, for boys who would have written something sweet to their girlfriends. He doesn’t have a bank account, because if he creates a account then the state will take his money, because he owes money. He has a friend they call granddad, who is a scientist and researcher in sleep rhythm. Granddad is a chubby man and he's fallen in love with the beautiful bakery girl, but she knows him not at all.
The time is the night time when Willy returned home, tired from the unsuccessful sales trip. He starts complaining about the business and eventually criticizes his family members. So, it is visible that the playwright wants to emphasize the instability of Willy since
Sports Leader Summery Sports Leader is a novel by Jane Rogers, published in 2012. The novel is about a young boy, who’s name we do not know, that dreams of becoming a sports leader. But because of his failed exams, he is not able to go to college, which leads his dream, a huge step backwards. The boy spends a lot of time talking about not having a job, so his foster mother, who is sick of him being lazy all the time, finds him a job working for a window cleaner named Phil. In on of the houses they clean windows for a boy from school named Martin lives.
The modern reader may be struck by the neighbours' driving the young Seamus home - his parents may not have a car (quite usual then - Heaney was born in 1939, and is here at boarding school, so this is the 1950s) or, more likely, were too busy at home, and relied on their neighbours to help. The father, apparently always strong at other funerals, is distraught (very upset) by his child's death, while the mother is too angry to cry. “Big Jim” (apparently a family friend) makes an unfortunate pun - he means to speak of a metaphorical “blow”, of course. The young Seamus is made uneasy by the baby's happiness on seeing him, by hand shaking and euphemisms (evasions, like “Sorry for my trouble”), and by whispers about him. When late at night the child's body is returned Heaney sees this as “the corpse” (not a person).
When Willy arrives, he refuses to listen to Biff, which angers him. Happy tries to get Biff to lie to his father, which Biff slightly does. Willy falls into another flashback hallucination, one in which his son discovers his affair with a potential customer in Boston. From that moment on, Biff had never looked at his father the same. Back in the Lowman residence, Linda scolds her sons for abandoning her father back at the restaurant.
He secretly auditions for the role of Puck in the prep school’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, however, much to his dismay, his father learns of his actions and forces him to withdraw from the play. Deeply upset by his father’s reaction, Neil seeks advice from Mr. Keating, who in turn tells Neil to speak to his father and explain to him how he feels about acting. However, without the strength and courage to open up to his father, Neil is unable to do. Instead, he chooses to go against his father’s will and goes through with his performance. Unfortunately, Mr. Perry arrives at the end of the play, only to find Neil on stage.