Dad: My Michigan Hero

These are all examples of how Norman Bowker had changed throughout the story. He went from being innocent, or without war on his mind ever, to having nothing else to say to anyone if it didn’t involve war. After he had came back from war, he was not able to keep a job, he was not able to keep a conversation going with anyone because no one knew what he was going through. He was also suffering from PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) which in the long run, made him feel as if no one would understand him or his story because no one else was in war when he was and no one experienced what he

Doodle’s disabilities affected him from birth so he was not treated equal and his brother wanted him to learn the things he should already know. What prompted Doodle’s brother to help him was embarrassment which over came all of his feelings. Being different was hard for Doodle but at times it was harder for his brother to put up with because, as the narrator states, “Doodle was my brother and he was going to cling to me forever, no matter what I did. ”(Hurts 159). Unfortunately Doodle was told he would never live and because of that he was never taught anything as a child.

I was very small when my grandfather died and I don’t remember the funeral details, but I do remember how reserve my father was. Its definitely not a conservation that can be spoken in the

(46) “that boy is dangerous,” she said. “next time he might kill someone…” (46) I feel toward Cole Matthews is he is a great boy that is smart and has the potential to be be a strong and responsible man. It's just the way he's been raised with no discipline and getting abused by his father,  being surrounded with drinking parents. He has to go home to parents who don't love him and abandon him. Cole Matthews doesn't feel safe or trust anyone because of the way he's been raised.

My Michigan Hero “The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It’s not that we seize them, but that they seize us.” - Ashley Montagu. That quote is one of the best quotes that captures my hero. My hero, Dan McPartlin (my grandfather) has had it rough.

In other terms, deviance can be defined as an attractive alternative if the norms of a society are out of reach (Haskings-Winner, Collishaw, Kritzer & Warecki, 2011). Bender is unable to achieve the goals that the school sets out for him so he resorts to deviance in order to make him seem like a bad boy which turn in will get him attention. When he gets the group to go to his locker, he explicitly states, “Being bad feels pretty good, huh?” (Hughes, 1985) This statement is looking for reassurance from his peers to ensure his

Mr.Michigan Hero 7th grade was rough,1 friend, 1 supporter, and 22 bullies. Mr.Prokes is my Michigan Hero. He was always was there if you needed to retake or finish a quiz or test. Mr.Prokes loved it when you would want to retake a quiz or test, because it meant you cared. Mr.Prokes was always there if you needed talk to him, whether it was family related or about the bullying.

As an example, Adam’s parents really bore him throughout the story, with their less than happy, relationship and careers. Adam says “My parents are really just a piece of the boredom in my life that I just don’t want for my future.” Also Adam doesn’t really like his friends because he just isn’t impressed with anything less than perfect. “I only hang with my friends because there’s nothing to do, sometimes I’d rather do nothing than hang with them.” Another example is when kids at his school make fun of him and call Adam the “suicide kid” and Adam doesn’t like this at all.

Joe had a troubled childhood where he had no one who he felt that he could truly rely on and this caused him to develop the attitude that he was the only one that could determine his own happiness; this notion was also backed up by his absent father “Son, if there’s one thing I’ve figured out about life, it’s that if you want to be happy, you have to learn how to be happy on your own.” (58) Joe grew up not trusting anyone and not having anyone to rely on which is why he was so untrusting of his teammates when he first came to Washington university. The complete lack of trust that Joe felt for his. Because Joe only knew one thing when he was growing up he bases all of his decisions off of his only outlook of like. It took many major events for Joe to abandoned his previous notions of other people and learn to truly trust

He would sometimes wait for me to get done with school to pick on me. He used to call me mean names when we walked passed each other as he shoved me like it was on accident, even though I knew he did it on purpose and that he intended to hurt my feeling. One day he would say he was my friend if I gave him an answer or two but the next he would act like nothing even happened the day before. He treated me like I was trash left to be feeling like I was the only person in this world that had a “Friend” like that.

In my younger and more tender years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since. He ingrained in me the saying, “What you do not ask for you do not get.” He has repeated this statement repeatedly but we’ve always been unusually distant in the sense that he and I understood that I would have to be captain of the ship that is my life. As a young boy I was naturally reserved and did not like taking risks. Throughout my childhood I tried to integrate my Dad’s aphorism into my life.

Anyways, my birthday is March 7, 1997 and I was born in Ionia Michigan. I left Michigan on a greyhound bus with my birth mother and my younger brother when I was four, so I don’t remember much about it. However, I do recall blue trucks and long walks. I don’t know what this means, but when I think about life in Michigan, this is all that comes to mind. I also obviously remember my family members which are my birth grandmother, aunt, uncle (all on my birth mother’s side), my other birth grandmother, and aunt (on my birth father’s side).