Dallas Gene Hale's Love Story

A Freshman from Zenger High is going through a lot of troubles trying to survive his first year in High School. He has to deal with friends, girls, and family issues. Overtime, his friends drift apart from him and went their own ways. He cares about the opinions of others a little too much, which causes him to live in fear. He´s trying to get his old friend Julia, to notice him but he freezes up everytime he goes near her. Scott, the protagonist of Sleeping Freshman Never lie, by David Lubar, and I are alike in many ways. We both share the same view of the world, are viewed by the world in similar ways and I would respond in a comparable way to the central conflict of the novel. Therefore, I believe given the chance, we could be friends.

Love isn’t always easy and it doesn’t show any mercy. When Harry met Sally, he had a girlfriend but was moving to New York. He travelled 18 hours with his girlfriend's friend, Sally. And just like that they parted ways. After 12 long years they finally get what they want, a chance at love. Knapps developmental relationship model is broken down by 10 steps; 5 coming together and 5 coming apart. Harry and Sally go through Knapp’s relationship model without even knowing it, which brings them closer than ever.

“I’m a Mad Dog Biting Myself for Sympathy” by Louise Erdrich is a first-person point of view story, where the narrator talks about this incident of him stealing this stuffed toucan. Through the story, you can see many explains of him feeling the loss in his life, and him struggling with change.

Death, can tear anyone apart, but when it's for a cause it can open a family, friends, or even a nation's eyes. When a national icon dies for a cause it can a can make the whole nation take a step back and look at what's really going on. An excellent examples are John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr, or in this case John Proctor from The Crucible, by Arthur Miller. In this play people are being hanged for an accusation of witchcraft, which is necessary to restore the social justice in Salem. This play can be compared to history, with information about the play itself, and lastly how the tragic hero's death makes a difference in this play.

When we reflect on our life, we create a metaphorical puzzle. These puzzle pieces represent all of the small decisions we made. Inside of those decisions, also consists of other people and how they influenced our upbringings. When this puzzle is put together, all of these decisions create one big picture. Specifically, Wes Moore’s “puzzle” is more unfinished than most people 's, these pieces may not fit very well with other pieces, and they may never will. We may never know why Wes made some of the decisions he did, but there is one large section of the puzzle that is mostly together–this would be Wes Moore’s influence from drug abuse. The idea of drug abuse is frowned upon by other people.

Have you ever changed your dreams before? In the book We Were Here by Matt de la Pena, Miguel dreams of escaping from his group home and going to Mexico with his friends. Miguel feels guilty about his brother’s death, even though it was an accident. By him running away he believes that it will help him forget his problems and that his disappearance with be a weight lifted off his mother’s shoulders. But when he arrives to the border, he just can’t do it. He loses a good friend along the way, that alter him into making better decisions. He meets a couple of girls that affects him remarkably in choosing what he must do with his life. With the help of his grandparents, specifically his grandma, he is given reassurance that guide him home. Through

We are humans and a majority of us have dealt with heartache, pain, broken promises, along with the joyous things like dreams, aspirations, and successful futures. Humans mess up and make mistakes, but we have to remember that forgiveness is a very prestigious and powerful thing. Forgiveness affects people’s lives in positive ways through the hardships, difficulties, and struggles of life. There comes a time when forgiveness should not be available to some individuals. However, this depends on the past situations that have occurred in your life as well as other individuals. In The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls, was a girl who did not live the ordinary lifestyle. She had to overcome many occurrences with her family, from living a rough life

In the novel Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse, main character Billie Jo faces several challenging obstacles throughout her lifetime. Getting through these obstacles is the only way Billie Jo can learn to forgive her father as well as herself for their mistakes. Once she learns to stop feeling resentful, and let go, Billie Jo will be able to grow up. The first major challenge Billie Jo faces is when a fire breaks out in her home. The fire ignites when Billie Jo’s mother mistakes a pail of kerosene for water, where,“instead of making coffee, Ma [makes] a rope of fire”(87). Billie Jo’s own hands are scorched as she frantically tries to smother flames ablaze her mother’s skin. Following the accident, “while Ma moaned and begged for water, [Billie

The Glass Castle is a memoir by Jeannette Walls. The story undergoes the obstacles Jeannette had to face when she was growing up. Her mother did not want to be counted responsible for Jeannette and her siblings. Jeannette’s mother did not cook or bathe her children. She just let them do whatever they pleased. Her father was a philosopher who though Jeannette everything. He exceeded her education with his wonderful knowledge. However, he was a violent alcoholic. Whenever he got drunk, he would beat her mother and destroy furniture in the house. He spent most of the money in alcohol which caused the children to go hungry. Jeannette achieved her dreams with determination and hard work considering she grew up in a dark environment. The Glass Castle helped me have a better understating on how it is to live in poverty and to have hope.

Nathalie Diaz’s poems “How to Go to Dinner with a Brother on Drug” and “ My Brother at 3 A.M” point out how drug and alcohol abuse cause stress and problems over a family. Diaz explains the struggle that her family has to be through because of her brother addiction. Diaz’s poems show her life and the struggle she needs to experience such as drug addiction, violence, and poverty.

In the story, Scarlet Ibis by James Hurst. This story has one theme. Pride is a double-edged sword; you bring the bad with the good. Pride is a double-sided sword: you bring more bad with the good. this theme is shown throwing the plot of the story and the charters. The brother after feeling ashamed of doodle not being normal does the brother teach Doodle how to walk. “At breakfast on our chosen day, when mama and daddy, and aunt nicely were in the dining room, I brought doodle throw the door in the go-cart just as usual v and had them turn their backs, making them cross their hearts and hope to die if they peaked. I helped doodle up, and when he was standing alone I let them look. There wasn't a sound as doodle walked

Steel Magnolias and My Girl are both classified as dramas. In both movies, the characters lose someone very dear to them. My Girl stars two young children who are the bestest of friends. Steel Magnolias stars a mother, her friends and her daughter who has severe diabetes.

The short story “What We Talk about When We Talk about Love” by Raymond Carver is about four friends- Laura, Mel, Nick, and Terri, gathering on a table and having a conversation. As they start to drink, the subject abruptly comes to “love.” Then, the main topic of their conversation becomes to find the definition of love, in other word to define what exactly love means. However, at the end, they cannot find out the definition of love even though they talk on the subject for a day long. Raymond Carver in “What We Talk about When We Talk about Love” illustrates the difficulty of defining love by using symbols such as heart, gin, and the sunlight.

Charlie is the protagonist of this book. Charlie is starting his first year of high school, and because he is scared, he starts writing to an anonymous friend. Charlie is not his real name, he changes his name and everyone else’s because he doesn’t want that friend to know who

One of the stories we read was “Milun” by Marie De France and shows countless examples of how powerful love actually is. I chose to write about another story that Marie De France wrote which is “Lanval”, and this too has similar powerful examples of love. There is a knight named Lanval and he has his eyes set on the most beautiful women he has ever seen. The tent that holds this beautiful women is