How Does Dave Pelzer Characterize Substance Abuse

I yelled to Brian that we had to get out of there, but he was throwing sand at the fire, saying that we had to put it out or we'd get in trouble”. This scene shows how much chaos that was created by Jeanette in the story which dragged her little brother in it. In conclusion fire is represented and mentioned a lot in The Glass Castle. Fire symbolizes fear, chaos and destruction. In her life Jeannette has been through a lot of trials dealing with fires.

I went into the tent where all the sick children were and I was horrified by how many there were. Twenty children all had pus oozing out the there face from warts and look like they were on their last breath. I set to work thinking of all the possible diseases and how I put the monster together. I picked the monster with the least amount of warts and tried scraping all the pus and popping the warts but that did nothing but make it worse. I spent days trying to cure them and I was sure my family was worried.

Hazing is dark twisted cruel things where people pick on a new member of a group by making them do humiliating, difficult or even dangerous tasks. Davidson had first been involved with hazing when she was at summer camp she became a junior and the tradition of seniors hazing juniors continued and the seniors hazed Davidson. The seniors spit chewed up food at her and her friends and ordered then to clean it off themselves, The seniors also smeared green-died oatmeal on Davidson and her friends faces before the dance and wouldn’t allow them to clean it off. When Courtney Davidson was 15, and became a senior she promised herself that she would not become a hazer because she knew how bad it hurt others. According to Davidsons essay 1.5 million students are hazed each year.

Her hair was then sprayed on and all cut off. After that, she started to learn how to cook for the Nazis. She witnessed the Nazis harassing people, and sometimes just killing them by shooting them right where they were standing. She had to have a number tattoo put on her arm to identify her by that number. When Julia got herself sick, she was put into the sick block.

Then when they found me I was I knew I was gonna be in big trouble. The teachers put me on the fence for the rest of the recess period. When I got back in the classroom I got right in my seat and started to cry a little but not a lot. I held in the tears like the man I was, but it was very hard to do. I thought I was going to burst like a bubble when I got in there I was really surprised I didn't.

Cheez-its are not allowed in the cafeteria because every student in the cafeteria started a food fight with Cheez-its. The students and Mrs. Conway have been planning to pull a prank on Mr. Carter because it was his last year as a principal. While we were planning the prank, students didn’t want to do it because they thought that they would have to be put into detention. On November 14, 2012, everyone brought four to five packages of Cheez-its to lunch, but some people brought more just so the fight will be longer. Mrs. Conway sat down with the students, so she could be apart of the food fight too.

“There were trades for things you didn’t see” pg 38. At the trade mart, it was different from other trading events, you would trade away parts of what make you whole. A once kind man, Mentor, became selfish and rude. He once would take the time after school to help the troubled students and be patient with them. Now he couldn’t stand a young puppy they had and would kick it.

In the book, The Breadwinner, Parvana’s family had such a hard life after all the bombs happened. At first they said they said that they had a big house, plenty of food, even a car, and everything they needed. The father was a teacher and got arrested for having a foreign education so the Taliban arrested him. Then the family didn’t have the money they needed so Parvana had to change into a boy so she can do the job that her father did which was going to the market to read and write letters for people. Parvana went with her father when he did it so it wasn’t so hard for her to do.

Huckleberry dreaded and, or, hated by mothers in the village.he misleads the boys in the village,such as in the chapter that i’m reading he and Tom are trying to steal treasure from engine joe.he is the foolish and blithe one as the story goes on. Last but not least Tom Sawyer, who once was blithe but now is starting to care for others. Tom is not as careless and foolish as he was in early chapters of the book,he is maturing as i get further into the the book. An example of this is when Becky rips the teacher’s book for the next class, but does not let get in trouble for it. Instead he tke blame for what Becky has done, he told a lie to the class.

He went upstairs to ask Lisa if she had seen it. They went downstairs and he said “it was right there, like do you remember seeing it?” He tried to use muscle memory to help find it. She answers him, “no, and I hate when you treat me like your associates at work.” Lisa never liked Chris’ communication skills; he could make her talk, but she did not like talking. She went upstairs and later, Chris was making coffee when she said it again, “I hate when you treat me like one of your associates.” It was his breaking point. “It was the only time in our thirteen year relationship that I lost it.” All he said to her was, “and I hate it when you ******* whine at the kids and make them cry.” He left the kitchen, and when he woke up, he was downstairs, and he could hear Sarah and Edward crying.

She found any excuse to punish Dave, while favoring her other children, and her punishments grew more demoralizing the older he got. Initially, she would slap him, smash his face into the mirror and make him repeat “I’m a bad boy!” or require him to search for hours for an item she had “lost.” But with time, her cruelty grew to include denying him food for days on end, making him sleep on a cot in the basement, forcing him to wear the same unwashed shirt and pants to school every day for three years, and referring to him only as ‘the boy’ or

• On the 1st of June, 2010, an awful attack occurred in a Bayswater petrol station as Nicole Millar and her boyfriend David Hopkins were refuelling Millar’s car. Hopkins turned the nozzle towards Millar, dousing her in petrol, before stabbing her in the neck and setting her alight. 90% of Millar’s body was burnt as Hopkins refused her assistance as he screamed “burn, bitch burn” at her body covered in flames. Unfortunately, the mother of 3 passed away only 9 hours later in an induced coma. • The competing interests were the effects of a trial on both the community and the family of Millar.

Fire became something to fear, and this fear was how firemen, like Beatty, became so powerful. Fire also symbolised parts of Montag. Like a roaring fire, Montag was fierce, uncontrollable, and quite destructive. Acting spontaneously, Montag’ let’s his passion guide him when he pulls out the book in front of the other housewives, and when he burns Beatty to death

In any occasion, they were raped or maybe hurt in places like school. They also have been abandoned by their parents. For these reasons, they hate the world. Then, they carry a great frustation in the life. I remeber the attack of september 11 in United States.

Journal entry #8 I went out for supplies today with Vicky. As I was climbing into the house that I knew was going to be vacant a boy named Eric pulled me in. I nearly had a heart attack over it. He is a part of the Resistant so I am forced to be nice to him, even though he stole my scarf from my neck and then acted like I was a monster after he realized who I was. I hate that he did that but I can kind of see where he is coming from… I just wish more people would quit acting like I am the bad guy.