Personal Narrative: My Life As An Outsider

Other techniques that were used include hyperboles such as when the unknown hitchhiker also stated “If I opened my mouth it would spill out like a torrent of acid” (Page 24). The story also used the techniques of imagery where the hitchhiker described what their sister looked like “then the memory of Melanie’s grey face with the bruises around her neck and the dried blood in her hair jumped up to haunt me”. (Page 23) The writer, Sherryl Clark also used hook as she kept the reader guessing. Overall the story is very engaging to its readers, especially for those who don’t like long stories. Fresh Bait was one of the best stories that was read out of all of the Top Stories 2.

Tandoori Angel, or Tandy is the main character of Confession of a Murder Suspect. She is very stubborn and intelligence with a quirky sense of humor but also very curious. In the book, she is determined to find out who killed her parents. Tandy followed every lead to her parents murder and continued trying to find the murder no matter how many dead ends she meets and how little people she can trust. Her analyzing skills help her solve the case of her parents murder later on.

Welty ReWrite As a child, many of us dream of the monsters lurking in the dark and fear the monsters that are merely figments of our imaginations. For Eudora Welty, that monster was in the form of Mrs. Calloway, the librarian of the town. Despite her fears, Welty would return to the library and face her monster on a daily basis to check out new reading material. Why would Welty willingly face a woman she feared daily? Because the value she put on reading was greater than any butterflies the “witch,” might give her.

Seeking some form of escape from her boring lifestyle, she attends a weekly crotchet group, where she has just discovered the joys of crocheting. When we are introduced to the protagonist in the first novel, Hooked on Murder, she has just began to learn the basics of crocheting with her new friends. The novel begins with an explosive introduction as Molly pink stumbles upon the leader of the group dead on the floor of the bookstore – their usual meeting place. Given that she has had a less than cordial history with the dead woman, all suspicion immediately pints to her. She now finds herself in a race with time to find the killer while navigating high temperature crocheting group politics.

In this film, it was a teenage girl and her friend causing havoc on their hometown. Jill, though the main antagonist, does not show any evil qualities until she is revealed to be involved with the murders. She actually portrays herself as innocent throughout the movie. Sidney even claims to see some of herself in Jill in one instance, telling her “you remind me of… me.” (Scream 4). However, once this is revealed, all of these similar ‘heroic’ qualities turned dark.

From elementary school all the way to ninth grade I was bullied on multiple occasions for not looking apart of the in crowd. I was not as skinny as everyone else, I wore purple cricked glasses, my hair was always in a bun or a braid; I had a uni-brow, and my fashion sense was immature. As the result of the way I looked during those years I was labeled as unattractive, un-dateable, and that smart weird girl. As I got older and the more I heard these things I started to see myself as unattractive. I also have a twin who was the complete opposite of me during those years.

“You’re not trying hard enough,” she told them. While she never quite said it in words, she let them know that a Black person shouldn’t be number one…” (pp. 42-43). Even the teachers expected less of Carson, and got the other kids into trouble for allowing him to be top of the class. Even though this isn’t direct racism it is still an example of how Carson was put down purely because of his race.

When she arrived to Himmel Street she could barley read a sentence and now, years later she decided to write her own story. During the bombing of Munich Liesel concluded her novel “I have hated the words and I have loved them, and I hope I made them right” (528). Just like that those couple of words saved her life and all of the struggles became worth it. Overall The Book Thief has a brilliant way of integrating the power of words. The message portrayed allows the audience to see how the positives can outweigh the negatives no matter the situation.

Many people would think of Gatsby as being a popular and sociable person, but I believe he was living a lonely life to where no one truly knew who he was. Throughout the book Gatsby is a name that people know, but no one really knows for sure who he is or what he does. In the beginning it gives a quote that hints at the loneliness in the book, "But I didn't call to him, for he gave a sudden intimation that he was content to be alone... When I looked once more for Gatsby he had

A hero is someone who is able to suffer while someone else is happy. They are both spirited and courageous. In the novel The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd, Lily is a young girl who shot her mother accidentally when she was only four. Her father abused her on a weekly basis as a result. With this Lily felt ashamed and unloved.

These children find it difficult to find their place in society and are pressured to pick a single race to identify with but sometimes, neither races would accept them just because they’re not full of the race. For example, one of my classmates are multiple races and back in her hometown, they were racist towards her because she wasn 't just one race and her “friends” would make racist jokes towards her, you know just trying to be funny meanwhile it was hurting her feelings. That type of discrimination affects the children because when they receive racism, it is most likely that they are going to turn out to be just as racist because since they experienced racism, they 're most likely going to be racist towards the race that were racist towards them. Also, children will mimic what they see, so if they see people being racist towards each other they are going to act just like that. Lorde encourages people to speak out and take action to change the social conditions of our lives.