My arm burned as Atom made the last mark of my tattoo on my right shoulder as we sat in the second floor of the Protector Tree House. My whole counsel made up of the original seven Protectors had decided to get theirs today. I just happened to be the last one to agree to it and have mine finished. Even Atom who had to do his own and was usually the squamation one got his before him but this was all his idea. “Well Anna what do you think,” my bleach blonde ice blue eyed friend from Antarctica asked me. I looked down at my reddened right shoulder to exam his work. Inside two circular lines that where each made of three lines was all four of the elements. A large flame in the middle to represent fire, two spiral lines standing for wind, a large …show more content…
I still wasn’t that into this whole everyone in the Protectors needs to get a tattoo but I was out voted as usual. “Well you bend all the elements and you are the leader of the Protectors. You have to show something for starting the group of impures that are supposed to protect all people whether why are normals, impures, or pures,” he argued. “Hey I only got the gang together by finding people from all over the world. You guess as the ones that wanted to make a group out of it which as slowly grown larger over the years,” I pointed as he whipped some antibiotics over my mark. It stung a little but I had felt much worst. “You can say whatever you want but we would be lost without you even if you can’t keep us out of trouble,” he replied scouting away from me with a smile. I sighed, he was right I only seemed to get my little team into more trouble. Everything had calmed down and brightened up since I got Cypruss back a few weeks ago but I also released Desmine who I knew would cause future troubles for us. Benders Academy, my school for all impures, started up in a few days and I hoped that would keep the …show more content…
“Wow you and Cyps actually talk. When did this miracle happen,” Atom joked. Cypruss and I happened gotten along the best since his latest release. He was still pissed about what happened to Y and he refused to every love me again but he wants to still be friends. That was hard to do with Tibolt calling me a whore everything his father wasn’t around. You would think Cypruss’ oldest son would be more mature than that but his father spoiled him even now. Cypruss loved all his children but Tibolt was defiantly the favorite. “Cypruss and I have agreed to be friends so that Benders Academy will run smoothly,” I replied. “So you’re working with the principal to the school you’re not even going to,” he pointed out. I sighed, “Atom you know I can learn nothing from Benders Academy and plus I still have Fossilsalive to look after. I you love to go to school but online school suits me better.” “I get it but you’ll be missed,” he through his hands up in defense. “Well I’m glad to have you all out of my hair for seven hours five days out of the week,” I said
Laisha Luthra Ms. Lenahan ELA 611 11 March 2024. The Power of Personality In life, your personality and traits, whether considered good or bad, can affect your relationship with the people you care about. Most people understand this first-hand. This also applies to characters in a story. In the short story "Eraser Tattoo" by Jason Reynolds, Shay is paranoid, realistic, and passionate, which affects her relationship with Dante.
In Eraser Tattoo, the themes of love and loss can be explored through the characters Shay and Dante in their relationship. The author illustrates these themes through key moments in Dante and Shay’s relationship, especially when Shay is moving away and Dante realizes the tattoo represents the pain he is experiencing with Shay leaving. For an example, at the end of the story the author states, “He knew the pain wouldn't last forever but the scar would.”. This relates to the theme of love and loss and how the pain won't last forever but the memory will by highlighting the events of when Shay made an eraser tattoo on Dante since she was leaving and wanted Dante to have a memory of her. This can also show how deep their relationship is and how
Tattoos on the Heart encompasses many themes, but Fr. Boyle predominantly focuses on life and death. In one distinct instance, Fr. Boyle depicts the story of an unnamed sixteen-year-old homegirl who tells him, with such joy, that she is pregnant. Fr. Boyle is unable to hide his disappointment, which leads the homegirl to say “I just want to have a kid before I die.” (90) This narrative was unfamiliar to my own life experiences, which consequently made the story difficult to relate to. Growing up in a middle class neighborhood I was never fully exposed to death that occurs in young adults due to gang violence, as a result I never knew what it was like to genuinely fear for my life or believe that I was going to die before I turned eighteen.
After an incident occurred at Lake Windsor Downs Middle School, Paul transferred to Tangerine Middle School. When Paul found out about the soccer team, he invited Joey to enroll in the school too. The text states that Joey’s dad “put a note in there saying I should have all the same classes as you.” This means that Joey persuaded his dad to have the same classes as Paul. Paul and Joey were in the same group for a science project and Joey hated being in the same group as Tino.
Even though Ron Johnson highlights some good points about the benefits of tattoos in his article "Tattoos: The Ultimate in Expression", Leeanne Padowski provided stronger support with more evidence in her article "Think Before You Ink".Leeanne Padowski supports her article with facts from studies surveys.
Per the tutor's request, the mother and father ceased asking the son about his day as often. They became less protective and more carefree of their son's activities under the promise from his tutor that this was what he needed. " Mrs. Coble," the tutor said, ""I think this kid is hurting. You know? Here's a serious, sensitive kid, telling you he'd like to take on some grown-up challenges, and you're giving him the message that he can't be trusted.
" This shows how Eva's inner strength and courage helped her overcome adversity. On the other hand, Miriam's reaction to the tattoo was different from Eva's. Miriam seemed more shocked and upset by the experience, which reflects her sensitive and emotional character. The way
In Tattoos on the Heart, the reader accompanies Father Gregory Boyle throughout a series of heart-warming conversions he conducts through his interactions with numerous gang members in the Los Angeles projects. Likewise, J.D. Vance in Hillbilly Elegy constructs a memoir of his tumultuous upbringing in the Midwest as well as of his familial roots in Kentucky. A commonality throughout the novels is the poverty faced by members of these communities and how it contributes to the conflicts that drive the plot. The topic of poverty, its causes, and possible solutions has always interested me a lot due to a concept of the Lottery of Birth, which is a philosophical position that comes up frequently in my debate competitions. Basically, where we are born, in terms of one’s position and class in society, is arbitrary; I did not choose to be born in the socioeconomically comfortable neighborhood of Massapequa Park. This is a perpetual unfairness to which there is no solution, but there has to be some action that can alleviate the suffering of the over three billion people worldwide who live on less than three dollars a day (DoSomething.org).
(he's drawn up the design himself and counted the feathers out carefully, a name and a song and a prayer for every loop of the pen, because he hates the scars but they mean something, so fixing it has to mean something too…)
In his novel Tattoos on the Heart, author Father Gregory Boyle S.J. shares his experiences as a pastor in the gang capital of the United States, Los Angeles, in an attempt to persuade his readers to look at gang members with a more humane perspective. To help his readers relate to the gang members, Fr. Boyle recounts personal anecdotes about the many gang members he works with and their journeys towards changing their lives. Through his use of colloquial language and informal diction and his narration of personal stories, Fr. Boyle creates an intimate tone accomplishes his purpose of discrediting the stereotypes associated with gangs and depicting a human face worthy of respect and sympathy. Though Boyle published this novel in 2010, his insight and wisdom on the state of gang violence still hold true today, and he continues to inspire his readers to recognize the tragedies many gang members face in their everyday lives.
After reading the first three chapters of Tattoos on the Heart, I was able to relate to Memo at the end of chapter three. Memo discovered the compassion that he has for others after simply hearing about people who live in places where they ought not to live. Though I live a much different life from Memo, I experienced this feeling when I went to Haiti for the first time. I went to Haiti with factual knowledge that Haiti was a country that lived in poverty, and that they could not seem to catch a break from traumatic events occurring in their country. However, I did not realize the extent of their living conditions until I was on the bus, riding to the compound that I would be staying in for the week.
In Tattoos on the Heart, by Gregory Boyle, he describes the insecurity of gangs, violence, father wound, and crisis that the prisoners went through when they got out of jail. Boyle runs Homeboy Industries that's located in the Boyle Heights neighborhood in Los Angeles, which was made to help gangs, and fresh out of prison parolees who want to improve their lives. They are not able to get jobs because their appearance gained financial and family insecurity. “Just assume the answer to every question is compassion” (Boyle 62). Having compassion was a way to have faith and not give up regardless of all the disgrace a person went through. Boyle addresses the problem of growing up around violence and not being able to attain
Apart from the obvious appeal of henna tattoos, I also strangely enjoy being stagnant for hours at a time now. Oddly, the activity that was previously my worst nightmare, also served as an opportunity for me to contemplate about my life. After the paste-covered point of the cone touches my skin, I lose myself. I allow myself to enter a different world for a couple of hours. The world I’ve fabricated is the most serene place on earth. In this realm, I am entirely content and free of stress or responsibility. I allow myself to enjoy the swift movements of the cone and disregard all of the elements that surround me.
My senior project was over the History of Tattooing, I chose this as my topic because Tattoos really interest me with all the different styles and meanings behind them. Some things I already knew about Tattooing is a lot of tribes used tattoos to symbolize things, but I didn’t know what.
uncertainty wherein the tattoo serves as both silent witness and lucky charm. Yet sailors and navel men have long applied symbols to their bodies, in an almost magical way, to guide their vessels and protect themselves, to