How Did Ash's Life Changed

“I don’t feel so well” Jan’s father had suddenly said one morning at breakfast. Her father, a World War II veteran, stood up and went to go lie down. The rest of the family continued with their day. Michael went to see how his father was. When he tried to wake him his father didn’t respond or make a sound. The 11 year old boy was the one who first knew that his father was gone. The memory of her father’s loss is vivid in Jan’s mind. It was a substantial shock after he had survived the horrors of World War II and then just passed away quietly at home one morning. Jan now understands how

Erin Geoffrey II, his father, a rich, prominent Brain Surgeon, married seven times. Devoted to long hours teaching students tarnished his marriages. Death do us part, was literally deleted in the wedding vows of his last three weddings. In addition temptation had caressed his dark side of life with flames of desire, want and need quite a lot, while the other side of his life demanded full attention with life-and-death decisions daily. Oh, don't get me wrong, Erin Geoffrey II was a grateful man who fought his way from poverty. The horrible disease of brain cancer had taken his mother to her death, dying at home in his arms; he was sixteen at the time. Erin's father was a truck driver, and he left 30 days after his wife’s death, never to return

Hunter Powell was one of three kids and he was the oldest. Hunter was a brave, confident, and caring young 18 year old man. He had brown hair and blue eyes. Hunter is tall. He is six foot one inch. His family lived in a village called Millstone. It was a small village in the middle of a bunch of other villages and land plots. The town was a big trading post. They had all kinds of furs, food, and tools. In Millstone everyone had a farm. On those farms they had all sorts of vegetables and Hunter’s favorite potatoes. He did everything he could to provide for his family. His parents went to war a few months ago and came back just last week. He had to take care of his two twin brothers that are five years old and need a parent with them at all times.

It was Christmas Eve when Stanley’s father, John Woodrow Allen, was driving the car that carried his two young children and his wife, Dorothy. Unexpectedly, the car collided with another, and irreparable damage was done. The young mother suffered a violent blow to the head, yet the rest of the passengers walked away without a scratch. She was rushed to the hospital, but there wasn’t much that could be done to help her. Dorothy’s skull was fractured, and brain was severely damaged. She passed away a few days later on December 27. At just four years old, Stanley was left motherless.

Kit Bagley and his scientist father Jon Bagley have had a traumatizing experience involving life threatening decisions. As the two were going fishing while on a family camping trip with mother and wife Myra Bagley, the boy got caught under a rock on the train tracks! They had been hiking out towards the river to do some father son fishing, they crossed the bridge and hiked a bit until they reached the train tracks. A truck drove by and shook the ground slightly. “I felt for split second that the shadow above us was about to fall” says Jon, but it was too late, as the big boulder they were standing below started to fall. Jon leaped through the air to push Kit out of the way but only grabbed air. Jon heard the scream of Kit and felt a lurch

He once told me of his father, a hard man, who came home at nights blackened by coal dust, and of his mother, a hardworking woman who seems always to have been a source of comfort. Not wanting him to follow his father and grandfathers and great-grandfathers into the tunnels beneath the town, his parents encouraged him to get a trade. And he did. He got an apprenticeship in carpentry and joinery at the local funeral parlour, building coffins for the dead.

Og once said, “Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.” Thirteen-year-old Brian Robeson is on a plane to Canada to see his father because his parents are divorced. When his pilot has a heart attack and dies, Brian does not know how to fly the plane, so he crashes in a lake in the Canadian wilderness. With only a windbreaker and hatchet, Brian has to fight to stay alive. Over the course of the next month, Brian is determined to survive alone in the wilderness. He stays alive because he is courageous, stays positive, and is determined to live.

In the novel “The Road”, the author Cormac McCarthy shows how compassionate a child can be despite his surroundings. Through his novel, he takes us on an exploration of the experiences of The Boy and his father. He shows that The Boy, notwithstanding the environment that he has known his whole life.

On July 27, 1981 Adam Walsh was in the toy department of Sears playing video games while his mom shopped in the store. This was quite common in the late seventies and early eighties when a trusting generation let their kids run wild and free. On this particular day a monster watched and waited close by for the perfect opportunity to strike. The opportunity presented itself, a small young boy, all alone. He snatched him and fled. This is every parent's worst nightmare and a horror story that griped the nation. In a matter of seconds, a child was gone and would never be seen alive again.

.“Getting here from where I was as a child wasn’t just handed to me,” he explained, “It took a lot of hard work, dedication, and sacrificing not only time, but my energy, and everything that I lived for.” Growing up was one of the most difficult times of his life. On one hand, he had to deal with his alcoholic father. And on the the other, he had to manage never being able to see his mother, who worked 14 hour shifts daily. But, this absence of his mother actually became one of the biggest

“Astronomer Hugh Mungus has found an asteroid said to hit the earth at 2:00 tonight. That being said, it’s 12:32 pm and have a good rest of your day.” Ethan Klein was no introvert, he just hated people and wanted nothing to do with them. It didn’t help that it was Halloween, but that didn't seem to matter right about then. Ethan had lost his whole family to a car accident on Christmas Eve the year before. Ethan’s dad was a man that was always worried the world would end and coincidentally it was. Since he was so fixed the world would end he, of course, had a bunker. Ethan loved reading, he read in the morning and night. Ethan wished he had all the time in the world, but he knew that that was the only thing no one could have. Ethan packed up

When the men finally made their way over to us, one man, tall, skin in size, about a quarter of the muscle tone of my pa’pa pushed him into the wall, while another, shorter in stature, with bright blue eyes, the color of sapphire, hit my father from behind. My father fell to the ground, blood dripping down his face, looking hopeless and feeble. I felt so discouraged, the only thing I could do was weep. My father, on the ground, turned to us and told us to run and we did. Half the way to the house, all I could think about was how hopeless I was and how much I wanted to help, but could not. After all that was my father back there, my friend, my protector, my pa’pa. When we finally made it to the porch of our house, we were out of air and I was about ready to collapse. My brother finally mustered up the energy to tell my mother and uncle what happen.

James is completely alone on the open road. Everyone in his life is gone: his parents, wife, and siblings. He picks up a picture of Thomas, his brother and best friend, admiring his curly hair and warm smile and bright eyes. Near him, James felt like a kid, like a dog ready to play with its friends. Five years ago, Thomas walked home from the supermarket when a flashy car exploded out of the corner and knocked him over, never getting him on his feet again. A part of James also never got back up that day, or any day after the incident for

Sunny is a thirty-four year old man living in the Victorian era, and is dealing with postpartum depression, epilepsy, and anxiety. Sunny suffered beatings from his father and kids in his hometown. Around the age of 14, Sunny would leave his families home to go to the chapel in the countryside with primroses growing in the fields, as he felt safe and at peace from the abuse he received in his hometown. He left his house at the age of seventeen after his father passed, and while his relationship with him was not as Sunny had dreamt it should be. After, leaving his home, Sunny received news that his mother, who left when was only one, had passed away. For nearly five years, he struggled with his thoughts of suicide, fatigue, feelings of hopelessness

In the story Powder, a young boy learns that his father is not actually as unreliable as his mother originally believed. When the boy and his father take a ski trip together they ski down the mountain too many times to count. The boys fun loving dad lost track of time and showed little concern for the late hour or his ex wife’s strictness. At the boys home, his mother would be watching the clock for their arrival. The boy was expected at home for christmas dinner. Feeling anxious, the boy recalled the stress of their overstaying on the mountain, “We returned our skis and my father put the chains on the Austin-Healey while a swayed from foot to foot, clapping my mittens and wishing I was home”(2). Heavy snow started to fall and by the