Logline: Refusing to remain in a home with angry parents, a young girl moves out in search of peace. Pitch: Mel, a seventeen year old high school student is tired of arriving home to hear her parents arguing. She makes the decision to leave home in order to find peace and her identity. Act 1: Mel’s mother, a high school counselor, is unrelenting in her effort to get Mel to apply for college. She argues with Steve her husband constantly and is cheating with one of her students. Steve is cheating with Mel’s boyfriend, Harris’s young sister. Harris has a secret, and when Mel discovers what it is, she is initially upset, but soon joins in. Act 11: Mel’s parents cannot be in the same house without constantly arguing. She has decided
I’m ready to fight i tried telling myself, but I’m not until I turn on my music but now I think that it is distracting me. Let's do this, it’s now or never. “For Skyrim” I yell.
Have you ever been scared of losing your life? In High Noon and The Most Dangerous Game, the protagonists are always on the verge of death. Written by Carl Foreman, High Noon is a movie about a brave marshal who needs to defend his town against a gang of criminals, who wish to kill him. On the other hand, The Most Dangerous Game, which is written by Richard Connell, is a story about a experienced hunter that becomes the hunted. Although the main characters of High Noon and The Most Dangerous Game are very similar, there are many surprising differences in the two stories' conflicts and settings.
Melinda does not have a good relationship with her parents. She thinks that her parents are only together to save their daughters feelings. Little do they know, she can see right through their act, especially when they start to bicker over simple things. One day her
Mel has mixed feelings about her parents, believing they couldn't care less for her, yet she cherishes them all the same. “It seems like my parents gave up magic when I figured out the Santa lie… It broke their hearts” (Anderson 70). Mel spoke up and said that she knew Santa was a lie. When she recalls their pained expressions she feels it would’ve been better if she had lied. Additionally, Mel contemplates internally, "I bet they’d be divorced by now if I hadn’t been born. I’m sure I was a huge disappointment” (Anderson 70). This shows Mel not only thinks ineffectively not simply of herself. She also thinks that her parents have a relationship. Finally, when Melinda receives her Christmas gifts she can’t believe it, thinking, “They give me
Twenty seven years old Lisa Marsh finally escapes her abusive husband, following the tragedy of her miscarriage. Lisa is beautiful, brilliant and still envisions a promising life. Fleeing for the streets of Manhattan however dramatically alters her life. She has
He runs away. With help of Miss Merrill, his biology teacher, he returns home to a "separate peace" with his father and a new understanding of the trade-offs between loyalty and responsibility.
“That’s why they were only taking a few things at a time; they weren 't really coming for ivory and paintings. They wanted me!” Even when she wasn’t in her room she was always afraid of something. “I always dreaded that my parents would divorce. It was my third biggest fear, right next to the fear that one of them would get abducted by heartmen on the road to Sugar Beach, or my first fear, that I would get sucked into the lagoon by neegee.” Out of all three fears only one seemed to happen. Her parents relationship finally came to an end after a lot of fighting, disagreement, and cheating. “Daddy, I hold your foot, don’t leave us. Daddy, please, I beg you” she cried that day. From then on, except the servants and cook, “it was only women at Sugar Beach.” Even after dealing with something so hard in her life that wasn’t even what affected her the most.
THE ORNATE SCRIPT ON THE BOARD TWISTED in the candlelight, making the letters and numbers dance in my head. They were jumbled and indistinct, like alphabet soup. When Claire pushed the heart-shaped piece into my hand, I startled. I wasn’t normally so twitchy, and hoped Rachel wouldn’t notice. The Ouija board was her favorite present that night, and Claire gave it to her. I got her a bracelet. She wasn’t wearing it. Kneeling on the carpet, I passed the piece to Rachel. Claire shook her head, oozing disdain. Rachel put down the piece. “It’s just a game, Bell.” She smiled, her teeth looking even whiter in the dim light. Rachel and I had been best friends since preschool, and where she was dark and wild, I was pale and cautious. But less so when
Winnie is a girl who thinks she has a overprotective family, but they just care about her way to much. But she doesn’t know that. Winnie wants to run away but meets a boy with a family
Her parents want to move. Her Dad is invited to become the Dean of the Political Science at - . Alice is happy and is not hard for her to leave the old school. But she misses her old house and her grandparents who she calls gramp and gran. Alice has a brother called Tim and a sister Alexandria. The two are younger than Alice. At her new school it is horrible for her. Nobody
Riley’s family move from Minnesota to California. With the difficulty of moving homes, the emotions go into panic mode, like any normal pre-teen would react, but Joy recognizes the problem and tries to help keep the situation positive. On the trip to Riley’s new house, the emotions share the possibilities of what their new house could look like. The creativity that the emotions contain depict houses with slides, dragons, candy, and even in a tree. When she arrives at a new house all the emotions are quickly disappointed by the exterior of Riley’s new home. Joy then remembers that Riley’s dad was talking about how great Riley’s room was going to be. Again, Riley is disappointed and Joy is pushed off the control board by Anger, Sadness, Disgust, and Fear to create memory balls. Joy tries to influence the emotions by creating a dream room for Riley. As Riley heads downstairs for her stuff from a moving van, she discovers that they van is delayed for a couple of days. Bad situations seem to keep piling up for Riley’s family and when Riley realizes this, she begins to play hockey with a piece of paper to take her parents out of their mood. Her dad gets a phone call from his job and the mood goes down again. Her mom seems sad and Riley suggest pizza from a place she saw down the street. The pizza is a disappointment, it has broccoli on it. Riley can’t seem to get out of her rut. When night comes, she overhears her dad still upset on his phone and asks to be tucked in. Her mom comes into her room and right before Riley was about to get mad, her mom thanks her for her positive attitude in
Jacob and his dad, Franklin, have an exceedingly complex relationship. Jacob has peculiar traits, so he can see things that very few people can see, and his father has a difficult time comprehending this. Franklin is convinced that Jacob is all caught up in his grandfather’s nostalgic tales of the island, but little does he know that all those tales are real. It is perceptible that Jacob just wants to have a normal relationship with his dad: “I wanted to tell him. I wanted to explain everything, and for him to tell me he understood and offer some tidbit of parental advice.” (Riggs 268). Jacob and his father come from two different worlds, so it’s difficult for them to connect ☺ (Figurative language). Furthermore, Jacob’s parents presume he
My family is pretty close, but I feel like we only got close more recently. We are all more mature and have more time for each other even though we live in two different parts of the state and have our own lives. When I was younger I had a happy childhood but I do not think it was the happiest it could have been, but it also was not the saddest either. I grew up way too fast as a kid and I never got a true childhood. I am grateful for how close my family now is and I am glad it is different than my childhood.
In his novel, Orwell creates an allegory by comparing the events in both revolutions and the actions of both leaders. The events and characters in this novel matchup real well with the real life events that happened back in 1917. Orwell uses an animal fable to compare the two. Orwell is spot on when comparing the similarities between the characters and real life people. Orwell is able to show his subject in easy similar terms by treating the making of communism as a story that is taking place on a single farm with talking animals.
The more time passes, the more you get to know me, only disappointments will remain but