Short Story Of Beck Phillips

The Eye of the Sheep, written by Sophie Laguna is a strong example of how memorable texts can both disturb the reader as well as instil hope. The novel follows the story of the narrator Jimmy Flick, a young, unusual boy and his family. Laguna’s writing style and use of language throughout the text enables the reader to feel the pain and distress in Jimmy’s family without ever losing hope that things will work out. One of the ways in which she does this is through the use of Jimmy’s voice, as it allows the reader to feel the positive energy bubbling inside of Jimmy, while still witnessing the problems that Jimmy’s family have to deal with, such as his father’s drinking habits. Another way is the manner in which the characters are constructed. All the members of Jimmy’s family have multiple facets to them. They are all complex characters that have both light and darkness within them. Through these cleverly constructed characters, Laguna how even good people can do disturbing things. While reading the Eye of the Sheep, there have been multiple different perspectives that have enriched my own interpretation of this text, that again show different facets to the story.

This novel was set during the post war period, this was a time when independence and rebelling against parents and law was more important than doing the right thing, during these times of independence, and teenagers needed friendship more than anything else.

Joss Whedon, a famous director, once said, “Everyone who made it through adolescence is a hero.” Adolescence is a difficult part of life where we learn to become independent and we discover who we are. Many books explore the theme of adolescence, and it is expressed in many different ways. In this story, Jerry, a eleven year-old boy, goes to the beach with his mother and he sees some boys swimming through a tunnel. Inspired by them, Jerry trains hard until he can also swim through the tunnel. In the short story “Through the Tunnel” the author, Doris Lessing, uses symbolism of setting and comparison to express the difficulty of the transition from childhood to adulthood.

One way that Kelleher creates the impression that teenagers can cope with danger in life-threatening events are through the employment of child and adult protagonists. Teenagers are engrossed to the novel through this suspenseful plot, which places Ben in

In addition, this book succeeds in terms of depicting real life situations to young children. As presented in the story, Reed’s father lost his job; thus, causing him to move back in with

The friends of the narrator, however, do not hide in the imaginary world of childhood and are maturing into adolescents. Sally, “ screamed if she got her stockings muddy,” felt they were too old to “ the games” (paragraph 9). Sally stayed by the curb and talked to the boys (paragraph 10).

p. 82). Therefore, the adult narrator’s ability to comment and reflect on his child-self effectively emphasizes the naïve and vulnerable nature of youth, and contributes to the mood of foreboding and suspense throughout the novel, ‘now I was over confident. I expected things to go my way’ (Chapter 1. p. 28).

Maturity may come at any age and time in a person’s life. One moment he or she may be a carefree child, and then suddenly realize that they have been transformed into a mature adult by a powerful and traumatic experience. An experience they will remember their whole lives. Young David Hayden, the narrator of Montana 1948 by Larry Watson, has a traumatic experience. He discovers that his uncle has been sexually assaulting Native American women in his town. This is a heavy burden for a twelve year old boy, especially since it reveals that his beloved Uncle Frank is the "bad-guy". However, one discovers, as the novel develops, that David matures and grows in order to

This book is intended for some older children and young adults as it is not a particularly hard book to read. This book is wrote for kids who are more interested in adventurous types of writing. The book takes place in the early 1900s, and the other does a good job at making you feel like you're reading from this time period. Matthew J. Kirby uses different characteristics to build up the story. His main goal was to write a story full

In my opinion, the author wrote this book for a male teen audience. The main character is fifteen and is being bullied by one of his classmates. Will is afraid to tell people that he is being bullied because he thinks that the adults will take the bully, Horace’s side. The trials that he goes through are turning enemies into friends, learning to be a ranger, helping to save his friends, and overcome being bullied. Will ends up becoming really good friends with Horace after an incident during a boar hunt.

Have you ever read this book called “The Ravine?” If you haven’t, I suggest you read it. The book is about these 4 teenagers, Joe-Boy, Starlene, Mo, and Vinny entering a ravine where some other kid had died. Vinny; the main character, is nervous about jumping into a pond because the boy that had died jumped and never came back up from the water. Not only is he nervous about that

Wesley Mathews told police he put his 3-year-old adopted daughter, Sherin Mathews, in an alone alley at 3 a.m. where coyotes roamed as a punishment for not drinking her milk.

In current American society, the public accepts children as adults when they turn eighteen; however, this change does not happen all at once. In fact, the responsibilities of becoming an adult are gradually introduced into the daily lives of children to prepare them for adulthood. In “Doe Season,” the reader is connected to a young girl, Andy, who experiences a life changing event. David Kaplan the author of “Doe Season” realistically portrays the coming of age by having Andy overcome challenges, while incorporating an element of magic realism to alter the character.

“A Visit from the Goon Squad” by Elizabeth Egan uses an entanglement of an ensemble of characters to highlight differences in the personal evolution of a collection of carefree teenagers from the 1970s San Francisco into disillusioned adults in a futuristic 2020s New York. The book develops each character by jumping around in their timeline, with chapters that act as vignettes to reveal something about each character during a specific isolated time in their life. Each vignette is told from a different point of view and can stand alone as a short story that shows some critical decision that directs the main character of the vignette through this stage of their life. However, each chapter is not isolated; it is part of the continuum of the novel; it contains characters that appeared earlier in the novel and offers glimpses of characters that will become the main character of later chapters. These intertwined relationships bind a structure that emphasizes complexity into a novel. Toward the end of the book, Egan uses yet another, more powerful, stylistic approach, again illustrating indirect paths by emphasizing how difficult it is to predict the outcome of a particular event. Egan uses a Power Point presentation by a teenager to diagrammatically illustrate how her autistic brother’s intentions and his understanding of the power of pauses to change the overall impact are misinterpreted by their father. While many characters only make short guest appearances in the novel,

A ‘Coming of Age’ story spotlights the journey of a young character or multiple characters on their enterprise to adulthood. Toni Cade Bambara enlightens readers about a young girl named Squeaky as she embarks on her campaign to maturity in Bambara’s short story titled, “Raymond’s Run”. For Squeaky, living in Harlem means she must disguise her inner self-consciousness with her apparent rude, arrogant, self-absorbed behavior. At the end of the story, Squeaky discovers that other people have true value besides herself when she notices the potential in her mentally disabled older brother, Raymond.