I, Prince Estabrook, tried my best to hide all sense of fatigue. I, with my fellow militiamen, listened to Captain John Parker and his orders. Captain Parker was a local farmer turned commander, from Lexington, and had been appointed the leader of our militia. I was an emancipated slave from Ashby, Massachusetts, a town 40 miles away from Lexington. I had traveled down to Lexington a few months ago so I could become a Minuteman and fight for America’s freedom.
Ray Bradbury’s grandfather once taught him an important lesson on how one should live. There was no point in living unless the person left leaving something behind that he or she has changed or shaped forever. Then after you die and people look at that object, they will see you standing there as if you were still there. The difference between an architect and a construction worker is that the architect creates the design of a building while the construction worker actually builds it.
Then all my emotions kicked in. First I was upset that I was only swimming one event. Then I felt scared, because this was my first time swimming at a championship swim meet. Finally I started crying, and once the tears started, I couldn’t stop crying.
The Realism of Eudora Welty Eudora Welty (April 13,1909 to July 23, 2001) was an American author of short stories and novels, fiction mostly set in the Depression-era of the South. From Jackson, Mississippi, Welty was a celebrated and respected author and received the Pulitzer Prize in 1973 for her novel The Optimist’s Daughter. She Read more…
PRESENT DAY On a breezy summer morning in Poland, everything was silent. The sky was a dark shade of black and everything was still sound asleep. All that changed when Olivia woke up to the sound of a fury of roosters crowing. She jolted to a sitting position when she realized it was her Read more…
