Claude McKay has changed a lot so far in A Long Way From Home. I have read around 100 pages of it and have noticed that Claude isn’t the same person that traveled from Jamaica. He is now more curious than ever to learn about the rest of the world, like the US, London, and Read more…
How Friendship can Interfere with The Law by Inaya Majid In “After 20 Years” by O. Henry, friendship wants to be kept; whereas in “The Hitchhiker” by Roald Dahl, the law is challenged because of friendship, but in both, we have the same idea that friendship can always try to bend the law. When the reader Read more…
The Importance of Family I was a senior in high school. I had already been accepted to Penn State on a wrestling scholarship and was up against Anthony Paine for the State Title. Rated as the top seed in the tournament, Anthony was a massive guy who looked completely shredded. He was undefeated with twenty wins Read more…
THE GARBAGE HOLE: A WORMHOLE OF TRASH An immense white ship sailed through space; the ship had the letters USA printed on it, and living there were Americans traveling to Mars. Everything was going according to plan so far, and everything had to go according to plan for the rest of the journey if the Read more…
Convergence Spirits are regarded as evil, only negative traces of whatever they used to be. People fear spirits, hunt ghosts, and tell stories about them as if they were passive monsters. The truth is, most aren’t malicious, hateful, or evil. They’re just alone. Forever. Or at least until they move on, or somehow become whole Read more…
Gold lights shows but fills of greed
Rock dulls, bores but does the deed
Dubuque Hijinks Both Augusta and Toby thought living in Dubuque was decent if you didn’t count the ridiculously hard school system and homework, that is. The reason Augusta had even come to know the city was thanks to her dad who had come to Dubuque for a job. Toby though, was different – he was Read more…
The Snow Ball The red brick building of the town’s elementary school had been drowned and frosted over by the winter, until all 3 acres from afar appeared indistinguishable from the pallid snow surrounding. Within this colorless edifice lay the cozy revelry of polite laughs and giggles: ‘twas the Christmas half-day at Homan Brook Elementary. Read more…
QJ’s dilemma “I can do this,” a boy at a dinner table said to himself. He wasn’t the only one there. His mother and father were sitting with him. “Can I talk to you guys?” he asked. His mom and dad’s eyes looked automatically to him. “Yes?” his mom asked. QJ paused. “If you’re going Read more…
Traveling through Different Worlds Mrs. Whatsit sighed. “Explanations are not easy when they are about things for which your civilization still has no words. Calvin talked about traveling at the speed of light. You understand that, little Meg?” What does that have anything to do with anyone’s civilization?! Why is Mrs. Whatsit talking about explaining? Read more…
