Troy Buchanan Narrative

I walked silently, my converse crunching on the wet sidewalk. I zipped up my jacket and took a sip of my coffee. I slowly walked towards my school when someone's shoulder slammed in to me. My coffee flew out of my hands, the lid came of as it hit the ground, spilling all over the sidewalk. I stumbled as I tried to regain my balance. I hate this small town I thought to myself. When I returned home I arrived to both of my parents sitting at the table. I looked at them with a confused look, “Ava why don't you take a seat,” Father said “we have something to tell you.” I took a seat not saying a word just giving them a confused look. “Ava honey your father got a promotion,” Mother stated “and we are going to be moving to California!” Fireworks were going off in my head thinking of all of the new things I would get to experience.

Tragedy, as defined by Aristotle, is “a drama treating a serious subject and involving persons of significance” (Kirszner and Mandell 1086), the success of a tragedy occurs when the audience “feels both fear and pity because they see in themselves the potential for similar situations” (Kirszner and Mandell 1087). Aristotle’s literary theory of tragedy applies only to “imitation of persons who are above the common level, he must be one who is highly renowned and prosperous – a personage like Oedipus, Thyestes, or other illustrious men of such families” (Aristotle) because his theory was developed for application to the literary works of poets and playwrights such as Homer, Aeschylus, and Sophocles, whose works were the interpretations of Greek mythology. This means that one cannot look fully to Aristotle’s definition of a tragic hero in application to modern literature. Therefore, many scholars and literary critics look to playwright Arthur Miller’s description written in his article Tragedy and the Common Man where he writes, “I believe that common man is as apt a subject for tragedy in its highest sense as kings were” (Miller). Miller points out in his article that the common man can exhibit all the same qualities and characteristics as those of a man born into nobility, and that same common man can execute the same actions. But not all tragedies are heroic, there must be specific elements in the creation of a tragic hero that can be difficult to

While waiting for the court date I would not be allowed to teach. I stepped out in the hallway and was suddenly attacked by questions, accusations, and horrible stares. Not only had the students heard, but so had Kelly’s parents and they were not happy with me. Her dad approached me quickly, making me think that he was going to hit me, but instead grabbed my wrist and pulled me aside from the crowd that was quickly gathering. The anger in his voice was very apparent when he sharply asked, “What kind of man are you?”

Tom Buchanan is not only in The Great Gatsby to provide an obstacle for Daisy and Gatsby’s relationship. He is crucial to The Great Gatsby because he is a key character at the turning point of the book, or the afternoon at the plaza. The afternoon at the plaza is also a scene that is essential to Tom’s character because it is one of the only times that Tom is heavily featured in the novel. Although he is very present in the dinner with Jordan and Daisy, and in the party at Myrtle’s apartment, he isn’t given much of an opportunity to display the traits that are crucial to his character. A large part of Tom’s character is his intense masculinity, which in his case is defined as physical strength, the

Meet Melinda, She's is attending her first day of 9th grade at Merryweather High, And it did not go so well. All her old friends don't talk to her. Other students laugh at her. Rachel says she hates her. Melinda really wants to tell everything to Rachel, but she can’t speak. Melinda calls her English teacher Hairwoman, because she hides behind all her hair. Melinda's doesn’t like her Social Studies teacher, she calls him Mr. Neck. Lunch went pretty bad. She didn't have anybody to sit with because all her old friends are mad at her for what she did, then a guy hits Melinda with food and then she ran out of the lunchroom. Mr. Neck makes Melinda stop, and expects an answer but since she can't speak,she gets in trouble. After that, she had Art

One night, towards the end of November, three teenagers were out past their town 's curfew. The teenagers knew that if they were caught, they would be in more trouble than they had ever been in before. These three teenagers were the oddest group of friends, Ethan was the goody-two-shoes of the group- always following the rules, he was a skinny kid standing about six feet tall but there was not one ounce of muscle on his body; Jackson was the star of the lacrosse team- he never paid attention to what anyone told him, especially adults, he was only about 5’10”, but built of pure muscle; and then there was Brooke- she did not know much about anything and she did whatever her boyfriend Jackson told her to, she was blonde and strikingly

These three were clearly out of place in Verhilla’s classroom. One day, the class had a rehearsal in Circle Theater. The three girls wanted to take advantage of not being in a classroom. They noticed that Mrs. Verhilla had brought her purse to the theater. Mary suggested that they devise a plan to steal her purse and get out of the theater with no problems. The rehearsal started and Mary informed the teacher that she was going to the bathroom. The other two girls asked to do the same; Verhilla said to wait until Mary returned. Mary then sneaked around the building behind the teacher with her purse within reach. Mary gave Linda and Sally a signal. Sally then told Verhilla that Mary had returned. Being in the back of the scene set, the girls had no trouble sneaking out. Mary grabbed the purse and the three casually walked out the back door, into the main school building, and off of the campus. The rehearsal had ended and Mrs. Verhilla noticed that her purse and the three girls were gone. Mrs. Verhilla informed her husband about the matter and a police report was filed. She then called all three of the girls’ parents, but none answered. She

We had gone 3-20 the season before and had not beaten our rival Troy Christian in basketball in seven years before this game. Earlier that season we had lost to Troy Christian by eight points after leading by eight at halftime. Our team was disappointed, but also hungry for revenge. It seemed like eternity waiting for our rematch. The week before the game we began practicing a defensive scheme to stop Troy Christian's six-foot-eight center, James Anderson. He had led the conference in scoring and rebounding all season. He scored eighteen points and grabbed eighteen rebounds in our first meeting and we were determined not to allow that to happen again. Finally, the day came. The day that would change our program. We were ready to put an end

In the dystopian town Landyville there is nothing but problems,drama,and violence. Young Lily Patterson has been here to see it all go down as she’s grown up in Landyville.Lily lives on Woodcrest with her mom Sarah who’s 8 months pregnant with a baby girl and her dad Phil.Lily and her family just moved to Landyville 3 days ago.But what they don’t know is that Woodcrest is the most dangerous street in Landyville.Sarah goes to Landy Middle School to enroll Lily in school.As Sarah arrives there she sees a beautiful big building,a nice parking lot and playground.When Sarah makes it into the school she starts to sweat because the school has no air conditioning so it’s very hot.After 3 hours of being at the school enrolling Lily,Sarah arrives home

Behavioral patterns are inherited through environmental conditions and self-will to make personal changes. Troy grew up in a broken home, destroyed by his father. His father’s venomous words and brutal physical attacks drove both Troy and his mother away into the unknown. Leaving at the age of fourteen, Troy resorted to theft to make a living which eventually imprisoned him for many years. This type of behavior is programmed into Troy because of the extended exposure to an abusive parental figure. Children look up to their parents to set the pathway for them until they develop their own conscious and opinions. When they mature a reach that point of evaluating their own values, the individual takes what their parents have taught them into account

It is 3 o’clock in the morning. Everyone in the house was dead asleep. “Knock, knock, knock.” “Someone is knocking the door” I said to myself as I laid in bed. “Bang, bang, bang.” “Someone is banging on the door” I said to myself as I got out of bed. In my pajamas, I woke up my sister and told her I heard someone knocking and banging on the door. We walked to the front door, looked out the window, and saw red and blue lights. Immediately, I turned on the living room lights as my sister in her pajamas opened the door. I saw a short female cop asking my sister some serious question before saying the reason why she was there.

“You all know why you are here,” the principal began, “What happened last night was unacceptable, you’re all lucky I don’t suspend you!” As the shouts of protest grew louder, the secretary poked her head into the room. “Sir, you have a conference in 30 minutes,” she said as she eyed the students. “Thank you.” He turned his attention back to the kids in front of him, “You’re lucky that you weren’t injured, but I want to hear the full story from Autumn.” The students nodded as he dismissed all but Autumn. “Autumn, you’re a good kid, and I expect to hear the truth from you.” “Yes, sir”.

On a dark cloudy day Bill found out that Anna cheated on him with his best friend. Whenever Bill said something to her she just denied it. He got mad at he and told her that she would get what she deserved. Anna was totally out of Bill’s league anyways. Anna was short, had really blonde curly hair and she had these bright blue eyes. Anna told Bill’s best friend that she was just using him for his money so she could have what she wanted. Even though her family had a lot of money they wouldn’t give her money when she asked for it because she always spent it on something dumb. After a couple days Bill got even more aggravated because he would’ve never thought Anna would do something like that. Bill started leaving notes in Anna’s locker saying I would get you back after Anna found the note she didn't know who to tell. So she kept it a secret she got so scared that she didn't even want to go to school. After Bill realized she wasn’t coming to school Bill went to Anna’s house and kiddnaped her. Bill took Anna to the woods while he was taking Anna went to his car Samantha (Anna's mom) seen Bill putting her in the car. While Bill was putting Anna in the car she was screaming for help and crying. After Bill got Anna completely in the Bill started to take off towards the woods. Samantha ran and jumped in her car and started following Bill. While like 20 minutes down the road Bill realized someone was following him. He tried everything in his power to try and get whoever to wreck.

Christopher to head to the principal office. I spotted safety patrol who were required to walk students to different areas of the school as an buddy system. I remember looking down at the tiles taking each step wondering what I could have done. The safety patrol looking at me sympathetically knowing I was in an uncomfortable situation. I walk into the office and immediately sit down in the big brown chair waiting in anxiety. My favorite librarian Mrs. Garrison comes in to talk to me before the principal shows up. She calmly says, “you’re being accused of cheating on the AR tests due to fast rate that you’ve been going”. I look up at her thinking this must be a joke. I had worked so hard to finish those tests and now I’m being accused of cheating my way through. This could not be happening to me.

The day started like any other Friday, little did any of us know, that this was going to be one of the worst days in most of our entire lives. Excitement filled the halls of Grand Blanc High School for another fun filled weekend was finally here. Bob and I had several classes together but still hadn’t decided what we wanted to do with our weekend. Some of our friends were headed up north to party and another group was just going to hang out around town and see what the weekend brought them. The school bell rang and Bob and I couldn’t get out of our class fast enough. I often rode to school with Bob and his little brother Mike, and this day was no different. We got Mike home safe where he spent some time talking with his brother. “Stay out of trouble tonight and don’t do anything I wouldn’t do” Bob playfully said to him, I remember Mike responding to Bob with a smirk saying “Yeah, yeah, how bout’ you bum me a square before you go?” Bob willingly gave his brother the cigarette and as we backed out of the driveway Bob shouting “Love you bro!” to his brother who had started towards the house. This was the last time Mike ever saw his big