As we saw the strange insect we were frightened for how big it was so we were going to shoot it but it heard my uncle getting his bullet´s. So soon as it heard my bullet´s it said, ¨hello anybody there¨. So we got a little bit more frightened but i told my uncle don´t shoot yet because he might be peaceful. So i said to him can you talk and he said, ¨yes i can talk¨ and then i said, ¨do you have a name¨ and he said, ¨yes i have a name¨.So ask him what is your…
Juan de Pareja was born into a slave family. His mother died when he was just five years old. The only thing his mother left was her gold earrings. From that day on Mistress, Dona Emilia de Silva y Rodriguez, took him as her pageboy. But soon after Mistress taught Juanico his letters and how to write. Juanico developed beautiful handwriting, which at first made Mistress envy him until she noticed that he could now write her letters. But after a while Master became ill and got worst everyday until he died. The house had now been very quiet and sad Mistress then dictated a letter to Juanico for her nephew. The letter explained that Master had died and that she might go and visit his nephew soon. But she never realized this because Mistress died soon after due to the plague. After this Juanico was the only survivor from that house. But he also got very sick after Mistress died. Then one day a Brother from the church named Isidro came to the house one day fixed a bed for Juanico and made him broth. He also took the house pet that was a dog named Toto. Brother Isidro then informed Juanico that he had been inherited to Don Diego, Mistress' nephew. The next day Brother Isidro pleaded the magistrate to not note Juanico's name so he could prepare him for his journey at the convent. Luckly he told brother Isidro he wouldn't note him down until he was ready. Juan stayed in the convent for about six days, during this time he took care of the children in the convent and helped out with other things. Then the day came to go to the house of the magistrate. When they got there Juan waited outside until Brother Isidro came out and gave Juanico the bad news that he may never see him again and that he will have to stay there and receive orders.…
In the beginning the world was not as we know it today, up in the sky there was another world called The Sky World where human type beings lived. In this Sky World there was a great tree which bore corn that fed the village. Well it so happened, that the chiefs daughter was very sick but there seems to be no cure in sight. One night, a friend of the Chief had a dream that if the girl was placed by the tree and the tree dug up, her sickness would be cured. The girl was placed by the tree, and the tree was dug up. Along came a man who was upset that the tree…
The story “A Bag of Oranges” by Spiro Athanas tells about a poor family lived in the rotting slum and the boy in this family became a mature person from a childish kid. Because the boy’s father needs to pay his responsibility to his family and the people who he loved, so his rude behavior and act makes his son hate him for a short time. After the boy notice his family’s financial situation, then he realize it’s not easy be an adult to making life run in the society, and you would lose some important things while you are paying responsibility to your family, so he begin understand his father. When the boy know his father hit by a car, all his emotion spew out and make his act like an adult in the end of the story because he take the responsibility from his father. The author wants to tell us the childish boy becomes a mature boy because the boy understands take care of a family need you pay a lot or got misunderstand. He throws all his childish behavior away and tries to take the responsibility to his family and the people who he loved. Sometimes, it’s not easy to be an adult because you need swallow all tough things with no childish emotion.…
There was an ancient chief in theSkyland. His young wife was expecting a child, and one night she dreamed that she saw the Great Tree uprooted. The next morning she told her husband the story.…
Okay, so there's this place called the Sky World, and there lives a man and his wife who is expecting a child. And there's a tree in the center of the Sky World that no being is allowed to eat from. *sounds familliar?* Don't touch the tree, don't eat from the tree, don't pee on the tree, don't look at the tree, don't think about the tree! Well guess what? The wife is having her weird craving as most pregnant women do and she demands of her husband to get the tree's roots so she can eat them. He's like "But we's not suppose to," and she's like "GIMME FOODZ!" so he goes and starts digging up the tree roots and he breaks a hole in the sky and he's like "OMG" and runs away and then the wife is like "FINE I'll get it myself" so she goes to the tree and sticks her head down the hole to see what she can see, and she sees the sea. The she falls down the hole, and birds carry her onto the back of a turtle and she offers to plant the roots she got from the tree for them to grow foodz but there's no dirt on the giant flying ball of water we call Earth, so all the little animals start swimmin' down to reach the bottom and find dirt but none of them can do it, and then the Muskrat is like "I can do it!"…
After all the play the boy becomes tired and runs to get his puppy. This puppy is a green stuffed animal. The little boy picks puppy up and kisses it. Then he throws it onto his shoulder and proceeds to hug it. While hugging the puppy he is patting it on its back. Then he gently puts the puppy to the floor and walks away. If the little boy is told to love his puppy he then again kisses and hugs the stuffed animal. Bedtime finally come so the little boy gathers his puppy and climbs into his bed. Lying down in bed he pulls the cover over him and goes to sleep without further…
One day in jacks ordinary world on the way home from school Jack Rodgers found a pipe, black hat, and a scarf. Jack Rogers wondered how that stuff got there but he didn't care so he ran off and played basketball. Being curious he went back and the stuff was gone the pipe, black hat, and scarf but something else was missing the pile of snow the stuff was on. So he began walking around looking for it. He soon found in front of a hole a carrot. Jack was curious so he reached and grabbed it and there was a note. “Jump in if you want to find me From” but the rest was ripped off and jack thought to himself “should I” he didn’t want to be late for basketball since he would have to run but he was curious then out of nowhere a deerbra knocked him in and he fell and next thing he knew he was passed out. He woke up in a different…
Long time ago, there was the old grandma and her daughter, her daughter is pregnant and her husband is going to war. During when her husband was not home, she is about to give birth, and at war Mary husband was hurt and die in war, at the say day and the same time Mary also gives birth to the Piggy. When piggy was born, both of his grandma and mom don’t know how to call him, so his grandma calling him Piggy? It been 3 days already piggy dads didn’t come back, but they heard the news, the new said “your husband is dying at the war”. When piggy crawling, he never uses words in his mouth, he is smart, smart like his dad and mom.…
During the 19th century a young African American boy and his very poor family lived in the South. The boy’s father is a small farmer and the family is stressed because of money problems and it is a really rough time for them. Sounder the family dog goes hunting is very close to the father and goes hunting with him every night. Each day the boy’s father and Sounder come back from hunting empty handed. One morning the boy wakes up and smells delicious food and sees that there is ham being cooked. The father came back with ham but he stole it and knew theft was wrong but he didn’t want to see his family suffer. The family hadn’t h ad a decent meal in a long time. Not long later, three men accuse the boy’s father of stealing the ham. Right in front of the boy the three white men…
This time the tiger stopped chasing Thomas and attacked Timmy. Timmy scratched the other tiger very badly; however, the tiger bit Timmy tossed him to the ground. Timmy got up and scratched the tiger one more time, but the tiger threw Timmy to the ground with all its strength. Both of the tigers were very tired and injured badly. They could not fight anymore. The tiger died shortly after, and Thomas turned back to see if Timmy was alright. Timmy had many broken bones and was loosing blood very quickly. Timmy knew he was going to die, but he was glad he got to see Thomas one last time. Thomas cried and said his goodbyes and started to walk off.…
One hot summer day as Rikki Tikki was resting a high summer flood washed washed him out of the burrow where him, his father, and mother all lived. Everyday he would drag himself down a dirt road. Until one day he stopped to take a rest on what he thought was a dirt road. After he woke up he herd the sound of a little boy. The little boy was saying “Look a dead mongoose let’s have a funeral”. The boy’s mother replied back…
The woodsman realized a very outrageous loud snore coming from the old lady house. So, he goes into the house and see this wolf and calls him an old sinner. He found some scissors and started cutting the sleeping wolf belly open. When he continued cutting he seen a red cloth and continued cutting until Little Red Cap jumped out and so did the grandmother. Little Red Cap runs outside to grabs big stones and places the stones in his belly. The woodsman sews the wolf stomach. He wanted to run away, but the stones were so heavy that his legs would not carry him and he fell…
His chest sunk down, and for a moment the man resigned his fate into the hands of what seemed like a boulder on his back. However, an instinct reared him back up, discarding the burden off of him into the cold, hard ground which he moved upon. The man turned to face his assailant, and saw a small boy, whose eyes widened. The man rose to his knees with what little strength he possessed and began to yell at the kid, only it came out sounding like a low, horrible groan. As the man shook his fist, the boy, terrified, ran…
Tom was very upset but he wanted to prove to his dad that he could, so the day that his father was going to go hunting Tom took his 12 gauge and his father’s best hunting dog, Calypso Baby and set off to try to prove that he…
