Preview

A Little Ray of Sunshine

Satisfactory Essays
Open Document
Open Document
313 Words
Grammar
Grammar
Plagiarism
Plagiarism
Writing
Writing
Score
Score
A Little Ray of Sunshine
Raegan (Sunny) Blaisdale - the protagonist in the novel "A little Ray of Sunshine" by S.T. Hogan.

* Sunny was a small town girl, living up to noone's expectations.
* She lost her family in a terrible homocide when she was four , leaving her traumatized and shutting herself off.
* After that, she moved into a nearby foster home, taking the foster family's surname and ever since then she always tried her hardest to fit in but never really succeeded.
* When she turned eight her Uncle took her from the home to live with her big family. (two uncles, one aunty five male cousins and three female)
* When she was growing up she had two friends, a boy in her class named Joshua and an older boy named Tech who unfortunately was the second in charge in a ruthless school gang. Although Sunny and Josh were a "no-go zone". Tech left a when he was in tenth grade (Joshua and Sunny were in seventh) to persue his musical career, leaving Sunny devastated and she shut herself off from the world once more. Occasionally speaking to Josh.
* when she reached tenth grade, just like Tech, she persued her musical dream. Not on purpose. Her Uncle had become the manager of a music company in Korea and mad her tag along, leaving her love behind. Joshua.
* when she reached Korea she was a personal trainer and editor for a band and moved in with the seven boys that were in it.
* she touches a lot of sensitive issues with these boys and opens up to them from time to time as they become her best friends and brothers, all though two of them have a crush on her and she too crushes on them, bottling up her feelings and confusing herself.
* in a pretend scandal, arranged by her meancousin Brittany, she has to leave the

You May Also Find These Documents Helpful

  • Good Essays

    The Other Wes Moore Notes

    • 1909 Words
    • 1 Page

    children. She moved to fond a stable and safe place for her children to grow up.…

    • 1909 Words
    • 1 Page
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Hope Solo: Book Summary

    • 995 Words
    • 4 Pages

    Hope started to disagree with her mom a lot and one day she packed her things and left. Hope when to her grandparent's house and stayed there for a while. Hope finally moved out and got a place of her own. This wasn't that surprising but it was predictable for her to disagree with authority.…

    • 995 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Better Essays

    Nicole, whom is ten years old, also deals with the stress of being abused. Her stepfather always abuses her, mentally and physically, and even though her teachers realize what is going on, Nicole makes excuses for him. She wishes that she could leave, but she is unable to because there is nowhere she can really go. Finally, she is able to find someone whom she can relate to and also become friends with. Both Nicole and Stacy know that they are going to have to stick together, so they “promise that they always be tight `til the end.” Their…

    • 1514 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Good Essays

    Baptized Norma Jeane Baker, the soon to be starlet, spent most of her childhood migrating through foster homes after her mother, Gladys Baker, was instituted and her father’s identity remained unidentified. This was up until Norma Jeane…

    • 1106 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    Sound of Waves

    • 570 Words
    • 3 Pages

    4. Who are the boy’s good friends? How do they help him with his struggles in school?…

    • 570 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    Aileen was born in 1956 to her 16 year old mother. She was not born with any physical or mental disabilities. At the time of her birth her father was incarcerated for child molestation and he was also believed to be a schizophrenic, he hung himself in jail and Aileen never met him. When Aileen was 3 years old her mother abandoned her and her 4 year old brother and left them with her own parents who legally adopted them. The family struggled economically and by age 11 Aileen would engage in sexual activities for food, drugs and alcohol. Home life was not easy for Aileen as she claims to be sexually abused by her alcoholic grandfather and beaten by her grandmother. She would also engage in sexual activities with her brother and at age 14 she became pregnant and there was confusion on whether the father of the baby was her brother, Keith, or her grandfather’s friend who had raped her. She birthed the baby and put it up for adoption as well as dropping out of school. Shortly after all of this her grandfather kicked her out on the street. To stay alive she was forced to cling to prostitution to meet her basic needs and to stay alive. Growing up was extremely difficult and Aileen often felt worthless.…

    • 1216 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Good Essays

    -----was always a cheerful person. She was born in Fresno on March 1, 1996. Recently she had graduated from ____high school, and had only begun college. As a child, she grew a passion for music. During middle school she tried out for the clarinet and she got the position to play. Although she enjoyed the clarinet, she wanted a challenge and decided to go for the flute during high school. In the summer she couldn’t let go of a book because she was glued to it. Even though she was not athletic, she loved volleyball.…

    • 925 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    experiences in middle school. Josh bell went through family and relationships trying to hold on while…

    • 506 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    As soon as she got to school and sat down this kid came up to her, he had blue eyes and short brown hair. He decided to say hi all though he is very shy and said his name is Jacob, he could tell she didn’t have any friends so he decided to be hers.…

    • 617 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    After accidentally throwing a book at his teacher, he was told to leave the reservation so he wouldn’t lose hope. As a result of leaving, Junior lost his best friend, gained a new friend, had an identity problem and now he feels to blame for the deaths of his sister. After leaving the reservation, Juniors sister mary got married and moved to Montana. Furthermore, Mary lived in a trailer home with her husband. After drinking so much one night Mary and her husband knocked out in their bedroom. Therefore, someone left the stove on and as a result of that, mary and her husband burned to death. Mary's dream was to write a romance novel but because she lost hope, after Junior left the reservation mary ran off to live her romance novel. At the funeral, Junior ran into the woods where he saw rowdy crying, “It’s all your fault… your sister is dead because of you left us. You killed her” (211). As Rowdy ran deeper into the woods, “I had killed my sister” (211). Afterwards Junior was starting to lose hope but his friends at Reardan gave him hope by standing up for him when he walked into class late. In conclusion, even though Junior left the reservation, lost his best friend, gained new ones, had an identity problem and blamed himself for the death of his sister Junior had a bright future…

    • 921 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Song Of The Brook

    • 873 Words
    • 2 Pages

    Hilda family got settled in and they met a family named the Olsons '. Hilda and her family liked the Olsons ' because they were down home people and not fancy like Thora 's family. The Olson children were also very nice, and they showed Hilda, John and Lois their new school. They all became good friends. One…

    • 873 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    And Still We Rise - Essay

    • 889 Words
    • 4 Pages

    Growing up, Toya never knew her biological father. Instead she lived with her mom and stepfather. Toya would often see the two arguing and eventually it came to her stepfather beating her mother up on his drinking binges. Finally her mother getting so tired of this abuse grabbed her two daughters and took shelter. Although, once Toya’s mother could not afford the nightly shelter fee she arranged for her girls and herself to stay with a friend. When she went home one day to get the girls’ clothes her husband strangled her to death. Toya walked in the bathroom to find her mother dead on the floor. After the murder of her mother, Toya and her sister were sent to a group home and later to their aunt’s house. Toya was sexually abused by her stepfather who had a huge effect on her. She later became pregnant and gave birth to a boy during her junior year. This ruined a lot for her in school. She was now going to study at home, return to high school the next year and attend college. “I didn’t have time to think about tomorrow. I had to survive today,” (47). Her plans were completely ruined when both her aunt and cousin kicked her out. She could not graduate from high school but instead got her GED and will attend college with the help of her church.…

    • 889 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Friendship is something that has been difficult but means a lot to Charlie, ever since his best friend Michael committed suicide. “And I think it’s sad because Susa ndoesn’t look as happy. To tell you the truth, she doesn’t like to admit she’s in advanced English class, and she doesn’t like to say ‘hi’ to me in the hall anymore.” (7). Charlie notices a lot about Susan during his first couple of days of school because she is one of the only people he knows. Charlie seems lonely in the beginning of the school year however he soon makes two very good friends. At one of the school football games Patrick recognized Charlie from his wood shop class and called him over where he met Patrick’s stepsister Sam. Eventually Patrick and Sam became Charlie’s best friends and they even introduced him to other people whom he also became friends with.…

    • 596 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    James A. Garfield

    • 651 Words
    • 3 Pages

    had to carry on working the family farm by herself. With the death of his…

    • 651 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Better Essays

    She also faces obstacles at home where “she thinks that she is just a huge disappointment and that her parents would have been divorced if she had not born” (Anderson 70). When she gets to school she finds all of these “clans that everyone is in like the Jocks, Country Clubbers, Idiot Savants, Cheerleaders, Human Waste, Eurotrash, Future Fascists of American, Big Hair Chix, the Marthas, Suffering Artists, Thespians, Goths, and Shredders” (Anderson 4). She says she is an Outcast and that there are no points for looking at her ex-friends since the whole incident happened. One of the things that many of the people in Merryweather High School don’t know about, is what happened to Melinda, during the whole party was that she got raped and then they started hating her because they didn’t know what happened for her to call the cops. She had to face many emotional obstacles after the party because she kept having flashbacks on when Andy Evans raped her. She has been through an emotional journey to overcome the fear of being raped. She was drunk and barely conscious. Whenever she is in the same place as Andy she becomes traumatized and remembers everything that happened to her that night where she was drunk. The flashback haunted her, she found her way after she felt that she needed to tell someone about the incident she had with…

    • 924 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Better Essays

Related Topics