I live with my parents Alice and Richard and my little sister Addie. ... When I say soon I didn't know it was going to be that upcoming Wednesday. ... I asked him about the car and how he got it and why he got it and he kept making a nstrange noise as like he didn't understand what I was saying. ... I asked him how I was to believe that he was my real father. ... It was a lot going on for me to take at one time. ...

• Word Count: 1360
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

PARENTS AND KIDS RELATIONSHIPS "October Sky" by Joe Johnston and "Every Day Use" by Alice Walker's stories deal with parents and kids relationships. ... The only one the can help in is his dad and he goes and makes another rocket for him. ... Once he wins the scholarship goes back to his town. ... We're able to know this when Dee asks her mother for the quilts. ... As well as "Every Day Use" by Alice Walker provided us a list of conflicts, which made Maggie and her mother relationship very static. ...

• Word Count: 1757
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

At school he can receive answers to questions that could not even be asked at home. ... "Books were going to make me educated." ... I didn't decide, "Well today I'm going to become 40 percent Mexican and 60 percent Gringo." ... He asks this rhetorical question: "Could anything shorter be a book?" ... Yet, Rodriguez read Plato's Republic at an age when a usual student would most probably read Lewis's "Alice Adventures in Wonderland". ...

• Word Count: 2210
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School