The Death Of A Girl - 1236 Words

Imagine this. There is a fifteen-year-old girl walking into first block at her high school. She is trying to remember what is due today for her first class and the rest to follow. Today is a different day though; it is the one-year anniversary of her stepbrother committing suicide. Not everyone knows that today is the day, but she doesn’t want to talk about it. She is stressed about the homework she might not have done and her mind is in so many different places. The first bell rings so she takes her seat and looks at the board. A worksheet was due and she hadn’t completed it. Swiftly walking around the room, the teacher comes to collect the worksheet, but she hadn’t completed it. The girl doesn’t pass her worksheet forward and tries to explain to the teacher it was a rough day, but the teacher does not care. Sitting there blankly, the girl is still thinking about her brother instead of school. The day carries on, but still the girl is not mentally in scho ol. Her grade book reflects the bad day and the teachers that didn’t care enough to listen to the student. The student is more stressed out than before and her mind is going crazy. Sinking deeper and deeper into a whole that cannot be climbed out of she tries to forget about the couple bad grades. Its just one bad grade, that wont hurt right? Until next week when she has family problems at home and one bad grade turns into two bad grades. The stress once again rises and no one is willing to listen. Teachers, parents,Show MoreRelatedThe Death Of The Girl747 Words   |  3 Pagesthe sorrows of death. The bells chimed again. Inside were the faces of grief and mourning. Flowers surrounded the dark place to bring a shard of hope and brightness. The girl was sleeping there peacefully as the light from the coloured stained glass brilliantly reflected on her ivory skin. The clock ominously ticked away at each second. Quiet chatter filled the air. Cries that seemed very far away were uttered. In another realm the soul lived on. I watched. I heard. In death the girl was beautifulRead MoreThe Death Of The Girl1435 Words   |  6 PagesThe girl ran as fast as she to escape them. The dark air made her blind and the rustle of leaves under her feet only made her more frantic. Those dangerous monsters that were following her were vampires. Yes vampires, those blood suckers of the night who feasted on the blood of humans. Their fangs as sharp as diamonds, able to pierce through anything, noses as powerful as a of bloodhound, and hands able to crush metal like a celery stick. The air was burning the girl s lungs and her legs wereRead MoreThe Death Of The Girl Jig1197 Words   |  5 Pages I got to an important point in the story when the girl Jig wants to have the baby, but the American person is convincing her that he only wants her not anybody else. He also wants to continue the relationship as it was before. I think Jig will not do this abortion because in 1920’s in Madrid where they were going to have an abortion was illegal, dangerous, and socially unacceptable in the community. It seems like the setting of the story was Catholic and conservative. In 1920, abortion was illegalRead MoreThe Death Of The Teenage Girl1040 Words   |  5 Pagesteenage girl cried throughout the ER. Apparently, she was about to give birth and she did not even know she was pregnant. The doctor immediately got to work. She had delivered a healthy baby girl. Soon the teenager’s father rushed into the room. The father had a look of shock and anger all over his face. â€Å"Amber, how could you? What is this? Why didn’t you tell us?† the father asked the teenage girl. â€Å"Dad, I’m not pregnant. I couldn’t be,† the girl replied. The doctor was curious to why the girl did notRead MoreThe Death Of The Young Girl1758 Words   |  8 PagesGroaning in relief, the young girl squatted behind a huckleberry thicket and emptied her bladder; the tart odor of pine straw saturated with urine filled the air around her. Inhaling deeply, she smiled; not so much from the aroma of the urine, but from the other scents in the crisp October air. Waking along the watershed usually meant another bland beginning to another bland, uneventful day. And most days, the young girl, whose name was Charity, hated getting out of bed in the mornings; she preferredRead MoreThe Death Of A Young Girl2082 Words   |  9 PagesIn the year 1997 on the 28th of October, a young girl is born. She is small and knows nothing of the world. But, her parents, they know she will do great things. What they are, they have not a single clue, but even so, they want to see where she will go. What they don’t foresee though, is the pain she will have to go through first to get there. She is different from most kids. She isn’t attracted to the boys girls in her class fawn over. She finds drawing characters in the shows she watches withRead MorePublic Health Nurses : The Leading Cause Of Death Among Girls Essay1709 Words   |  7 PagesComplications from pregnancy and childbirth are the leading cause of death among girls ages 15-19 in LMICâ€⠄¢s (Morris Rushwan, 2015). The primary reason for these preventable death-causing complications is that teenagers are not properly supplied with contraceptives. Due to these unplanned and unwanted pregnancies approximately 4.5 million teenage girls undergo an abortion each year, with an estimated 3 million of them being performed unsafely (Morris Rushwan, 2015). Some detrimental complicationsRead MoreTheme Of Something Rich And Strange940 Words   |  4 PagesEveryone is destined for death from the second he or she is born. It seems dark, but living people are so busy prospering in their life, they cannot completely comprehend the idea of their own passing. With death comes the mysterious transition from life to death, which though is fated is incomprehensible. In Something Rich and Strange by Ron Rash, the story focuses on this mystery and how different people go about comprehending it. The literary elements are used to support and clarify the centralRead MoreAnalysis Of The Po em Death Valley 1165 Words   |  5 PagesDeath Valley Katilyn Patterson It was a hot day in Death Valley. In Death Valley there was Donna, Gina, Jenny. They couldn’t leave Death Valley because their car ran out of gas. So they saw,found a campsite with three trailer’s their and one trailer there was beer, and old can food. Another trailer had old strawberries, and a radio and they touched the radio and strawberries. The last trailer they found a sink and drunk the water first they said â€Å"it was hot water.†Then they say â€Å"it is the worstRead MoreWe Are Seven By William Wordsworth1321 Words   |  6 Pagesthe countryside. â€Å"We Are Seven† was published in Lyrical Ballads, a volume marketed toward the upper class who had the money to spend on books of poetry. The poem’s audience is similar to the reader demographic. The diction used to describe the young girl is very naà ¯ve and pastoral. This will later play into the young girl’s characterization as the speaker’s description of her contrasts her intellect and emotional capacity. The speaker describes her as â€Å"simple,† which implies innocence and harmlessness