The Ugly Kid

Ajax was the tallest and strongest of all the Achaeans. Ajax is also a cleaning business with laundry detergents, dish liquids, and bleach.

Aurora is the goddess of dawn. Aurora is also a luxury car model.

Saturn (Cronus) ate his kids except for Zeus who freed the children from him.  Saturn is company called Saturn Automobile Corporation.

Mars was the God of War. Mars is the name of a planet and the popular candybar.

 In the painting The Return of Persephone by Frederic Leighton, the escort of Hermes illustrates and explains the deeper meaning of how important the attraction of love between families really is and the author definately wants us to comprehend that concept.

The Return of Persephone

This Six-Word Memoir represents how it is in everyday life for me.

NO ESCAPE FROM THE FRIEND ZONE.

This is the link to my Glogster.

Best Sentences- The Contender

Simple Sentence- James turned away. (pg.9)

Compound Sentence- He dropped his hands when he saw Alfred, and the big grin turned sheepish. (pg.10)

Complex Sentence- James didn’t even look for a job, started hanging around with Major and Hollis, believing them when they said the white man would never let him build anything but garbage heaps. (pg.16)

Compound-Complex Sentence- Numb, aching pain everywhere, but everything moving, nothing broken. (pg. 18)

Best Sentences- October Sky

Simple Sentence- Mom was sipping coffee in front of her tropical beach. (pg. 229)

Compound Sentence- It was an improvement, but Gary was still a place of strikes and lockouts and the occasional bloody head. (pg.

Complex Sentence- Dad was working at the mine all day, so I didn’t get to hear his opinion on what was happening. (pg. 20)

Compound-Complex Sentence- Well, I could’ve played, but I had to work, picking coal at the tipple after school. (pg.68)

The Contender

by: Robert Lipsyte

  This novel is the first installment in a four part series about a teenager named Alfred Brooks, a high school dropout who lives in the very poor streets of Harlem, New York. He has the same old boring nothing job at a grocery store. After altercations with street punks and bullies he finds himself in Donatelli’s Gym. Coming to find himself being put through crazy and grueling trained by Mr. Donatelli. Potentially, he becomes more poised, disciplined, and a great person is found beneath him. He then learns confidence to stand up in the face of danger, learns to gain respect, and that the effort means so much more deeper and emotion filling than that feeling of winning in the process of becoming a man.

This novel is probably one of my most favorite novels of all time just because it has to do with testing your limit and it kind of comes down to who wants it more. I like how it shows bit by bit how this person goes from a poor, scared, and just plain wuss with no determination turns into a very strong willed, confident, and disciplined young man. At the beginning of the book Alfred is confronted at his friend’s house by some street punks named Hollis, Sonny, and Major. Alfred, hot in the situation he just tries to ignore it to the point to where he can’t bear it anymore. His palms were sweaty and he was scared so he backed down and walked away. When later in the book he finds his heart in boxing and finds his way through the streets due to the great motivation of Mr. Donatelli.

This is a book about determination and sport motivation and would be great for anyone who just likes a good story or who is interested in motivation towards contact sports. It also is dealing with issues happening in all of our lives and you have to read it to be able to understand the concept behind it. The tone toward it is crazy it’s definitely moving and kind of directly to the heart if you understand it. Once you begin reading it takes a minute before you get interested then once you do you won’t be able to let this come out of your hands. one of the best motivational books you’ll read, period.