Life is not like a movie for two reasons.
1. No Cameras.
2. Its not perfect.

Back then

Do you remember when we were younger and anything was possible.
When we would walk outside with no shoes and just ignore all of the yelling parents Just to have fun.
When we would make up pointless games and play them for an entire day.
When we would go to the bathroom at school just so that we could talk to our friends.
Wasting an entire summer doing absolutely nothing but loving every second of it.
Building forts out of blankets in the basement just to have and excuse sleeping somewhere else.
Prank calls at night and swimming during the day, we all and act like nothing happened.
I remember the day that my brother played an entire two hours of hide and go seek with a nail in his knee before he told our parents.
Playing beauty parlor and actually cutting every inch off of your friend’s hair.
Dressing up in funny costumes because you thought that when the neighbors saw you that they would think you were cool.
Thinking that when you put your hands over your eyes that no one can see you even though it’s just that you can’t see them.
Hiding in the bathroom with your friend for an entire day because your friend’s dog is sick.
Hiding from the neighbor boys because they had cooties and then hanging out the Entire day the next day and pretending that nothing ever happened.
The time when no one got yelled at for not doing what they were supposed to.
When fun was the only thing on our minds.
When we would go from house to house to house all day without anyone caring or parents being worried.
No phones to bug us the whole day.
Swimming through the weeds and to the island just so that we could stand on the rocks and watch the carp fight for food.
Playing pirate and making your friends walk across the fallen tree in that water and pretending it was a plank, then when you friend falls off and into the water you all jump with him.
Hanging upside down from a tree branch in your secret club down the street, that you later find is a dump.
That you later find that life is more then care free days in the sun.
That you later find that life is diffrent now.
That you later find that you dont have a choice to go through time or not, time goes by and then days and month and before you know it, years but you never had a choice. you were forced to do it.
Forced to live and forced to go through every day. not being able to pause time or stop in your tracks for a break.
When the timmer rings in the morrning you get up, you have to, you eaither have to go to school or a job.
No one can survive in this world without them so we have to go.
Then you geet home and eat, another trick of survival.
Next you do your homework or work that you are forced to get done.
Life is not full of dicisions.
We are forced to live it.
We are foreced to do what our parents say (even though you dont agree with them even one percent of the time).
Forced to live where your parents tell you for 18 long years.
Forced to go to bed with out a meal and a starving stomach if thats what it takes to get throuh your life.
Six more years.
Only six more.

laying in my cold bed as the winter winds blow. We are a poor family and dont have windowas or doors. I sit on my bed prying before I rest. sudenly the sun seemed to be comming up. It got brighter. Then brighter and brighter. So bright I had to sheild my eyes. Speachless was I and then a black speck came to my eye. Bigger and bigger it got untill all that I could see was black. Then nothing. This it shal stay. Black forever. black for life. This it shall stay.

Rules of the Road

Imagine having a drunken Dad and a bipolar Mom, you would pretty much have
to take care of yourself alone. No one to wake you up in the morning, no
one to cook meals for you, no one to be there for you when you are sad,
and no one to help you with the tough life that you already have. This
is how Jenna from the book Rules of the Road , feels all and everyday.
Joan Bauer uses many symbols and a lesson in this comedy.

In the book Rules of the Road, there are many important symbols.
On is the wheel chair. This represents Mrs. Gladstone and her old age.
Another symbol in the book is Jenna. She represents Mrs. Gladstone In a
different way. Mrs. Gladstone even said to Jenna in the book that she
reminded her of herself. She acts like her, looks like her, works at her
store and more. The last symbol that I would like to point out is
Jenna’s Dad’s favorite alcohol drink. This symbolizes her dad
alone. this drink scares Jenna. She just cant even look at her. This is
when Jenna’s dad is drunk (all the time) and she is scared of him. But
she holds it all in. Jenna seems like a very calm person so that’s why
she doesn’t show that she gets really scared of this drink and also of
her dad when he is drunk.

This story has symbols but is also a comedy. The story starts
out in normalcy when Jenna is working at her average job in her home
town. The conflict arises when Jenna’s dad comes to meet her and he is drunk. He says that he is just on medication but he is drunk. This is where things start to head down hill. Another part of the mild conflict is when Jenna’s mom wrights she the letter that threatens to kill her, this scares Jenna a lot. The conflict gets resolved when Jenna and Mrs. Gladstone go on the road trip together. This helps Jenna forget all of the stress in her life and focus more on relaxing. The return to normalcy is when Jenna and Mrs. Gladstone return to home and go back to the normal life’s that they were living before they went on the road trip.

This comedy also has a lesson. I believe that the lesson is that you should always stick with your family no matter how bad they treat you. Jenna’s mother was mean and threatened to kill her constantly but if Jenna would have stayed home and didn’t go on the road trip then she could have probably had time to work things out with her mother and make things right again. Also her dad was a drunk and she shouldn’t have gone away and then have him arrested. What she should have done was stayed home with him and try to make him less of an alcoholic. She should have helped him become a person that drank less. On the other hand Mrs. Gladstone is like family to Jenna also. Jenna spends the most time with her. Jenna drives her around and I think that Mrs. Gladstone feels a family type of bond between Jenna and herself. So if you think about /it both ways, Jenna would have done the right thing by staying with her parents but also by leaving with Mrs. Gladstone. The point is that no matter how bad family is they love you and you should always stay with the ones who love you the most.

Jenna was a girl from an unloving family and she had the choice to leave it all. When the choice came around she hoped in the car with her boss and left. But in the end she came back to her family. The story Rules of the road by Joan Bauer is a comedy. This comedy includes many things such as symbols and a heartfelt lesson.

Life

RED- Birth
ORANGE- Infant
YELLOW- Todler
GREEN-Child
BLUE- Teenager
PURPLE-Adult
BLACK-Death/Rebirth

Quote By: Aurora P.

Death is slow. Death is peaceful, but sometimes it comes to fast and to early.

Please wait for me

The love I had for you was bigger than the world.
The tears I shed for you were bigger than the seven seas.
All the care in the universe could not compare to how much I cared for you.
When you were sad, so was I.
When you were happy, I was the same.
Now that you’re gone I don’t know what I'll do without you.
I’m glad that you’re not in pain anymore but I still miss you.
You showed my family and I sings that you were in a good place.
I just wish that I could talk to you.
See you one more time.
Tell you that I loved you.
The Entertainer, the swan, the star, your music box, your pictures, the flowers.
They all remind me of you.
Please wait for me.
When I hear the entertainer I see you playing it and me dancing along, just how it was when i was a little girl. You always said that I would grow up to love dance and you were right, I just wish that you could have seen my last profomance. it was the best one that Ii have ever done in my life, but i know you were watching from up there.
When I see the swan, alone I see you and how much you loved to swim.
When I play your music box, I see you next to me telling me that it will all be ok and singing along to the tune.
When I look up at the stars I don’t see just a ball of flame in the sky but rather openings where you shine down to tell me that you are happy.
The lilies remind me of death but then also of your entire personality. I smell them in the neighbor's yard and try to hold back the tears.
You pictures remind me of the twelve amazing years of great memories that we had together.
Please wait for me so that we can make more memories.
I love you.