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.

Death?

Is death really death? I mean when you die do you really die? People talk about the places you will go after death. They say you will stay there for eternity. Some people speak of heaven. And some of hell. But if you live after you are dead than your not actually dead. When people say “R: Rest, I: In, P: Peace (RIP), does it really mean that you will die, because when you rest you some how always wake up. In millions of years will we all wake up? Will we all walk the Earth once again? Or will we just spend the rest of forever in were ever this place is that people go when they…..when they well go? This might just be the start of a new beginning. I mean if you really think about it, when the entire human population is extinct then we will all be still living if there is some sort of after life.
After life?
A magical place full of laughter, joy, and happiness. They place where tears are never shed and smiles stay. They sleep on clouds and live in the sky. Everyone has their youth back and no one has any disabilities. The man who runs this is god. The most wonderful man in the world. Known to be able to do anything. Can make anything happen. He controls us. But not in the bad way. He will chose what you will say, do, think, see, and even when you breathe. So very humble and kind. Close to everyone’s hearts he will stay. He is the one who loves you. The one and only god.

Just Something That Was Going Through My Mind in #2 hour Yesterday

I really don't know what it is. What is it that makes me so sad? That makes me cry every night. The thing that holds back my laughs. The laughter kept inside is aching to get out and the saddnes is going to eat me alive. Could it seriously be that my brother is gone? This military school is not the right thing for him. Even though my parents think it is, they are wrong. it is just making him worse. he is homesick and he wont get any nicer when he is mad every day.I never thought that it would hit me like this. I never knew that I would miss him so bad. Almost to the point of breaking out and going crazy but I know that if I don't keep it inside things will happen. and not terribly bad things but just the things that I don't feel like dealing with right now. I never knew that I was this emotional. I am seeing a whole new side of me that I have never seen before. But of course no one else has seen it either so its kind of like this part of me doesn't even exist. I think I do miss him. I'm yet positive that it is him but it might as well be. (dont worry im fine).

I was walking down the hall, on top of the rugged, dirty, torn carpet. and next to the walls of dripping mold. One door, guitar, another, flute, one room dance, and another piano. One particular door that stood out was the one at the end of the hall. it stood out because of the beautiful sound coming from what seemed to be the other side of it. through the crack of the door was a girl, and not just any girl. she was singing, she sang like an angel, with a face to match. The melody that she was singing was fromilular.

"I'll reach out my hand to you, I'll have faith in all you do, when ever you need me...."

I started so sing along, that is until she screamed.

"Your...Your....Your amazing!" I said.

"your not so bad your self" she said with and eager tone.

"Sing for me" I demanded, kindly

"I'll be there, I'll be there, just call my name, and I'll be there..."

"I...I...I'v never been so astonished in my life, so amused, your the best singer I've ever heard in my life, you mam have a gift!"

"well I wouldn't say...."

before she knew it she was swiped off of her feet and we both kissed.

TEN YEARS LATER
now a days we are both graduated from the school if preforming arts and we sing in many competitions together. also for events such as weddings, beauty pageants, the national anthem at sporting events, etc.

we have experienced fame and i think this is the life that i going to keep. all of this because i peaked in a door ten years ago to hear a girl sing.