A Walk to Remember

As I was growing up, watching all the older kids walk through the hallway carrying books in their hands gave me aspirations to becoming just like them. I was excited to start reading, I remember going to the library anywhere from two to three times a day during my “free time” in 3rd grade. Reaching my accelerated reader goal was one of the many things I enjoyed about reading, it was my motivation. I would always be the first in my class to reach my goal, and the little accelerated reader trips…

with the decision of whether or not it “make[s] sense to teach kids the way things were” (269) because they don’t know if remembering the previous world makes living in the new world any easier. When they “walk[ed] out of one world and into another” (304), to survive some chose not to remember. Mandel uses Diallo’s attempt at creating a newspaper and Clark’s Museum of Civilization to express the idea that remembering the past is not only painful but also a reason for “the world [to wake] up”…

beautiful night you sat next to me on the couch and talked about your plans of living in India and Poland. Our plans... I am so hopeful that we can realize this dream on the nearest future... I remember how angry you were with me once when I said that I don't want to go get ice cream at Baskin-Robbins.... Remember? It happened one Tuesday evening in July...? But still.... when you came back home your brought with you coconut sorbet I was talking about all day.... This made me feel amazing. A…

The Florida sun shines in my face as I walk along the local farmer’s market. To my left the smell of fresh baked chocolate chip cookies reminds me of grandma. The man selling homemade air fresheners smells of pine triggering my memory of picking out my first christmas tree. As I walk through the market different smells provoke different memories from long ago. Even the smell of burning fire reminds me of roasting marshmallows and making s’mores with my cousins out by the fire pit. People…

instructions to not take off said arm floats. But even at a young age I was a bit of a rebel. It was late August when my family visited Naples, Florida with my brother and I, my brother was two and I was three. Right as hurricane season was beginning, I remember having to turn up Dora the Explorer on the television because the winds were so loud lapping across the windows. Despite the dreary sky, the weather was muggy and hot, so we decided to drive to the “big pool” which was, at my age,…

weird I didn’t even remember it was my birthday.” My brother had a black eye forming on his face from where my mom had hit him. I hate her so much ever since I was young I had always dreamed of getting away I’m only 17 now. My brother is three. We slowly pull up to the rather creepy ice cream shop it seemed barely useable. My brother and I step out of the car. We hurriedly get inside there is a middle-aged man with a short beard staring at me from behind the counter. I walk up to the counter…

I was four years old. When I was four years old my family and I lived in the country. My grandparents came over to help my dad with a random activity around the house. We had an electrical cord laying on the ground just where you had to step to walk to the door. My grandpa and dad were on their way outside, and I wanted to go with. I was in the dining room area so I could run right across the floor…

able to walk. “He was tired and broken, walking with a cane and passing blood, and he knew it wouldn’t be too for him” (Chapter 10.) Charley has fought in many battles, and now has injuries in many bones. Before war, Charley is healthy, and has never trained or fought anywhere. After the war, Charley injures a few bones, due to the lack of practice at the camps. Next, Charley has changed mentally from the war. Charley is remembering war, and how…

very common disease that many kids develop each year. Epilepsy is a disease in the nervous system that causes people to have seizures any time or the day and even at night. The disorder usually causes people when they are having a seizure, to not remember anything that happened and they could also be very confused on what just happened. People that develop epilepsy are not only children but they are also adults of any age! As a…

I believe in every single one of you. Now, go make this a night to remember. Get out there and show them who's boss,” said joe’s coach. The pitcher walks the first 2 batters and the New York Marlins bring in their closer. On the loudspeaker, it announces now coming in to pitch number #25, Bob McFarlane. Joe remembers hearing this name before. Could it have been on the radio? No, how about on the tv? No, that's it! I remember now! Ten years ago during the little league world series, Joe had…