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Angus Bethune (narrator) is an overweight student and football player at Lake Michigan High School who has constantly struggled with his self-image and family structure. As a result of his parents' divorce, he has four parents and has always been known as "the big kid" [3] to both his family and his peers. The beginning of the story reveals to ...
The only girl at a 16-student school gets teased often by all the boys, for the dual reasons of being the only girl and being the worst of all of them in athletic venues. However, when she brings her dead aunt's good-luck charm to school, she suddenly becomes better than them.
Sideways Stories from Wayside School is a 1978 children's short story cycle novel by American author Louis Sachar, and the first book in the Wayside School series. The novel was later adapted into a Teletoon animated series, Wayside.
Inspired by some of Franco's own teenage memories, [1] [2] and memories written and submitted by high school students at Palo Alto Senior High School, [3] the stories describe life in Palo Alto as experienced by a series of teenagers who spend most of their time indulging in driving drunk, using drugs and taking part in unplanned acts of ...
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The Laughing Man" is a short story by J. D. Salinger, published originally in The New Yorker on March 19, 1949; and also in Salinger's short story collection Nine Stories. [1] It largely takes the structure of a story within a story and is thematically occupied with the relationship between narrative and narrator, and the end of youth.
"The Killers" is a short story by Ernest Hemingway, first published in Scribner's Magazine in 1927 and later republished in Men Without Women, Snows of Kilimanjaro, and The Nick Adams Stories. Set in 1920s Summit, Illinois , the story follows recurring Hemingway character Nick Adams as he has a run-in with a pair of hitmen , who are seeking to ...
The Sniper is a short story written by the Irish writer Liam O'Flaherty. Set during the early weeks of the Irish Civil War, during the Battle of Dublin, it is O'Flaherty's first published work of fiction. It was published in a small London-based socialist weekly, The New Leader (12 January 1923) [1] [2] while the war that it depicted was still ...