April (in 3 parts)
Part 1&2
April is about a kid named Fred. He is not the brightest guy. His friend saw him doing crack at a party but he still drove home with him. The car started swirving so the friend asked to get out of the car. After that he runs through a stop sign and hits a women's car then drives away. But, the cops end up pulling him over. He fails the soberiety test and is arrested. While in court he obviously does not care at all what is going on. And because he has never been caught doing anything before they let him off easy but give him 60 hours of community service. He was forced to appolgize to the woman he hit and she forgave him. He ends up doing his community service at a library. He was suppose to organize childrens books and puts them away. But instead he just read them, the librarians didn't seem to mind. Untill the friend that was in the car with him started coming to visit. They would draw inappropriet things in the childrens books. Then he tried to carve some girls name in their bench. After that he was forced to discontinue his work at the library. His probation officer forces him to finish it out at the Sycamore towers. He basically took care of the old people and changed their bedpans. He actually found an art class near the towers and he would attend. Then he would drawl while doing his community service. He mostly drew an old woman named Tanya. In his art classes they start to drawl nude people. He starts drawling this old lady who has a pretty smile. She loves his drawlings and hangs them up in her room. This leads him to meet her daughter. Then the short story ends.
It is nice that he started to find a hobby instead of drinking and doing crack. Obviously his friends were a bad infulence on him. Getting in that car accident was probably a good thing to happen to him. I think him finding that old woman to draw was suppose to the good ending to the story. Like maybe good things will continue from here.
Part 3 (April)
The third part of the story is actually about april. She is a young girl in the 8th grade. She played soccer for her school but she smoked alot. Her coach's name is Mr. B and he asks her to babysit for him. After babysitting Mr.B comes back to his house and brings April to her friends party. Before she gets out of the car he kisses her.
Soon she spends all of her time at his house. She ditches hanging out with people her age to go to his house. A while later Mr.B's son says something about his "other" babysitter. She just walks out of his house and leaves forever.
The first part of this story was kind of slow. It gets kind of boring reading about horrible kids screwing up their lives. Its really discusting that this 8th grader was smoking constantly like and adult, and hooking up with and adult.
Tar Baby
This story is about a bunch of teenage guys sitting around on the weekend. They don't know what to do so they drink. A.J. Sims calls some girls to meet them on a playground. They don't show so they decied to go to a party instead. But one of the guys starts making fun of A.J. so he gets mad and leaves him on a playground, by himself, drunk. The guy finds a marker that the other kid left and starts writting all over the playground and other propority on his way to the party. Once he gets here he is really drunk and gets arrested. The end.
This story was dumb. It was a waste of time to read.
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