Thank You Ma'am

Authors note: This is a creative ending to Thank you Ma'am. I chose this ending because I think that the boy is a good person and he just needed to be guided in the right way. he just needed a little push in the good direction. 

She led him down the hall to the front door and opened it. "Goodnight!" Behave yourself, boy!" she said, looking out into the street.

The boy wanted to say something else other that "Thank you, ma’am" to Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones, but he couldn’t do so as he turned at the barren stoop and looked back at the large woman in the door. He barely managed to say "Thank you" before she shut the door.  And he thought he would never see her again. After that night he turned his life around he got a job at the local Wal-Mart.  He stopped stealing and was earning everything himself. While he was stacking food on some shelves he felt  a tap on his shoulder, he turned around that there she was. “ Oh my gosh! Hi,” he said . She said hello and asked him how he was doing and if he had gotten those blue  shoes. He had, and he showed her that he was wearing them and he wore them every day. They talked for a while just asking about each other’s lives and how they were doing and what they had been up too.  Then they said goodbye to each other. As she was walking away he forgot that he never did thank her for all she did that night. He ran to catch up with her and said “ Thank you ma’am” hugged her then disappeared. After that day he never saw her again. But he knew that it was good that he had tried to steal her purse and failed or else he would still he where he was, trying to steal money for things, no job, no life ahead of him. Now he had a job, money of his own, and a life ahead of him. 

Do the good thing it will end up helping you

Authors Note: This is a alternation ending to the story we were read in reading lab. I picked it to end this way because I think that every person has good in them, and everyone can do the good think if they chose to. So I decided to make Cody do the right thing even though he may have needed the money, he wanted to earn it not take or steal for things. 

I looked at the gold, then thought again of what Clarence had said to me, " You better leave me with my treasure!" I look at the gold once more, then picked it up and walked out the door. I walk until he found where he had burred Clarence, took a shovel and started to dig. I dug until he hit the wood casket. I un-screwed the screws and took of the top of the casket. Found the belt that help the treasure in place and strapped it back on his cold, colorless hand. I had never felt so bad in his life, almost stealing a mans most prized possession. I have been so dishonest, disloyal he would have been to Mr. Buchanan, who had done nothing wrong to me. I placed the top of the casket back on and closed it for the final time. I thought Clarence would like it if he took a minute to say something about him and his life, so I did. I pleaded to him how sorry I was, how I wouldn't ever be able to live with himself if I had. I said a final goodbye and turned around and walked off never returning to his grave. 

It's four years later, my life is better than ever.My girlfriend and I are talking walk into the woods, we come upon some stone with words carved into it. As my girlfriend is reading what the stone says I remember that is this Mr. Buchanan grave. I told my girlfriend about the whole story and about how after I returned that gold treasure that my life has been better than ever. I then on that day I made a promise to myself that every year on the day of Clarence's death I would visit his grave stone. 

On year later I was standing over by Clarence's grave stone and went over and place the gold ring I had as my own treasure. "This is for you , I almost took your treasure so therefor you can have mine."  After that I walked away, the ring still lays there to today, untouched. I'm the only person who roams even close to Clarence grave. Every single year I walks to the grave and every single year my ring still sits on his grave, me not even bothering to touch it. I don't know why but that old man that he worked for means so much to him that he couldn't understand. The one day that I didn't go see him was the day of his own funereal. 

You aren't as tough as you look.

Authors Note:  This is a character analysis about Massie from the book Clique. I related Massie to Regina Gorge from Mean Girls. They both start out the same and change into better people by the end. 

Even though Massie looks hardcore on the outside she will learn that she can be soft and gushy on the inside. . Everyone has an attitude, including Massie. In the book Clique  Massie houses her dads long time friend and family until they can find a house. They have a daughter Masses age, Claire. Massie is a 7th grade girl, who lives in Westchester, New York. Her family is rich, they have money, she gets whatever she wants. A main assumption people think of when they hear that you are rich is that you get whatever you want and have the attitude to go with it. Massie thinks she is better than everyone. She thinks she rules the school. She has that if you got it flaunt it attitude. She wants to show everyone how "amazing" she is. She has an attitude with her friends, family, workers, even the people she isn't friends with. She thinks that if you don't have money you can't be her friend because you aren't like her. 

Massie has to cancel her shopping trip with her friends because of Clair's arrival. That already doesn't have Claire on Masses' good side. Massie shows up and she is in just normal clothes for a 7th grader. Massie doesn't like it. She doesn't like how she is dressed so normal. Massie is used to the highest fashion there can be for a girl. Massie feels like she is going to be left out, all her friends will have new inside jokes from today and she won't know them. She hates the feeling of being left out. She would rather leave someone out than have it be her. Her mother then orders her to show Claire her room. Massie hates her room, she think it is so "Last Season", but you Claire it is a dream room for her. Massie also has to show Claire where she will be staying, her parents guesthouse. 

Claire tries and tries to make Massie like her, but Massie is just so stubborn. Masses friends think that Claire is okay, but because what Massie wants Massie gets, they "don't like Claire". Massie goes as far as to tell them things that aren't true about her. Claire eventually finds a friend that she likes for who she is. Claire still continues to be nice to Massie. Then at a party at Masses house, Massie changes how she thinks about Claire. Claire helps her hide from embarrassment. They end up hiding in some bushes out of site for a couple of hours. They talk and it is nice. Massie finds out that Claire really isn’t different from her and her friends. Massie finally finds out that Claire is nice and funny. In the end of the book she says to claire “ we are going to be friends for a long time.”

Massie is like Regina George from mean girls in some ways. They both are the “popular girls” of the school. They both have money from their parents and are spoiled. They both don’t like the new girls at first, but they end up hanging out with them to make the new girls make fools of themselves. They both end up changing in the end, it takes regen to get hit by a bus and Massie to get embarrassed. They end up realizing that if you aren’t like others that they can be nice and be good friends with them, Massie realise that even though she looks though she has a soft spot for the people that are going to become true friends.