Memoir 2

I t was a beautiful winter day, the sun was shinning and an occasiconal breeze. I come home from school to see a for sale sign in the front lawn of my yard. I don’t remember my parents ever talking about moving. I run across the yard, the snow going into my boots because its so high, it was really cold! I dash in the house and yell “mom.” I realized my mom was on the phone, she holds her pointer finger telling me to wait until she is off the phone. About 10 mintues later she is finally off the phone, I ask her why there is a for sale sign in the front yard. My mom and my dad have lived in that house for 11 years and they wanted to bulid a newer house, plus my school was turning into a pre- school, so I’d have to go to Discovery. Im not sure why by they wanted me going to Westwood. So they looked at a lot and we were moving into the Westwood area. I was pretty excited actully to move and go to a new school. We werent moving until June though so I didn’t need to switch during the year.

           

 Months pasted and my new house was built, I got to see it today right after school. Once we got there it was huge! I ran inside and I got to pick which room I wanted since my brother wasn’t old enough to care. I picked the bigger of the two rooms, with a huge closet and big window. I loved my new room already.

          

  My grandpa was big into art. He was going to paint my new room whatever color I wanted. I picked a light lavender. My grandpa used a sponge to paint it to give It texture. It looked really cool when it was done.

           

The move in date was June 30^th. I was so excited, friends and family came over to help us move and get organized. My cousin helped me put and pictures, posters, and anything else that was going in my room.  My new house looked great, I was so excited to start 1^st grade in a couple of months. I already made a new friend Natalie, she lives behind me. I guess moving isn’t so bad after all like I thought It would be.

Choice Book Report Quarter One

             The main character in Lock and Key is Ruby. Ruby is very independent and doesn’t really want help from anyone. She feels confident that she can do anything she sets her mind to. Ruby takes pretty good care of herself. When it comes to appearance she doesn’t care if she has designer clothes or expensive accessories. Ruby is the kind of person you might want to look up to. She is very dedicated to being successful in life.  She wants to finish high school and go to college. Ruby is quite different from other people in the book. She never lets people push her around or pressure her into something she doesn’t want to do.  She stands up for herself and what she believes in. Ruby has gone 16 years without a father and her whole life without a mother who just doesn’t care. This has made her a very strong person.

                Ruby learned what “family” is. In the beginning of the book Ruby thought she wasn’t a part of a family. She didn’t know what a family was and what it felt like to be cared about. She went most of her life taken care of by her sister. Her mother always sleeping or out at the bar. Once Ruby’s sister Cora left for college Ruby took care of herself. Years pasted and one day Ruby came home from school to see her mother was know where to be found. She felt unwanted and no one knew she existed. She got caught living at her mother’s house by herself underage.  Social Services took her away to live with her sister Cora and Jamie, Cora’s husband.

                 Months pasted. Thanksgiving gathering came along. Ruby had to ask different people what family meant to them for a school project. She asked one of Jamie’s sisters, Alice. They came from a big family.  Alice said,

                “You don’t have to have a big family to make it a family. There are sometimes I have wished I had a small family. The more people you have the more likely someone wont get along with someone else. The potential for conflict is always there. Every person, struggle together like beads on a chain.  Coming together, splitting apart, but always, a family.”

                That changed the way Ruby thought about a family. She always was apart of one and always will be, no matter what.