Rule of the Bone #5

i believe that a coming of age story is when the character can no longer be considered an adolescent because of one specific event in the story that takes place. three examples of coming of age in Rule of The Bone could be:

1. when chappy steals the money from his mother and says "now im a real criminal". this shows that he isnt an innocent person at all. he is becoming an adult criminal. h is no longer an innocent child.

2. when russ leaves and bone has to go on by himself. he realizes that he will loose people in his life, but that is just part of living for him. he has to come to terms with that, and it is very adult.

3. when chappie gets the bone tattoo. he is no longer chappy anymore. he is bone. he became a completely different character at that moment. i think that the tattoo represents his biggest change or "coming of age" in the book.


i think one coming of age instance for me would be applying for college. i realized that im an adult now and i am going to have to start doing things in a very adult manner from here on out. it is going to be tough but its life.

another time could be getting my driving stuff down. i felt like it was sort of a right of passage to be a mature person. you need to be able to take your self places as an adult, or else you wont have anything.

Rule of the Bone #8

It was obviously satisfying for chappie, but i couldnt say that it was wrong or right. he did what he felt he had to do. revenge is often a necessity for some people. i think i would lean more to the side saying that it was the riht thing to do, because if i was in his situation, i might feel the same way. the killing jason part. not the having sex with evening star part. i think that wasn't necessary.

I feel different about chappy now than i did before because he has become more mature. he still makes dumb mistakes but in the end he has learned so much and gained a ton of experience. after this instance, i think he is very different. he has done a very serious thing, that he himself had decided to do. it took a lot of courage to do what he did, and he made a very adult decision.

Rule of the Bone #7

I felt like the during the entire chapter something bad was going to happen. With all the guns and stuff, it just seemed like something was going to happen at any moment. So the ending didn't surprise me to much. I figured that somebody was going to die, and it just happened to be I-Man. This is pretty typical for Chappie because no matter what, he always seems to end up on his own. Every time he makes a friend or someone who he thinks of as a teacher, they leave.

This book greatly utilizes the the theme "man's inhumanity to man". Like in chapter 19, I-Man gets shot in the head of course. This is because, for the most part, humans are only looking out for themselves and their best interests. The bikers are a great example of this too. They all lived together, but they only really cared about themselves. They cared about their own motorcycles and their own stuff and their own drugs, not everyone's stuff.

I think. ultimately, that its Nighthawk's and all their fault. i mean, they shot him. But you cant help think that if I-Man had never gotten involved in that drug trade with those people, he would have never gotten killed by them. But of course, if he hadn't joined that drug trade, something else bad might have happened to him in a different way. Its hard to tell, but i really thing that it is Nighthawk's fault.

Rule of The Bone #6

Chappies birthday party was just really impersonal. It didnt even really seem like a birthday, it was jusrt a party. Sure, there was food and drinks and a ton of people and everything, but it was missing Chappie. Not iterally, but it just didnt seem like the party was even meant for chappy. it was like he didnt really care about Chappie, and he just wanted to have a party. this reveals that "Papa Doc" doesnt really care about Chappie. he acts like he does but he really doesnt. to me it seems like he is just thinking to himself "oh.. is so great that i found you... yeah..." he just doesnt really care at all.

I dont think that Chappie is expecting to much from him. I mean he is his real Dad. He should give him the kind of care that he deserves. myfirst impression of Evening star was that she was a really stuck up Brat. she is like the stereo typical "Im theprincess, i get everything i want" kind of girl. Chappie obviously isnt going to be into that.

Chapter 5 Alternate Ending

Russ pulled into the drive way and i got into the window so he could see me. I began to bang my head against the window loud enough so he could hear me but quiet enough so that the bikers couldn't. Russ heard me and looked up. i could barely hear him through the window but i could make out him saying, what the hell are you doing man?
Russ climbed up the wall and made it onto the roof so he could open up the window. Why are you all tied up, he said. Whats going on?
The bikers found out about you steeling from them. they think i did it too man. untie me so we can get wout of here.
Okay but I have to get my stuff out of the living room, he said. he had a bunch of his clothes and a little bit of drugs that he had scored in a tan duffel bag on the couch in the living room where all of the bikers were either partying or passed out. I go, dude you cant, they are all sleeping in there. they are gonna find you and they are gonna kill you. They were ready to kill me before you came. Then he says, don't worry about it dude, they wont catch me.
Russ untied me and i followed him down the stared into the living room even though i didn't want to. most of them were passed out except for Joker who was half asleep playing with his pistol. he was facing the wall, soruss snuck around him and grabbed the bag from the couch, but Joker heard him.
Hey! there you are you little freak! Hey guys wake up, Russ is back, get him!
Russ turned around and looked at me. Crap, lets get out of here! he said.
As Russ began to run one of the bikers on the couch grabbed him by the arm and threw him onto the couch. Joker ran up and held him down. You're going to get it kid! he said. Russ looked up and threw me the keys to his Camaro. He goes, Get the hell out of here dude! they got me, get the hell out of here!
I didnt want to leave him but i knew that if i didnt they were going to kill the both of us. i looked at the keys, then back at Russ and said, okay man, but i dont like this. you were a good friend.
I turned and ran out the front door and over to the Camaro and got into it as fast as I could. I pulled out of the drive way and burned out as I sped away. As I drove, I couldnt help but think that i could have saved Russ from those bikers. I was sure that he was dead now, but I still wondered what they were going to do to him. I started towards my Mom's house.

Rule of the Bone

Chappie gets kicked out of Russ's place for not having any weed. So he goes to the mall to try and find a place to stay. when he is wandering around, the same security guard from before tries to kick him out but it doesn't work. Chappie just goes back into the mall. While he is wandering around, he finds this little girl in a torn up red dress and no socks. he feels worried about her but she just runs away when he tries to help. Then he sees her later at the Victoria Secret with a big fat bald guy. Chappy thinks they are from Canada, because they looked a little bit weird, like they didn't belong. Chappy follows the two around the mall, until finally he confronts him in the food court, and asks him if he could spare some change so he could get some food. The guy seems to be really nice, and buys Chappy some food and sits down and talks to him. He explained how he used to be an actor, and how the little girl was his "Protege". Chappie felt bad for the girl, so he wanted to take her place as his "Protege". he said he would go to the mans house for a "screen test" if he gave him twenty bucks. they begin to leave the mall but then Chappie sees disfigured manikins and it makes him realize what he is really doing. he runs away without giving the guy his money back so the guy chases him but chappie loses him. he ends up spending the next couple weeks in a janitors closet in the mall.

This "Canadian"guy is obviously a child molester. he was buying woman's underwear from victoria's secret for a little girl. how creepy is that? if Chappie had actually gone with him to his house, i think he would have gotten molested.

here are some interesting facts about teen drug usage:

1. 40% of kids who start drinking at 13 or younger will develop alcoholic dependence later in life.
2. Teens that use alcohol are 50 time more likely to use cocaine later in life.
3. 20% of 8th graders report that they have used marijuana
   

seniors

The main character is very confused. It seems that he subconsciously aware that most of the things he does is wrong, but he still does them. he knew that steeling from the mall was wrong. and he knew that steeling from his parents is wrong, but he does it anyway. Because of the people he stays with and the world he has been exposed to (drugs and drug dealers), he has been conditioned to do these things. underneath all of that, he is a good kid.

The Xmas fantasy proves this. he says he wants to show up at his parents house with a big bag of presents and make them both happy. he would love to do that, but that's not him anymore. the fantasy reveals that he wants to do good and he is deep down a good kid, but he has gone way to far the other direction.

Here are few facts about homeless teens.
1. Half of all runaway teens leave after being physically abused.
2. 1 in 3 homeless people are under the age of 18.
3. Half of all runaway teens leave after having a disagreement with their parents.