2020-2021 School Year--Week 2: Lina

9/9/2020

Prompt:
This is a quote from my all time favorite book, The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini: “Children aren’t coloring books. You don’t get to fill them in with your favorite colors.” Do what you want with it.

Word Count: 150-250 words

Expectations:
-Remember that you are writing for the King's Academy community. Please be respectful of that community.
-Respect the word count
-Your work should have a title--this is not part of your word count.
-Include your full name and word count at the end of your submission.
-Have fun with this challenge.

Deadline:
22:00 Tuesday, September 15th

Photo Credit:
lifetheuniversedps.wordpress.com

6 Comments

Zaid O

9/14/2020 12:48:22 am

Imagine a child who has the complete self-reliance. So, here is Jack, they child who have relied on himself for his whole life which helped him to complete his future with no one. Jack’s parents have mental issues, and as a nine years old kid to understand what that means it shows how understandable he is. By the time, Jack started not giving his parents a credit of what they say, then he started watching his brother’s high school friend. By that, this is how Jack started feeling confidant of arguing and saying no to his parents, and it might sound disrespectful, but he was on the right side. Couple of years later, Jack’s parents have died by a car accident, and on that time, jack was the one who warned them to not to drive because of what issues they have in their brain. After that, because he is a kid so that didn’t convince his parents to stop, and when they died Jack was the smallest 12 years old kid who toke care a whole house. He did the cleaning, cocking, laundry, etc, so relying on himself from the time that he was younger helped him to live alone.

Lina Obeidat

9/15/2020 11:28:08 am

we need a last name, zaid.

Oscar Depp

9/15/2020 11:58:22 am

What a Country does to Change

“What’s that?” Eva asked, pointing to the dining table, as she saw a lady juggling plates seeming to contain chocolate cake. Some of Eva’s school friends dropped their train tracks and looked at the mother walking back & forth from the kitchen.

“Dinner’s ready!” she announced, as children began to flood in from all corners.

“I’m hungry. I want some food. I want some!” Eva repeated with more urgency. I looked at her again; she was now jumping up & down.

“Go.”

From a reflection of the window, a clock showed it was a quarter to six. A man near the curtains sighed while his wife went to help with the food. Strollers with three-year old’s lay inert. Shadows filled creases of the parents’ faces, as they talked about fat percentages in avocado.

Eva scurried over to the other children and raised her chin to look at the food. She turned back, making sure I saw her frugal expression and heard her feet scratch the ground.

“It’s all green. Can we go home, pappa?” It was beans & casseroles for a birthday party dinner. The other children seemed ecstatic about the food, with parents smiling at their creative creations.

“There’s cake! It’s celery though,” I said, stroking Eva’s hair. She dropped her head, glancing away from the crowd she just played with. Everything parents did here always seemed to blend, and everyone seemed blind to the fact that children were eating celery for dessert.

“Let’s go.” We skipped the salad.

O.D.
250 words.

Oscar Depp

9/15/2020 11:58:57 am

Oops. too late

Lina Obeidat

9/15/2020 12:06:20 pm

Nah, you're fine. Results will be posted tomorrow.

Lina Obeidat

9/15/2020 11:29:34 pm

Thank you both for keeping the competition going this week. Seriously, I thought no one was going to participate.

Oscar won this round. What an interesting take on the prompt. My favorite line was, “shadows filled creases of the parents’ faces, as they talked about fat percentages in avocado.” Very comical. I also loved the way you wrote young Eva’s character, and her frustration at the absurdity of the whole situation. Congrats!

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