55 Fiction

One day in the summer two boys named Mike and Ethan went camping. While taking a hike in the forest, they saw a big black bear. They got really scared as the bear came towards them and they started to run away! When they looked back the bear had tripped over a log and died.

Stanley Cup

It had been the toughest 60 minutes of my life. 60 mintues of my life that I had spent breathing out my lungs and spitting out my guts. My legs were aching and my feet were covered in blood. Although I could not see it I could feel it soaking through my socks.My gear was soaked in my sweat and I could smell the horrid stench radiating off me. The fear of losing this game was far too strong and the fear of giving up was even stronger. We had not come all this way to lose but we did not come all this way to win without a fight. It was our only time to shine, today, now, in this moment. With the last minute approaching the score was 2-2 and our team was getting anxious. Every practice, every workout, every game had led up to this very moment. It was a power play for us and the puck was against my stick. I quickly snapped a shot from the corner and letting it go towards the net with two seconds left. The puck goes to the top corner of the net, the buzzer goes off and the bench goes wild. Rapidly my team members leave the bench towards my direction with looks of joy on their faces and relief in every part of their bodies. The excitment is unbearable and undescribable, after all none of us had every felt this feeling before. Our work had payed off and it was our time to celebrate and shine. It was the day that every hockey player could only hope for and now we were the team to accomplish it. The Stanley Cup in our hands.

Novel Synthesis

Your assignment today is to write a synthesis piece that combines your novel and a secondary text. You need to find a common idea between the two and discuss how EACH piece of text reflects that issue. You only need to give direct quotes from the 2nd text, but you must make specific references to your novel. Your opening sentences will outline the connection that you are focusing on.


As an individual you can create your own destiny on different paths you take.In "Slumdog millionaire" and "The road not Taken" both are great stories that are well connected to making choices and destiny. In fact, there is no such thing as destiny and life is all about the choices one makes. In the poem, "the road not taken" by Robert frost, demonstrates this in many ways. For example, the speaker has a tough time trying to choose which path to follow. "I took the one less traveled by,And that has made all the difference". The speaker is trying to say that he wants to live a life that not many people like to take. As many people don't like to take risks and chances in their life time and not want to leave their comfort zone, As for the speaker he is totally the opposite of them. No matter what path this guy takes, every path has obstacles and pitfalls you have to overcome in order to get through that.

In the novel "Slumdog Millionaire" by Vikas Swarup, there's a boy named Ram Mohammad Thomas who has a rough neighborhood back when he was a child. He went through many obstacles and pitfalls throughout his childhood. With one path he accomplished, leads to another crazy path. Most of these obstacles he has faced, gave him free choice for example shooting a guy on the train and also killing his neighbor by accident. Also with Ram he has used a double sided coin with heads that will determine his fate in his life. At the end of all that, Ram's life has been all about free choice.