'Stiff' like everyone else.He opened the door to enter a normal house where doors, chairs and tables are just brown wooden figures and bright lights are not reddish. An outstanding kid in both his thoughts and actions, found school weird, for he simple doesn't does·n't Contraction of does not. like conventional things. "Hi, how was school today?" his mother asked as he entered through the kitchen door. "Conventional!" He coldly replied uninterested. "Don't don't 1. Contraction of do not. 2. Nonstandard Contraction of does not. n. A statement of what should not be done: a list of the dos and don'ts. be surprised. This is school son," she said. "I didn't did·n't Contraction of did not. didn't did not didn't do like it and I don't want to go back again. Desks are square and brow brow (brou) the forehead, or either lateral half of it. brow n. 1. The eyebrow. 2. See forehead. brow the forehead, or either lateral half of it. , I actually believed they are going to be red. Besides, I hate holding the pencil of chalk and I hate wearing that stupid tie. I want to paint my morning yellow but the teacher doesn't want me to, she wants me to draw something like Ken's drawings; 'airplanes and rocket ships', you understand?" He explained as he pulled the chair to sit for lunch. "I am going to buy you a tie just like the other kids and you are going to wear it tomorrow to school." His mother commanded. "But. why?" He asked, surprised by his mother's rapid reply. She sounded like that teacher, he thought. "Why do I have to be normal, is that like written in law or something?" Adam questioned. "Love, this is how life is. You can't be abnormal! It is not like you want to. Do you?" The mother doubtfully asked. Deep inside the kid wanted to scream asking; "is having a free independent personality and feelings abnormal, unusual or even odd, strange to human kind!? I don't get you big ones. Why do you act alike? Why do you stick to conventional things? I really can not get you". Adam tried and tried, but he couldn't could·n't Contraction of could not. couldn't could not know why. That thought kept hanging there, on the edge of that special mind of his, about to fall but not quite. The kid didn't even have the chance to think that thought over or try to save it from falling, as he woke up the next morning to find himself wearing the school's tie his mother bought him, sitting on that normal brown desk in the typical brown room where normal kids, his age, are drawing airplanes and rocket ships rocket ship n. A spacecraft powered and propelled by rockets. and for the first time he is like the rest, just like his mother, teacher and society desire him to be. In his own cold words, he is now "stiff" like everyone else. Dana Dāna almsgiving to poor, giftgiving to priests. [Hindu Rel.: Parrinder, 72] See : Generosity Haddad Haddad (Arabic: حدّاد) is an Arab and Persian word meaning "blacksmith", commonly beared in the Middle East, and also beared by an African people. grade 10 Ahliyah School for Girl 2009 Jordan Press & publishing Co. All rights reserved. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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