The Place Where the Sun Shines

Today I learned how to be a man. My Pops made me proud today when he told that white man with the creepy voice and face that we weren't gonna sell our new home. He told that man that the Younger family is a strong family that comes from "five generations of sharecroppers" and that we deserve our new home. Grandmama says that "there will be lots of sunshine" where we're going; I wanna feel that sunshine. I wanna feel that warmth. Ever since we all found out when that $10,000 check was coming the atmosphere changed around here. The warmth had disappeared, and with it, every single positive emotion that could ever exist in this world. My home suddenly felt gray and crowded; mama was always sick, daddy always came home drunk and angry, and aunt Bennie is too wrapped up in herself to care about anybody else. The only person I feel who understands me is Grandmama. Grandmama is the wisest person I've met. She is the glue that keeps this family together, without her I don't think my dad every could've showed me what it means to be "head of the family." I wanna be strong like daddy, but I also wanna be the glue like Grandma. Maybe someday I'll find a way to combine the two and become a great family leader. I guess I'll have to go where the Sun shines.

Started From the Bottom Now We're....Oh We're Still There!

Once upon a time there was this guy who lived in New York and was like really rich. He always had the biggest house and the nicest car and everyone loved the parties he threw. This rich guy's name was Gatsby.

Gatsby was a master at rhetoric; he was so good he convinced people that pink elephants existed. People believed that Gatsby was a man of gold and the perfect embodiment of the "American dream."

Little did Gatsby know he had a doppelganger. His doppelganger was like him in many ways. Just like Gatsby his doppelganger was rich. He had worked hard to achieve is dream that had long been on "the fairways of his imagination." Gatsby's doppelganger was named Dexter.

Dexter and Gatsby had the following in common:

• their wealth made them idols to the people around them
• their wealth attracted the attention of wealthiest, most beautiful women in their city
• their greed, and ignorance was their demise. 

Everyone saw Dexter and Gatsby as men who were "in the green." They had a power similar to Moses, but instead of parting seas they parted crowds of people when they entered the room with their prizes on their arms dressed in "golden cloth." Gatsby's prize was Daisy. Dexter's prize was Judy.

They were both proud of what they had won and didn't think these two measly objects could bring any harm to either of them. Unfortunately they were wrong. Daisy ended up hitting someone with a car and killed that person, which led to Gatsby getting killed and Daisy being owned by another man. Judy ended up ruining Dexter's sight and once he saw her for who she truly was he became depressed and was never the same again.

Today the stories of Gatsby and Dexter are told over and over so that the next generation will know that money can never make you happy; it will only get you killed and make you go blind. The End.