Scorpions by Walter Dean Myers

The 1st 6 chapters are about Jamal and his little sister Sassy who have been looking out at the window all night jsut to wait for their mommy to return home. Sassy was worried because their mom have not been home when it is very late. Jamal told his little sister that he is not worry about their mom when he is really is. Finally midnight arrived, their mom came home. Jamal was very tired waiting for their mom to return home. His mom is very tired too. Jamal asked his mom on how is Randy doing so far. He is doing fine in jail. The next day while eating breakfast, his mom asked Jamal to visit on of Randy's friend who got out of jail, Mack. She said, " Mack need to tell you something for you to tell Randey." Jamal don't teally like Mack because he is mean, etc. Mack is in the gang of the Scorpions, and his brother is hte the oldest in the gang members. Jamal don't like gangs. Ever sinced his brother got into jail, Jamal always gets into trouble, especially in school. He is always late, most of his time no h.w., etc. Jamal best friend is the only freind he can count on Tito, they act like they are really close like brothers, but they are really really good friend. Randy's brother is the leader of the Scrpions. When Jamal met Mack, Mack asked Jamal to be the leader of the gang and gave him 2,000 dollars. Jamal knows that in order for him to get his brother out, he need $500 bucks. Right now if he is leader he will get $2,000 dollars. Then Mack told Jamal to meet him somewhere. When Mack sees Jamal, he gives him a gun..... Then at school, he got in to a lot of trouble, he got angry because of Dwayne. He is always getting Jamal mad, he had a fight with Dwayne.

Ever since Jamal's older brother got into jail because people thougth he killed somone, Jamal always get into trouble. Jamal is finding many ways to get his brother out of jail. I feel very sorry for Jamal, he is suffering a lot just to find a solution to his brother out of jail. The principal told Jamal that if he keeps up with these nonsense usuch as being late, or no homework, or fighting, he might not be albe ot go back to school anymore.

The Streak

Have you ever heard or read of the short story,The Streak before? This short story is about Jamie Farrell with a lot of bad luck throughout his week. At the beginning Jarmie almsot get bad luck, in his basketball game, his team is jsut 1 point away from tieing with the other team. There was only seconds away from tieign with the other team. At the end passing and passing........... They still lost. Jarmie best friend is Froggy. Whenever Jarmie don't like something or isn't happy, he talks to Froggy. One time they were walkign together and Jarmie read a poster abou the junior dance. jarmiereally want to danceith Celia, because he thinks she is very hot and pretty. All Jarmie knows is that with his bad luck, nothing can come true. When he gt ome, he hurt his ankle, and his ela teacher told him that he felled the grade. He then called Froggy and talked about his dissappointment. Froggy told him to count how many bad luck happened. Jarmie told him 7 bad luck. Froggy calcualted and told him that you will have 7 good luck coming up, you just have wait and see. Jamie then realized that the gd luck is startign to happen, he did a good job in school, free soda,etc. Sonner or later, he found out that the have 6luck in a row and needed to save just 1 more luck for Celia. Jamie really waned and is looking forward for Celia to go to te dance with him. Today at school, it was his basketball games. He told himself not to play the game or else his last luck will get ruin. Only seconds away and the score is only 1 score away from winning. Suddenly Jamie recieved the ball... He don't know what to do, he jsut throw it and it scored!!!! Because of him his team won the basketball game!! Jamie was really sad and disappointed!!!!! Heis last chance is ruin... At the end Celia came to him and asked him to go to the dance with her. Jamie was really surprised and said , " YES". He is really happy. Celia told him that so far she seem to be having a lot of goodluck in a row. So basically, Jamie and Celia both have goodluck in a row.

I felt that it is so exciting and really quincident for Jamie to go to the dance with Celia. Jamie really is lookifn forward of saving the last luck with her. But he used it by accident and is very dissappointed and knows that he used up his last luck and know that he can't get Celia to dance with him. At the end, Celia asked Jamie to go to the dance with her, because she seem to be having a sreak of goodluck toooo!!! So thats why I think that this is so quincident. Jamie knows that theres no way he will have any luck with going to the dance with Celia, but it really happened at the end. Jamie wish got granted and Celia luck might keep going!!