Due this week

General Writing. Send in your best work – poems, short stories, essays. (Feel free to do it throughout the year, but this gives you a deadline.)
Deadline: Oct. 10.

To submit to Newspaper Series

  • Log in. (Click "Not a YWP member?" to create an account.)

  • Click "create content" and create an ENTRY
  • Fill out "title," "author name, school & grade" and "prompt" boxes.
  • Paste story into "body."
  • Click "Submit." You are done.
    NOTES: Your account email must be accurate; a "blog" entry must be resubmitted as an ENTRY to be considered.

Surprise

Submitted by Harlan Hopkins on February 15, 2008 - 14:08.

There was this one thing in the book that surprised me a lot. In this one part of the book Oskar is in this lady’s apartment asking her if she knew his dad. They are talking for a while and all of the sudden Oskar asks the lady if she would like to kiss him but Oskar is 9 and she’s 48, but Oskar feels like they have such have such a connection. This surprised me the most because what 9 year old asks a 48 year old lady to kiss him. It was very shocking.

‹ Overall Impression Conflict ›

I agree with Harlan, I think...

Submitted by parsonsp on February 15, 2008 - 15:42.

Harlan, oh Harlan, did that really surprise you?

Here's what I think in my humble opinion...

One surprising thing in the book when he basically asked a older women if she wants to kiss him. They were talking about his father then things seemed to get a little heavier and steamier. She of course says no and he questions that, saying its fine their age is so different and he feels like he knows her well. It seemed like a pretty strange situation and a strange thing for Oscar to even think about asking, that brings up some more questions about his character and why he would really ask that and maybe expect a different answer than what she gave.

What to do

Submitted by jdotcurt on February 15, 2008 - 15:43.

Harlan i think you should date older women

dude...

Submitted by jdotcurt on February 25, 2008 - 13:49.

dude are you dating older women yet?
try cj's mom

The Older Woman

Submitted by Harlan Hopkins on February 26, 2008 - 15:50.

Surprisingly the two of them did have a connection, but they are way too different in age to be going out. I couldn’t agree with you more.

fine

Submitted by jdotcurt on February 26, 2008 - 15:51.

date younger women but if your accused of statuatroy rape i was never involved in this. ha ha aha ah aha ha

Sponsors

    We are grateful to the Vermont Business Roundtable and its members -- business and educational leaders throughout the state -- for their generous support of this project. These leaders recognize the value of what we do and the importance of writing in life. For more, see: VERMONT BUSINESS ROUNDTABLE & members
    We also depend on the generosity of individuals. Please DONATE NOW to continue our work. We are a 501(c)3 federal charity and so all donations are tax-deductible.