A new Salinger work emerging will be a holy grail to literary society. Due to the fact that he claims he never stopped writing since he started, the possibilities are endless to how much new works he's made that hasn't been seen by the public yet. The work might effect the litarary society in America in a way that readers and fans of Salinger's work will go nuts for it. A long line would probably be in front of the bookstores for a new Salinger book. It may also cause controversy among parents and maybe anybody that may find something that offends them in it, as most of Salinger's works do.
It would introduce Salinger's work to a new generation, and it'll maybe fasinate new readers, or bore them to death. It may cause new readers to want to track down his other works, or may make some new readers want to burn every last copy of his past works.Some fans of Salinger may think it's his best work ever, or other fans may think he's done better. Most of all, it'll be a found needle in a haystack as Salinger kept many things to himself, and he was very secreative for the last decades of his life. So, a new Salinger work emerging will effect the literary world in a way that we've never seen before, and we may never see again.
Monday, February 7, 2011
Sunday, September 5, 2010
Other Shoes Project Day Two, September 3rd 2010
Day Two of my project was both more shocking then my first day and not as shocking at the same time.
Well, after I put on my black hair ties that I use as wristbands, my black eye liner, my dog chain, my black shirt, black pants and black shoes, and I spiked my hair with hair gel, it was off to school for another day of this project. My mom drove me to school and dropped me off by the cafetaria. I walked in, and the reaction I got yesturday wasn't there anymore. I guess people were used to it now. I walked and sat down at my usual table, when Blake Garcia went over to his football friends over to the table right next to me, he looked at me and asked, "Want me to sing the song again, Ben?" To which I shook my head in a no movement, which caused the kids at the table to laugh. John Debohey, who just got back from a trip, saw me as a goth for the first time and said, "Oh, my God!" Then, to my surprise, a Sophmore that I don't know sat over at my table and asked why I'm being gothic and negative. I said because the point of this world is to suffer. She claimed it wasn't and I should be happy. I told her happiness doesn't exsist, she claimed it does. We went back and forth and she was trying to convince me to be happy, and I told her happiness is nothing but a distraction from suffering, to which she denied. This went on for twenty minutes until the ten minute bell rang and I went to my locker, got my stuff and went to Algebra class.
In Algebra class, Max Fine was shocked at what I was doing, he was surprised me of all people would turn goth. He asked if my wristbands were tight, I claimed, "They aren't as bad as the pain I feel everyday of my pathetic life." To this, Jericho Lawson claimed I was just reapting the same things over and over again. I told Jericho, "You're distracting Max from his misery." Jericho's arms shot up as he exclaimed, "There you go! He's repeating himself." Mrs. Campbell then walked in and, as usual, she was in on my project. As I continued to act gothic in front of my peers, Jake Morrison and Richard Rexroat thought I was joking, when I actually "wasn't." Mrs. Campbell laughed at the fact I said we were all suffering. Class went on as usual, and when the bell rang, I walked through the halls to Mr. Toland's room. As I was walking, I saw Blake Livingston, who knows me from being in the plays, take a long stare at me. He looked like he seen a ghost, and that ghost was me.
Before English started, Roni Wampler claimed I was wearing different stlye of face paint then yesturday. She was right. Yesturday, I painted to thorns on the bottome of my eyes, the next day, I painted big circles around my eyes. She said I looked like a panda, I then claimed she was a poor suffering sould. She started to cry and said, "How did you know?" Kim Melton asked me if my wristbands were tight, like always, I say, "Not as tight as the tightness of suffering." To which, Kim laughed. Veronica Geudimen asked me how my day was, and I replied, "Painful as always," she laughed at that. After that, English went on like normal.
Next was Junior Seminar, before class started, Austin Carver told me, "Welcome to the dark side," and we fist bummped. Then, Brian Seagle came in, looked at me, and said to the whole class, "I told you! I told you he wasn't kidding! I told you all!" After the bell rang, class went on normally.
In P. E. right before it started, and right after I changed into my P. E. uniforms, the same Freshmen that I don't know from yesturday tried to confort me. I told them they're wasting their time, but they wouldn't give up. I didn't take long before they left on their own free will, in a way that they knew that there was no changing me back. Right after we streched, Zoey Dodson was shocked to see I was still being gothic, she couldn't believe it, and she asked me, "Did something happen to you to make you do this?" I replied, "Yes, I was born." Zoey walked away, I sas in her face that she had lost faith in me. For P. E. that day, we played dodgeball. During the game, Brain Seagle tried to use me as a human sheild, to which I said, "Defend your own pathetic self," I then walked away. Another event that happened during the game was when kids on the opposite team were aiming at me, Tyler Hauck claimed, "Don't hit the devil kid, he has powers." However, that didn't work much, I got out a total of five times the whole class period. After the game was over and it was time to change, we went into the locker rooms. I was kneeling down because my locker is ground level when Tyler Hauck bumped into me. I shot up and threatened, "Don't touch me." Tyler then replied, "What are you going to do, goth kid?" We started eachother down as the other kids stood and cheered for me to hit Tyler. However, I grabbed my stuff and walked out of the locker room. I could hear Tyler say, "That's what I thought," as I walked out. When we were waiting for the bell to right, this Freshmen named Braxton asked about me and showed concern. I said the same basic stuff, and he couldn't believe it. We just met when the year started, and I bet he was surprised to see such a surprised change in me. Also, while we were waiting for the bell to right, I heard a kid tell me, "Go cut yourself." I didn't know who it was though. The bell rang, and I was off to Chemistry.
Before Chemistry started, Tim Grege, John Debohey, Trace Lamkey, and Catylin Lamkey, all surrounded me and were asking me life related questions. I answered with suffering and misery and they all laughed. They said they knew it was part of my English project, even though I denied that. That went on for four minutes, then the bell rang and class started. We were doing a lab that envolved Skittles, M&Ms, and Reese's Pieces. My partner was T.J. Herman, who didn't bother me at all about my gothic attire. Mrs. Brock messed with me a lot during the lab. There was one time I didn't hear her directions and asked what she said, she then asked, "Are you not paying attention to me on purpose?" To which I replied, "Maybe I am." Also, there was another time where Mrs. Brock claimed my make up should be considered an educational distraction. But, during the lab, Kendra Gott was sitting behind me and she heard all the stuff I was saying and was saying I was taking it to far. I messed with her claiming she's a suffering sould and words like that. She was then getting frustrated and she said, "Ben! Just leave me alone!" I left her alone after that, she was suffering enough as it is. After the lab, we waited until the bell rang.
It was lunch time, as I was walking into the cafeteria to set my stuff down at my table, I walked past the T.V. Mickey Ryan saw me and asked, "Ben, what the h***?" I ignored him. I then went and cut through the line to get my milk, I bring me own lunch, so all I need is a milk. As I was cutting through the line, kids saw me and got out of my way. I guess I scared them. I got my milk and sat down at my table. As I sat down and ate, Luke Murphy walked by and asked, "How are you?" But, he walked away before I could answer. Jay said he liked my shirt. Yesturday, I wore just a plain black shirt. Today, I wore a black shirt with a skull and a collage of other item on it. As I continued to act depressed and negative, David Calliham claimed I was going too far with the project. Lunch went on normally after that, the bell rang, and I was off to Art.
In Art, right before it started, a girl named Victoria asked if I was goth or emo. I said goth, but she claimed I was a panda. Then, a girl I don't know asked what project turned me goth. I replied, "My own project." She then asked, "What made you do this?" I claimed, "All the suffering in this world." She then backed away. Mickey Ryan, who I heard in lunch, asked me, "Ben, what's wrong with you?" I replied, "This world is full of misery." He then said, "Okay, well, I hope you feel happy again." Mickey then backed away. After that, Art class went on like normal. The bell rang, and it was time for my last class, History.
In History, Amanda Frye claimed my wrist bands were bad for my circulation. I replied, "Everything in this world is bad." Then, Luke Murphy over heard that and he said, "Ben, you're goth thing is starting to p*** me off." I said, "Everything in this world ticks you off." Brock Trader then said I'm really good at acting and said I should get an A for this project. The bell rang, and History class went on like normal.
After that, the day is over. I'm one bus ride away to being done with this project. I got on the bus and nothing happened until Vickie stopped at the Elementary School and called me up. I walked up and she said, "What's with this, Ben?" "I'm goth now," I claimed. "Is something going on at home?" Vickie asked. "No, I did this on my own free will." I said. "Is this just your outside, or are you like this on the inside. Please tell me it's just the outside." Vickie pleaded. "It's both." I said. "Well, Ben. I can't believe you've done this. I don't know why, but I can't believe it. Why would the most kind hearted person do something like this?" She replied. I then saw tears developing in her eyes. It was that moment that I decided to end this project. I've known Vickie since first grade and she always loved me. I couldn't stand to see her cry, but the worst thing was I was the one who was making her cry. I then started laughing and I told her this was just a project for school. She's like, "Oh, thank goodness. Dang it, Ben, you got me good. Well, tell your teacher to give you and A+ because you made the bus driver cry." I then walked back to my seat. The bus drove to my house after the Elementary School kids were picked up and I walked off that bus in triump. I could now be myself again, and I don't have to be this deep, dark side of me that came out for two days and caused most of my friends that I've known for so long to lose faith in me.
Bottem line, I learned from this project that people love me for who I am. Even if I do get on people's nerves alot, they're glad I'm not a gothic person who is mad at the world and has no sign of any happiness in his well being. Throughout the project, there people who knew it was a project, which I didn't like, there were people who didn't know it was a project, but liked the new me, people who didn't know it was a project that were shocked to death, and people who didn't know it was a project that didn't even know me and wanted to help me. This just goes to show, that even a big change in anyone can effect anybody and everybody. This just goes to show, everybody is known for something, and if that something is changed, people don't know what to do. In case your wondering, my partner, Devin Dunne and I drifted apart during this project, so I don't know what ended up of him.
Well, after I put on my black hair ties that I use as wristbands, my black eye liner, my dog chain, my black shirt, black pants and black shoes, and I spiked my hair with hair gel, it was off to school for another day of this project. My mom drove me to school and dropped me off by the cafetaria. I walked in, and the reaction I got yesturday wasn't there anymore. I guess people were used to it now. I walked and sat down at my usual table, when Blake Garcia went over to his football friends over to the table right next to me, he looked at me and asked, "Want me to sing the song again, Ben?" To which I shook my head in a no movement, which caused the kids at the table to laugh. John Debohey, who just got back from a trip, saw me as a goth for the first time and said, "Oh, my God!" Then, to my surprise, a Sophmore that I don't know sat over at my table and asked why I'm being gothic and negative. I said because the point of this world is to suffer. She claimed it wasn't and I should be happy. I told her happiness doesn't exsist, she claimed it does. We went back and forth and she was trying to convince me to be happy, and I told her happiness is nothing but a distraction from suffering, to which she denied. This went on for twenty minutes until the ten minute bell rang and I went to my locker, got my stuff and went to Algebra class.
In Algebra class, Max Fine was shocked at what I was doing, he was surprised me of all people would turn goth. He asked if my wristbands were tight, I claimed, "They aren't as bad as the pain I feel everyday of my pathetic life." To this, Jericho Lawson claimed I was just reapting the same things over and over again. I told Jericho, "You're distracting Max from his misery." Jericho's arms shot up as he exclaimed, "There you go! He's repeating himself." Mrs. Campbell then walked in and, as usual, she was in on my project. As I continued to act gothic in front of my peers, Jake Morrison and Richard Rexroat thought I was joking, when I actually "wasn't." Mrs. Campbell laughed at the fact I said we were all suffering. Class went on as usual, and when the bell rang, I walked through the halls to Mr. Toland's room. As I was walking, I saw Blake Livingston, who knows me from being in the plays, take a long stare at me. He looked like he seen a ghost, and that ghost was me.
Before English started, Roni Wampler claimed I was wearing different stlye of face paint then yesturday. She was right. Yesturday, I painted to thorns on the bottome of my eyes, the next day, I painted big circles around my eyes. She said I looked like a panda, I then claimed she was a poor suffering sould. She started to cry and said, "How did you know?" Kim Melton asked me if my wristbands were tight, like always, I say, "Not as tight as the tightness of suffering." To which, Kim laughed. Veronica Geudimen asked me how my day was, and I replied, "Painful as always," she laughed at that. After that, English went on like normal.
Next was Junior Seminar, before class started, Austin Carver told me, "Welcome to the dark side," and we fist bummped. Then, Brian Seagle came in, looked at me, and said to the whole class, "I told you! I told you he wasn't kidding! I told you all!" After the bell rang, class went on normally.
In P. E. right before it started, and right after I changed into my P. E. uniforms, the same Freshmen that I don't know from yesturday tried to confort me. I told them they're wasting their time, but they wouldn't give up. I didn't take long before they left on their own free will, in a way that they knew that there was no changing me back. Right after we streched, Zoey Dodson was shocked to see I was still being gothic, she couldn't believe it, and she asked me, "Did something happen to you to make you do this?" I replied, "Yes, I was born." Zoey walked away, I sas in her face that she had lost faith in me. For P. E. that day, we played dodgeball. During the game, Brain Seagle tried to use me as a human sheild, to which I said, "Defend your own pathetic self," I then walked away. Another event that happened during the game was when kids on the opposite team were aiming at me, Tyler Hauck claimed, "Don't hit the devil kid, he has powers." However, that didn't work much, I got out a total of five times the whole class period. After the game was over and it was time to change, we went into the locker rooms. I was kneeling down because my locker is ground level when Tyler Hauck bumped into me. I shot up and threatened, "Don't touch me." Tyler then replied, "What are you going to do, goth kid?" We started eachother down as the other kids stood and cheered for me to hit Tyler. However, I grabbed my stuff and walked out of the locker room. I could hear Tyler say, "That's what I thought," as I walked out. When we were waiting for the bell to right, this Freshmen named Braxton asked about me and showed concern. I said the same basic stuff, and he couldn't believe it. We just met when the year started, and I bet he was surprised to see such a surprised change in me. Also, while we were waiting for the bell to right, I heard a kid tell me, "Go cut yourself." I didn't know who it was though. The bell rang, and I was off to Chemistry.
Before Chemistry started, Tim Grege, John Debohey, Trace Lamkey, and Catylin Lamkey, all surrounded me and were asking me life related questions. I answered with suffering and misery and they all laughed. They said they knew it was part of my English project, even though I denied that. That went on for four minutes, then the bell rang and class started. We were doing a lab that envolved Skittles, M&Ms, and Reese's Pieces. My partner was T.J. Herman, who didn't bother me at all about my gothic attire. Mrs. Brock messed with me a lot during the lab. There was one time I didn't hear her directions and asked what she said, she then asked, "Are you not paying attention to me on purpose?" To which I replied, "Maybe I am." Also, there was another time where Mrs. Brock claimed my make up should be considered an educational distraction. But, during the lab, Kendra Gott was sitting behind me and she heard all the stuff I was saying and was saying I was taking it to far. I messed with her claiming she's a suffering sould and words like that. She was then getting frustrated and she said, "Ben! Just leave me alone!" I left her alone after that, she was suffering enough as it is. After the lab, we waited until the bell rang.
It was lunch time, as I was walking into the cafeteria to set my stuff down at my table, I walked past the T.V. Mickey Ryan saw me and asked, "Ben, what the h***?" I ignored him. I then went and cut through the line to get my milk, I bring me own lunch, so all I need is a milk. As I was cutting through the line, kids saw me and got out of my way. I guess I scared them. I got my milk and sat down at my table. As I sat down and ate, Luke Murphy walked by and asked, "How are you?" But, he walked away before I could answer. Jay said he liked my shirt. Yesturday, I wore just a plain black shirt. Today, I wore a black shirt with a skull and a collage of other item on it. As I continued to act depressed and negative, David Calliham claimed I was going too far with the project. Lunch went on normally after that, the bell rang, and I was off to Art.
In Art, right before it started, a girl named Victoria asked if I was goth or emo. I said goth, but she claimed I was a panda. Then, a girl I don't know asked what project turned me goth. I replied, "My own project." She then asked, "What made you do this?" I claimed, "All the suffering in this world." She then backed away. Mickey Ryan, who I heard in lunch, asked me, "Ben, what's wrong with you?" I replied, "This world is full of misery." He then said, "Okay, well, I hope you feel happy again." Mickey then backed away. After that, Art class went on like normal. The bell rang, and it was time for my last class, History.
In History, Amanda Frye claimed my wrist bands were bad for my circulation. I replied, "Everything in this world is bad." Then, Luke Murphy over heard that and he said, "Ben, you're goth thing is starting to p*** me off." I said, "Everything in this world ticks you off." Brock Trader then said I'm really good at acting and said I should get an A for this project. The bell rang, and History class went on like normal.
After that, the day is over. I'm one bus ride away to being done with this project. I got on the bus and nothing happened until Vickie stopped at the Elementary School and called me up. I walked up and she said, "What's with this, Ben?" "I'm goth now," I claimed. "Is something going on at home?" Vickie asked. "No, I did this on my own free will." I said. "Is this just your outside, or are you like this on the inside. Please tell me it's just the outside." Vickie pleaded. "It's both." I said. "Well, Ben. I can't believe you've done this. I don't know why, but I can't believe it. Why would the most kind hearted person do something like this?" She replied. I then saw tears developing in her eyes. It was that moment that I decided to end this project. I've known Vickie since first grade and she always loved me. I couldn't stand to see her cry, but the worst thing was I was the one who was making her cry. I then started laughing and I told her this was just a project for school. She's like, "Oh, thank goodness. Dang it, Ben, you got me good. Well, tell your teacher to give you and A+ because you made the bus driver cry." I then walked back to my seat. The bus drove to my house after the Elementary School kids were picked up and I walked off that bus in triump. I could now be myself again, and I don't have to be this deep, dark side of me that came out for two days and caused most of my friends that I've known for so long to lose faith in me.
Bottem line, I learned from this project that people love me for who I am. Even if I do get on people's nerves alot, they're glad I'm not a gothic person who is mad at the world and has no sign of any happiness in his well being. Throughout the project, there people who knew it was a project, which I didn't like, there were people who didn't know it was a project, but liked the new me, people who didn't know it was a project that were shocked to death, and people who didn't know it was a project that didn't even know me and wanted to help me. This just goes to show, that even a big change in anyone can effect anybody and everybody. This just goes to show, everybody is known for something, and if that something is changed, people don't know what to do. In case your wondering, my partner, Devin Dunne and I drifted apart during this project, so I don't know what ended up of him.
Thursday, September 2, 2010
Other Shoes Project Day One, September 2nd, 2010
Day One of my goth project started out with a huge bang.
Well, at home after I got done putting my make up and gear on, my mom, who was in on the whole thing, was scared of me. I was scared of myself, I didn't reconize myself in the mirror. So, my mom drives me to school, and as soon as I walk in the cafeteria of the school, Billy Geiger, Nick Barber, Joshua Nelson, and Alec Deshaun all stared at me and chuckeled, whether in fear or in hilarity, I don't know. Billy said, "That's a good look for you, Ben." Joshua said, "Is it Halloween alreay?" Finally, Alec Deshaun said, "I thought you were better then that, Ben." I went and sat down at a table that wasn't too far from their's, Nick got up and asked me, "How's your day, Ben?" I then said, "Painful, as always." Nick walked away laughing. As time went by, more and more kids asked me what was wrong, and I just said I turned goth. One kid that show positivity toward my change was Luke Murphy, who said, "Wow, I love it. Being emo for a day?" I then replied, "I"m being goth permenently. I discovered the only point of living is for God to enjoy our suffering." To which Luke replied, "Now you've got smarts. God is like the kid with the magnifying glass on an anthill, and he's burning us ants with it." Luke walked away. I then sat down for a while when a Sophmore that rides my bus with me named Matthew Roderick was worried about me. He said, "What are you doing?" I told him I'd turned goth. He said that I shouldn't and he tried to get me to take off my necklace and my makeup. I said I wouldn't. Matt looked at me with a cold stare as if he didn't know who I was anymore. Then, the bell rang to mark the start of school.
After I got my stuff from my locker, I went to my first class, Algebra 1, to see Mrs. Campbell sitting at her desk. She stared at me with concern. "Ben?" she asked, "are you alright?" "I just went over to the dark side," I said, "I discovered the only point of living it to suffer." She then got worried and said, "Are you seriously alright?" I then got worried because she really showed concern. Still in character, I tried to tell her I'm fine. She then walked out of her room. Meanwhile, as my classmates walked in, they all stared and said basically the same things other kids said, some scared of me, some liking my change, more or less. However, I heared that Mrs. Campbell was running around the school, freaking out and showing concern about me. Pretty soon, Ms. Laughhunn came in and looked and me and shouted, "You had me worried, Ben! Ben!!," and she walked back out. Then, one by one, kids from Ms. Laughhunn's room peaked in to look at me, all scared. All my classmates were worried saying, "Ben, what did you do to scared Mrs. Campbell?" "Nothing that I'm not supposed to say," I said. Later, after more concern towards me from the students, Mrs. Campbell came back in relieved and found out that is was all a project. She blew my cover. She was so relieve that I had not gone over to the dark side. After all that, Algebra class went on like normal.
My next class was English III.On my way down the hall, Mrs. Holladay looked at me. "Hi," I said. "Hello," she replied, with a shocked stare on her face. I walked in to Mr. Toland's room, and my classmates who were in on my project were scared of me, and others loved my attire. Mr. Toland came in, and he liked my attire. I was worried if I got him in trouble with Mr. Lamkey because of Mrs. Campbell's gossip around the school. Mr. Toland told me my get up didn't get him in trouble with anyone, however, Mr. Lamkey sent and email to every teacher in the school that if they see me, they shouldn't be worried. Wow. Mr. Toland said that this was the first time doing this project that the principle had to send and email to the whole school about one kid. Dang. English class went on as normally, with the other students discussing their Other Shoes project. My only hope was that Mr. Lamkey's email didn't ruin the shock value that I would get from all my teachers.
My next class was Junior Seminar, when I walked in there, I could hear Corey Galassi say, "Oh, my God!" when he saw me. Mrs. Wade then saw me and smiled as if she knew what was going on. As more kids came in, Austyn Mulcahy said "I look like like Sam Manson," Sam Manson is a goth character from this former Nickelodeon show called, "Danny Phantom," in case you were wondering. I then claimed, "I make Sam Manson look like Mickey Mouse." That scared Austyn. Austyn kept asking about me, and I kept giving negative and dark answers, she then claimed I was making her depressed. As he walked in the room, Austen Kuizin saw me and I told him that I was a goth. He asked if I listen to death metal, and I said music doesn't distract me from the suffering in this world, to which Austen sat down. After that, the bell rang and class went on like normal. Nothing happened until the end of class when me and Keleb Penny claimed this was for my English project and I would be back to normal tommorow, but I claimed it wasn't. We went back and forth until the bell rang.
When I got to the gym for P. E., Mr. Lamkey was in there monitoring a scoreboard being fixed. He saw me and said, "Ben, come here." I then got nervouse and walked up to him. "Yes, sir?" I asked. "Are you dressed appropiatley for school?" He asked. I began to say, "I read the handbook yesturday and I didn't see anything..." "I'm kidding," he claimed, "go get dressed." Looks like Mr. Lamkey really was in on the gag. I then went in the locker room, and changed into my uniforms. While I was chaning, a lot of kids were commenting about me. It was the same old stuff, like "Ben's goth now," or, "Oh, my gosh, Ben's goth now." When I walked out, two Freshmen I don't know showed concern. They were like, "Ben, what's wrong with you?" I replied, "I'm goth now," "Why?" "Because, I felt like it." I then walked away and saw a blank stare on their faces as I walked to my spot for P.E. After we got done stretching, Zoey Dodson, who I always get along with saw me and was like, "Ben, what's gotten into you?" "I'm goth now," I claimed. "Why?" "Because the only point of this world is to suffer." Zoey then said, "Well, you were always making me happy because you were so happy." "Times change," I replied. "Fine, be that way," she said as she walked away. As we did the activity for the day, Ms. King kept laughing at the gothic things I was saying, "Suffering," and, "Conformist's are behind our suffering." As time went on, the bell rang and I went into the locker room, and Tyler Hauck claimed I was also doing this for the English project, to which I denied that. We went back and forth on this until when went out into the gym and sat on the bleachers, to which Brian Seagle told Tyler I can't be doing this for my project because I'm taking the role very seriously. So, then Brian and Tyler went back and forth. Then, Kyle Miller walked up and asked me, "Going to go cut yourself after school?" I then replied, "That's emo, you pathetic soul." Kyle then backed away from me. The bell then rang and we walked out of the gym.
My next class was Chemisty, when class started, Mrs. Brock walked up to me and said, "Is this just part of a project," I said, "I can't tell you." Then she said, "I just hope it is, and tommorow I'll have normal Ben back." I wish I could tell her that was true. Nothing else out of the ordinary happened in this class.
Next was lunch, I sat at my table normally, and Jay Forness and Kim Melton said I was good at what I was doing. David Callaham was freaked out about me.
Next was Art class, where a lot of kids I don't know were scared of me, they backed away and they looked like they wouldn't want to see me down a dark alley. Later in the class, Mrs. Grimaldi made me run to the library to run an errand for her. Out of the all kids you have in that class with free time, why make the goth kid run an errand for you? So anyway, I wlked to the library and Mrs. Hollady was at her table. I said, "Mrs. Grimaldi needs copies of these papers." Mrs. Hollady started copying the papers, and while we were waiting, she asked, "So, what's with the face paint?" "I'm goth now," I replied. In a casual voice, Mrs. Hollady replied, "Okay." I then took the copies back to Mrs. Grimaldi where she also asked about the face paint, I gave her the same answer I gave eveyone else and Mrs. Grimaldi replied, "Okay."
The bell rang and it was time for my final class, American History. I went into the class room and Luke Murphy was mad that I hadn't gotten in trouble for my face paint, because he always got in trouble for face paint. Mr. Upchurch called us up to show us our homework from last night, I was next in line and I was in Austyn Mulcahy's way and she said, "Scuse me, darkness." Mr. Upchurch then chuckled and repeated, "Darkness." I showed him my homework and sat back down, and class went on like normal.
When I got on my bus to go home, more kids were shocked, but a lot of the kids on the bus are the most unsophisticated kids I see the whole day at school. One kid called me a "gay goth," I'm just as confused as you are. Nothing else happened as I was dropped off home and I later went back to the school for play practice.
When I got there, I was the first one there, so I sat outside Ms. Stephenich's room. Kelsey Hindert appeared next, and was in on the project, no matter how much I denied it. Veronica Geidiemen walked in after her, and since she's in my class, she new about the project. Leanna Painteir came next, and I was depressing and negative to her, but she laughed and was in on the project. Then came the toughest person that I had the toughest time getting past through this whole expierement, Blake Gracia. Everything I said, I had a comeback for, he was so surprised about it that he claimed, "He's got this all planned out, I'm shocked." Blake starting eating Reese's Pieaces, I said, "Those are nothing but a distraction from your suffering." Blake laughed. Ryan Fisher came next, and at first he laughed, but through the night, I made him depressed. Ms. Tester and Mr. Eaton arrived and weren't shocked at my appearence, Ms. Tester claimed I better give it my all when learning the dacne for "Pandemoniam." Anyway, no matter what Blake said or did, from dancing to puppies, I had a comeback for. It got to a point where Blake was shocked I was taking the project serously and was like, "Ben, I love you, but come on, you can't be taking this project that seriously." I replied, "If you me the project up God torturing us, then yes." Blake got frustrated. So, through out the night when we were supposed to be learning the dance, Blake was trying to get me to smile. Knowing Blake, he is just a one of a kind character that I have no choice to laugh at him on a normal day, but this wasn't a normal day. I couldn't laugh or smile at all, I had to keep it all bottled up inside like a champange bottle ready to explode. Some of the tactics Blake tried to get to laught or smile was shouting his signiture catchphrase, "Brackagow!" To disguise a laugh about to come out, I acted like I was yawning. So everytime he tried to get me to laugh, I yawned, and he knew I wanted to laugh so badly. Another tactic he tried was starting the "Benny Ben" dance and it was a dance and a song that I can't describe with words, it can do it justice. While he was doing the "Benny Ben" dance, all the guys started to tap their feet and clap with the beat. As much as I wanted to laugh, it didn't work, Blake was furious. Later, I was in a different location of the dance, I was right in front of the middle of the black curtain. Alex Berhens walked off for a second but I didn't see where he went. When I was listening to Ms. Tester, Alex popped up out of the middle of the curtain right where I was and screamed. I almost fell out of my stool, and the whole auditorium went silent, like a gun going off. However, I didn't smile as much as Alex begged me. When I didn't smile, he got mad and was like, "No!! I almost had him!" Blake continued to try to get me to laugh to which Ms. Tester was mad that he was distracting us and she asked, "What are you doing?" "Just trying to get Ben to smile," replied Blake. Ms. Tester then said, "Well, stop. Don't worry about him, worry about you, because you're starting to make me lose my patience." Blake toned down his tactics after that. He tried everything but the kitchen sink, but I bet if he had one, he would use it, but nothing got me to smile. When we practiced the dance we learned, I didn't put full effort into it like I normally do, and I bet that was shocking to everybody who knew me from "Beauty and the Beast" from last year. I continued to be depressed and negative to which Sarah Klebe said, "Ben, I don't like how your acting." "Get used to it," I said. "I want the old Ben back," she said. "That Ben's dead," I said. Kelsey Hindert got frustrated, walked over to me and stared at me and said, "I'm not leaving until you smile." We stood there staring at eachother for what seemed like years, shen then quit and walked away. Blake then asked, "Ben this is who you are on the outside, is the who you are on the inside." "Yes," I said. "What color is Godzilla? Oh, I don't want to get you started on that." I then said, "I don't care anymore, I hate Godzilla." Blake then fell out of his chair. "I think you just made my heart stop," Blake said. He then asked me about all the cartoons I liked, and I said I hated them all. He gave me a look that just said, "Dude, you've changed." After practice got over, I walked out and drove home, starting to feel like I've really become this person. I didn't feel like me anymore.
Well, at home after I got done putting my make up and gear on, my mom, who was in on the whole thing, was scared of me. I was scared of myself, I didn't reconize myself in the mirror. So, my mom drives me to school, and as soon as I walk in the cafeteria of the school, Billy Geiger, Nick Barber, Joshua Nelson, and Alec Deshaun all stared at me and chuckeled, whether in fear or in hilarity, I don't know. Billy said, "That's a good look for you, Ben." Joshua said, "Is it Halloween alreay?" Finally, Alec Deshaun said, "I thought you were better then that, Ben." I went and sat down at a table that wasn't too far from their's, Nick got up and asked me, "How's your day, Ben?" I then said, "Painful, as always." Nick walked away laughing. As time went by, more and more kids asked me what was wrong, and I just said I turned goth. One kid that show positivity toward my change was Luke Murphy, who said, "Wow, I love it. Being emo for a day?" I then replied, "I"m being goth permenently. I discovered the only point of living is for God to enjoy our suffering." To which Luke replied, "Now you've got smarts. God is like the kid with the magnifying glass on an anthill, and he's burning us ants with it." Luke walked away. I then sat down for a while when a Sophmore that rides my bus with me named Matthew Roderick was worried about me. He said, "What are you doing?" I told him I'd turned goth. He said that I shouldn't and he tried to get me to take off my necklace and my makeup. I said I wouldn't. Matt looked at me with a cold stare as if he didn't know who I was anymore. Then, the bell rang to mark the start of school.
After I got my stuff from my locker, I went to my first class, Algebra 1, to see Mrs. Campbell sitting at her desk. She stared at me with concern. "Ben?" she asked, "are you alright?" "I just went over to the dark side," I said, "I discovered the only point of living it to suffer." She then got worried and said, "Are you seriously alright?" I then got worried because she really showed concern. Still in character, I tried to tell her I'm fine. She then walked out of her room. Meanwhile, as my classmates walked in, they all stared and said basically the same things other kids said, some scared of me, some liking my change, more or less. However, I heared that Mrs. Campbell was running around the school, freaking out and showing concern about me. Pretty soon, Ms. Laughhunn came in and looked and me and shouted, "You had me worried, Ben! Ben!!," and she walked back out. Then, one by one, kids from Ms. Laughhunn's room peaked in to look at me, all scared. All my classmates were worried saying, "Ben, what did you do to scared Mrs. Campbell?" "Nothing that I'm not supposed to say," I said. Later, after more concern towards me from the students, Mrs. Campbell came back in relieved and found out that is was all a project. She blew my cover. She was so relieve that I had not gone over to the dark side. After all that, Algebra class went on like normal.
My next class was English III.On my way down the hall, Mrs. Holladay looked at me. "Hi," I said. "Hello," she replied, with a shocked stare on her face. I walked in to Mr. Toland's room, and my classmates who were in on my project were scared of me, and others loved my attire. Mr. Toland came in, and he liked my attire. I was worried if I got him in trouble with Mr. Lamkey because of Mrs. Campbell's gossip around the school. Mr. Toland told me my get up didn't get him in trouble with anyone, however, Mr. Lamkey sent and email to every teacher in the school that if they see me, they shouldn't be worried. Wow. Mr. Toland said that this was the first time doing this project that the principle had to send and email to the whole school about one kid. Dang. English class went on as normally, with the other students discussing their Other Shoes project. My only hope was that Mr. Lamkey's email didn't ruin the shock value that I would get from all my teachers.
My next class was Junior Seminar, when I walked in there, I could hear Corey Galassi say, "Oh, my God!" when he saw me. Mrs. Wade then saw me and smiled as if she knew what was going on. As more kids came in, Austyn Mulcahy said "I look like like Sam Manson," Sam Manson is a goth character from this former Nickelodeon show called, "Danny Phantom," in case you were wondering. I then claimed, "I make Sam Manson look like Mickey Mouse." That scared Austyn. Austyn kept asking about me, and I kept giving negative and dark answers, she then claimed I was making her depressed. As he walked in the room, Austen Kuizin saw me and I told him that I was a goth. He asked if I listen to death metal, and I said music doesn't distract me from the suffering in this world, to which Austen sat down. After that, the bell rang and class went on like normal. Nothing happened until the end of class when me and Keleb Penny claimed this was for my English project and I would be back to normal tommorow, but I claimed it wasn't. We went back and forth until the bell rang.
When I got to the gym for P. E., Mr. Lamkey was in there monitoring a scoreboard being fixed. He saw me and said, "Ben, come here." I then got nervouse and walked up to him. "Yes, sir?" I asked. "Are you dressed appropiatley for school?" He asked. I began to say, "I read the handbook yesturday and I didn't see anything..." "I'm kidding," he claimed, "go get dressed." Looks like Mr. Lamkey really was in on the gag. I then went in the locker room, and changed into my uniforms. While I was chaning, a lot of kids were commenting about me. It was the same old stuff, like "Ben's goth now," or, "Oh, my gosh, Ben's goth now." When I walked out, two Freshmen I don't know showed concern. They were like, "Ben, what's wrong with you?" I replied, "I'm goth now," "Why?" "Because, I felt like it." I then walked away and saw a blank stare on their faces as I walked to my spot for P.E. After we got done stretching, Zoey Dodson, who I always get along with saw me and was like, "Ben, what's gotten into you?" "I'm goth now," I claimed. "Why?" "Because the only point of this world is to suffer." Zoey then said, "Well, you were always making me happy because you were so happy." "Times change," I replied. "Fine, be that way," she said as she walked away. As we did the activity for the day, Ms. King kept laughing at the gothic things I was saying, "Suffering," and, "Conformist's are behind our suffering." As time went on, the bell rang and I went into the locker room, and Tyler Hauck claimed I was also doing this for the English project, to which I denied that. We went back and forth on this until when went out into the gym and sat on the bleachers, to which Brian Seagle told Tyler I can't be doing this for my project because I'm taking the role very seriously. So, then Brian and Tyler went back and forth. Then, Kyle Miller walked up and asked me, "Going to go cut yourself after school?" I then replied, "That's emo, you pathetic soul." Kyle then backed away from me. The bell then rang and we walked out of the gym.
My next class was Chemisty, when class started, Mrs. Brock walked up to me and said, "Is this just part of a project," I said, "I can't tell you." Then she said, "I just hope it is, and tommorow I'll have normal Ben back." I wish I could tell her that was true. Nothing else out of the ordinary happened in this class.
Next was lunch, I sat at my table normally, and Jay Forness and Kim Melton said I was good at what I was doing. David Callaham was freaked out about me.
Next was Art class, where a lot of kids I don't know were scared of me, they backed away and they looked like they wouldn't want to see me down a dark alley. Later in the class, Mrs. Grimaldi made me run to the library to run an errand for her. Out of the all kids you have in that class with free time, why make the goth kid run an errand for you? So anyway, I wlked to the library and Mrs. Hollady was at her table. I said, "Mrs. Grimaldi needs copies of these papers." Mrs. Hollady started copying the papers, and while we were waiting, she asked, "So, what's with the face paint?" "I'm goth now," I replied. In a casual voice, Mrs. Hollady replied, "Okay." I then took the copies back to Mrs. Grimaldi where she also asked about the face paint, I gave her the same answer I gave eveyone else and Mrs. Grimaldi replied, "Okay."
The bell rang and it was time for my final class, American History. I went into the class room and Luke Murphy was mad that I hadn't gotten in trouble for my face paint, because he always got in trouble for face paint. Mr. Upchurch called us up to show us our homework from last night, I was next in line and I was in Austyn Mulcahy's way and she said, "Scuse me, darkness." Mr. Upchurch then chuckled and repeated, "Darkness." I showed him my homework and sat back down, and class went on like normal.
When I got on my bus to go home, more kids were shocked, but a lot of the kids on the bus are the most unsophisticated kids I see the whole day at school. One kid called me a "gay goth," I'm just as confused as you are. Nothing else happened as I was dropped off home and I later went back to the school for play practice.
When I got there, I was the first one there, so I sat outside Ms. Stephenich's room. Kelsey Hindert appeared next, and was in on the project, no matter how much I denied it. Veronica Geidiemen walked in after her, and since she's in my class, she new about the project. Leanna Painteir came next, and I was depressing and negative to her, but she laughed and was in on the project. Then came the toughest person that I had the toughest time getting past through this whole expierement, Blake Gracia. Everything I said, I had a comeback for, he was so surprised about it that he claimed, "He's got this all planned out, I'm shocked." Blake starting eating Reese's Pieaces, I said, "Those are nothing but a distraction from your suffering." Blake laughed. Ryan Fisher came next, and at first he laughed, but through the night, I made him depressed. Ms. Tester and Mr. Eaton arrived and weren't shocked at my appearence, Ms. Tester claimed I better give it my all when learning the dacne for "Pandemoniam." Anyway, no matter what Blake said or did, from dancing to puppies, I had a comeback for. It got to a point where Blake was shocked I was taking the project serously and was like, "Ben, I love you, but come on, you can't be taking this project that seriously." I replied, "If you me the project up God torturing us, then yes." Blake got frustrated. So, through out the night when we were supposed to be learning the dance, Blake was trying to get me to smile. Knowing Blake, he is just a one of a kind character that I have no choice to laugh at him on a normal day, but this wasn't a normal day. I couldn't laugh or smile at all, I had to keep it all bottled up inside like a champange bottle ready to explode. Some of the tactics Blake tried to get to laught or smile was shouting his signiture catchphrase, "Brackagow!" To disguise a laugh about to come out, I acted like I was yawning. So everytime he tried to get me to laugh, I yawned, and he knew I wanted to laugh so badly. Another tactic he tried was starting the "Benny Ben" dance and it was a dance and a song that I can't describe with words, it can do it justice. While he was doing the "Benny Ben" dance, all the guys started to tap their feet and clap with the beat. As much as I wanted to laugh, it didn't work, Blake was furious. Later, I was in a different location of the dance, I was right in front of the middle of the black curtain. Alex Berhens walked off for a second but I didn't see where he went. When I was listening to Ms. Tester, Alex popped up out of the middle of the curtain right where I was and screamed. I almost fell out of my stool, and the whole auditorium went silent, like a gun going off. However, I didn't smile as much as Alex begged me. When I didn't smile, he got mad and was like, "No!! I almost had him!" Blake continued to try to get me to laugh to which Ms. Tester was mad that he was distracting us and she asked, "What are you doing?" "Just trying to get Ben to smile," replied Blake. Ms. Tester then said, "Well, stop. Don't worry about him, worry about you, because you're starting to make me lose my patience." Blake toned down his tactics after that. He tried everything but the kitchen sink, but I bet if he had one, he would use it, but nothing got me to smile. When we practiced the dance we learned, I didn't put full effort into it like I normally do, and I bet that was shocking to everybody who knew me from "Beauty and the Beast" from last year. I continued to be depressed and negative to which Sarah Klebe said, "Ben, I don't like how your acting." "Get used to it," I said. "I want the old Ben back," she said. "That Ben's dead," I said. Kelsey Hindert got frustrated, walked over to me and stared at me and said, "I'm not leaving until you smile." We stood there staring at eachother for what seemed like years, shen then quit and walked away. Blake then asked, "Ben this is who you are on the outside, is the who you are on the inside." "Yes," I said. "What color is Godzilla? Oh, I don't want to get you started on that." I then said, "I don't care anymore, I hate Godzilla." Blake then fell out of his chair. "I think you just made my heart stop," Blake said. He then asked me about all the cartoons I liked, and I said I hated them all. He gave me a look that just said, "Dude, you've changed." After practice got over, I walked out and drove home, starting to feel like I've really become this person. I didn't feel like me anymore.
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Other Shoes Project
Devin Dunne is my partner, he decided to be silent for two days, Thursday and Friday. More details are in his blog. As for me, here's mine: To my peers, I'm bright, energetic, colorful, and kind. I always have something nice to say, I'm always uplifting, and I always cheer people up with my clean sense of humor. So, I decided that people would notice if I turned into a self-loathing, negative, dark and disturbing person that is hated by everyone and just wants the whole world to collapse in on itself. So, I decided to go gothic for the two days of Thursday, September 2nd and Friday, Semptember 3rd. Here's the plan: I'll dress and act like a gothic person, by wearing black clothes, eye liner, black face paint, black wrist bands. The way I'll act is extremely negative, always having something bad to say, claiming how much life sucks, and just being one big jerk. I'll do this for the two school days I selected, and listen to peoples reactions. I'll remember what they say and write down the ones that I think are the best ones on a piece of paper. I have a feeling the second day won't be as surprising as the first day, do to the fact my classmates already knowing I "turned gothic," I also have play practice on Thursday night, and I would love to see the reactions of my play peers, as well as Ms. Stephinitches (sp?) reaction. My hypothesis is that people will freak out, be surprised at what they're seeing, they would think they weren't seeing the same person. It'll be a riot. I hope to learn from this project that who I am really is who I am, and the smallest change could greatly affect a person's view on me.
All and all, this sounds like a fun project and I'm really looking forward to it. Peace, love eatchother.
All and all, this sounds like a fun project and I'm really looking forward to it. Peace, love eatchother.
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