RR #5

Alicia

February 1, 2011

Reading Response #5

TZ – Kick the Can – News report                               
*Some names are modified or made up

Hello, my name is Alicia Vachon from CBC News, here for a last minute report on a man named Charles Redwood from an old folk’s home in Alabama. They say that he was in his 90s when he disappeared with most of the people living in the home. After some investigating, a friend of Redwood’s Ben Johnson tells us that the people who have disappeared with Charles were good childhood friends of his and Mr. Redwood’s. Johnson strongly believes that this has everything to do with the disappearance but police aren’t so sure. Ben Johnson claims that his friend, Charles, just wanted to be young again, so he decided that he would play kick the can with all the other old folks. When Ben decided to follow, he says that all of them had turned young, literally, and were about 6 or 7 years old.

Ben describes Charles as “a person with a lot of energy, always looking for action and always thinking back at the good old days”, I quote. Mr. Johnson, tears about to flow, a smirk on his face, had told the police chief that when Charles had told him that he wanted to play kick the can again, he had thought he was crazy.  .

In the end, the police are starting to doubt their conclusion that Johnson is crazy because he has learned a few life lessons that he has shared with the press. He tells us to all be young at heart, be open-minded and always take a chance when one is given to you.  And indeed, if Mr. Ben Johnson is right, we all should all be young at heart, because we may turn out young, literally!

Police have also seen young children, maybe 6 or 7 years of age, playing kick the can around Alabama. When a police officer asked one of the boys who he was, the boy told him he was Charlie and asked him if he had seen Bennie. The police officer replied that he hadn’t seen him and the children continued their game.

This is Alicia Vachon on CBC News, wishing you all a great evening.

The Dinner Party – Eulogy

We are all gathered here today to remember a dear friend, Mrs. Wynnes. We all knew her as a strong person with lots of pride.

Many lessons were learned by this woman. Even I, Joey Boxwell, an American naturalist has learned from her. You may wonder “how does he know her, an Indian?” Well, I remember it quite well, it was a dinner party and her husband, along with her were the hosts. On that day, I, and a lot of the people sitting at the table have learned that most women are well passed the jumping-on-a-chair-at-the-sight-of-a-mouse era, like her. We have learned from Mrs. Wynnes that women also have that ounce of nerve control that men apparently have. For example, Emilia Earhart was the first woman to fly across the Atlantic sea, and of course, Mrs. Wynnes who sat completely calm as a cobra was crawling across her foot!

I encourage you all to remember her as a friend with a great willing to live and a strong heart. This quote makes me think of her because of that discussion Miss Cory and Colonel Mustard were having at that dinner party.

Good girls don’t make history.

But what makes Mrs. Wynnes so amazing was that she was both: a good girl with enough spunk to make history. We are all lucky to have known her.