My Cutlass
Last week I bought a 350 rocket motor for my Cutlass. Before I bought it, I heard it run. It sounded like a thunder when I crunk it up. Since I bought it from my cousin, he took the motor out of his car so I could take it home. Once he got it out the car, he needed some help loading it on the back of the truck , but he didn’t have a jack that could lift high enough.
It took five people to lift the motor; it was so heavy it felt like an anchor, but we finally got it on there. I went home and hooked the motor up to a jack to take it off the back of the truck. I was happy be out of that truck it smelled like oil and the seats were very dirty. I had to put paper down so I wouldn’t get anything on my clothes. I told my cousin, "Thanks for the help and I’ll talk to you later." Then he left and I started planning my next move.
My next move was taking out my motor that was already in my car, so I pulled my car around to the shop to start working on it. I unpluged some hoses and something shot into my right eye. I ran to the bathroom to rinse out my eye because it was burning a little and when I finished my eye was bleary, and I couldn’t see out of it for about ten minutes. Atfer I got my vision back, I started working on my car. I unhooked everything so the only thing left to do was to lift the motor out.
I lifted my motor out and was ready to drop the new one in. Once I got everything hooked up I was ready to crank it up, it still sounded like thunder. Then I started thinking, I am going to redo this whole car, so I drove it to a paint shop to get a price on how much candy paint was. When I was down there, I saw a Monte Carlo with flip-flop candy paint and I decided I wanted that.
After two weeks I saved up enough money for my paint job. I took my car back to the paint shop for spraying. The paint was eight hundred and the painter charge me five hundred to paint it. So I left my car down there and the painter told me " It will be about a week before I will be done with everything". I said "That’s fine call me when your done painting it".
While my car was in the paint shop, I went looking for a new transmission. I called my friend because he knows where many of motors and transmissions would be for sale. We went to this junkyard. It was so nasty there, that if you opened your mouth it would leave an awful taste. So we didn’t find what I was looking for there, so we went to Pep Boys to order one.
The worker at Pep Boys said "We only have a 403 for a Oldsmobile Cutlass" I told him "That’s fine I’ll take it" they had to order the transmission and told me it will be 4 days. So I had everything I wanted for my car. I couldn’t wait and see what my car was going to look like. I wanted to go look at some rims, but every place I went was real expensive so I decided I was going to keep my rallys on it for a while.
A week has passed, and I have gotten my transmission so it was time for me to go pick up my car. When I got there my car was sitting in the front. I didn’t realize that it was my car. If you walked around the car it would flip green to blue all the away around the car. The paint was real shiny and had flakes all through the car. I told the painter "This really looks nice". I drove my car home but it still wasn’t ready to show anyone.
I pulled my car in the shop and began putting in the new transmission. It took me two hours to get it in. Once I was done, I drove it around the block for a test drive. My car was so fast I almost lost it coming off my street. but I gained control and drove over to my friend’s house to show him.

Short Story 1

The story I read was called The King Of The Bingo Game and it was about a black man from the South and he was trying to find a way to get some money so he can pay the doctor so he can find out what’s wrong with his girlfriend Laura. He can’t get a job because he doesn’t have a birth certificate.
So he’s been watching the bingo games for a while so he thinks he figured out how to win the jackpot. He thinks that’s Laura only chance of surviving. So he has five cards because he thinks that will increase his chances of winning and he knew once he win he have a chance to play for the jackpot and in order to win the jackpot he had to hold a button and double zero had to fall.
He thought if he just give the button a quick push it would have a good chance of hitting double zero so as he starts to push the button he start having doughts " What if it doesn’t land on the zeros, Laura will die" so he held down the button with his thumb and didn’t let go he just stood there and the audience started to get impatient and start cussing him out and yelling at him.
So the host put his hand on his shoulder and told him " Alright your time is up" and the man push the host hand off his shoulder violently and said " Leave me alone I know what I am doing" and the host called up security to get the man off stage. So the man starts running around in circles to avoid getting caught but he was caught and wrestled to the ground and security was trying to force the man’s hand open and one of the security was stomping on the man’s wrist and head.
The man black out for a moment and as the security was talking him away the man seen the wheel stop on double zero but the security didn’t turn around and see it and I’m not sure what happen then but I think he was shot in the head.

2. It was only two characters in the story who said something. The man who got on stage and wouldn’t leave. I think he was a good man he was trying to win some money so he can get a doctor for his girlfriend and he was one of the types to do whatever it takes to get it "Live, Laura, baby. I got holt of it now, sugar. Live!"
The second character was the host he was the type of man who try’s to embarrass people just to please the audience. "so you decided to come down off that mountain to the U.S."

3. The author didn’t tell what the characters where like, you had to figure them out as you read the story.

4a. Simile- an explicit comparison between two different things, actions, or feelings
4bMetaphor-A figure of speech in which a word or phrase that ordinarily designates one thing is used to designate another, thus making an implicit comparison
4c. Personification- A figure of speech in which inanimate objects or abstractions are endowed with human qualities or are represented as possessing human form
4d. Allusion- A reference to someone or something that is known from history, literature, religion , politics, sports, science, or some other branch of culture
4e. hyperbole- A figure of speech that uses an incredible exaggeration, or overstatement, for effect.
4f. Irony- In general, a discrepancy between appearances and reality.

5. " Yet it was as familiar as the sun" simile
"You chicks musta been Lindy-hopping somewhere" metaphor