Grades

            In King of the Mild Frontier Chris’ older brother John takes school a little more serious then Chris does. John is not satisfied without anything but straight A’s. Chris on the other hand is perfectly satisfied with C’s. This reminds me a lot of me and my brother. Like the Kutcher boys, my brother and I are very different. My brother is all about school. I get good grades but I have never been straight A’s. I’ve always been about sports. If there is a ball I’m in.

            This is one of many things Chris and I have in common. Chris is a little different he would just barely pass. Me, I love to get good grades but don’t be surprised if there are a lot of B’s. Chris gets C’s or D’s. I try in school and to me it sounded like Chris just never tried. But at the end of the day school is very important. Maybe Chris should try to be like his brother a little more. Even I could try to be a little more like my brother.

Death is Inevitable

            In King of the Mild Frontier Chris’s grandfather passed away. This showed Chris that death is very inevitable. Then when Eddie Breidenbach Chris started to think that he could go to heaven any day. Chris thought about it even more when he saw a very little boy’s picture in the news paper because the boy was his age and had passed away.  Chris just felt very bad about these deaths that had occurred and couldn’t stop thinking about it. Chris had a dream that him and his grandpa were sledding then towards the end of his dream when Chris was about to wake up his grandpa left and went back to heaven. This made Chris really think about his grandpa.

            Just like Chris my grandpa died. I was older than Chris but it is hard either way. Just like Chris I was very close to my grandfather. He was probably the closest I was to anyone in the family. He gave me the confidence that I could do anything. Just like Chris I had weird thoughts. One is the night of his funeral I kept seeing his face in the moon at night. This just reminded me of how special he was to me. Also how death is inevitable. Death is going to happen sooner or later it is just a matter of time. But at the end of the day there are going to be people that care about you so much. Also when you die yes people are said but people are going to celebrate your life and what you have done for them and everyone else.

Something Neat

           In King of the Mild Frontier Chris's brother and Eddie Young got Chris to do "something neat". This was always something that Chris's brother wanted to do but never wanted to get in trouble for it, so he would convince Chris to do it. Some of these instances were to pee on the furnace to make the whole house smell like pee. Then the worst instance was when they wanted Chris to run naked at the bottom of a hill and they would shoot at him from the top of the hill with a BB gun. This wasn’t there best plan. Every time they wanted Chris to do something neat they would always tell him we won’t tell. This time they had to tell their parents because they hit Chris and he was bleeding. Chris never did “something neat” ever again.

This reminds me of something that my friends wanted me to do. This thing was to ding dong ditch someone’s house. They kept telling me it will be funny and all this stuff. Unlike Chris I didn’t fall into their peer pressure. I didn’t do it and I kept telling them that it would be wrong. Also I told them that we would get into trouble for it. They agreed and none of them did it. If I was Chris I would’ve told them not to and hopefully they wouldn’t have. Or I just would’ve said no and left the situation.