ELA FOUNDATION

 

While most of his peers enjoyed high school, David did not. "I can't wait to get to college and really start my life," he'd often tell himself.  When David got to college, he found out that it wasn’t much different from high school.  "I can't wait to graduate and get a job so that I can really get started on my life," David would tell himself.  When he graduated from college and found a job, David realized that he did not really like working that much.  "I hate slaving away at work.  I can't wait until my retirement.  That's when my life is really going to begin," David told himself.  He worked away his days and nights, enjoying them very little and always thinking about how things would be better when he retired.  When he finally retired, he found that he was in too much pain to do the things that he had planned on doing earlier in life.  Having nothing else to look forward to in life, David spent his final days on a bench in the sun, thinking about how much happier he would be in heaven.

 

Kyle ran into his house, slamming the door behind him.  He threw his book bag on the floor and plopped onto the couch.  After six hours of playing Grand Larceny VII, he ate some pizza and fell asleep with a slice on his stomach and his feet on his book bag. When Kyle came home from school the next day, he was noticeably distraught.  He balled up his report card and placed it inside a soup can in the garbage. He then flipped the soup can upside down in the garbage can and arranged loose pieces of trash over it.  As he plopped down on the couch, he let out a sigh and picked up his controller.