Bridge to Terabithia :: essays research papers

This takes place in a piffling(a) town in the 1970s. It is based on a boy named Jesse Aarons but he is called Jess. He cannot wait until fifth grade starts because he will be the fastets runner, he even practiced all summer. He has twain onetime(a)er sisters and two younger sisters. His older sisters never seem to do anything and are eternally ridiculing him. His younger sisters look up to him, mostly May Belle though. Jesss dad plant in Washington ans so he is gone during the mean solar day a lot. It is up to Jess to milk their cow Miss Bessie everyday. His dad isnt sore to him and seems solely to be nice to the misfires, the same goes for his mom. They try to treat him in any case much like a man. One day, a new family moves into the old Perkins farmhouse. There are usually families moving in and out of it all the time. There residuums up being a girl named Leslie Burke who is the only child and Jesss age. She passing plays over to his house and says hi, but he ignores her. On the set-back day of school she is in his class. She hangs near him during recess and is the first girl to race and beat all the boys. This hurts Jess because he had practiced all summer. They end up becoming real good friends though and hang around each other everyday. They help May Belle get the school street fighter Janice Avery back after she stole May Belles twinkie. They did it by writing Janice a fake love letter from Willard Hughes saying that he liked her and for her to walk home from school with him. So, Janice ended up walking all just back home from school. Jess and Leslie create a secret place in concert in between their woods called Terabithia where Jess is the king and Leslie the queen. They built a small fort and try to talk like royalty does. In tell to get to Terabithia they swing on a rope over a small creek. When Christmas comes around Leslie got Jess a new paint set since he loves to paint and his family is sort of poor. Leslies family is rich but do esnt show it because she wears raggedy clothes and doesnt switch a tv. Both her parents are authors trying to live the country life-style after moving from the scity.