rules of the game

 Describe Waverly at the age of 30. Include details about her character, profession and family.

At the age of 30, Waverly will be a teacher to foreign students or children whose parents immigrated to their birth country, and help them adjust and overcome all the struggles of being a stranger in your own country.

She will teach them all the things her mother taught her over the years through the chess games.

She will have one spoiled daughter that will bring out all the softness from her so she won't be tough as her mother was to her.

 She will get married with an American husband she met in college- and the fact he is American will help her daughter to adjust and get along.

In her free time she will teach little children chess lessons while conveying them the art of invisible strength and all the insights she has learned throughout the years from her Mom.

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4. Write a poem of your own on the theme of the poem. Your poem should express the difference between the way you viewed the world as a child and your perspective as a young adult.

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When I was young

I thought the whole world belonged to me.

That nothing can stand between me and my dreams.

It was all black and white

Everything was so clear and bright.

As I grew older

I began to understand

On my own flesh and blood

That if I want to fulfill my dreams

I'll have to go into the dirt and mud

It wasn’t black and white anymore

It was grey, and blue and red- though

I miss these days when I was young

When it was just black and white

And the whole world belonged to me.

All my sons

3. Imagine Chris kept a diary. Write his diary entry for ONE of the following days:

It is the day after the end of the play.

Dear Diary,

I did not want this to end that way. I thought my father was stronger than killing himself.

I wish I could have told him all that is left unsaid. Now it is a lost matter. I was so angry, and I have no regrets. He killed his own son, my brother. He killed my friends who were with me during the war, my other brothers. They were supposed to be his sons too. But, he thought he had done it for the family, for me. I feel like the road for me is over. I cannot marry Annie because the guilt will haunt me every day. I wanted to leave, but my mother, Kate, won't be able to hold on much in this situation alone. I loved my father. I had appreciation for him my whole life despite our differences.

I admired him.

I still love you dad, but I can't forgive you.

Maybe up there in heaven you will understand that being practical isn't always good.

The Road not Taken

3. Write the speaker's speech at his 80's birthday. (200 words)

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference. 

I have decided to open up my speech with the first and last stanzas, which basically sum up my life, my journey to where I stand today. I am now telling this with a sigh, somewhere ages and ages hence, a sigh of relief that I have been through such a fulfilling life. My dream of being a poet came true, and I did not give in to people's expectations and norms. I.. I have chosen the less traveled by road.

I am very excited to be here today in front of all of you, and to be able to tell my story. I had a lot of ups and downs in my life, and "that has made all the difference" :)

We are facing problems almost every day, often we do not take them seriously. The problem I had to deal with almost 60 years ago was a life changing problem. I could not "travel both ways" so I needed to choose only one and that was a hard decision to make. At last when I decided to be a poet.. I understood that I had chosen the less traveled by road.
and that's my story...:)

a letter from george to mr. cattanzara

2. Write a letter from George to Mr. Cattanzara ten years after the story ends.

One of the days last week I visited my father in my hometown, because he was sick. I walked on the sidewalk in front of my house and I remembered those hot, humid nights when I wandered around the city. I also remembered you gave me money to buy lemonade when I was a little boy. Today I run a company that travels around the world to give children and teen-agers education, and tools for a better life. I called the company C-company (after your name, Cattanzara). I haven't heard anything about you nowadays, are you still working as a change maker? I wanted to say thank you. You deserve appreciation for giving me the most important lesson in my life that made me get to where I am today. I have not seen you since that day I was in the library. I own one today. A library, I mean, for charity. So, after all the things I wrote you I guess the question that still remains unanswered is if I read all these  hundred books. The letter is attached to a flying ticket for you and your wife to California. A driver will pick you up from the airport to my house, where we will complete all the unanswered questions.

With great appreciation,

George

With great appreciationgeorge stoyonovitch

mr know all different perspective

I was prepared to be disliked by others on the ship because of my appearance and the fact I'm not a "perfect English man"..

I went on board and started to unpack my suitcases when I noticed the man I would share a cabin with. He seemed a bit upset that I had got there first. The  few days that went on ship were quite good and I tried to communicate with him and tried to develop a conversation. One evening we went to a dinner with a few people we had met on board. The conversation drifted to the subject of pearls, which of course I knew about very well. I noticed with a keen eye that the woman who was sitting next to me had a real pearls necklace. So, I said it out loud when her husband immediately said that the necklace was fake and those were cultured pearls. With a big smile he also mentioned that his wife had bought it only for 18$. We bet on a 100$ if its fake or not when I noticed she turned pale and anxious. I realized that the conversation made her feel uncomfortable because she had probably lied to her husband. I said that I was mistaken out loud and gave her husband a 100$ note. I knew I did a good deed when the morning after I received a letter with the 100$. A smile appeared on my lips.