Dave Cooks the Turkey.

In Stuart McLean's short story,"Dave Cooks the Turkey", he used several techniques to illustrate humor and wit to describe Dave's struggle to cook the Christmas dinner. McLean used slap stick comedy when he describes his careful argument with his wife. He cautiously chose his words and "...looked around, nervously. He didn't want to get this wrong." Many of the readers and audience of McLean's story can relate to Dave's life, this also creates humor in the section. McLean used a lot of imagery in his short story, he illustrates how "Dave looked at the Turkey. It was propped on a kitchen chair like a naked baby." Throughout the story several humorous techniques are portrayed. McLean describes Dave and Morley's Christmas disaster, using relatable situations and Dave's struggle, evidently realizing that "They obviously weren't about to trust Dave with a weapon." Throughout the story "Dave Cooks the Turkey" there are several funny aspects.

Certain Experiences mark the beginning of maturity.

Throughout time, from present to future and the past, situations and events evidently shape a persons personality, character and growth in maturity. Historically speaking, there have been many dealings that have made many past figures mature and accountable in their lives that have unmistakably affected ours.

In history, to present time, boys in third world countries have undergone great tragedy and despair when tribes and cults have taken mothers and fathers and left them in entire responsibility for young siblings and relatives. Many have also been kidnapped and placed into warfare where they have to operate guns and other ammunition. This alone many Canadians wouldn’t be able to imagine this experience, for the lifestyles are entirely different. However, it is a common occurrence in the lives of young boys in desperate situations. Its not like they’re given much time to make the transition, they immediately have to make the shift from a boy to a man. Not just for themselves but for their family and everyone around them. For many, this is a large milestone for many boys setting the switch to maturity.

Throughout the past warfare amongst adults and teenagers has affected every part of the world. Every country has been involved in some sort of civil or international conflict. Everyone knows someone who was in a war or had died in a war. Many young men from all countries fought for their nation, leaving loved ones and family at home. No one knew what would happen to them, and never knew whether they would return. Though conscription and the draft were put in place in Canada and the U.S, many men had no choice but to join the war. Heading into that kind of situation with those circumstances, there was no choice but to become mature. This was a life or death situation, it wasn’t to be taken for granted. Maturity was an essential quality a soldier has to go into battle with.

Although the overall warfare and person rights situations in today’s North American society have changed rather dramatically. There are many other situations that have been placed upon certain unfortunate individuals. Though it’s an everyday battle, until it hits on a personal setting, it never leaves a lasting ache. When someone close or a family member passes away that person is no longer there to hold that spot in your life and have that certain impression. When they are gone, it leaves immense heart break, though with any death it’s not time to wither away. To be able to pick your self up after a tragedy and keep on going is a huge stride in growing maturity. It isn’t an event anyone can avoid however how you deal with such a situation shows true depth and development.

Throughout present time and history, there have been several events that have shaped and molded many nations and individuals. Maturity comes at different time for everyone, sometimes gradually, though sometimes forced. Events in people’s lives evidently create the person they live in. Events that invoke maturity into the person, create the individual they can strive in.

College Application.

Innovative, perceptive and unhinged. A perfect way to describe myself. Not only have I hiked Mount Everest and hang glided from the top but i have lived the lifestyles of many. I have lived in the middle east and sold goods in a shop that i had built from sticks. I fished in Antarctica without a fishing pole, and lived in an igloo made from fire. I lived in Africa, where on a daily basis I would wrestle lions just to prove how smart I was. I would travel Iceland just to stay in an ice hotel, not because i had to but because I win all staring contests.
I am strong like a bull, witty like a mouse, and versatile like a dice. I wash darks and lights in the same load because they come out perfectly. I play all sports with my left hand because if I used my right no one would have a chance. I hypnotize hypnotists before they even get close to me. I can speak every language and have made up twelve, six of which are universal, all in Brazil. All lights turn on as i walk past and turn off when I leave just to save energy, though only when the suns out.
A scholar in astronomy, a genius in architecture and a master at sneezing. I hold all the national titles in Chili for blinking. I have all the greatest qualities a human could posses i am the equivalent of a baseball quarterback.

Mysterious Man.

Late at night. Walking in a forbidden place. Take a right into the park, using it as a shortcut. Thinking it was pretty safe because of how open and lit it was. However, blocking the gate at the other side, was a strange silhouette. Dark, yet still. It was a man, he just gazed, as if he had been recovering from a tragedy. He wore a hat tilted off the side of his head, dark like the night. Below, lay his bushy eyebrows, in such a way that caterpillars would cocoon before turning into a butterfly. His eyes were wide like the glowing moon, though had a diminutive look, as a weathered tree getting ready for winter. Broad between his eyes, his nose was a pear, freshly fallen from the tree though a little damaged and bruised from the hail storm the night before. The most intimidating feature of this mysterious man was the bitter scowl that lined the bottom half of his face, the way a rainbow would seem with no colour and no enchantment. A cigarette hanging from the left corner of his lip, stained his teeth and filling his lungs with disease. His mannerisms resembled this as well; cold and inhuman. Managing to strike a quick pivot and retreat from the situation with out struggle, never knowing what would have become of it. The long way home sounds good tonight.

"Wild West'' cliche.

Hotter then a two dollar pistol on the 4th of July. The two cowboys, both tough as nails. Stagger out onto the dusty tobacco road. Willing to fight till the end. Drawing their guns, like pulling chickens teeth. Pacing backwards like walking on egg shells. Both rapidly turn around, faster than a speeding bullet, and DRAW. Both guns fly out of their pockets. However no shots are fired. Both cowboys, more confused than a woodpecker in a concrete forest, though looking like a dog in a meat house, stopped dead in their tracks. Both of the cowboys running like they stole something, both in search for amunition. They both looked at eachother as if to say "whatever floats your boat", and that was the end of that. Be-all and end-all boys.

Superpower.

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to know all the secrets? To be somewhere forbidden , without anyone knowing. To have no limits, and no boundaries. Having the power of invisibility would allow all these odds. However, besides owning this superpower and having its advantages, it possesses many other beneficial traits. To be invisible is one thing, although looking deeper, with this power you also endure faultless knowledge. Being able to be everywhere and know all of the confidential information that wouldn't have been told if an exterior presence was know of. To sit in on conferences and sessions not available to the public. Having the power of invisibility would allow such knowledge to society, it could evidently alter the outcome of many major events. Secrets asked for many years, would be secrets no longer. The hidden answers of area 51 in the U.S. would be revealed. Although invisibility would act as a profitable superpower. It also deems so much more.