Professor

AKEELAH
AND THE

BEE
A Novel by James W. Ellison Based on the Screenplay Written by Doug Atchison

The Present
Akeehh Anderson, small and skinny for a salutary-turnedtwelve-yedr-oldand smart beyond her years, sits in her bedroom staring at her two-bagger in the mirror and engaging in one of herfdvorite pastimes: daydreaming. She removes her ghsses, cleans them on the sleeve of her blouse, then replaces them in a single, $owing, absent-minded movement. Slowly her public figure breaks into a smile. Xkeelah, she says in a su~risingly voice, given her low get along with and slight physical stature, what a journey for a missy from South Los Angeles. Girls fiom this neighborhood just arent supposed to have journeys standardized this. Everything seems like a dream. I know this happened and that happened and a safe and sound bunch of other things, too, but it should seem more actual than it does. What? the wordfor what &feeling? Come on, girL word are whar youre unspoiled at. What is it you%e reaching for? Verisimilitude? Somnambulism? D4d vu? Nopetheyre all wrong. But there? gotta be a word for it because it? how Ive been feeling all year and it just doesnt go away.. .. >, She sticks out her tongue and crosses her qes. Euke crazj girl, phin loco, talking to yourselfhis way. Ifyou start state yourseg youll know youre in big, big trouble.



Maybe the word l m searchinfor is.. . what? Maybe it? magic. Human magic....


The Anderson family-mother, two sons, and two daughters-lived in a mostly black neighborhood in South Los Angeles, a dangerous, forlorn area that often erupted in violence, especially on Saturday nights and most especially on the hot nights of summer. It was lightyears removed from the glisten and glamour of Hollywood and the majestic coastline to the west. Akeelah attended Crenshaw Middle School, an uncombed institution with gang grafiti scrawled on the walls. There were dangling electron tube fmtures in the bathrooms where, in better times, the sinks used to be. African-American and...If you motive to get a full essay, order it on our website: Ordercustompaper.com



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