Parks Quest essays

Park's Quest essays "Park's Quest" By: Katherine Patterson Parkington Waddell Broughton the Fifth, called Park (Pork by his mother), was a twelve-year-old boy, without a father. His Father was killed in the Vietnam War when Park was only a baby. His mother had raised him since then. Park would have done anything to know how and why his father died. But his mother always seemed to refuse to talk about him. Park could not take it anymore. Other people had fathers everyday. He just couldnt stop wondering why he couldnt have a piece of his. So he would keep badgering his mother to tell him something, but he couldnt get one thing out of her. Then one day she said, He has- he had a family-maybe its time-summer- maybe you can go visit them in the summer. Ill have to write. And so she did. Park waited and waited for the answer until- They said it would be alright for you to go, he heard his mother say one night. At the start of the summer Park was preparing himself for the trip. He took a bus to the bus station, where a man that he thought was a hired man picked him up, but soon found out it was his Uncle Frank, his fathers younger brother. From Frank, he also found out his grandfather had two strokes in a lifetime, and that he wasnt in very good shape. They thought they had lost him when he had the second stroke. They thought Parkington Waddell Broughton the Third was dying but they were lucky again. When they got to the big house, Park met the caretaker Mrs. Davenport. After he had unpacked he went outside for some air, when he met a young Vietnamese girl, named Thanh (pronounced Than) who kept on taunting him and putting him down. If she was a guy Park would have nailed her, but she wasnt. He was dying to know who this little stranger was,...