Joshua Keys Childhood.

After learning about how awful Joshua Keys life was you really feel bad for him. Since he never really grew up with a caring father he had a lot of troubles in life. Since Joshua had so many bad things happening in his life he fell in with the wrong crowd. They were drinking and shooting things up. Also they were destroying mailboxes and blowing up mailboxes.
To add to all that his grandpa and stepdad  were hard core racists. Whenever Joshua would bring his black friends over they would all ways get mad at him. Also Key tended to get into a lot of fights. He would fight almost anyone for any reason. He found a girl that was exactly like him. They fell in love. They both loved to fight and had ruff backgrounds.

His childhood

Joshua grew up without really knowing his biological father.While growing up he a whole lot of step dads. Turns out that most of them were awful drunks. His mother worked at a dinner while they lived in a trailer on a farm. Joshua had some awful step fathers.
Joshuas worst step dad was .J.W. this man beat his mother non stop. He broke Joshuas mothers hand. He frightened his brother and hm. .J.W. was a drunk too. Joshua finally was able to stop J.W. from messing with him when he finally outgrew him.

Krista Ramsey post

The article is called Coach stands by kid charged in DeSales Market crime. This article talks about how even after this kid commits a terrible crime his coach still believes that there is good in this kid. The line in this column is "Jesse Cheatham is the guy who pulled you aside when he saw that there were two versions of you – the smart Aiken sophomore who recently passed the Walnut Hills High School entrance test, and the street kid who pulled his pants down around his knees, grew dreadlocks and ran with his friends." This really lets the reader see how the coach feels about Aiken. He believes that Aiken has good i him he just made a stupid decision. The author seems to really make it obvious that this basketball coach really believes in this kid. He respects the kid. This passage has a long sentence which further shows the empathetic tone of the article. 

Ramsey uses a Narrative style of writing. She always makes a little story in the column. for example in " For better vision, kids need time outdoors"." You see it all the time. Your teenager at the dinner table, waiting for his checkup at the orthodontist office, sauntering to his car" Another example is from "Super Bowl QB's score points for great style". "The amazing thing isnt that two super jocks know how to dress well, but that they actually seem to want to." the last example is from "Coach stands by kid charged in DeSales Market crime"  "I couldn't tell how much information you were absorbing Thursday morning as you were led into Courtroom 108 at Hamilton County Juvenile Court. It probably took most of your concentration just to walk in those leg shackles."

3 questions I would ask Ramsey would be Where did u go to college? How old were you when you wanted to become a writer? What kind of writing style do you usually use?

What I think is going to happen

I believe that Joshua Key is going to leave. Joshua has constantly asked for mental help from the army. He has told them that he doesn't think he can handle going back to Iraq.  All they say back to him is its either going back to Iraq or jail. Key will have to go to military prison for desertion.

If he does leave he will have to deal with a great amount of grief. This is because he will leave his family also. His children will no longer have a father. They might end up being refugees to another country. This will put his family in even greater danger.

The deserters tale

The deserters tale so far seeks fairly interesting. Joshua has no choice in what he has to do. I learned that he was a soldier in the US army. Also I learned that he really does not want to go back to Iraq.He doesn't want  to go back because of all the awful things hes seen and done while over there. He has asked for help to deal with what's happening. But the person who is assigned to help him is doing a awful job.Basically the person is just telling him to deal with it and in my opinion thats no way to treat somone who is tramatized.

The only person he finds comfort with is his family. He feels that his wife is the only one who can really help him. He has no choice in where he's going. It's either Iraq or jail for desertion.He never had a father to guide him through all of this. The only thing he had was a long line of drunken step dads.