Irene Hunt was born on May 18, 1907 in Pontiac, Illinois. The family soon moved to Newton, Illinois, when Hunt was only seven. Hunt's childhood was lonely, but she shared a special relationship with her grandfather who told her stories about the Civil War. The stories she heard from her grandfather became he story of Jethro in Across five Aprils. Hunt graduated from the University of Illinois in Urbana to go to University of Minnesota, Minneapolis where she earned her M.A.
In the short story, “The Bass, the River, and Sheila Mant”, written by W.D Wetherell, there's a young 14 year old boy who goes unnamed throughout the whole story and lives in an old cabin with his family on the edge of the river. The unnamed boy gets a new neighbor and starts developing a crush on them. This girl went by Sheila Mants, and he was bound to impress her. Overall, he’s a flat character. He’s one of the main characters in this story and not much happens in detail with him.
Bette Greene’s The Drowning of Stephan Jones depicts a heartbreaking story of a boy named Stephan and the struggles he faced in his small southern town. In the Novel, Stephan is portrayed as an outsider who doesn’t fit into his mainly Christian neighborhood because he is a homosexual man. Stephan’s partner Frank Montgomery, decided to move to the small town in Alabama in hopes for a better life. But what they didn’t expect was the immense hatred against them and their view on love. Stephan and Frank experienced conflict involving Andy and his friends, who were the popular teenagers in the town.
Ellie Wiesel was a Jew who was captured by the German Nazi’s during the Holocaust in 1944. He was only 15 years old when he was sent to the Concentration Camp. Ellie, his mom, his sister, and his dad was sent to the Concentration Camp in Auschwitz. In January 1945 Ellie was transported from Auschwitz to the camp in Buchenwald. He talked about how he remembered walking by the Crematorium and watching them throw babies into the ovens.
“Remember the kid in the school group” “He planted the bomb on November 30.” (Smith, Roland I.Q) You also find out Angela’s mother could be alive, or it could be her twin sister. I think this whole event meant that there is more to come and add on
On the Rainy River Analysis One of the most compelling books I’ve read is The Things They Carried. This book is filled with many short stories of the Vietnam war. The Author tells the story from the perspective of the soldiers. This books shows us the sacrifice these men had to give for are freedom. The Things They Carried has many great stories by Tim O’brien, but On The Rainy River was my favorite and seemed to follow the psychological literary lens.
When the youngest boy returned to the car with the message that the older boys didn’t want to help don took a part from the car and ran upstairs to beat the boys with the tire iron. The oldest boys then escaped the beating, but was not seen for another twelve years once they escaped, they never turned back until don was out of the picture. At the age of thirteen she ran away in hopes to find her daddy, when she found him he she remained with until she was seventeen years old. Victoria managed to leave out the details of the reason for her leaving, such as the molestation that lasted three years, the constant beatings administered by don, she never told her father frank jr, she was just happy to be free. After the constant moves from woman to woman home with her daddy, she started to seek stability, she wanted to leave the gipsy life and be stable.
“Never stop walking” Also he went on a trip from concentration camp to concentration camp, then he went to Russia and ended in Italy. Stones In Water by Donna Jo Napoli is Historical fiction. Roberto's character and attitude change in the process of the war. Roberto was trying not to get sidetracked on his journey from the ukrainian concentration camp to Italy. Also roberto is trying not to lose the hope in him because he knows that he will need to have faith to get to Italy.
The written records from Joan of Arc’s trials and subsequent interrogations have long been accepted as the leading authority of the words and beliefs of Joan of Arc’s. Karen Sullivan, a professor of literature at Bard College and writer of numerous articles on medieval French literature, challenges the accuracy of these records noting that it was the educated clerics who decided the line of inquiry, decided when the interrogations would take place, and ultimately decided what to include in these transcripts. Sullivan chose to re-reads these accounts as a literary text to look at how the interpretation of Joan’s words from these clerics could have lead to the death of the Maid of Orleans. With her book, The Interrogation of Joan of Arc, Karen argues that the educational differences
She has a dog named Pork Chop. Pork Chop is featured in her Instagram pictures. Pork Chop also has his own Instagram account and is very popular and loved among Melissa’s fans. Melissa was due to her profession, often criticized for trophy hunting. She received a lot of hate comments, and hate mail, but she never publicly commented or defended herself against these attacks.
In Exile According to Julia and in The Belly of the Atlantic, the narrators of both novels are from French colonized countries and they find that once they emigrate to France they are forced into a borderland. Gisele, of Exile According to Julia, grew up in France but her family and heritage lies in the Caribbean island Guadeloupe. Whereas Salie from The Belly of the Atlantic was from the island Niordior of the African country Senegal. The colonization of these countries by France disrupts the national identity of the women who emigrate to France in Exile According to Julia and The Belly of the Atlantic. This can be seen in the way that Salie and Gisele are othered by those in their community, also in the way that Salie and Gisele develop morals that are seen as “too French,” and through the lives of their friends and family.
Octavia Bentum Case ERWC 19 January 2018 The Voyage of a Vagabond The way we choose to live our lifestyle affects our perspective on the world as well as how we decide to intake new experiences. Many people follow the typical American lifestyle that is lived by many in our society. We struggle to earn exceptional grades in high school in order to attend a potent college only to go on to pursue a career that pays well. This will then lead to us dictate if our journey led us to be truly happy with our lives in the end.
The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc portrays the story of a young girl, Joan, who becomes a French war hero and religious martyr of the 15th century. As the story begins you see young Joan as she witnesses her sister’s murder by the English. You also see her “visions” that inspired her to lead the French in the battle against the English. After her success in defeating the English, Charles VII takes the throne and eventually Joan is captured by the English and executed for heresy.
Excerpts of the Diary of Elizabeth May 7th 1670 Love. A singular feeling I have when I look at him. My Mr. Hooper, I am ecstatic that I get to marry the love of my life, MY Reverend. When I am with him, I feel as if I am on top of a cloud floating above reality. It is a feeling unlike any other.
The Manifestation of Visualization Inevitably, the world climate often changes and has become an issue that most people tend to ignore and refuse to talk about. In other words, the general population tends to ignore climate-fiction movies and stories because of the way the authors present them. That is, the point of views of the stories, articles or films doesn’t quite grab the attention of the viewers and so, viewers are not able to envision themselves in such environment. After much deliberation, I believe that Helen Simpson’s story “Diary of an Interesting Year” does an effective job emphasizing the issues on global warming due to the frequent usage of the narrator’s deep emotions and internal conflicts.
