At the beginning of the novel, sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon’s life dramatically changed. The teenager was arrested and charged with the murder of a Harlem drugstore owner. Although Steve was presumably not the actual killer, his role as a supposed "lookout" for the gang that committed the crime ultimately landed him in prison. With regards to this, past events can have a major effect on the present values or attitudes of a character. Moreover, Steve’s past experience has contributed to the novel’s themes-
Everyone has depression, but did you know on October 29, 1929 the whole US went into depression. People lost their jobs, people lost their homes and lot’s of other things. Every bits and piece was super valuable at that time. Some effects the Great Depression had on people at that time was people lost their money. In an article called Digging In by Robert Hastings a girl explains how importants every minute of light is.
No one wants to be the kid who picks fights with the football coach, or smack talks armed man-slaughterers alone, and no one especially doesn’t want to be the only witness of his own brother killing someone- but that’s exactly what kind of situation Paul Fisher finds himself in Tangerine by Edward Bloor. Coming into Tangerine, Paul is a side note, the underdog, the civilian waiting for problems to pass instead of getting wrapped up in them. However, as a trail of suspicious events find a way to follow and corner him no matter what he seems to do, Paul has no choice but to confront them and either do something about it, or remain silent. The friendly, unlikely hero and soccer star rises, deciding he should make a change.
Paul then tell that even cleaning the cabin doesn’t matter because it never get messy. Then he narrates and describe the problems that he was facing in the cabin. Through the flies until the problem about the porch. It ended with Paul sitting in living room realizing how many of his clothes was dirty and tattered. Paul then discussed all about fishing like when is the best time to go fishing until how do he fish.
In society today there are young kids that do terrible things and they don't fully understand the extent of the matter. In the book “Monster” it tells the story of a young Steve Harmon, he planned a lookout that turned fatal but he had a change of heart. The people at the scene witnessed and could identify him as the lookout. He did not pull the trigger but he was involved in the crime. Steves name was mentioned when King and Evans were discussing the plans for the fatal crime.
There are questions that need to be answered about these!” (Bloor 265). Consequently, Paul was super mad and felt betrayed. Paul felt like he couldn’t trust anyone because he's been lied to for 7 years for the one thing that he was embarrassed about. Paul’s character was affected by Mrs. Fisher not telling Paul the true cause of why he is
I can’t do anything else.” showcases how prideful Paul is as well as the reasoning behind his choices. He refuses to move to the city and help out at Ellen’s father’s store because he sees it as charity. Paul does not want to bring himself to the level where he has to rely on his wife’s parents and thus comes to the conclusion that staying at his farm is better. Even though Paul
Addiction to substances such as alcohol often leads to depressive mental states and the destruction of any sound relationships. ‘The water was dark and went forever down’ is a 1987 short story written by time Winton which explores the journey of a young Australian girl with a mentally ill mother. A 14-year-old Australian girl who is referred to as ‘the girl’ has traveled to a beachside cottage on holiday with her mentally ill mother. The girl is forced to be independent as her mother’s addiction to alcohol has disabled her from properly caring for her daughter. The girl seeks refuge in swimming which lets her avoid the mental battles posed by her home life.
Lucas Hahn Mr. Rodriguez Academic Lit. 15 June, 2023 The Cellar Analysis Throughout Lucas Hahn's short story The Cellar, the author explores the limits of human endurance both mentally and physically. The author portrays the mental limits of humans when we look at the character Ryan. Ryan at the beginning of the story was just a normal teenager, but at the end of the book he turned into a murderer.
Not knowing if he could keep living or not. He explains how he say his neighbor started killing also. The same neighbor he invited over to eat dinner with and play with his kids. Being in fear all the time can lead to some depressing thought on, which Paul has said in his story. Words meant a lot to Paul, he states that his parents generation were told as kids that they are ugly and will never be capable of running business
While Paul was on leave, he was able to be with his family who he no longer felt the same connection with because of the trauma he had gone through already. Paul was able to feel emotions he had been avoiding to become inhumane for the war conditions that eventually built up so much that now he is not able to contain himself anymore. But, even though he had these horrible feelings and thoughts, he kept fighting, he did not give up. He knew that it was not an option and he had to forget about everything he has gone through and the painful deaths he had to encounter. Secondly, Paul was one of the last recruits alive of his friends in the war.
The film “Solitary Nation” by Dan Edge had an impact on me as I was watching the film of the inmates’ lives in solitary while a new warden is trying to make a change for them. Although it was similar to other prison documentaries, it had more of a closer view to solitary than the normal prisons. It provided evidence of how torturing it could be after a certain time, and how the world is constantly full of that nature no matter what measures are taken. It depicted the causes of solitary on the inmates’ behavior, and how contradictory it is to have solitary confinement. Should solitary still be used as a way of punishment?
The Man in the Well is a story written by Ira Sher in 1995. It tells of a group of young children who stumble upon a well while playing and discover that there is a man hollering in the bottom of it. Although the children knew he needed help, they chose not to help him. Many ideas are speculated as to why they did not help the man. Some believe that them being children in general was the reason they did not help the man.
Paul was an actor by heart and wanted to live the life as a movie star. He’s a person that wanted to live a normal life in a house with his father that he feared to stand too.
Holes by Louis Sachar is a nonfiction book about a young overweight teenage boy– -Stanley Yelnats who is new to camp green lake a place to diseplin and help boys build character. Stanley was in the wrong place at the wrong time, his family is affected by "a hex", which they point the finger at Stanley's "no-good-dirty-rotten pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather" he was framed for stealing famous baseball players shoes put out for charity, the story line has a lot of mini complicated plots that all add up to the bigger picture in the end. The setting of the book is dry hot desert environment. with the bowling hot weather they have to dig a hole a day witch.
