In the recent viewing of “Lost in Laconia”, there was a remarked change in the treatment of patients with more than just a duty to keep them alive. The change was accounted to a newly appointed superintendent, Richard Hungerford in 1952. A position previously held by clinically detached doctors, this ‘lowly’ teacher became the harbinger of involvement; encouraging parents of residents to visit, document and organize for the reform of the facility. “Help Wanted” advertisements sponsored by the newly formed well-meaning New Hampshire Council for Retarded Children, were shown to various charities and organizations, showing their current state and desperation from lack. On the part of the council it seemed innocuous, showing why they needed the
In the book Abduction by Peg Kehret, Ruth is one of the characters, and is remembering her old dog Max. She is having these memories since she now has a new dog, and is taking care of him. This is creates a mood since Ruth loved her old dog and is grateful to have another one. The mood that is being created is excitement. I can tell that she is excited since she says “It'll be good for us to have a dog again.”
Markus Zusak’s coming-of-age, historical fiction novel, The Book Thief, tells the story of Liesel Meminger, a foster child brought to live with a family in Molching, Germany during World War II. Throughout the novel, Liesel meets many characters who show tremendous courage in the face of the circumstances they are forced to endure like Hans, Rudy, and Max. However, the courage that they exhibit is not always the kind where they run out into battle with guns blazing but something else. Hans Hubermann, Liesel’s foster father, is at first glance, an unceasingly kind, yet ordinary, man. Even Death says so when we first meet him:
Mary Rowlandson and Olaudah Equiano: Comparing Captivity Experiences Americans have been intrigued by captivity novels and works for centuries. It could be the sense of danger and unpredictability that makes them so interesting and popular. Or maybe the idea that captivity was quite possible for readers in previous centuries made captivity narratives popular in Colonial Times. Speaking of Colonial Times, two popular captivity narratives that took place in that era that have many similarities and differences are; A Narrative of the Captivity of Mary Rowlandson and The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano.
In all captivity stories, a main element is reading about how the captors treated those they kidnapped. The narratives by Mary Rowlandson and Olaudah Equiano both contain a lot of these experiences. Both of them had hardships to overcome throughout the story. During their journeys,
In Stolen, Shirley, who was taken away from her family and who has a daughter who was taken away from her, never gives up searching for her family. For Shirley, who never got ‘the chance to be a mother to Kate and Lionel’, her journey to locate her children is difficult. Harrison makes the audience aware of this difficulty but also of Shirley’s relentless search in the scene entitled ‘Shirley Never Gives Up’. Shirley’s frustration in not being able to get answers about what happened to her children, despite repeated phone calls, is evident. For Shirley at least, her endless effort to locate her children is met with the success of finding her daughter (there is no mention of her son, Lionel) and granddaughter.
The Night She Disappeared While working a normal night at Pete’s Pizza, two co-workers had arranged to exchange shifts. Kayla Cutler had asked her co-worker Gabie Klug to work for her on a Friday evening. In return Kayla had planned to work for Gabi on that Wednesday. Kayla asked Gabi to work so she could have that Friday off from work. While Kayla and a co-worker named Drew are working that Wednesday evening, they get a delivery call.
It was the summer of 1991 and Jaycee Dugard was facing the typical issues an eleven year old girl would. She had plans to go on a school field trip to a water park and wanted to ask her mother if she could shave her legs. However, she was never able to present the topic to her mother. On June tenth, she was kidnapped by Phillip and Nancy Garrido outside of her Lake Tahoe home, in central California, while she was walking to her bus stop. Dugard remained hopeful throughout her first days of abduction that she would return to her mother, step-father, and baby sister shortly, but the Garrido’s had a much different plan.
A small town with a big secret. Seventeen year old Kendall Fletcher has lived on a farm in the tiny town of Cryer’s Cross since she was little. A town where everyone knows everyone. Kendall has a great life.
This determined girl took advantage of this opportunity by drinking from a stagnant pool of water, getting herself sick. This allowed her to stay with her cousins while her immediate family traveled up the mountain to the next harvest. Diaz describes a young girl scared and desperately thinking of what to do and the courage she must have had to do this. She saw an opportunity with her abusive mother away and took a leap of faith and confided in the local teacher. This seven-year-old girl took a big chance that she would be returned to her mother, finding an unwelcome beating like in the past, but it was worth it.
George Saunders first published The Semplica Girl Diaries in The New Yorker in 2012 and then again in his collection of short stories Tenth of December, in 2013. The main characters are a middle aged, unnamed man and his family (a wife, two daughters and a son). In an interview Saunders admitted that the inspiration for this twisted story came from a dream which explains the origin of a strange concept in it— Semplica girls, women from underdeveloped countries paid to hang in rich people’s gardens, connected to each other by a wire in their brains. However, the main message is a conscious writing choice. This story explores the struggles deprived people go through and choices they make when facing them.
A stolen life banned This book is a book that deals with real life. A life in which no one would ever want to endure. This book is about how a 11 year old girl was kidnapped and her freedom was taken away. This paper will discuss why and how this book "A Stolen Life" is banned from libraries and schools and why schools and libraries choose not to have it? If we want to understand why this book is banned or challenged first we would have to know what that means.
As a girl today, I am well aware of the adversities for women in the world. Inequalities in our society are undeniable, but we focus on our own lives rather than women’s lives in the horrific world of human trafficking. The novel Sold by Patricia McCormick explores this terrible world and its implications. McCormick has experience with this world through extensive research and time spent among third world country red light districts. Reading this text, I began to think about gender and its large role on society.
The female protagonist continuously puts herself in treacherous and menacing situations as a result of the sacrifices she makes. Consequently, the female protagonist is forced to go on an adventure where she realizes the cruelty of the world and was able to
The role of women in literature crosses many broad spectrums in works of the past and present. Women are often portrayed as weak and feeble individuals that submit to the situations around them, but in many cases women are shown to be strong, independent individuals. This is a common theme that has appeared many times in literature. Across all literature, there is a common element that causes the suffering and pain of women. This catalyst, the thing that initiates the suffering of women, is essentially always in the form of a man.
