What Will I Become? Most picture book are used for children, but not this one. Red by Michael Hall and The Day The Crayons Came Home by Drew Daywalt are stories that you're family would want to read again and again. They are both interesting books for old and young enthusiastic viewers, and they have many similarities and differences.
In third grade I met Nick Allen, a fifth grader in Andrew Clements’s short story “Frindle”. Nick Allen was a rebellious boy who always seemed to have a way of getting around teachers’ rules. After being mad at his language arts teacher for assigning him an oral presentation on the origin of the meaning of words, Nick proceeded to get all of his classmates to call pens “frindles” because, well, he could. Even though he was mostly perceived as a troubled boy, he was able to show maturity by challenging the meanings of words. I accredit Nick Allen with my interest in some of life’s more philosophical questions.
Almost all of the crayons had complaints and issues, except for Halpern 2 and Green crayon. He’s happy to be with us. Crayons such as the pink crayon complain about not being used enough asking, “Could you please use me sometime to color the occasional pink dinosaur or monster or cowboy?” (23 ) And the purple crayon is upset about not being used to color inside the lines, warning, “If you don't start coloring inside the lines soon.
In James Hurst’s Story “The Scarlet Ibis”, the demand for normality ruins lives. In Hurst’s tale the protagonist is concerned about his crippled brother being seen as abnormal and reflecting badly on the character. In order to prevent this the protagonist starts to train his brother, eventually he begins to feel that Doodle, his brother, is not putting in enough effort. Our protagonist states, “You can do it. Do you want to be different from everybody else when you start school?”
The author creates many trials for Bobby, such as learning how to deal with his lost childhood. Angela Johnson displays Bobby coming of age by using symbolism to help show him maturing. For instance, Angela Johnson uses a Game Boy as a symbol of Bobby’s childhood. In the beginning, Bobby reflects on what his mother told him, “My mom says that I didn’t sleep through the night until I was eight years old... She says she used to come into my room, sit cross-legged on the floor by my bed, and play with my Game Boy in the dark” (Johnson 3).
“In a social jungle of human existence, there is no feeling of being alive without a sense of identity.” said Erik Erikson, a psychologist known for his theory on the psychosocial development of humans. Reef Kennedy is a trouble-making orphan who hangs out with his friends, Bigger and Jink, vandalizing buildings and getting in trouble with the law. A ruined childhood from losing his parents and grandparents puts Reef in a hopeless position that he will have to dig himself out of and find his true identity. |He tries to rebuild his life by helping other people, but realizes he was the center of the accident all along. In the novel First Stone by Don Aker, Reef shows how true identity affects the actions of a human being, proving it with character
The Roaring Colors The timeless American classic, The Great Gatsby, written by literary genius F. Scott Fitzgerald is considered the most important work of literature in American history as it is masterfully crafted with themes and ideals that were way ahead of its time and set the tone for future authors. In the story, Fitzgerald uses colors to give meaning and depth to an already complex story. These colors are used to describe characters and give them intangible qualities and adds more variations in the settings of the story. One character in particular who is described vividly with colors is the man protagonist and rival of Gatsby Tom Buchanan.
After, Red faces these obstacles she saves the day by stopping the pencil sharpener just in time to share her story with the class.
The narrator begins to change as Robert taught him to see beyond the surface of looking. The narrator feels enlightened and opens up to a new world of vision and imagination. This brief experience has a long lasting effect on the narrator. Being able to shut out everything around us allows an individual the ability to become focused on their relationships, intrapersonal well-being, and
“Without Colors” is a short story written by Italo Calvino as part of his Cosmicomics collection. The story is narrated by Qfqfq, who talks about his experience living in a monotonous world and ventures with his love, Ayl. In the story, Qfwfq and Ayl travel together until a meteor passes their world and emit an array of various colors. Ayl disappears as the Meteor passes by and Qfwfq travels the world to look for her only to find her hiding away from a colors of the world. The theme of “Without Colors” is about change and how it can affect relationships between people.
When we fall in love with someone, it is easy for us to consider him/her as the object we desire. In the hybrid-genre book, Bluets, written by Maggie Nelson, the speaker is obsessive for the color blue. Therefore, when the speaker meets her former lover, she thinks that he is the prince of blue. The speaker mixes her two desires by telling readers her fragmentary memories about them because she got so confused why her relationship with her lover ended so quickly. In the book, she creates a work that conveys much more than a meditation on the color itself, but rather wrestles with the implications of the color blue, humanity, inappropriate love, betrayal, depression, grief, and healing.
The short story “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is a story full of imaginative symbolism and descriptive settings. However, without the narrator’s unique point of view and how it affects her perception of her environment, the story would fail to inform the reader of the narrator’s emotional plummet. The gothic function of the short story is to allow the reader to be with the narrator as she gradually loses her sanity and the point of view of the narrator is key in ensuring the reader has an understanding of the narrator’s emotional and mental state throughout the story. It’s clear from the beginning of the story that the narrator’s point of view greatly differs from that of her husband’s and other family in her life.
In the short story The Scarlet Ibis, the author declares that a bridge exists between the color red and the suffering of life through a variety of allegories. And it’s intuitive: what first comes to mind when one hears red? What correlates with red is blood. Doodle is the first to notice a suffering bird outside in the garden. “How many miles it had traveled to die like this, in our yard, beneath the bleeding tree.
The color red is a recurring motif throughout the novel “Beloved” By Toni Morrison. Throughout the book, red carries different meanings when associated with different people in different situations. Although red may present itself differently to each individual or situation, it resembles overcoming the past and looking forward to a bright future. Amy’s search for red velvet resembles her leaving the past behind.
Even before we started going to school, one major highlight of each day as a little kid is when our parents let us get a hold of crayons and use it to color stuff to our heart 's content. There 's nothing more enjoyable than having the liberty of expressing our innermost creativity through the process of coloring, and everything felt fine once we have that box of different hues right within our grasps. We used crayons in almost anything---from that white, clean sheet of paper to our older siblings ' notebook, to the pavement outside up to the garden fences, it 's as if we are coloring the rest of the world one at a time. And growing up, there 's a reliable brand for colors that we have known, and much as we wanted to try others, Crayola is
