Cynthia Lord has used character and style to create a novel of contemporary realistic fiction about a young girl struggling to accept the world she lives in. Lord uses dialogue to build a relationship between Catherine and Jason. It’s through these conversations that Lord is able to expose Catherine’s strengths and weaknesses when it comes to living with David, developing new friendships and accepting the reality of her life. It’s these strengths and weaknesses that help the reader identify with her. Lord’s unique style also helps the reader get a peek into the lives of the characters.
Melinda is a Freshman in high school, and she doesn’t speak throughout the whole entire year, because of an issue she faced during the summer. Laurie Halse-Anderson tells a lot in her book Speak about how many important issues young people face every day. In this essay, there will be three motifs about the themes Laurie Anderson put in her book, Melinda’s tree, the weather, and Melinda’s lips. Melinda faced a lot of issues, but there were somethings that gave off how she was feeling. The first was her tree project.
Imagine being ripped from the comfortable normalities of the sunbelt United States, to the desolate, malnourished Congo, where food is scarce and morals are low. Barbara Kingsolver spent years studying the Congo and their people in order to provide an accurate representation in her historical fiction piece, The Poisonwood Bible. In this novel, Leah Price is first described as a young, Christian woman. However, this description soon becomes distorted the longer the Price family remains in the Congo. Leah’s character traits shift as she becomes alienated from the rest of her family’s ideals.
Above all, send the bees love. Every little thing wants to be loved,” (Kidd 92). Saying that every little thing wants to be loved is hinting at Lily’s desire to gain the love of others, such as her mother. It is through love that Lily can be accepted into the Boatwright sister’s family, despite all
Scout proves that adversity strengthens an individual by taking difficult events and giving them a positive outcome, resulting in her becoming a mature adolescent. From the beginning to the end of the novel, Scout blossoms from an innocent young child to a sophisticated young lady. She undergoes situations that she would not have known how to handle when she was younger. Learning to walk away from minor as well as major things has helped Scout take on the adversities she faced in a positive way. Scout demonstrates that when an individual endures hardship, it’s possible to have a constructive outcome and transition into a stronger and maturer being.
The Secret Life of Bees, is what many would consider a meaningful story of racism, humanity, and women’s rights. This story has a way of capturing one’s complete attention and making it tough to leave the book. One can easily relate to the characters and their pain as the author has made it her main mission to tell the story in the context of women and their profound vulnerabilities throughout the times. This inspiring story invites us into the 14-year-old Lily Owens’s life which has been greatly impacted by a terrible accident and a distorted memory of her mother Deborah. Lily’s world and development are forever changed when her mother is tragically shot by Lily accidently during a heated fight between her mother and father in a hot summer
Imagine that you are a child, trapped in an abusive house, and that there is no way to improve the potion you are in right now. Envision a tunnel of darkness where there is only fear with no sense hope. An indirect characterization of Lily, the protagonist, a symbolism of a wall that helps Lily cope with her emotions, and an illusion to a biblical event that changed the course of Lily’s life are incorporated throughout Sue Monk Kidd’s novel, The Secret Life of Bees to convey a message of hope. In particular, these literary devices are included throughout the novel to convey that a person is always capable of improving their quality of life.
How can love conquer all? Stephen Chbosky’s idea that “We accept the love we think we deserve”, tells us that sometimes we love out of desperation and not out of appreciation. The art of love entices us to yearn for it, to aspire to achieve it in all its greatness. Love changes us, it makes us stronger and more open minded to the world's strength, it enlightens us to all the possibilities and opportunities the world has for us. Maybe Willa Cather, author of O Pioneers! has proven to us that the idea that love can conquer all is indeed achievable, and that maybe love, in all forms, is the key to all life’s difficulties.
In life, people can face the problem of relationships; times when people are a relationship that is mentally or physically abusive, when they fight with others they know well, or maybe even when people sever ties to people they had known for a long time! Other times though, the relationship between people can be as strong as steel. The latter is prevalent in “The Other Side” by Jacqueline Woodson, in which a lonely girl named Clover finds a friend in a girl named Annie, who lives on the other side of the fence that separates the two. In this short story, the author uses symbolism and revealing actions to display the girls’ strong friendship, and this is shown through the fence, which symbolizes the segregation between the two races and the two girls(but ironically brings them together). This is also shown through Clover’s actions, which reveals that she has a bond with Annie.
In her hauntingly beautiful novel Tell The Wolves I’m Home, author Carol Rifka Brunt introduces readers to June Elbus, a distinctively shy, sensitive, and gloomy teenage girl growing up in New York in 1986-1987. June’s favorite uncle and person Finn has AIDS, a disease that takes his life in the early part of the book. June learns that Finn had a lover, Toby. At the end of the story readers see June and Toby forming an unlikely friendship. Regardless of the fact that she does so unconventionally, Carol Rifka Brunt tells the story Tell The Wolves I’m Home as a coming of age story.
No one lives alone in the world. From the beginning of life, we have someone around us. Watching and talking with our surroundings, we learn many important life lessons. Depending on the people who are around us, we will grow up differently because we interact each other and influence one’s personality. The Pulitzer Prize – winning author Junot Diaz depicts the pattern of human involvement in them in his novel, “This Is How You Lose Her”, shows the readers specific examples of their relationships.
Sapphire’s novel, Push, delves into the idea that overcoming difficult circumstances says more about a person than the circumstances themselves by following the journey of a young Precious facing the prejudices of racism, sexual abuse, illiteracy, self-hatred, obesity, teenage pregnancy and AIDS. These topics are addressed in the streets of Harlem by an African American girl named Claireece “Precious” Jones who had a list of things working against her starting with being held back in school and eventually being kicked out for being pregnant with her father's child. Sapphire drew lots of inspiration from the traumas of her own life when creating the story around Precious. The both physically and mentally have to push past their problems, giving
Survival Through an Afrofuturistic Lens Lauren, the main protagonist in the novel, “Parable of the Sower,” by Octavia Butler realizes that the way things are going in her society are not sustainable and that something must be done about it. Just as it has been shown that black people's grief is transmitted through generations. By making Lauren see that other people have sentiments that are equally as valid as her own, Butler utilizes hyperempathy to protect Lauren and her followers in the dystopian future. Since this makes her more sensitive, she is more likely to take in people on the journey, which helps Lauren expand her group in a world when everyone is out for themselves.
Would you give up love and true happiness for a life without pain? In the dystopian novel The Giver, written by Lois Lowry, strong emotion is sacrificed for a peaceful environment. The depicted community at first appears to be a utopia, where hate and discrimination are abolished, but the emotionless society is quickly revealed to be dystopian as the story continues. They live in a world of sameness; there is no hunger, suffering, or war, but also no color, diversity, or sensuality. The protagonist, a twelve-year-old boy named Jonas, uncovers the truth about his community when he is assigned to be the Receiver of Memory, and acquires the memories from the past from an elder called the Giver.
The author of the novel, Everyday, Mr. David Levithan, gives the readers a genderless, faceless, and virtually nameless protagonist who still manages to be endearing and emotionally resonant. Leaving a question—can a love between a bodiless soul and a real human possibly work—captivates on its own, the novel’s greatest strength lies in its ability to capture many different experiences of young adults. From stress to depression, the daily struggles of A’s bodies transform this love story into a brilliant mediation on teen life. The novel is called as wise, widely unique love story of a teen. The story began with a confusing jump start that bridges me to confusion.
