The book begins when she is a new born and is unaware of what the world has to offer. At the age of one her mother takes her and her siblings to South Carolina to live with their grandparents. She remains in South Carolina for several years. During this time the only children she encountered where the three sets of neighbors that lived on the same street as her. The first set neighbors included the boy with the hole in his heart and her grandmother used this individual to teach her that you discuss sensitive topics such as illnesses that others have with them.
In the short essay Pretty Like a White Boy by Drew Hayden Taylor and the short story Sara’s Gift by Barbara Smith, both protagonists come into conflict with forming their identity. The two characters illustrate Indigenous peoples' struggle with questioning their identity and searching for a belonging. The protagonists in both stories struggle with not fitting in because of their appearance. Drew Hayden Taylor never knew his white father, he grew up with his Ojibway mother and lived in the indigenous community, but was always looked at differently. “It’s Not Easy Having Blue Eyes in a Brown Eyed Village”(Taylor 504).
She finds her with her mom and sister and Dare, who is her friend. Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson. It is centered around a 13-year-old girl named Melinda Sordino. She was raped at a party over the summer, which resulted in her calling the police. She is faced with trauma and isolation throughout the school year.
In the critical essay “Insatiable Girls” by critic Carol Wershoven, the author believes that there are critical women in novels that are representatives of unattainable desire. Daisy represents the “golden girl” in the Great Gatsby; she is the goal and yet nobody can completely have her. Because Daisy is so desired by many men, she becomes an object to compete for using wealth as a substitute for attraction. Daisy's objectification leads to an unrealistic ideal and that expectation leads to disappointment in other characters as well as self-destructive behavior to Daisy. Golden girls must always stay pure, as well, to complete their image, so any type of scandal or negative portrayal of the character is immediately covered up by other characters, as an act of devotion to her reputation.
Dorothy Must Die by Danielle Paige is about a young woman by the name of Amy Gumm whose life is turned upside down the moment she steps foot in Oz. Nothing is how she pictured it to be. Everything is dull and definitely less happy and magical than she expected. She soon finds out the reason for all this gloominess is because Dorothy has turned evil and is sucking all of the magic out of Oz to keep for herself. Amy meets a lot of people along the way, including some allies that help her through troubles, and some enemies such as the Tin Woodman who captures Amy and takes her to Dorothy in the Emerald City.
Pursuit of Happiness “The official poverty rate in 2021 was 11.6 percent, with 37.9 million people in poverty.” (Census Bureau). Homelessness, insufficient amounts of food, inadequate childcare. That means 11 of 100 people face the challenges of poverty every day.
The Horrors of Auschwitz The Holocaust, which started in 1933 and continued to 1945 was an awful time where Jews were murdered and sent to concentration camps to die. In Poland one of the largest concentration camps, Auschwitz, where 1.3 million people died. Auschwitz, the death camp, was a horrible place where many people died, lost hope, and were stripped of civilization all because of their religion and race.
Who runs the world? Girls. Laurel Thatcher wrote that “Martha Ballard was as independent as an eighteenth-century housewife could be” In her essay she analyzes the diary of Martha Ballard; a midwife in the 18th century, who recorded her experiences and work on a daily basis in her diary. Laurel Thatcher proves that Martha Ballard was an exceptional independent woman who was also constrained by the expectations put on midwifes. Thatcher portrayed the quality of women’s lives through the life of Martha Ballard and the women around her.
Elaine Cynthia Potter Richardson was born in the Caribbean under British colonial life. She would later change her name to Jamaica Kincaid and pursue her lifelong dream of becoming a writer. A common theme in Kincaid’s works is the struggle of women not only in the Caribbean but in the whole world. Her short story “Girl” utilizes the repetition of “slut” and long catalog of advice from the mother in order highlighting how women struggle even at the coming of age.
Anne Tyler further promotes liberal feminism by establishing female characters who independently make great economic and intellectual efforts to achieve gender equality. Jenny Tull pursues a career in the field of medicine, a pediatrician. Jenny has established this desire at a very young age and her future is always clear to her: “a straightforward path to a pediatric practice” (82). Jenny consistently suffers from the economic hardships of her family and the absence of her father, however, she utilizes these difficulties as a motivation to become successful. The strenuous family dynamic of the Tull’s family influences Jenny Tull to emancipate from her current system and become independent.
The whole novel develops in how she copes with her PTSD ( Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) and tries to overcome her depression. The author of this book is Laurie Halse Anderson. Laurie is an American writer best known for children's and young adult novels. She won the annual award of The ALA Margaret A. Edwards Award in 2009, which recognizes one writer and a particular body of work “for significant and lasting contribution to young adult literature”. Anderson won the Golden Kite award, the Edgar Allan Poe Award, and The Los Angeles Times Book Prize, for
Susie is the main character, she is murdered at the age of 13 and the book is her watching her family and friends deal with her death well they try to find the murderer. well susies in heaven she doesn't actually like all that much she wishes she could be back on earth growing up with her family, well in heaven she wonders “Heavens where a girl like me didn't fit in. Where they horrific, these other heavens? worse than feeling so solitary among ones living, growing peers?”(119).
In this book report I will talk about the story “The diary of Anne Frank” the story is about a Jew girl called Anne who lived with her family in Germany in the second world war when a new German president called Adolf Hitler came with the idea that all Jew people were dangerous ; so her dad Otto Frank who worked in a bank came with the idea of moving to Amsterdam, Holland to be safer from the German army called the Nazis. Anne was a little girl who lived with her family: Otto Frank her dad, Margot her sister and Edith her mom. For her birthday in June 12 her father gave her a diary were she wrote everything that happened. Days later bad news came, a new German president called Adolf Hitler came with the idea that all Jew people is dangerous
The short story, “Haunting Olivia,” by Karen Russell, portrays two boys looking for their sister, Olivia, who died at sea. The boys stay with their grandmother on an island for the summer, and each night they sneak away to a boat graveyard to search for the girl. Guilt and grief consume the narrator, Timothy, and his brother, Wallow, as they search for a way to rescue their dead sister. Tim holds onto the idea that Olivia can continue to exist as a spirit. The narrator uses echo to create the effect of Olivia’s ghost.
Book Report Ms. Peggy French English 10A December 17 2015 The Diary of Anne Frank Book Report “The Diary of Anne Frank” is a diary written by a young Jewish girl named Anne Frank. She wrote this diary while in hiding with her family during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. This diary, which was originally written in Dutch was translated into 60 languages.
