In Case You Missed It by Sarah Darer Littman creates young adult literature that all teenagers can relate to. In this story, an average girl named Sammy is a senior in high school and she has big ideas and even bigger fantasies. Sammy’s father is the head director of banks that many people are unhappy with. Protests begin to break out, eventually an unidentified hacker gets into the system, into the Wallach family cloud. Now, every text, email, photo and Sammy’s journal entries are published online for the world to see.
Sue Monk Kidd portrays Lily Owens as a sweet, and neglected teen, but I promise you she is not as sweet as the honey the boatwrights sell. Lily, is quite different from the boatwrights, she’s white. She is the outcast, she’s the only white person around Black folk. The book is set in the 1960’s, so, there was the beautiful thing called “white privilege”. It’s an amazing thing it doesn’t exist anymore.
The drowning of a young girl in an environmentally protected river causes a reporter named Maggie to be sent to her hometown to cover the story. She is partnered with a man named Allen, and they eventually grow to like each other. However, Maggie used to be in love with a man named Luke who lives in the town. Luke is the absolute opposite of Allen, they are not alike in any way. These two characters differences help shape the story and show how different points-of-view and experiences influence people’s thoughts on situations.
She was found in a closet by the lacrosse team crying for help. Her peers now understand the reason she called the cops at a party over the summer, and what she went through that year. Melinda is making new friends, and forgiving her old ones for the way they treated her after the incident. Melinda understands what happened to her can’t be fixed, but it will help her grow stronger. “My tree is definitely breathing; little shallow breaths like it just shot up from the ground this morning….the new growth is the best part” (196).
The book I read is “Crushed” by Laura and Tom McNeal. “Crushed” is about a girl with the name Audrey Reed. She goes to Jameson High School and lives with her father and her nanny Oggy. In the book she meets a boy named Wickham Hill. With Wickham having his own problems he is trying to run from he uses Audrey for her money and her smarts.
Laurie Saunders is the protagonist of the book “ The Wave” and is a fairly well-known student because of her grades and her always answering questions in class at Gordon high school. Laurie participates in extracurricular activities as Laurie is the editor-in-chief of the school paper and has a boyfriend who plays football, David Collins. Initially, she is displayed as a hard-working independent student but as her teacher, Ben Ross, introduces an experiment meant to portray what it felt like to live in Germany during WW2, Laurie begins to follow the horde and like everyone in this Wave movement, begins to lose their individuality. As we go more and more deeper in the novel Laurie starts to question the Wave more and more and eventually pulls
Although she does not offer subjective opinions on her experiences, these experiences clearly affect her in a negative manner. She attempts to disconnect herself from the world around her, but instead becomes a silent victim of the turmoil of the chaotic
In his short story collection We Live in Water, Jess Walter echoes the theme that people are products of their environment, despite any effort to escape the adversities that hold them back. This theme clearly appears in the opening story, “Anything Helps,” where a widowed and homeless man, Bit, tries to recover from the death of his wife by making amends with his estranged son. This devastating yet heartwarming story shows how one man goes to great lengths in an attempt to change his life. Walter also exposes the theme in the most prominent piece of the collection. The story “We Live in Water” provides a flashback and flash-forward structure by following Oren Dessens, a man who cheats on his wife and has conflict with the worst man in town and describing the journey of Michael, a lawyer returning to his hometown expecting to find his absent father, but instead, ends up learning more about himself
This clearly depicts how tense and anxious Elena is about her daughter, as she struggles to even look at her. This ultimately takes away the joy of being a mother, as she can no longer experience the happiness of watching her own daughter grow up. Furthermore, Elena resents Izzy for the continual fear of potential health complications following her birth. By holding onto resentment, it has kept Elena from building a happy relationship with Izzy. Elena’s resentment has led her to disregard Izzy and not provide her with the motherly figure one needs when growing up.
Melinda was raped as a young girl heading into her first year of high school and what happened after that was a catastrophe and would change her life and her peers view of her. Melinda perpetually haunted by her treacherous past memories struggled to stay happy and sane throughout her overwhelming first year of high school. Melinda evolves over time as she longs to be her past happy self again she slowly but surely begins to regain her happiness and self-confidence. With life-changing events coming at Melinda every which way, she experiences the highs and the lows and finds little things in life like her extraordinary passion for art to help her get through the toughest times in her life. This story will make your heart melt with sorrow and compassion, but also bring to you a remarkable story with realistic like events and settings.
In the story “Follow the Water” by Jennifer L. Holm, a girl named Georgie and her family are living on the planet Mars on the search for water. The author of the story brings in a lot of scientific information through the topics of weather, gravity, and water. All of the facts that Jennifer mentions are also in the article “What Would It Take to Live Here?” By Mackenzie Carro. While Georgie is walking down the hall, she shivers because of the eerie feeling she always gets before a dust storm.
She tries to navigate through her first year of high school, and it seems like the entire student body despises her; she feels more alone than ever. I will be analyzing and making connections to three specific elements in this novel: the search for one’s identity, Melinda’s inner conflict,
While reading the story, you can tell in the narrators’ tone that she feels rejected and excluded. She is not happy and I’m sure, just like her family, she wonders “why her?” She is rejected and never accepted for who she really is. She is different. She’s not like anyone else
Lena describes her mother as being very timid and apathetic to her circumstances, especially after she loses a baby. Although she is always technically around, Ying-Ying is a very absent mother to Lena. Lena realizes this upon observing the life of her neighbor, a girl about her age named Teresa, who comes from a loud Italian family. Lena believes that Teresa’s mother is going to kill her, as they are always yelling at each other. However, upon talking to Teresa, Lena finds out that they yell at each other so much because Teresa can be reckless, and her mother cares about her well being.
Introduction: The purpose of this analysis is to examine the rhetorical appeals of an argument presented by two different authors who have written on the topic of Artificial Intelligence. Douglas Eldridge’s, “Why the Benefits of Artificial Intelligence outweigh the Risks” provides the potential positives to the rise of Artificial Intelligence. He dispels some of the common myths regarding the risks of AI, suggesting that these myths are either unfounded or not so risky.
