He is Nates role model. The book starts off in the small town of Valley Massachusetts when Nate and his friends are playing football. The team is winning by a considerable amount. But the Valley Patriots wanted one more touchdown
the second half of the story the plot digresses from that and becomes more about trying to bust the coach for his wrong doings. It left me scratching my head as to why, when, where and how something happened far too often. Although the plot is a bit convoluted at times it is fairly good as a whole. I feel this book has a fairly sub-par plot and supporting characters but the great protagonist is what is keeping this book afloat. Without him this book would not have been a below average book
In the beginning, you meet the narrator, Joey Dowdel. He introduces some significant family members, his sister Mary Alice and Grandma Dowdel. The story explains their adventures at their Grandma’s house, in Chicago. The siblings stay at her house for a week every year, and each year they grow more mature. Going to Grandma Dowdel’s house influences Joey and Mary Alice, although it is not in a good way usually.
Two men who grew up in the same neighborhood, but the choices and the accountability they made comes as outcome in their lives diverge in to two opposite directions. The author of the book, Wes, who is one of the key characters in the book, had arduous childhood and overcame most of the obstacles in his life because of his mother’s support. When Moore was three, he witnessed his father’s death. After his father’s passing, his mother become stand guard. “Baltimore was getting more and more dangerous; there had been a rash of break-ins in the houses around them” (Moore36).
After their family goes to Birmingham that relationship becomes closer and they become very good friends and brothers. In this book, Kenny goes through many traumatic events that might change his mental health excessively. He went through the traumatic and chaotic church bombing and he also went through a very near-death experience with drowning. After everything
“I’m a chump. So what?” says Doug Swieteck (pg. 123 Okay for Now, Gary D. Schmidt). Doug has no real friends, a criminal brother, a father who does not care, and receives the shocking news his family is moving to a little place no one has ever heard: Marysville, New York.
Abusive father, criminal brother, one can imagine how Doug has a difficult life. Moving to Marysville, New York from Long Island, New York, Doug, the main character of Gary D. Schmidt’s Okay For Now, does not expect to have much to look forward to in his new life. Doug Sweiteck is used to only negative interactions with adults, but in Marysville he realizes that not all adults treat him like a criminal, the way he is used to.
“And I’m not lying, I heard, all around us, over the sounds of the huge machines in the room, over the sounds of Apollo 11 heading to the moon, I heard, all around us, the beating of strong wings.” (Okay for Now, page 360). The main character in the book Okay for Now by Gary D. Schmidt, Doug, has just moved to a town in New York called Marysville. At first, Doug hates the town, but his views eventually change. Over the course of the book, Doug experiences new things and creates new relationships which cause him to seem like a completely different person than he starts out as at the beginning of the book.
The book has many characters with very different personalities. The book has unexpected twists and turns throughout it. The novel involves kidnappers, a dragon and (of course) the 5 children from Miami that know nothing about what they’re getting into. This book started out as, a fairly normal story.
(27) These brutal statements alone show the pure abhorrence that is ebbing out of the town’s citizens. Plus, when Melinda, the little girl, first sees Drummond, she gasps and exclaims fearfully, “It’s the Devil!” (36) Drummond’s character also seems very unsympathetic at the beginning of the book. When he gets Brady on the stand, he ruthlessly batters him with questions and even goes so far as to embarrass and mock Brady.
This novel was exceptionally peculiar, which made the book nearly impossible to predict and held my attention until the very end. Matthew Quick was able to write a story I could easily relate to because of my passion towards basketball and common hardships teenagers endure. Moreover, frequent scenarios within the novel showed realistic struggles within violence that are very relatable and realistic in the 21st century. For instance, the internal struggles of high schoolers such as jealousy and trying to fit in. On top of this, it was astounding to see all three dynamic characters, Russ, Erin, and Finley develop throughout the story, as all three grew their friendship and learned from one another leaving you breathless.
Equality Implemented in Public Schooling, Founded by Thomas Jefferson A free public education, a fantastic opportunity for economic and educational success of students is currently taken for granted by students and parents alike. The origin of a free education came from founding father, Thomas Jefferson who laid the foundation of a public education for the modern day. Thomas Jefferson advocated for public schools in his bill, A bill for the more general diffusion of knowledge, which influenced education in Colonial and modern day times through his economic, social and political ideas. The Colonial era was filled with economic triumphs regarding the education of children.
At the end of the summer, Brian is in for the best weekend of his life when the Tigers have a home stand with Hank currently sitting at 499 career home runs. I really liked this book because I could relate well with the main character. Brian is the same age as me and we both like baseball. The plot is very interesting and the end, although predictable, is satisfying.
Many unfortunate events take place in the novel as a result of the governess’ mad mindset and conduct. The kids in Bly are become separated, and governess is left behind with the dead body of an innocent young boy. Above all, the governess is insane throughout the whole story because she possesses all the symptoms of a paranoid schizophrenic, has an overly-obsessive personality, and is the only one who claims the sight of Peter Quint and Miss
Literature is made to express ideas, provoke thought processes and allow readers access to otherwise unknown experiences along with many other things. Literature has also been used to pinpoint different times in history to be able to understand how our past is affecting our current society. Occasionally, literature is used to concoct propaganda that which can be harmful to our community. In the speech “The American Scholar”, Ralph Waldo Emerson states the greatness and weakness of literary works. “Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst,”.
