The book I read was called Fever 1793 and here is my book summary. This book is about a teenage girl named Mattie Cook. it all starts off on August 16, 1973 Mattie's family runs a little coffee shop in Philadelphia. there has been an outbreak of yellow fever in philadelphia all the sudden. the first person Maddie knows that gets yellow fever is one of the workers in the shop whose name was Polly, shortly after Polly dies.
Through all the stages of Lycanthropic Culture shock in “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by wolves” by Karen Russell, the girls will be making a cultural change. The pack will have to adjust to the “human culture. ” While they are assimilating into this culture, they are going to have to make progress quickly, adapt, and over all, enjoy their new culture. The girls must progress quickly because the monks are expecting them to hook on quickly.
Karen Russell uses epigraphs from The Jesuit Handbook on Lycanthropic Culture Shock to organize her short story, “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves.” The epigraphs provide short descriptions of how the humans running the school think the girls will develop at particular stages of the girls’ education. Each epigraph is followed by the memories of Claudette, the narrator of the story, who was a student at St. Lucy’s. Claudette’s development sometimes mirrors the stages described in the epigraphs, but often differs in significant ways. As a whole, the epigraphs do not reliably describe Claudette’s development.
John Brandies Maui Revelator of Birds is a Polynesian Mythical story written by Annie Parks. Maui wants Princess Oliana to fall in love with him. The story begins with Maui and a beautiful princess named Oliana on a walk and picnic. Maui was a demigod meaning he was half man half mortal. He used a magic fishing hook to pull the islands of Hawaii out of the ocean.
Ethan Erekson Mrs. Adcock English A3 10 October 2017 The Princess Bride The Princess Bride was written by William Goldman. It is a adventure novel with some romance. The story takes place in the fictional countries of Florin and Guilder.
Karen Russell’s short story, “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves”, is about a pack of wolf-like girls who go to St. Lucy’s to learn how to adapt to a human life. The stages of adapting shows the character 's development and their traits throughout the story. There are many struggles as they adapt to human life, and epigraphs from The Jesuit Handbook on Lycanthropic Culture Shock informs the nuns on what will occur at a certain point in time. Sometimes the epigraphs aren’t entirely accurate. However, Stage Two’s epigraph is quite accurate with its description to Claudette.
In today’s ultra-polarized world it's common for people to see something only through one point of view, skewing their opinion. This phenomenon is often referred to as a “single story”; a term popularized by a prominent Nigerian author in her TedED talk titled “Dangers of a Single Story.” Reflecting this theme author, Edwidge Danticat's novel “Krik? Krak!” describes several different short stories surrounding the setting of Haiti. Many people think of Haiti as a war-torn country with mass suffering. Danticat although acknowledging this in her novel she writes about the good.
“Latin America was born in blood and fire” (Chasteen 1). In 1968, Mexico held the summer Olympics in Mexico City, attempting to redeem their reputation to the rest of the world. Due to months of political unrest in the Mexican capital, social tensions rose and in turn, a new movement against the government rose as well capturing the attention focused on Mexico for the Olympics. The government claimed they were provoked during this event, which lead to the Tlatelolco massacre. Roberto Bolaño educates about this event, written originally in Spanish, in his novel Amulet, as he indicates the voices lost will always remain.
Family Ties Make Us Rise Like the phoenix rising from the ashes, we can ascend beyond our surroundings to greater heights than ever imagined. The mythical creature is a symbol that represents rebirth, hope, and freedom. The legendary bird has inspired many individuals to focus on what is to come, and to look forward to the future. Aura Imbarus has enlightened us with her own story of innovation and motivation in her book titled, Out of the Transylvania Night.
This book was different from most books. Gretchen, the main woman character, started off as a girl. Nobody liked her except for her best friend, Katya, and it surprised me because she seemed to be very likeable. She might've came off as judge to males, but that’s because her previous boyfriend used her. The second part of the book was when she turned into a fly that was stuck in the boy’s locker room.
Julia Leslie Mrs. Ford ENG4U April 24, 2024 Echoes of Upbringing In Cedar Bowers’ book, Astra, the reader is immersed in Astra’s journey of life through the lens of multiple people who are important at certain points in her life. In the narrative, the debate between nurture and nature is an intricate concept as an individual begins to understand the character of Astra. While genetics are a big part of who she is, it is how she grew up and her experiences that crafted her identity. One’s upbringing shapes who they become in terms of personality traits, emotional intelligence, and relationships, as demonstrated by the character Astra. Astra has an intense personality, which is related to how she was raised without any support system.
Sometimes the distaste and hate will lead people have the most powerful passion to gain a successful life. The short story "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall" by Katherine Anne Porter, depicts the last thoughts, feelings, and memories of an elderly woman Granny Weatherall about how she is jilts in her whole life. However, Granny didn't let this stand in her way of having a successful life because it doesn’t mean that she needed to have everything she desire in life. Even though she never get rid of the jilts, her life was filled with joy and love with her family and career, because those success is what she earn after sustained effort instead of just getting what handed to her life. Sitting around not getting over the jilt was not an option for Granny, but that is why Granny went on with her life, made the most out of her life, and since she did all this her death even reflects her successful life.therefore, jilting becomes the
The book The Iron Trial by Holly Black and Cassandra Clare is a magical fantasy book following Callum Hunt’s first year at the Magisterium. Young Callum must do everything he can to make it through an unusually eventful first year at a school he has been trained to believe has nothing but bad things planned for him. Callum Hunt has lived his entire life being repeatedly told that mages were evil by his father who blames the mages for the death of Callum’s mother. So when the time comes for Callum to participate in the Iron Trial, a series of tests and challenges that will decide whether or not he is admitted to the Magisterium, he tries as hard as he possibly can to fail, But despite his best efforts, and scoring one of the lowest scores in
America, the land of freedom, opportunity, and heroism. This is America, an unlikely country born of bravery and courage. It’s beginnings were humble and small, but like all valuable things that were meant to be, it grew, beginning with a few struggling colonies in the New World under the rule of Great Britain, to a thriving nation. After years of sickness, hunger, and overall hardship, the colonists stayed strong, and pressed forward.
Gothic fiction has been around for centuries and many great works were created with gothic fiction being the main role. “The Vampyre” by John William Polidori is amongst one of the most famous works under the gothic fiction genre. In “The Vampyre” reflects several themes which also reflect current real life problems and issues of the 19th century. Those themes that are going to be discussed are time and place, power, sexual power, the uncanny, the sublime, crisis, and the supernatural and the real.
