The main character of the book Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, Melinda, has a traumatic past. As a result, she is now suffering from the mental disorder depression. She has most of the major symptoms, three of which are self esteem issues or dysmorphia, withdrawal from friends and family, and lack of motivation or enthusiasm. These are all normal emotions that everyone experiences sometimes. But when a person feels like this every single day, there are bigger problems.
The Laramie Project THEA100_02 A great number of the characters in The Laramie Project have their lives become deeply impacted by all the events occurring after the murder of Matthew Shepard, a young homosexual man, due to a hate crime committed in the outskirts of Laramie, Wyoming. However, I will focus on two characters that I think had their life severely impacted or had major revelations in their own life after experiencing all aftermath effects that happened after the cruel killing of a young man. Those two characters include Officer Reggie Fluty and Jedadiah Schultz.
Life is very difficult, and certain people respond to trouble differently. An example of this takes place in the book Trouble by Gary D. Schmidt. In Trouble both Henry and Chay are in difficult situations. Henry’s brother has died and Henry and his family are in a difficult time. Chay is Cambodian and he starts to date an American girl.
The use of children in the Sierra Leone Civil War was widespread, with up to 10,000 children taking part in the conflict and up to eighty percent of RUF forces between the ages of seven and fourteen. Ishmael is one of these children. In his memoir, A Long Way Gone, Lieutenant Jabati and his men exploit several techniques to transform these frightened children into ruthless killing machines. They do this through the use of drugs, pop culture, as well as character and emotional manipulation. Tactics like these create habits and addictions that are almost impossible to break.
Chains, a novel made by Laurie Halse Anderson, talked about the life of slaves, Loyalists, and patriots. All three of them have different ways of looking at freedom and liberty. Loyalists believe they need the king to survive, while the patriots think that they don’t need a king and can make a country by themselves. In the novel it shows how all three of them disagree with one another, one side believe something different from the other two. Patriots, Loyalists, and slaves, they all have different definition of what freedom and liberty is.
High school to some first year students is option A, a fresh start; time to make new friends, gain a good reputation, and all around be a new person. Or it can be option B, a complete nightmare; stress overload, mental health issues: such as anxiety, depression etc., and possibly the worst four years of your life. Melinda Sordino from Laurie Halse Anderson’s novel Speak seems to be more for option B. The summer leading into grade nine Melinda was raped, and she had no one to talk to. Her friends will not talk to her, she dislikes most of her teachers, and her parents never have time to notice her.
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to live in the Revolutionary Era and go into war? Such a story happens to Christian Holitor and Margaret Volpert in, An Enemy Among Them, by Deborah DeFord and Harry Stout. There are most likely other stories like this, but this one is different because Christian is a prisoner of war who goes to live with the Volperts. An Enemy Among Them takes place in Reading, Pennsylvania in December of 1776. It starts off on the British ship, Mermaid, but progresses into Reading. There are places where it is in a hospital, other towns, and in the battlefield. The main characters are Margaret Volpert and Christian Holiter. Margaret is a young German-American from Reading, Pennsylvania. She is very outgoing, she
Forgiving someone is one of the best things you could do. However, for you to forgive someone, you must accept what has happened and be ready to move on. Forgiving someone gives them an opportunity to redeem themselves, and allows them to move on as well. By accepting the past, you might find reasoning within the mistakes of the others, and give you as better understanding of how you should act. Forgiveness is a large part of The First Stone, and within the story is a valuable lesson:
Our experiences create the prism through which we understand the world, and help shape who we become. This means our unique experiences shape how we see and interpret the world, influencing how we are as individuals. These experiences act like a figure refracting our understanding of the world around us. This relates to how an author’s life experiences can influence the books they write. Their experiences could be based on identity, belonging in society, and struggling with acceptance, trauma and more.
Stowe seems to only want to focus on the maternal sensibility a woman can possess, which makes women seem as if their nurturing instincts cause them to lack logic and rationality. In Marth L Henning’s Beyond Understanding: Appeals to the Imagination, Passions, and Will in Mid-Nineteenth-Century American Woman's Fiction, she claims that Stowe too often appeals to “the imagination and passion through the vehicle of sympathy,” which in turn makes the female characters seem almost one-dimensional (Henning, 92). An example of being dangerously emotional is the character Cassy. Cassy recounts her disturbing history to Uncle Tom himself and laments over the loss of her children during the slave trade. Cassy goes on to explain that after her master refused to save her son from getting an awful beating that “something inside of [her] head snapped,” and went at her master with a “great, sharp bowing knife” that she found on the table (Stowe, 310).
Nothing but the Truth Essay Nothing but the Truth is a story about behaviour. Philip makes trouble in Ms. Narwin’s class and in turn it comes back at him. In Nothing but the Truth, by Avi, Philip is a wrongdoer. Philip is the culprit because he breaks a rule and pays for it, he has always been a trouble maker in Ms. Narwin’s class. For example Dr. Palleni, who is the school’s principal, says to Philip “you said yourself, you broke a rule-” (53).
Where the Wild Things are by Maurice Sendak is an interesting children’s picture book. The main character is a little boy named Max, who has a wild imagination. He uses all five senses as well as thought and his actions to express his personality as well as how he reacts and interacts with his surroundings. Max’s id, ego and super-ego are greatly shown in this book through the way that the author has portrayed him. Not only is this book a children’s story, but it can also be perceived as a life lesson.
In the book “Two Kinds” by Amy Tan, it’s about a little girl who is pressured by her mother to become something she doesn’t want to be. Jing- mei , the daughter, is forced to become a prodigy(child actress), by her mother, and she doesn’t want to be one. In the story, Jing- meis’ mother uses allusions such as Shirley Temple to push her into becoming a prodigy. Although at first Jing- mei is excited to become a prodigy, she later realizes its something she just doesn’t enjoy doing. Consequently, the uses of allusion in the story help Jing- mei discover to not be a prodigy and that what her mother wants for her is not always important.
Giving an Apology and Asking for Forgiveness “Despite what you may believe, you can disappoint people and still be good enough. You can make mistakes and still be capable and talented. You can let people down and still be worthwhile and deserving of love. Everyone has disappointed someone they care about. Everyone messes up, lets people down, and makes mistakes.
Liberalism has evolved over time and mostly seen because of many ideologies that have either been tried and tested or rejected. According to (Raz 1986) it is a political tradition that has developed and become a more popular political force in the western world. By this concept of liberalism we mean to highlight the essence of freedom and equality as well as justice and fairness for the individual. It places importance on the rule of law, also meaning that the 'pen is mightier than the sword '.
