Bad things happen to good people. A Series of Unfortunate Events, by Lemony Snicket, is a story about the orphans that are in a bad situation. Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire parents died in a fire while Count Olaf is trying to steal their fortune. They escaped Count Olaf and got to safety for a little. They learned that bad things happen to good people too.
In both “The Boat” and Brooklyn, the families are torn between several incidents or situations that occur during them. Conflict an occur frequently between families or friends when difficult situations rise to the surface. The stress that occurs during these stories shows the tension between staying home or leaving in the book Brooklyn, as well as in “The Boat.” In this essay I will discuss some parts of the stories that showed tension that has occured in the short story and the book as well. Especially, I will discuss the difficulty the boy had to endure, and how his choices impacted his future relationship with his parents.
The First Stone You can’t make everyone happy. Sometimes the decision of the judges only satisfy some people. In the novel The First Stone, by Don Aker, a young teen by the name Chad “Reef” Kennedy finds himself in a tough situation and his sentencing is being in rehab and doing community service. Reef is responsible for putting Leeza a young girl, in the hospital because of his actions. Since he is in rehab, many people wished he went to jail.
The title of my book is Lost in the Barrens. It is a fiction book by Farley Mowat that contains 244 pages. The Main Characters are Awasin, Jamie Angus, Alphonse, Denikazi and peetyuk. Awasin is a quite serious and he knows about how to survive in the wilderness and thinks more before he acts. Awasin is good at weaving, making clothing and hunting.
The book “In the lake of the woods”, written by Tim O’Brien, is about a Vietnam veteran and politicians story. The main character, John Wade, is a Vietnam veteran who was involved with a brutal massacre. John was also a politician, and in fear that the massacre he was involved with would affect his political career, John does everything he can to cover up this incident. During this time John's wife mysteriously disappears. John has an ambition throughout the story to cover up what happened to profit his own career.
The article “Tarmageddon”, written by Andrew Nikiforuk,starts by stating how Europeans felt towards Canada before and continues by explaining what has changed their stance towards Canada. He then bulges on by describing oil and the specifics of the oil Canada is refining while perceiving its problems along the way while portraying how Canada changed, explaining why those changes happened. Towards the end of the article Andrew looks into the government’s approach on the matter and how it is ignoring the entire incident. Finally, in the end he comes to his conclusion and warning about the country’s future and how it will become if nothing is done. In short Nikiforuk, elaborates about the negative effects of the tar sands on Canada.
Click-Clack RattleBag is a story By Neil Gaiman about how he tells the short story of the Click-Clack RattleBag the child takes all the suspense because he is talking about the click clack monster like how the monster looks and what it does. He said it looks like a spider type thing that drinks all the blood from your body and then the rattlebag hangs your bones and skin that was left over and they rattle in the wind. At first the kid gets scared and it starts getting suspenseful and then the suspense switches to the adult and the adult gets scared. The kid was scared at the start of the story but then the adult started to get scared at the end of the Click-ClackRattleBag.
A previous prisoner with Dick Hickock and Perry Smith, Floyd Wells, believed that he had some part in the murders of the Clutters because he told both Dick and Perry about the Clutter’s wealth, this resulted in Dick telling Floyd that once Perry and himself get out of jail, their going to rob the Clutters. To avoid any problems toward him, Floyd creates an Alabi and gives this information to Alvin Dewey, the investigator of this case. Alvin receives photographs of both Dick and Perry where Alvin’s wife comments on how Dick looks like a murderer, but Perry doesn’t look evil at all. Alvin, with the help of Floyed, continues to further investigate both Dick and Perry’s life and habits. They start by going to Perry’s old apartment in Mexico, then
Jared Martin struck me as an interesting and relatable protagonist. I enjoyed his portrayal's complexity and authenticity as I read the pages. I identified strongly with Jared's life's journey, struggles, and exploration of his own identity. He was an interesting and compelling character because of how he handled the difficulties that came his way, which drew me into his story. The novel's insightful and accurate portrayal of Indigenous characters and their experiences was what really caught my attention.
Lucas Hahn Mr. Rodriguez Academic Lit. 15 June, 2023 The Cellar Analysis Throughout Lucas Hahn's short story The Cellar, the author explores the limits of human endurance both mentally and physically. The author portrays the mental limits of humans when we look at the character Ryan. Ryan at the beginning of the story was just a normal teenager, but at the end of the book he turned into a murderer.
Death will always complement war. This is seen clearly in Tim O’Brien’s short story “The Man I Killed”. In this tale the Main character, Tim, is vividly describing in his mind the enemy Vietcong solider he just killed life story before his death. He details everything, from the visible wounds on the soldier’s body to a fantasy of the man’s life. Meanwhile, to soldiers in Tim’s platoon acknowledge that he killed this man and try to speak to him about it.
Click-Clack Rattlebag is a short story written by Neil Gaiman. In the beginning the boy wants the mother to carry him up to his room because he is scared, he says the lights in the house don’t work sometimes. While the boy was scared trying to convince his mother to carry him upstairs he switches it and tries to convince her to read him a story. So his mother tells him a story, he says it shouldn’t be too scary because he will think about them all night, but he doesn’t want it to be boring. He tells the boy that he wants to go to his room, and starts telling him about click clack rattlebag and interesting facts about him.
In the book Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman, he discusses the “dangers” of television and elaborates his thoughts about how that specific media was affecting American society. Some of the main points Postman touched on can be compared to the modern media society has now. Postman elaborated that television gained control of American society, which meant that Americans stopped questioning the media and opened the opportunity for fake news to be spread. Americans didn’t know what was real and what was fake because, at the end of the day, everything was for entertainment purposes as Postman expresses. The most important topic he covered was that the media was becoming a curriculum where Americans gained their knowledge and ideals.
“Click-Clack the RattleBag” by Neil Gainman is a suspenseful short story. The kid in the story wants the adult writer to tell him a scary story about the Click-Clack RattleBag. The kid explains that the click clacks are monsters. But suddenly at the end things start to click and clack then the adult feels fingers wrapping around him. The author develops the characters' different points of view in order to build up suspense throughout the story.
The practice of ethics comes with ethical challenges and just as ethical challenges come in many forms, solving these ethical challenges may take many forms as well. Decisions may be reached individually or as a group, or may be the result of consensus building or negotiation. These decisions do not stand alone, since decisions made in one aspect of an ethical situation may affect other aspects of the same problem. A situation that requires a person or organization to choose between alternatives that must be evaluated as right (ethical) or wrong (unethical) often occurs in the healthcare organization. Thus, some ethical issues that arise are; end-of-life issues, physician assisted suicide and euthanasia and right to life and abortion.
