Hello readers, my book for this blog is Took by Mary Downing Hahn. This book is a mystery of the old cabin in the woods where Old Auntie lives. I am going to talk about the resolution of how Daniel will save Erica from Old Auntie. In the beginning, Daniel needed to find away to get Erica back home from Old Auntie.
During her walk she hears footsteps behind her. She knows that it is not someone she knows but whispers, “Mom,” just incase. During all of this she reminds herself of what her mother would think. She thinks to herself, “These were all things mother would have said showed a lack of thought.” Then
Instead she told the oldest brother who was six to go out and get the jacket back. If he returned home without the jacket more trouble would be waiting at home for him than out in the streets. His brother returned after a long ten
Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia McLachlan is a historical fiction which takes place in a rural place, such as, the prairie sometime during the 1800’s. This book centers around characters Anna, the 12 year old narrator, Caleb, Anna’s little brother, Jacob, the children’s father, and Sarah Wheaton, papa’s new wife. Anna, Caleb and their father, Jacob are so stricken by their mother’s death that they long for the need for her void to be filled. The children soon become worried for their father because this almost seemed impossible. Anna’s father, Jacob was having a hard time raising his family and taking care of his farms’ needs after the passing of his wife, so he began to search for another wife.
Anne Morgan was the daughter of J.P Morgan; she helped keep the strike on the front page of the newspapers and gave the strikers hope. The mink brigade was other wealthy or socially privileged woman who helped the cause of the strikers. With this help the strikers weren’t being brutally beaten as often and by December some factories had given into striker demands. What caused Anne Morgan and mink brigadiers to reconsider their position was the refusal of better pay and fewer work hours, but without union only shops. Anne Morgan and others felt that this was an attack on their social status and way of life, she resigned from the strike union along with others.
The book A Thousand Splendid Suns was to show the evil acts that happened in Afghanistan in the end of the 1950’s to almost present day. The books author, Khaled Hosseini mainly showed the unjust treatment of the women in Afghanistan. A Thousand Splendid Suns vividly describes how the afghan people were tortured. This book has high and low points with many plot twist that will keep most people off of their seats.
Page 4 … Our journey is very long. We’ve been walking for days and it feels like we have gotten no where. I ask my mom where were even walking to. “Where are we walking so far to?”
The family lived in many places and created their own adventures. The father always said the FBI agents were chasing him, but her mother said it was bill collectors. That was part of their adventure, creating wild stories to make their non-ideal situation an ideal one. Because of their “pioneer” lifestyle, Jeanette and her siblings never attended school regularly, instead her parents taught her survival skills as well as math.
It is often said that slavery is the most important conflict in American history. Many people in the northern states in America were opposed to slavery, but the inhabitants of the southern states were mostly for it, as they depended on slaves for their economy. Most of the time, slaves were subjected to horrible living conditions, and treated even worse. Sarah and Angelina Grimke were two women who noticed the horrible injustices done against the slaves and decided to do something about it. The work of the Grimke sisters helped spread the news of abolitionism and women’s rights as well.
Compare and Contrast Essay Both the story “Don’t Give Up The Fight” and the poem “Making Sarah Cry” have a common theme, which is being different. In “Don’t give Up The Fight,” Ava must deal with the fact that she is different than all the other people on her track team because she is the only girl. The main character in “Making Sarah Cry,” gets into a bicycle accident later in the story, which leaves him feeling different than all his friends. While both of these stories have a similar theme, the character’s actions influence others differently.
Ever had a mental “fork in the road?” Of course you have. We all have those tough decisions to make at times. William Stafford’s “Traveling Through the Dark” is about one of those very instances. But there’s more to it than meets the eye.
Her thought was going to change, and she thought the matter of trying to exist and trying to improve herself
(357) Both Primrose and Penny lost their fathers at a young age during the World War II, later lost their mothers within a week of each other, and they were not married. Both were affected by the "thing" they saw in the forest in different ways throughout their lives. There was one more character in the story and her name was Alys, “There was a very small child –one of the smallest—whose name, she told everyone, was Alys. With a “y,” she told those who could spell, and those who couldn’t, which surely included herself. She was barely out of nappies.
World War I caused a great number of changes around the world. Most of these changes happened in Germany. It’s citizens were plagued by joblessness. There were new international organizations formed that created new ideologies and goals for the “new” German Country. These ideas ranged from forming new political parties to advancing their technology.
The narrator felt as though she was not the gender that the doctor said and that gender is random so she had no choice in the matter as to what she was going to come out as. The narrator says “ I always knew I was a girl/ They beat me for it/ They beat me for crying/ They pummeled me for wanting/ To touch/ To pet/ To hug/ To help/
