I read a book called Scat by Carl Hiaasen. In his book, there is a oil company called Red Diamond Energy Cooperation, or better known as RDEC. This company is run by a person named Drake McBride. This company was bought by his wealthy father, who stated that the “Red Diamond (was his) last act of charity.” Drake, being a worthless fool, decided that he would set up his oil drilling business in, Florida, since he owned a waterfront.
A friend may be a foe and a foe may be a friend. First off, the author, Marie Lu, uses plot twists to develop the theme of how friends may be foes and foes may be friends. One way Marie showed this is, using Taylor, a large antagonist in the book, as a lie. She wasn’t who she seemed. Jax, a character from the book, states, “You think Taylor works for Zero, don’t you?”
In life, people find different ways to cope with their issues. This is the case in “Vaclav and Lena” by Hayley Tanner, where the main characters Vaclav and Lena face many obstacles, but use their imaginations to help them deal with the struggles they face in reality. This relates to the quote “Imagination is the one weapon in the in the war against reality” by Jules de Gautier, because Vaclav and Lena use their imaginations and dreams of better things to come, to ignore the problems they currently face. Vaclav and Lena use their imaginations and dreams of the future to forget about their issues momentarily, and to be able to postpone dealing with them.
“Honesty and loyalty are key. If two people can be honest with each other about everything, that's probably the biggest key to loyalty” Taylor Lautner. This relates to the novel by John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men by showing that two men that are honest with each other will have loyalty in their friendship. George was loyal to Lennie even after all of the scandalous acts, Curley wanted to make sure his wife is safe and another significant example is Candy’s dog was Candy’s best friend. These three examples show that friends should be loyal to the extent that they do not inflict unnecessary suffering like Georges tolerance for Lennie, Curley's allegiance to his wife and Candy’s devotion for his dog.
Before you suffocate your own fool self by Danielle Evans is written as a set of short stories which cover multiple social issues. These short stories often have a main character who has come upon hardship or are having a coming of age moment within their lives. During these stories the main character is having an internal struggle with rationality and logic vs. raw emotion and outside influence. The main characters are usually intelligent and self-aware yet they still knowingly make irresponsible decisions which are not in their best interest. These decisions are usually because they are at a crossroads or breaking point where they no longer can accept things for what they are.
At the beginning of Holes, Stanley was very unlucky and timid, but when Stanley arrives at Camp Green Lake everything changes. Later in the novel Stanley meets Zero who is apparently the great grandson of Madame Zeroni. Soon Zero smashes a shovel in to Mr.Pendanski face which showed Stanley bravery. The other characteristic Zero demonstrated to Stanley was to have perseverance by walking to Big Thumb. At the end of Holes Stanley changed by feeling lucky which he never felt before and confidence by being certain that treasure was in a specific hole.
Ela Essay A family is forced to evolve due to a life-changing event, The Vietnam War, in the novel, Inside Out and Back Again by Thanha Lai. One of these characters is Há, a ten year old girl who is forced to leave everything behind and move to America. Há evolves throughout the novel by learning English. When Há first moves to America, Há doesn’t understand the language and is confused and frustrated. By the end of the novel, Há isn’t fluent in the language, but she has greatly improved.
The book Holes by Louis Sachar takes place at Camp Green Lake, Texas. It isn't just any camp, it is a dried up lake in the middle of a desert used for disciplining juvenile delinquents. Native to the region are the lethal yellow-spotted lizard and the rattlesnake. Native to the camp is the Warden. The Warden is most like the rattlesnake because of their physical characteristics, living habits, and striking method.
In this quotes, the character Guitar is throwing his feelings out and confessing all that has to do with the secret society he is in. Through his confession to Milkman he explains the Seven Days society is a society which brings revenge to whatever white person fits the picture from a current devastation in the black community. It takes place in the 1950’s which is a time in which black people have a bit more freedom but are still not seen as equal. Through this passage, Morrison is able to demonstrate how oppression sparked a feeling of hatred in Guitar. Guitar was oppressed his whole life which brought a feeling of hatred and led him to take certain actions in his community.
In Louis Sachar’s book Holes, the protagonist Stanley Yelnats is sent to a correctional camp after being wrongly convicted for stealing donated sneakers. Stanley is born under a curse and is bullied because he is overweight and poor, giving the audience a misguided first impression of him as an unsuspecting hero. But throughout the course of the book, it shows that the protagonist unexpectedly develops into a hero who saves one of his best friends from turning into “buzzard food,” and unknowingly breaks the family curse. During Stanley’s ordeal stay at Camp Green Lake, he not only changes mentally to display heroic traits like altruism, perseverance and bravery he has also changed physically to be a stronger, healthier individual.
“Zero took the shovel, then he swung it like a baseball bat. The metal blade smashed across Mr.Pendanski face.” (139 Sarchar) Mr.Pendanski was being a bully to Zero, so Zero was being confident and beat up Mr.Pendanski. Zero is showing Stanley what to do when your getting bullied.
He couldn 't just leave him here. I can 't leave Hector,” (Louis Sachar 219). Stanley never would 've spoken to Zero at the first, seeing as he viewed him as a nobody just like all off the other boys. All Stanley wanted to do was fit in and be accepted/popular for once, but Zero acts as his mentor to seeing the right way. During their journey to Big Thumb, Stanley felt weak, but, “as long as Zero could keep going, he could keep going too,” (Louis Sachar 162).
These messages enclose information, and the senders of these messages intend particular meanings to reach the receiver of the message, who will then attribute a meaning to the message. The intended meaning may be varying from the meaning attribute to the message by the receiver. This is not only due to the words was used but also by the non-verbal messages that are also sent (Fielding, 1995). Heath (1997) stated that communication occurs in various ways and at diverse levels of awareness. Barber (1993, cited in Heath, 1997) states that communication is that sharing understandings and involves openness to the enquiry of another person, having attention, perception, receptivity and empathy towards that person.
Finding one passion could be tricky. Sometimes we confuse passion with skills, passion is something that you do and enjoy no matter how tired or even if it doesn’t make you a millionaire. Skills are something that you are good at but you don’t enjoy, one will continue on this path because we need to pay our bills. This doesn’t make it right or wrong but we should be happy with ourselves doing what we enjoy.
Thus, friendships must be considered a crucial relationship among people. Moreover, one of the interviewees went as far to say, "They become outcasts and incredibly depressed to the point of suicide making it necessary to make close friends. " This means
