In the book The Hate You Give" by Angie Thomas, pages 420–444 are about Starr, King, and Maverick,Hailey. They just got done protesting after the grand jury did not put the cop on trial for killing Kahlil. While Starr was protesting, looters started destroying all the shops in the neighborhood, including her dad’s shop. (419) This caused King to be arrested because the neighborhood teamed up blaming King for burning down Maverick's shop.
Have you ever had a life-changing experience that was too hard to handle? Sometimes, life-changing experiences can be difficult and challenging. This happened to three individuals, Melba Pattillo Beals, Jackie Robinson, and Feng Ru. Their life-changing experiences can be explored in the memoir Warriors Don’t Cry by Melba Pattillo Beals, the autobiography I Never Had It Made by Jackie Robinson, and the article “The Father of Chinese Aviation” by Rebecca Maksel, highlighting Feng Ru. Although Melba Pattillo Beals, Jackie Robinson, and Feng Ru faced crucial life-changing experiences, they were able to overcome them, and in doing so, changed their lives and countries.
As Malcolm X once said, “Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.” This quote inspires a lot of people like me to try harder and to never stop at one point and give up. In the book The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates, is about two people with the same name and born with the same path, going through challenging life obstacles. They both grew up fatherless and had a difficult childhood.
"Running for His Life" In the story "Running for His Life", Michael Hall explains the genocide Gilbert Tuhabonye experienced when he was in high school in East Africa and how he managed to escape and relive his life in Austin, Texas. Tuhabonye's teachers and the Tutsi teenagers were burned alive and beaten to death by friends of theirs. A couple of students tried eluding, but we're caught and killed by the killers. The building was on fire, burning corpses, and burning to death any students who remained alive.
In this report we will be talking about the novel Hatchet, written by Gary Paulsen. All throughout the novel, Paulsen uses creative literary techniques to emphasise the theme of man versus nature. The novel, Hatchet, is about a young boy, called Brian, who takes a plane over a forest going from America to Canada to visit his dad, when the pilot dies from a heart attack and Brian has to crash land the plane in a lake. Brian then has to learn how to live in the wild while waiting to be found by the rescue crews. In the paragraphs below we will be talking about the literary techniques Paulsen uses throughout the novel, like metaphors, similes, reptation and exaggeration, that help show that, Brian is dealing with dangerous animals of the wild,
Every single person has judged another person at least once in their life,which isn’t very ethical but everyone does it. In the “Outcasts of Poker Flats,” Bret Harte writes about four people who were kicked out of the town of Poker Flat by being unfairly judged. Harte uses character development,deception,and plot to signify that you never truly know a person until you put in the effort to do so,and you can’t go off of rumors,what someone else believes,or what you think. Harte relies upon character development in order to express that one element in a person's life should not symbolize who that person is without getting to truly understand the person and their decisions. Just as Mother Shipton changed herself throughout the story in the beginning of the story Mother Shipton was furious and not so nice.
Spike Lee's Do The Right Thing is a film made in 1989 depicting racial conflict in Brooklyn New York during the 80's. The plot involves a group of African Americans, Italians and a Korean couple who live in the same block. There are multiple themes that tie in together in the film, one being the animosity and racism the characters feel towards each other throughout the film. The director makes the theme clear in the film by the conflicts that arise between the characters. An example of this is when Radio Raheem is buying a pair of batteries for his radio at the Korean’s store.
Tempo: (Describe the speed of the music, compare it to the other song.) The tempo in the song Back in Your Own BackYard by Billie Holiday can be described as a moderate to medium speed. The song is not extremely slow or fast, it is just in the middle. This jazz song is fast enough for it to be upbeat, but slow enough to allow the vocals to take its time and have range. Compared to “Flying Home” by Ella Fitzgerald, this song is a lot slower and less fierce.
By the Lord’s grace, my parents got back together and I know that my Opa is happy with the Father in heaven. Because of these experiences, Garth’s lyric “Trying to learn from what’s behind you, never knowing what’s in store, makes each day a constant battle just to stay between the shores” hits very close to home. Everyday can be a battle to keep myself afloat knowing I can’t control what is ahead of me, but I learned to rest in God during these large hardships in my life which is perfectly written in the lyrics, “There's bound to be rough waters, And I know I'll take some falls, But with the good Lord as my captain, I can make it through them all.”
Not only are stings used to refer to physical pain, they can also be used to describe a person’s emotional hurt. Like the multiple stings on Danny’s hand, Jack has more than once stung Danny with harsh words, such
The theme of Jason Reynold’s novel “Long Way Down” is that the continual repeating of mistakes and the repetitive nature of violence, shootings, and deaths in Will’s neighborhood must come to an end. It is the rules of the neighborhood that drive this horrible cycle of revenge and continue to destroy the living. The rules are no crying, no snitching, and revenge. The first rule, no crying, implies that one should not cry regardless of how challenging or sad the situation is. As for the second rule, no snitching means you won't inform the police or anyone else about anything you hear or see what’s wrong.
In "Good Country People," by Flannery O'Connor, there are four distinct characters, each with their own opinions and morals. Mrs. Hopewell categorizes her hired help, Mrs. Freeman, and a traveling Bible salesman named Manley Pointer as "good country people." However, the term "good country people" takes on various meanings throughout the story. Mrs. Hopewell believes that she and her daughter Joy—who has adopted the name Hulga—are superior to everyone else. In contrast to their rural neighbors, they are educated and sophisticated.
When is it okay to question the authority of law enforcement? We learn from a young age that cops are supposed to be the ones we run to for help, and yet we’re constantly finding them being involved in a routine stop gone wrong. We constantly hear about the different times an African American person has lost their life after they were pulled over by a police officer. The novel turned movie ‘The Hate U Give’ by Angie Thomas helps portray an ounce of what families go through when they lose their loved ones to racial injustices. Losing a loved one will always be life altering especially when you learn that they were killed by a police officer.
“Flowers For Algernon” is a short story by Daniel Keys. It is about a 37 year old mentally disabled man by the name of Charles Gordon. In this story he has a operation on his brain to triple his current intelligence. After the operation he is doubtful and confused as to if he was becoming any smarter. As the story progresses he soon matches the intelligence of the average adults around him, and is able to match their ways of living.
People come and go in life, but eventually, everyone will find the one that stays and makes them happy. The country song “Sun to Me,” by Zach Bryan is about a speaker who has found someone that brings out the best in them, and makes them a happier person. In the first stanza, the writer introduces that the speaker has found someone that is like the sun to them and brings out the best in them. In the second stanza through the rest of the poem, the speaker continues to emphasize how important the person that he found was to them, and how they make the speaker a better person. In “Sun to Me,” Zach Bryan uses alliteration and metaphors to teach listeners that having someone that brings out the best in them is very beneficial, and everyone can find someone as long as they look hard enough.
