In the book, Monster, by Walter Dean Myers, Steve didn't act as a lookout for King and Bobo. On page 177, Bobo said, “Me and King planned out a get over and we done it.” According to Bobo’s words, he didn't mention Steve’s name, which proves that Steve didn't plan to rob a drugstore with King and Bobo. For example, as stated on page 182, Petrocelli is having a conversation with Bobo, “You said you received a sign from Mr. Harmon. Can you tell me what that sign was?”
Unbroken is about a young Italian boy named Zach, when he came to the u.s. He was a trouble maker. All he did was steal, cause trouble and drink beer, when he drank beer he would put the liquor in a milk jug then color over it with white paint. But in the other hand everyone saw him as a trouble non-listening boy. His brother Cody was a good kid.
Friday Night Lights, by H.G. Bissinger, follows the Permian Panthers, a successful high school football team in Texas, while they do everything in their power to win the state championship. Near the beginning of the book, we learn about the star running back on the Panthers, Boobie Miles, and how he has college coaches all over the state who are offering him scholarships to come and play for them. Unfortunately for both Boobie and Permian, Miles injures his knee before the season even starts which forces the team to fall back on the second string running back. Boobie’s knee injury was not the only thing that bothered him, he deals with a lot of racial discrimination also. “The black population in Odessa was quite small- about 5 percent” (102).
Black Elk Speaks, is a personal narrative that tells a story about Black Elk who is a medicine man of the Lakota tribe; the book is narrated by John Neihardt and is twenty-five chapters long. Black Elk mostly talks about the visions he had when he was a young child. Black Elk explains to Neihardt that he had his very first vision when he was five years old and he says that he saw two men appeared in the sky singing a sacred song (Black Elk Speaks p.17). The second vision that Black Elk tells Neihardt about is a very detailed one that takes place when he falls ill for a few days. The vision that he had involved him seeing a highly detailed symbolic message from his ancestors.
A courtroom setting, Monster by Walter Dean Myers, shows main character, 16 year old Steve Harmon’s experience when he is on trial for the murder of a shop owner. The book is written as a movie that Steve is drafting, and there are notes between sections so we can see Steve’s thoughts and what happens behind the scenes. Steve, and James King are the defendants on trial with their defence attorneys, Kathy O’Brien and Asa Briggs, who are against Sandra Petrocelli, the prosecutor. Through the trial, Steve shows his hardships and experiences. Steve’s beliefs, referenced settings, and actions in the book reveal the theme “one must stay true to themselves to achieve their goals”.
Have you ever thought of yourself as a person who has the guts to do anything, but in reality when it comes time to actually do something you back out of it? In the book Unbroken, by Laura Hillenbrand Louis “Louie” Zamperini had partaken in the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany. Not long after Louie had competed in the games he had continued on his path to success to join the U.S. Air Forces in 1940, right around when World War II had begun. When Louie and his fellow crew members were flying over the Pacific Ocean in their B-24D Army Air Forces bomber one day in May of 1943, they had crashed into the ocean due to two engine failures. After crashing into the Pacific there were only three survivors; Louie, pilot Lieutenant Russell Allen
A Child Called “It” by Dave Pelzer is a biography about Dave Pelzer and how he managed to survive one of the worst child abuse cases ever reported in California. Dave’s life was full of starvation, torture, and cruelty from the age of four but it all came to an end at the age of twelve when his school officials reported
Do you get along better with a certain parent more than you do with the other. For example, maybe you get along with your mother more than you get along with your father because she is more understanding. In the book Monster by Walter Dean Myers the main character is named Steve Harmon. He is in court because he is being accused of being involved in the murder of a drugstore owner, Mr. Nesbitt. Steve’s parents each visit Steve at different times, and both have different views on whether he is guilty or innocent.
Bonnie Mann’s essay Creepers, Flirts, Heroes and Allies discusses the four ways men can contribute to sexual harassment. There are certainly cliche and statistically prevalent circumstances. First, a man can be defined as a creeper which is essentially a man who has the potential of sexual harassment. A man does not need to have stimagized creepy behavior for example, a work setting where the harasser is in a higher position. Any form of creepy behavior is legitimate sexual harassment.
Stumbling about among all those creepers. More grave nodding; they knew about nightmares.” Little children were frightened because they had no mothers to comfort them and protect them from the “beast” because they were stranded on an island in the middle of
In the book Nobodies the purpose of this book is to inform people that there is still slavery out there. The author John Bowe wants the audience to realize that slavery is not over with. John Bowe talks about how there is people mistreated and underpaid. John Bowes arguments are mainly how ugly modern day slavery is and it can get. Before reading this I did not know that there was so much slavery going on in this world.
Louie Zamperini went through more pain and suffering than most people will ever endure in their entire life. In the book Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand, Louis Zamperini was an Olympic runner. He was drafted during World War II . During the war, his plane crashed in the middle of the ocean and he was stranded with little resources to survive. This book follows his incredible story battling starvation and abuse in Prisoner of War camps (POW).
Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime That Changed America was written by Mamie Till-Mobley, a supporter of equal opportunities for different ethnicities. Christopher Benson, a writer and lawyer, assisted Mamie Till-Mobley as a co-author in her personal biography. Death of Innocence was published in the year 2003 by Random House in New York. This memoir has 290 pages, including seven pages of Christopher Benson’s personal experiences with Mamie Till-Mobley in the afterword. Death of Innocence is categorized as an adult nonfiction book.
Reading The Shack affected me both spiritually and morally. It was challenging to read some of the ideas this book had, spiritually. Although, I related it to many different events that I have faced in my own life. I have related Mack to my own father and his strength towards our family. Also, I have related it to losing my grandfather, who played a huge role in my life growing up.
Accomplice In Accomplice by Eireann Corrigan Chloe and Finn fake the disappearance of Chole by hiding her in Finn’s grandma 's basement. They fake the disappearance so they will have something to put on their college applications. The theme of this story is the truth will always come out. No matter how hard you try to hide it, right when you think everything is over the truth will come out.
