Lost Mother, Lost Child Zakariyya is the fifth and youngest of Henrietta's children. After the death of his mother, Baby Joe nearly dies of tuberculosis and soon finds himself in the care of a cousin who loves to abuse him. Zakariyya's anger at this treatment is mythical—kind of like Henrietta's aggressive cells. And it wasn't long before people were making the comparison: Joe grew into the meanest, angriest child any Lacks had ever known, and the family started saying something must have happened to his brain while he was growing inside Henrietta alongside that cancer. (112) Zakariyya believes this too.
In Legend by Marie Lu flashbacks to add insight on Day. At this point in the story Day is going to bed, a few days before he is supposed to be killed. He is dreaming about events that have happened to him in the past. In one of his dreams he recalls the events when he hit a policeman on accident with a ball. Police man over reacted and beat him brutally.
Betrayal and revenge can be powerful motivators in a story. Legend by Marie Lu follows June Iparis and Daniel Wing, also known as Day, living in the Republic. The Republic forces children to take a test called a Trial when they reach a certain age, so while June scored perfectly, Day scored below average, forcing him to run away from his family to live as a criminal on the streets. When June’s brother is killed, everyone suspects Day as the culprit. The Republic sends June undercover to find and arrest Day for his crimes.
In "Martin", Vaca, the main character, is introduced as a sibling and playmate of a poor family in the heart of a lower class urban area called Tracy. Vaca's sibblings are faced with a neiborhood newcomer named Martin, a boy who is assumed to be a glutton, due to his large belly size. In response to Martin's rather overweight apperance, Vaca becomes extremely angered. Considering the unwealthy status of the family, they are not accessed to the convenience of plentiful amounts of food. Based on this, they assume Martin's greed, and therefore attack him out of disgust.
Deadly Unna by Phillip Gwynne explores racial issues directed at the Indigenous Australians. Gwynne’s story is based on events that occurred in the Yorke Peninsula, South Australia. This book clearly shows that Australia is not the land of the fair go for certain demographics, while other demographics do experience Australia as the land of the fair go. People who have money will experience Australia as the land of the fair go, but the people who do not will not be able to experience Australia as a land of equal opportunity. Indigenous Australians are also included in the demographic of people who cannot experience Australia as the land of the fair go.
Passage from the Text What it Means/ What the Characters are Feeling Ch. 13: “I can tell Caballo doesn’t like what’s going on. He’s pointing at us and talking with his friends.”
During Ariana’s time at Brenda T., she is required to have daily meetings with a psychologist at her correctional facility. Ariana is assigned to Dr.Meloni. In the book, it is displayed that Dr. Meloni has a deep hatred for Ariana. In fact, after Ariana’s staged suicide attempt, he was not impressed. He hated her so much that he told her, “If you want it all over so badly, then I just have one thing to say to you.
In the historical fiction novel Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor, the main character, Cassie Logan, a 9-year-old African-American girl who lived in southern Mississippi in the early 1930s when racism was the norm, narrates her perspective on the world around her. The setting of the story, the Logan Land, is important to the Logan family because it is their source of income, the legacy of the land holds an important place in their family history, and they are lucky enough even to own land. In the beginning of the book, Cassie was naive and did not understand how valuable the land was to her family. However, after Big Ma teaches her about the legacy of the land and why it is so important to their family, Cassie finally understands
[7] In his book, “Missoula,” John Krakauer analyses the issue of rape in the college town of Missoula. Krakauer begins his work by quoting the article False Allegations of Sexual Assault: Rape is unique. No other violent crime is so fraught with controversy, so enmeshed in dispute and in the politics of gender and sexuality… And within the domain of rape, the most highly charged area of debate concerns the issue of false allegations. For centuries, it has been asserted and assumed that women “cry rape,” that a large proportion of rape allegations are maliciously concocted for purposes of revenge or other motives.
“I can’t help but smile. We are here, together. In this wide, wild world, we’ve managed to meet again” (Condie 206). Ky and Cassia are both in search of each other in the canyons and Cassia took a blue tablet without knowing they were poisonous. Finally after long journeys Cassia and Ky are reunited with each other and are now trying to get back to their society.
Title The book love is a Revolution tells the story of Nala, a young, black, and plus-sized girl, exploring love through a romantic relationship while learning to love herself. Nala Robinson is a plus-sized black girl living in New york. Her character shows lots of traits of impulsiveness and one of the best quotes I think shows this is “Oh you're a vegetarian Tye asks, I give a slow yes that's a lie” Page 26.
But even though the consequences are harsh, Mariam knows that she has to follow through with it, for if she does not, Rasheed would kill Laila. She does not wish to kill Rasheed but Laila is one of the only true friends Mariam has ever had. Mariam does also not want to have one of the few people that bring her happiness, to be taken from her. These two acts demonstrate what it truly means to have courage, even in the hardest of times. Caring is something that seems to come rather naturally for both Laila and Mariam.
In The Lorax, Dr. Seuss’s character, Lorax quotes “unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.” Dr. Seuss is correct with this quote, because if someone wants a problem to get fixed, they have to care to do it themselves. Only the person who will fix it is the person who cared to. The quote by Dr. Seuss is applicable to the common problems of everyday life or even great changes for society in a way that people want to improve things.
This book has been written to bring the truth to life; this is not a fictional story telling false stories of abuse and hatred, it is fact! This book retells the childhoods of my twin brother David and I, and how we suffered at the hands of our family, and especially at the hands of our mother Kristine. From the moment David and I were born Kristine emotionally detached herself from the both of us, there was no unbreakable mother child bond that connected us together. Kristine never displayed any motherly affection towards either David or I, and at no point in our lives have either of us consider her our mother. This is due to the fact that Kristine is the most evil, manipulative and sadistic person either of us has ever met.
Quote 1: “She was elusive. She was today. She was tomorrow. She was the faintest scent of a cactus flower, the flitting shadow of an elf owl. We did not know what to make of her.
