Josie Pharoah Ms. Czajkowski English 9 Due date: 3/12/23 Serpent King's Argumentative Essay In the novel The Serpent King by Jeff Zentner, we are introduced to a character named Lydia. Lydia is displayed as a hardworking and motivated person. But as the novel progresses she proves not to be a good friend to the other characters.
Fallen Angels Global Issue Essay In the book, Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Meyers, Richard Perry joins the United States army during the Vietnam war. Perry makes it to Vietnam and meets many new people with whom he grows closer and closer with every day. Perry sees lots of death throughout his time in the war and it gives the reader a good perspective of how gruesome and traumatic serving in a war can be and how seeing that much death and violence can affect a soldier. Perry watches as some of the people he served alongside die right in front of him and this scares him as he continues to think that he could be next.
Freak the Mighty “Your genetics load the gun. Your lifestyle pulls the trigger”, said by George A. Bray. This quote describes the situation of the main character Maxwell Kane; In Rodman Philbrick’s novel, Freak the Mighty, Maxwell’s story has an important message: the future one beholds is not necessarily determined by their genetics. The only thing that determines one's future is one’s self.
(3536) Wednesday Wars April Have you ever felt like you were weighed down with a limited choice of options? Have you ever felt like your parents already had their mind set on what you would become? These feelings and emotions occur in “The Wednesday Wars,” by Gary D. Schmidt. Making your own decisions is essential to growing up and becoming self-reliant.
The great Richard Bach once said “Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.” Often people overlook the fact that their conscience is telling them that they are selfish, but it is up to them to fix it. In his novel, The Wednesday wars, Gary Schmidt highlights the dangers of being selfish and self-centered through the changes of Holling Hoodhood.
Hannah Mackler Lindblom 7th Grade English May 23 I Must Betray You Essay Imagine constant surveillance, distrust, and no freedom. That is what life was like in Romania under Ceausescu’s dictatorship.
Sir Max the Mighty C.S. Lewis once said, “Since it is so likely that children will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage.” Rodman Philbrick wrote his book Freak the Mighty about how the two most unlikely of friends can change each other for the better. Freak the Mighty is all about the adventures of two boys named Max and Kevin. Max is a large, misunderstood, learning-impaired boy with a very complicated family life. Kevin, also known as Freak, is a crippled prodigy and overall genius.
In The House Of The Scorpion by nancy farmer, matt undergoes a change in personality. Matt begins the story being isolated and not knowing what real issue in the real world, but as the story proceeds matt undergoes a change. Matt says, “He’d play with his toys and watched television. He’d look out the window where fields of white poppies stretched all the way to the shadowy hills. The whiteness hurt his eyes”(Farmer 7).
Atticus is a courageous man and is also a good influencer to his kids, Scout and Jem. He teaches them that everyone matters in this world no matter how different someone can be. Harper Lee writes, "This case, Tom Robinson's case, is something that goes to the essence of a man's conscience-Scout, I couldn’t go to church if I didn't try to help that man."(104). This quote shows how much Atticus wanted to help out Tom even if he knows that the outcome will still be the same but if he at least tries he will not live with the guilt inside of him for the rest of his life. Not only did Atticus show courage, Boo Radley did as well.
In the book heroes, innocence is a very prominent theme. This is seen in most characters because in the end we see that most characters are left sinful and have made many mistakes, but even at the start we know that not everyone is innocent because of the book not being in chronological order. It could mess with people's minds, but it could also show a way of looking at things. Firstly, the structure of the novel is important because when we read the book we are not reading the start, we are technically reading the end, which is confusing but it relates to the theme of innocence because the innocence is already gone and Francis looks back on the flashbacks in despair.
Logan Daniels Mrs. Ahart English 9 09 January 2023 Draft To kill a mockingbird is to sin by killing that that does nothing but sing. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, many characters exhibit courage during a time of tension in their town. Characters such as Scout and Atticus portray many types of courage to protect themselves and others. To start, Atticus exhibits courage by standing up for his beliefs and protecting those he holds close. First, an example of when Atticus portrays courage is when he takes the case to defend the black man accused of rape.
The book The Benefits of Being an Octopus follows the story of Zoey Albro, a seventh-grader who lives in a trailer park with her three younger siblings and her mother's boyfriend, Lenny. She struggles with the effects of poverty, domestic violence, and the ways in which social class and stereotypes shape her identity. Throughout the novel, she realizes the psychological abuse in her mother's relationship with Lenny and the danger of Fuchsia's living situation. Additionally, a crime is committed at school, and Silas, an outcast student, is falsely accused of committing it. Zoey knows the truth about all these problems, the biases, and the complex solutions that those around her don't seem to have the power to correct.
America is associated with words such as freedom, and bravery but the american experience is much deeper, it's about self-discovery, opportunity, and discovering what being an American really means. The American experience is unique and varies for each person whether it be a soldier, an immigrant, or a criminal turned civil rights activist. In both The things They Carried by Tim O’brien and The Autobiography of Malcolm X, the main characters experience challenges and self-discovery through their own American experiences. These experiences include struggle with moral dilemmas, religion and achieving the american dream.
V is on a mission to exact revenge on those who wronged him and others at the Larkhill Resettlement Camp, which he destroyed and escaped from. V wants the people of England to individually rule over themselves and be free of their oppressive government. He puts Evey through torture he tells her “Because I love you, because I want to set you free” (Moore 167). Which in turn she isn 't happy about at first but once she is set free from the prison she was in since birth she is glad. V is killed but as he puts it “Did you think to kill me?
Ever been in a situation where anger overcomes any other thought? Ever want revenge on someone or something? That’s the main idea in the poem The Tempest by William Shakespeare. Prospero just has some fire against the other characters. To him, vengeance is more valuable than virtue.
