Recommended: Importance of family theme in literature
My book is The Haunting of Gabriel Ashe written by Dan Poblocki. It is about a boy named Gabriel that has recently moved to his Grandmother's house with his family after their family home burnt to the ground. Gabe meets a neighbor boy named Seth who invites him to play the ‘Hunters Game’. The game begins to take over Gabe's mind and he begins to wonder if the game is actually real or make believe. Gabe Ashe is the narrator of the story.
Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia McLachlan is a historical fiction which takes place in a rural place, such as, the prairie sometime during the 1800’s. This book centers around characters Anna, the 12 year old narrator, Caleb, Anna’s little brother, Jacob, the children’s father, and Sarah Wheaton, papa’s new wife. Anna, Caleb and their father, Jacob are so stricken by their mother’s death that they long for the need for her void to be filled. The children soon become worried for their father because this almost seemed impossible. Anna’s father, Jacob was having a hard time raising his family and taking care of his farms’ needs after the passing of his wife, so he began to search for another wife.
Dottie was brought to the Wayne General Hospital by EMS. Upon arrival the reporter said Dottie was in and out of conscious. While at the hospital Dottie’s son, Steven stated that Dottie miss uses and abuses her medication. Steven said that Brileigh is supposed to give Dottie her medication. It is unknown by the reporter if Brileigh has
The main character of the book, Allison Mackenzie, came from a middle-class family that owned a home off Chestnut Street. Her mother, Constance, owned a shop in town called the Thrifty Corner Apparel Shoppe. Allison was born out of wedlock and her father was out of the picture. Constance was ashamed of this fact and hide her secret past from society. The situation surrounding Allison was an example of the time period’s denial of family dysfunction.
In December 2016, I read a book called House of Secrets. This book was written by Chris Columbus and Ned Vizzini. This fictional story described an adventure that the 3 Walker children had when they got spirited away from their new home, and ended in them making it safely back. The 3 Walker children, namely Cordelia, Brendan, and Elanor, were attacked by the former owner of the home. Their parents perished in the attack.
Tara's parents are researchers that are taking a trip to Brazil for a summer, and Tara is able to now meet her mother's mother.
It starts with a very story-like introduction that seems as if you are about to enter a fantasy world, but it quickly gets serious in the first chapter describing the scene of Gareth, Jacob (JR’s little brother) discovering the bodies of his former friend and family in their home, covered in blood. The story unfolds in a rather surprising way; the police arrive at the grotesque scene to find the daughter who appears to be missing from the familial slaughter. The family is described with the highest regard with Marc and Debra (father and mother), as former substance abuse survivors that found each other and worked for everything they ever accomplished and held their family as their highest possession, as many family and friends are quick to point out.
Hiding away in the garret, readers find that Elvira, in act of defiance against her mother’s prohibitions keeps a romantic novel in the dark corners that she reads for
Cleaning houses are a girl’s best friend. Or is it diamonds? In The Dirt Diary, by Anna Staniszewski, the main character, Rachel Lee, must clean houses with her mother in order to pay back the money that she stole until her mom finds out about her purchase. Rachel uses the money to buy a one way ticket to Florida, where her father ran off to, to bring him home.
In A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley, the mother of Ginny, Rose and Caroline is absent for most of the daughters’ lives. Their mother has died when they were young due to cancer. With their stereotypical female roles, Rose and Ginny had to take care of her mother when she was sick and when she passed away were left to take care their younger sister Caroline. Before their mother’s death Ginny explains to Jessie Clark her responsibilities during those difficult times: “Rose and I nursed her for two months, in the living room. I missed two hours of school in the mornings.
Cindy Ella’s, one of the main characters, her mother passed away at the age of six, Cindy Ella still remembers a fraction of her mother but after her mother’s passing, her father moved to L.A, and meets Ella’s stepmother and two stepsisters. The Stepmother,
The book I read was, This Journal Belongs To Ratchet. The author of my book was Nancy J.Cavanagh. This book is about a girl named Ratchet who lives with her because when she was little her mom died. She doesn't have many friends, but that changes in the end of the book. Ratchet is a happy, kind, smart girl she loves her dad even though he is a little crazy.
Toni finds a water can with a diary wrapped in brown cloth and fine electric cabling inside. Toni isn’t supposed to keep any of the treasure, but he is unable to keep himself from hiding the diary away. On the front of the book it said Dig-Dig everywhere. Toni sneaks the diary into his bunk and starts reading. He learns about a young girl named Pelly D, and her life before the devastation.
Then years later we hear Jude’s perspective; we hear about their challenges with love, the English boy, ghosts, and sculpture. Tragically between the two paradigms, their beloved mother dies ripping the Sweetwine family in half. Throughout the course of the novel, I found
The first part will discuss their relationship when they first met at the orphanage. The second part will be about their meeting at the Howard Johnson 's restaurant. The third one will look at their meeting at the new shopping mall. Then, on the picket lines and the last time they met in a coffee shop during the Christmas period. The first time that Twyla and Roberta met was at the orphanage, they were eight years old.
