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Rainbow Rowell Themes

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Rainbow Rowell, and yes that’s her real name, is the author of many young adult fiction books. Born in Omaha Nebraska, on February 24th, 1973, Rowell loves writing about people who talk, who have a story to tell; screw ups and falling in love are two main themes that follow her writing (RainbowRowell.com). Rowell has been writing from a young age, she was a columnist in her high school newspaper. Before becoming a author, Rowell from 1995 to 2012 was a columnist and ad copywriter at Omaha World-Herald, when writing her first published book, Attachments, she began working for an ad agency. Her experience as a newspaper editor made her realize that she never really wrote for herself, she wrote for her editors, publishers and a broad audience ( 2011 AViD Presentation). Being …show more content…

As a white writer, Rowell also wants to write about other races, like she does in Eleanor and Park, “that’s really scary. You have good intentions, but at the same time, you’re blind” (Rowell 2013). Throughout her books Rainbow Rowell takes her experiences and ideals and brings them to life in her writing, she writes to tell a story but also to make herself happy with her writing. The usage of words to create an image helps the reader be more in touch with the book and its storyline. Rainbow Rowell in Eleanor and Park uses imagery to help the reader have a connection to the feelings Park and Eleanor are going through. Park recounts how he felt when holding Eleanor’s hand, “Holding Eleanor’s hand was like holding a butterfly. Or a heartbeat. Liking holding something complete, and completely alive” ( 71). This statement has the ability to give an idea of what Park is feeling and the reader can feel it as well. The reader can feel the butterfly in their hand, fluttering and tickling the skin. The feeling of the heartbeat as it pumps in and out on the

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The straggles of the kids whose parents are not at home a whole lot are shown in the novel Williwaw. Which is written by Tom Bodett and published in 1999, is a story about two kids from Alaska, Ivan and September who are 12 and 13 years old, they got into the trouble because they did not follow their dads rules. The main theme “challenges of life” can clearly be seen within the novel Williwaw. For Ivan and September challenges of taking care for themselves means staying at home alone for several weeks because their father is not home and their mother died a few years ago. That means that they have to look after themselves and stay out of the troubles and the most important follow their dads rules.

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The Addiction That Differentiated Both Wes Moores When we reflect on our life, we create a metaphorical puzzle. These puzzle pieces represent all of the small decisions we made. Inside of those decisions, also consists of other people and how they influenced our upbringings. When this puzzle is put together, all of these decisions create one big picture.

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This is just one instance of the symbol of a butterfly throughout The Things They Carried. In this case, the butterfly symbolizes the start of a new life; for the Vietnamese soldier, it is a life without the war, and for Tim, it is a new life where he has killed someone. This proves the book’s excellency because the symbols make the reader think deeper about the book and its symbols, so the book cannot just be read at surface level. Next, O’Brien uses graphic imagery in many parts of the novel, but in “The Man I Killed,” he used it obtain a visual response from the reader. For example, O’Brien writes about how the man’s, “skin at his left cheek was peeled back in three ragged strips...

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The theme that I choice for Tangerine is “Sometimes good change can come from bad situations.” An example of the theme is when the Lake Windsor school gets swallowed up by a sinkhole. Although it ruined art of the school and many students were hurt, Paul had a chance to change his life. The sinkhole helped him get into another school without an IEP and without an IEP, Paul can play soccer. Another example is when Paul made a mistake when playing the soccer championship.

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The book A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, the main character Ismael Beah tells a story of his first hand account of Sierra Leone’s civil war. Ismael Beah was a boy soldier who went from village to village with his brother and some friends in search of food and shelter. Beah was eventually brainwashed into thinking that what the group was doing would make up for his own family’s death. While his is fighting for the government he is heavily drugged to the point that he believes that what he is doing is the right thing. His lieutenant ended up letting him go with UNICEF so they can have better lives.

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Despite her recurring emphasis on Native Americans in her reading, one must also realize how subjective her writings would be towards the white population. One must not forsake that she is white, which may lead her to feel inclined to have pity towards Native Americans, black Americans, and those of Hispanic

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James Hurst’s short story ” The Scarlet Ibis” tells a story about two brothers who have mixed feelings for each other. Doodle, crippled and mental, really loves his brother and all he wants is to please his brother and his family. Unfortunately, his brother doesn’t like him because he wanted a brother he could play with. He also believes that Doodle is a burden to him because he has to take him wherever he goes and has to take care of him.

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