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In the book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Miss Caroline is treated poorly because some of her students think she is picking on a kid that comes from a poor family. It is the first day of first grade for Scout and Miss Caroline is her teacher. Miss Caroline's students do not realize that she is not trying to pick on a student named Walter when she tries to be nice by paying for his lunch but does not know that he would have to pay the money back. “You’re shamin’ him, Miss Caroline. Walter hasn’t got a quarter at home to bring you”.(Lee 28)
Lucy Flucker Knox….. By Annika Heieie Lucy Flucker Knox helped with her own time and resources when ever possible. "I hope you will consider yourself as commander in chief of your own house,but be convinced, that there is such a thing as equal command.” By Lucy Flucker Knox. This quote means that everyone has an equal say.
Proverbs 24:6 says; “for by wise guidance you can wage your war, and in abundance of counselors there is victory and safety” (Holy Bible, New Living Translation). In the novel Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand, the story of Louis Zamperini is told from his troubled childhood, his record breaking running days, and to becoming a WWII hero, and living to tell his story. Louie ends his running career when the second world war started between the Americans and the Japanese. Louie faces many hardships through his time in the military, and after the war. Through Louis Zamperini’s suffering while striving to survive while being stranded at sea, becoming a Prisoner Of War in Japan, and his post war trauma, leads him to God, and finding his faith.
“...whom God has placed above kings and ministers by giving them a mission to fulfill…’And do you regard yourself as one of those extraordinary being?’ asked Villefort…’Yes I am one of them’ said Monte Cristo…” (Dumas 211). This quote is an example of a man who let the power of money and revenge get to his head. In the book The Count of Monte Cristo the Count uses his power as a metaphor to being God because he thinks he has enough power to control and manipulate people.
Character Essay Quote: “You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it”. Margaret Thatcher (first female British prime minister, 1925-2013) In order to win any fight, battle or war, it may have to be fought more than once. It may even have to be fought more than two, three or four times.
In the novel “Hate List”, Valerie Leftman is to return to school five months after her boyfriend, Nick shot several fellow classmates in the school cafeteria. Most of the people shot were on a list Valerie and Nick made and called the hate list. A majority of the school community believes that Valerie was aware of Nick’s plan to kill the kids (she wasn’t aware) despite the fact that Valerie saved someone’s life and got shot in the process. In “Hate List”, Valerie and everyone around her must pick up the broken pieces of fear and sadness after the tragedy. This creates a story that is both universal and so unique that it will leave the reader changed on a fundamental level.
Let's talk about Anne Frank. We all remember the holocaust and how bad it was right? Well Anne Frank, her family, and a lot of other people went into hiding. There were some that were hiding with Anne and her family. The only one thing that was hiding them was a book case.
Camille Rowen “The idea that some other land, some other civilization lay out beyond that flat blue horizon intrigued her beyond any dinner party or tea invitation” (6). Camille Rowen is the main character of Everlasting by Angie Frazier. Once Camille puts her mind to something, there’s no stopping her. She fears loss of freedom, and she demonstrates tremendous bravery throughout the book.
Push A fictional novel about the life of a 16 year old teen mom struggling to live through her terrible past of being raped by her father, and abusive mother. Push is a novel written by Sapphire and was published in 1996. Abusing a child is never an option. Yet why does it still happen?
“I felt no pity for him. In fact I was pleased with what was happening to him” (Wiesel 52). Elie Wiesel’s character became a brute, because he witnessed children being killed, death everywhere and his loss of faith. Wiesel watched people get hung with no phase of tears. Wiesel writes in his book after the war, “watched others hangings.”
Abandoning one’s family could be devastating for some people, but for Mattia Pascal, it was a dream. In The Late Mattia Pascal, the main character, Mattia had lost everything from family to family fortunes multiple times. He went from having a large inheritance from his parent’s passing, to losing it all. He was the father of two daughters that passed away within seconds of each other, which occured on the same day as his mother’s passing. After this, Mattia’s remarries and finds that he is miserable in his new life because of his living environment with his wife and demanding mother in law.
I see this quote as a way of implying to be more positive about a situation rather than be negative about it. Jeannette, in this part of the memoir, feels embarrassed due to the fact that her and her family is sleeping in a car that is falling apart. People are staring at them, and laughing which is not a great feeling at all. Her mom, on the other hand, has a totally different perspective on their situation. She would wave at these people like nothing was wrong; she was unfazed.
In a recent study done by RAINN (the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network), they discovered that “out of every 1,000 rapes, 994 perpetrators will walk free,” meaning that nearly 9 out of 10 offenders do not receive any consequences for their actions (“The). The study also said that only 6 rapists out of 1,000 will be incarcerated. Within the first 400 pages of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo one character, Lisbeth Salander, is raped repeatedly by her guardian, Nils Bjurman, who uses his control over her assets as means of controlling her. This event, and many like it throughout the book, leads me to new questions, evaluations, and predictions about The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and the characters and events throughout it.
“The greatest gift you can give to others is gift of unconditional love and acceptance in all situations.” In Willa Cather’s book, My Antonia, paints the acceptance of an illegitimate child in an interesting light. After Antonia has her baby, many people in the town feel sorry for her, but after time, the baby is accepted; especially by Antonia’s husband, Anton. Cather depicts a different attitude towards illegitimacy towards most, showing happiness and acceptance for the baby rather than negativity. In history, the approach is often different, showing a stigma and resilience towards illegitimate babies.
In the first place , Simone de Beauvoir describes ambiguity (human ways of thinking about life) through the following categories: nihilism, cynicism, humorism, seriousness and adventurism. In the light of “ existentialism” de Beauvoir makes an implication that there is no difference between philosophy and life. In like manner, she's also aware there are wrong turns that can be taken through the journey of questioning one’s own life. For instance,one way to face ambiguity of human life is “nihilism” this can be described as the drawing for obliviousness at the same time turning everything into an objection, lacking importance or significance as well as the exclusion of all values. Again “nihilism” is the view that nothing really matters, which
