Gabriel bravo Ms.Hayes ERWC March. 16, 2018 The Glass castle The book The Glass Castle is a memoir based on the life and experiences of Jeannette Walls while growing up with her family. The main characters in the walls family are Rex the dad, Rose Mary the mom , and their children lori, maureen, brian and Jeanette the protagonist.
Despite it has not been fully proven, many readers believe that Go Ask Alice was written by an American Therapist and Mormon youth counselor Beatriz Ruby Mathews Sparks. The book has been banned and or challenged on multiple occasions for its constant drug use reference, teen pregnancy, prostitution, sexual activity, and rape (Sparks). According to Wikipedia.com, Sparks was born January 15, 1917 in Goldberg Idaho, but later moved and was raised in Logan, Utah. She began working with teens in 1955 after she attended the University of California Los Angeles and Brigham Young University (Biography).
Most of us are lucky enough to have a home. A place one can come to, and find those close to us. We often take this for granted, and stay blissfully unaware of how fortunate we are. Jeannette Walls’ life has been far from easy. From the day she was born, she and her family had combated constant forces of turbulence and order.
Imagine one day you meet the most talented hypnotist in the world. This hypnotist tells you he can change your memories without even breaking a sweat. Maybe this sounds like magic or just plain nonsense to you but in reality it isn’t that difficult to tamper with memories. Any time you hear a different telling of an event, even one you witnessed first-hand, your perception of the event changes over and over becoming a conglomeration of everything you’ve heard about the aforementioned event. Memoirs and other pieces of literature written from memory suffer from these easily modified memories and can’t always be trusted to be true.
Maggie on the other hand, is characterized by her unattractiveness and timidity. Her skin is scarred from the fire that had happened ten or twelve years ago. Those scars she has on her body in the same way have scarred her soul leaving her ashamed. She “stumbles” in her reading, but Mrs. Johnson loves her saying she is sweet and is the daughter she can sing songs at church with, but more so that Maggie is like an image of her. She honors her family’s heritage and culture, by learning how to quilt and do things in the household, like her mother views their heritage.
Bonnie Liang Villalobos English/ P.4 Book Report #1 Alice in Zombieland is mainly about a girl named Alice and her life turns completely upside down after a car crash that destroyed her whole family, on her 16th birthday. Where she witnessed zombies killing her family after. After all the chaos from the accident, Alice attends to Asher High and meets her acquaintance at the time, Kat. Kat and Alice then gets invited to a party, where she then finds out about a group of 8 boys that stood out from everyone else. Kat told Alice everything about that group and specifically not to mess with Cole, the “leader”.
Who runs the world? Girls. Laurel Thatcher wrote that “Martha Ballard was as independent as an eighteenth-century housewife could be” In her essay she analyzes the diary of Martha Ballard; a midwife in the 18th century, who recorded her experiences and work on a daily basis in her diary. Laurel Thatcher proves that Martha Ballard was an exceptional independent woman who was also constrained by the expectations put on midwifes. Thatcher portrayed the quality of women’s lives through the life of Martha Ballard and the women around her.
The Garden of Diversity: How “The Flowers” helped me understand my own experience. The words immortalized in Alice Walker’s short story “The Flowers” resonated with me in a profound manner. Myop’s adventure from the property that her family shares to the woods is one that she has embarked upon many times before. This time even though she doesn’t realize it, everything will be different. Walker’s character may not understand the consequences that come with the encounter with the lynched black man, the thought that crosses my mind while reading this is that although she has no idea of what awaits her in the future, of the cruelty and injustice that unfortunately runs rampant in today’s society, she can still find a place to be proud and hopeful of who she is.
The movie, Still Alice, is about a successful linguistics professor acquiring the incredibly disheartening disease known as Alzheimer’s. When she is diagnosed, she is only fifty years old and the disease is robbing her of all of the memories she has worked so hard for over the years. The disease begins destroying her memory and cognitive skills resulting in memory loss and confusion. Throughout the course of this movie, many of Alice’s behaviors can be explained with psychological principles such as impairment of her implicit memory, the inability to use dual processing, and effortful processing using rehearsal.
Loss of Childhood Innocence Published in 1988, The Flowers by Alice Walker, a young African American girl named Myop lives in a sharecropper cabin surrounded by flowers. Myop goes about her day wandering around the farm and picking flowers from the nearby woods. While collecting different stems, she discovers a dead body. Myop doesn’t pay much attention to it, until she sees a noose. Myop is oblivious to the harsh reality of the world around her which ultimately demonstrates that childhood innocence blurs the line between peaceful existence and real life.
And the Summer was Over Summer is a universal symbol with as positive connotation filled with happiness and warm, long nights. When the temperature drops and jackets get pulled from the back of your closet, winter is approaching. Winter can be a time of snow mans and hot chocolate or a period of sadness, mystery, guilt, and regret. Alice Walker’s last sentence of her beautiful story, “The Flowers,” states, “And the summer was over,” which is a symbolic explanation that after every happy moment of euphoria comes a time of sadness and sorrow.
Alice Walker the author of the Flowers”, was inspired to write this story because of the tragedy that has happened to multiple black Americans and how it has affected their human rights. This story describes scenery that may have happened around South America starting off with a girl named Myop, a ten-year old girl who explores the world around her, unaware of the secrets the world beyond holds. In the first paragraph, Alice Walker clearly emphasises Myops purity and young innocence with the quote “She skipped lightly from hen house to pigpen.” This demonstrates how happy Myop is in this setting, we can identify she feels safe here, “ She felt light and good in the warm sun.”
In the short story “The Flowers”, Alice Walker sufficiently prepares the reader for the texts surprise ending while also displaying the gradual loss of Myop’s innocence. The author uses literary devices like imagery, setting, and diction to convey her overall theme of coming of age because of the awareness of society's behavior. At the beguining of the story the author makes use of proper and necessary diction to create a euphoric and blissful aura. The character Myop “skipped lightly” while walker describes the harvests and how is causes “excited little tremors to run up her jaws.”. This is an introduction of the childlike innocence present in the main character.
Alice Walker uses imagery and diction throughout her short story to tell the reader the meaning of “The Flowers”. The meaning of innocence lost and people growing up being changed by the harshness of reality. The author is able to use the imagery to show the difference between innocence and the loss of it. The setting is also used to show this as well.
Alice Walker, the author of an essay “In Search of Our Mother’s Garden”, is a famous American writer and activist. She speaks for the rights of people and helps the offended while supporting revolutionists and leaders whom she considers to be bringing change to the world and seek for its transformation. Her essay, “In Search of Our Mother’s Garden”, dedicated to the struggle of African American women, is based on the feminist insights of the author. Based on her own experience, the experience of others, and the historical events, the author reveals the topic of the suppressed talent of African American women, of their lost artistic skills resulting from slavery and the imposed on them role. However, Walker point out that somehow the dark past has not completely damaged the creative power of the mothers and grandmothers since it has manifested itself in the small things they did for the people they loved.
