Journal 4 I am reading Crossed by Ally Condie and I am on page 252. This book is about Cassia looking for, and eventually finding Ky in the Carving. Early on, Ky escapes into the Carving with his friend Vick and a little boy named Eli. They navigate the channels, paths, and caves, trying to find a way back to the Provinces, so Ky can reunite with Cassia. Meanwhile, Cassia and her friend Indie also travel amongst the canyons.
Rusty Crowder Period 2 Quarter 2 Commentary #1 The Long Walk by Stephen King Pages 1-25 (Chapter 1) The story starts off with the main character, Raymond Davis Garraty. He is a 16-year-old boy from Maine. The only one competing from Maine, where the long walk takes place, and is supported by big crowds of people.
As he looks to leave he notices that the free staters have secured the bottom floor as a base. He stays there without anyone noticing until he knew he had to go. He tried slowly leaving quietly at night as he passes two guards at the front the trucks pulling in, revells him he takes off getting pierced in the collar bone with a bullet. As he was chased most of the way till they lost him, half way through the town. He makes it back to camp barely able to talk.
Characterization of General Zaroff In Richard Connell's “The Most Dangerous Game”, the main antagonist, General Zaroff is characterized as intimidating and predatory. Through the use of vivid descriptions and dialogue, Connell effectively creates a sense of fear and danger surrounding Zaroff. The general's predatory nature is highlighted through his admission to hunting One way Zaroff is indirectly characterized as intimidating through his description, “..almost bizarre quality about the generals face… his eyes were black and very bright... sharp-cut nose, a spare, dark face, the face of a man used to giving orders, the face of an aristocrat” (30).
White calls for back up inside the Customs house, eight British soldiers come to help support White. The next couple of minutes were chaos; the crowd starts to throw rocks snowballs, and other hardened objects. An attacker threw a wooden club into the face of Hugh Montgomery knocking him off his feet. Montgomery shot of a warning shot, but it didn’t help because he was hit again by another attacker. Montgomery had no choice, raise his gun towards his attacker, [Richard Palmes] fled the scene, but others held their ground.
Annotated Bibliography McCarthy, Cormac. The Road. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006. Print. The Road is set in a grim atmosphere.
The person had to deal with death and the reality of war under the worst case scenario. Bob “Rat” Kiley was that soldier and one of the many soldiers that left something in the war. He had lost his friend Curt Lemon and that’s the first sign that the war has been turning to be painful for him. This coping mechanism for the death was to write letters to lemon’s sister and he shot a baby Water Buffalo. This coping mechanism is seen in the chapter “How to tell a true war story”, shows how he has been affected and explained the toll the war had taken on him.
The Body Silent, by Robert Murphy, was published in 1987. The story is about Murphy’s personal account of the physical and social changes he underwent after becoming a quadriplegic. Robert Murphy was an anthropologist at Columbia University. In his early career, he spent a year observing indigenous tribes in the Amazon with his wife. In 1972, Murphy experienced a muscle spasm that was later realized to be a symptom of a growing tumor in his spinal column stretching from the C2 vertebra to the T8 vertebra, leading to partial paralysis; he underwent a few surgeries to reduce the size of the tumor, but eventually his paralysis spread until he was fully quadriplegic in 1986.
The Road, written by Cormac McCarthy, is a novel that follows the journey of a father and son traveling south to escape the post-apocalyptic scene they were unfortunately put in. The father and son are survivors of some unnamed disaster that has occurred. As time passes by there is less and less food. There is also a lack of plants and animals. Other than scavenging for food, the only means of survival for some is cannibalism.
The fact that the bunkmates would go as far as to kill an animal because of the smell and his age is showing that their first reaction is to kill in the quickest way possible. Whenever Lennie gets found out by George and he wants to end
To Change is to Grow Through the book “The Road” by Cormac McCarthy the boy and the father show a great amount of change and maturity, while also learning to adapt and love. The story has a good balance of how different events can affect and impact someone's life in either a good or bad way. There are many events that change the mind and heart of the boy and father, but change can only be helpful if you learn from it and mature out of being afraid for things to happen. The stories main idea is very tragic in a dark, grey world where nothing ever good happens and instead of learning to live your preparing to die.
Jane Dailey’s “Sex, Segregation, and the Scared after Brown”, published in The Journal of American History, couples religion, sex, and the struggles of segregation during the civil rights movement. More specifically, Dailey addresses the language of “miscegenation”; asserting that religion was a vessel utilized by both sides of the segregation argument (Dailey 122). For the believing Christian, segregation of races was of “cosmological significance. The Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education sparked much controversy in the religious word, mainly with those who supported segregation.
February Non-Fiction Book Report Fried, Richard M. Nightmare In Red. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. Print. The book, Nightmare In Red, is about the McCarthyism era and the upcoming of the House Un-American Activities Committee.
Why did they rejoice when an ‘enemy’ was met with it? Why were they wanting it for themselves? Even my own mother would rather him die than have her son save a life; I simply couldn’t comprehend it. As soon I managed to wriggle my arm free from her grasp I was off again bolting towards the site of the crash. I wasn’t thinking of how I was to save him, I just knew I had to try my absolute best.
In the short story “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves,” author Karen Russell develops the narrator, Claudette, through the use of five “stages” to show her progression from her wolf identity to the human culture. This short story follows a group of girls raised by wolf parents through their journey at St. Lucy’s, which is a rehabilitation center for human children raised by wolf parents. Throughout their time at St. Lucy’s, the girls are expected to experience five distinct stages as they adapt. Each of these stages is described by a fictional text entitled The Jesuit Handbook on Lycanthropic Culture Shock. The nuns at St. Lucy’s use it as a guide for teaching their students.
