Letting Ana Go is an anonymous nonfiction diary of a 16-year-old girl suffering with anorexia nervosa. Throughout the diary, she writes about events that have occurred, her weight, goals, and feelings. On May 18 Ana starts her food diary with a goal of consuming 2,500 to 2,800 calories on the days she runs and 2,000 to 2,500 calories on the days she doesn’t. Ana’s calorie intake goes like planned until she goes on vacation for a week to Lake Powell with her best friend Jill and boyfriend Jack’s family with Rob. On June 17, the second day of vacation, Jill persuades Ana to reduce her calories to 1,200 per day with her.
In the poem, “Becoming and Going: An Oldsmobile Story” by Gerald Hill the speaker is traveling down a road in the Fort Qu’appelle Valley. He notices his father and his son are also driving down this road. The speaker then begins to list the two men’s characteristics. As he lists them we see that the father and the son have both similarities and differences in their personalities.
Gabrielle Roy’s, “The Move”, is a short story following an eleven year old girl on a journey to remedy her desire to travel across the Canadian Prairies. The image chosen displays a moving cart unloading boxes, while a door remains open, leaving the viewer to see a mystical land of adventure. The scene represents the protagonist’s desire to move, and her belief that moving homes will bring her to a magical place. Connecting this depiction to the rest of the story is simple because the protagonist often thinks about travelling across Canada, until she fulfills her dream and discovers that travelling doesn’t always bring you to a pleasant place. This image illustrating a moving cart dropping off boxes in front of a door leading
In her article "Out of Her Place: Anne Hutchinson and the Dislocation of Power in New World Politics" Cheryl Smith discusses how women of puritan New England were oppressed and controlled by gender roles. At a time where men were in power and women were controlled in an attempt to keep them from gaining any type of authority. Smith discusses Anne Hutchinson, a women on trial essentially for expressing her voice freely and forcefully. Hutchinson had over stepped her bounds as a women when she expressed religious beliefs different from those of the church leaders. Smith also discusses how some modern women still feel like women are not able to fully speak in public with authority and must make themselves seem small to keep from losing their sexual
Business Coach and TV Host Melissa Hull Gallemore Publishes Memoir The adversities and pain the author encountered early in life gave her the lifelong mission to mentor others and help them overcome emotional trauma. Lessons from Neverland (Dog Ear Publishing, 2016) by Melissa Hull Gallemore is a memoir that will inspire even the most hardened cynics, among others who could identify with the author who overcame tremendous emotional hurt, but not without continuing struggle. This compelling memoir is a must-read for people whose families or personal lives have been torn apart by disease, emotional detachment, abuse, and other traumatic events.
Let Me Go by Helga Schneider presents us with a story line of a young lady whose mother abandoned her. The reason for the turn away was because of the mothers turns to Nazism. She became a Concentration Camp guard as a corrections unit. In which she is in charge of all the nasty tortures and foul play that goes on in the Holocaust. When Helga and her mother meet again, Helga is filled with anger and one may say hatred towards her mother.
Almost 30 children were rescued off an island after their plane crashed about a month before on their return to England. They were returning on an airplane from a temporary boarding school that was designed like hundreds of others to avoid from involving children in this war. Ironically, this pack of children met their own misfortune. The boys were discovered very tattered and beat up, almost unrecognizable from their previous selves. Sadly, 2 boys perished on the island during this month, Simon Shayman and David Porkington.
If you are interested in reading about three boys getting turned into men, this book is for you. Gecko, Arjay, and Terances stories will reach out and grab you. From being in Juvie, to almost killing their supervisor, and standing up to a bully at school, these boys will touch your heart. This book truly is a story of determination and perseverance. It is amazing how far some hard work and control
The boys in the book start out fine, and civilized just like the people in the beginning of the experiment. Gradually both groups of boys and ¨prisoners¨ start to become more dark, and less human. They both make great examples of how your surroundings change the way you behave. It shows how even when there is the opportunity to become evil, there are still good souls who stay the same.
Four specific stories where disconnection shows through the most are in: “How to Tell a True War Story”, “Sweetheart
The book “Lord of the Flies”, by William Golding, consists of a group of British boys crashing onto an island and becoming stranded there. The boys are desperate to be rescued and decide it is best to elect a chief to guide them. Ralph is appointed chief, because his attitude remained calm about what was occurring. Ralph’s leadership skills are more democratic than anything else. The boys quickly begin to lose any sense of civilization and start acting like savages.
Only the Heart is a novel written by Brian Caswell, which portrays the journey of refugees fleeing their homeland on a boat after being befallen by post-war communism in search of the dream. The story follows the Vo family as they embark on a fishing boat away from Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City), Vietnam towards Malaysia before landing in Australia and the difficulties as well as the dangers they confront through their migration. There are common themes strongly incorporated throughout the novel, which establish personal connections within the teenage audience. Family, relationships and adapting prove to be a significant part of the novel where there are often incidents of loss and drama surrounding the Vo family, which introduce traumas that threaten to dissolve bonds and times where they are exposed to different circumstances when they arrive on foreign land on which they are forced to adapt to in order to survive, such as Toan’s first day in an Australian school. At some stage in their lives, nearly every teenager will experience or
In O’Flaherty’s “The Sniper” and Hardy’s “The Man He Killed” both works use plot, irony, and theme to portray the idea that war causes you to kill those you care or may have cared about. There are many similarities and differences In the plot of both “The Sniper” and “The Man He Killed”, there are many similarities and differences.
The short story “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” by Joyce Carol Oates is about a teenage girl named Connie who is in the midst of her adolescent rebellion. She wants to prove her maturity to others and herself. In the story, Oates describes that Connie always lets her mind flow freely in between her daydream. She even creates and keeps dreaming about her ideal male figure in her mind to make her happy and satisfied. Oates allows the reader to step into Connie’s “dream world” through the appearance of Arnold Friend.
In John Updike’s “A&P” and Joyce Oates’s “Where are you going, where have you been” there are multiple intriguing similarities and differences between both protagonists. Both stories involve an adolescent 's main character who goes through a type of struggle, however, the severity of their struggles differ greatly. “A&P” includes a young man named Sammy who loses his job grows an attachment to a small group of girls that are regular customers at the shop he works at. The situation in “Where are you going, where have you been?” is much more grim for the protagonist, a young teenage girl, Connie. She is put into a set of circumstances that put her life in danger.
