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Cultural implications of children's literature
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During World War II, a period of complete violence and outbreak between nations, there are many heroes that have endured through harsh brutalities. In Laura Hillenbrand’s monumental book Unbroken, she writes about the real life story of Louie Zamperini. As a young child, Louie was very mischievous and dangerous.” Hillenbrand states,” He hit one kid so hard that he broke his nose. He upended another boy and stuffed paper towels in his mouth… Louie beat one kid so badly, leaving him unconscious in a ditch, that he was afraid he’s killed him (pg 10).”
It was very difficult to survive in the wild. Ms. Moore adopted the wolf, named Ayla. Ayla raised from the day it was born by Ms. Moore in the way tamed dogs. Ayla was raised by Ms. Moore and the USFWS staff for almost a year. Ayla spent weekdays at work and weekends and evenings at home with Ms. Moore.
In the book a few days after Jeannette had begun school Mexican girls had followed her home and jumped her. Their reason being because Jeannette was proven to be more intelligent than them and was a “teacher’s pet”. While she was jumped the Mexican girls pulled her hair, teared her clothes, and verbally bullied her during the process. After that event she went home with scraped knees and elbows and a cut lip. When she talked with her father she lied to him by saying she battled more girls than the amount she really fought and acted tough to impress her father.
In her book, From Out of the Shadows, Viki L. Ruiz argues the contributions to history that was made by farm workers, activists, leaders, volunteers, feminists, flappers, and Mexican women. She explores the lives of the innovative and brave immigrant women, their goals and choices they make, and how they helped develop the Latino American community. While their stories were kept in the shadows, Ruiz used documented investigations and interviews to expose the accounts of these ‘invisible’ women, the communities they created, and the struggles they faced in hostile environments. The narrative and heartfelt approach used by Ruiz give the reader the evidence to understand as well as the details to identify or empathize with.
The Inclusion of Unbroken in the DCHS Curriculum Unbroken, written by Laura Hillenbrand, tells the story of a war hero named Louie Zamperini. Louie is challenged with pure evil and the trauma of the gruesome prisoner-of-war camps of WWII. Laura writes this book about the setting of WWII. In this time many soldiers of the war were taken into prisoner-of-war camps where soldiers experienced unbearable treatment. Louie Zamperini is among the soldiers who became prisoners of war.
The book Amy Carmichael Rescuer of Precious Gems , is about the ups and downs of missionary life for Amy Carmichael, who missioned to India. Amy dedicated her life to helping Adults and childern of Japan and India find christ. She gave up having a husband and children of her own to give young girls and boys in India a home. The life of Amy Carmichaelwas very inspiring, but she faced many hardships wherever she lived. She lived in many places: Ireland, England, Japan, and India.
Daisy Bates, the author of "The Long Shadow of Little Rock", is a civil rights activist, newspaper writer and an officer in the NAACP. In the book, "The Long Shadow of Little Rock", she writes about the hate, anger and segregation of blacks in Arkansas. The book is presented more as an autobiography of the author herself, although the story of the integration of nine black students in the Little Rock Central High School in 1957 takes spotlight in the book. Bates mentions about the hardship of her and the nine other students in the effort to defy local segregation and bring integration in the school, as well as in the whole of the US. The author has been able to provide the facts of what racial prejudice was back then in the
The Book of Mormon Girl, is a memoir about the life of the protagonist, Joanna Brooks. Brooks gives us an insight into one of America's most captivating yet misunderstood religious traditions. From early on in her life, Joanna Brooks always understood that being a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints made her different form others. She knew that she was different but not in a bad way but rather in a special. Joanna brook’s memoir traces her faith journey beginning with her childhood in a secure and idealistically orthodox LDS family in Southern California to an adult woman.
Daisy Bates was the author of a memoir titled The Long Shadow of Little Rock 1962. Bates discusses the trials and tribulations she faced throughout her childhood and into adulthood. Daisy Bates helped nine African American students, known as the Little Rock Nine to desegregate Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas in the fall of 1957. She published a weekly African American newspaper, the Arkansas State Press. Bates also became the president of the Arkansas chapter of the National Association for Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
Silence on the mountain was a book written by Daniel Wilkinson. In his book, Wilkinson chronicles the guerilla warfare and massacres that occurred in Guatemala during its 36-year conflict, starting in the late 1950s with a U.S backed rebellion that installed a militaristic government, overthrowing the one that was already in place. During the conflict, hundreds of thousands of people were killed and disappeared. Wilkinson sought to discover the untold stories of the conflict, which had not been covered to the extent that it should. One of the periods in the conflict that Wilkinson focused heavily on was the early 1980’s because Wilkinson tried trying to search for the story behind a destroyed house which was located in a plantation.
Carlos Ruiz Zafón's first novel, El Príncipe de la Niebla (The Prince of Mist, 1993), earned the Edebé literary prize for fiction. The author of three more novels, El palacio de la Medianoche (1994), Las luces de Septiembre (1995) and Marina (1999). The English version of El Príncipe de la Niebla was published in 2010 and followed it closely by La Sombra del Viento (The Shadow of the Wind) - a story "about accursed books, about the man who wrote them, about a character who broke out of the pages of the novel so that he could burn it, about a betrayal and a lost friendship. It’s a story of love, of hatred, and of the dreams that live in the shadow of the wind" Keywords: Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Barcelona, The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, Daniel Sempere, Clara Barcelo, The Endymion Myth, Wasteland Myth, Time and memory, Julian Carax THE ILLUSION OF REALITY- AN EVALUATION OF CARLOS RUIZ
As Helen Keller once quoted, “Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.” Laura Hillenbrand’s Unbroken tells the life story of Louis “Louie” Zamperini. Through his troubles as a child, emerged a strong-willed Olympic runner, who later became a military aviator. He was lost at sea and then captured by the Japanese as a prisoner of war. He endured years of abuse and suffering but still managed to stay true to who he was.
In the short story “Tunnel” the author, Sarah Ellis, introduces the narrator, Kenton, who is a teenage boy. He desires to have wild and adventurous jobs in the summer but unfortunately can only have the contradictory job as a babysitter. While babysitting, Kenton takes Ib, a six-year-old girl, on an exploration mission where they find a tunnel. In the past, Kenton, who is claustrophobic, went into this same tunnel and was extremely frightened. When Ib goes into the tunnel, Kenton has to face his fears once again to make sure Ib is safe.
This is a story about a boy who moves to a new town, and is getting used to the environment. He had to overcome the burden of peer pressure, and he was in much need of God’s salvation even though he was from a Christian family. The title of this book is Message of the Mountain. The author of the book is Matilda Nordtvelt; the book is a Christian fiction.
Night on Bald Mountain by Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky (1867) was written in 1867 during the Romantic period. This orchestral tone poem was inspired by Nikolay Gogol’s short story “St. John’s Eve” which chronicles the witches’ pilgrim to Bald Mountain to await the arrival of their lord, Satan. Mussorgsky’s A Night on Bald Mountain is a very dark piece which uses several musical elements such as dramatic contrast of dynamics, pitch, chromatic harmonies and discords to create an exciting and twisted story. It is a beautiful work that depicts the style and characteristics of 19th century Romantic music.