In chapter 5 of The Blue Sweater, which was written by Jacqueline Novogratz, Jacqueline was a good listener who drew my attention. Novogratz explains that the only way to create a good business was to listen to the people who work with you. Jacqueline was ready to learn from the Rwandan women by listening to whatever thing they had to say. “On the other, I began to understand that I could have listened better, for listening is not just having the patience to wait, it is also learning how to ask the questions themselves” (86).in order to make a successful bakery business, she went to a great depth to listen to the African women. After reading chapter 5 of the blue sweater, I remembered that I witnessed one event
Summary At the beginning of the book, it tells us that a woman named Sarah De Vries’s DNA was found at a farm in Port Coquitlam. She was a prostitute and was one of the 26 women found at the farm after being missing for 4 years. They continue the book by telling us her childhood, Sarah was a mixed raced child who was adopted into a white family. She had 3 other siblings, Maggie (1961), Peter (1963), Mark (1967 but adopted in 1978), then Sarah (1969 but adopted in 1970).
Frank left his home and went to the store, and Lois found him crazy when he came back home. In chapter23, Jackie had a quarrel with Laura. Also, she found the love relationship between Alma and Frank(chapter 26). In chapter 24, Curtis was bullied by some
Cinder by Marissa Meyer is a book that is loosely based of off the story of Cinderella. Cinder is a cyborg, mechanic in New Beijing 126 year after World War IV. She lives with her two stepsisters and her stepmother. They all live in a time with a disease called Letumosis or the Blue Plague which is killing many. The doctors are trying to find a cure and use cyborgs as test subjects.
The main characters in this story are mack,missey,nan,josh,papa,little lady killer,willie,jesus sarayu and sophia. Mack is the father of kate,josh,and missy. He is also the husband of nan. He is willie 's close friend.
Discovering Herself Deadly by Julie Chibbaro is about a young girl named Prudence, that follows her ambition to become a scientist, in New York, 1906. Prudence desires to become a scientist to stop the many illness and deaths she has seen. She gets a job as an assistant to a scientist and works to track down the Typhoid disease. It was being spread by a healthy carrier, Mary, who is too stubborn to believe she is spreading the disease. This job takes Prudence through many journeys like her first love and a terrifying court trial.
The book I chose for my book report is called Blue Bloods by Melissa De La Cruz. The reason why I chose this book because the cover caught my eye, then read the back and thought was interesting story. It a fictional story about the blue bloods which later learn means vampires. The story begins with a girl named Schuyler Van Alen, who is being raised by her distant grandmother named Cordelia. Her mother has been in coma for nearly all of Schuler life.
All stories have a protagonist and then the minor character's. Protagonist, the main characters stand by character. Although we already know that every book contains minor characters, But do your know they are their for a reason. Minor characters who have been involved with the main character's make their thoughts and opinions on them. How the minor character's act, how they reflect the protagonist's personality and how they change them in a way as well as perceive.
One day life could be phenomenal, living the dream as an Olympic runner, then as the next sunrise peaks over the horizon one could wake up in as a maltreated hostage in a prisoner of war camp. As Laura Hillenbrand composes Unbroken she insinuates a characteristic of Louie Zamperini throughout his successes in his life before war and his dismal battles as a captive. His journey began in Torrance, California where he interacting in his youth as a juvenile delinquent; however, his path made an adjustment for the better as he turned his focus to long distance running at his high school. Soon after progressing his way through his career in running, achieving an Olympic appearance, Louie was transformed into a U.S. Military soldier to fight in
Cinder Book Analysis Many people hide the truth, or just lie to get out of a situation. This may provide pleasure for a small amount of time, but the truth could be revealed. In Cinder by Marissa Meyers, Out of My Mind by Sharon Draper, and society, the lesson that concealing information, which is thought to hide unfavorable characteristics, can cause detrimental circumstances is learned by Cinder and Rose, and is shown in society. Sixteen-year-old Cinder is a cyborg and an exceptional mechanic.
In the book Renegades by Marissa Meyer, many things happen throughout the book that many will find interesting. This story follows two main characters, Adrian Everhart and Nova Artino/Mclain. In this world, there are these people who are prodigies with superpowers that they either inherit or are born with. There is also a Council that is made of the best superheroes or Renegades, all around the city that this book takes place in and the son of the top two Council members is Adrian Everhart with their leadership skills and the ability to make whatever he draws come to life. There are also villains in this world of heroes called the Anarchists and within these villains is the niece of the formerly ruler of Gatlon City during the Age of Anarchy.
Cress is one of the many books of the Lunar series written by fiction writer, Marissa Meyer. It introduces a new character that goes by the name of Cress, a representation of the fairy tale Rapunzel. She finally escapes her space prison with help of Captain Thorne, Cinder, and a few friends already made in the previous books. The story centers around Cinder, a classic teenage cinderella who is as well a cyborg that has recently found out she was the long lost princess of the Lunar planet, home of the beautiful, but cruel, Queen Levana. It is Cinder’s duty as princess to stop the queen from take over Earth and corrupting her home planet any further.
She explores themes such as identity, oppression, community, and power through the views of a black feminist, and she treats these themes with the expression they deserve. She is a solitary voice in a genre dominated by white males and she brings emotionality, passion, and optimism to Science Fiction. One of her more popular novels, and fourth to be published, is Kindred. This book uses time travel as transportation for exploring the terror and torture of the occurring South. The main character, Dana, is a modern black woman who has both slave and white ancestry.
Most think of "story" and remember the characters. Usually, a book is remembered by the characters who are in it and their individual vindications. Contrary to popular belief, individual characters are not what make a story memorable, or even a story at all. It is the the setting that molds the story in it's entirety. The setting is by far the most underrated yet essential part of a story.
Divergent Roth Veronica. (2011). Divergent. New York, Katherine Tegen books, www.Divergent.org, 500pp. (First edition).
