In the novel A Week in the Woods, Mark, the protagonist of the story, keeps buying off of a website called REI. Mark is a fifth grader who has a very rich family that is moving out of their house. Mark has moved and in his new school, he has new teachers. However, one teacher in particular, Mr. Maxwell, has been tough on Mark. Mr. Maxwell greatly dislikes rich kids and believes that most rich kids are lazy, spoiled, brats.
Sharon Creech’s “Bloomability” has so far been captivating. The scenes in this story vary and bring a new perception with each location. Each chapter somewhat teaches a lesson and makes the reader think. One topic that is brought into perspective by Dinnie’s Aunt Sandy is opportunities and privileges. Aunt Sandy tells Dinnie that going to the boarding school for free is something that not many people can do.
The book 102 Minutes is a story of the fight to survive. Set inside the twin towers, authors Jim Dwyer and Kevin Flynn tell the haunting stories of both victims and survivors of the terrorist attack known as 9/11. Describing the morning before the attack, along with the lives of the people in the twin towers, creates an emotion connection between audiences and the text. This emotional connection evokes emotions of pity for the people impacted by this tragic event. By the biographers using the rhetorical device of pathos, an empathetic relationship is formed between audiences and the individuals in the passage, which sparks feelings of anxiety to see if certain people survived the attack, which opens the minds of the audience to other information and opinions that the composers of the text may present throughout the text.
As a result of the influence of fictional characters on a reader, the book One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest should not be taught. Fore it would be unreasonable to force students to inherit poor
The Lesson The theme of “The Lesson” by Toni Cade Bambara, is that learning can cause discomfort but if you never come out of your comfort zone then you will never learn. In the story it expressed how minorities are oppressed due to social inequality. All children in the story have dreams of their own but the education system in the lower social class is not equal to the education system in the higher social class. Children do not have the same opportunity to expand their knowledge because of social inequality.
Janet Madelbaum, on the other hand, was unable to reach the same privileged status, although her family managed to provide her the same elite education which Janet completed with success equal to Kate's (cf. 22, TEXT??????). After an outstanding critical publication – and several more mediocre ones – receiving tenure at Harvard should have marked the peak of Janet's career. Kate points out that Janet has “accomplished the highest, at least in the world's view, in the academic marketplace” (45). However, the English faculty at Harvard does not welcome her the way she was used from her old university where she had been “one of the boys” (59).
“Class” by Sherman Alexie is a story about a man, Edgar Joseph, on a journey to self-identification. While on this journey he experiences many different tribulations and encounters a multitude of women. The encounters with these women will reveal to the reader his selfless, barbaric, and lost personality. However, the experiences he had with women of his own descent provided a transformative experience that shows what he is looking for and what he truly values. Edgar’s selflessness can be seen through his mother.
Womanhood is something you don’t consider until it hits you- Laura Marling In the short story Girl; Jamaica Kincaid, paints a vibrant picture, of a young girl, who has just started her journey into an unknown world simply known as womanhood. Kincaid portrays a ‘mother’ character giving her daughter advice, drawing in the reader with “Wash the white clothes on Monday” (Kincaid 97). You get a sense of a mother who feels the need to start training up her daughter to become more of a woman and less of a girl, one that should “wash every day even if it is with your own spit” (Kincaid).
The following journal is over the short story “St. Lucy’s Homes for Girls Raised by Wolves” written by Karen Russell. There is a strong pack of 15 wolf- girls, who are sent to St. Lucy’s. They are sent by their parents because they are convinced by the nun’s that they are sending their children to have a better life. They are told that the wolf- girls will be made into naturalized citizens of human society. In the process of doing so, the wolf- girls are having to adjust to a new environment.
Molding of the Perfect Woman: An Analysis of Jamaica Kincaid’s “Girl” “…on Sundays try to walk like a lady and not like the slut you are so bent on becoming…” (Kincaid, 320). This phrase accurately represents the point that is being made in this passage. In Jamaica Kincaid’s piece, “Girl”, her mother is giving her advice on how to be and act like a proper woman. Her mother describes everything from how to properly do laundry to how to set a table for all occasions (Kincaid, 3-4).
“The First Day” by Edward P. Jones is a short story written in 1992. The short story is about an African American mother taking her young daughter to school for the first time. The daughter becomes ashamed of her mother because she sees where her education level is at. The mother is also ashamed of herself because she didn’t get education throughout her life. In “The First Day” the opening scene sets the tone for challenging the status quo and creating a life of success.
The story picked is What Means Switch written by Gish Jen. It revolves around the life of Mona Chang, an 8th grade American-born Chinese girl in New York during the 1960s. She meets Sherman Matsumoto, a new Japanese student who becomes her boyfriend. She battles Japanese, traditional and modern Chinese influences, in a western environment. The concepts derived from this short story are as follows.
In the assigned readings I have learned many things about descriptive narration. The first is that you can be too descriptive in which case the reader gets lost and does not comprehend the story. In I Prayed My Mom Would Leave I had to read the story 3 times before I was able to get the point of the story. Her descriptions were very tantalizing. The only thing I really like about this article is that Chadburn gets the point across very well in describing how her mother acted and the “Chasing Toast” part was very entertaining.
The Literal Mother versus the Figurative Mother: the difference in styles is all that matters “The Metaphor” by George Wilson illustrates two static characters: Miss. Hancock and Charlotte’s mother who both insist on their own principals throughout the story. Clearly, just like Charlotte’s mother, Miss Hancock is loving and caring, such that she renders herself the figurative mother of Charlotte who is respected and loved by her. However, the discrepancy between their styles of expressing their love makes Charlotte to favor Miss Hancock.
The background information of Fine Points, a short story by Andrea Lee is important because it is the basic information the reader should know in order to understand what will happen in the next plot, it introduces the characters, and tells where the story takes place. The background information that is conveyed by the author in this story is long enough, from line one untill line thirty four, but there are also some background informations that appears on the other lines. The background information introduces us to the two characters named I (the narrator) and Margaret. It also tells the setting where the characters live. The narrator (I) and Margaret are Harvard students that live in the same dormitory, on the fourth floor of Currier House.
