The speaker in the poem “Prelude to Jumping in the River” by Katia Grubisic, uses his observations of a man preparing to jump into a river as a metaphor for making important decisions. The speaker presents instances of metaphor in the moments before the jump, the unpredictable outcome of the jump, and in the possibility of missing the jump. When the speaker witnesses a man standing at the edge of a river preparing to jump he reflects on how “the mental preparation takes some time” (4-5). Comparably, careful thought and anticipation are also involved when approaching significant decisions. Certainly, the speaker’s observation addresses how responsibly handling a major decision is a lengthy process that requires careful consideration.
Death, fear, famine, the Revolutionary War was one of the darkest times in our history. Time Enough For Drums written by Ann Rinaldi, is based upon a family living throughout the Revolutionary War and the consequences within it. John Reid, one of the main characters keeps this book very interesting and makes me want to keep reading and reading. He is kind of like me, I always try to make everything interesting and make it fun. He helps the other main character Jemima Emerson throughout the story.
Instead of going to school, she had lessons at her house every Monday, Wednesday and Friday afternoon. She “resorts to every sort of trickery she can think of to get out of lessons” (Rinaldi 6). Furthermore, when she managed to actually show up to lessons, she was never attentive. She sat there and waited for them to be over, never actually listening to what she learned. Also, she did not take pride in her etiquette, so Jemima was very improper.
The differences I see between these two poems can be found in the speakers. One is a first person speaker and the other is observing, but both are reflecting on the transformation from youth to adulthood. In “Quinceañera” by Judith Ortiz Cofer the speaker is growing up and becoming a woman. She must put away childhood and embrace womanhood. Take the first passage, “My dolls have been put away like dead / children in a chest I will carry / with me when I marry” (lines 1-3).
After the lost of both of her parents, 16 year old, Hattie Brooks has been handed down from one set of relatives to the next. When Hattie gets the opportunity to move on, she jumps. She has got the opportunity to take over her decided uncle’s property. Hattie moves to Montana and faces many challenges. She must learn how to cook, bake, wash, quilt, and find a way to fit into the community.
In the book, Time Enough For Drums, by Ann Rinaldi, there is a character, Jemima Emerson and she will show that there can be many character traits for just one person. Jemima Emerson shows a lot of courage throughout the story. She shows how your life can change from being good to bad in just one day. Example, her father has died and her loved ones have gone away. To overcome this statement, Jemima is a romantic , strong, and secretive person.
“My Music My War” is a book displaying the findings of a study done by ethnomusicologist, Lisa Gilman. Throughout the book, it gives insight to daily lives of soldiers during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Not only does it allow readers to explore the lives of soldiers, it also allows readers to examine how music affected the people in the midst of war. “My Music My War” exemplifies how musical listening can relate to a wide variety of topics, such as gender, politics, and trauma.
Many aspects of today’s America are governed by the logic of scarcity, as there is not enough wealth and jobs to go around, causing many people to struggle in competition to gain needed resources. Leslie Marmon Silko’s novel, Ceremony, showcases the pernicious effects the scarcity logic has on Native Americans, who are cast aside and forgotten in unfertile reservations. Silko contrasts the logics of scarcity in her book with harmony by sampling poems that pertain to the Native American culture. In the Arrowboy poem at the end of the book, sampled during the book’s climax, the main character, Tayo, comes to face the “witchery” of harmful logics and has the chance to combat and overcome them, succeeding in doing so by later sharing his
When she talked to him, she felt a sense of comfort, but guilt for treating him the way she did all of those previous years. Along with Scout, Jem also learned lessons from Atticus. Jem learned to have courage, even if the situation seemed impossible or hopeless. This played a part in Jem’s life when he didn’t want to help Mrs. Dubose. However, Atticus made Jem help her.
she yelled. “Jeremy Finch, Maudie Atkinson told me you broke down her scuppernong arbor this morning. She’s going to tell your father and then you’ll wish you never saw the light of day! If you aren’t sent to the reform school before next week, my name’s not Dubose!”(Page 104) This is a complete lie that never happened and she is just trying to get Jem mad.
Medina 1 Judy Moody Declares Independence is a book about a young middle school girl named, as you can guess, Judy Moody, who went to learn about the significance with in Boston Massachusetts and the foundation of our great inspiring government. She symbolizes the American colonist and her parents represent the king and his throne. Through out the story she try's to convince her parents to give her more privileges and rights. The symbolizes is extremely represented in the story, it's extraordinary. The symbolizing and themes are relentlessly repeated the messages across , “ work hard to achieve your goals” and is represented through symbolizes.
Teenagers in the 1960’s were facing a time of change with the civil rights movement and the development of hip culture. The lives of teenagers contrast the lives of their family because they are both adopting different personalities with different interests in music and activities. In the story Where are you going, Where have you been, Joyce Carol Oates 's depicts a specific example of the changing 1960’s middle class America by describing the story of a teenage girl named Connie who undergoes her own tribulation with a older man who attempts to take advantage of her body. Family relationships are one of the main cores of a character in characters as they act differentlly depending their situation, and most of the time teenagers are rebellious.
He was hard to live with, inconsistent, moody. His appetite was appalling.” (153). this shows signs of puberty and maturity, this causes Jem to lose the childhood innocence he used to have. This occurs near the end where he realizes something, “If there’s just one kind of folks, why can’t they get along with each other?”
While school may teach lessons, they are certainly not valuable life lessons. Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird repeatedly shows the ineffectiveness of the education system in a child’s morals. To Kill A Mockingbird takes place in the Great Depression era in Alabama, where education was not the best. Teachers would only seek to teach their classes average, everyday lessons rather than valuable life teachings.
One lesson in the book that I feel Jem learns as a part of growing up is moral courage. Atticus once told Jem that “courage is [not] a man with a gun in his hand. It 's when you know you 're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.” Jem had always seen bravery as important and often tried to show the courage in him but only learnt about what moral courage really was through a series events that took place in the book.
