In the novel Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson, on page 280, Isabel thinks that Madam Lockton has “more than her share” of evil. This can be proven because of all of the evil things that she has done since she had bought Isabel and Ruth Gardner. On page 93, it states, “Madam brought the broom down on the small, twisted body. Ruth couldn’t raise her hands to protect herself.” This means that Madam Lockton didn’t care that Ruth was having a seizure and she started to hit her with a broom to “get the devil out”.
Laurie Halse Anderson used literary devices very well in the book Chains. One literary device commonly used is the simile. A simile is an abstract comparison where you say something, is like (as) something else. Laurie Halse Anderson uses a simile creatively to describe a woman “Her chin was narrow and pointed like a shovel.”
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 novel Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson is about 2 black children with no mother or father, trying to find their way in the world. Thier owner passes away and no one believes they are to be set free and they are sold to an awful family named the Locktons. They take the girls overseas to New York where they work for them. As it turns out, the Locktons are rooting for the king to win the war, not Washington. They are assaulted with questions which they answer with precaution.
Laura Hillenbrand’s narrative Unbroken, tells the story of Louis Zamperini, former olympic miler. The story begins with an explanation of Louie’s malicious childhood, where he often resorted to thievery and cruel pranks. When Louie entered high school, his mischievous acts would slowly diminish, and he would develop a new found love for running. In his high school years, Louie became a sensational runner, known as the Torrance Tornado. His development led to a running scholarship, and furthered into olympic achievement.
The book Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson, has two scenes where a river is brought up, but each have two different moods. In the first scene (pg. 147), the main character Isabel is in a stockade about to be branded. Several thoughts go through her mind like wanting to cry a river to escape to freedom, creating a depressed mood. In the second scene (pg. 167), Isabel is overhearing chatter around the tea water pump and notices some slaves arguing over which side- the patriots or the loyalists-they should choose to earn their freedom. At this point Grandfather, a character that regularly meets at the tea water pump, joins the conversation and gives advice, creating a mood that is reassuring.
In the book Chains by: Laurie Anderson there is many different opinions on liberty and freedom by both the loyalists and the patriots. Both had their own opinions and both did not agree with each others. That is why there is a war through the entire book. The Patriots define Freedom and Liberty as one who is a patriot does not believe in monarchie.
New technology made WWI significantly different from earlier wars since there were new and more powerful weapons, allowing them to kill more people and damage a country more. Other previous wars used insufficient guns where you had to get very close up and could not damage you a lot. Rifles and cannons were revolutionary to this war since without them they most likely would not have been nearly as many deaths—on both sides—than if the soldiers were still using early futile weapons. 2. The decline of the Ottoman Empire began in the mid-18th century when Enlightenment ideas were educated to people and enslaved people or hard laborers began to think about freedom.
The Olympic athlete Gail Devers once said, “Sometimes we fall, sometimes we stumble, but we can’t stay down. We can’t allow life to beat us down. Everything happens for a reason, and it builds character in us, and it tells us what we are about and how strong we really are when we think we could be that strong.” In Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand, Louis Zamperini demonstrated Devers’ words with the utmost determination when, even life was rearing its ugly head, Louis never gave up hope and survived being stranded in the Pacific for 47 days. In all, Louie’s determination was one of his greatest virtues and his life saving quality that Hillenbrand described in his story.
He felt abandon because his father had molested him and his other siblings at a young age. The mother knew about these issues but did not try to force any action to protect her kids and make it stop ( Brinson). Some days Tyler refused to go home, because of the violence he was experiencing. He would tell his mother lies like he was going to a friends house, or that he was staying after school for a while, so that when he got home his father would be gone to work. (Brinson).
The Decoupage Mysteries are a series of cozy mysteries by Jenn McKinlay the American author. McKinlay published Stuck on Murder the first novel of the Decoupage Mysteries in 2009 and went on to make the series a trilogy with Sealed with a Kill the last of the series coming out in 2011. Brenna Miller is former City Girl that once lived in Boston but has now moved to the small town of Morse Point in South Carolina. She had left behind a painful past to move to the country side where a friend had offered her a job in her paper shop. She has never told anyone about her terrible past that had left her untrusting of any seemingly violent person and even the police officers.
Alongside the deranged thoughts whispered from his Book-of-Revelations-crazed Mother, Tyler’s outlook is shaped by one other piece of literature, Station Eleven. Gifted to him by his father Arthur, Station Eleven heavily influences Tylers idea of “perfection” so much so that he is willing to go to battle armed with nothing but a handful of quotes. Station Eleven also later connects Tyler to Kirsten, who takes pity on him in his death, and lays his beloved book in his arms before continuing on her journey. The conflicting aspects of Dr. Eleven, and the words of God twist around Tylers mind like coiling snakes, and shape his view of the world into a dark and dismal story where only the strong
The second episode of The Wire is about continuing the investigation on Avon Barksdale and the drug ring that the gang is involved in. Major Daniels and the rest of his unit still have not seen Avon Barksdale. McNulty goes to Judge Phelan again about the case and almost gets himself in trouble. D’Angelo was brought in again but was saved by his lawyer. Chapter 2 from the book Social Inequality, Forms, Causes, and Consequences by Charles Hurst is all about the class system in America.
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.
Karen Hollinger is a professor of English at Atlantic University, an author and is also a very strong feminist. Hollinger’s essay, “The Monster as Woman: Two Generations of Cat People,” is an essay merely expressing how most monsters in novels or films are characterized as masculine identities and that viewers forget how powerful feminine identities in novels and films can be. Hollinger’s goal in this essay is to explain that feminine monsters are just as frightening all masculine monsters. She uses many references to movies with feminine monsters and expresses how powerful they are compared to masculine monsters and also expresses that males and females have castration anxieties. I think Hollinger succeeded in a sophisticated way because she
