I read the book called the Wednesday wars by Gary D. Schmidt. The book is about a boy named Holling Hoodhood who is in seventh grade and his teacher, Mrs. Baker. The story takes place mainly in school or at Holling’s home. The first main event is when Holling finds out he is the only one that doesn't leave school early on Wednesdays because of Hebrew school or catechism. Also, when Holling let the rats go, it caused a lot of trouble through the story.
In "Rogue Farm," Charles Stross tells the story of Joe and Maddie 's encounter with the farm, a creature who is not a unique being but rather a collection of individuals. Because of the farm 's monstrous looks and lack of resemblance to humans, Maddie and Joe instantly develop a sense of hostility towards it. Maddie especially takes issue with the farm. She screams at it to get off Joe and Maddie 's property and is terrified by the farm, which causes her nightmares. Maddie is also bothered when the farm starts planting down feeder roots so that the farm could blast off to Jupiter.
Hester Prynne and John Proctor were very similar in certain aspects, but when you dig deeper into their lives you find that they differed greatly. They both lived in the Puritan settlement of Salem, Massachusetts. Many deeds that were committed, such as adultery, were viewed as a sin and offenders were punished. Also, during this time period the Salem Witch Trials condemned people for participating in witchcraft. This was the cause of Proctor’s suffering.
In Jason Hartley essay “I Jailor” two aspects of human behavior that we see demonstrated in this essay is superior behavior and cowardly behavior. The reason I say Hartley essay demonstrated the behavior of superior and cowardly, because of the behavior that Hartley demonstrated in his essay. The first example to show that Hartley was showing superior behavior is when Hartley said: ”A messy configuration where detainees, local civilian contractors, and politicians along with ICDC clowns “(864). The reason I say the statement is a perfect example of Hartley showing superior behavior because to me it sounds like he feels like he is better than everyone at the jail because he is a U.S. citizen and U.S. shoulder. If Hartley did not refer to Iraqi
In "Rogue Farm," Charles Stross tells the story of a unique creature, called the farm, entering the lives of Joe and Maddie. Set in a futuristic society, the farm, who is a collection of individuals rather than a unique being, is a product of symbiogenesis. The farm is attempting to go to Jupiter to join a collective. In the beginning, Joe and Maddie both dislike the farm and work to get the farm off their land. However, the farm fails to listen and starts planting roots for trees next to the stream, which is close to Joe and Maddie 's property.
The characters make this an interesting journey that will have readers wanting to read more. This novel tangles the lives of two men from different racial and social backgrounds who are in different directions of their lives. Juke Jackson and Malcolm Wade create a bond and help each other through their struggles. They both are facing relationship struggles back at home. Wade was always there for Juke when he needed him.
Criminal is a powerful word. It is to showcase that one has done something wrong. One, who has not succeeded to stay within the laws. When comparing to the book The First Stone, Reef Kennedy had made a terrible mistake which had affected many others as well. As he spends more time at the North Hills Group Home and the rehabilitation centers it is helping Reef not to fall back into his original habits.
I believe the protagonist in this story was the principal. Even though he's rarely talked
Greg Graffin’s Anarchy in the Tenth Grade represents the in-group theory presented by Gordon Allport. The in-group theory proposes that people belong to cliques, some by choice and others by chance, and society affects or has influences on these in-groups through equal out-groups. Mr. Graffin explains how it feels to be a new kid in a new school and how he became a punker. Mr. Graffin explains his endeavours through the in-group “punk” and also expounds on how different out-groups react to his in-group.
Tangerine: it’s not only a citrus fruit, but a county in Florida, a middle school, and the title of an amazing book: Tangerine, written by Edward Bloor. The protagonist Paul Fisher “Eclipse Boy” or “Mars” has to fight through being kicked off the soccer team for being visually impaired, being bullied in school and not only in school, but by the antagonist, his dissolute brother Erik Fisher. He also has to constantly hear about how opinionated his dad is about his brother Erik and the “Erik Fisher Football Dream. In the beginning of the novel the readers can sense character traits that are different between Erik Fisher and Paul Fisher.
Blanche Barrow’s My Life with Bonnie and Clyde recalls the personal account of the Barrow gang. This book is a gathering of Blanche's memoirs that she wrote while in prison from 1933 until her death in 1939. The memoirs were edited by John Neal Phillips. The memoirs highlight the moral weakness of Blanche and loyalty to her loved one which ultimately led to her descent into a life of crime.
The book I chose to read for my book review was “ Killing Mr.Griffin”. It is about 5 high school students who hate their english teacher Mr. Griffin and come up with a plan to kidnap him. Their main purpose is to just torture and make Mr. Griffin think he is going to die. The plan takes a tragic turn and results in Mr. Griffin's death. The plan simply falls apart in a domino effect of terror and grief.
Gilman also highlights a lack of identity of the narrator through the setting of the novella which reflects the narrator’s societal confinement. The protagonist is surrounded by “hedges and walls and gates that lock”, which create a sense of separation that the narrator feels from others and the outside world. In addition, the room in which she is confined contains a “heavy bedstead, and… barred windows, and then that gate at the head of the stairs, and so on”. These physical and ‘prison-like’ restrictions imposed on the protagonist clearly demonstrate her lack of freedom. Additionally, Gilman’s use of syndetic listing to describe the narrator’s physical entrapment is perhaps reflective of her feelings of suffocation and her inability to escape as the list feels never ending.
What Scorsese did differently was that he made male protagonists vulnerable again, just like they were in the old mobster movie days, but in a bit more realistic way Scorsese produces movies in a way that, according to Kolker, he „Determines our point of view and our emotional and intellectual attachment to the film. We are therefore, scarcely allowed any separation from what the central character is seeing. “ (218). He even does this directly by breaking the fourth wall twice in Goodfellas, and therefore making us feel as though we are the acomplices in all the things that were happening in the film. And we all know that it is very hard to judge ourselves effectively.
The characters in a story. They are hard to bring to life, yet a story would be incomplete without them. I love to write, and I often don’t have troubles creating my characters. But what makes every character stand out is that special thing about each and every one of them. That’s one thing that I loved about “The Book Thief,” by Markus Zusak.
