Suspense And Techniques In Hate List By Jennifer Brown
The article “Teens Against Hitler” by Lauren Tarshis shows many challenges that an innocent boy named Ben had to go through. The article also explains what acts of courage Ben made to get over these challenges. Ben was 18 years old during the plotting one of the darkest times in history. in 1939 German troops invaded Poland with shocking swiftness and brutal efficiency.(7) The german troops and hitler were trying to get rid of Europe's population of 9.5 million jews.
Children have grown up alongside their parents for generations, and humans have accepted the fact that parents greatly shape the growth of children. The memoir The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls and the novel The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas both explore a young girl’s journey through adolescence. Throughout each novel, influences such as parents and peers drive the development of Starr in The Hate U Give and Jeannette in The Glass Castle. However, in 1998 Malcolm Gladwell (a writer for The New Yorker) wrote and article about Judith Harris who proposed a theory that “peers trump parents” (Gladwell PAGE) as influences on children. Other parts of this theory were that genes of parents matter more than actual parenting style, and that kids try
This essay will discuss who Danielle is bullied by, how it affects her, and what can be done to stop it. First, she is tormented and mocked by her classmates, including William. "WILLIAM: What's with this stupid picture anyway?" says the text. It’s just pencil-crayon on a wall.
In The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas, Starr learns to accept herself, accept her community and to use her voice to promote justice in the world due to the relationships she has with others. Furthermore, Starr struggles to be her true self anywhere she is, in Garden Heights she is one person and in Williamson she is another but her boyfriend, Chris, helps her with this. He makes her feel comfortable enough to just be Starr around him since they met, “Ever since, I don’t have to decide which Starr I have to be with him. He likes both” (Thomas 83). Evidently, her relationship with Chris helps her to accept and be who she is because he is the first person that she feels totally comfortable with.
In the short story “Fear” by Gary Soto, and “The Case Study”. There are bullies that show to be caused by identity and choice. These bullies made choices that resulted in them being mean or rude in any way. “Fear” was about a kid named Frankie T. who had a broken home and no father, he was a bully at his school so he would hit kids and steal their lunches. “The Case Study” is about a group of popular kids (and then the whole school) who bully one person because of an opinion they had before.
Voting was not an option for African Americans until decades after the constitution was ratified. While the constitution gave them freedom, equality, and civil rights, it did not protect them from being viewed as second class citizens and from being treated unfairly. Even to this day, they are still discriminated against and treated/thought of poorly, not only by some people but also by some of the authority figures. If we use our first amendment rights, I believe that we can start a change in how oppressed minorities are treated by everyone. More awareness has been brought to this issue because of marches and protests that people are holding almost weekly.
In the novel “Hate List”, Valerie Leftman is to return to school five months after her boyfriend, Nick shot several fellow classmates in the school cafeteria. Most of the people shot were on a list Valerie and Nick made and called the hate list. A majority of the school community believes that Valerie was aware of Nick’s plan to kill the kids (she wasn’t aware) despite the fact that Valerie saved someone’s life and got shot in the process. In “Hate List”, Valerie and everyone around her must pick up the broken pieces of fear and sadness after the tragedy. This creates a story that is both universal and so unique that it will leave the reader changed on a fundamental level.
She uses metaphors to one, make the scenes in the book seem more grand, and also
In the novel The Hate U Give written by Angie Thomas, The main character Starr struggles with speaking out about the death of her childhood friend Khalil due to threats from gangs, police, and not wanting to betray her community. The novel is mostly about the crooked shooting of Khalil by a police officer, and how Starr reacts. Throughout this book, Starr deals with fear of speaking out about her friend’s death and what really happened the night of the crime. One of the biggest reasons for Starr's fearfulness of speaking out about the death of Khalil is because of the gangs within the community she lives in.
Among the ones she uses are appealing to a sense of humour, making herself relatable, and also making the reader feel angry with
In the short story “The Possibility of Evil” by Shirley Jackson, it is demonstrated that one can be unnecessarily cruel with their actions and thought without being aware of it through character’s actions, irony, and symbolism. Firstly, unnecessary cruelty is shown through the character’s action of Miss Strangeworth. Miss Strangeworth has written many anonymous letters to people in her town to help them. After she burned the pages over the kitchen stove to get rid of her mistake, She decided to write another letter, “perhaps to Mrs. Harper, to follow up the ones she had already mailed. She picked up a green sheet this time and wrote quickly”(Jackson 226).
In these two essays “School of Hate” and “Atonement”; Authors Sabrina Erdely and Dexter Filkins did an tremendous job on expressing the everyday problem our nation goes through on a daily basic. In “School of Hate“, Erdely pushes the issue of students getting bullied based on their sexuality, and also the issue of these students unfortually committing suidside .On the contrary, in ” Atonement” Filkins
How does the antagonist in the story you’ve chosen contribute to the story’s overall meaning? The “Rules of the Game”, by Amy Tan is closely link to the rules of life. The story mainly focuses on a mother teaching her daughter the tools to live in this world when she grows up. As a result, this creates lots of tension between the mother and daughter.
One technique she uses is foreshadowing. From
Topic Sentence Hunter S Thompson was an journalist that was different from the beginning, but not everyone was a fan or understood him. In the later years I haven’t seen much from him and seems that others have felt the same. Summary of Article 2 J.R. Jones (2008) wrote in an article, The Real Hunter S. Thompson, about the day that he committed suicide. The writer expresses that there hasn’t been anything done well by Thompson since the Nixon years. Jones goes on to list and elaborate on some of Thompson’s good work in his prime.
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