The book I read is called ‘Revolution’ by Jennifer Donnelly. The story takes place in Boston, Massachusetts and Paris, France. The setting is important to the story because Paris is where the French Revolution took place and it is the place where our main character starts changing. It is about a girl named Andi. She is a senior in highschool.
Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America In the book “Ghettoside”, Jill Leovy talks about black-on-black crimes, which is a very relevant issue today in the United States, blacks are suffering from the lack of effective criminal justice system, the lack of cooperation from the witnesses, and how sickening it is for a family to lose someone because of homicide. An officer named John Skaggs, who is the main protagonist of the story. Leovy described John Skaggs as compassionate and relentless. Skaggs would be assigned to solve the murder case of Bryan Tenelle, a son of a homicide detective named Wallace Tenelle.
In Chapter 9 of Behind the Scenes, Elizabeth Keckley describes two very different reactions to liberty she witnessed while working among freed slaves. Some freedmen and freedwomen were miserable in the North, and even wished to return to their southern homes and their old lives. Others began building new homes and new lives for themselves, happy to be on their own and free. Keckley states that some slaves had exalted views of what freedom was going to be like.
Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds is a novel in-verse that is written about Will, a young boy desperately trying to get revenge on the person who killed his brother. But the book ends before we find out what happens. After the book ends I believe Will would bring his gun home and break the cycle of getting revenge. I also believe that Will's Dad was the most persuasive person in convincing Will to bring his gun home and not get revenge, this is due to Will’s Dad telling him his stories behind his death.
In the poem Heritage by Linda Hogan, Hogan uses the tone of the speaker to demonstrate the shame and hatred she has toward her family, but also her desire to learn about her family’s original heritage. The speaker describes each family member and how they represent their heritage. When describing each member, the speaker’s tone changes based on how she feels about them. The reader can identify the tone by Hogan’s word choices and the positive and negative outlooks on each member of the family.
Will’s brother Shawn broke down crying which showed Will that it is okay to break the rules and that getting revenge isn't the best choice because of its many outcomes and possibilities. Will's father, Mikey Holloman, is one of the influences in his life on why he won't get revenge on his brother's death. Will's father enters the elevator with everyone else. He talks about how Uncle Mark
The book “Runaway daughters: seduction, elopement, and honor in nineteenth-century Mexico” is the first book in the works of Kathryn A. Sloan. Other works by Sloan include “Death in the City: Suicide and the Social Imaginary in Modern Mexico” and “Women's Roles in Latin America and the Caribbean.” In “Runaway daughters: seduction, elopement, and honor in nineteenth-century Mexico,” Sloan uses 212 cases to study thus illustrate the view of sexuality, parental authority, family honor and the intergenerational conflict in Oaxaca de Juarez, South Mexico’s capital. In these cases, young men were charged by the parents of their partners with “rapto,” which she defines as “the abduction of a woman against her will by the use of physical violence,
The award winning novel Southland, by Nina Revoyr, clearly describes life in Southern California during the mid 1900’s. In this novel, Revoyr distinctly outlines the controversy between love, race, and murder. The apparent issues in Southland begin to show themselves through the narrative set in Los Angeles. Revoyr was born in Japan and moved to Los Angeles when she was very young. Born a white American, Revoyr was racially excluded by the white children and had a hard time fitting in.
Will father teaching his son that he just met a valuable lesson. Will’s father held at gun point by his father because from his father experiences of shooting the wrong person he does not want his son to make the same mistake. A prime example of selective memory is when Will said “the day before yesterday, when Shawn died, the moon was off. Somebody told me once a month the moon blacks out and becomes new and the next night be back to normal”(Reynolds 22). This quote shows that will select the memory from the day that his older brother died because he said the moon was shut off.
When he plans to get revenge, he goes into an elevator and his decision is quickly altered. In Long Way Down emotions affect the way that Will, Buck, and Frick all make decisions. Will’s emotions are affected by his brother dying, and also trying to get revenge. “ NO.3: Revenge/ If someone you love/ gets killed,/ find the person/ who killed / them and/ kill them.” (Reynolds 33).
Each character shares a commonality of being killed due to the ruthless cycle of gun violence. Every character plays a role in swaying Will’s decision of revenge. Certain characters had
In addition, Reynolds expanded on the concept of revenge by explaining, "If someone you love gets killed, / find the person who killed / them and kill them¨ (Reynolds 1-6). For example, on the fifth floor, Will learns that his Uncle Mark was a hustler and got shot by a competing rival. So his dad attempted to avenge Uncle Mark, but it turned out that he shot the wrong guy, and he joined his brother in the end, leaving his family without a loving father and husband. Ergo, Will has second
Home Is Where The Hurt Is Is home really where the heart is? When one knows the history of their hometown, can they truly still uphold the same level of respect and admiration? The speaker in “South” by Natasha Trethewey battles this obscurity as they return to their home, Mississippi. As the speaker returns home, physical features of the state triggers reminiscence. Though these attributes are what makes home so special to the speaker, simultaneously it causes the poet to realize the meaning behind it all.
From losing one’s brother due to the endless cycle of violence to having one’s innocence revoked for avenging his brother's death, Will has the choice between avenging his brother's death and losing his innocence as a child or ending the cycle of gun violence and keep living life as a normal kid should be. If he doesn't avenge his brother's death, he's breaking the neighborhood's rules. Everyone knows the rules, and they should never be broken. Jason Reynolds used the elevator in Will’s apartment building as a symbol of Will being trapped in his thoughts of wanting to get revenge on his brother Shawn’s killer, Carson Rigger. In the novel Long Way Down, the author Jason Reynolds uses symbolism, to narrate the main character, Will throughout
1. Introduction: Carbon dioxide (CO2) is one of the important green house gases (GHGs) emitted in the atmosphere through various human and natural activities. The human activities include rapid industrialization and urbanization, deforestation, excessive use of fertilizers in agriculture, excessive use of fuels, papers and many other manmade resources whereas natural activities include volcano eruption, forest fires, earthquakes etc. Emission of GHGs in the atmosphere leads to global warming which is one of the primary reasons behind the atmospheric changes that affect the human life directly or indirectly. The consequences of global warming are extremely harsh seasons, untimely rains, extended summers and floods that results in human deaths, destruction of flora and fauna in addition to the huge economical losses.
