Dead Girls Don’t Lie By: Jennifer Shaw Wolf Summary Losing a friend could be devastating, but thinking your friend was murdered and being the last person they talk to can leave a huge amount of guilt. The book Dead Girls Don’t Lie is about Jaycee losing her best friend Rachel. In the eyes of Jaycee she thinks her best friend was murdered in an old house in the woods, but the police think her death was an accident.
Dorothy Must Die by Danielle Paige is a piece of fantasy. The main character in this book is Amy Gumm. Amy is transported into the world, Oz but the heroes are villains, and the villains are heroes. In Oz dorothy faces, witches, fairies, munchkins and flying monkeys. To get back to her mother, Amy has to, steal the scarecrow 's brain, remove the tin woodman 's heart, and take the lion 's courage.
In “The Cellar” by Natasha Preston is about a 16 year old girl named Summer Robinson. She lives a fairly good life, and nothing extraordinary has ever happened. The setting takes place in present time in a small town called Long Thorpe but mostly in a cellar. A community where nothing bad really takes place, until young Summer is alone is taken. She is brought to a different aspect of a new yet drastic life of thriller.
Exposition: Rachel Watson takes the same commuter train every morning and sees this home with the perfect couple until one morning she sees something unusual. Rising action: The day after Rachel sees “jess”, not with “Jason” as she though were their names, she is with another man. Rachel hears on the news that “Megan Hipwell” the babysitter of Rachel’s ex-husband’s child which she thought was named jess is missing and she immediately thinks that she is with that man she saw Megan with that night. The night of the disappearance of Megan Hipwell Rachel had also been drinking as usual ever since she couldn’t have a child and got divorced to Tom Watson, had woke up the next morning with bumps, bleeding and bruising why was that?
The documentary, A Death of One’s Own, explores the end of life complexities that many terminal disease patients have to undergo in deciding on dying and dignity. It features three patients, their families, and caregivers debating the issue of physician-assisted suicide or pain relief than may speed up death. One character, Jim Witcher has ALS and knows the kind of death he is facing and wants to control its timing. Kitty Rayl is suffering from terminal cancer and wants to take advantage of her state’s Death with Dignity Act and take medication to terminate her life. Ricky Tackett, on the other hand, has liver failure and together with his family and caregiver agrees on terminal sedation to relieve his delirium and pain.
Conscience is the feeling inside one 's self that alerts them that something is wrong. This can sometimes be overpowered by stronger external forces such as a powerful authority figure, surrounding circumstances, or the belief that what they did was correct. Through, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, Hannah Arendt argues that for the first time the world has encountered a different kind of criminal- - one that blindly followed orders from superiors and was made to believe the anti-Semitic ideology, although it could have been any ideology. Similarly, in her work, A Human Being Died That Night, Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela claims that the actions of ordinary citizens could be influenced by surrounding practices and drive people
Picture book review: Stolen girl August 2015 ‘Stolen girl’ written by Trina Saffioti and illustrated by Norma MacDonald, is a touching, emotionally stirring picture book about the tourment a young aboriginal girl experiences when she was taken away from her mother, by the Australian government. The story takes place in a children’s home and is told with the use of small bursts of detailed paragraphs and intense, colourful and melancholy illustrations. Written for 8-10 year olds, the purpose of the book represents the experiences of children who were a part of the stolen generation in the 1900s-1970s. In this time period it was government policy in Australia that each indigenous Australian child was to be removed from their families as the
Ellery Queen is a pseudonym for two cousins named Manfred Lee and Frederic Dannay, who were both born in Brooklyn in 1905. Lee would eventually have seven children and Dannay would have three. Through hard work and cooperation these authors created several prominent mystery stories. The men started writing after entering a mystery writing contest for amusement when they were younger, and to their surprise, won! That very writing contest aided them in creating some of the greatest mystery books and the organization, “Mystery Writers of America.”
Hidden Girl by Shyima Hall (with Lisa Wysocky) tells the story of Shyima El-Sayed Hassan, who was sold into slavery when she was eight years old; however, she learns how to use her experience for good, and spreads the awareness of how slavery is still a huge problem today. Shyima was born on September 29,1989 in a small town near Alexandria, Egypt. She was the seventh of eleven children, causing her family to live in poverty. In Egypt, not going to school, being poor, cheating on your wife, and selling your children were seen as normal, as okay. After her sister Zahra was accused of stealing money from the family she worked for, Shyima was sent in her place.
Overcoming obstacles is different for everybody. People have different perspectives from each other situations. In the story The Gravedigger’s daughter, by Joyce Carol Oates, Rebecca Schwart overcomes an abusive husband and becomes an independent woman. Rebecca Schwart born in New York harbor after her and her family flee Germany in 1936.
“Was insanity just a matter of dropping the act?” - A heavy question that is, when you think about it, almost impossible to answer. ‘Girl, Interrupted’ ponders many questions such as this, and although it doesn’t give us all of the answers, it serves as some reassurance, that none of us really know. The narrator, Susanna Kaysen, begins writing with an already complicated chain of events following her.
“Talking to the Dead” is a short story by Silvia Watanabe. According to her biography, she wants to save the stories that represent their community. In “Talking to the Dead,” we can find four main characters: Aunty, Clinton, Yuri and Yuri’s mother. Aunty and Clinton have a relationship mother and son quite peculiar. Although Aunty prepares her son since he was a child to continue in the family trade when Clinton becomes an adult, he markets his mother’s occupation and “brings the scientific spirit of free enterprise to the doorstep of the hereafter” as the author narrates it.
(3536) The Girl Who Could Fly Chapters 8-14 In the book, “The Girl Who Could Fly,” by Victoria Forester, the protagonist is a young girl named Piper McCloud. Piper has the astounding ability to fly. She was sent to a secret institute run by the government to learn and perfect her talent. The purpose of her going here is also to keep her safe.
Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkin is a novel known for its suspense, detail, and strong grip on the reader. With the use of imagery, the book comes to life, making the reader have both a clear picture of what the characters are thinking and also experience what they experience. For example, Rachel, the main character, suffers from severe depression and alcoholism. Throughout the book she describes summer days with “beautiful sunshine, cloudless skies, no one to play with, nothing to do. Living like this is harder in the summer when there is so much daylight, so little cover of darkness, when everyone is out and about, being flagrantly, aggressively happy.
Have you ever imagined what it is like to see the world, a single person or an event with different lenses? When two or more people have different opinions about the same person or event, it is like they are seeing a certain situation through different lenses, with different points of view. For example, Rachel thought that Megan was a model or a fashion designer based on how she looks and Anna thought that Megan was a very bad person because she killed her own baby, while Megan in reality, did not kill anyone. Tom also thought that Scott, Megan’s husband, was a bad person because he had been drinking enormous amounts of beer recently while Scott has had problems at home. The theme “People have different opinions about the same people and events”
