“Soldier’s Heart,” by Gary Paulsen is a book about a boy named Charley, who joined the Civil War at age 15. As Gary Paulsen was writing this novel in 1998, the novel becomes impacted because Gary Paulsen only had second hand information about the Civil War, which could cause inaccuracies in the story. He tries to be as accurate as he can by using real life accounts to make this story believable. This book shows how the ideas that people believe are appalling may be needed in survival situations. In the story Charley was ordered to kill Confederate horses to give the sick soldiers meat around the Washington camp that were dying of dehydration and starvation.
In life, people find different ways to cope with their issues. This is the case in “Vaclav and Lena” by Hayley Tanner, where the main characters Vaclav and Lena face many obstacles, but use their imaginations to help them deal with the struggles they face in reality. This relates to the quote “Imagination is the one weapon in the in the war against reality” by Jules de Gautier, because Vaclav and Lena use their imaginations and dreams of better things to come, to ignore the problems they currently face. Vaclav and Lena use their imaginations and dreams of the future to forget about their issues momentarily, and to be able to postpone dealing with them.
My thesis would be about Trying different roles and gender role-playing while the experimenting with one’s sexuality. “Exchanging Hats” by Elizabeth Bishop is a whimsical poem about experimenting with pushing gender dress to the limits of acceptability. Hats are customarily used to define a person’s role in society or profession. This poem uses that mantra to depict the different roles that people play, and the different hats they wear to emphasize those roles.
The story is a historical fiction and it is taken place at Owl Creek in Shiloh. The story is about a boy which is the drummer boy of the Confederates [which lead the surprise attack on the Union] who thinks he's not important to the war but he is what drives the soldier's courageous into battle. The story consists of symbols which may be something in a story that has a meaning. In the story the general states that Joby is important to the battle.
The story begins in a grocery with the main character and his grandson exchanging conversations with several other men. The reader is led to believe that the main character knew the people prior to the events of the story. He is speaking pointedly of his exploits during the civil war. The second and final part of the story occurs in the veteran’s barn. The barn catches ablaze and the farm animals are stuck inside.
“The Bracelet” by Yoshiko Uchida is about a young girl and her family is sent to a camp during WW2. Before leaving for the camp, the young girl Ruri's best friend Laurie showed up to her house and gave her a bracelet. She gave the bracelet to Ruri so Ruri would never forget about her while at the camp. While at the camp, Ruri lost the bracelet that Laurie had given to her. She looked everywhere for it but could not end up finding it.
“The Bracelet” by Yoshiko Uchida is a short story about Ruri her mother and her sister(kiko), They all lived in Berkeley The country was in the middle of a war with Japan. They were sent out of their home to a Japanese concentration camp. There Laurie gave Ruri a bracelet, then ruri lost the bracelet She continues to look for it but she never found it. Through the action of the characters Readers understand that it's better to lose and remember than to lose and forget.
“The Bracelet” by Yoshiko Uchida is about a girl named Ruri who has to be evacuated to a Concentration Camp with her family. Before Ruri leaves for the concentration camp her best friend(Laurie Madison) gives her a bracelet so that Ruri doesn’t forget her. She promised Laurie that she wouldn’t lose the bracelet but when she gets to the camp she notices that it is not on her wrist, she spends a long time in a panic trying to find it until her mom finally says she doesn't need anything to remember Laurie by because she will always be in Ruri’s heart. Through Ruri’s feelings, she needs to realize that, No matter how far apart from one another, can always have a stronger friendship. At the beginning of the story, Ruir and her family are being evacuated from their house because of a war that is going on.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's in "Purple Hibiscus" and Elie Wiesel in "Night ," both employ various literary techniques to develop their ideas and influence the views of readers. While they address different social and political contexts, they both hope to bring about awareness and change in their societies. The authors of these books develop their themes through their own personal experiences during times of political and social, and how they were able to overcome the challenges they faced to impact their readers. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's novel focuses on the main characters' experience in a strict abusive oppressive religious household.
Summary Injured by a gunshot to the side of his neck, Inman, the main character, slowly heals in a Confederate hospital full of dying casualties. Inman loathes the war— he does not see the purpose behind it and only recognizes its misery. He recalls earlier memories with a woman named Ada, with whom he shared a romantic relationship prior to his conscription into the Civil War. Following the advice of other patients, Inman escapes the hospital in an attempt to reach Ada’s farm. Whilst on his journey, Inman meets a variety of different characters and encounters several war-time situations.
examples from the text. Identity and society’s expectation is a double edge sword of prosperity and disparity. Society since creation as dealt with issues of identity. According to the Webster Dictionary, identity is the condition of being oneself or itself, and not another. The identity or race plays a major role in how society categorizes a person or group based on their identification.
In a footnote, Hawthorne explains that Mr. Joseph Moody, who lived in Maine, also wore a veil, though unlike Reverend Hooper, the protagonist of Hawthorne’s story, he did as atonement for accidentally killing one of his friends. On a bright Sunday in the town of Milford, everyone is walking to church as usual: happy children, flirtatious young men and women and married couples. As the townspeople take their seats, the town sexton notices the Reverend Mr. Hooper walking to church, and cries out, surprised, that he has something on his face. The townspeople turn and look at Hooper as he approaches the church. Many cannot recognize him, but the sexton insists that it is Hooper.
“She had no dresses, no jewels, nothing. And she loved nothing but that; she felt made for that. She would so have liked to please, to be envied, to be charming, to be sought after.” In the short story The Necklace, Guy de Maupassant unspoken theme of discontentment was evident in the life of Mathilde Loisel. She was one of those beautiful and charming girls who felt she was born for all the delicacies and luxuries in life.
By Irodakhon Abirazakova “Miss Brill” is a short fictional story which was written by Katherine Mansfield in 1922. Personally I don’t really like this story, because it is very confusing and very hard to know what is going to happened, and what is going on this story. Miss Brill is a main character of this story, which is a little bit in mind. She is also the most faced character, the narrator describes her with different sides, which helps us to see her several sides of her nature. She is described as an old woman who lives in a small flat.
¨The Bracelet¨ by Yoshiko Uchida is about a Japanese girl named Ruri. Ruri and her family were Japanese/American families during World War 2. Ruri is sent to a relocation center and they are forced to move out of their home because she is Japanese and the U.S. Government is at war with the Japanese and they think all Japanese people could be spies. Her friend Laurie gives Ruri a bracelet as a birthday present when she leaves to move. After she moves to the relocation center Ruri finds out she had lost the bracelet and gets upset.
