In the story Long Way Down, Mikey Holloman has the biggest impact on Will. Mikey Holloman is Shawn and Will's dad. Will approaches his dad when the elevator stops at the 4th floor. This may be the most impactful character, because Will did not know his dad well, but Will’s brother, Shawn did. Shawn and Will were very close, so Will might trust his brother through his dad.
Faragher won six awards from three of his works, “Sugar Creek: Life on the Illinois Prairie,” which won the Early American Republic’s annual book prize; “Daniel Bonne: The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer,” which was awarded the annual book prize of the American Round Table of New York, Angeles Times Book prize for biography, and the State of Kentucky’s Governor’s Award; “The American West: A New Interpretive History,” which won both the Caughey-Western History Association Award and the Western Heritage Award of the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum. Faragher also was awarded a Graduate Mentoring Award from Yale in
A long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park explains the story of a boy named Salva who lives in Sudan and must flee from war and desperately trying to find his family again. First, a young eleven year old boy named Salva who lives in Sudan, is a Dinka, and in 1985, is in school one day, when his village is attacked, forcing him to flee into the bush. The group Salva was with left him, but an older lady living near by gave him peanuts and let him stay in her barn. Salva found a group of his own people and later, a man named Buksa found a beehive and they all ate the honeycomb. A boy named Marial became friends with Salva, and to Salva's joy, Salva found his Uncle, but in the night Uncle woke Salva and told him that Marial was gone.
The book “The Road on Which We Came, by Steven J. Crum is a chronological report of the Shoshone peoples, and their history during the times from the Frontier to present-day. The main objective of Crum’s writings is the disposition of the Western Shoshone people. Unlike the majority of other Tribes, forgotten in history books as they assimilated into white society, the Western Shoshone have preserved their existence by cautiously dealing with settlers, defending their territory, and maintaining a large portion of their lands. From the initial mid-nineteenth century white contact, Crum describes the disruption of a way of life for the Newe, to the accepted need to adapt in the large modern society around them. The depiction of the Newe people as resilient and resourceful in the fight to preserve their culture and tradition, all while adapting to the forcefully changing environment around them (Crum, pp.
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and his first book was a long way
Jaylin Mashack American History Honors 1 Period 3 July 23 , 2015 David Gaub McCollough born July 7, 1933) is an American author, narrator, historian, and lecturer. ] He is a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award and a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States' highest civilian award. Born and raised in Pittsburgh, McCullough earned a degree in English literature from Yale University. His first book was The Johnstown Flood (1968); and he has since written eight more on such topics as Harry S Truman, John Adams, and the Brooklyn Bridge.
David Laskin—a graduate from Harvard College in 1975 and Oxford University in 1977—earned a degree in history and literature as well as a master’s in English. He has devoted twenty-five years of his life to writing nonfiction and producing articles for various magazines, including The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, among others. As an author and freelance writer, he has produced numerous, notorious works, including his latest title, The Children’s Blizzard, which earned him the Washington State Book Award as well as the Midwest Booksellers Choice Award in 2004. Among his other famous works lies The Long Way Home: An American Journey from Ellis Island to the Great War. The monograph focuses on the lives of twelve renowned
Saunders has won the National Magazine Award for fiction four different time along with several other awards. Saunders is a very successful writer and continues to write award winning
★★★★★ A Long Walk to Water is a creative non-fiction story about the life of one of the Lost Boys from South Sudan during the Second Sudanese Civil War. The primary character, Salva Dut, relates his life from a pre-teenager wandering with groups of other war victims from refugee camp to refugee camp, and then to his new home with his new family in Rochester, New York as a young adult, and finally back to his family of origin in Sudan. Ultimately, Salva creates an organization that digs wells, the ultimate gift of life, for small Sudanese villages. The book opens with Salva daydreaming during Arabic class. Jolted back to reality by gunfire, Salva obeys his teachers who say not to run back home to their villages but to run for the bush instead.
Born in Johnstown, New York, Richard Russo's first interest-which was writing fiction-was sparked at a very young age, this interest carried with him throughout his youth and in 1980 Russo received his PhD in American Literature at the University of Arizona. At first Russo wanted to specialize in writing academic nonfiction, but decided shortly after working on his dissertation that he was more interested in writing fiction. He spent a year putting his fiction writing skills to the test while at the same time working on his dissertation. This led to Russo earning his master of fine arts degree in creative writing in 1981. Not only was Russo a proclaimed fiction writer, but was also a former fiction writer at the Southern Illinois University at Carbondale and a former professor of creative writing at Colby College in Waterville, Maryland.
A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park is a biography about Salva, a Dinka boy, who loses his family in the war. Salva goes on a long journey and travels to New York and finds his father. A theme present in the story is family will protect you, which will prove to be important to Salva’s story. A piece of evidence that proves the theme is "If it hadn't been for Uncle, Salva may have gone crazy with fear."
He can never escape the things he experienced and can only make sense of it through his writing. He seems to be successful in
Every Trip Is A Quest For many people who study literature almost all works of literature are related to eachother in some way or another. The most common relationship found between texts is some structure of a quest. In Thomas C. Foster’s book How to Read Literature Like a Professor a quest is described as “[consisting] of five things: A quester, a place to go, a stated reason to go there, challenges and trials, and a real reason to go there”(3).
As my senior year in High School is nearing its end, I still have a few important goals to accomplish. I want to get fives on my three AP tests (Calculus BC, Chemistry, and Physics C), so I can go into college with some credit for my intended major chemical engineering. I also want to learn as much as I can in these last couple months to better myself for the future. My final academic goal is to finish the year off with all A’s. I want to finish my senior year as strong as my past years.
