In the story “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls raised by Wolves” by Karen Russell, the character Jeanette makes emotional decisions that led to different outcomes. Her decisions are impacted by many emotions, such as when she is prideful, Cautious, Lonely, Angry, Uncertain, Panicked, and revengeful, as she is led into terrible situations. In the story one can see many terrible instances that were caused by such emotions. For example, Claudette says, “The pack hated Jeanette/
Imagine walking down an empty, gloomy street deserted of people, engulfed with death, tingling with the sorrow for lost loved ones, and blanketed with the feeling of uneasiness and fear. Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson describes this world that the protagonist, Matilda Cook, a fourteen-year-old, lives in during the 1793 Yellow Fever epidemic in Philadelphia. The book outlines her life and how her personality and feelings dramatically change during the few months of the fever. Towards the beginning of the book, she is lazy and does not enjoy working, but in a few months when the fever turns her life upside-down, she has to mature and work extremely hard to survive.
In her memoir, Who Killed My Daughter (1992), author Lois Duncan, asserts that her daughter, Kaitlyn Arquette, was murdered by her boyfriend Dung Nguyen and the gang he was involved in, by suggesting that her boyfriend and his gang had a motive that unfortunately led in the tragic death of Duncan’s youngest daughter. Duncan supports her claim by providing the readers with numerous psychic readings by Betty Meunch and Noreen Reiner, that she partook in to get answers about the investigation of her daughter’s unexpected murder from her daughter herself; next, she provides the readers with the conversations and the multiple letters that she had exchanged with her local police department as well as with the Orange County Police Department about
The article, “Teens Against Hitler”, by Lauren Tarshis describes the challenges Ben Kamm fought while fighting with the the partisans in WWII and the courage he had while doing it. Ben wanted to continue living in his apartment with his family and play with his friends every day. But, the German troops forced them into a ghetto with 400,000 other jews.
In the poem, All The Dead Boys Look Like Me, Christopher or Loma Soto uses literary devices to develop the theme of feeling hopeless because people like you are hopeless. The speaker of the poem is a queer person of color. At the beginning of the poem, the speaker states “Last time I saw myself die is when the police killed Jessie Hernandez/ A 17 year old brown queer// who was sleeping in their car.” Soto uses a metaphor comparing the speaker to Jessie Hernandez because they are a part of the same community. Jessie Hernandez was shot due to their identity, which helps illustrate how the entire community is targeted when one person is making it difficult for most to believe they have a future.
Naivety occurs on every child. Every new experience washes away some of their naivety until there is none. In the short story, “The Stolen Party,” by Liliana Heker, the main character, Rosaura, is a nine year old girl that is full of naivety. She attends a birthday party that consists of people from a higher class than her; later, she finds out that she was treated as a servant worker. The abstruse concept of social classism plummeted on the young, innocent Rosaura.
When someone dies it is often assumed that the body is now useless and nothing but a decaying pile of bones. Yet author Mary Roach contradicts this assumption by arguing that the human body is perhaps the most useful dead rather than alive. Death may be brutal and difficult to cope with, but death is not at all in vain. Roach and other anatomists have objectified human cadavers by covering the body’s hands and face in order to bear with the natural emotional distresses of the human condition. As harsh as it seems, the death of one can potentially become the savior of the lives of millions.
All the Rage by Courtney Summers is a novel about a rape victim named Romy that lost her respect because no one wanted to believe that the town’s golden boy Kellan Turner raped her. The night after she attended a party, she woke up with no memory of the previous night and news that her former best friend Penny Young was missing. There is a huge mystery to solve with Penny Young that raises many questions about date rape drugs, rape and death. All the Rage shows readers that society doesn’t allow rape victims a chance for rightful justice portrayed by the preconceived notions that surround the main Character Romy, the setting of the novel and the theme.
Students can face a daily struggle in school, as each one has to study for specific classes to reach a certain goal. Each potential student would then have to choose a goal where he or she would want to reach and, because of that, he or she would push on to escape some item or idea of his or her choosing such as poverty, family or home. Over thirty years ago, Sandra Cisneros published The House On Mango Street, which is a novel made up of vignettes about a little girl named Esperanza and her journey throughout a year’s worth of hardships as a Mexican female. Unlike her mother, she is able to go to school and has the ability to decide what she wants to be and where she wants to go. In the novel, school can be a source of new opportunities through
R & R - The Graveyard Book My SIR book of choice is The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman. In the beginning of the story, Nobody Owens family was murdered by the man Jack. Luckily, Nobody (Bod) was able to escape from the man Jack. He crawled to the nearby graveyard, then was then raised by the warm-hearted ghosts in which the graveyard was occupied. As Bod grows up, he yearns to explore the outside world.
In Katherine Ann Porter's short story "The Grave," the final paragraph is Miranda reflecting on an incident that happened years ago, an incident she has never told anyone as a promise to her brother. Maranda and her brother, Paul, were out hunting for doves, rabbits or any other small animal they could find after visiting a grave yard that use to belong to their family. While in the graves they found treasure and not death as the bodies were removed. During their hunt when Paul shot a rabbit and open it up they saw that the rabbit was carrying life. Usually they would take the skin of their kill so Miranda could dress her dolls with it however during that kill she refused.
Struggles of Role Models on Mango Street Many people have other people in which they look up to, and often repeat that person’s actions while some of these role models could have something bad going on in their life. In the novela The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros the main character Esperanza looks up to many role models, all of which has something going on in their lives. Esperanza always has the dream of having her own home. Her family moves all of the time, and usually gets a non spacious apartment.
In the novel "The Lost" by Natasha Preston, the main character, Piper, learns the hard way that being cautious of her surroundings is crucial for her safety. This lesson is a valuable one that everyone can learn from, as being aware of the people and situations around us can help prevent dangerous situations. Firstly, Piper's experience shows that strangers can be dangerous. She meets a group of seemingly friendly people who offer to help her, but it turns out they have sinister intentions.
As I’m reading chapter nine of the book “Muhammad: his life based on early sources” by Martin Lings, I have found that this chapter his deeper meaning between the sentences. In this essay I’m going to analysis the chapter “Two Bereavements”. At the beginning of the chapter, Halimah takes Muhammad back to mecca. AS I have started to analyze, the reason for that is that she was afraid that wherever evil spirit that have possessed Muhammad, it will affect her and her family.
I read The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman. I would say the main theme of this book is death. I find that the main theme in this book is death because the child Nobody Owens “Bod” loses his family when they get killed by a man named Jack at age one. As his family is being murdered he sneaks out of his crib, out of the house and he wanders up at hill to a graveyard where he sees a woman standing who turns out to be a ghost and her husband soon appears to. They adopt him after his dead mother comes to them in the graveyard as a ghost and begs them to protect him from Jack and so they raise him as their own child.
