There are four Walls children that are ages sixteen, thirteen, twelve, and seven. The children live at 93 Little Hobart Street, Welch, West Virginia with their parents, Rex and Rosemary Walls. Their gray and yellow house sits high up off the road where the front is angled toward the street. The living conditions in this home are not suitable and are a hazard to the family. The exterior of the house includes a rotting wooden porch and stairs with spongy floorboards.
The First Part Last is a novel about this teenager named Bobby and how teenage pregnancy affects his life. The story goes from then to now every chapter and, and at the end of the book, the then and now meets up. Bobby Impregnates a teenage girl named Nia (his girlfriend). The story talks about how they make it through this rough time. Near the end, Nia starts to get eclipse, which girls have a chance to get when they are pregnant.
Schooled by Gordan Korman is about a boy named Capricorn Anderson who learns about that there are friends to back you up, friendship and reveals that you shouldn’t be pushed around because your friends are always there to stand up for you. Capricorn Anderson is not an average 13 year old. He has never had any friends or been to school with others. He was homeschooled all his life with his hippie grandmother, Rain. All he had was Rain, but when Rain breaks her hip, Capricorn has to go live with the Donnellys and go to C Average Middle School.
The book I read was Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson. The title of the book represents so much of the entire book even though it’s just one simple word. The main character, Melinda, was raped at a high school party while she drank too much. She later called the cops and lost all of her friends. After the party, she was an outcast.
How does one become a man? Have you ever wondered if you are truly a man? In the novel, “The First Part Last,” the main character, Bobby, wonders if he would ever become a man. Bobby is a sixteen year old teenager who was careless and impregnated another teen named Nia. Bobby decides to raise the baby himself after the mother goes into an irreversible vegetative coma.
As my brother plays in his tournament for high school basketball I hear my mother screaming at him. She's telling him to try harder, run faster, rebound more, and to have fun. Although it is a tournament and everyone wants the team they are for to win, they also all want those boys to have fun. Sports aren't always about winning. Especially since these boys are still in high school, they're just kids.
In this little story Annie Dillard is trying to say work instead of being lazy basically. She said " Doing something does not require discipline; it create its own discipline- with a little help from caffeine". Dillard was basically saying you have discipline yourself. Don 't be hard on yourself while being discipline. Anne Dillard was making a great
In the book Life as We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer, the psychological lens can be used to take a closer look at the main character Miranda’s mannerisms and how they change throughout the book. The psychological lens is used to look at how people or characters think and why they think/act the way they do. For example, at the beginning of the book, Miranda is quite happy-go-lucky and is mostly in a good mood. In the weeks leading up to the moon shift, she became less nervous than others around her because she had just been annoyed with her teachers for giving her homework on the moon and the reason she wasn’t as worried was that she tended to suppress her emotions in a way that shows she doesn’t care. Because of this, to some other people,
Finding your true passion can brighten your mental health and change your life. Especially if that passion is art, just like Melinda Sordino’s. Trees in Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, serve an essential purpose as an object that symbolizes Melinda Sordino's mental health, and the growth that follows. Ever since she has been assigned trees for her art project, her life began to change. When she draws trees, it acts as an important reflection and checks in with her inner mental health and mind about the issues and feelings she is experiencing.
One night, one party, one person, one call, that is all it takes to change somebody’s identity and shape them into the person they truly are. Melinda Sordino is the victim of a horrible night that changed her life. In the novel speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson, the main character Melinda is faced with many challenges. Melinda attended a party the summer before ninth grade. She wasn’t thinking about the consequences that come with drinking, she was not thinking about how one little action could ruin her relationship with those around her,one action that could shape her identity into who she truly is, one action that she would be to traumatized to tell anyone about.
Imagine yourself being a young teenage girl who’s been raped and now suffers from it. In the novel Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, tells a story about freshman, Melinda who experiences high school in a way nobody should experience it. The summer before Melinda’s before freshman year, she had experienced an assault at a party. Ever since that situation had occurred, Melinda’s suffers being bullied at school, has problems at school, and struggles with issues at home. Nobody at school will talk to Melinda including her “friend” since forever, Rachel Bruin.
There is no better way to have a well-being future than having a quality education. United States has provided us with different colleges for education for those who want a successful future. Colleges have helped students improve in their education throughout the years and also has made kids get jobs they have been wanting for their whole lives. College kids have experienced wide ranges of activities in colleges and have opportunities to explore different subjects or courses. College helps students develop into mature, responsible, and independent adults.
Ever. "(Young 53 When Lacey returns, Sloane is horrified at what Lacey is, "washed out", hollow and empty. Unable to grieve properly for the loss of the girl she once knew, Sloane deliberately burns her arm on their gas stove so that she can cry in her own home, in front of her parents. " ...
The article “ 4 Easy ways to create social impact right now (+ 4 tools that can help)” written by Anita Leffel and published on Engage July 27, 2016, made me reflect on the importance of been active in our community and to be aware of the social problems that affect our community, such as homeless, racism, gun control, income inequality, and many more that need extra attention. It is important to protect our communities and create social change even when things seem difficult to achieve. When I look around the city of Chicago I encounter many homeless. This is a social problem that I wish I could do something to help and find a way to get them out of the streets. Anital Leffel motioned that volunteering our time is an important step to
During the era in which this short story was written, southern authors had a major influence on the way the culture was going to grow with racism, and also the way people loved each other. Kate Chopin, a traditional author who believed in southern ways, exemplifies how race and the characteristics of conditional love played a role in her story. In “Desiree’s Baby,” the author, Kate Chopin, provides an illustration of conditional love exemplified by the character, Armand, towards his wife and child; furthermore, Chopin provides instances of irony, elements of surprise, foreshadowing, and symbolism to prove that Armand’s love for both of them was not the unconditional love typically felt and portrayed by women, such as Desiree, during this era. Throughout the story, the readers notice different times where Chopin uses elements of surprise. One major surprise is when Armand opens the letter from his mother and finds out that he has African American in his bloodline.
