The Westing Game is a story about a old man “dying” and creating a game for his heirs to play. The young girl , Turtle Wexler , was the only heir to figure out Westing’s fourth identity. When all the other heirs were left staring at the beginning red herring known as the Westing Game. He gathered them all up and divided them up into teams and gave them a set of clues to solve the puzzle which the answer was Berthe Erica Crow. Though there are many differences there are also many similarities.
She credits her success to her mother’s lesson of the power of invisible strength. She recounts how “my mother taught me the art of invisible strength. It was a strategy for winning arguments, respect from others, and eventually, though neither of us knew it at the time, chess games.” (p. 89) Waverly goes on to have a lucrative career as an attorney, while her mother 's power over her gradually wanes reminiscent of the Taitai’s power over Lindo.
They had the potential to become friends, both having similar backgrounds. However, June resents Waverly’s achievements and Waverly
Mastery Assignment 2: Literary Analysis Essay Lee Maracle’s “Charlie” goes through multiple shifts in mood over the course of the story. These mood are ones of hope and excitement as Charlie and his classmates escape the residential school to fear of the unknown and melancholy as Charlie sets off alone for home ending with despair and insidiousness when Charlie finally succumbs to the elements . Lee highlights these shifts in mood with the use of imagery and symbolism in her descriptions of nature.
Sometimes in life a loser is actually the best kind of winner. The Lottery takes place in a small village where everyone knows each other. It is good to know a lot of people, but some characters may have a different side to them. Two people that showed different emotions to the story are Old Man Warner and Bill Hutchinson.
At first Waverly was curious as to why a stranger would want to play with her, but she gave in and looked at her mom for a sign of approval. Waverly narrates: “A man who watched me play in the park suggested that my mother allow me to play in local chess tournaments. My mother smiled graciously” ( Tan, “Rules of the Game”). Waverly’s mother allows her to go and play chess with an old man showing that
Unlike Merryweather High, Glen A. Wilson High School is located in the lovely city of Hacienda Heights, California, where the sun shines bright and rain is scarce. Having the sun out literally brightens everyone’s day, so being sad on a sunny day is quite infrequent for me. I believe that weather do indeed impact one’s mood and how they feel on a day-to-day basis, so Melinda’s mood changing with the weather is possible. One difference between the high schools are the structure of them. Merryweather High was set indoors with halls and lockers while Wilson is out in the open and lockers are nonexistent.
The circumstances in which a child is raised can affect their feelings towards literature. If parents are supportive of a child’s education, they will grow up with more happiness towards learning and reading. For example, Jeannette Walls, in her memoir, The Glass Castle, tells how though she was raised in poverty, her parents supported reading. In the same way, Eudora Welty, in her memoir, One Writer’s Beginnings, explains how she was raised in a loving home by parents who completely supported reading. Whereas Walls was raised in poverty, Welty was raised with money.
Oh well, she had played Sam Westing’s game, now she would play Turtle’s game. The similarity was astounding; Turtle not only looked like her Uncle Sam, she acted like him.” What is the mystery you might ask, the mystery deals with murder of the Mr. Westing (also known as Barney Northrup, and Sandy McSouthers, and Julian R. Eastman). In the mystery sixteen people were chosen to find out who murdered Mr. Westing. All of these people were relatives or friends of some sort and one of the sixteen people was the murderer.
She thought that maybe she could have convinced them to let her stay anyways but they refused. She had to spend another night out in the woods, in the dark, alone. One thing that had been different this time was she had become used to the idea of being alone in the woods as she says, “I’d become used to feeling safe in the woods, safe even through all the nights” (Strayed 156). Overcoming fear is a huge step in having the ability to be courageous and embrace the
The author introduces the approaching storm: “There is something uneasy in the Los Angeles air this afternoon, some unnatural stillness, some tension”. Describing the weather as unnaturally still, having tension, and being uneasy, indicates the people’s response to the anticipated storm. She continues describing the storm’s violence as well as the people’s violence stating how an attorney “shot and killed his wife, their two sons, and himself” and how a divorcée was “murdered and thrown from a moving car”. Meanwhile, “the San Gabriel fire was still out of control, and the wind in town was blowing eighty miles an hour”. The storm causes chaos in the environment as well as in the people.
Franny talk about their life 's and what they have both been up to. They spend it by critique each other on how they should act and what they should not do. Franny tries to play the role of a good girlfriend listening and paying attention to what her boyfriend Lane has to say, but there bickering at one other cause Franny to argue with Lane on how she hates people that are phoniness and just wants to fade into the background and be a nobody. Throughout the story Franny 's comments on how a person has to act a certain way because of the social standards that are set. She spends her time in the story abiding by the standers and commenting on them causing her to have an emotional breakdown.
People are changing throughout their life because they gain new experiences that make, the way they see things differently. Hazel Elizabeth Deborah is also known as Squeaky is the main character in Toni Cade Bambara’s story “Raymond’s Run” had a unique experience with his brother that changed her view on him. Squeaky is the tough girl who has two important tasks in her agenda; to be the fastest runner in the neighborhood and to take care of her sick brother and even later coaching him into a champion. Squeaky has traits of a woman with the appearance of a fast teenage runner. She has many positive features, She is a tough girl “I much rather just knock you down and take my chances even if I am a little girl with skinny arms and a squeaky voice” (59) that also accepts responsibility of her brother, Raymond “All I have to do in life is mind my brother Raymond, which is enough” (59).
Brent’s job of building whirligigs affects his role, making him a larger being. This also works in chess. When a pawn moves to the end of the board without being killed, then it can become a queen. Fleischman also puts a paradox into the topic of chess with Brent thinking himself as a king when his last name is Bishop. Ultimately, the chess game symbolizes that everyone has a role to
The women start to take action which demonstrates their belief that the bingo game will solve their problems. Coming together in the church, the sisters decide that they are “gonna work this out on our own,” so they can go to the bingo (Highway 62). The women are not used to working hard for what they want but are able to work together to raise money for bingo. They are no longer talking about change and just waiting for it to happen. They have finally taken the initiative to create the change they want to see happen by working together to raise money.
