Someone once said, “don’t try to be perfect, just be honest.” What this quote is trying to say is that it takes bravery to be both honest and full of love. It’s better to be truthful with yourself and others than to try to be perfect because no one can be perfect. If you try to be perfect, you won’t have real loving relationships. Slob, a realistic fiction book by Ellen Potter, is about Owen, the protagonist, finding more self-esteem and forgiving the person who killed his parents. The fantasy book, The Girl Who Drank The Moon, is about a girl who’s growing up in a web of lies. Everyone tries to protect her by telling her lies, instead of the truth, which she needs. Love, bravery, and honesty can bring characters together. Characters provide love for each other during hard times. An instance of this is in the book Slob is when Owen’s parents die when he was young, and he has to accept the fact that the person who killed his parents will go unpunished. One example of how characters provide love for each other during hard times is when Zelda, a 911 operator, decides to adopt Jeremy and Owen: “We had nowhere to go to, no relatives, just a grandmother in a nursing home. Zelda stepped up and she’d take us in” (Potter 131). When Owen called the police to report what happened to his parents, …show more content…
Not only in Slob, but also in The Girl Who Drank The Moon showed how characters provide love for each other when needed most. This is shown when Zelda adopted Owen and Jeremy, and when Luna helps Xan get the help she needs for her health. Another example of this is when Jeremy tells Owen about Nemesis not being able to work and when Xan talks to Luna about her magic for the first time. Also, this is shown when Owen visits the store his parents were murdered in, and when Luna goes on a dangerous journey to save Xan. As one can see these pieces of evidence show how love, bravery, and honesty are needed in
The entire novel is about finding your voice and speaking up about something that traumatized you in the past. I believe that the author, Laurie Halse Anderson, wrote the novel to inspire girls of all ages to come forward and know they are not alone. Melinda, a freshman who just wanted to have fun the summer before her first year in high school, was raped
The valued of having a close friend in any situation that life might throw at you. For example, Jackson and Stuart had issues to get girls attention. Therefore, costing them to be caught between the panels of society. They have each other to comfort and advise
Based on what I have read in the story A Long Walk To Water I believe that place would have the most affect on Nya and Salva. Based on the story both Nya and Salva had to go different places to find each other. So place affects Nya and Salve the most. For example,In the book A Long Walk To Water The place that Nya and Salva were both in was at war. During Nya’s Both the Nuer and Dinka tribes were rivals.
The novel When She Woke by Hillary Jordan is about a 26-year-old girl named Hannah, who is trying to earn her life back so that it is normal, but who really knows what normal is anymore and who gets to say when you reach it. Hannah has committed the crime of murder for abortion, to match the crime she committed her skin has been changed to red. Nevertheless, in Hannah 's society, your punishment is having everyone know what you did considering the colour of your skin represents your crime. Flipping her life around Hannah must fight for everything she wants, including the love of her family, but mostly her mother. Hannah is a red, a murderer, Kayla is another red and one of Hannah 's only friends.
Alabama Moon is about a boy named Moon Blake (dubbed Alabama Moon by the general public), a recently orphaned boy. For his whole life, he and his father have lived together in the forest, away from the government. Now he's ten years old, with only what his father taught him and told him to do: 1. How to survive in the wilderness without having to rely on others, 2. Run away from the law (for him, the other way of saying “government”), 3.
She explains how happy, but conflicted because her parents refuse money from her and live as homeless people. She writes the memoir to work through her feelings and share’s her story. Some topics that I could identify in the text are: poverty, teenage pregnancy and child rights. The issue of poverty is portrayed from the beginning of the book to the end.
I read the book We Were Liars by E. Lockhart. It is a story about a young girl named Cadence Sinclair. This book has taught me a few lessons that are important for people of all ages. Lessons such as appreciate those you love and don’t make major decision while under emotional stress or the influence. E. Lockhart also known as Emily Jenkins has written six other books including a four book series about Ruby Oliver a fictional character.
When one is seeking a new voyage to self-discovery such as love, death, war, or even an exciting moment in your life, it’s a struggle to find yourself when all of these occupancies’ are happening. In James Joyce “Eveline” and Tim O’Brien “The Things They Carried”, the characters overwhelming circumstances of events have a topic similar to each other’s story, love. With comparing any two stories, there is differences in a few topics as well. James Joyce story “Eveline” is regarding about a young girl name Eveline.
Embrace All Emotions Have you ever lost someone you loved the most in your life? Did it leave you feeling numb? Luis, the main character in Judith Cofer Ortiz’s short story, “Catch the Moon,” experiences the agony of losing his mother and not being able to confront his grief for three years. This short story explores the topic of being able to do good once again only after confronting the bad.
Imagine being on the run from war for almost twenty years. Imagine finding a place where you think you are safe, but are later forced to move. One of the main characters in Linda Sue Parks’ novel, A Long Walk to Water, Salva, experienced this. Salva was once one of the Lost Boys of Sudan. The young man was constantly moving and had tenacity, but on his way, he lost many of those he trusted most.
Another element in this novel is Melinda’s inner conflict, man vs. self. What Melinda has been through greatly affected her everyday life. She struggles with depression, dislikes her appearance, and feels ashamed of herself for something that isn 't her fault: “I want to confess everything, hand over the guilt and mistake and anger to someone else...even if I dump the memory, it will stay with me, staining me” (Anderson 51). Andy Evans, the senior who raped her, made her feel worthless. This situation is much like the one in the novel The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins.
In Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” demonstrates the personal growth of the dynamic protagonist Louise Mallard, after hearing news of her husband’s death. The third-person narrator telling the story uses deep insight into Mrs. Mallard’s thoughts and emotions as she sorts through her feelings after her sister informs her of her husband’s death. During a Character analysis of Louise Mallard, a reader will understand that the delicate Mrs. Mallard transforms her grief into excitement over her newly discovered freedom that leads to her death. As Mrs. Mallard sorts through her grief she realizes the importance of this freedom and the strength that she will be able to do it alone.
Telling the truth isn 't always easy, but sometimes you just have to do it. Every kid grows up thinking Honesty is the best policy, but is it really? As you grow older, it seems that one loses that mindset. It 's not entirely bad or good. There is one thing that everyone must learn to do, that 's knowing when to tell the truth and when not to tell the truth.
Tommy Chung Mrs. Martin TSW 1,2,4,6,7 2016/10/6 Analysis of “The Story of An Hour” In the story, “The Story of An Hour”, the main character is Louise Mallard. She is a dynamic character. She internally changed throughout the story.
The connections between characters on television often fail to emulate the actual compassion and warmth of true love, conveying an idea that love can be created superficially. Society must recognize that unless one feels a strong, deep, and meaningful bond that has been created over a long period of time, the connection that one may initially feel with another person may only go as far as lust. In the end, the eyes tell nothing of love. Love can only be found in the