“I wish I were magical, but I am really just a poor-ass reservation kid living with his poor-ass family on the poor-ass Spokane Indian Reservation” (Alexie, 2007, p. 7). “I spend hours in the bathroom with a magazine that has one thousand pictures of naked movie stars: Naked women + right hand = happy happy joy joy. Yep that’s right, I admit that I masturbate” (Alexie, 2007, p. 25-26). “’I’m looking at an anorexic,’ I said. A really hot anorexic, I wanted to add, but I don’t. ‘I’m not anorexic,’ she says. ‘I’m bulimic’” (Alexie, 2007, p. 106). “Well, you know, your mother helped me get a drink from the water fountain last night, if you know what I mean” (Alexie, 2007, p. 136). These quotes are just a handful of parts in the book, The Absolutely
However, toward the end of the book, there was a quote that did not really line up with this: “They had
In one to two sentences, tell what is happening in the book when this passage occurs. Write a quotation from the book that supports your third reason (subpoint 3): “ “ (author page #). Then, in one to two sentences, explain how the quote supports your
Throughout the book,
This statement can be related to other passages in the novel
The quotes show how this novel is based on the idea that wars hurt the
Of the many quotes I found, the first one, was on the very first page, “The bees came in the summer of 1964, the summer I turned fourteen and my life went spinning off into a whole new orbit, and I mean whole new orbit. Looking back on it now, I want to say the bees were sent to me.” From my point of view, this quote fits the novel well because of its contribution to the developing plot line. As the book opened, the author already added suspense. The quote is important to not only the plot line, but the overall novel.
Washington Post’s bi-weekly columnist, Kathleen Parker, writes primarily about recent events involving the subjects politics and culture. Over the course of this past summer, Kathleen Parker has written about a handful of controversial topics, including Bruce, now Caitlyn, Jenner’s sex change, the issues with the Confederate flag being flown on statehouse grounds in South Carolina, the Josh Duggar molestation scandal, and police brutality. However, as fascinating and well-written as these topics are, I found some aspects of these articles bothersome and superfluous, including her unnecessary allusion to Moby Dick in the opening line of the article Caitlyn Jenner’s Coming Out.
This quote is a good example because characters in the book do everything they can to help stop racism because they feel the need to help; however, other people do not feel like it, so they are aggressive towards blacks. Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, published in 1960, takes place during the 1930’s. She uses many themes throughout the book; Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird portrays many life lessons, but the most important are discrimination, courage, and racism.
Anorexia applied to every little aspect in her life, which is where it differs from anorexics who are only worried about food. She found herself counting every calorie that came near her body and digging through encyclopedias for every element in her food. Her new coming skinniness didn’t come from her sister’s nickname of “Sister Infinity Fats” that even her parents joined in on, it merely formed on something Jenny considered a hobby. But her “hobby” became more than that after a while, thinking she would be “condemned to hell” for taking up so much room and felt guilty for eating. As Jenny neared college she desperately filled her schedule with every activity she could fit into her schedule from French club to drama club.
Courage, what is courage? Well from the dictionary the word courage means "the ability to do something that frightens one and strength in the face of pain or grief”. Courage is something that people display in their everyday life, you see courage on the streets, at school and maybe even at home but you probably never even notice it or even thought about it. The book Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes was written by Chris Crutcher, this book is filled with courageousness, mystery and spine chilling events.
Pg. 173-174 To me this quote is very important because he is deathly afraid of Mautz and Virgil but he stands up to them because he doesn't want to expose Sarah. My second quote is “ The letter was clear:shaky as I was, I was her only friend. I'd rather have her hate my guts and be safe than love me and by alone.
In the book, Staying Fat For Sarah Byrnes,Throughout the book Eric had shown tremendous amounts of moments where he shows that he was devoted to Sarah. He is devoted to Sarah Byrnes in many ways. One of the ways would be when Eric started swimming and started to lose weight, but he didn't want to lose weight because he thought Sarah was going to think that he was going to leave her. Since Sarah was ugly and got made fun of a lot he wanted people to have something to make fun of him for so Sarah wasn’t alone. When Eric did start to lose a little weight he notice right away and wanted to change just for Sarah.
One quote from the book that exemplifies this aspect of the book is
(Lee, Pg.39). The second one is, “...it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.” (Lee, Pg.119) Finally the last quote, “Best way to clear the air is to have it all out in the open. ”(Lee, Pg.366)