Bobby Phillips Book Report

Billy’s intense adventures pulled me into the book and wanted me to read more. One night, he was cutting down a tree and the next night, he was trying to shovel his dog out of the ground. Every night, there was an adventure which really dragged me into the book. The book also had a lot of detail with every experience Billy went on.

In the novel, Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer, Cellarmans argues that Chris McCandless has been “bright and ignorant” (Callarman). I disagree with Cellarmans’ argument, because Chris McCandless wasn't bright and ignorant, he just wanted to be free in Alaska without his family. McCandless family where judgmental and ignorant towards him, although he did not let that get towards him as well as affecting him as much. It is often to say that McCandless wrote quotes every day because he wanted to say at the time what he felt.

Selfless actions, revealing care or concern for someone other than themselves, gains trust amongst strangers. A book written by Octavia Butler titled “Parable of the Sower”, a story where chaos, violence, disease and famine reigns over humankind, the main character Lauren, 18-year-old African-American women with an illness that gives her the ability to feel what others around her feel. After her community was attacked and everyone she had loved and known was gone, Lauren and a couple of friends: Zarah and Harry were forced to travel the dangerous roads north in search of a better life. During her journey in a world, where people are only looking out for themselves and preyed on the weak, Lauren performs selfless acts for people traveling along the road gaining their trust and friendship. For instance, Travis and Natividad, an interracial couple traveling north with their infant son Dominic, Lauren first encountered the couple after helping them fight off coyotes, thieves along the road (202). Lauren, who believed they would benefit if they traveled together extended an invitation for the couple to join them

The story “Jared” by David Gifaldi is about a 16 year old teenager named Jared who had been in an accident which resulted in having his face being burned. At first, he seemed to be a very lonely teenager who tried to isolate himself from the rest of the world. He believed that people would automatically judge him because of his appearance. Sooner or later, he finds his friends hanging out with some girls. As the third wheel, he did not want to ruin their fun by scaring off the girls with his demented face. One of his friends, Ryan, gives him Megan’s phone number, one of the girl’s at the mall. That night, Jared decided to call the number given to him after an appointment with Dr. Don, his therapist. This scene uncovers Jared’s risky side. Even though Jared is extremely shy and isolated, he still took this chance to talk to this girl whom he had never met with. The first phone conversation did not end well. But the next night, he called her again which shows that Jared is even more courageous than we thought he was. After the second phone call, Jared’s relationship with Megan begins to grow. But when Megan asks Jared to describe himself, Jared straight up lies to her. In the text Jared’s answer to Megan’s

issues that I’ve identified (anger, confidence, and cultural background). I will be focusing my analysis on how Bobby controls and/or changes his thoughts, actions, or behaviors during throughout the story.

In the novel Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, Stacey’s perspective of friendship with T.J. and Jeremy is unique and this affects the decisions he makes in Chapter 7. Stacey allows T.J. to do almost anything around him, even though T.J. is rude and naughty. But, T.J. is still Stacey’s best friend. Stacey is pretty rude to Jeremy even though Jeremy is super nice to the Logans and T.J.’s family. Stacey’s friendship with these two boys are very different.

Being on two different extremes on a spectrum, one would never think that there could be similarity between passive and aggressive. That similarity is acceptance. Without the balance of passive and aggressive, acceptance would not be possible. It is impossible to accept something or someone without being passive. A perfect example of this would be Kwame Appiah, an author who firmly believes in Cosmopolitanism. In short, Cosmopolitanism is a belief in which all are accepted, no matter how similar or different one is from another. Appiah is very passionate about sharing these ideal for she believes that they can change and solve many problems in the world today. Appiah fits the ideals of passive acceptance because he

The two novellas “The Metamorphosis,” and “The Death of Ivan Llych” both describe the stories of two men suffering from dramatic events in their lives. The two men both suffer from the feeling of alienation from their families. The two stories can be compared in many ways, and give insight into the way these two characters found peace in their deaths.

In the works of Literature an epiphany is “a moment of profound insight or revelation by which a character’s life is greatly altered” (24). In the short story “Cathedral” Raymond Carver uses epiphany to draw on the theme, blinded views can alter someone’s behavior. On the realistic level, epiphany advances the plot and character development because they are the basis for the story’s central action. They also help define the narrator and play a vital part in revealing the story’s theme. The following changes in the character’s views have shown an evident development.

In Raymond Carver’s “Cathedral,” written in 1983, the author points out that empathy and perspective are the only way to truly experience profound emotion.The narrator is struggling is sucked into his own comfort zone, he drowns his dissatisfaction on life, marriage, and job in alcohol. A man of limited awareness breaks through his limitations by socializing with a blind man. Despite Roberts physical limitations, he is the one who saved narrator from himself and helped him to find the ones vies of the world.

“You can't judge an album by a single song; it's like judging a book by only reading a single chapter” Trevor Rabin. Although the short stories Cathedral and A Rose for Emily have completely different plots, they both have morals that are described in this quote. Cathedral follows around a blind man named Robert visiting an old friend and her husband, who does not care for the Robert. A Rose for Emily is about Emily, a woman who is perceived as a local oddity but soon the townspeople realize she is not just odd, but also a little bit crazy. Both Emily from the short story, A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner, and Robert from Cathedral by Raymond Carver, portray characters that become of the targets of premature assumptions, but when the

Published in 1915, Kafka’s The Metamorphosis is a tale of a salesman named Gregor Samsa who one day wakes up to discover that he has quite literally transformed into an insect. Unable to support his family as an insect, he is only able to stay in his room and eat the rotting scraps of food that his sister brings him. Over time, Gregor’s transformation into a large bug begins to affect the lifestyle of his family, and they slowly become resentful of him. His family secretly wishes Gregor would leave, and knowing this, Gregor willfully dies in his room. His death marks a new, brighter future for the rest of his family.

"The longest day of the year" is when a man reached his braking point (26).  This man looking down from the roof of a building, standing on the "parapet", able to see all the people rushing round the city (27).  In the poem "Summer Solstice"  by Sharon Olds the narrator is standing in the distance watching a man attempt to commit suicide.  While the police try to stop him form ending his life.  Suicide is an issue that is plaguing our society.  Many people see suicide as a way to get away from their problems.  A superficial reader of the poem "Summer Solstice" by Sharon Olds, might assume the poem is about a man ready to commit suicide, but actually the poem represents the end of one life emerging into a new beginning.

The two films I have chosen to compare and contrast are both by the wonderful director Alfred Hitchcock. Hitchcock has created many films that have been deemed masterpieces in the film industry; however, the two I have chosen to review are The Birds which came out in 1963 and Vertigo which came out in 1958. The Birds is about a rich woman, named Melanie Daniels, who drives an hour to go visit a humble lawyer, named Mitch Brenner, to drop off lovebirds in Bodega Bay; what starts as a playful and almost romantic trip becomes a horror scene when the birds begin to attack. Vertigo is about a Detective who falls in love with the woman he is following, and when she dies he tries to recreate her using a new woman. Both The Birds and Vertigo are brilliant

In the story “So I aint no good girl” by Sharon flake, in every scene, it show how rude and mean she is. Like when she was fighting another girl. Why is she so mean to the other girls? Sharon wants nobody to talk to her “boyfriend”. She doesn’t herself a good girl because she isn’t a good girl. Why did she want to fight all the girls at the bus stop who talks to Raheem? Why does she jealous when the girls talk to Raheem? She shouldn’t be with that guy. She’s mean because of him.