This includes Alex Malcolm, John Malcolm, and Francis Armstrong-Barnes. This puts a toll on Charlotte. It was very hard for her to be aware that John will be risking his life while in the war, but at the same time, she knows he is doing it for the right thing. While the boys go off to war in France, Charlotte and Maggie decide to go to France as well to work at a huge hospital there. More nurses are highly needed there so Charlotte wants to go there to help and treat the soldiers. She has her nursing certificate to take with her, but the only problem is that she is too young so she comes up with a devious plan to print over her birth date. Maggie asks Charlotte if she could come with, and of course Charlotte was willing for her to. This drew these two girls very close. They became great friends, and almost like
A group of white men was coming to the Logan land to hang TJ and also possibly hang Mr. Morrison. But, before they arrived, a fire appeared on the Logan cotton field and everyone had to help put out the fire before it reached the forest and burned everything for miles and miles. After the fire, Cassie wanted to know what had happened so she asked Stacey. “Stacey looked around at me sharply, his face drawn, his eyes anxious, and without even a murmur from him, I suddenly did know. I knew why Mr. Morrison had come for him alone. Why Mr. Jamison was afraid for papa to go into town. Papa had found a way, as mama had asked, to make Mr. Granger stop the hanging : He had started the fire”. Papa had to find a way stop the hanging. So, he started the fire so that everyone would forget about the hanging and all join together to help put out the fire.
The third, and final song that will be analyzed is Back to Before from Ragtime. This show begins with the introduction of three families, all of different ethnicities, all living in New York City. The first family is an upper class protestant family. The members include Mother, Father, Younger Brother, Grandfather, and Edgar. The second family is an African-American family in Harlem, which includes a beautiful young woman named Sarah. The final family is a Jewish family living in the lower east side. This family includes an artist, and his young daughter. As the century dawns the worlds begin to intertwine because of celebrities and political figures. Mother and her family wish Father the best as he is off on an expedition and he asks Mother
They soon find out that the weird things were from a ghost Rebecca Smith, the Ghost of Graylock, which leads to who had killed Rebecca? The kids go on the search to find out who that was. Rebecca can’t talk to them so she find out a way to help them through clues and images. The resolution in the story is when Bree finds a yearbook and the first letters in a poem spell “Daddy Did It”. Rebecca lead the kids to who she was and who the real murderer was, then when they went to Andy’s house they knew Andy was Rebecca’s
Blue is essentially a story of searching for identity and creating your own family. Written by Patricia Leavy the story follows three college roommates, as they each piece together who they are in their life after college. Following each characters involvement in relationships and inner dialogue, the book addresses the challenge young adults face coming out of college with finding their identity. Through her story life, Leavy has weaved together sociological themes that relate to identity seeking. Leavy’s book is a story that demonstrates how individuals form identity because it highlights themes of sociological theories, dramaturgy, and socialization.
One of the main events was when Cal went to the beach house at Treachery Bay. He and Uncle Rafe were trying to get the boat back to the land after a big squall was coming up. They tried to start the motor as fast as they could but It just wouldn’t start. Something had started to bump the boat again and again and again. It was a shark, It pushed the boat closer to the floating debris. After that, the shark had turned around and came back with a charge, while It’s another friend was coming too. The first shark hit the boat and then disappeared. Cal was screaming “Sharks! There are sharks!.” After that, the shark that had disappeared had revealed Itself again. There was a helicopter that came In to help Callum get out of the situation, It came closer and closer to the ground and Cal had grabbed onto his rescuer. Cal got away, though he had to get stitches on his hand. Another important event happened when Cal got home and found Uncle Rafe lying In a pool of blood. Cal went by him quick and try to stop the bleeding with a beach towel. He then, thought If Uncle Rafe was Injured then Gabbi (his sister) may be too. Cal went to Gabbi’s room and saw her laying down on the floor “Like a broken doll.” He put his ears on her chest and she wasn’t breathing, then he tried to do CPR but that failed too. Cal was screaming at Gabbi and telling her to breathe. Cal had heard something downstairs, It was the men who had done all
The culture represented in my book is Cuban, in a place only 103 miles from the very tip of Florida. You could almost swim there. The setting at the beginning of the book is a baseball field in Cardenas, Cuba. The main character is Julio Ramirez Jr. and he’s a baseball player. Baseball is a very big deal in Cuba and Julio is very good. His father, known as El Fuego, defected Cuba and went to the U.S. years earlier to pitch in the Major Leagues. There are also words such as “fuera”, which means out in Spanish.
James Baldwin’s “Sonny’s Blue’s” makes great use of different literary devices throughout the story. The author utilizes conflict, symbolism, and the narrator’s point of view to give the story a deeper meaning and significance to the story. Sonny’s Blue’s is about an older brother’s relationship and differences with his younger brother, Sonny. Sonny’s ambition to become a jazz pianist points him into an opposite direction than his brother, and into a place where the common suffering is handled with drugs and music. The fundamental differences between these two brothers in their lack of understanding for each other and their gradual acceptance of one another, is presented and explained by their personal and social conflicts, what the symbolism casts upon the story,
James Baldwin’s “Sonny’s Blues” uses Sonny as an antagonist character to the protagonist, his eldest brother. While Sonny and his eldest brother both are the center of the stories content, Baldwin uses Sonny to represent a challenge to the narrator of the story. Through the rekindling of a brother’s relationships, Baldwin is able to depict Sonny's motivations and aspirations through his flaws, and the way in which his flaws affected his life.
Gabbi is Callum’s little sister. She is hurt in the book and is in the hospital. Rafe is Callum’s uncle. Rafe is a very mysterious man who seems to know a lot more than he is telling. Mum is Callum's mother. Mum is very upset about her husbands death and is trying to find and hunt down her son.She just wants to protect her children. Boges is Callum’s best friend. Boges helps him and is always there for hm this whole time he is being hunted by police. The kidnappers kidnapped Callum at the cemetery . The kidnappers wanted to try and find out more about the Ormond mysteries. Jennifer Smith is a doctor that called Callum and claimed that she had something from his
For my book report, I read “Thea Stilton and The Ice Treasure” by Geronimo Stilton. This book was published by Scholastic Inc. The literary style of this book is youth, mystery, and adventure. The story took place in Alaska, where the Thea Sisters were attending a conference held by an important group of people that want to help the world. I chose this book because the cover had a pretty setting.
The people of the town thought Hannah the Witch has cast a curse on the townspeople. An angry mob was going after Hannah. Kit just had to warn her. She helped Hannah escape. A couple weeks after that Kit was wrongly accused of being a witch. She was then put on trial for being friends with a witch. One man during the trial stood up with a book in his hand that Kit thought Prudence to write her name in. The man thought that it was some kind of curse that Kit had made. Kit did not confess that she was teaching Prudence how to write her name was because it was uncommon for people to learn how to read and right at that time. Kit was almost guilty until Prudence walked in and confessed that it was her that wrote her name the only part that Kit wrote was the first one that said Prudence. It only raised questions that Kit though Prudence how to right in Hannah's house. Prudence had to prove that she did indeed learn how to read and right. She read some parts from the bible and she evan wrote her name in front of the people to see. After that Kit decided since her two cousins were getting married and one of the cousins were going to help out in the house that Kit was going to leave. She decided that she was going to go back to Barbados where she would find a
The great thing about being on rock bottom is that there is only one way to go - up. In Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry, a young girl Kira goes through strategic battles as her unique talent is recognized and as she is placed with a very special responsibility as her conflicts surround her. The characters play a role as they rank in different ranges of Maslow’s Hierarchy; a chart which places human mortality with what they find themselves and are accepted as. Gathering Blue includes dynamic and static characters as they develop new characteristics and unfold who they are.
Everyday when it was wet a school bus would splash them so they came up with a plan to get it stuck. Days after this Granger and one of the Wallace brothers came to hear what Mama was teaching. When they heard that what she was teaching was not in the textbook she was fired. A couple of days later Cassie went to Strawberry and was pushed onto the sidewalk by a white person. On a dark night after the incident in Strawberry, Papa and Mr. Morrison went to Vicksburg and on the way back Papa broke his leg. Cassie, Mr. Morrison, and Stacy were also stopped by a truck on the way to the Wiggins´s house. Before the Revival comes to town the Simms brothers and T.J rob a store. At the end of August the Revival came to town and during this T.J asks for help to get home from Cassie and her brothers. Once T.J gets home people come to his house and beat up him and his family because he had robbed the store. There was a thunderstorm during the fight and lightning struck a post and started a fire in Cassie's families cotton field. This interrupted the fight and everybody came to help put it out. After the fire was out T.J was taken to jail and Cassie cried for T.J and the the land that was
The basic plot is that the lead character, Britney, is the captain of the cheerleading squad at a very white, suburban school called Pacific Vista. There are three key characters of that squad; Brianna, who is constantly called fat when she can’t be over 120 pounds; Amber, Britney’s best friend on the team and the only Asian man cast member; and most importantly, Winnie. Winnie is the “backstabbing frenemy” character who is always trying to undermine Britney despite the fact that they’re supposed to be friends. Britney’s father loses his well-paying job and their family has to move to “the other side of the tracks” and Britney must leave her squad and boyfriend, Brad, behind for Crenshaw Heights.