Drums Girls Dangerous Pie Character Analysis

Mr Stephen Gilham aged 58 and Mrs Helen Gilham aged 55 and their two sons Christopher aged 25 and Jeffrey aged 23 lived in Woronora. It is a suburb in southern Sydney. Mr and Mrs Gilham and Christopher were murdered in their family house on 28th August 1993 at or around 4am.They were savagely stabbed to death and house was set on fire.

“Inside each of us, there is the seed of both good and evil. It 's a constant struggle as to which one will win. And one cannot exist without the other,” these are the words of Eric Burdon that summarize the events that took place in Lord of the Flies by William Golding and The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell. In Lord of the Flies, young boys were stranded on a deserted island during a world war and were striving to survive in a civilized manner. Similarly, in The Most Dangerous Game, a man named Rainsford found himself on an isolated island owned by a man who enjoyed hunting humans for fun, and so this man forced Rainsford to become the prey of his hunting game. Though the plot of the stories differs, one concept persists in both texts

The main character in the book Drums, girls, and dangerous pie; Steven has multiple strengths and weaknesses. Steven’s strength is his family, his brother, mother, and father, they all support him in everything he does. Steven’s weakness is Jeffrey’s disease, because this disease makes Jeffrey very weak and he can’t be that little happy boy he usually is. Another weakness for Steven is the microwave meals, because he had to eat microwave meals all the time when his mom went to Pennsylvania for Jeffrey’s treatment. The only thing he ate was microwave meals, other than for breakfast because his father didn’t know how to cook. This led to Steven eating this for several months until the few days his mother and brother were home. Although Steven

This is a short, but powerful excerpt from the short story “Harrison Bergeron”. Not only does it make you wonder why everyone is equal, but makes you wonder how in the world did everyone become equal? The short film, 2081 is based off of its short story “Harrison Bergeron”, yet their stories are quite different from each other. In the short story and the short film, Kurt Vonnegut presents a scary view of human society in the United States in the future, in which the citizens are all uniform. This then leads to their loss of individuality, and therefore to the absolute deformity of humanness. For similarities between them are theme, irony and symbolism while the differences are time setting, techniques of handicapping, and Harrison’s physical

In Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, Melinda struggles with communication. Melinda is at a party, she is attacked and raped by a student who attends her school, Merryweather high. When it is time to head back to school after the summer, Melinda decides not to talk to anyone. She became completely mute. In the beginning of the book, Melinda is thinking about her attack when her " throat squeezes shut...I can't even look at myself." (pg.28) Melinda was so embarrassed that she did want to talk to anyone about it. Melinda demonstrates lack of communication during this time, if she had talked to someone they could have helped her, and made sure she was ok. Melinda thinks that “[She] should probably tell someone, just tell someone. Get it over with.

Imagine you wake up one morning and your little brother has Leukemia. And you have to worry every single day that the next day you could wake up and he may be gone. What would that feel like to you? In “Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie,” Jordan Sonnenblick explains this long story of Steven Aplers life through Middle School, and how his life changes so big. The main character is in the 8th grade, has a little brother named Jeffrey, and has a middle school girl crush who’s name is Renee Albert, and thinks about her all the time. He loves playing the drums, and is going to be in an all city band concert at the end of the year. Steven is a very outstanding student at his middle school, But when things start to change in his life when his brother

Imagine being judged for the choices you make. In The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls and The Raisin In The Sun by Lorraine Hansberry the characters in these three novels search for independence under unfortunate circumstances. This results in difficult decision making situations that they are later judged for. However, Hester confronts her sin, the Younger family moves into a white neighborhood house and the Wall’s kids move away from their abusive parents.

Image your a person with a mental disability, and all people seem to do is ridicule you day in and day out. The may call you such derogatory terms such as “retard” or “braindead”. You try not to take these words to heart, and attempt to ignore these people and continue living a life that you want. You may work for a living and try to support yourself, or you may live with a relative that understands and cares about you. You try to live on, and go past the overarching question if people with mental disabilities can live normal lives. This is a question that my book, Lottery by Patricia Wood, seems to strongly imply that it is trying to answer. It seems to succeed very well in eventually answering this utmost question, and paints a picture of

Jeannette Walls depicted an epoch of misfortune and adversity in her memoir, The Glass Castle. Jeannette and her 3 other siblings were all in a constant struggle to survive. Rex and Mary, the parents of Jeannette and her 3 siblings, were often in a constant dichotomy between submitting to self-interest and supporting the family. Having misfit parents, Jeannette and her 3 siblings were often independent and left to fend for themselves and for the family as a whole. In The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls evolved the theme of ideal versus reality throughout her memoir though her countless anecdotes of her father and his unattainable plans to find gold and to build a home, named The Glass Castle, for his family and her mother’s dream to become a professional and well redound artist.

Imagine your brother has leukemia and you are trying to do everything you can to help and spend time with him. Well meet a fourteen year old boy named Steven Alper. How will steven handle this in Drums,Girls+Dangerous Pie by Jordan Sonnenblick. Steven is a very interesting person and goes through a lot of things, but also he is good at somethings. Steven is great drummer and he is very caring. Steven has very many emotions but Steven has three main that stand out most and that would be angry, worried and unhappy.

Within the novel of "Far From You" written by Tess Sharpe, Sophie, the main character, is going under many changes in her life. From having her best friend being murdered in front of her, being blamed for her murder due to drugs being found in her jacket, and to being sent to rehab from being accused of relapsing. Sophie has many people pressuring her to be healthy and to have a good life since being released from rehab after three months. Two of those many people that want the best for Sophie is her aunt, Macy, and her mom, yet they approach the situation in two different ways.

Ernest Hemingway’s characters are frequently tested in their faith, beliefs, and ideas. To Hemingway’s characters, things that appear to be grounded in reality and unmovable facts frequently are not, revealing themselves to be hollow, personal mythologies. Hemingway shakes his characters out of their comfortable ignorance through traumatic events that usually cause a certain sense of disillusionment with characters mythologies, moving them to change their way of life. His characters usually, after becoming disillusioned, respond with depression, suicide, and nihilism. However, this is not always the case. Some characters break the mold and, instead of treating disillusionment with hostility, step back into the illusion in which they once lived

Mark Brittain could be described as dishonest, as he lies about many things throughout the book. For example, his relationship with Jody Mueller, while they were dating he had gotten her pregnant and not wanting anyone to know he sent to alone to have an abortion but, when in CAT class whilst talking on the subject of abortion he said it was wrong and against his religion to get abortions. After this had happened, Jody told the class about her abortion in which Mark called her a liar. After being released from the hospital after his suicide attempt, he went back to the class and told them the truth, “‘i’m a liar’ Mark said. ‘I think the last words I said to the class were that Jody Mueller was a liar. Not so. Jody got an abortion just like

During a recent interview with Entertainment Tonight, widow Terri Irwin shared that she has a unique way of honoring her deceased husband. Her touching tribute is actually more about what she won't do than what she does. Though it's been nine years since her beloved husband and television personality Steve Irwin was killed by a stingray, Terri still does not date and has no plans to look for a new love.

During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, an air of stern, deep, and irredeemable gloom hung over and pervaded all. As I peer over the huge, gloomy house in the darkness I realize that the shade of the trees fell heavily upon the water, and seem to bury itself therein, impregnating the depths of the element of darkness. Although the demise of my dear friend happened so many years ago, as I gaze upon this house, at this usually peaceful time of the day, I can recall every twisted detail. I will never forget, nor will I let Sylvester forget what crimes he committed. It is his fault, I did nothing! He says I broke his heart? I never have and never will care for that foul monster. That entire month was life-ruining, to think that a man you called a friend would commit homicide is terrifying. For the past 3 years I have been barely making it through the day. Thinking of the incident everywhere I went.