The books I read was Shelley, The Hyperactive Turtle by Deborah M. Moss and We’ll Paint the Octopus Red by Stephanie Stuve-Bodeen. Shelley, The Hyperactive Turtle was originally printed in 1988. A second edition with an updated story was published in 2006. The title character, Shelley, has attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Shelley is described as disruptive at class, frequently getting out of his seat, blurting out, and displaying inappropriate behavior (i.e. laying on his back and spin on his shell). He was also disruptive at home and frequently broke things. The story also described Shelley as having difficulty finding other turtles who would like to play with him. Shelley’s mother takes him to the doctor where he is diagnosed with
Chapter 3 (pgs 20-22): This chapter is primarily narrative about a land turtle. In the story the turtle is meet with various obstacles and overcomes them in the end. It 's a hot day and the turtle makes his way up one side of the highways. As the turtle crosses the black pavement, tow cars pass.
In the book, Turtles All the Way Down, by John Green the main character, Aza, an anxious teenager and her best friend, Daisy go on some sort of adventure to find a missing rich kid, Davis pickett. At first Aza wasn’t going to go looking for him although she had known him personally before. After Daisy encouraged her with the reward Aza decided to go through with the plan. Aza was in need of money for her upcoming departure to college. The main theme of this story is that you can’t choose how to live your own life.
John Green’s, Turtles All the Way Down is a young adult novel that encapsulates the experience of a seventeen year old girl who struggles with severe Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). The story begins by the main character, Aza, sitting at her luch table thinking about how she has no real control over her own life. The first episode which explores Aza’s OCD occurs when her best friend Daisy is talking to her at the luch table, but Aza can not hear a word Daisy is saying. Daisy is a loud and outspoken character whose main love in life is to write fictional stories about Star Wars characters. She has an ethusiaticfollowing and plenty of people read her stories online.
Since the beginning of civilization, countless cultures, including the Cherokee and Iroquois, developed stories in order to explain their views on creation and reflect the values and traditions in their culture. The Iroquois developed a myth called “The World on the Turtle’s Back”, while the Cherokee recorded “The Story of Corn and Medicine”. Both myths reveal the importance of nature, including plants, in the Iroquois and Cherokee cultures, and they follow a similar path of creation that starts with water and darkness and the expanding of mud to form land. However, the Iroquois myth focuses on human harmony with nature and the disharmony between genders, while the Cherokee myth points out the disharmony with nature and the greater equality
Turtles All The Way Down While she discovers her connections with friends, family, and a potential love interest, Aza, the main character in John Green's Turtles All the Way Down, battles anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder. Green's main character, Aza investigates issues with identity, friendship, and mental health through her journey. The narrative makes it clear that the book's main message is really how crucial it is to develop self-acceptance and a sense of control in the face of uncertainty. Turtles All the Way Down by John Green is a compelling examination of mental illness, friendship, and self-discovery that also emphasizes the influence of one's environment and life experiences on their own sense of reality and identity.
But where was mine?" (Shelley 139). The cruelty of society towards the creature reflects the societal norms and values of the time, highlighting the dangers of conformity and the destructive nature of
From the moment he was brought to life the only thing he knew about himself was that he was seen as a monster, "I beheld the wretch - the miserable monster whom I had created," (Shelley, 59), which gave him the reasoning to act upon what he was labeled as. Except the monster was not a monster in the slightest. He was kind and was able to understand emotions. After stealing the families necessities he began to interpret the problems the family he was encountering when, "I discovered one of the causes of the uneasiness of the amiable family: it was poverty… I had been accustomed, during the night, to steal a part of their store for my own consumption; but when I found that I doing this I inflicted pain on that cottagers, I abstained," (Shelley, 114), however since society had already labeled this creature based on the outward appearance they were unable to look past it.
Despite the relative ease of a modern American’s life when compared literally any other point in history, there is a striking increase in anxiety over the past decade. In 1986, 14% of college freshmen reported anxious symptoms, but this past year it jumped to 41% (Denizet-Lewis). John Green, the author of Turtles All the Way Down, shares in this struggle and personally relates to the many young adults who suffer from this condition. This novel, despite many differences, holds a near autobiographical nature of its author as he inscribes his symptoms and difficulties into the main character, Aza Holmes. Green’s rich depiction of the main protagonist and her internal conflict combines with a modern narrative structure to convey a universal theme that speak to today’s generation.
Her situation grew worse when her father remarried and adopted his new wife’s two children. Shelley’s stepmother saw no reason for her to
In Island Packet’s article “How plastic almost killed this Lowcountry sea turtle” by Delayna Earley, readers are informed about the discovery of a dead sea turtle that was recently treated at the South Carolina Aquarium in Charleston, South Carolina. The image is effective in responding to the rhetorical situation in which plastic debris are proven to be harmful to marine life and so articles like Earley’s are written to inform others about how damaging plastic is. The exigence of the article is about how plastic pollution is harmful for the ocean. Throughout the years, there has been an increase in the advocacy being mindful of plastic waste and on using less plastic materials.
How the World Uniquely Begins Native American myths and the Christian Bible both offer stories about how the world began.. In “The Earth on Turtle’s Back” and Genesis 1, both tales have similar values and ideas. These two stories compare in that both tell the importance of water, the fact that Earth came out of the water, and the existence of supreme beings; in contrast, each story has a unique idea of how the world came into being. “The Earth on Turtle’s Back,” a story from the Onondaga tribe, an original Native American group, is a myth which relates a story about the beginning of the world. Water is below the Skyland and it becomes an issue when the Great Tree is uprooted.
Native Americans have a very rich and interesting past. The story “The World on the Turtle’s Back” told by the Iroquois Indians is a story of how the world came to be and the good and evils in the world. The story “The Way to Rainy Mountain“ by Scott Momaday, is a story of about the Kiowa traditions and the way that they lived. Both of these stories show how important it is to respect the gods. “The World on the Turtle’s Back” is a myth about a man and a woman that lived in the sky world.
Mythical Origins The Iroquois people are one of the earliest cultures in American history, Their culture remains filled with an abundance of myths and legends that explain the nature of life itself. Their creation story, The World On Turtle 's Back, outlines not only the creation of Earth, but also the complex nature of people. The legend states that the Earth resided on the back of a great sea turtle, constituted first by a pregnant woman. The daughter of whom would birth the twins who would become the duality of deceit and order in every living being. This legend has been passed down through the generations, first through oral tradition and later translated to writing.
The Sky Gods vs the Iroquois The stories “The World on the Turtles Back” by the Iroquois, and The Way to Rainy Mountain by N. Scott Momaday discuss two different creation myths. “The World on The Turtles Back” is an Iroquois legend that has been passed down from generation to generation by word of mouth, making it an oral tradition. A creation myth is a traditional story that involves supernatural beings or events that explain how the some aspect of human nature or the natural world came to be. These myths have comparable aspects that are specifically the roles of men, women, animals, and nature.
While his creator lives in extreme comfort, the creature suffers extensively which it blames on its maker. When at an all time low, the creature discovers a family that fills his underdeveloped mind with the idea that he might still have hope of accommodating with the world it found itself in and attempts to acquire the traits that might enable this adaptation with a familiar environment. The creature immensely strived to be accepted by the one that made it that it would subject itself to immense self loathing and strenuous mental development. This portrays the torture Frankenstein subjected his poor underling to due to his imperfections. With this, Shelley criticizes the weakness of the faulty chemist.