Jodi Picoult's The Storyteller

In the story, When a Southern Town Broke a Heart, Jacqueline Woodson uses a variety of symbolism and metaphor to show that when you get wiser, your perception of things change.

Nature is commonly defined as the outdoors, what separates the manmade structures from the wilderness. However, after a quick search, more intriguing definitions appeared like “humankind’s original or natural condition” (Merriam-Webster) and “reality, as distinguished from any effect of art” (Dictionary.com). While these definitions don’t fit the conventional definition of nature, they introduce a concept of purity and reality apart from clouded confusion that life can bring. Chief Bromden in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest certainly experiences a rift from nature during his stay in the mental ward through the fog early on in the story. However, a reconnection with both definitions of nature, through McMurphy and the fishing trip, bring him back to reality and help him realize that he could break from his

In “Foul Trouble” by John Feinstein, the characters slackness and careless qualities contribute to the speaker's message that, he is a trouble maker, and always getting in trouble.

The poem “Making Sarah Cry” and the play “The Watsons go to Birmingham” have the similar theme of being different. In “Making Sarah Cry” Sarah is different from the other kids on the playground. In “The Watsons go to Birmingham” the Watson family have a different skin color so they are separated from whites to do everyday tasks. The texts, both share a similar theme but have different qualities. For example, in “Making Sarah Cry” only two people are excluded from playing with kids because of their differences. However, in “The Watsons go to Birmingham” an entire race is excluded from performing everyday tasks with whites because of their differences.

Citizen Barlow a young African-American, arrives in Pittsburgh and is part of the freed slaves. While working at the local mill, Citizen steals a can of nails. Another man is accused and choose suicide rather than face arrest and a life in which it is unfairly identified as a thief. Citizen wants to redeem his guilt for causing the death of one person and looking at Aunt Ester, whose healing powers are legendary. A 285-year-old aunt Esther lives in a house with Eli, his friend and protector, and Black Maria, a young woman wearing the clothes for a living and who Aunt Esther hopes to pass his powers. Eli intends to build a strong wall around the house so they can be protected, both physically and metaphorically,

Beauty deceives. Those who look the most beautiful end up acting shallow and judgmental, but people who appear unattractive at first glance turn out to show the greatest beauty. People cannot always define comeliness as a well-proportioned face, long, silky hair, or a slender body; it can come in the form of hard work, emotional strength, humor, or intelligence. The Samurai’s Garden, written by Gail Tsukiyama, features a theme of finding underlying beauty in people and objects typically viewed as ugly.

In the essay “The Storyteller”, Sandra Cisneros describes how her identity was shaped by goals that she had for herself. Starting from a young Cisneros dreamt about living in her own silent home that fitted her taste. Years later after coming home from college she still had the dream of living on her own and also with a career goal of becoming a writer. Cisneros determination to follow her dreams was strong, however, her father’s did not agree with the dreams and even had a different idea of what he wanted for her. Even with her father’s wanting her to live at home until marriage, have children or to become a weather woman. Cisneros continues to go after her dream of living on her own. Although Cisneros had conflict with her father’s, she did not let it stop her from reaching those goals that set out for herself in life.

Life isn 't written down. It is created and then depends on you. What you want to become, what or who you will change to. Life is full of surprises. They may be good, but they may be bad. As young kids or adults, we sometimes experience events that scar us, but I don 't know if we truly know the meaning of “scar.” In the novel, Like Water for Chocolate, by Laura Esquirel, there 's a girl named Tita. Tita is a sixteen year old young woman who lives in Mexico along with her family; Mama Elena, and her three sisters, Gertrudis, Chencha, and Rosaura. Throughout the novel it portrays drama, romance, and tradition. Because of this, many characters changed by the end of the novel. One of them is Tita. Tita changes throughout the novel because she switches who she loves, her perspective on Mama Elena, and the family tradition.

“Everyone has a moment in history which belongs particularly to him. It is the moment when his emotions achieve their most powerful sway over him, and afterward when you say to this person "the world today" or "life" or "reality" he will assume that you mean this moment, even if it is fifty years past. The world, through his unleashed emotions, imprinted itself upon him, and he carries the stamp of that passing moment forever.” Though some disagree, a person 's’ past affects their future no matter how much they attempt to erase it. Generations of people live in time periods that have events that set them apart from other generations. There was the generation that began the Industrial Revolution and the generation who grew up during the Cold

In Ray Bradbury’s “An Utterly Perfect Murder”, the author conveys that fear can cause an individual to let the past destroy their conscience and to seek revenge on those who have abused him. To begin, the main character Doug Spaulding expresses his fear that he developed due to the pain he experienced. For instance, Doug states, “we were fine friends needed each other. I to be hit. He to strike. My scars were the emblem and symbol of our love” (1). Here it seems that the author used verbal irony which allows the reader to understand how traumatized the character is. Verbal irony deals with something that is said, however it is meant to be completely different. Doug knows that the permanent marks he has does not have to do with love,

The true stories told in Life To Tell and Night have an inspirational effect on readers. Between the mass genocides and struggling with their faith, Immaculée Ilibagiza and Elie Wiesel tell two separate amazing stories that spark history forever. Whether being actually dead or being spiritually dead in their faith, both Immaculée and Elie provide hope in their experiences. Their specific experiences are different, but what they go through similar struggles. With their brawls in faith, hope, God, and within themselves, both individuals show a side of themselves to the world that they never have before. Immaculée and Elie undergo how suffering can strengthen faith and how overcoming doubts are essential to surviving horrific experiences.

If someone were to ask you the difference between the twentieth century and the twenty first, the list assembled would include things such as: technology, transportation, education, etc. However, most people don’t realize the difference in the responsibility taken on by teenagers. In 1942, young adults from the age of fifteen were being drafted from their families to train for the war so that when they reached eighteen they were ready to be sent away to bloodshed. In today’s society most young adults do have jobs and involvement in extracurricular activities, but nothing compares to the war they were brought up to know. As a young adult, it’s not completely rare to experience our own kind of war - against family, friends and even within ourselves. But both kinds of wars experienced made an impact on us and our loved ones.

Rejection can make one feel alone, helpless, and out of place, and it’s a feeling that can make someone feel like they are no good, or that they aren’t worthy of a good life. All throughout the story, we are given examples of how the young girl is shamed and rejected. She was never accepted for who she was and this made her do things, sometimes extreme to help out her family. She knew she would never fit in, and her actions proved just that.

All of our scars reveal part of our life story. Inner wounds, inner hurts, inner scars. We all carry them in some form or another. Most of them you’ll never see, only some of them you’ll notice. Chronicles of wounds suffered. Historical records, some of them external and some of them internal. Our personal scars tell the story of our lives, but these remaining marks can tell a very different story if we want. David Rossi who is a fictional character in the crime drama Criminal Minds, portrayed by actor Joe Mantegna made this statement in an episode; “Scars show us where we have been they do not dictate where we are going”. In other words history does not have to repeat itself. Your personal history is not an indication of your promised destiny.

She had always loved her scars. Siddhartha, her father could see that. He had caught her one evening after returning from work. Instead of the pain, her daughter’s face had a sort of glow to it. He could relate. After all he was guilty of doing it as well during his teenage years. It had helped him to forget, it had helped him to cope. That is why he had not made a big deal out of it, and believed her when she promised not to do it anymore. After all, she had been through enough. Not just her mother’s death, but the constant moving, and the whole issue with being a teenager. If a few scars were going to help her deal with it, then so be it, and most importantly she had promised not to do it again,