Living Dead Girl Summary

K.R.L who was 8 years old and his friend were playing and told to leave by Catherine Alder in July of 1990 because she believed the area was dangerous. The children did not leave the area right away and were demanded to leave right than. Three days later during the daylight hours, K.R.L returned and broke into Alders home, her chopped her goldfish into several pieces and smeared it on the counter. He also plugged in her curling iron on her towel. Alder called the police and K.RL’s mother confronted him about the situation.

It moves the reader’s inner conscience as the novel revolves through wars, struggle between the family members and starvation. The story starts with Mariam Jo’s introduction as a five year old girl, who eagerly waits for her father, Jalil Khan, who visits her only on every Thursday. Her only companion was her mother Nana, who was molested in the hands of Jalil Khan and decided to lead a secluded life away from the prying eyes. Nana hates her distressful life and shows her agony by calling Mariam as harami, though the girl doesn’t understand the meaning of it. Even though she wasn’t the legitimate heir as her nine siblings, Jalil was a true hero in her eyes as she was always happy with him.

At just 12 years old, Shanda Sharer’s life was cut short by a jealous female and her friends. The murder of Shanda Sharer occured in Madison, Indiana early in the morning on January 11, 1982. She was kidnapped, tortured and burned alive by four teenage girls. The four girls who took place in the events that occured that night are Melinda Loveless, Laurie Tackett, Hope Rippey and Toni Lawrence.

That was a more public display that was stopped by an eight year old girl, before anything really occurred. There are also more private violence that people get hints at through the this book. Many of the main hints were given during Tom Robinson’s trial. “ “She says she never kissed a grown man before an’ she might as well kiss a nigger. She says that what her papa do to her don't count” ( Lee 260).

The sadness, the marks of angry hands on their faces, the hopelessness that curled their shoulders forward. I could never let that happen to Prim. ”(28)[Katniss] In this excerpt of the book the hunger games, Katniss takes over the family at a young age because her dad dyes of a mine explosion, and after that her mom had just zoned out and was no longer capable of taking care of Prim and Katniss. When Katniss took over in order to feed them she had to go against the rules of the capitol by hunting in the forest outside of the districts. Katniss not just has to survive in the hunger games but also in everyday life in the districts.

Miss Emily decides assassination is the way out of her lonely life. Miss Emily assassinates Homer Barron and keeps him locked upstairs. Miss Emily grows old and eventually dies. Miss Emily still died a lonely because she had nobody to grieve over

In the story it repeatedly shows Nagaina being selfish. “He will have to go away, and the garden will be ours again” (21). As you know she will “strike”(24) regardless of the situation, and regardless of who the victim

Though he punishes Kambili, her brother, Jaja, and her mother, Beatrice in the most gruesome ways, she still has the utmost respect for him. Over the course of 2 years, Kambili watches her father kill her mom’s unborn babies, punish and smother their family, and then tell them he did what he did for a good

Susie is the main character, she is murdered at the age of 13 and the book is her watching her family and friends deal with her death well they try to find the murderer. well susies in heaven she doesn't actually like all that much she wishes she could be back on earth growing up with her family, well in heaven she wonders “Heavens where a girl like me didn't fit in. Where they horrific, these other heavens? worse than feeling so solitary among ones living, growing peers?”(119).

Maule used Alice to find out that the location of the deed will not be revealed until the land has lost all of its value. Seeing that he can get nothing, Maule tells Gervayse to keep the house. Maule uses his power over Alice many times, eventually causing her death by

Callie is a 15 year old girl who ran track while in school. She experienced a tragic situation that drove herself to slit her wrist. Her mother sent her away to a rehab called Sea Pines hoping that she would get better. At rehab she has a therapist and 2 group sessions a day. It is filled with those who deal with food issues, anorexia, drugs, and behavioral issues.

People seriously have to face the facts. She was treated worse than an animal. Adding to that, every year, 15 million girls are sold off to be married as children, their rights for health, education and opportunities are stolen from their childhood. If this kind of problem persists and we do not do anything about it, by 2050, there will 16.5 million children married per

In Kindred by Octavia Butler, Alice is a strong minded and sharp tongued individual, who doesn’t let being a slave stop her from striving for what she wants. She fights for her freedom throughout the book, not caring that her position as a slave requires that she be compliant and invisible. Alice is an intense character who only acts submissive when it is necessary for her survival, but she mostly sticks to her beliefs and is stubborn. She runs away numerous times, the first time, losing her husband, Isaac. She is never the same after this and gains the desire to run away more after he is gone.

Oss Agnes ‘authored’ her own fate. Discuss. Hannah Kent’s, ‘Burial Rites’, set against a bleak and harsh Icelandic landscape, explores the journey of a condemned woman, Agnes Magnusdottir, and the path paved for her ultimate, inevitable fate, her execution. Threaded through the novel is the idea of fate that encapsulates Agnes’ predetermined execution for her committed murder of Natan Ketilsson, justifiably portrayed as a murder propelled by love and infatuation towards him. Kent juxtaposes Agnes’ unfeigned motives to liberate her loved one with the strong, preconceived beliefs held of the ‘evil-natured’ ‘murderess’ by the conservative, Icelandic society.