The figurative language help assist telling the story by showing how Scout experience is utilized. Harper Lee is telling the novel in an author perspective using a ten year old child mind. She us figurative language like: similes, metaphors, imagery, and personification to show Scout personality, how she thinks, and her humor. You will know when something should be taken figuratively or literally is by when you say something figuratively you use figure of speech to describe something. And when it literally you will say it straightforward without any hesitation.
Cole attended the prestigious Institute for Colored Youth, a rigorous school with the curriculum of Latin, mathematics, and Greek, where she excelled. She graduated in 1863 and even received a ten-dollar sum for her academic excellence and punctuality. Later, Cole attended Women’s Medical College of Pennsylvania, the world’s first female medical school, and graduated in 1867 which made her
Atticus takes the trial knowing the consequence that him and his family will be harrassed by the town because it is the right thing to do. Atticus finch decides to defend Tom Robinson to be a good role model for his children and prove that the “Golden Rule” is a rule to
Chris has a strong effect on people. When strangers first met Chris they instantly fell in love with him. Each person had always said something positive about Chris. For example “He was polite, friendly, well-groomed… he seemed extremely intelligent, I thought he was too nice a kid to be living by that hot spring with those nudist and drunks and dope smokers.” (Franz pg.51).
Education is a small word but it has a big meaning it can change your life and take you to another level and a new world, it teaches you how to communicate with everyone and everywhere, like Malcom X said “ Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.” In to kill a mockingbird Scout values education and understands how important it is to be educated, it’s like having a big power. Scout is smart, she reads at a young age and she enjoys doing it even her older brother is proud of her for example he told Dill “Scout yonder 's been reading ever since she was born.
Cassie is the main character in Mildred D. Taylor’s story “Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry”. She is a smart, curious 9 year old. As time goes on, Cassie and her family learn many lessons throughout the book. We can see her grow and get a better understanding of how blacks were treated during the 1930’s. Cassie has many racist moments that occur to her, angering her and her family.
The novel To Kill a Mockingbird written by Harper Lee conveys the message of overcoming inequality and discrimination against people of color during the 1900s through the eyes of a white, six year old girl nicknamed Scout. Scout lives with her father Atticus, her brother Jem, and their housekeeper Calpurnia in a small town fictionally located in Maycomb Alabama. Growing up with a lawyer for a father, Scout is able to learn things that were beyond her age and thus making her mature faster, in a sense. Her involvement in the case exposes her to the bigotry views of those in her time, yet her young and uninfluenced mind helps her outgrow these ‘views’.
The diary becomes Anne 's record of growing up as well as her record of her understanding of the war. The diary itself continues to be one of the most widely known books in the world, fulfilling Anne 's desire to become a writer and having her word live on after her death. The selected symbols each tell a complex story of the humane struggles we all face in adolescence. The play The Diary of Anne Frank depicts a recognizable, benevolent scene of family and youth; we can observe these meaningful parts of life through the eyes of a young girl in the time of war.
Scout Finch Jean Louise Finch, known as Scout Finch is the protagonist and narrator of Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird. At the beginning of the story Scout is nearly a six years old, Scout ends the story at eight years old having learned important values throughout the novel. Scout Finch has shown many apparent characteristics throughout To Kill A Mockingbird. She is curious, intelligent and a tomboy.
Roughly ten years after it was published, Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings was included in American high school curricula and libraries in the early 1980’s for its “insight into the personal development of a young African-American girl, its appeal to adolescent readers, its multicultural characters, and its historical significance”. That very same decade, the book was challenged in several states for “promoting premarital sex, lesbianism, cohabitation, and pornography” and for “[preaching] hatred and bitterness against whites” (Henry, 2002). Thirty years and scores of inclusions in the American Library Association’s top banned books lists later, Caged Bird still remains one of the most banned books in America, challenged by
In The story Wonder a main character named Jack shows how to be a good friend to the main character August. First of all Jack is nice to August. Second of all Jack sticks up for his friends. And finally Jack does not care what Augie looked like. The first reason Jack was a good friend was because almost anywhere August was Jack was right there with him.
Introduction Jane L. David and Larry Cuban do a great job of informing the reader of issues involving closing the achievement gap in education in their book, “Cutting Through the Hype”. David and Cuban, friends and colleagues for forty-five years, collaborated yet again to revise “Cutting Through the Hype” to re-address the “far more pronounced” effects of the federal role and the philanthropic foundations in funding and setting the policy agenda for reforming U.S. schools. Chapter three, Closing the Achievement Gap, begins with a realistic scenario of a fifth grade classroom of thirty students that range from six non English speaking students, limited English speaking students, and fluent English speaking, high performing students. The
Ruby was the first african american child to go to a all white school. Ruby was in a test group of all african american kindergartners to go to 1st grade and Ruby was accepted. Ruby Bridges is important because she had a huge effect on the outcome of integration of schools. Ruby made a huge impact in the civil rights movement.
He based his second novel off of the Civil War and titled it, Shadows in the Fire; a story about a twelve year-old slave girl, who is abandoned by her mentally-ill white owner, as Richmond burns during the Civil War. Basnight published this novel in April, 2015 and so far, has received amazing reviews. He has already been on Channel 8 Good Morning Richmond, has spoken and signed books at numerous Barnes and Noble’s. Gray Basnight has been a great role model for all students wishing to pursue journalism as a career.
To sum up my thoughts, Steinbeck based his fictional novel on the historical events that were occurring around him. This why the first, edition of the Grapes of Wrath sold 50,000 printed copies and it became the bestselling novel in America in 1939. As a result, by February 1940 the novel was already in its eleventh printing, and had 428,900 copies that were sold. Assuredly, this was all too due to the fact the people saw the inside of the Dust Bowl Migration and the Dust Bowl from a third person omniscient.