When reading Harriet Jacobs/Linda Brent’s autobiography addressing her life as a slave who grew up in the deep south and who later fled to the North, two important characters make an impact on her life. Like many people, Jacobs/Brent’s life actions are heavily impacted by the people and the atmosphere around her, driving her decisions, wants, and desires. Although Jacob/Brent’s grandmother makes an impact on her life, Dr. Flint makes a greater impact on her life. With his pushing, he helps determine whom she has children with, controls her life through the livelihood of her children, and even impacts her life after he has passed away through his surviving daughter and son-in-law.
In Peggy Orenstein’s book, she effectively argues that a princess-like society immersed in America's culture is damaging to young girls through her interviews, evidence, personal experience, and humorous tone. Starting towards the beginning of her book, Orenstein exposes to the audience that she too liked Disney. She says that "God knows I was a Disney kid. I still have my bona fide mouse ears" (Orenstein 13). By doing this, Orenstein conveys her knowledge of the two sides of her argument: Disney is damaging to young kids or vice versa.
In St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves, a short story by Karen Russel, Claudette and her sisters are sent to a catholic boarding school to become more like humans. In the end, Claudette is able to adapt to human society, versus continuing her initial life as a daughter to werewolves. One of her sisters was not fully able to reform, however, Claudette was able to talk, eat, and do things on her own. She was able to sit normally and make her own decisions, be them right or wrong. Because of this, Claudette was eventually able to successfully adapt to human society in the end.
How does one become a man? Have you ever wondered if you are truly a man? In the novel, “The First Part Last,” the main character, Bobby, wonders if he would ever become a man. Bobby is a sixteen year old teenager who was careless and impregnated another teen named Nia. Bobby decides to raise the baby himself after the mother goes into an irreversible vegetative coma.
Have you ever read the most interesting, life-relatable, fiction book before? One of the most interesting book I’ve read is the Marigolds. The Marigolds is a fiction book by Eugenia Collier. The Marigolds is about a girl named Lizabeth as going through her adolescent years, she realizing the importance of the flowers.
Jo Ann Beard writes in a unique way, which is simple yet extraordinary. JoAnn Beard is a creative non-fiction writer and novelist. She used personal narration to write her essays, which are a memoir or based on a true event, and she expressed them through the first-person point of view, which brings to light symbolism, nostalgia, and imagery. JoAnn Beard was a graduate of the University of Iowa with a BFA and with a Masters in writing creative nonfiction. While going to the University of Iowa, she was a friend with the victims of a shooting at the university, which became one of her motivation to write essays like “The Fourth States of Matter”.
In the short story “Both Sides of the Fence,” by Teresa Bateman, the main character, Alberto, conveys the theme that you must look on both sides of a fence in order to making decisions through his thoughts, actions, and speech. In this story, Alberto attempts to prevent people in his pueblo from benefiting from his tree that was left for him by his family. As the story progresses, he suspects his neighbor from purloining his apples, but then realizes his wrongdoings and his foolishness. Through his character transitions, Alberto helps reveal the them that he has to consider both sides of the argument in order to put up a proper argument.
Anne Moody wrote the autobiography Coming of Age in Mississippi where it begins in 1944 highlighting the struggles of her childhood as it progresses to her adult life in 1964. Moody sought a different path than the rest of her family which led her to be apart of the civil right movement that occurred. Coming of age in Mississippi starts by introducing the narrator of the story, Essie Mae. She discusses her childhood where her father left their family for another woman, and her mother struggles providing for her family. Essie Mae had a traumatic experience in her time on the plantation to where in her adult life she was “still haunted by dreams of the time we lived on Mr.Carter’s plantation.”
Similar to “The Story of an Hour”, the marriage in “In The Evenings” by Melissa Checker causes those involved to feel trapped; however, instead of feeling trapped in the structure of marriage, the family feels trapped by it instead; the marriage is not the direct source of the conflict in the story, but rather prevents the characters from solving or escaping the main conflict of the story, the mother’s short temper and verbal abuse. While the story begins innocently, describing a mother and her daughters going to the mall to run errands, the use of the word “heavy” represents the buildup of pressure that foreshadows the mother’s rageful outburst: “On summer nights, when it's light until after the fireflies arrive, the air is heavy and moist” (Checker #).
Arthur from "The Seventh Most Important Thing" by Shelley Pearsall demonstrates the traits of kindness, forgiveness, and curiosity. The reasons I personally think this is the case are that he was very forgiving to his mother, even though she threw out his dads belongings that meant a lot to him, and I think he is kind because he still does things for his mom. I think that he is also curious because even though he doesn't have to, he still wants to learn more about many things in his life. Textual evidence that supports my claim of why he is curious is when the text said "The purpose of the Seven Most Important Things still bugged him", which shows that he is a little annoyed but also curious about why the Seven Most Important Things must be
Abigail Colvin Mr. Sanders Chemistry II 12 May 2016 The Chemy Called Al Introduction Chemistry is the study of matter and its properties. Even though the term chemistry has not always existed, chemistry has always been a part of life and is essential to life. By understanding the basics of chemistry, many discoveries and inventions have been made that improve life.
“Suzy and Leah” In the story “Suzy and Leah”, written by Jane Yolen, is a girl named Suzie and a girl named Leah. They do not enjoy spending time with each other and don’t understand one another. Towards the end, the two girls start to connect and start on a path to friendship.
He felt sympathetic towards her after getting embarrassed by Lengel, and he went after her, despite wanting her for her body. Although in the end, when Sammy fails his goal, he is changed by the events that happened to him, and he is hopeful for the
In the story “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls raised by Wolves” by Karen Russell, the character Jeanette makes emotional decisions that led to different outcomes. Her decisions are impacted by many emotions, such as when she is prideful, Cautious, Lonely, Angry, Uncertain, Panicked, and revengeful, as she is led into terrible situations. In the story one can see many terrible instances that were caused by such emotions. For example, Claudette says, “The pack hated Jeanette/
In the novel, Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes, Johnny has an issue with his arrogance. Johnny Tremain lived in the 1700s in America, he was a silversmith until he burnt his hand on hot silver. Johnny’s hand is now disabled so he cannot be a silversmith anymore. His pride caused him his downfall now he lives with the aftermath. His pride has also made him confident and successful at things.
