Melanie Stryderer In The Host

“Here Follow Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House, July 10th, 1666” by Anne Bradstreet and “To the University of Cambridge, in New England” by Phillis Wheatley

Throughout the book Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, the author Mildred Taylor, uses Cassie Logan. Cassie proves her courage by facing her rival Lillian Jean and is willing to help despite his actions to her family. Cassies actions proved she was sassy and outspoken. She loved her family and was willing to risk her life.

The Glass Castle is a memoir by Jeannette Walls. It describes a non-wealthy family that has to move from place to place and has challenges along the way where Jeannette, her brother Brian, and sister Lori are forced to make choices as adults. The Walls children had to be the parents of the house most of the time because Rose Mary and Rex were either never home or just raised there children to be independent and have them do everything on there own. Some choices they had to make as adults were mostly about what they were going to get for food, how to spend their money, and when they lived on their own in New York City. In many ways the Walls children were forced to behave like adults in these cases.

Risks are a possibility of loss or injury; all humans at least once in their lifetime have to do something risky. If life has no risks, you’re not really living it, since we humans do not grow as a species (or society) if there is no challenge in life. People in this world must have challenge and struggle to overcome an obstacle in their life to discover the real world. This way a person will grow physically and most importantly, mentally, to never do something adventurous or take the easy way out is on them. Krakauer, Emerson and Thoreau all have their own ideas on risk, but they all have in common is that risk can change a person for the good or bad.

The blue eyed – brown eyed experiment in my opinion is indeed ethical. The issue at hand with this experiment is will it cause permeant future psychological damage. Jane Elliott conducted this experiment with her third-grade students which some would say it is too harsh of an exercise for a group that young; She wanted to teach her student that discrimination is wrong which have been a topic they discussed from the first day of school but felt the student would become confused with the fact she just honored Dr. king in the month of February and now she had to explain to them that he was assassinated because of discrimination. Jane Elliott agreed that this exercise can do Psychological damage if not conducted correctly but the benefits are remarkable.

At fourteen years old, Billie Jo living in Joyce City, Oklahoma with her mother and father during the Great Depression during the 1930’s. Billie Jo and her parents struggled to live their lives during the Great Depression, because The Dust Bowl destroyed many crops, and Billie Jo’s family were farmers. Her father, a wheat farmer, works what’s left of the farm and her mother spends her time cleaning the house. While her mother being pregnant, Billie Jo does her best to make her mother proud. Suddenly a horrific accident happened, Billie Jo’s mother gets burnt really bad due to kerosene left next to the stove, and catching on fire. A month later Billie Jo’s mother dies giving birth to a baby boy named Franklin. Franklin only lives for a few days. Billie Jo is in pain, she feels guilty because of their deaths. She blames her father as well for leaving the kerosene next to the stove. Life goes on and Billie Jo is lonely, has a few friend. But the one thing that

The theme of the book “The Chrysalids,” is change. The whole book is about one boy, David, growing up, changing, and going on and adventure. When the books starts, he is 10 years old. You can tell he is changing by the end of the book because his powers are stronger and he is in a relationship, making love with Rosalind behind bushes. A large example of change in this book is David gets a little sister named Petra, which he did not have in the beginning. David teaches Petra about her powers, but she is already a lot stronger than David, Rosalind, Michael or anyone in the group by such a young age. At first she cannot control her powers and she summoned David when she was in danger. She did not know she summoned him, but as she grew she found out how to control it and how to talk to people halfway around the world. Sophie is another example of change. When David and Sophie were little, they used to play and talk to each other all the time. Later in the book, the inspector found out that Sophie was a mutant and she was sent to the Fringes. When David ran to the Fringes with Rosalind and Petra, he found Sophie a woman. This demonstrates change because

Are you looking for suspense that will keep you on your feet? How about action that will send chills down your spine? Well look no further, Stung is the perfect choice. This book will take you on the adventure of a lifetime. Bethany Wiggins from Brunswick, Georgia is the author behind this masterpiece rated 5 stars. This science fiction novel will chase you as beasts come rampaging down a dark wasteland.

“I did not ask for the things that I’ve been through and I certainly did not ask my mind to paint and repaint the pictures in flashback forms.” Quoted from Michelle Groth, about post traumatic stress disorder. For some it is impossible to run away from their past but for one human, Billy Pilgrim, a World War 2 and Dresden bombing survivor, it is possible. He chooses not to face his experiences and goes into a very strange place. A place where memories do not exist and the normal day-to -day life does not occur. He becomes unstuck in time. Billy faces the consequence and lives in a different reality than everyone else. Vonnegut uses Billy’s experience to show how being unstuck in time made Pilgrim become helpless, powerless, and lack free will.

Ten year old Sonny Champagne always knew he had magic in his blood. He could sometimes hear the whispers of his ancestor's spirits; he saw things around people that no one else could see. He knew that because at a young age he began to fact check with family and friends. Of course, they all assumed he simply had a wonderful imagination and humored his inquiries.

“Into the Wild”, by Jon Krakauer explains the story Chris McCandless’ life in the wild. McCandless leaves everything even his family to set off on adventure to Alaska so he can live of the land. On his adventure to Alaska he meet a lot of new people that help him with reaching his goal of Alaska. Chris eventually reached Alaska where he was living off the land for sometime, but unfortunately die by an accident he had. McCandless was a very intellectual and well-rounded person he left an emotional impact on people he meet on his journey to Alaska. Chris’s purpose of his adventure to Alaska is to separate himself from the problems and find himself as a person.

A romantic relationship between two people can be complicated, and sometimes even a genuine, loving relationship can become burdensome for one if their partner abandons them in times of adversity. In the novel, The Road, by Cormac McCarthy, A man loses the support of his wife and assumes responsibility for his son while in a post-apocalyptic world. The man has a significant relationship with his wife as he is devastated by her death and he gets paranoid when he dreams of her.

Often times when analyzing literature from past time periods, we are able to use modern theories to gain a better understanding of the underlying feelings and emotions within the text. In the poem The Wanderer, the author uses the bargaining, depressive, and acceptance stages of grief within the Wanderer’s mental thoughts and processes by describing his feelings as an exiled man when using a modern day analysis. Today, we know these five stages of grief from the two theorists Elisabeth Kübler-Ross and David Kessler. Although there are five stages (denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance), the wanderer is only experiencing three of those five stages which can be felt in any order and at any time. The wanderer talks of all of his past relationships and how he feels upset that he can no longer see or share life experiences with these individuals. He paints visualizations for the

Gone Girl is a story Nick and Amy Dunne, a couple whose marriage, like many, is full of lies, betrayal, malice and two brilliantly different sides of a story. The suspense part of the novel comes with the main character, Nick Dunne, the husband, and whether he is involved in the disappearance of his wife, Amy. In this thriller novel by Gillian Flynn, who is known for writing novels with unique plot twists, I have learned to be sensitive in giving my trust to people and helped me realized that the years and moments you have with someone will not matter and not a basis to be open in giving your trust.

This analyse will be about Under the Skin and this will be analysed with Lacan’s Mirror Stage. Before I start the analyse of Under the Skin, I will explain what “Mirror Stage” means. Mirror Stage is a "psychoanalysis" theory first introduced by the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan at the 14th International Congress of Psychoanalysis in 1936. The theory says the psychological development processes during the first 6-18 months of life. The child, prior to this period, is the total of needs and requests that who is not yet able to reach the level of perception that himself or herself is a separate being from the surrounding objects and individuals. In this process the baby is aware of its existence with the help of discrete senses and feelings;