This letter is meant to convince you to introduce Kate McCaffrey’s novel ‘Destroying Avalon’, a book about cyber-bullying and prejudice, into the Australian English Curriculum for year 10 students. I believe that this novel is beneficial to year 10 students as the characters are mostly year 10s, the graphic, colloquial language and the realistic struggles of high school students would connect the readers to the morals and messages of this novel. I believe that some of the most important themes explored by McCaffrey in this novel are ambition and jealousy. A year 10 reader would connect and relate to these themes by the fact that every character’s, in every social group, actions is based off of these attributes. A year 10 student could connect to the themes in this book by looking at the times in their own life where they have been ambitious to upgrade their position in their social group (e.g. to the leader) or where they have been jealous of someone in a higher position then they are and then could be able to see what the consequences of their actions if they were to go to the extremes of their ambition and jealousy. I believe the themes in this book would help someone understand the mental struggles and pain of someone who is bullied and …show more content…
They might also see negative qualities that they may have such as they prejudice and spite that Jeremy and Alice have. Year 10 students would connect to these characters as they could see how someone who shares qualities acts in a situation so they could then think about how they’d respond in the same situation which might mean they are more comfortable with themselves or create empathy with people they would have otherwise
Kody Battaglear Mr. Bergmann Senior English September 1, 2015 Redwall “No doubt your sword is indeed a beautiful thing. It is a tribute to whoever forged it in bygone ages. There are very few such swords as this one left in the world, but remember, it is only a sword, Matthias! It contains no secret spell, nor holds within its blade any magical power.
Forster said that, "A work of literature must... tell us more than we already know," which means that literature has to show a something new, give us a new perspective on a subject or topic. Orwell 's "Animal Farm" and Vonnegut 's "Harrison Bergeron" both show a new perspective on equality by creating a dystopian universe. A theme in Animal Farm is that society follows a class structure and how governments can create them. It makes you think about how an oppressed peoples can become an oppressive government.
The Newbery Award winning book I chose to do my literature review on is The Whipping Boy. This book would be taught for grade 5. The story is about a young boy by the name of Jemmy who was orphaned and made a living for himself by catching rats in sewers. Jemmy becomes the whipping boy for Prince Horace who is known to be a rather bratty Prince. Every time Prince Horace misbehaves Jemmy is punished with spankings in his place because it is illegal to punish the prince.
The main focus throughout the duration of the book is bullying; tone, symbolization, and modern connections help provide the understanding that bullying is a never- ending issue. The villains and the hero of the world both have the right to exist, they both have a purpose and what we learn from them helps everyone
The theme of standing up to bullies is used throughout the entire book on many different characters, Chris Coughlin is one that has learned how to stand up to his bully. Throughout the book, Chris gets bullied by Mike about him wearing his dead brother’s letter jacket, but towards the end of the book, Chris and Mike decide to race for cutter letter jackets. With the encouragement from the other swimmers, Chris manages to beat Mike in the race. Now in modern day, standing up to bullies is a big social problem, one modern example of standing up to bullying was when Keaton Jones, an 11 year old school student was being bullied and he decided not to stay quiet about it. Keaton had recorded a video of himself talking about him being bullied and how it affects victims of bullying, his mother later posted the video online
There is significance with the title of the book because the book is about Wes Moore and another Wes Moore that he meets. The author got the name of the title because it is about two people named Wes Moore. On the cover of my book under the title it say One Name, Two Fates. This subtitle has a much deeper meaning. As you read the book you really learn how the two men have completely opposite lives.
Dunn Sidni Dunn Hensley English 11/ Fourth Period 27 February 2018 Part 12:Rough Draft In Barn Burning William Faulkner uses very many themes to show the emotions of these characters and how they felt. They all acted the same being all angry at each other. He really shows the readers how bad a family can really feel for these characters from what they showed they felt how they felt. Faulkner also uses perspective to help tell his stories. This comes being shown out through his main characters in helping to tell those stories.
If people give up all the time individuals will never get far in life or become successful, but if people try their best until people get better or at least try, people are less likely to fail. To begin, in the realistic fiction novel, Hatchet by Gary Paulsen, there is a kid named Brian Robeson whose parents are divorced. So he gets on a plane to go see his dad, but usually stays mainly with his mom. When he goes on the plane for the first time since the divorce his plane crashes in the middle of a forest. Brian has to learn how to survive in the wilderness and hope he gets saved.
The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates is a New York Times Bestseller by none other than, Wes Moore. This novel features an intriguing tale of two boys who grew up under the same circumstances, under the same names, and with the same chances; and yet one manages to become a Rhodes Scholar, decorated combat veteran, White House Fellow, and business leader while the other grew up heisting and selling drugs until he received a life sentence for felony murder after shooting a police officer. The more successful Wes Moore, Wes Moore, began to visit the less successful Wes Moore, the other Wes Moore, during his prison sentence in order to write the book. Furthermore, the book turned out to be great.
There are several themes in the book, each one has a significant meaning to the storyline. The first symbol that describes the theme of abuse of power is government control. The reason that they hold the Hunger Games is because it is a dystopian society and most of the districts are poor and the capitol likes it because it keeps them entertained just because they believe that they are superior to everyone else who lives outside the capitol. To explain this more into detail, the government controls all the districts and all the districts have to follow the rules or else there is a serious punishment.
The Secret Lives of People The Secret Life of Bees, by Sue Monk Kidd, is an interesting story that connects human lives to bees. The story takes place in 1964 during the Civil Rights Movement and fourteen year-old Lily Owens leaves her abusive father and her home in Sylvan, South Carolina to go to Tiburon with hopes to find information on her mother. Throughout the story, Lily struggles with many internal conflicts and also meets several mother figures along the way.
The book assigned was Huckleberry Finn and it was written Mark Twain. Huck Finn is thirteen year old boy who starts off in the beginning of the book living with The Widow Douglas who tries to get him civilized and proper. Then his dad comes to town and kidnaps him in a cabin out in the woods. Huck eventually escapes he meets a black man on Jackson Island and they go on many adventures. The social power lens can be applied to this book a lot because there are a lot of social inequalities..
In the 1950’s there was a huge impediment for blacks to get jobs. The small amount of jobs blacks were able to get were low-wages jobs, like garbage men, which Troy is. For this type of job people did not need any skills, nonetheless education, which blacks were deprived from. There were limited amounts of schools for blacks, nonetheless colleges. In addition, blacks were not able to get loans or even mortgages for houses in black neighborhoods because the bank prohibited it.
Fears and Phobias One of the major themes in the novel is the concept of facing the fear and the process of overcoming it. Throughout the novel characters faced many fears to be able to prosper or be successful. In Dauntless faction learning to face fears is a major part of initiation. they believe that best way to teach courage is through exposure to one’s fear.
The book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is a classic novel that revolves mainly around theme and character interaction. Theme is a very important aspect of the book because it sets up major events in the story, and connects it with the modern world. Many issues in the novel still come up today such as race. Character interaction is also very important in the book because the characters learn from each other and grow together. Theme and character interaction are two main forces in the book.