Titus's Feed: Summary

In the novel Saving Francesca, the author Melina Marchetta thoroughly portrays the toll that depression can take on a family as a whole as well on an individual; whilst accurately depicting the complexities of what it means to be a teenager dealing with those around you with mental illness. Saving Francesca exposes the reader with themes such as identity, transition, change, friendships, family and perception; and confronts the reader with the reality of depression, showing how unexpected the illness can be and not as much trying to fix it; but live amidst it.

Perras is a Mexican drama film directed by Guillermo Díaz on 2011. It’s based on a play with the same name.

Most girls dream of getting married in a beautiful white dress with the perfect guy. This dream is made clear in Christine Granados’s story “The Bride”. In this story, Lily, the narrator, describes how her sister Rochelle wants to have a white wedding, yet Rochelle’s dream does not go as planned. Since a little kid, Rochelle has dressed like a bride every year. As she gets older, she talks about how her marriage will be successful and elegant with her beautiful dress and her white guy dressed in tuxedo. She is very picky about boyfriends, clothes, and everything that deals with her wedding. However, she ends up marrying a Mexican guy named Angel. As time passes, Rochelle learns that she does not have to experience all she wants to be pleased.

Edith Wharton's book Ethan Frome is the tale of a man, his wife and the woman he falls in love with. Ethan marries Zeena but falls in love with Mattie who is the opposite of his wife in every way. Where Zeena is sedentary and a sickly woman, Mattie is exciting and lively. In an ironic turn of events the woman he falls in love with transforms into a mirror image of his wife. Ethan married Zeena, out of fear of being alone for the rest of his life and suffers an unhappy and loveless marriage because of it. "After the funeral, when he [Ethan] saw her [Zeena] preparing to go away, he seized with an unreasoning dread of being left alone on the farm; and before he knew what he was doing he had asked her to stay with him." (36) Ethan first met Zeena

In every book, there are archetypes. Archetypes are defined as “A typical character, an action, or a situation that seems to represent such universal patterns of human nature” (literarydevices). Archetypes are basically the character’s personality and trait. In the play Our Town by Thornton Wilder, the character Emily goes through the journey archetype. The Journey Archetype helps the character understand themself or society better (literarydevices). In Act III of the play, Emily goes back in time to her twelfth birthday. In that moment, Emily realizes that no one appreciates life in the moment.

For the past 40 years, technology has advanced to make our society a better place. 40 years ago, we didn’t have the technology we have now. There were no hoverboards. There were no sensors. And there were no pretty operations.

Authors all around write stories that make people visualize, without the use of a picture. Authors use figurative language and several other techniques to make everybody see the picture without seeing a picture. The story of “The Pigman” by Paul Zindel has a lot of figurative language to show that you don’t need pictures to help visualize the story.

Trepalt. He met Nurse Quinby, who he hired as nurse to care for his wife. But care for Violet was not the only thing that Nurse Quinby did, she also became a companion to Mr. Trepalt, and evidence will show that a romance between the two was formed. Miss Flanders will testify that on several occasions Mrs. Trepalt would drive Nurse Quinby home. On once such occasion, he even spent the night. But the romance between the two couldn’t progress, after all, Mr. Trepalt was still married. Violet, in her weakened condition, was now forming a barrier between Mr. Trepalt and his new

In a world where people have access to anything, diversity is slowly dying. In Feed by M.T. Anderson, the death of diversity correlates with the passing of a character. Most characters have similar ideologies and tendency, but one character dares to be different. Advertisements relate with real life attitudes of the character. I argue that the “everything most goes” advertisement symbolized the death of diversity and a stronger formation of Titus’ status quo bias. More specifically, I claim that the advertisement represents the death of different ideas to move the society into a tunnel vision created by the feed. First, I will discuss echo chambers and status quo bias, particularly throughout Feed’s idea of social norms. Then I will evaluate

Vittorio’s loss of innocence occurs as he is exposed to the evil within the society he lives in. As Vittorio faces isolation from those around him he experiences a loss of innocence as he realizes that people can be cruel. Vittorio becomes aware of how easily friends and family can give up on one another. Vitto slowly realizes the evil within the town’s people, which prevents them from truly getting along and truly being a community. He also see’s how his family is being shunned which shows him the wrongful act Christina has committed “his hands gesturing in our direction, but at the last instinct he checked the gesture and suddenly clasped his hands together as if closing us out” (Ricci 84) Vittorio is not oblivious to the fact that his family is being shunned by society showing he is aware of the conflict within the town’s people and his family. As Vittorio recognizes the fact that he lives in a male dominant society it contributes to his loss of innocence. Vitto recalls his

What’s Eating Gilbert Grape is a dramatic film with points of comedy created in 1993. This film takes place in the serene and rural, but fading, town of Endora, Iowa. Gilbert Grape, a twenty-four year old store clerk, is assumed with the obligation of monetarily providing for his family and caring for his developmentally disabled brother Arnie. Gilbert has two sisters, Emily and Amy, the aforementioned Arnie, age seventeen, and his morbidly obese mother Bonnie, a widower of seventeen years. Gilbert’s father who committed suicide following Arnie’s birth, which initiated Bonnie’s battle with depression and gorging. Bonnie spends a great deal of her time sitting on the couch viewing television, eating, and uttering the responsibilities of each Grape child. As a result of Bonnie’s obesity, Gilbert is given the duty of restoring the financially impoverished Grape home. Through all of these burdens, Gilbert understands that his future is impeded and feels his life lacks direction, albeit his love for his brother Arnie is unquestioned.

What would you do if you had gotten a prestigious award but cannot accept it because you were illegal? In the beginning of the book, “Something in Between”, Jasmine de los Santos discovers that she is illegal, prompting her to hope that an immigration bill would pass, in favor of allowing immigrants to stay, but the bill dies at the hands of the House of Representatives. Next, Jasmine finds herself at a harsh trial, where a judge repeatedly rejects her accomplishments, mocking her cheerleading skills. In the end, when a private bill is created to make Jasmine and her family legal immigrants, her boyfriend’s brother destroys the bill by presenting it to the media. Although most argue that the tale of “Something In Between” is overly optimistic, the author actually portrays the story through poor luck and prejudice.

She swears she 's over him, but there will always be a part of her that trusts you will come back. Maybe in five months, a decade later, or in another universe from now; when the both of you are wiser, suffered different heartbreaks, and dream different dreams. We will come together again. We 'll end up meeting at a local downtown coffee shop; maybe you 'll notice that my hair is shorter, my laugh is a bit lower pitched, and my clothes have lost colour. Your eyes may be dimmer, your face may be wrinkled, but your hands, the touch I 've been trying to mask with other people all this time, will feel the same, and it will hit me in the same way my dark black coffee hits me. I will remember our tale of a modern day Romeo and Juliet. A tale

In the short story “Dragonfly Eyes” the author, Alane Ferguson is commenting on the fact that a person’s true potential cannot always be seen on the surface. We see this message developed through both the character’s a-ha moments and memory moments, as well as the author’s use of flash-forward.

“Billie Holiday … did what she liked. If a man she liked came up, she’d go with him; if a woman, the same thing. If she was handed a drink, she’d drink it. If you had a stick of pot, she’d take a cab ride on her break and smoke it. If you had something stronger, she’d use that. …. She didn’t apologize for it and she didn’t feel ashamed. All she wanted was to have fun in whatever way it struck her. She was sensitive, she was proud…. She had a real zest for life. As a performer, she could make you fall in love, she could break your heart.… There was no other person on the face of this earth who was like her. Billie Holiday was a single edition.” (Josephson quoted in Nicholson 118)