Walter Dean Myers Analysis

Adolescence for many is one of the most difficult times in a person's life. Teens often have to deal with peer pressure,home issues,lost love and the constant uphill battle when it comes to school. However these challenges serve as an instrument to help transform teenagers into college and work ready adults and most teenagers perceiver. The main character Steve York in Rob Thomas’s novel Rats Saw God is at first unable to cope with the scale of these issues. He's on the verge of being unable to graduate on time, doing drugs to be able to cope with the ghosts of his past.

The author uses revenge as a clear theme, specifically in the ending of the book The Roundhouse. Joe takes revenge on his mother's attacker by killing him with the help of his best friend Cappy. Although revenge was accomplished in Joe’s mind, it did not make the characters, such as Joe and Cappy, feel any better about their situation. However, after he and Cappy, had committed the deed, they did not feel happy, it wasn't a sweet revenge at all as they both had haunting nightmares of his mother's attacker in their dreams. They are both afraid and insecure after their kill and felt nervous around almost everyone.

Dear Walter Dean Myers, Affiliations can be potential, essential, influential, and of course consequential. Steve, you entered an unthinkable, unimaginable situation, a sequence containing mental and emotional carousels. This evidential trial threw your young self into an overwhelming state, where people who did not know the slightest thing about you wanted you in jail for your entire life--the prosecutor, Sandra Petrocelli, and many citizens who accused YOU of killing Mr.Nesbitt. Your trial highlights the significance of association, how one can be caught up in gang violence, persuasion, on any occasion. They wanted 25 years to life from you, they wanted to deprive you of your late youth, and take away your whole adulthood.

Walter Dean Walters uses literary elements such as flashback, sensory details and characterization to demonstrate the theme of of bad the justice system can be. Walter Dean Myers uses flashbacks to show the theme. Steve goes back to when he got arrested. On page 124 the police said,”Some clown said that you were involved in the drug store stick up.”

The insanity defence is one of the most controversial topics in the legal system, used by many criminal defendants as an excuse for their unlawful activities. In fact, the Canadian legal system has experienced this in the case of Valentine Shortis, an Irish Immigrant who was convicted of killing two men, injuring one and attempted murder on March 1, 1895. Charged with murder and sentenced to death, Valentine’s Lawyer St. Pierre argued that he suffered from insanity, such as his inability to distinguish right from wrong. There was evidence from Shortis's friends, family, and neighbours who claimed that Shortis was arrogant and mischievous person. According to Friedland, the crown (Macmaster) stated that “he did many eccentric, rash and even

Born in San Francisco, California, Tim Hawkinson, 55, is a sculptural artist who currently works and resides in Los Angeles, California. Interestingly, there exists no single medium in particular that Tim employs in his works; rather, with a widely diverse variety of found, purchased, or created materials and components, each creation he builds is its own unique statement, each one a separate experiment in material study and fabrication. There are, however, several common themes that run through the majority of his pieces, in addition to the splash of flavor that is his own unique style and artistic methods. Often, Tim’s works are somewhat anatomical in nature; that is, a reflection of not simply the human body but also the essence of human

Robert Cormier explores the unavoidable ideas of reputation, manipulation, power and violence through his captivating teenage novel “The Chocolate War.” These four components of the novel are deeply analyzed and scrutinized through the protagonist and antagonist in order to leave the reader thinking about their lives and the world around them. Cormier uses the idea of reputation throughout his novel to highlight both the emotion of which the protagonist, Jerry endured whilst he contemplated “disturbing the universe,” and the effect of his actions. Jerry’s father was an extremely dedicated and driven man who had built a successful name for himself as a pharmacist, although both his job and his lack of daunting life experiences overpowered

Familiarity breathes contempt. Throughout the realistic fiction novel Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison, the naïve protagonist searches far and wide for acceptance. He becomes familiar with many faces before he sees what lies underneath each of them. With that being said, once those encountered are familiarized, the narrator contradicts his original assumptions.

Lawrence Stewart Harris was born in Brantford, Ontario in 1885. Coming from a wealthy family he was able to devote himself entirely to his art. Harris was the leader in the creation of the Group of Seven and the founding member and first president of the Canadian Group of Painters. He also influenced many Toronto painters to paint abstractly including painter Jock Macdonald. In 1948 Harris was recognized and given an exhibition at the Toronto Art Gallery – this was also the first time a living artist was honoured by the Gallery.

The Reason Behind Schindler’s Rescue Did Oskar Schindler save the Jews for his pleasure or to please others? Oskar is the type of man who would do anything to help himself or his business, but when he starts to save more and more Jews, his true self-starts to show. Director Steven Spielberg shows the viewers the different sides of Schindler. Viewers notice that in the beginning, Schindler seems eager to please himself, but as the movie progresses, his motivation is to save others for their sake.