Trunk Essays

house, said the tree”, “Cut down my trunk and make a boat, said the tree” are examples of personification. When the tree was talking to the boy the author was giving human characteristics to an object. When the boy said “I want some money?” he was being greedy because he didn’t need it, and the tree was nice and let him take some of her apples and sell them and get some money.

explain this topic well are… “Come, boy, come and climb up my trunk and swing from my branches and eat apples and play in my shade and be “happy” “I am too big to climb and play said the boy.” “I want to buy things and have fun. I want some money. Can you give me money? ”The boy didn’t think once about what the tree wanted, he just thought of himself. Throughout the story… the one thing the tree wanted was to have the boy climb up her trunk, swing from her branches, eat apples, play in her shade, and

In the book “The Giving Tree”, the tree gave all she could to the boy she loved very much. I believe “Be the Tree” means that Seth would have wanted to be like the tree to everyone receiving the scholarship. He would want to be like the giving tree, which he is in a special way. To me, Being the tree is the scholarship recipient. I have read where Seth was a very Christian person, who wanted everyone to know Christ. I think that is also apart of being the tree, learning and teaching people about

me his daughter’s number, I went to see her right away. Her name is Laura, here’s what she remembered about what The Neighbor Boy told her that day.Laura he was, with a friend and the friend said something like, ‘look what I have’ and he popped the trunk and that’s what he saw. Sarah Koenig did he seem upset or..?

An eleven year old girl is confused as the owner of an ugly red sweater on her birthday. Her birthday is ruined by the unfortunate spectacle. In the short story “Eleven” by Sandra Cisneros, the author characterizes Rachel as a young girl that is miserable and embarrassed. In the median of the story, Rachel exhibits anguish and distress. The upset narrator says,” Not mine, not mine, not mine.” She conveys her frustration with the sweater using repetition. The use of repetition illustrates how unsettled

boxes looking for something, anything that would help me finish this project. My teacher just handed out an essay that we have to do on the history of a family member . My Dad told me if we have anything it would be in the trunk upstairs, but there were only trinkets in the trunk. I resorted to scavenging through the boxes in the attic. I gave up after finding nothing except a picture of some man sitting on a pony. Why it would be in a box in my attic, I have no idea. I blew a loose piece of my brown

It is the rare tree that grows in the poorest of the neighborhoods and survives despite the lack of love it receives. It is the small, run-down library with the librarian who never notices the children who come in everyday. It is the horse that children love to steal a glance at because of its shining brown mane and tail. It is the weekly trip to the junkie where all the kids collect rags, paper, metal, and other junk they find in their apartment or street. It is these small collection of memories

The tree of heaven is a very important symbol in the book, A Tree Grows In Brooklyn, as it symbolises the main character, Francie’s, strength, and because of my interest/ background in botany I found myself wondering right away what this tree was like and why it was so significant. I then remembered that earlier this year in my botany horticulture class, we researched and made presentations on a plant of our choice. These presentations included basic information such as a brief description of the

In the story “Eleven” the main character Rachel is acting like an immature child. There are many examples of her emotions coming out of her in a childlike way. One example is when she begins to give excuses for certain behaviors and relates them to younger ages like it is ok to act like a kid. Using comparisons like “Or maybe some days you might need to sit on your mama’s lap because you’re scared, and that’s the part of you that’s five” shows how she would prefer to act childlike and not grow

3.A Separate Peace starts off with our main character and narrator, Gene Forrester, revisiting his prep school fifteen years after he left it. Gene explores the area, but mostly seems interested in a tree, that if a very important object throughout the entirety of the book. Half way through the first chapter, we begin to see why the tree is so important when Phineas and Gene jump off of it. The reader soon learns that Finny (Phineas) and Gene are roommates and best friends, who have even made a club

“Scrap Scrap” said the tree as I was climbing up it. This was a big jungle tree about the size of a skyscraper. It grew tall it had slippery green moss on the side and had long branches the size of a huge limo, but I don’t know what that is because I have never seen one. I have lived in the jungle all of my life with just a van and a little bit of gas left in it, in the middle of nowhere and I can’t do anything about it. When I was little my parents had got divorced and I had to go to an orphanage

In the book “Eleven” by Sandra Cisneros, the main character Rachel is an eleven-year-old girl hence the title. However, today is her birthday and she is super excited to go home and celebrate her turning eleven. But when her teacher and peers turn on her and falsely accuse her of owning the ugly red sweater, Rachel's day takes a turn for the worst. Where our story takes place in Rachel’s school, where her teacher blames her for owning a red sweater that they found laying on the classroom’s floor

She realizes that she will never be the same person she was before. “I can see it in my head: a strong old oak tree with a wide scarred trunk and thousands of leaves reaching towards the sun...But when I try to carve it, it looks like a dead tree, toothpicks, a child’s drawing” (Anderson 78). Melinda can’t bring life to her trees because she can’t find life within herself: she has become

In the passages, “Elephants Can Lend a Helping Trunk” and “Elephants Know When They Need a Helping Trunk in a Cooperative Task”, and the video “Elephants Show Cooperation”, each present different types of information. The details shown in each medium all pertain to an experiment done with elephants to show how they use teamwork to retrieve a treat. Each use different ways of explaining the same thing. In “Elephants Can Lend a Helping Trunk”, the information provided describes the skills and advancements

Mary Ting Yi Lui chronicles the response that both America and New York City had concerning the murder of Elsie Sigel by Leon Ling in her book The Chinatown Trunk Mystery. In this book, Mary analyzes the effects this murder had on American society by exploring gender roles, racial identities, and geographic locations. Mary concludes in the book that immense social change occurred after the murder, and while the murder may have been the catalyst, it was certainly not the cause. The larger mystery

be the British. They manage to take over the Never Land and the crew. Molly and Peter try to hide the trunk with the starstuff but they end up throwing it overboard during the the fight and the storm. Once the storm was over everyone including the trunk was washed ashore on an island. The island had a giant crocodile and hostile natives. Everyone split up on the island to find the trunk. Alf, a sailor, is with the other boys and Peter and Molly are together. Little Richard and Slank, from

Introduction There are two theories of evolution Charles Darwin’s theory on how animals evolved over time eventually turning into what we are today and Lamarck’s theory on that how animal’s characteristics can be passed on their offspring. These two theories from the 1800’s differ from creationist theory and indigenous theory because they both evolve where creationist theory and indigenous theory don’t evolve Darwin’s theory of evolution Darwin believed that the desires of animals have nothing

created a theory on how the population of elephants mostly have long trunks when years ago, the elephant population had short trunks. According to Darwin, most elephants had short trunks but there were a select few of elephants who had long trunks. Due to the lack of vegetation and water, these elephants could reach, elephants with these short trunks could not get their food, and began to die off. However, those elephants with longer trunks were able to reach the higher branches of vegetation and water

COMPARISON OF KINEMATIC CHARACTERISTICS IN TURNING LONG KICK BETWEEN MALE AND FEMALE PLAYERS Niko Francisco, Armando Lazaro, Migs Ocampo and Justin Reyes University of the Philippines Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines Taekwondo originated in Korea. It is one of the most known martial arts in the world. The purpose of this study is to identify the difference in kinematic characteristics in turning long kick of a male and female player. There are three phases in a turning long kick (initial, kick

Elephants are notorious for their distinct appearance; their large tusks, enormous size, long trunk, floppy ears and so on. It is a common thought that the elephant’s closest relatives must be other large, gray, terrestrial animals found in Africa such as rhinoceroses and hippopotamuses. However, elephants are far closer related to the manatee, hyrax, aardvark and round-eared sengi The evolution of this marvelous modern mammal began more than 50 million years ago. Their earliest ancestors (moeritherium)