I like how at the beginning it starts out giving a little background of who the Grimke sisters are and a bit of history about them as well. I liked how it was wrote in a diary format, but everything was still explained through the book. I really loved and could tell that everything that was explained throughout the book was explained in order. Throughout the book, it talked about many things we have discussed and talked about in class such as the cotton gin. In the book, it mentions that during Sarah’s childhood, the cotton gin had effected a transformation in Southern Agriculture.…
My opinion of the book is that it was awesome. It had a lot of action that keep me reading. I always wanted to know what was going to happen…
Jon Krakauer is an American writer and mountaineer most known for his writings about the outdoors. His first encounter with the controversial story of Christopher Johnson McCandless began in 1992 shortly after the death of McCandless. The journey of McCandless was widely publicized and drew the inquisitive eyes of many across the nation. After being assigned to write an article for the Outside magazine, Krakauer began to dwell further into the story of Chris McCandless. Although he was one of the many fascinated with the life of McCandless, Krakauer, unlike others, found that he was able to relate with the ideals of McCandless and this further expanded his interest.…
The novel, The Third Eye, written by Lois Duncan is a real cliffhanger. The book tells the story from a girl perspective, Karen. Karen is an 18-year old that has visions, but her “gift” might bring danger to her family. Karen is babysitting at lunchtime, and the kid runs off with his friends and goes missing, but with her visions she can help find the boy. Also when Karen is going to work, something awful happens to her.…
(AGG)Every book has meaning and a message that the author wants you to take away from reading the book. Sometimes this message can be hidden deep and can only be understood by finding and analyzing the symbols. (BS-1)With the leopards that she once feared we see Najmah's level of maturity rise throughout the first section of the book.(BS-2)looking at the stars, Najmah uses them as a symbol of her hope and guidance in order to find her remaining family after losing so much. (BS) Not only do Najmah's haircuts symbolize physical change, but it also showed us personality change as she starts to use her voice again.…
“Don’t Blame the Eater,” writes David Zinczenko, president of a global health and wellness media company, who also asserts that obesity is becoming a genuine medical problem. Before 1994, he emphasizes, the rate of diabetes between children was so low that it could have been called a cultural stereotype, but, now, one out of three teenagers suffer by “obesity-related” problems. David Zinczenko claims that “the lack of information” about fast-foods and the deficit for the affordable supplementary for the fast-food restaurants are main reasons for the obesity issues; confusing explanations of calories perplex teenagers and lead them towards obesity while America possesses 13,000 McDonald’s restaurants, and it’s more complex to find a way to the…
The whole book floated smoothly even as he introduced new topics. The book’s structure of shifting back and forth from stories worked favorably for me because it kept me focused on the book. For example, Stevenson did not finish Walter’s story in just one or two chapters, but told it throughout the entire book. I like how he left the story of Walter’s story hanging with the mystery of what will happen next on his case.…
Reading the book, The New Jim Crow: Mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness brought attention to several different injustices that minorities face daily. It shuns light on how the African American community has been stereotyped and systematically program to dismantle the African American male figure within the family dynamics. According to Michelle Alexander Obama stated that too many fathers are AWOL, MIA and neglecting their responsibilities, which had cause the family to be weaker (Alexander, 2010,p ). However with the system continuously oppressing the African American male this is yet another way to belittle and emasculate this population.…
Eyes of a stalker is a great book, it has a lot of details and it is really descriptive. The topic of this book is really interesting which lead me to choose this book for our lit circles. While reading this book, I noticed that it is a page turner and I’m hooked on it. Shelby is a normal girl who has a boyfriend named Greg. She received a plant from the delivery man with a tag on it which said “you will always be mine”.…
Ender's Game The theme for ender's game i think is bipolar because you never expect what is going to come. For example you would never know if ener will cry or be happy or angry. Also it takes place on earth and space on the if space battle school which is odd.…
How did I feel about the book Unlikely Allies? I had lots of difficulty reading the book, from the sudden changes in scenes to the exhausting writing. It felt like a sloppy mess of sudden twists and turns that would, in most books, keep me intrigued, but this did not interest me at all. If the author added just a little bit of flair to the certain parts of the writing then I think I would really enjoy the book. The book had things I didn’t like, a few things I did like, and a couple things I would change.…
Henry Fleming was a youth that had wanted to enlist. Some of his personality traits are one that needs courage. He lacked courage that was needed for him during the war. This would come to him during the time of him facing the battles. Henry is an idealistic and completely self-absorbed teenager.…
The book was somewhat engaging, the plot did become confusing whenever it was told from someone who was not a main character or when a period of time…
Not Your Sidekick reminded me what I love about reading YA. This book is damn revolutionary on it own. We have a Vietnamese-Chinese-American bisexual main protagonist named Jess. Her identity is part of the story, but it's not driving point of the plot.…
In today’s culture and society, many people will most likely value an expensive car over an ancient artifact. In other words, artistic objects with valuable meanings are less appealing than exotic goods or products to the average person. The short story The Safe, written by Tim Gautreaux demonstrates a situation in which a few workers in a junkyard discover a safe with a fancy sewing machine inside of it. With the exception of one character, Alva, the rest of them find objects with physical value more appealing than ones with artistic and sentimental value. After being exposed to the sewing machine, Alva, Snyder, and Little Dickie develop their own sense of imagination and recognize the importance of sentimental value, which is exemplified…