You should always make the choice that feels right to you. When you make decisions you should trust your instincts. Eli the main character from, The Compound, written by S.A. Bodeen, did this well. He knew his dad was trying to hide something from him. When he started finding clues in his dad´s office, he started to realize his dad has been keeping secrets from his own family for the last six years while they were in the compound.…
My first symbol is the books. Maddy has spent all of her life locked in her house and in that time she read a lot. Choosing the books as a symbol shows what Maddy does with her time in the house. Then having my second symbol as the ocean shows where she wants to go. I chose the ocean because throughout the book and her time she spent talking with Olly she always talked about seeing the ocean and traveling.…
There are several qualities that one looks for in a good leader. Some look for a leader who is goal driven and determined to make things happen efficiently and effectively or has a proper education and certain skills for a certain task, while others look a leader who is selfless, resourceful, honest, respectful, etc. Is it possible to actually find a leader with all of these qualities? In “Braddock’s March: How the Man sent to Seize a Continent Changed American History”, Thomas E. Crocker describes an interesting story about the rigorous events and a multitude of people who took part in Braddock’s quest. American society would not be where it is today without the journey that Braddock made and the people he encountered.…
While the story “Melting Pot” the conflict is between groups of people. Conflicts can have winners, but not all conflicts do. In “Seventh Grade” the main character, Victor, is faced with an internal conflict. He has to figure out how to get his crush, Teresa, to notice him.…
Text to Text The novel Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel reminds me a lot of the movie Mad Max: Fury Road. Both plots are centered around society after earth’s destruction. However, Mad Max is about what happens after the oil runs out, whereas Station Eleven follows the events after much of earth’s population is wiped out by a very contagious virus. Both books also share a similar character who play leadership roles, and these characters abuse their power.…
In “Bien Pretty,” Lupe seeks to find herself in a new city by reflecting on her past relationships and learning form the one just was in. Her search leads her to find balance between who she really is on the inside versus what she has become as a Mexican-American. Her move form California to San Antonio was due to a failed relationship with Eduardo, only to find that when she arrives to Texas, the same fate awaits her. Cisneros uses this rejection as the cause and effect for Lupe trying to find a connection to her roots, but ultimately finds stability in the battle between her two cultures. Lupe’s position as an artist is transformed in her pursuit of identity and balance through her experiences of love and heartbreak.…
To begin, I reviewed my VIA and Gallup strengths and how they present themselves in my daily life. First, my VIA strengths are as follows: Humor, Forgiveness, Fairness, Bravery, and Curiosity. Humor, my top strength, presents itself in my enjoyment of laughter, lighthearted nature, and tomfoolery. Forgiveness displays as I interact with those who have done wrong, a willingness to accept and move past human error comes forth.…
In the book Lost Boy by Tim Green there was a very big problem that I will be telling you about. The major conflict my main character is facing right now is that his mother got in car crash and only has 3-4 months to live and they have to raise a two hundred thousand dollars. I have not gotten far enough in the book where they start working om solving the conflict but I think they will try and raise money from a baseball team and will eventually come up with the money and will be able to pay for his mothers surgery. The conflict is effecting Ryder by him being depressed and not really into anything because his mother may pass away in a few months.…
The Yellow Wallpaper Character Analysis Depression: feelings of severe despondency and dejection. Whenever in a state of serious grief, you expect support, love, and as much attention as needed, but in the case of our narrator (most likely named “Jane”), she did not receive that. Our narrator was practically abused and ignored in a manner of serious depression, and was later led to schizophrenia. If I had to describe her character, I would say she is a very dynamic protagonist, because of how she develops throughout the story, both with her depression and how she delves into madness.…
The conflict that I saw was between Peter Piper and his young twenty-five-year-old student. Peter has been married to the same women for twenty-four years. Peters student seemed to intervene on the married couple's relationship to pursue her own relationship with the married professor. Even with the professor still married to his wife, Peter found it within himself to go on a holiday getaway with his student. The conflict that I saw between the two as I continued the reading, was that the student almost seemed disinterested in the professor.…
Deceased Michelle Maxfield sent her deployed boyfriend, Peter, off to his first tour in Afghanistan early into Maxfield’s senior year. In the fall, she was in a fatal car crash and for the next eight months to come disaster and love come alive. Conflicts arouse when she knew she was in love with her dead sisters boyfriend. Kelsey lost her closest friends for a time because they thought what was happening was wrong.…
Meg acts scared at the beginning because it was storming and she was in the attic worried that the roof would fly off with her. She felt sad because her dad dad left and he never came back. Meg was shy because she hardly talked to anyone except her family. She was mean to the boys that were calling her little brother Charles Wallace dumb. She was brave because most girls don’t stand up for their brothers or sisters.…
A Not-So-Silver Lining The stigma of mental illness is as follows: crazy eyes, a lot of violence, mood swings every two seconds, and not a lot of friends and family to help. But, there are multiple factors and explanations for why a person is the way they are, and why they developed the mental illness that they did. Pat Solitano, a middle-aged white man with a lot of great qualities, was a happy-go-lucky kind of guy. He had a wife, a great job as a high school history teacher, and was living comfortably in the middle class.…
I have known someone who has been treated badly because he was different. Before I moved to an online high school I had noticed a student at the school I was attending that was quite quiet. He seemed very polite, but unfortunately due to his difference in behavior he was treated rather cruelly. Often he was insulted or ignored and people acted very uncomfortable around him. I got to know him a little…
Exploring Frankenstein “I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.” This quote from Robert Frost’s, “The Road Not Taken,” involuntarily reveals the curiosity that is covertly sewn into the minds of men. Curiosity leads to exploration, and exploration prompts development; without exploration, one does not grow. Exploring is a characteristic of human nature. But, what if the explorer is not human?…