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Raising Blaze is a memoir that is written by a single mother’s perspective, Debra Ginsberg. The story is about her relationship with Blaze, who faces academic and social challenges. Debra struggles with making decisions and plans but transforms herself into an engaged parent. Her journey uncover a revolution of truth, acceptance, love, and sacrifice in her son’s identity. First, Debra is hesitant about trusting others and accepting information. Blaze’s father, John, is the first wrong-doer.…

The author uses diction to convey the loving personality of the Clutters. By describing Susan as “willy,” “wan,” and “sensitive,” Capote portrays her as weak and looked down upon. Nevertheless, Capote emphasizes that the Clutter’s looked beyond Susan’s bad image and “ardently adopted her.” Showing that the Clutters not only accepted the girl but gave her passionate love and care, Capote obviates the benevolence the family exhibits. The author essentially claims that Susan was implemented as part…

have two meanings, two sides? How many things are merged, and mixed, and swirled around so much that they turn into something else? One example of this is in the suburb novel by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. In the beginning, the main mood of this book is melancholy, with people who are desperately trying to stumble away from the ruins of WWll. The war is almost always mentioned in the letters that they send to each other, and hangs…

acceptance. People eventually become relieved and accept that something atrocious happened. In order to deal with it, they usually do things that help them cope with whatever dreadful happened. Steven, a character from the novel Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie, is fighting through the five stages of grief - denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. His brother Jeffrey ends up being diagnosed with cancer. During the novel, Steven goes through many things and fights through…

upset and scared. In the novel, Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie, Steven’s relationships with people who care about him, change in different ways because of what is going on at home. Steven’s brother, Jeffrey, has been diagnosed with cancer and he started to change. Not only does he change, but his relationships with Annette, Renee, his mom, his dad, and Jeffrey have all changed throughout the story. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie, shows a change in Steven and Annette’s relationship.…

to be diagnosed with something that can kill them. For many, it would completely devastate them and others would find a way to deal. Even though it happens in many ways, many people go through the five stages of grief. In Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie by Jordan Sonnenblick, Jeffrey (Steven’s little brother) is diagnosed with leukemia. This illness affects Steven and all of his family, but throughout the book, Steven shows many signs of the 5 stages of grief. The first stage to this is denial.…

Imagine that you think that your whole life was horrible and that you had the worst life, and then you find out your little brother is very sick and no one is supporting you through the whole thing. In the book Drums Girls & Dangerous Pie Steven the main character goes through the 5 stages of grief. He goes through the 5 stage of grief because his little brother Jeffrey gets sick. During these five stages of grief, Steven goes through, Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, & Acceptance. He also…

Imagine that you are a regular teenage boy and then one day your little brother gets sick. Really sick. In the novel, Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie, Steven went through the five stages. Denial, bargaining, anger, depression, and acceptance, those are the five stages of grief that Steven went through. The first stage of grief Steven went through was denial. Denial is the act of declaring something untrue and refusing to believe that it is true. An example is, “ I bet Jeffy’s down there in…

Gary Soto uses tones of guilt and fear to capture the memory of his six-year-old self stealing a pie from the local grocery store. Although young Soto is aware he is committing a sin, the savory senses of the pie persuade him to steal the pie. The author’s diction intensifies the moral conflict between Soto and himself, first guiltily, then fearfully. Before stealing the pie, Soto recognizes stealing a pie from the innocent grocery store owner is wrong, but justifies what he is about to do by…

gave Craig his pie and let him walk away. The next day, Craig started to pick on the neighborhood children. Guiseppi thought to himself “That is it I have had enough of him picking on defenseless people.”So Guiseppi walked up to Craig and challenged him to a pie baking competition. Guiseppi thought that it would be a piece of cake, until the day of the competition. Craig cooked two pie in one somehow. He had mixed butterscotch and Oreo pies together to make a butterscotch Oreo pie. All that…