Willow

In Counting by 7’s by Holly Goldberg Sloan, one of the main characters, Dell, changed over the course of the book due to meeting Willow. Before Dell met Willow, he was unempathetic and had no regard for staying healthy. Before Dell worked at Willow’s middle school, he never stayed at a job for very long. One of these jobs included working at an assisted living center. He only worked there for three months. Sloane stated, “The elderly didn’t like him. He lacked true compassion and he had…

bout' that?", the nurse says. Willow nods as she waves at Johnson. "Love starts to a mental hospital! Who knew?", the nurse laughs. "Come on, May, it was just a kiss", Willow says. "A kiss my butt, if I wasn't there your clothes would had been gone!", May says as they walked out of the hospital into the car. As they drive to the store. "Gurl! You need a boyfriend by now anyway, you get so stucked up on those patients, you might just turn into one!", May says, laughing. Willow sighs and smiles.…

The novel, Counting by 7s by Holly Goldberg Sloan is about a girl named Willow Chance. Willow is different than most people her age. She is surpassingly smart; in fact, some would call her a genius, and is obsessed with plants and medical conditions. Willow doesn’t have many friends besides Mai Nguyen, who is a few years older than her. Shortly after Willow met Mai, she lost both of her parents in a car accident. Willow was devastated and stopped doing everything she used to love.…

Both of these two poems I have chosen express the thesis through using imageries. The use of “the moonlight” shows the poet’s feeling of missing for his hometown and the use of “the willows” shows the wife’s feeling of missing for her husband. Although these two poems use different imageries, they both express a feeling of missing for their loved ones and show a pessimistic life…

Counting by 7s by Holly Goldberg Sloan is a heartwarming and inspiring novel about a young girl who lost her parents and learns about life on her journey of recovering from her loss. Willow Chance is a girl who was adopted by her parents and has been living with them in Bakersfield, California. Since she is exceedingly knowledgeable, nearly everything intrigues her. She is especially fascinated by plants and medical conditions, though, and also is obsessed with the number 7. However, despite her…

throughout the episode through the interactions between the main characters. The interactions between Tara and Willow, Riley and Buffy, and Xander and Anya all have a symbolic meaning which supports the theme of the episode. The episode “Hush” symbolizes that, ironically, expressing feelings can be more readily done without forced communication. In the episode “Hush” the character Willow is introduced through her interactions with Tara. The characters are only seen…

and have to overcome challenges. The 2 main characters of these novels; Willow and Parvana, have some similarities and differences. A similarity is how they are both resilient. Some differences they have are, Parvana is brave with her challenges and Willow is cowardly, and how Willow had help with her challenges and Parvana did not have much help. A similarity between the 2 characters is that they are both resilient. Willow is resilient when her parents die early on in the book. She is forced…

Holly Goldberg Sloan wrote this book. The story was about a girl named Willow (main character) you had parents that adopted her when she was young. When Willow was twelve, her adoptive parents died in a car accident and now she lives with a family that she met when going to Dell Duke (her counselor). That family is the Nguyen's. Now she is trying to find a place to not "temporary" live and be able to stay safe and be happy. Willow had some physical and personality traits such as, she was…

celebrating the successful launch of a business venture with both Mark and Mary that were both present with him at the time the incident took place where he fell from the cliff which is located in the Watch out point. In order to establish whether Willow council is responsible an investigation has to be undertaken to find out if the council has taken adequate measures which averts people from falling down from that cliff in the watch out point. This issue is to be discussed within the duty of…

Willow was the one who normally asked most of the questions in a conversation. ’How are you? How does that make you feel? Can you tell me more about that?’ Oi it was disarming to be on the other side and not know how to properly explain herself. On a scale of one to ten this was some serious nine level discomfort. ”The other vision?” Could she even compare the two incidents? No. The first vision Willow ever acted upon as a wisp had been so mundane and the images were clear enough that she knew…