Dalton Schenk Mrs. Goff English III 06 October 2015 Amari’s Copper Sun In the face of hardships, one must never lose their courage or be led to be discouraged. Amari, a fifteen year old girl, is taken from her family in their village, Ziavi. She is taken to the Carolinas in the Americas and is sold to a rice plantation owner for his son’s sixteenth birthday present.…
Most people feel that all teenagers are immature and can't be responsible, that they can't be trusted, especially with a child. Though this may be true, some teens have to be more mature and responsible than others. In The First Part Last by Angela Johnson, a teenager, named Bobby, needs to grow up much quicker than most. He has a child at the age of 16. Bobby has to leave his childish habits in the past and "come of age," which by the end of the story he does.…
Paragraph 1, Introduction Ellie's Story is about a search and rescue dog named Ellie. Ellie's Story is by W. Bruce Cameron, who also wrote the novel A Dog's Purpose, Bailey's story, Molly's story, Max's Story, and many other books all based off of A Dog's Purpose. A Dog's Purpose even had a movie made about it. EllIe's story didn't have many main characters. Some of the characters consist of Jakob, Ellie's first partner, Maya, Ellie's second partner, Ellie herself, Albert, Maya’s husband, Wally, and Belinda.…
Holly's adopted brother, Louis, is biracial and in jail, wrongly convicted of her attack and murdering their mother and step-father. The attack (perpetrated by her step-father) left her with fibromyalgia, severe pain issues. It's six years later, and she's still trying to get him a new trial and clear his name. Walt's ex, Kimbra, is an attorney. Walt happens to be a heavy sadist, and when he sees Nate doing cupping on Holly, he stops to talk to them and gets to know her.…
Copper Sun “Find beauty wherever you can child, it will keep you alive” Amari a 15 year old girl who was auctioned off to be a slave for a white man. In the book Copper Sun the author tells the story in many points of views. This book is told in different point of views because, it furthers the plot of an important event in the book. The author uses different points of view throughout the book so you can know both sides of the story.…
When triggered, Walter transforms into being aggressive and defensive. Often, he doesn’t listen or attempt to see the other person’s perspective, causing him to have difficulties controlling his temper, inevitably resulting in a tirade. As Walter begins to describe his plan to own a liquor shop with Bobo and Willy Harris, Ruth corrects a mistake he has made and Walter makes a rude comment about how little women know about businesses. As Walter imitates Ruth’s behavior, he becomes impatient and interrupts her; “(Not listening at all or even looking at her) This morning, I was lookin’ in the mirror and thinking about it……
“The Box Man” “The Box Man” is a story about Barbara Lazear Ascher’s encounter with a homeless man. After helping him retrieve a box from an unguarded building, she witnessed him building his “home” in someone’s doorway. His state of seclusion reminded her of two other woman. The first woman was a regular of the coffee shop. She came by every day, but one could tell she had no fond memories from her vacant expression.…
When Amari found Besa near the end of the novel “all her memories came rushing back” (Draper, 257). After she talked to Besa and realized things were different she remember when Afi told her to forget him. Amari demonstrated her strength by not staying but by letting him go. Once again, Amari’s strength once again allowed Tidbit, Polly, and herself get closer to freedom rather than being a setback for their…
Deepan Patel December 9, 2016 Period: 2 ERWC Mr. Taylor Into the Wild Essay Into The Wild, by Jon Krakauer, is about a young man from a rich family who hitchhiked to Alaska and walked all the way into the wilderness. Chris McCandless shows many personality traits. Chris is very intelligent in school, he is very strong willed, he is rebellious in his own ways, he doesn't like it when someone gives him advice or tells him what to do, and he is self involved, he is also very idealistic. He gets all these personality traits from his dad. He wanted to leave society and just be himself.…
Walter Lee Younger, one of the main characters from A Raisin in the Sun is a desperate dreamer that strives to be able to take care of his family. Walter experiences the most change out of all the characters throughout the the play. The play tells the story of Walter and his family as they struggle to survive the abounding hardships that a black family faces in the 1950s in Chicago. Throughout the play, he makes countless decisions that hurt the members of his family and himself, but by the end of the play, he is able to regain their respect and change his ways. Walter has a great deal of self-hatred which is also changed by the end of the play.…
In the book, Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon, the reader is introduced to the character Madeline as she goes from being a sick girl wondering how the world is like to a girl that shows leadership and independence. The character Madeline Whittier has a severe sickness and is not allowed to leave the house. A boy named Olly moves into the house next door and they both fall in love. The only problem is that Olly cannot get to her because she is trapped inside her house. Madeline then takes a risk to escape her household and to venture out into the world with Olly.…
“You can never tell who the mountain will allow...and who it will not.” The novel Peak is about a 14 year old boy named Peak Marcelo who travels to mt. Everest with his somewhat estranged father Josh, because he had trouble with the law in his home new York because he was climbing a skyscraper. Peak realizes later in the book though that his father only took him in because he wanted the boy to be the youngest to climb mt.…
Life would be too easy, if it wasn’t bittersweet Throughout the course of the book, A Long Way Home, Saroo Brierley, the author, encounters a series of traumatic experiences that lead to bittersweet moments. Unlike a normal child’s infancy, Saroo was physically and mentally consuming. Through his experience, we are able to get a glimpse of the many struggles and hardships young children live in India daily. His petrifying experiences of living on the streets, Liluah, and Nava Jeevan finally lead to his safe haven of being taken by the Brierley’s. Having to live on the streets for weeks at the age of five years old could have not been any more difficult, but through this experience, he was able to acquire instinctive…
LUNA "Luna" by Julie Anne Peters novel about a transsexual teenager and the way he transition of her brother. The story very interesting and confusing about the way she told the story of her meant to be The stories that are woven together telling through flashbacks that help Regan remember that Luna always been her sister in a way only she notices. "It struck me like a hammer to the head. Well, duh, Regan. That 's exactly what he wanted.…
The man who inspired the movie "Rain Man", Laurence Kim Peek had a special ability which makes him a superhuman in my view because for people like me who are interested in the concepts like "photo-reading", he serves as a great example. Kim possessed a special type of memory that's known as photographic or eidetic memory, people also called him a megasavant as he had development disabilities that caused him to have this amazing ability to recall everything he has ever read. He was able to scan each page of a book with his each eye within seconds and that information was stored in his memory far better than a normal person who has spent a lot of time to memorize those pages.…