Sara wanted more than any of sisters to create a life of her own and she embark on doing, first she found a job as a presser and she saved her money so she could attend college and returning home with the distinguished credentials of a school teacher. Though she admires her…
Lynda Barry shares a memory in the narrative essay “The Sanctuary of School” (New York Times 2 Jan. 1992). Ms. Barry recalls her unstable home life as a child and how a school became a sanctuary for the 7-year old. In it, Barry details a walk to school and uses the people she encounters along the way to define her sanctuary. Barry uses this personal experience to shed light on the broader issue of art programs fading out of public school budgets and is a plea for the children, like her, who use art as a form of therapy. Lynda Barry’s home life has led her to feel “neglected” and “unnoticed” (Barry 10) Following another night of her parents arguing, Lynda Barry “snuck” (1) out of her home to go to school, in a panic, and in the dark−to avoid…
“New York Day Women” “New York Day Women” was written in 1991 by Edwidge Danticat. Danticat was born in 1969 in Haiti. She traveled with her family to New York at a young age in search for a better life. They came here in search of asylum. She was a writer of many stories; “New York Day Women” is part of a collection of stories in her book called Kirk?…
Nevertheless, her life changes dramatically and abruptly when she starts to attend Sequoia Middle School. On her first week, she is sent to a counselor…
Get your seatbelts ready and pack a diaper for this “rain drop, drop top” review of Joelle Charbonneau’s novel: The Testing. The gumbo pot of every dystopian novel that just happened to hit the bestselling section of Barnes & Noble, and hear you go: this novel. Overall, The Testing is an entertaining series of events unravelled into one story, but when you delve deeper into the background it’s just a cookie cutter YA book. The main purpose of this book is to just set up the next book, and in return the next one will set up the finale of the trilogy like all YA books these days. In fact the final line of the book is after, spoiler, Cia gets accepted to the University she listens to a recording of herself, “I blink as the small room fills with a voice that sounds like my own and listen as the voice speaks words I don’t want to believe” (Charbonneau 325).…
In the novel, The Fixer a girl named Tess Kendrick is sent away to stay with her older sister, Ivy Kendrick in Washington DC. Ivy is known for being the capital’s best “fixer”. She helps important and famous people make the public forget about an event. Tess is forced to go to school at Hardwicke School, where she is following in her sister’s path, which is what she doesn’t want to happen. Tess makes new friends at the school, but her friends need her to solve a mystery, that is related to Ivy’s job.…
Dymonta had just begun his final year in high school. He was ready for all the fun that he would have in his senior year. What he failed to realize was that the time would soon come for him to start applying to college. One of his teachers asked him if he knew what college he wanted to go to. He answered no and said that he had not thought about it much.…
Lara’s Journal by A. Gavazzoni is the sequel of Behind the Door, the first novel in this suspense series. In this second book, psychiatrist Simone Bennet finds in Lara’s past an escape from the realities of her own life, at the fringes of which lurks another killer. While vacationing in Miami, Simone tries to come to terms with her traumatic kidnap and torture at the hands of serial killer Peter Hay. Carl, the lawyer she helped in Behind the Door, contacts her with the request that she read and analyse a newly discovered journal penned by the late Lara.…
Caroline is one of the few prostitutes whom reside in the town brothel. Caroline is a Caucasian American from the west. She has long blonde hair, slim (almost starved looking) build and a tired battered appearance. Her pale skin looks slightly bruised from the handling she receives within the brothel. Her facial features are unmoving and miserable looking.…
She helps us understand the reasons behind the admissions office and why they run things the way they do by sharing her personal life. She is able to persuade her audience from beginning; from speaking about her daughters waitlisted letter, to working in the admissions office and ending with her…
I became suspicious of Elida at this point: When Valery turned twelve, I was cast in a supporting role in a movie that got a lot of attention. It could have been my fabled break. But Elida suddenly panicked over how unhappy Valery was in high school and decided that the schools in Minneapolis were more nurturing. (Surely that name, “Elida,” means something in another language, but I’ll not digress.) (Something about clarification, perhaps?…
Vivian Parker had it all, she was beautiful, smart, spoiled, yet sweet, and she was the funniest person you’d ever meet. She lived in the richest part of Upper East Side, New York, with her parents. Her house was made of stone and had the prettiest detailing. Her yard was always freshly cut with flowers at full bloom. Inside big and beautiful, as well and had too many bedrooms to count.…
Perfect. We live in a world where all anyone strives to be is perfect. Is that the sole purpose of life? To belittle or gain power over someone’s struggles? Merely to make yourself feel better or look as though you're perfect?…
During a conversation between a college student named Kim and her professor Jeffrey in the play, “Core abilities” she is revealed to be much more than meets the eye. Although, she is only the young age of 20-years-old, her character is proven to be a strong individual thinker that exudes the confidence needed to accomplish all of her wildest ambitions. Breaking free from the worry of how she may possibly be judged by those around her, she makes a courageous decision to change her major. Kim is adamant about her decision and her insight held such power that even a short exchange of words altered her professor’s perspective.…
Sisterly Love: Nothing More Than Deceitful Manipulation? Claire: Stay here if you hate me so much. Catherine: And do what?…