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.…
The Big Muddy It is the longest river in all of North America and the fourth longest in the World. It runs through a total of 31 different states and 2 Canadian provinces. The river has served as a main route of transportation and trade throughout the history of the U.S. as well as a border and a communication route. I’ve been to the Mississippi in Minnesota and Missouri and it is a big, muddy, slow moving river with about as much history as a river can have. Now in the book, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which is one of the greatest pieces of text in all of American literature, ever!…
Language features in once. In the novel once Morris Gleitzman portrays Felix as a caring character because he cares for Zelda his new friend and the orphans by telling them stories from his imagination. On page 66 Morris Gleitzman writes about how Felix was caring towards Zelda “Once I spent about six hours telling stories to Zelda, to keep her spirits up-” clearly Morris is telling us that Felix obviously cares about her and doesn’t want Zelda to feel down in the dumps. Keep in mind that Zelda does not know her parents are no longer alive but Felix does, so trying to save Zelda from the heartache is also another example of how caring Felix is.…
Adverse, confusing, hopeless-they're all words that describe Nevaeh Anderson's life despite her wealthy upbringing. She has a mile long list of all the boyfriends she's had, she has smoked and drank numerous times, and she has woken up in too many strangers' beds. To top it all off, she's only 17. Her mother is too busy battling her own demons to scold her, and her father is too caught up in his work to notice that she's falling over the edge.…
The main characters from Under the Mesquite by Guadalupe Garcia McCall and Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai are both very similar and very different. Lupita,, the main character from Under the Mesquite, is a Mexican American girl who has to go through the struggles of her mother dying and being accused of trying to shy away from her heritage. Hà, the main character from Inside Out and Back Again, is a Vietnamese girl who has to deal with not knowing where her father is and is made fun of for being “different”. In the following paragraphs, I will compare and contrast the similarities in their appearance and character, family, and challenges. First of all, Hà and Lupita have similarities and differences in appearance and character.…
A determined and loving woman, Ma Joad emerges as the family’s center of strength over the course of the novel as Pa Joad gradually becomes less effective as a leader and provider. Regardless of how bleak circumstances become, Ma Joad meets every obstacle unflinchingly. Time and again, Ma displays a startling capacity to keep herself together—and to keep the family together—in the face of great turmoil. She may demonstrate this faculty best during the family’s crossing of the California desert. Here, Ma suffers privately with the knowledge that Granma is dead, riding silently alongside her corpse so that the family can complete its treacherous journey.…
In the book Under the Persimmon Tree, Najmah had encountered various dangerous threats to her life, but she managed to fight through it, and become a fearless machine that’s only purpose was to save her family from falling. Najmah had to become a amazing leader in order to survive. In relation to this, Najmah manages to “lose” her ability to fear something or someone for her loved ones. She also feels that she needs to take back what she believes is hers. The character Najmah had gone through many experiences that changed her drastically from how she was before.…
One With the Elements Authors of poems, novels, and plays use elements to make the audience feel a certain way. The author has to make choices on many things; how well they make those choices determines how successful the text is. They decide what characters to add, their personalities, and how to introduce them. Along with characters, they have to pick a setting and time period that are logical for the plot of the story.…
Twenty years ago her mother won the crown and found her true love. It is now Eadlyn’s turn, as she comes closer to being crowned as Illea’s first queen. Eadlyn Schreave became queen in seven minutes. She beat her twin brother, Ahren, by just seven minutes. Now Eadlyn is in line for the throne.…
I can definitely relate to Gualinto’s character in the manner that I consider myself both Mexican and American as well as being part of a new culture all on its own platform, Hispanic. Similar to my stance, Gualinto yearned to belong and adapt successfully to both worlds while always recognizing that, “he was not an immigrant come to a foreign land,” despite other’s beliefs; unfortunately, in today’s world there are still some individuals that see Mexican Americans as foreigners in the land of Anglos and make it hard for us to live peacefully in our communities. (148) Moreover, I do believe that racism continues to exist in this world and people look down on individuals that come from different backgrounds; hence, Trump and his outspoken negative…
College students are introduced into the new world upon graduating with only a hint of guidance and structure. Upon reading The Black Prism by Brent Weeks, I realized that, like college students, the main characters were inserted into a world unfamiliar to their own. Weeks utilizes multiple viewpoints throughout the novel as they travel through foreign territory. Each character faces their own set of challenges and problems that they must resolve throughout the story. Many of the issues met by the characters may include; learning of their tragic past, making the right decisions, or grasping at a better understanding of the world around them.…
Going though Sedita’s eight characters it was hard for me to pin point some people in my family as only one character. Some people in my family I believe highly resemble two to three characters. However, I broke it down to who the characters are the majority of the time. The first character, The Logical Smart One, I pinpointed as my dad.…
A Village to Raise a Child “Help me, Mama. I need you to help me.” “It’s too late for that, the woman said. You got yourself into this, you can just get out of it” (Haruf 10). Parents are a main source of comfort and care for children.…
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.…
V. Little by little, Zitkala Ša consciously and unconsciously changes into a tamer individual, one that is generally less happy. After seeing a depiction of the devil for the first time, Zitkala Ša has a dream. She describes this dream, noting, “Once again I seemed to be in my mother’s cottage. An Indian woman had come to visit my mother” (94). Here, she describes a visitor in her home as “Indian” using the white term for her race.…