On June 10, 1991 in California, a girl named Jayce Dugard was kidnapped at the age of 11 years old. She was abducted while she was walking home from a school bus stop. Jayce was brought to Phillip Gardios house, where he kept her in tents, shed and lean to’s in his own back yard. She endured harsh sexual assault resulting in the birth of two children. This story relates closely to the imprisonment of Ma and Jack.…
Elgin history spotlight – Nancy Lou Webster This is the story of longtime Elgin resident/artist Nancy Lou Webster and her 1935 Straight 8 Buick Coupe with suicide doors named “Katie.” The story begins with Nancy Lou as a teen in Oxford, Mississippi.…
Jeannette Walls wrote a book, The Glass Castle, about her own life. In her book, she talks about her “adventurous” life moving from place to place. Her father was a drunken man who could not hold a steady job; therefore, he could not pay the bills. That is where the “adventures” came in. They would run away from the authorities so they would not have to pay the bills.…
Is it always happy ever after? Is the Cinderella story a true meaning to every woman that deals with any and all hardship? It is how you come out at the end of it all. It means are you going to dwell over issues that are beyond your control or deal with them and make the best of it the way you can. Sadness of a young woman basically a child forced into growing up due to her mother’s death and fathers mistreatment due to alcohol.…
n the short story " Where (1)are you going , Where have you been ? " . , Joyce Carol Oates creates a story of a young girl stuck in arrested development . A young girl named Connie is stuck in a fantasy and refuses to see things in the correct light . Connie is a girl (2)who is full of herself .…
Hi, Mrs. Rayder. I am Amber Sparkman. I live in Leachville, AR, it is about thirty five minutes from Blytheville. I have eight dogs and one cat. I enjoying riding fourwheelers, going hunting, and watching movies.…
stating that his mother’s responsibility in a family and society is to stick within the nuclear family and that she should be a supporting wife and responsible mother. While David is not affected by the “enormous cultural dominance of the baby boomers” (Levin 24), he is in fact nostalgic for the past as a result of his current circumstances. These current circumstances which cause David’s nostalgia for the past all of a sudden have a literal manifestation as David magically enters into the past that he is so nostalgic for. With a remote given to them by a mysterious repairman, David and his sister Jennifer get sucked into the TV, and straight into the town Pleasantville.…
The five children who return eleven years later do not remember anything, in Tara Alterbrando book, The Leaving. A love story takes place between two main character (Lucas and Scarlett) and it shows the reader that love always overcomes any circumstance. While a love story is taken place mourning is also, over a boy who has yet to return, Max Godard. Max 's family shows us that we all have a breaking point, no matter how strong we are. A mysterious story full of plot twist will lead the way, for these overall two themes of, The leaving.…
Life is made up of the moments you been through, good or bad. For Taylor, these moments from both the past and present, pieced together to settle her past and change her future. In the novel On the Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta, Taylor Markham’s father died in a car accident and Taylors drug addicted mother abandoned her at a Gas station. Then a young lady named Hannah took Taylor in as her own. Taylor is currently the leader of her schools’ underground community.…
Choosing between a collection of books to take the one I enjoy the most, is tough. In this case, mine is a whole new world in which not too many people seem encouraged to enter, either because they don’t enjoy reading or if the book is not of their interest. The Mara Dyer series by Michelle Hodkins is a whole new mixture between genres like mystery, suspense, romance and thriller that will keep the reader on the expectancy to know what will happen next. Mara Dyer as a 17 years old teenager has a horrible past and a not too fortunate present. Her boyfriend, her two best friends and her had an accident when the mental asylum they were exploring collapsed.…
Summary Jenna Fox, a seventeen-year-old girl from Boston has recently been in a terrible accident. The book opens on a Jenna that is waking from a year-long coma. She has no memory of her life, family, or the accident. She wakes up in a home in California, that she lives in with her mother and grandmother, Lily. Jenna feels that Lily does not like her, and this troubles her.…
It is no secret that leaving behind a life you’ve invested in is a struggle. However, in John Green’s novel Paper Towns, Margo Roth Spiegelman leads Quentin Jacobsen on a wild goose chase, teaching him the secret of moving on and starting a new chapter in your life: “Leaving feels good and pure only when you leave something important, something that mattered to you... But you can’t do that until your life has grown roots” (234). Her ability to completely push aside her life in Orlando is subsequent to, in her eyes, the end of it. The end of her story in Jefferson Park contrasts with the start of Quentin’s, the reason he is unable to follow Margo in the uprooting of life.…
In The Glass Castle, the author named Jeannette Walls thinks of a plan to aright a bended Joshua tree that she sees in the Desert. The tree that Jeannette discovers grows sideways due to the harsh weather conditions and struggles to survive every day. Jeannette’s mother tells her to leave the tree how it is because it is “the Joshua tree’s struggle that gives it its beauty” (Walls 45). Similarly, the tree symbolizes Jeannette’s life. Both of these living creatures are negatively impacted by their environment, face criticism, work hard regardless of what they are provided with and live an admirable life.…
Identifying information Celie is a 42 year old black African American woman. After carefully analyzing the dates and seasons provided, Celie was 14 years old, at the time of her adolescence when, her life started too filled with traumatic events, which caused her to need assistance. Celie lives in the rural Georgia, for most of the 1909 to 1937. She was uneducated, for most of her childhood, until her sister Nettie being to teach her from literature books. She never attended school or work.…
1992 was a singing year of literacy for me. I know you're thinking.... What does she mean by singing? " Let me tell you!" The year of 1992, I was a dark skin (chocolate) toddler, with colorful barrettes hanging on the ends of my pick-tails, colorful shoes, white socks and an outfit to match.…