Kayla Cloward of Blackfoot Idaho, passed away Saturday, October 28th due to injury sustained in an automobile accident at the age of Fourteen. Kayla was born March 17, 2003 to Kasey and Katherine Cloward. Kayla was a sister to Kayge Cloward, 19 and Kacyn Cloward, 13. Her Grandparents were Danny Cloward and Laurel Brummond. She was going down the freeway with a group of friends as a car jackknifed into the passenger side of their car.…
Martha Euphemia Lofton Haynes was born and raised in Washington D.C. Unfortunately, since Euphema was African-American and female, she faced many setbacks and problems through her life like racism, and sexism. Being born during this time period and in Washington D.C, Euphemia was inspired and motivated to follow the career she wanted and to get an education. Despite being discriminated against, Euphemia was encouraged to stand out in the world as an intelligent, wise, and strong woman.…
Happy Risks Authors use genres and characters to develop a theme. Sometimes different main characters can be used to build the same theme. In the poem, “the lesson of the moth,” poet Don Marquis uses the main character, a moth, to teach the narrator Archy, a cockroach, what it is like to have a dream worth dying for. Similarly, Daniel Keyes, author of “Flowers for Algernon,” uses the protagonist Charlie Gordon, a mentally challenged person, who longs to be more intelligent, to develop the idea that good things are worth dying for. Both the poet and the author use the main characters in their literary work to contribute to the idea that the chance for great happiness is worth taking great risks.…
The Valley of Ashes reveals how George Wilson evolved into a shell of a man devoid of hope, and the gloomy diction epitomizes the depressing life Wilson is living. Fitzgerald portrays the Valley of Ashes as threatening to trap all who travel through its reach. “A line of gray cars crawl” through the dilapidated wasteland, drained and enervated of energy, and the Valley of Ashes is full of “ash-gray men” that dwell in a “dumping ground.” George Wilson parallels and testifies to the misery of this description, since he is a “spiritless man” who is only left with “a damp gleam of hope.” This gloomy diction testifies how Wilson is both a victim and a conquest of the Valley of Ashes.…
Why do you think the author changes the plot and the storyline in the novel and the film? The author and the director made choices which resulted in many differences and similarities between “Poppy and Dingan” and “Opal dream”. The overall meaning throughout the book and film is understanding other perspective, love and empathy. Some Similarities and differences can be seen through storyline, characters, imagery and landscape.…
It is a very known fact the we as people are completely divided on the topic that there are good in the bad and bad in the good. In the short story “Good Country People” Flannery O’Connor, she illustrates that while some may be cold hearted and mean they still have some good and vulnerability within. She also uses the names of the characters as a sort of symbolism for readers to understand them even more.…
Sugar, Sylvia's cousin, was not the way that the reader would picture her by her name. She was a wild rebellious child. By looking at the name, the reader would assume that she would be a sweet and innocent type of girl. However, Sugar was not; she was just the opposite. The way Bambara names each character is a reflection on the type of person…
Themes Analysis Dreams and aspirations are a key thing to your life. To everyone's life, and you can't let false hope stop you from your dream because in of Mice and Men and Only Daughter, the authors develop the themes of false hope and dreams which contribute to having a positive or a negative impact of the characters. First of all, the author John Steinbeck mentions false hope when Crooks experiences verbal abuse from Curley’s wife. In of Mice and Men, Crooks experiences false hope of his dream to join George and Lennie to start a farm.…
Hope’s Hopeful Journey Here in Summit Campus, we see students every day who stress over an assignment; in a way, Hope Jahren faced the same issue. We all started with a blank paper, but gradually, we began to write down a few of the things we experienced. Here and there, we will even go through a phase where we are stuck and don’t know what else to write. In Hope Jahren’s Lab Girl, Hope finds herself struggling becoming a scientist.…
The Cellar by Natasha Preston is a novel in the horror genre. The Cellar is about a sixteen year old girl named Summer Robinson. On her way to a party, she is kidnapped by a mysterious man who calls himself Clover. He takes her to a cellar, hence the title, that contains three other girls. He renames them to the names of flowers.…
Defiance In Purple Hibiscus Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie takes place in Enugu, Nigeria and is narrated by fifteen year old Kambili Achike. According to google.com, defiance is defined as “open resistance; bold disobedience.” Throughout Purple Hibiscus, defiance is reoccurring. Defiance is never simple. Sometimes it is hard to tell whether defiance is a positive or negative force.…
A curse put upon one, can also be known as the blessing hope. It is a desire for something to happen or a feeling of trust. To many people hope is seen as a blessing, yet it is a curse one can not see. It is put upon an individual influencing the hopefulness for a certain thing to happen regrading the possibilities of it actually happening. Hope is a unsighted curse since life does not always turn out the way one may want it to be, it can blind individuals senses, and hope has no limits.…
Universally accepted as symbols of beauty, flowers are often used to symbolize love. Although beautiful, they are of a delicate nature that can only survive temporarily in this world. Often people observe their magnificence in the seclusion of gardens, where they are rarely left to grow freely. Contained within flowers are manifold functional uses, but their purpose is confined to being observed for their beauty, much like what was expected of women. In Chronicle of a Death Foretold, a man investigates a peculiar death several years after it has occurred.…
In the film Cast Away, directed by Robert Zemeckis, compulsively prompt FedEx executive Chuck Noland is on his way to Malaysia when his plane crashes over the Pacific Ocean during a storm. The sole survivor of the flight, Chuck washes ashore on a deserted island. When his efforts to sail away and contact help fail, Chuck learns how to survive on the island, where he remains for four years until he manages to escape the island. During the last scene of the film, after Chuck has returned the last remaining unopened FedEx package with the angel wings to its sender, he stops at a crossroads where he encounters a woman who explains where each road leads to. The importance of hope and change are shown through the use of symbols, music, close ups,…
“We might just make it. Did that ever cross your brain?” says Tom Hanks in the midst of his 1500 day ‘vacation’ from ordinary life. Robert Zemeckis’ film The Castaway displays Hanks’ character’s solitary life and his countless attempts of reuniting with the world after he becomes stranded on an island for four years after his plane crashes over the pacific due to a terrible storm. The movie is centered around the idea that hope and maintaining psychological health are undeniably the most essential traits for survival.…