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!…
On an asphalt baseball field in Brooklyn, two teams from local Yeshivah schools meet. At first, it just seems like a baseball game between two Jewish high school teams. But the game quickly turns into a holy war when the caftan and ear lock wearing Hasidic team begins to taunt and bully the less conservative “hell-bound sinners” on the other team. Hate boils as Danny Saunders, the leader of the Hasidic team, purposely hits a pitch right back at the pitcher, crushing his glasses and landing him in the hospital for a week. This is how Chaim Potok 's book The Chosen begins.…
Does Auggie deserve to look like this? In the book Wonder by R.J. Palacio, Auggie has some physical challenges that cause him to be different than other kids his age. He has to figure out his way through school, Beecher Prep, with his unordinary self and learn how to survive in the normal world. Auggie did go through some rough times at Beecher Prep, but there were more positive experiences in his life while he was at Beecher Prep than negative. First, one of the positive influences in his life was Jack.…
Going After Cacciato and Peace Though peace is unattainable and is farther than we can reach, Tim O’Brien admonishes never giving up the search for peace. Tim O’Brien’s novel Going After Cacciato is about a man named Cacciato who deserts the war in Vietnam and his team in order to pursue his dream of Paris. His squadmates hunt for him to bring him back but, all of them have different reasons. Using indirect characterization O’Brien exposes the character’s different motives for hunting Cacciato--for hunting peace. One such character is Stink Harris.…
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.…
When you fall in love someone but not able to confess your love to her because of your self-image and she is extremely pretty, in Cyrano De Bergerac play by Edmond Rostand, Cyrano is worried about his appearance because he has such an enormous nose. This is the most important of this play because some people are judging a book by its cover. Cyrano is a poet, swordsman and smart but he is really ugly outside. Opposite from Cyrano, Christian is really pretty, handsome but unintelligent and dull inside. They both love to the same woman called Roxane and become a rival.…
The perception of one’s self can play a great part in the relationships are developed with other individuals. A great example within the play Cyrano de Bergerac can be found. This idea is very prominently displayed through the interactions between characters. The main character Cyrano is very prideful however affects his ability to be honest with others. Roxane and Christian are two of the characters that Cyrano has the closest interaction towards.…
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…
1. Enrique believes that he is more American than the white people that do live here is, and his reasoning is that the Hispanics and native Americans were located here before the Europeans came down and took it all, and he isn’t wrong. For that he wants his respect that has been overdue here due to the mistreatment of his environment Enrique living in America. To Enrique experiencing being American, it is much easier than being Mexican and developing in Mexico. His belief is very strong in this reason and this is due to him previously living in Mexico and experiencing how hard it was to make a living and how scarce opportunity is and not to mention the education systems being much worse back in his home.…
After Henry returned from Vietnam, he was a completely different person. In order to truly understand the problems Henry portrayed, one must first understand the Vietnam war and the symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. The Vietnam war was one of the most brutal wars that the United States has ever participated in. Over three million people died over the span of the war and many more sustained life threatening injuries.…
While reading The Cellar by Natasha Preston I have evaluated three minor characters. Violet, Rose, and Poppy are the three other flowers to help make Clover’s idea of a perfect family whole with the addition of Lily. Without these certain minor characters in the book it would change dramatically leaving calamity. Rose is a sweet girl who was shy, but comfortable in Clover’s presence.…
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.…
“Opposites attract” can summarize the relationship of Monin and Pablo. You would have never known they have been in a relationship with each other for fourteen years, along with seven kids. The only thing they have in common is that they’re both Puerto Rican! There has been a very unhealthy cycle going on as well. They start off content with each other and their life, then they have a severe argument, Pablo leaves for several days, and then returns.…
The Messenger Essay “In order for a text to be successful, characters must undergo meaningful change” In The Messenger, novelist Markus Zusak records the experiences of Ed Kennedy, the protagonist, as he undergoes changes that enable him to find himself, giving his a life a purpose. As the novel begins, Ed is a lazy and underachieving teenager who drives taxi-cabs for a living. Ed is laid back with little life aspirations.…