Wes’s father taught him how to respect his mother and women in general so that he wouldn’t be like his mothers ex-husband. He had a stable job as a radio journalist which showed Wes become a hard worker. Wes had mentioned how the book was somewhat a homage to all the work his father had taught him when he was alive. The prisoner Wesley Moore’s father was never involved in Wes’s life.…
Major Works Data Sheet: Do not cut/paste from a website, which is a form of plagiarism. Thoroughly complete each section of this. The more information you input, the better. Title: Emma Biographical information about the author:…
By using symbolism, Jacqueline Woodson is attempting to reveal in the story ‘When a Southern Town Broke a Heart’ that perspective can change as you become more mature and gain experiences. Have you ever felt like what was home for you had changed so much? That’s how Jacqueline Woodson felt. As we grow and change, so do our perspectives on a variety of things that we experience in life. Woodson introduces the poison ivy, representing oppression, as a central idea of the story.…
Part A In the book Why Do I Love These People? by Po Bronson, he tells the story of nineteen families that each faced different challenges which they were able to overcome. The introduction explains how much time it took for Bronson to complete the book and the reasoning behind why the book was written. Originally he knew that he wanted the families’ stories to teach his readers a lesson, so he spent years completing the book making sure the stories he chose were unforgettable.…
I sympathized with the character throughout the entire story. Favorite Quote: One of my favorite quotes was,”If I had wanted to kill him, he’d be dead”. This was important in the story because it's a teenager talking about an adult. Recommendation: I would recommend this book and other S.E. Hinton books to others because they are gritty and realistic in the way they depict the hard lives some kids live.…
Prue Masson is an Australian award winning author. Before she was an author she was a flight attendant, travelling around the world along with her husband who is a professional piolet. She lived in Canada for three years and the Middle East for twelve years, where she got the inspiration for ‘The Camel Rider’. She wrote the Came Rider in February 2009, it has now won the Queensland Premier's Literary Award for Best Children's Book.…
The poem written by Matthew Olzmann, “Letter to Matthew Olzmann from a flying Saucer” is a 25-line poem that contains no stanza breaks. This poem is written in the arrangement of a letter from himself to himself to weigh out some critical decisions in life. In poetry this is known as an epistle. Matthew is changing the way he is thinking and viewing the world, but it is not without discord. The struggle he is dealing with is between a higher power which could be perceived as his family who wants to bring him back to their way of thinking.…
A family is one of the most important parts in our lives. They help you through the adverse times by finding ways to make you happy through these difficult and tough times. A family does everything they can to help lead them through bad times and this theme of family relations is prevalent in “Sonny’s Blues” and Kafka’s The Metamorphosis. In both works, the authors develop situations in which families had to help one another through very tough times in their life.…
• Ellen Hopkins was “born March 26, 1995 in Long Beach, CA.” (Bio) • Ellen Hopkins “publishers Simon & Schuster published Crank on October 1, 2004.” (Crank-Book) • According to Google books 1005 rated Crank a five star book and 647 rated Crank with four stars. Some reviews said “I love this book, it’st perfect!”…
In most stories, family is important, but in S.E Hinton's book “The Outsiders”, family is what brings the story together. Family in my opinion does not have to be blood, anyone can be considered family. Family will always have each other’s back, supports one another, and loves one another unconditionally. Although there are families like the Curtis brothers and Johnny’s family. In this story, the Greasers are a family, and the Soc’s are a family as well.…
She was constantly subjected to an environment in which she felt as though she did not fit in. The subjects faced constant scrutiny from her teachers and constant bullying from her peers. When the subject reached the 9th grade she had faced far too much negativity related to schooling so she deicide to move schools. It was not until her junior year in high school that she found a safe schooling environment. It was a smaller Christian private school on the outskirt of her town.…
In his song "God Bless the U.S.A.," Lee Greenwood sings, "And I'm proud to be an American where at least I know I'm free. And I won't forget the men who died who gave that right to me. " These words echo the idea that countries around the world hold soldiers in high regard because they sacrifice on behalf of their countries. War is often romanticized in propaganda, and unfortunately, the actual reality of war is not addressed.…
She explains throughout her book the abandonment that she felt after her father left them. She expresses that she would call her father and yell and cuss at him when she was an adolescent and how difficult it was for her mother to…
Throughout the novel written by John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath, social injustice is illuminated. The human person is programmed at birth with certain necessities. The material programmed into the bodies of humans consist of rights and responsibilities. Catholic teachings teach us to be kind to others even when it is nearly impossible. The quote “treat others as you want to be treated” is a core value in the Catholic religion.…
The author of the natorious novel Pilgrim’s Progress, John Bunyan wrote many works in his time, and he developed new techniques to catch his readers’ attention. Like most of Bunyan’s works, he writes about God and His love, healing, mercy, and grace. Bunyan also writes about having faith and following God, against all odds. His life was full of trouble based on what he wrote about, but that he didn’t stop. He knew that the only way to get peoples attention to try and help them with their life after death was to capture his audience through his writing talent.…