John Grant; a mild mannered teacher who works in a small town called Tiboonda, has only 140 pounds for his six week leave. During his first night in an overnight train stop in Bundanyabba or the ‘yabba’ he wanders into a local pub because he was thirsty, and the water in the Yabba was ‘so heavily chlorinated and so hard with natural chemicals’ (page 16). After entering the pub, John buys a drink and heads to a quiet place for a cigarette this is when John meets the local policeman Jock Crawford. This encounter is the beginning of John’s downfall into debt, sorrow and alcoholism.…
Today, most families are faced with hardships, but Jeannette Walls and John Steinbeck wrote some of the best examples of endurance in their novels The Glass Castle and The Grapes of Wrath. In The Glass Castle, Walls wrote about her childhood and problems that were unique to her family. Steinbeck wrote about a very common issue that tenant farmers faced during the dust bowl and Great Depression of the 1930’s. He wrote of a fictional family, the Joads. The Walls and Joad family both lived their lives under completely different circumstances, but they had two common characteristics that allowed them to survive, loyalty and resilience.…
Convicted By Murder Have you ever dreamed when you were a young teen about going to prison or your parent told you that they were going to put you in a scared straight program? A young male, Alexander Gordon Smith wrote a book called “Lockdown Escape From Furnace”. Furnace Penitentiary, in the distant future, is the world’s most secure prison for young offenders. It is buried a mile beneath the Earth’s surface. One way in and no way out.…
John Wesley Hardin Birth, the passageway into this cruel and unforgiving world, in John Wesley Hardin’s case. John Wesley Hardin was born in 1853 near Bonham, Texas. His parents were named James Hardin and Elizabeth Dixson. His name came from John Wesley, the founder of methodist denomination of Christianity.…
John Knowles A Separate peace follows two young men who attend a private high school in New England during world war 2. The main character Gene, is a junior in a time where seniors are being trained to be shipped off for war. His best friend Phineas is a star athlete, while Gene is an above average student. Although the threat of war is always looming around, the boys at the Devon especially Finny and Gene, seem to be caught our in their own world completely separate from the war, hence A Separate Peace.…
There was an adherent by the name of Ruke Lutz. He is a proletariat, who follows the teachings of Harret Gilyer, who is a patrician famous for his heated temper, interest in younger women, and well thought of and intelligent comebacks to everyone, including his teachers. This proletarian is well known throughout his community, being as he is the funniest person in the town. He meets a man who has a multifarious personality, meaning this man was not the man he seemed to be and seemed to have a nefarious purpose. This man’s name is Bryan Bubalbava.…
In the book, Junior’s best friend on the reservation. Rowdy is a star basketball player for the Wellpinit high school on the reservation. Rowdy gets abused at home and is known as a bully on the reservation. Rowdy’s father beat on him and his mother in drunk rage. Rowdy wear buries as if they were war badges to display his toughness.…
Mr Hyde is the evil side of the two people who does many bad things. For starters Mr Hyde ran over a little child that was in the road and didn't even feel any emotions. That is a very extreme case of someone being evil but it is evil none the less. Considering that attempted murder is a very bad thing Mr Hyde is shown as being very evil and not caring.…
Louise Erdrich’s short story “The Red Convertible” is a story about the brotherhood relationship between two brothers, Lyman Lamartine and his brother Henry. The two brothers buy a red convertible car on their way to Winnipeg and take off driving the whole summer. After they return home, Henry deploys to the Vietnam war and his life changes hereafter. When he returns home after three years, Lyman finds Henry all changed. He has even forgotten to laugh.…
The Main character of the story is Stephen Quinn. Stephen is 15 years old and lived with his dad and grandpa ever since he was born. When Stephen is 15, his grandpa dies and it leaves him with his dad. When Stephen ends up in Settler’s Landing, the people learn to trust him and befriend him, but some people think that he is some kind of spy from another settlement that doesn’t like their ways.…
In the play “The Crucible” written by Arthur Miller we see many themes and lessons in the story. The main theme is focussed on deceit and lying and how lies can lead down a dark road which results in the ruin of many. The Crucible is a fictional play based on the Salem Witch Trials which occurred between February 1692 and May 1693 and resulted in over 150 people being accused of witchcraft and 20 executed. The story focusses on the story of John Proctor and Abigail Williams, his niece, and how lies, jealousy, revenge, and deep seated feuds caused a community to turn on each other in a vicious circle of accusations and misunderstandings. The characters in the play who lie significantly are Abigail, John Proctor, and Mary Warren…
“The truth does not cost anything, but a lie could cost you everything”. In the book Nothing but the Truth, Philip and the english teacher Miss. Narwin have issues with their relationship, which will lead to many problems. Based on their actions, Philip, Ted Griffin, and Philips parents are to blame for the end of the story of Nothing but the Truth. Philip Malloy is a freshmen at Harrison High and plans on running track this year, Philip has many friends and even a crush named Allison, his life is going up until he has to go to english class with Miss Narwin.…
In this essay I will be looking at the strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde written by Robert Louis Stevenson in January 1886. In this novella a well-respected Dr Jekyll struggles with his dual nature and the undesirable reputation of his pleasures in an upper-class Victorian society. I will explore the ways that the author, Robert Louis Stevenson, presents different types of power and its effect over man. I will compare this text to themes of power in poems such as Medusa, My Last Duchess and Hitcher. The first poem Medusa by Carol Ann Duffy shows the cause an outburst of range as anger has power over any sense of morality that that person may have.…
“Inside each of us, there is the seed of both good and evil. It 's a constant struggle as to which one will win. And one cannot exist without the other.” The quote by Eric Burdon can be put into constant play in the book The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson. With a strong sense of mystery and danger, the theme of good and evil fits perfectly into Dr. Henry Jekyll’s personality.…
Laurie was a troublesome child. In “Charles”, written by Shirley Jackson, Laurie was a kindergarten student and was the older brother of an infant sibling. This story takes place in the 1950’s at Laurie’s house and school. The problem in this story is that Laurie did not adapt very nicely to kindergarten. He was misbehaving in class.…