“Shells” by Cynthia Rylant is a realistic fiction short story about a fourteen-year-old boy who learns to live with his aunt after his parents deaths. In the beginning, Michael’s parents died. His Aunt Esther decided he could live with her. Esther was the only one who offered to take him in. Michael's other relatives didn’t want to deal with a fourteen-year-old- boy.…
Author of nonfiction book “The Spirit Catches You and You Fall”, Anne Fadiman relays the questions to her readers in her preface: “What makes a good parent?” and “What makes a good doctor?” As far as anyone is concerned for the latter question, specifically what makes outstanding health care, Carolyn M. Clancy, MD, of the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality would describe quality health care as simply “getting the right care to the right patient at the right time – every time” (). Furthermore, she dissects this simplistic description apart, providing a multilayered perspective. Essentially, the key to quality health care is its three basic dimensions: STRUCTURE, PROCESS, and OUTCOME” ().…
The three time Olympic champion and Inductee to the Track and Field Hall of Fame Gail Devers once said, “Sometimes we fall, sometimes we stumble, but we can’t stay down. Everything happens for a reason, and it builds character in us, and it tells us what we are about and how strong we really are when we didn’t think we could be strong.” In Unbroken written by Laura Hillenbrand, Louie Zamperini showed that he could be loyal to his friends in their time of need. Louie like a loyal dog never gave up on his friends when they were in their time of need and was always supportive of them. When Louie didn’t think that he had the strength to keep fighting for survival and for the benefit of his friends he always found the strength to pull through. Throughout all the hardships that kept getting worse for Louie but with the help of his friends he was able to become stronger so that they could get through the war together.…
Laura Hillenbrand,best selling author and highly esteemed writer of Unbroken, was born May 15, 1967 in Fairfax,Virginia. Hillenbrand was raised with three other siblings and learned to love reading and riding horses. As a young girl, she loved to listen to her parents and swim coach tell her stories, which sparked her interest in writing; this new hobby soon grew into a passion which took up most of her time. After high school, Hillenbrand attended Kenyon College in Ohio, where she continued her love of reading and writing and met her first husband Borden Flanagan. Before she graduated, however, Hillenbrand became very ill when she was 19 and had to spend almost all of her time in her dorm room, when soon after she was forced to drop out of college and go back home.…
Knowing when something is wrong, is different than, accepting when something is wrong, and that is exactly what was happening in "Unbroken" by Laura Hillenbrand. The three main characters, Louie, Mac, and Phil, are struggling against not only survival, because Louie's plane crashed into the Pacific Ocean, but also being aware that they are in a crisis. Awareness as said in "What is Resilience" by Kendra Cherry is "when resilient people are aware of the situation, their own emotional reactions and the behavior of those around them", and being aware that they are in trouble is very difficult for Mac, and Phil, because they do not want to accept that they are in need of help. Louie is aware that he has to do everything in his power to help Mac…
Louie was a track star, raised in California around the time of WWII. He was a troublesome child who always creating mischief he was very scrawny and lanky not much of an athletic build to say the least. So it was perplexing to watch him become an Olympian. However, Louie originally lacked the drive to become an athlete.…
I read the biographic account of Louis ‘Louie’ Silvie Zamperini, written by Laura Hillenbrand and titled ‘Unbroken’. Louie Zamperini was born January 26, 1917 in Olean, New York. He lived his childhood out in Torrance, California after his family relocated there when he was two years old. Zamperini would be as normal as my neighbor except for the superhero like resilience and perseverance he had. Louie Zamperini lived a long and full life of 97 years, but not all of those years were pleasant.…
Slave of Time “Kindred” is a novel of time travel trauma and slavery. The protagonist Edana is a smart black woman who fights against everyday racism of her time. She is married to a white man called Kevin, a marriage that was not accepted by their relatives. One day Dana travels from her life in L.A. 1976 to antebellum south; a plantation in Maryland 1815. She travels back in time several times to ensure the survival on Rufus Weylin a white child that throughout the book becomes a explosive slave holder and one of her ancestors.…
In the Austrian psychological film “The Babadook,” Amelia Vanek (Essie Davis) is concerned and exhausted widow. Amelia’s husband, Oskar, was killed about 6 years ago in a car accident while driving her back from the hospital after her labour. Amelia struggles to discipline her only son Samuel (Noah Wiseman) as a single parent. One night, Samuel asked his mother to read him a story book, Amelia replied that he can choose a story that night. Samuel picked a pop-up storybook, “Mister Babadook.”…
The Characters Reading Rainbow Tip: Who is the main character? Do they have any friends or helpers? Is there someone who challenges the main character? Instead of just naming people, talk about what makes each person memorable.…
The following is a critique on the novel “Saint Anything” by Sarah Dessen. This review is focused on the content, writing styles and themes of the book. Firstly, the content of the novel started off a bit slow and it wasn’t (in my opinion) very interesting at first.…
The first forty-eight hours in finding a missing person is crucial. They can be found, or they can be Heather Bell. In Alice Munro’s “Open Secrets,” a group of seven girls and one woman went on a camping trip but returned with one member fewer. Heather Bell like a déjà vu, was present one minute then gone the next, becoming a mere random thought to those who knew her story. What happened?…
Call me a book nerd or a geek, but this assignment actually made me think quite a bit. I have read quite a few books, but one that I constantly remember making an impact on me when I read it, and even after I put it down, is “Safe Haven” by Nicholas Sparks. You’re probably thinking that this author just fills his books with sappy, unrealistic love stories and tragedies, and in all honesty I believed that too in the beginning. However, within the first chapter, I noticed a story that represented much more than your run-of-the-mill romance. The main character Katie, moves to Southport, North Carolina seeking refuge from her past.…
Gabriel Garcia’s work proves his ability to deliver message through writing. Through “one hundred years of solitude” he creates a reflection of the society. The roles of men and women are well defined in the novel. There is a significant contribution from women, and hence they are a reason why the novel is a success. This article focuses on literary theory, and it analyzes works done by other authors which critic Garcia’s novel mentioned above.…
A 1996 novel, The Notebook written by Nicholas Sparks, the center of attention is on the romance, as it opens over half a century, between Noah Calhoun and Allie Nelson, two young Southerners who meet for the first time as teenagers. The lovers overcome many complications, including Allie’s criticism family of them being together. At the time of its release, the novel received diverse critical reviews but was extremely popular with readers and later in 2004 made into a movie, starring Rachel McAdams and Ryan Gosling. It was extremely popular then.…