A Lesson Before Dying

The title of this book is “Charlotte’s Web.” It was written by E.B. White, the author of other books such as “Stuart Little”. It was written in 1952. The book’s genre is fantasy because although it teaches a lesson about friendship, it still has some unrealistic elements, such as the talking animals and Charlotte being able to write. This book teaches about friendship, with Charlotte doing all that she could to save Wilbur until the very end. The main characters in the book are Charlotte and…

Although many enjoy having status, the relative social, professional, or another standing of someone or something, can status put your life in danger? “Crispin: The Cross of Lead,” is both a young adult fiction and historical fiction novel by Avi. I chose this book since it was a book genre I haven’t read much of. Crispin, also known as “Asta’s son” in his village of Stromford, had just lost his mother and has become a wolf’s head which is a bounty either dead or alive. Along the way, he escapes…

liquor store, he is hindered by his family and himself. Walter saw a chance to make his dream come true when Mama received the check for ten thousand dollars. However, Mama and the rest of the family had different ideas of what to do with the money. Before he was given…

Buchenwald, Auschwitz, Natzweiler, Ravensbruck, and Sachsenhausen. Some were intended to help the German war effort. They tested how high someone could parachute out of a plane without dying from the effects of altitude, how much of someone’s body could burn without them dying, and how much oxygen you need before you drown. Other experiments were designed to find a cure for typhus, malaria, tuberculosis, and hepatitis. To test the treatments, they were forced to be exposed to the diseases. Some…

the word rede means to counsel or to advise and also can mean explanation or to explain, and it is old english where the first known use was before the 12th century. the word Rede also has been seen as Old Saxon rad, Dutch raad, German Rat, Old Norse rao, all with the same meaning to counsel or to advise. Some famous redes are The Wiccan Rede, The Norse Rede of Honour , In modded times the word rede has been replaced with the word ethics, which is a moral stander that a person or a group of…

show called, “Yona of the Dawn.” She goes through many harsh times to reach her point to show that women can aswell be powerful, use weapons to fight, and several other important things. The story of Yona begins very tragic, like most heroes. So, before that let's talk a bit of her background. Her story begins in the Medieval times where Kings and Queens were major, and forced marriages were very common. Yona was “very fortune,” with her life as she was a Princess. She didn’t have to worry about…

Amy Hempel Amy Hempel is an American short story author who was born on December 14th, 1951 in Chicago, Illinois to Gardiner and Gloria Hempel. Amy Hempel spent most of her early childhood in Chicago as well as Denver, Colorado before moving to San Francisco, California at the age of sixteen (Fields, 127). Hempel seems to be heavily influenced by her time spent in California because many of her stories take place within the state, however, she eventually settled in New York where she attended…

Introduction: In the first ever morality play of the fifteenth century, Everyman, does that of every man who represents all of humanity, such as death, good deeds, etc. Everyman, who actually presents himself as all human kind, tells the story of a dying person who is seeking God. As one forwards into the play, it is visible that God seeks out the messenger to find Everyman to inform him that God casts judgment on his life. Throughout his journey, he comes in contact with companions such as…

Slavery was introduced to Colonial America in 1619 by the Dutch. It wasn 't until 1865 that slavery was abolished by the Thirteenth Amendment. The House of Burgess officially established slavery in Colonial America in 1670, even though it had been going on for way longer than that. Two hundred and fifty plus years of brutal, animalistic, behavior used for personal vendetta and appetite for wealth. Profit was one of the highest priorities of land and slave owners. Africans were cheaper to buy and…

the duo travel in a wasteland and encounter some horrific situations like “the wall [that] held a frieze of human heads, all faced alike, dried and caved with their taunt grins and shrunken eyes” (90). The mother sensed that it would be like this before she took her life and said to the man “ [you] won’t survive for yourself” (57) but for their son. He was the only reason to survive in this world. During this time, McCarthy inserts the symbolic fire into the story, which represents humanity and…