Accelerated Reader

The story would change if Maggie would tell the story. Her sister Dee, the one who went to college would be different from the way they grew up. From Maggie’s point of view, she would see a perspective of Dee in which she is self-centered and different from both her & her mom. Her mom would be her role model in which the both have similar living style in which Maggie sees in herself. Maggie realize that her sister is the completely opposite, in which she sees that she prefers the world over her…

Imagine a world where people lived to be 200, and where in order to have children someone would have to volunteer to die. In the text 2BRO2B by Kurt Vonnegut, this is the society people live in. Vonnegut made it easy for the reader to see the painter makes his own guilt in anger. In this short story we see that the painter isn’t proud of his worker. IN the text it says “You think I’m proud of this daub?” Which the order responds, “You're a gloomy old duck, aren't you?” These two times shew…

The Mask that Veils and Hides Laurence Dunbar’s poem titled We Wear the Mask is a story about genuine human emotion. The poem speaks on the nature of humans. Dunbar uses first-person pronouns to help connect the reader with the emotions he desires them to feel. The main emotion expressed throughout the poem is fear. The fear is of others seeing someone for who they really are inside, and not the mask that they portray. The mask is used to display feelings that are not real to hide what lies…

Over the summer I read In the Woods by Tana French; a suspenseful, crime-based novel that focuses on the main character of Detective Adam Robert Ryan. The protagonist narrates the story off of his own personal account, which leads to a detailed telling that’s based off of personal opinion and could be deprived of a fully accurate telling. This doubt is even addressed by the protagonist himself; Adam Ryan states that his account may be tainted by his own memory. Although he worked the case…

painful and presents it to the readers. Besides informing the oblivious adults, she is reaching out to the teens who are having struggles now and teaching them how to cope. She is showing them a light at the end of the tunnel. The story preaches self-confidence and standing up for what you believe in. It encourages the readers that in the end, it does not matter what happens now. In ten to twenty years you’ll survive and be that much stronger. When she does this for the reader it is her method…

mountains, and trees. In addition, the poem has an alternate human made setting where there is gravel and cities. The speaker seems to be Mary Oliver herself, as the speaker is referring to her longing for nature throughout the poem. The audience is the readers of…

breaks and lay ups, the speaker intends to convey the visual image of sneakers. Mercury’s Insignia is connotated for Nike shoes. By including this term, the speaker was able to transfer the motivation and hard work of the basketball players onto the reader. Another example of a connotation is bad angels. According to lines 3-4, the speaker says,…

If everyone spoke in a monotone, there would be no true understanding of ones feelings. Everyone who be left in the dark and clue less about what everyone else truly felt. Tone is writing is used to help convey complex ideas in order to help the readers or audience take into consideration how the writer or poet truly feels about the topic or situation. Throughout the poem, Ulysses’ tone helps to convey his complex response to growing old to his audience. Ulysses opens his first stanza with a…

Coming-of-Age “Powder” Analysis In the short story "Powder" written by Tobias Wolff the protagonist, a young boy, Criminy psychologically matures during a skiing trip with his spontaneous reckless father. The pivotal point in the story is when Criminy drags one of the sawhorses aside so his father can drive the car through, then puts it back before they speed down the dangerous roads to make it to Christmas dinner on time. Criminy for the first time in his life broke a rule and did it…

Eric Klinenberg uses many different tactics to persuade his audience to reduce their usage of air conditioning. With his use of facts and statistics, common sense, and personal experiences, he hopes to convey his point to his targeted audience. In his article, Klinenberg sets up his argument by portraying an image in the reader’s mind of “relax[ing] in the cold blasts of a movie theater or shopping mall”. He then goes on to say that “Americans use twice as much energy for air-conditioning as we…