Amber Lee Ettinger

Envision a house that “was once white” but now “darkened to the color of the slate-gray yard around it” with “rain-rotted shingles” and “oak trees that kept the sun away”(Lee, 10). This might not sound like a place that a generous and caring man would live in, but in To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, a mysterious and important character, Arthur “Boo” Radley, is the most significant source of pure kindness and endearment in the entire novel. Arthur Radley is the phantom of a small 1930 Alabama…

We live in a world that is progressively becoming more and more tolerant of people who stray from what is considered “the norm”, whether the difference is race, religion, gender, or sexual orientation. There is still much to be done in regards to how people treat others but it has certainly improved over the past century. The dictionary definition of discrimination is “the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people or things, especially on the grounds of race, age, or…

Character Analysis When the white man came with their new ideas they disrupted the ibo life.. In Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, the main character’s son, Nwoye, is a very dynamic character and goes through an immense change. When the European’s new culture invades the Ibo community, Nwoye is quick to leave the culture he has grown up with to join the new religion because he always longed to leave. In part one of the novel, Nwoye is peaceful and effeminate kid. When Nwoye is walking home in…

As once said by Marcus Samuelsson, “For many of us, clean water is so plentiful and readily available that we rarely, if ever, pause to consider what life would be like without it.” Dirty water is just one of many things that Salva had to go through in the book A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park, where he faced many survival challenges such as thirst and loss of friends and family. All these challenges were very difficult for him, both mentally and physically. Even so, through all those…

Life Lessons Learned By Scout Scout is a girl that doesn't think what she says but improves later on.She is a dynamic character and changes throughout the story.Therefore, she has many specific life lessons during “To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee” In addition, she learns that in life you will need to think before you judge a person and understand what courage is really all about. Scout is different from others she is pretty young to understand what is good to say and bad to say to a…

In The Longest Daycare, a compassionate kid adventured in the school by rescuing a butterfly from being killed by another kid. It is sad as issues occurred although whole story have silent dialogue. Thus, the issues included in the story are violence, injustice and negligence. The main issue is violence. Throughout the story, an unkind child have murdered the butterflies. Likewise, I feel sympathy to the child as he was immature to differentiate good or bad of his action. For example, no adult…

The comic book scene has changed substantially over the course of this past generation. Whether it be the mass production of superhero themed movies and animated television shows or the various video games and toys—the industry has grown exponentially. As the industry expands, so does its audience. The stereotype that comic books are only for white, nerdy males no longer stands true as the audience opens up to females from various cultures and races. This being said, characters within comic…

n in Flint Michigan they are a black family. Kenny the middle brother he is the narrator in the story The Watsons go to Birmingham. There is five people living in his family in flint Michigan. Kenny had a rough The book the Watsons go to Birmingham is a family that lives childhood because of people making fun of him at school. Kenny goes to school at Clark elementary there is a kid there that bullies him all of the time his teachers say he is a smart kid people make fun of him because he looks…

In life people will misunderstand you not everyone will understand what your saying or doing. In the book “To Kill A Mockingbird” shows misunderstanding in society because the characters don’t understand why one of the characters is defending a negro. This is shown in a child’s point of view because this child went thru all these misunderstandings in society. People will misunderstand what you will say because they might understand something else then what said. For example,…

Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been “With great power comes great responsibility”, this very old saying famously appears in the Marvel comic series Spider Man. Uncle Ben uses these wise words to warn Peter Parker that with any sort of power, there is also a negative side that comes with it. We can observe this in, Where you going, Where Have You Been by Joyce Carol Oates. In this story the main character Connie realizes that she has this great power to attract boys, she is very much…