Amy Lee

Carole Wilkinson’s fantasy novel ‘Dragonkeeper’ is set in Ancient China and follows a slave girl and her dragon companion as they protect a dragon egg while traveling towards the ocean. ‘The journey of a thousand li begins with a single step.” (82) The factors of a fantasy novel are clearly evident in the book ‘Dragonkeeper’ because the story has a possible structure with its limits, ‘Dragonkeeper’ is set in a present era but with a fantasy twist and the characters grow to become better people.…

Laura Garcia de la Torre does not have a favorite story for her daughter Sandi, unlike the rest of her daughters; and unlike the rest of the daughters, from early on Sandi experiences a sense of unexplainable loss. This elusive quality seems to defy interpretation in its foreshadowing of Sandi’s breakdown in her adult years, and reflects the mysticism around Sandi’s character as a whole. In Julia Alvarez’s novel How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, the doll figures largely during the pivotal…

In the book, The Face on the Milk Carton, the main character discovers a secret that has been harbored from her for years. The character, Janie Johnson, lead a normal teenage life. She attended her local high school, was in the progress of learning how to drive, and had a good group of friends. But one day while eating lunch, Janie was drinking milk from the cafeteria when she noticed the picture of a little girl on it. The milk carton had an ad for missing children around the area, and Janie…

Speak Someone once said, “Spending today complaining about yesterday won’t make tomorrow any better.” Some say that things only get worse before they get better, but as others say things only get worse. Speak is a meaningful story that teaches a valuable lesson for teenagers and people every where: Everything gets better overtime. In Speak the author uses conflict to teach people that you may go through hard times, but it will always be okay in the end. Melinda goes through many conflicts in…

Each Individual informs the way one views others and the world. In the personal essay, “Us And Them” by David Sedaris, Sedaris claims that “The only place that seemed truly different was owned by a man named Mr. Tomkey, who did not believe in television.” (73) Mr. Tomkey was David's neighbor, who was viewed differently by David because of his personal beliefs of not wanting or needing a television. I suppose at that time it was or even still is strange for someone not to have a television in…

same thoughts about dreams and the future because everyone has different thoughts about it. There are two stories that at some points have something in common between a mother and a daughter relationship “Girl” by Jamaica Kincaid and “Two Kinds” by Amy Tan. Kincaid writes about the advice a mother gives to her daughter mainly emphasizing which are the things she needs to learn to be a good wife in the future and to avoid being a bad…

One thing that Lily continues to struggle with is being motherless. Although the Boatwright sisters act as mother figures to her, she still does not have a real mother. To cope with her struggle, Lily goes to the places that her mother went to when she was at the house. For example, Lily goes to the honey house, the place that May said her mother stayed, and rests there. Physically being in the location that her mother once was soothes Lily. Another method that Lily uses is imagining her mother…

country of North Korea. Hyeonseo Lee is a North Korean refugee who presented in TED2013 on February 28, 2013. She spoke about her experience as a child being raised in North Korea and her escape; as well how she helped her family escape. Hyeonseo Lee was born in North Korea in 1983. She was raised learning North Korean propaganda. She claims that she was proud of her country and origin despite seeing public executions; which was viewed as normal. Hyeonseo Lee was then introduced to her…

In Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club and in Bissinger's “Dreaming of Heroes” they both had a similar common theme, the children felt pressured to comply to their parents wishes or dreams for them. In these two stories Jing-Mei and Mike sometimes tried and sometimes they didn’t, their parents wanted them to live a better life than they did, and sometimes they didn’t understand. In Tan’s Joy Luck Club Jing-Mei’s expectations and her mother’s were very different. In a way Jing-Mei expected things…

Pixar is famous for producing films that encompass a complex mix of emotions. Think of the heart-rendering scene in “Up,” where a couple's marriage passes by in a mere minute or the nostalgia felt in “Toy Story,” where beloved toys come to life. A film that goes one step further is “Inside Out” which actually crafts a story that revolves around these emotions. At first glance, the movie appears to be one strictly for children considering it is a Disney Pixar movie focused around an…