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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…

There are two children, Huck and Tom, as main characters who go through lots of adventures in this novel. When Huck and Tom were trying to escape from Jim’s surveillance, it is very clear the contrasting attitude of them dealing with the situation. While Huck wanted to escape from this situation as quick as possible, Tom wanted to take even more risk to move Jim’s hat because of his spirit of adventure. Also, when Tom have created the gang, Tom Saywer’s Gang, there are many words that children…

In Jacqueline Kelly’s book The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate, the author quotes Charles Darwin’s The Origin of Species at the beginning of each chapter. The quote above is from Chapter 14, “The Short Hoe.” In choosing this quote Kelly references Darwin’s pragmatic view of nature, in which animals or creatures likely do not care about what they look like, except to the extent that their form serves function or purpose. For example,, animals may look like their surroundings so that they are hard…

Comic books are contemporary forms of art that touch in the categories of art, literature, and entertainment. From DC and Marvel (which are my personal favorites) to the other comic book companies and brands that are less known by the outside readers, there is a broad range of comic book characters and story lines. Like art and literature, comic books and their characters, styles, and icons change over the course of time. Similar to entertainment in general, these changes are made to better the…