Cassie

For example we can read in the novel about the Jefferson Davis School bus, which is only for white children, where Blacks do not have a bus so Cassie and her brothers have to walk to school. However, the children are always threatened by this bus, "a bus bore down on him spewing clouds of red dust like a huge yellow dragon breathing fire". And it is because of racism. The whites in the bus enjoy…

night all because of a bedtime story. Cassie had to admit, the story she had been reading to Joey the past couple of nights, was also the reason why she wasn’t in bed. The Three Angry Goblins, by Charles M. Blackwell, was the book they found among a hundred others in Aunt Adeline’s library. There was nothing peculiar about the story, in fact it was quite entertaining.…

That Day Okay, I’m going to be straight with you. High school sucks. I guess for some people high school is a time of happiness and homecoming hookups, gossiping with friends at the lunch table, or deciding whether to buy a cookie or fries because there’s nothing more important to worry about. But those people are ridiculous. For the rest of us, though, high school is the most stressful time of our lives: braces, B’s, b*****s, and boyfriends (HA!). The “B” that affected me most of all,…

characters, including Evan Walker, Ben Parish and Squad 53, to help Cassie save the world. Cassie has shown her independence and strength through several courses of actions, for instance, the will to kill, rescue Sammy and sacrifice for the greater good. As a member of her crew, Evan Walker had turned on his own race, he is a silencer, an experienced killer also likable like E.T. from E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. Another member of the Cassie crew, Ben Parish, also known as Zombie. As the leader…

A wise man by the name Martin Luther king Jr. once said, “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.” Everyone should, and needs to believe that a color of a skin simply shouldn’t justify if a person is good or bad. In “Roll Of Thunder, Hear my cry” Mildred D Taylor explains the story of the Logan Family, a family living in the 1930’s. Only one thing is different…

Thunder, Hear My Cry Cassie a nine year old girl living with her three brothers, her Mom & Dad, her “Big Ma”, and her Dad’s friend Mr.Morrison. Cassie and her brothers Stacey, Little Man, and Christopher John tend to get into a lot of mischief including crashing buses, saying things others didn’t want to hear, and most of all doing anything to “get under the skin” of the other people in their community, people like Mr. Granger and the Simms family. Not understanding, Cassie does everything she…

electronics on earth, the second destroys most of the world itself and the third one is a virus that kills of about seven billion people. These waves are caused by aliens. Even though I am not that far in the book, I have noted a lot of change in Cassie as a person. When Cassie's comes across a wounded soldier, she is very hesitant to help him due to the fact that she believes that he may be a alien in disguise. She tells the soldier to lift his hands up, and when he does, she shoots him. The…

point to be racist, and there are people whose friends or family may be racist but that person might not be racist. Even though most of the White people in the novel are racist some are not such as Jeremy and Mr. Jamison many times Jeremy invited Cassie and the boys to be his friend he said he wished their schools ended at the same time so they could ¨still see each other¨ (196). The times everyone would work together no matter what race they were would be when they all had the same goal like…

narrators, and the laughable and cry-able moments gives the novel The 5th Wave a 4.8 out of 5 stars by Rick Yancey. Cassie the main character is falling head over heals for the boy that rescued her from her death, Evan Walker. Doing so she has already broken her first rule she refuses to break don’t trust others, “The first rule of surviving the 4th wave is don’t trust anyone” (Yancey 8). Cassie is constantly debating her own thoughts with herself through the book. When Rick Yancey does this it…

Ulysses Hill Ms.Louk Petey 27 June 2017 Petey The Not So Idiotic Idiot Petey is a book about a boy named Petey Corbin which was written by Ben Mikaelson. Who was born in 1920 with cerebral palsy and at two years old he was sent to a mental institution and labeled an idiot even though he is quite intelligent. And even though he labeled an idiot he eventually created friendships with the people who realized that he is more than he seems but with every friendship the person eventually…