Chris Eyre

ones are happy and fantasy like. They attract more the little girls who want to be pretty princesses. In Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë does not seem to hint towards intentionally comparing her novel to any version of a fairy tale that you have heard of before. However, it is quite easy to find elements of her novel those are similar to “Bluebeard” and “Cinderella”. Brontë shows that Jane Eyre is a fairy…

Perception Versus Reality The novel, The Outsiders and the play, Sorry, Wrong Number, talks about the misperception of Ponyboy, an orphaned kid who lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Mrs. Stevenson, a woman who lives in a house with her husband and maid. Mrs. Stevenson also thinks she is ill and adored by others. Mrs. Stevenson and Ponyboy both have a misperception of the people in their lives. They also believe differently of, or about, the people they live with. Ponyboy believes Darry, his…

Autobiographic or personal writing’s The narratives by Mary Rowlandson, Sarah Kemble Knight, and Olaudah Equiano are all autobiographic or personal stories that have been the landmarks of the early American literature. Both Rowlandson's Narrative and Knight's Journal track the solitary encounters of real puritan women who move past their familiar place in the pioneer property. Although the fortuitous distinction between Rowlandson's and Knight's goes from which their accounts were created, the…

Rebecca Skloot, the writer for the book “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks”, has been obsessed with Henrietta since she was sixteen-years old. Skloot tried looking up more information about Henrietta and her family but she couldn’t find any information. That’s when Skloot decided that she wanted to tell Henrietta story by writing a book. With Rebecca trying to get in contact with Henrietta daughter Deborah. Skloot didn’t know that the family would become hostile to the fact that they didn’t…

This semester has passed by in what feels like no time at all. I barely even blinked, and the year is already half over. In literature class, this feels especially true, as we have moved from The Things They Carried to Jane Eyre, and now to The Awakening. During this time frame, we have written multiple pieces, the majority of which consisted of FRQs. I believe that my greatest piece of writing this semester was the FRQ based off of a section of Ann Petry’s The Street. I enjoyed reading the…

Helen is a student in the school Jane goes too called Lowood. As soon as Jane meets Helen, helen helps Jane adjust to the new school environment because she has never been in school. In the novel Jane describes Helen as a very mature minded character and a good disposition about her. She is a very tolerable, accepting, and nonjudgmental person, Helen is a warm hearted and bright spirited person. She is understanding and good to those who have mistreated her. In my opinion Helen had the most…

Charles Dickens once said that “no one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.” This theme is present in Orphan Train a novel written by Christina Baker Kline. A beaten, broken, freezing little girl and a warm-hearted, lively individual. This is the relationship between a little girl and her teacher. Miss Larsen noticed a problem with a little girl’s life and did everything she could to help. Throughout this novel there is a progressing relationship between a little girl…

Women are some of earth’s most unique and underrated creatures. They are not weak, they are not emotional, and they are not the negative stereotypes that the world describes them as.“Trifles,” “Story of an Hour,” and “My Wicked Wicked Ways,” presents us with three women who are strong, mentally and emotionally. These three women: Mrs. Wright, Mrs. Mallard, and the speaker’s mother stories all relate in a way. The three ladies all relate in the way of being emotionally and physically tied to…

The book Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson is about Melinda Sordino, a ninth-grader in Merryweather High School in Syracuse, New York. From the outside, she might have looked like an ordinary girl, but inside she held a secret that had withdrawn her to a life of silence and melancholy. She had gone through a traumatizing event that had changed her whole life to the point where she had lost all hope and became self-destructive. Melinda was raped by Andy Evans, a senior, at a party before the start…

Pranavi Kolouju Mrs.Ragusky 6th Hour Ashleigh had a hard decision to make which will end up hurting one of her parents. Ashleigh is a teenage girl who lives in England. Both her parents are divorced. Her dad is a dreamer and her mom is more of a practical thinker. Her dad was in a really tight situation and he needed money fast. Her mom happened to have 200 hundred dollars in emergency money saved up. Ashleigh needed to decide on if she wants to take the money or not. Ashleigh didn't take the…