Dreaming

Throughout this summer I read the book “Dreaming in Chinese: Mandarin Lessons in Life, Love, and Language” by Deborah Fallows. It is a memoir about the discoveries Deborah Fallows made through her journey of living in China for three years. She wrote about the good and bad but also the different things she learned in the process. For example she wrote about her troubles when she first started getting introduced to the different tones, but then she learned that although the tones may sound the…

relationship had such a great bond from being psychic and using that to communicate with each other, how Cuba had such an impact in their lives even though Pilar had been living in New York since the age of 2 and the similar personalities they both had. In Dreaming in Cuban by Cristina Garcia focused on the lives of Celia and her family and from her three children and four grandchildren. Especially focused on the relationship that Celia had with her granddaughter, Pilar. It’s strange to think…

“We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race” by Kofi Annan fits perfectly into Brown Girl Dreaming. Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson is a book about an African American girl, Jackie, who writes her life experiences like trying to find her identity, which takes place in the late 1960’s and 1970’s. She encounters countless problems and many of them are because of being an African American so, she writes short poems…

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…

The authors write books to tell something special and readers buy books to enjoy their special. They can learn something new from these special words, and it is meaning to enjoy reading. For example, readers can learn about discrimination against African American and a lawyer who tries to protect them. Though the reading story, each people feel differently even though they read same words. It means that people can learn different things from the same book. In English class, reading books and…

A Characterization of Roger Chillingworth in The Scarlet Letter: The Retributive Scientist In The Scarlet Letter , Roger Chillingworth is the antagonist of the novel. Roger Chillingworth, once a kind, true and affectionate man, turns into a man full of vengeance and rage after his wife, Hester Prynne, commits adultery with a man named Arthur Dimmesdale. Chillingworth begins to seek revenge for the man who committed this sin with his wife, which turns him into the cruel and twisted man that he…

Colin Dexter Raised with high scholarly expectations, Norman Colin Dexter is a revolutionary in the writing genre of crime and mystery. Born September 29, 1930 in Stamford, Lincolnshire, England, Colin Dexter had numerous academic challenges ahead of him. Both of his parents dropped out of school at twelve years old, consequentially wanting him to put his time and effort solely into his studies, which excused him of household chores. As he got older, Colin Dexter took an interest to crossword…

For my summer reading assignment I read the poetry book named “Brown girl dreaming”. The author of the book, Jacqueline Woodson was born on February twelfth nineteen sixty thirteen in Columbus, Ohio. She has three siblings. The book I read was about her childhood. She is an author of more than thirty seven books , She has won nine book awards and has two children. The book was about Jacquelines life, mostly her childhood under the age of ten. She told her story through poems. The book begins…

Dexter is a serial executioner who takes after the “Code of Harry”. This code ensures Dexter from being caught and licenses him to take matters into his own hands, and execute the criminals at will. The slaughtering of these criminals serves as neutralization and decreases the thought that Dexter is a psychopathic serial executioner. In nearly all kill examinations made by the police, Dexter has place inside of these examinations and the presentations of the serial killers. As Dexter serves out…

Having established that, Dexter takes after his mother. It is interesting to a look at Season 2 Episode 28 “Germ Warfare”. The flu is traveling in the Dexter household and the boy genius is the only one who doesn’t have it. His mother gives him his breakfast and starts lecturing him about maintaining his health before he catches the flu. While she begins to sneeze, it spreads towards the table, and the germs begin to move to his plate. Grossed out he says “ewwww” and runs to the hallways, where…