Gilmore Girls

The setting of the book is in the past of last year 2014 between the months of March to December, along with flashbacks before then. The book's atmosphere is very claustrophobic with intense moments of action and many rising action points. The main characters are Nicole as know as Nick in the book, Dara, Nick’s younger sister, and Parker. Nick is seventeen, protective over Dara. Nick is emotionally separated from Dara since the fight that caused the accident. Nick’s habits are snooping in Dara’s…

For something to be considered a theme, it must be universally understood and timeless. This means that it must be able to apply to any culture, in any time period, and still mean the same thing. Ever since humans existed, children have struggled to accomplish what their parents expect of them. The fact that children struggle to rise to their parent’s expectations, is a common theme in both Joy Luck Club and The Kite Runner. The children in both stories tend to misunderstand what their parents…

It is well known that girls’ self-esteem can be extremely fragile, especially during puberty. The Always #LikeAGirl commercial points out that “like a girl” is used as an insult in our society and how it brings girls down. The Always #LikeAGirl successfully encourages young girls that being a girl is nothing to be ashamed of, and that they should have confidence in themselves. The commercial starts off with a woman on a set asking the various people to do actions “like a girl”. Then they…

be in the Hero Hall of Fame is Malala Yousafzai. She got the whole world's attention to help women education because we’ve been trying to get away from that for about a long time ago when we started giving women rights, so why can’t the women and girls at Pakistan get an education. She risked her life for this because lots of people wanted her dead ever since she expressed herself for getting an…

Matched by Ally Condie is a young adult novel about how a 17 year old girl named Cassia, breaks the rules and goes against what she has always been taught. Cassia lives in a society where she is constantly being told what to do, where to go, what to wear, she is even told who she will marry, where she will work, and the day she will die. She rarely gets to make her own decisions, and she is consistently being told what to do. But when it comes to love she is taking that aspect of her life into…

What if there were girls on the Lord of the Flies island? Maybe there would be all girls, an equal amount of girls to boys, or just one girl. What would change? In Lord of the Flies, there is a group of boys stranded on an island, and they eventually split into two groups: savagery and civility. However, with girls on the island, everything would change. What if there were no boys on the island; only girls? The girls would most likely have a lot more order that the boys did. Also, they…

There are many themes in this New York Times bestseller How The Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent by Julia Alvarez, though one stands out from all the rest. That is, that happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have. Throughout the novel, this theme takes its place in character development, setting and thus affects the overall plot. This theme has a massive effect on the characters in this novel. One example of how this theme effects the characters is in Part 3 in the chapter…

Pamela Cummins has had some whacked out dreams in her lifetime. At six years old, she dreamed that a boy (whom she had a crush on) and her were running away from a wicked witch. In her twenties, a man appeared in her dream who had two penises, one was really small, and the other longer penis looked diseased – Eww, gross! The Buddha came for a visit in her early thirties and performed a healing on her. Pamela also dreams of more mundane things, such as cleaning, doing loads of laundry, or yard…

There is always a point in life where one has to grow up, and experience the world in its true form, whether by choice or by force. It is an important part of life that changes one’s personality and their perspective of the world. This important transition is a focal point of life, and changes people as they learn about the world. Scout in Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird demonstrates what happens to people when they grow up when her life takes a turn and forces her into a young lady.…

Welty’s insatiable appetite for repetitive consumption of engaging adventures hidden between the pages of books. Welty shares the details about several of the stories she’s consumed. Tales from Maria Edgeworth is one of those stories. It is about a girl who chooses to buy an attractive purple jar, instead of replacements for her worn…