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“I didn’t do that anymore, though” (Graff 1). In the book Umbrella Summer by Lisa Graff Annie, starts off in a sad and depressed mood because her older brother Jared had died recently. It is very easy to tell Annie’s mood and how she is feeling within the first couple pages because it is written in 1st person point of view and everything she says can portray a sad and even lonely part of Annie. This realistic fiction, 235 page journey leaves an emotional and funny mark in your heart as Annie…

of his father. It makes him feel very lonely and it gives him ‘heavy boots’, as he calls it. Oskar’s grandfather, Thomas Schell Sr. is acquainted with the fear and truth of death when his city and family were destroyed with the bombing of Dresden. Love is what connects all characters in the book. Grandmother’s love for Thomas Schell Jr. and for Oskar is the main things for her existence. She chose her child over her husband, which seems like a unusual thing to do. Grandfather and love a more…

Mrs. Mallard felt relieved when she found out that her husband was no longer alive. Even though she felt secretly pleased, Mrs. Mallard gave the impression of mourning. Feeling trapped for quite some time while her husband was alive, Mrs. Mallard was now not under the power or control of her husband. Once Mrs. Mallard heard that he was dead, she believed that she was finally free. By the end of the story, Mrs. Mallard, herself, was dead and seemingly got what she deserved from karma. Richards…

At the beginning Truman Capote provides us exceptional detail of an everyday routine on the Clutter household. He depicts how Mrs. Bonnie Clutter is a delicate lady who suffered from postpartum depression but never fully recovered, includes you in Nancy’s carefully schedule days, gives you insight in Kenyon’s exquisite hobbies, and enlightens you on Mr. Clutter’s strict but kind morals. Capote takes his time involving his readers in the lives of the characters forming an emotional connection…

Many characters suffer from recurring nightmares. Two of the main characters from the novel who have such nightmares are Liesel Meminger and Max Vandenburg. Liesel Meminger is a young girl caught in the middle of Hitler’s reign over Germany. She begins at the age of 9 at the start of the novel. At the very start her mother, brother, Werner, and herself are in a quick moving and packed train in the third carriage. She and her brother were going to be given over to foster parents, who live on…

“A Rose for Emily” is a short story written by William Falkner. The story begins with the announcement of the death of Miss Emily Grierson, a spinster living in the American South in the late nineteenth century. She is plagued by loss throughout the story the death of her father, the loss of her love, and the loss of the customs and attitudes of the previous generation. Emily can’t let go of her past, the people she lost, the era in which she was raised, and the antebellum beliefs of the past.…

The narrator in A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson, Mary Rowlandson, instigates herself as the prime Christian woman, when in reality is far from. If the narrative is examined with the knowledge that the word selection and scriptures were added and tweaked by the panel of pastors that approved this writing, then the instances of unchristian like behavior from Rowlandson can be dismissed. However, based on the knowledge that this is a narrative and the panel…

Life is irreplaceable; once it’s taken away, no one can ever get it back. In the story “The Lady or the Tiger?”, written by Frank R. Stockton, the king punishes his daughter’s lover by making him choose between two doors, one with a lady and one with a tiger. The king believes that it’s okay for him to end someone’s life just because he is in love with his daughter, the princess. One thing the king is not taking into consideration is his daughter’s feelings towards her lover. Love is not a…

Choosing between a collection of books to take the one I enjoy the most, is tough. In this case, mine is a whole new world in which not too many people seem encouraged to enter, either because they don’t enjoy reading or if the book is not of their interest. The Mara Dyer series by Michelle Hodkins is a whole new mixture between genres like mystery, suspense, romance and thriller that will keep the reader on the expectancy to know what will happen next. Mara Dyer as a 17 years old teenager has a…

On average it takes 9 minutes and 35 seconds for an ambulance in New York City to reach the caller. This is 4 minutes longer than the national average. New York’s congestion problem began in the 1930s, the depressed economy put thousands of people behind the wheels of taxi cabs. Thousands of drivers chasing after few fares congested the streets of the New York boroughs and forced the city to put a restriction on the number of cabs allowed on the streets at a time. Uber, an app that allows its…