Lucy

1) The central idea of Grealy’s story is that Lucy have experienced an operation which resulted that her half jaw was removed, after that she suffered 20 years’ of people’s vicious taunt and more than 30 operations to fix her face. Because of this, she lost all of her confidence and didn’t dare to look at the mirror. Had the operations done, she realized that she didn’t look like herself, and began to acknowledge that the face is a way we experience and make decision about the world, and how we…

Lucy is an early human ancestor. Lucy died three million years ago. She was discovered in a shallow Ethiopian bed in 1974. She lived about 3.16 million years ago. After having Lucy for 42 years John W. Kappelman a professor of anthropology and lead author of a new study of Lucy had a hypothesis about how Lucy died. His hypothesis is that Lucy fell from a height around 46 feet of a tree branch. She fractured all her bones then died. Then some water gently carried her to a stream bed and she had…

Saint Lucy has multiple names such as, Saint Lucy or Saint Lucia. Saint Lucy was was born in the year of about 238 A.D. She was martyred around 304 A.D. according to the era of the rule of the Diocletianic Persecution. We celebrate her feast day on December 13 which is the time that Christians celebrate advent. Saint Lucy is known for being tortured and having her eyes gouged out because she didn’t deny her faith. Symbols that connect with Lucy are silver platters with two eyes atop of the…

illette, Victorian Women, and Opium Villette, by Charlotte Brontë, confronts women’s anxieties about new roles and uncertain social and economic statuses through its narrator, Lucy Snowe: intrepid young woman extraordinaire, yet a cautious and controlling character and author. It is when Lucy’s subconscious takes greater control, due to the opiate dose by Mme. Beck, that the novel expresses most explicitly the fears and emotions of an English schoolteacher displaced in a foreign world. The…

Although there has been other genocides, the Holocaust has been the worst event that took place in history. Two million Jews and other minorities were targeted and killed. The Holocaust was successful in carrying out all the atrocities they did under the regime of Hitler, because Hitler and his followers were organize and tactical when caring out their reign of terror. Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic memoir, Maus, written by Art Speigelman’s (1991). The author writes about his father experience…

Myth: The Chronicles of Narnia is built around this concept of myth. As most of us read long ago in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, the four children explore their new home and grope their way through a magical wardrobe into the cold, wintery world of Narnia. Here -- as in the ancient myths that had captivated C. S. Lewis' heart -- animals talk, witches bewitch, curses turn flesh into stone, and the veil between physical reality and spiritual fantasies fade away. Myth and truth merge…

In this fantasy story, Isle of the Lost by Melissa De La Cruz, there are 4 friends that have to satisfy their parents in different ways but they have one thing in common which is the Dragon’s Eye. That might sound weird but it is really powerful. The 4 friends are villains from all the fairytales. For example, Mal, daughter of Maleficent, Evie, daughter of Evil Queen , Jay, son of Jafar and last but not least Carlos, son of Cruella De Vil. All these are parents of villains of what you might have…

Susanna goes to Gallows Hills, that is where the hanged all the accused witches, and it is really freaking her out. It’s time for Susanna’s meeting with Mary, Jonathan brought her. Mary is a sweet old lady but it takes a little while for Susanna to warm up to Mary. She wants evidence Mary isn’t a witch which Mary supplies a lot of. Here are some of the things she tells, her, William and papa have known her for years. Mary’s dream is to sail and climb up to a crow’s nest, and that is…

In the movie, “The Chronicles of Narnia: the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.” Four Children flee war-torn London and arrive at their safe haven home. Upon arrival they realize the house is strict and they become troubled. While playing games to make themselves feel better about their predicament they find a magic wardrobe that takes them to a new land called Narnia. Throughout the story many themes present themselves, two of which being that good can come from misfortune (shown mostly in the…

In the book the mysterious benedict society by Trenton lee Stewart the charters Rayne, sticky, Constance and Kate are all introduced at different times but the book starts off talking about Rayne while he is at the orphanage were he has been since his parents left him He is reading the paper well having his tea and reads an ad that reads: ARE YOU A GIFTED CHILD LOOKING FOR SPECIAL OPROTUNITIES? He and three other gifted kids also read this ad (and also many others). They all go through different…