Mama and papa

1. When she first tried to listen to the Earth with her father Esperanza could not hear it, but without any disappointment her papa said to be a patient. Sure enough, Esperanza soon noticed she could hear the heartbeat of the valley, her own, and her papa’s. Taking place in the first chapter of the story this could definitely show that this small aspect will have quite the significance. Especially since in the last chapter of the story Esperanza and Miguel (a close partner) do the same thing…

It has been 70 years since the end of World War II and there have been many books and movies written about the Holocaust. It is important that we learn from these sources so that we are not condemned to repeat our pasts. Art Spiegelman, author and narrator of the graphic novel Maus, wrote a biography about his father’s experiences during World War II. While The Book Thief is a movie about a young German girl being brainwashed by Nazi propaganda and her experiences during the war as well. While…

Bierman, C., & McGaw, L. (1998). Journey to Ellis Island: How my father came to America. New York, N.Y.: Hyperion Books for Children. This is the tale of a Russian Jewish family why should constrained leave Russia when the Germans attack their town and begin to shell it. This is a genuine story of the creator's dad with some fictionalized dialog, and it incorporates real pictures and the genuine encounters her dad experienced. This book is an astonishing representation of the migrant experience…

who relays 10 year-old Liesel Meminger’s story as she lives in Nazi Germany. Liesel was sent off to live with her foster parents Hans Hubermann and Rosa Hubermann on Himmel Street when her brother died on the train there. She learns to love her Mama, Papa, her best friend Rudy, books and the delight of stealing them as she lives there. When the Hubermanns hide a Jew in their basement, Liesel discovers brilliant and terrible things about life in Nazi Germany. As the Hubermanns situation gets…

Is it true that this “popular public figure and one of America’s best and most beloved writers,” as Thomas V. Quirk, a Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Missouri in Columbia, described him in an Encyclopedia Britannica entry, appreciated diseases and epidemics and -- goodness! -- liked the prince of darkness? As it turned out, aside from writing, Mark Twain - the pen name of novelist, travel writer, and humorist Samuel L. Clemens (1835-1910), cherished cats. In fact, he once…

Racism is “the unfair treatment of people who belong to a different race” (Hornby 1248). In Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston comments on race relations. “The novel seems to ask if race is not, after all, socially constructed—that is to say, categories not based on biology but on concepts thought up by humans” (Sharon 189). Hurston focuses on the loss of the Blacks’ identity in society. A significant example that sheds the light of the history of blacks in America is the…

For example, when Papa started drinking and was yelling at Mama it could have gotten Jeanne to think that it would be okay for Jeanne to follow her father footsteps. After a while, the Americans were treating the Japanese really bad and this time they went way too far. The Americans were holding…

Papa was strong and fast as he was able to pick cotton the best, “Daddy 's cotton sack so long, they have to fold it double to weigh it” (Williams 20). While papa was the powerhouse, mama was caring and protective of her children, “Mama bring cornbread for lunch and greens” (Williams 23), Mama has taken up the position of making sure they eat and drink and that everyone stays as healthy as possible. Shelan, the main character, is curious and wants to be as grown up as her siblings,”If I was old…

Kambili is a victim of abuse and this plays a huge role in her need to keep silent all the time. We see this through, “He picked up the missal and flung it across the room, toward Jaja. It missed Jaja completely, but hit the glass étagerè, which Mama polished often.” (Purple Hibiscus 7). The outburst from Eugene is a clear indication that he broke the figurines. However, we see an innocent Kambili as she will never say or think anything ill about her father. We see that she respects and looks up…

bond between her and her foster father. Zusak wrote, "The excitement stood up in her. Visions of a ten-year-old reading genius were set alight, If only it was that easy. 'To tell you the truth' Papa explained upfront. 'I am not such a good reader myself' (65). In the next chapter, he wrote, "'You stink,' Mama would say to Hans. "Like cigarettes and kerosene'.... Sitting in the water, she imagined the smell of it, mapped out on her pap's clothes. More than anything, it was the smell…