Tell Her About It

favorite features about my mom? She has many features, but I like to think most about her hair, her eyes, and her smile. Those are the most elegant things about her. I could choose a lot of different features, but I’ll stick with my favorites. I am just like my mom, so I think she’s the easiest person to write about. She has the most unique things about her. Some even bad, but they are what makes her. She would love to be my topic to write, I think it would make her feel good about herself. She…

marriage being constricting is emphasized. When Mrs. Mallard is alone in her room after she finds out that her husband died, she thinks about her future without Mr. Mallard and says, “There would be no powerful will bending hers in that blind persistence with which men and women believe they have a right to impose a private will upon a fellow-creature.” This quote tells us that her husband was restricting her from being free and living her own life. This relates to the idea of marriage being…

Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, tells the story of a young girl named Scout Finch and her older brother Jem as they are exposed to the injustice and segregation in their town of Maycomb, Alabama. Scout is a tomboy and enjoys reading, writing, acting, and spending time with her older brother Jem and their friend Dill. The novel takes place in the 1930s when there are very stereotypical views and when the Jim Crow laws and prejudice and widespread around the south. When her father, Atticus Finch, a…

Analysis of the Short Story “Gryphon” by Charles Baxter In the short story, “Gryphon”, the author, Charles Baxter, writes a story about a fourth-grader named Tommy who gets a strange substitute teacher, Miss Ferenczi, who tells “substitute facts” in order to expand students’ minds and make them wonder more (Baxter 253). The setting of the story is mainly in Tommy’s fourth-grade classroom at Garfield-Murray School in Five Oaks, “a rural community” in Michigan (Baxter 251). It takes place from…

wondered what the differences and similarities were about two books you have read? There are two short stories that are very similar yet different. These two short stories that will get you sitting at the edge of your seat are called “The Landlady” by Roald Dahl and “Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe. These two stories get you wondering what was going to happen next and wanting to read more. About these stories will be talked about, “The Landlady”, “Tell-Tale Heart” and the differences between…

writing about reading. Marelle starts applying the strategy in front of the teacher while the teacher offers ongoing support. The teacher does not expect for her student to achieve immediate perfection with the strategy. It is just the first step of the support process that Marelle needs in order to achieve mastery in her writing about reading. The conference begins by providing a good example of writing about reading which belongs to another student, Alessandra. It sets for Marelle her final…

changing her name from Dee to Wangero is one of the biggest surprise. It upset mama, because the name Dee is a family name and mama named Dee after her aunt Dicie. Dee does not like the name because she believes the name is from people who oppressed her but mama knows the name is important because it is a long generation name. The name change is symbolic because it shows the beginning of the change between mama, dee, and Maggie. Dee change her name showed that she is separating from her family…

he gets with a white girl he plans to tell her that he love’s her hair, skin, and lips, because, “in truth, he loves them more than he loves his own.” If the girl is an outsider he says to tell her stories about the neighborhood, like the one about, “the loco who’d been storing canisters of tear gas in his basement for years, how one day the canisters cracked and the whole neighborhood got a dose of the military-strength stuff.” However, he says not tell her that his mother recognized the smell,…

for us. A person who is like second mother but a person that you could tell stuff that you always tell you mother. Well Brenda Johnson was that type of person to me and I’m going to tell her story. On May 5th, 1973 Brenda Johnson was born. She lived with her grandmother and grandfather because her mother had died in a terrible car accident and her father had to Texas and never tried to contact the family. Brenda grew up around her grandfather so she turned out to be just like him in a good way.…

Laurie Halse Anderson, is about a girl named Melinda Sordino who is starting her freshman year in high school. She’s had something horrible done to her, however, she won’t tell anyone what happened. During a party before school starts, a junior named Andy Evans raped her. When she calls the police, but she can’t bring herself to tell them what happened. During her phone call with the police, another person sees her and all her friends and everyone at the party begins to hate her. On the first…