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Little Chaos is about a woman named Madame DaBarra who interviews for a job to help construct plans for Versailles. Madame DaBarra makes a living for herself, for she is a widow. Her husband and daughter died in a carriage accident. In the beginning of the movie, Madame Dabarra travels to be interviewed by Master Le Notre. During the interview Le Notre declines her plans and says they have no order. After the meeting Le Notre looks more at Madame DaBarra's plans and reconsiders her work. He goes…

completed this book. The Skin I’m In, is about this seventh grader Maleeka Madison who has a low self of esteem because of how dark she is. Maleeka is tall, fairly skinny and dark skinned and, that’s her problem because others have a problem with that. Maleeka is hated by the bully in her school the bully makes fun of her, calls her names and makes her life harder that is already is. She lost her father at a very young age and something he would always tell her is “Brown beautiful brilliant My…

Melinda’s Thoughts Speak by Laurie Anderson is about a freshman girl named Melinda. During the summer before her freshman year, she had a huge traumatic incident that impacted her words, actions and thoughts. The most effective was her thoughts. She does not talk much because she does not feel comfortable and she has nobody to talk to. She has many thoughts though, which show the reader that she is unhappy. Melinda starts off her school year depressed and disappointed in herself, when…

hacking on her feed. This is causing her body to shut down. It influenced her point of view about the society by showing how if she didn’t have a feed, she could be living a normal life without having to die. What influences my view about society is what happens inside and how the community acts. First of all, Violet thinks that it’s her fault that her body is being shut down when in reality, her feed is the one who is responsible. Furthermore, the hacking of her feed caused her to lose her…

attempt to calm Gertie down after she screams because of seeing ET unexpectedly. The audience can tell Gertie’s instability from Mike’s performance of covering Gertie’s mouth, and thus trying to keep her quiet. The audience can also tell that Gertie is calmed down to some degree by her silence, and that she is curious by her question, “What is it?” At this moment, her goal is to understand what ET is, and her knowledge of ET starts at zero. In order to show Gertie that ET is not harmful in any…

August: Osage County-Alesha Jeter ITR 1 Summary: In Mrs. Bickert’s class, Modern American Drama, we have been reading plays about the struggles of American society. One of the that we have read is a play called Long Day’s Journey into Night by Eugene O’Neill. This play tells the story about a family struggling with addiction, and they’re hard and eventually vain attempt to fix things. They play in a drama and is semi-autobiographical. The play that I read to compare in comparison, is a dark…

Many people read books about a major event that may never happen, but they do not completely understand how the protagonist is shaped by their surroundings. For Juliette to become the person she is at the end of the story, she must go through challenges, that will teach her the entire truth behind what is really happening. In Shatter Me, Tahereh Mafi uses cultural, physical, and geographical surroundings to shape psychological and moral traits of Juliette as she tries to escape from the grasp of…

Great writers create great stories. In The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer writes about the different classes of pilgrims. He has a narrator, Harry Bailey, who speaks highly of the knight but does not care about the Summoner. Bailey tells all the pilgrims that each will have the opportunity to tell a story of which they desire and whoever has the best story will get a dinner paid by the pilgrims. Throughout the stories, women are described as men’s pleasure. Chaucer uses characterization and…

unusual on in her way. Felicity is shy and timid, but she is a wonderful writer. Also she lets everyone take her everywhere without questioning. But what makes her weird is the fact that she collects words and sees them hover around things and people. Felicity has never had friends and has never found the word home.When Felicity stays at midnight Gulch everything changes. Mama, Felicity’s mom, is a depressed person, but later on cheers up. She had a hard time when her husband abandoned her,…

a wise man once said, but Ben, the main character of Deadline, never expected to lose all of his close friends. The book Deadline, by Chris Crutcher, is about an eighteen year old Ben Wolf, the protagonist, who discovers he has one year to live due to a terminal blood disease. In the beginning of the novel, he decides that it is best to not tell anyone, but this decision comes back to haunt him. Throughout the novel, Ben becomes close with some people in Trout, the city in which Ben lives, and…