The Diary of a Young Girl

The story begins with the perception that she is in love with an older man -“Peter might be forty-six, but…I adored him. I loved to be seen with him.” (163), and climaxes with a young woman realization that she is not in love in falling action she leaves him. When Peter asked of the woman “what are you thinking of?”(176). The narrator answers with “’How much I love you,’ I said automatically, and was finally aware how much I lied…

average home where human lawn ornaments are seen as a status symbol. Saunders deals with family dynamics, domestic life, and death by examining the truths of human existence. “Victory Lap” is the opening story. Three days before her birthday, a young girl named Alison is kidnapped. Kyle, her former friend, lives close by with his very strict parents. He observed the kidnapping taking place and is torn between helping Alison and keeping himself safe by not getting involved. In “Sticks” a man has…

she ran, sweat building before she’d reached the next intersection. But she kept going, and then into the station and onto a train seconds before it left. She scanned the carriage. There was a woman with two young children, one of them a baby sleeping in his pusher, the other one a little girl in a fairy costume with her face pressed up against the window. The mother was sending a text message with one hand, the other hand was lightly touching her daughters back. Two seats down there was a man…

feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible”. Every day is a choice, and being optimistic is the finest one to make. Louise in “Dear Miss Breed” by Joanne Oppenheim finds ways to stay upbeat in rough times far from home, and Anne Frank in “The Diary Of Anne Frank” by Anne Frank is also looking sunnyside-up while hidden from the Nazis. Even though positivity doesn’t always have the results expected, such as in Anne Frank’s case, positivity helps to build a resistance to the hardships to…

female lead such as: Greys Anatomy, Private Practice, How to get Away with Murder, and Scandal. These shows represent the power of women in the work force. Her talents are not only limited to tv, she also wrote the film Crossroads, and The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement. (“Shonda Rhimes”) Before making a huge tv show, Shonda Rhimes wrote the film Crossroads, starring Brittaney Spears. This movie is about friends coming together and taking a road trip together to get rid of their problems.…

everywhere. I’m assuming “Big Brother” is the government watching over the “Little Brother” or better known as Winston. As I continue to read and get a better understanding of Winston I can pick up that he is grim and totalitarian. Winston starts his “diary” off by writing down how he fortunate that his television is in the corner of the apartment, because it allows him to be viewed all day by the authorities or Big Brother. All of a sudden he stops and thinks about why he is…

He drops out of Middle school and eventually, became a street criminal in Harlem NY. During this time, his childhood beliefs are consistent. He began dating girl named Laura who was deeply in love with her. Malcolm leaves her heart broken when he leaves her for a white female named Sophia. With Sophia on his side, Malcolm began drug dealing, gambling and robbery. In 1946, he is arrested and sentences to a…

On February 22,2001, a little girl was born along with her twin to Tonya Douglas. She is the third of four kids born in her family. From the time she was eight years old, she was living in Miltown. Then she moved to English. Jasmine’s been living in English ever since. As a toddler, Jasmine was rambunctious. Around the age of one, Jasmine almost had her tongue cut off. At four years old she moved to English from her childhood home in Milltown. She was quiet, but caring. Then at the age of five…

The Significance of What They Carried Core 11 Summer Assignment “War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength,” (George Orwell, 1984) This quote represents the stages of emotions that the Alpha Company is currently going through throughout the war, when the men return home from the war, they all go through different struggles to get back to the way their life was before. Jimmy Cross carries guilt, for being responsible for the two deaths of his men. Rat Kiley carries the stresses of…

From ABC news and article “What Life in Captivity Was Like for Cleveland Kidnapping Survivors Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus” Amanda Berry writing in her diary states, “Meanwhile, Berry’s dark and filthy room at Castro’s house was about the size of a closet. “The mattress was old and nasty, and it was just disgusting. And we had the bucket to use the bathroom, and that smelled horrible,” Berry said. Once…