The Secret River

“Helen, I need you over here.” I watched her walk over to me with her concerned face. “What?” I watched her pause as she saw my face. “You have to go don’t you? Back over there?” She watched my facial expressions change over the course of one minute. “I got the call.” Her face seemed to darken as I said it. I had to go. There was no way around it. “Christopher, I hate that saying. I hate this. Your leaving. You are always away.” Sometimes I’d hated it too, but it's what I need to do for…

In Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Religion is a reoccurring theme. It shows up time and time again through various characters and thematic situations. Each individual character has a differing view of religion, but they all show Twain’s individual views of the topic. He uses the people of differing levels of faith, and various backgrounds to make his opinion clear. Twain has an incredibly cold view on religion, as the novel progresses it becomes apparent that no good can come…

Basin Geography The Klamath River Basin is located in the Eastern parts of Northern California and Southern Oregon. The upper portion of the basin lies partially in the arid Great Basin region of South Eastern Oregon and partly in the eastern Cascades. The Klamath Basin Wildlife Refuge complex and much of the farmlands are located in the Upper Basin. The climate in the Upper Klamath Basin varies with changes in elevation, but it is typically dry with precipitation falling in the winter season…

becomes close friends with Jim, the slave owned by the Widow Douglass. When Huck’s father comes into town, he bashes on Huck and how he was wrong in his way of accepting Jim as a human being. Throughout their entire adventures down the Mississippi River, Huck never questions his friendship with Jim once. The whole town around was shocked whenever they jaw Huck and Jim socializing and have a good time together, but Huck and Jim just kept their heads up high and went on their…

The Hoover Dam is one of the greatest megastructures in the world, for many reasons. This Dam spans the Colorado River in Black Canyon between Arizona and Nevada, about 30 miles southeast of Las Vegas Nevada. In the early 19 hundreds there were extreme flooding from the melting snow in the Rocky Mountains that had came down to the Colorado River. Because of that this is when they decided to construct a dam to control the water flow. Arthur Powell Davis, head of the U.S. Bureau of…

personal opinion she is one of the most underrated directors and screenwriters of our time due to her unique ability to combine excellent story telling with incredible directing. In all three of the films she has directed being, Love & Basketball, The Secret Life of Bees, and Beyond the Lights, she casted mostly African-American actors. When asked why there is such little diversity in Hollywood, her response really stuck out to me; she said, “Behind the camera, it makes no sense. In front of the…

Adventure seemed to follow the characters in the novel The Secret Life of Bees. The author did a wonderful job of making a great story as well as important lessons, or themes. The progression throughout this piece of literature gradually display the lessons learned were important to understanding the events that occurred. In understanding the lessons some may have seemed more important or less important than others.Though all of the themes were important in their own way one in particular stood…

Chris Cleave's, Little Bee is literary fiction, narrative story, about a sixteen year old Nigerian English girl named Little Bee, who spent time in a British immigration detention center. When she left the detention center three other girls came along with her. They all had a plastic bag with their belongings in it, the only things Bee had was a driver’s license, and a business card belonging to Andrew O'Rourke. When the girls leave the camp, Bee calls Andrew on the phone to inform him she…

In The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd, a fiction novel, Lily, a fourteen year old girl learns about her past, including the death of her mother and her father’s true feelings for her. She travels with her fill in mom Rosaleen, to try to find a new and better life.Many reviews state how pleasurable this book was. Book magazine states: “Maybe it’s true that there are no perfect books, but i closed this one believing that i had found perfection.” (Monk Kidd) “Someone who thinks death is the…

One of the best novels I have read in awhile is the Secret Life Of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd which shows the epitome of women empowerment and overcoming the patriarchy system.As the book takes place in South Carolina 1964 ,a time where women had very little say in what they could do in life, takes place with fourteen year old Lily Owens who struggles with the loss of her mother and with the initial theme of forgiveness through woman vs self in overcoming the challenge of her guilt for accidentally…