The Snowman

Throughout the world, many families get together and create traditions for Christmas. Each family I know goes about the same traditions, but they add their own spin to them to make it their own. As the year progress and gets closer to Christmas, my family gets anxious waiting for the perfect time to begin our annual traditions. When the time finally arrives, my family and I do the same thing every year. For our family traditions, we decorate the tree together, we make holiday cookies, and we…

For years and years families and friends have gathered together to celebrate holidays with each other. These are the times that people hold near and dear to their hearts. They cherish each memory that is made at these festivities for the rest of their lives. Christmas and Thanksgiving are the two most commonly celebrated holidays in North America. These two holidays are set apart by many differences. Traditions, purpose of the holidays, and the decorations are three points of contrast. Some of…

Blood. Everyone says that blood is thicker than water, but in this book that is not the case. In The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, family is shown a very unique way. Normally when people think of a “perfect” family they think of having money, being prim and proper and usually, blood related. Though, family in this book is based on shared hardships and having faith in each other, not by blood. Hans and Liesel’s relationship is a great example of trust. This is because even though Hans and…

was a was a Claymation cartoon Christmas song. I recognized each song and thought about moments of Christmas that I love and where I’ve heard those songs. Between each song it had great transition, great flow so that it wasn’t choppy. Frosty the snowman, very classical other Christmas tunes that don’t really have an exact cartoon but are always in the air around Christmas time. They picked up when going into the Rudolph which was the last song. This made the ending much more drastic. Hanukkah…

Markus Zusak has not really written "Harry Potter and the Holocaust." It just feels that way. "The Book Thief" is perched on the cusp between grown-up and young-adult fiction, and it is loaded with librarian appeal. It deplores human misery. It celebrates the power of language. It may encourage adolescents to read. It has an element of the fanciful. And it's a book that bestows a self-congratulatory glow upon anyone willing to grapple with it. "The Book Thief" resembles other, better novels…

It is difficult to tell the exact value of things such as science, nature, words, math, and the arts, but in Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood they seem to have it all figured out. The society in the novel is obsessed with the idea of immortality and because they believe science and math can help them reach that goal they consider them to be more important than anything else. Generally, when something is more important it is also considered more valuable, therefore the society considers…

In the novel, Oryx and Crake, by Margaret Atwood, Jimmy has a less than ideal framework on gender. Although it is difficult to sympathize with, the creation of this needy, sexist character is the product of influence from his cheating father, an empty relationship with his troubled mother, and submission to an unhealthy friendship with Crake. At a young age, these are the only mentors, and significant connections, that Jimmy has, therefore setting the stage for Jimmy’s ultimate gender bias.…

for it but would not dare wear it because one song from that album has the word ‘f*ck’ in it. For example, a few years ago, the rapper Young Jeezy released a shirt that had an angry snowman on it. In the article “Students Can Rightfully Have Their Speech Limited”, "Janesville Craig Principal Mike Kuehne…banned “snowman” shirts…when they learned the innocent-looking image represents cocaine” (“Students Can Rightfully”). For the students that perhaps did not know that, this was ridiculous, as a…

In our lifetime we may come across many experiences which we only know how to handle because of the way we were taught by our families. My family consists of two brothers, my mother, father and myself. Everyone stayed with my grandmother in West Humboldt Park except my dad who lived alone. My mother was who i looked up to all my life. I knew that no matter how mad I was with her, she’d always find a way to make me forget. She could make any day brighter with her smile and she taught me so much.…

Behind my old tan house on McClure road is an open opportunity to have as much fun as you want, and as a kid I took advantage of that. I loved going out to just use my senses and explore. I would see how many different animals I could see or hear. I would listen to the birds hum their songs, and hear the chipmunks run aimlessly through the woods, cracking sticks every step of the way. Who knew such little animals could make so much noise! Sometimes I even thought they were bears! I never did see…