The Thing

The book The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien is full of twists and turns that leave the reader wondering what is true and what is not. His complex writing not only makes one question the truth, but also teaches them about what it is. Through this novel, the author teaches his audience that truth is arbitrary. To support this idea, O’Brien writes about the process and composition of storytelling, explaining that there is a difference between two types of truths which he calls “story-truth” and…

Where the Wild Things Are Listening I would read the students the story Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak as a read aloud during a whole group setting. I would then allow the students to create their own “wild thing” by using miscellaneous items, such as paper plates; construction paper; markers; crayons; glue; scissors; magazines; toilet/paper towel rolls, etc. I would also put the book in the listening literacy center where students would be able to listen to the story using type…

The Shape of Things by Neil Labute definitely brought art into another level where people can relate to it easily. It will make one realize that the question that will get them thinking will be how far would one go for love and what price might one pay to have it? There are more painful and truthful questions explored by Labute throughout the play that made art more meaningful. From the opening scene, Evelyn’s chief weapon is an audacity solely acquire from her full senses that she is the…

The Little Things “Mom what’s a pillow fort?” I looked at my Mom sitting on the couch next to me,”Allison you don’t know what a pillow fort is?” She looked at me smiling and said,”We’re gonna build one ok? Lemme me move the couches…” I remember at that moment being so excited, just thinking “Wow! I’m going to have my own fort!” I ran around the house helping my mom get all the blankets and pillows needed for my little sanctuary. When it was all said and done it looked a lot worse than I had…

known to make things lose it's color faster than cold water. Hot water makes things lose their color faster because the hotness of the water makes things lose color and makes them become soft. As in cold water, the coldness of the water makes things maintain their color longer and also makes things take longer time to become soft. In order for the hot water to make things lose their color they have to be hotter than the average water. Hot water is better and faster to dissolve things. The…

writing, but one of the best is The Things They Carried by Tim O’brien. This book is a spitting image of what American Literature should be and is. Of course, American literature has some standards and traits that specify it as American literature. Like common themes, for example. A theme is the subject of a talk, a piece of writing, a person 's thoughts, or an exhibition; a topic. It becomes common once it’s used throughout many of the same type of books. The Things They Carried resembles many…

structure, and style. Many books are literature and many are not. Things Fall Apart has many key points that make it literature. As you know it’s about a man name Okonkwo and how his life fell apart. His story is not meant for entertainment like Harry Potter but for meaning. But his story also has style. The author put in structure. Things Fall Apart is literature because it has meaning, structure, and style. Meaning is a big part of why Things Fall Apart is literature. This book has a lot of…

In the novel Things Fall Apart we’re presented with the character of Unoka, who lived in a lower Nigerian tribe that is part of a nine-section connected village, Iguedo. Unoka can be described as a free spirit someone who lived their life listening to the wind and being one with nature a trait that to many seemed weak. Unoka was a man who could not stand the sight of blood making him an awful warrior, a very much respected role in his community. He was inconsistent borrowing and losing money,…

Interruption, Mobility, Do The Right Thing. Do The Right Thing continues to be a reflection on today reality; there is still an existing of violence, segregation, cultural identification, authority’s abuse and mobility. Even the film theme “fight the power” have an existing of today reality. Neighborhood coming together to fight the people who are in power such as the government and authorities. This film also have racism, stereotypes, distrust and gentrification. Do The Right Thing plot was on…

has always been around, whether people like it or not. The strain might be caused by race, religion or economics, but in the end it always leads to things falling apart. Cultural tensions arise in Chinua Achebe’s novel, when the European missionaries start settling into Africa in hopes to convert the Ibo people to Christianity. In Achebe’s novel Things Fall Apart the cultural tension between the Ibo people and new European settlers causes abounding problems for Okonkwo our main character witch…