Vivian Island

Lucille had a desire to do something special with her life, and had a longing to be a star. When she was 15 years old, she convinced her mother to let her attend a prestigious New York City drama school, but despite her strong passion and hunger for the stage, she was shy and much too nervous to draw attention and did not fit in at the drama school. Her professors did not like her and would often make fun of her looks, since she was very tall, awkward and leggy, and they often made fun of her…

In Amy Tan’s, “Joy Luck Club” and Charlie Bissinger’s article, “ Dreaming of Heroes” from Friday Night Lights develop the central theme of Hope and Confidence between the relationships of the children and their parents.The central theme: hope develops because of the high expectations that the parents want from their children;, so, they can develop a better lives for themselves in the future. As the process of achieving the the high expectations from the parents goes on, the children seem to…

The Logger of Ellwood Forest “The blade itself incites to deeds of violence.” Homer, The Odyssey Mrs. Rayes crossed the rented cabin foyer, her silk kimono slipping off her shoulders, and the ice-cubes in her glass of whisky clinking against one another as both of her hands shook; one hand gripping whisky and the other reaching for the brass knob of a garishly designed front door, “Laurence,” she said, throwing open the door and grabbing a hold of her son’s left elbow. “Please, Laurence, who…

Summary: The book starts off with a girl named Kendall Williams seeing a ghost named Daniella during math class. Daniella constantly had to annoy Kendall in order for her to get her to do what she needs in order for her to move on. Daniella explains to Kendall that she must talk to her friend Jen and tell her that it wasn’t her fault that she had died. In the rising action, Kendall attempts to help Daniella by talking to Jen, but Jen didn’t want to talk to Kendall because she found her to…

Kennedy was no stranger to ghosts. They were a familiar part of her childhood, woven into all of her images of her old house. She had distant, dusty memories of the hushed voices in her attic that her mother brushed off as imagination. Their house was situated on the edge of the town’s oldest cemetery, and Kennedy’s view each morning was rows and rows of graves. She, her little brother, and the neighbor boys would even play in there before dark most nights – hide and seek mostly, but sometimes…

Arriving home a day earlier from his business trip, Mike wanted to surprise his wife. After a busy trip, he was happy that he had not forgotten her anniversary present before leaving town. While driving, he reevaluated his life and decided in spite of the problems he was a lucky man with a successful business, nice family, the freedom to do as he pleased ─ most of the time. Entering the house, Mike noticed Louise was watching TV in the family room with a drink in her hand, she asked, “Did…

She walked quietly into the bedroom I had been staying in ever since Benjamin passed away. My daughter, Amelia, allowed me to live with her because she knew my husband’s death would have been difficult to deal with on my own. She had just returned from collecting a few photo albums from my house in Manhattan. “Good morning,” Amelia said cheerily carrying three enormous photo albums, “I can’t believe you have so many pictures of you and Dad. There must be so many memories you two shared.” “Oh…

Morning Star Wings “I wouldn’t do that if I were you,” The explorer stopped in his tracks as he looked over towards where the voice had come from. Sitting just a little off the path, or more of the slightly beaten down foliage that he was walking on, was an elderly woman. She practically blended in with the surrounding area with her green dirt covered smock, or dress, he really couldn’t tell as she almost seemed to be a shapeless figure. She was scribbling in some sort of book, as if she had not…

There are moments that I ask, “Why does pain exist? Why do people die? Why do people hurt? Why do people cry for one another? Why do bad things happen?” It’s always difficult to find an answer. This pain that comes in to question plays a major role in this book. Pain affected everyone in every aspect of the story. This book exemplifies how pain affects people, how people handle it, if they can grow from it, and the point of it. First and foremost, it affected Hazel Grace Lancaster in the form…

Then again, what Becca and Aaliyah doesn’t know is that Mya knows the code to the safe. How does she know, she’s been eyeing Aaliyah every time she goes to open the safe. Mya agrees to her wife plan; for the main fact that she wants to save her marriage. So together they created a plan to steal the money, but little do Mya know that Becca is plotting against them both. On September 9, 2016, the plans created on paper was now going to be reality. While Aaliyah was out on lunch, Mya sneaked into…