As I read through several reviews, I found it amusing how many people assumed the main focus of The Chaperone would be over Louise Brooks. It was pretty obvious to me, by the title and summary that it was going to be about “The Chaperone”. Due to this reason, I chose Mandy Boles’ review to be one of my three. The first things Mandy noticed, was that…
It is a warm, peaceful Sunday afternoon. Zits, from Flight, is on his way to his favorite coffee shop in Seattle, Washington. As he approaches the coffee shop he senses a strange aura emanating from the front patio of the shop. He pays no attention to this ominous feeling, but he does notice that a strange figure is sitting in his usual spot. He does not want to seem rude so he goes over and politely asks the figure if they knew that that was his spot. As he moves closer Zits notices that this figure is actually a girl around his age. He calmly approaches her and instead of asking her about his spot, Zits decides to ask if he could join her. This mystery woman is Claudette, from Saint Lucy’s School for Girls. Trying to fit into her…
In the novel Lyddie by Katherine Patterson, Lyddie is a young girl during the Industrial revolution who works as a factory girl in Lowell Massachusetts working conditions aren’t great in factories, so a petition to better these conditions is being passed around. Should Lyddie sign the petition? Lyddie should sign the petition because nothing will improve if these factory girls do not stand up for themselves.…
1. Based on your selected book, very briefly describe the scope and focus of your historian work, then, state the historian’s thesis/core argument and sub-thesis.…
Life is like a roller coaster. There are ups and downs to it. If you are unlucky, you might get swatted by a branch. In this case, the branches are the roots of the story- the struggle and pain. Lucy in An Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy from a young age was diagnosed with Ewing's Saracoma, a type of cancer. She was thrown in a world with a fine line between life and death; the cause of her and her family's unhappiness. As for Ben, in Stoner and Spaz by Ronald Koertge, he has a dysfunctional hand because of cerebral palsy and has to go through the loss of his mother who abandoned him. Filled with self pity and rejection from society, they lead themselves to depression but find ways to cope with loss and pain. Lines were drawn…
Lucy, from “Holding Things Together”, is resentful that she must complete all of the work around her and her husband’s house. She does not hold her husband in high esteem, believing…
Martha was called upon by God and given an opportunity as well as a huge burden, with the world in her hands, to improvise the many problems in the human society. He tells her to keep three people, Jonah, Job, and Noah, in mind and tells her about the failures of other messengers he sent where human’s would simply twist words from God and continue on a path towards self-destruction. After long thought, Martha came up with the idea for people to have a perfect, and heaven-like experience in their dreams, since a satisfaction for the entirety of the worlds would only last for a few short moments in the real world. However, God warns her about the risks of her solution, such as the urge for suicide, because of the…
In the book “Lucy: the beginnings of Humankind” by Donald Johanson the author himself writes his journey of how his friend Tom Gray and himself experienced the most surprising encounter with the oldest fossil of a hominid that they later called Lucy. Donald Johanson and Tom Gray are pale anthropologists and are very well known for their discovery of Lucy. At the beginning of the book the author writes in the first person illustrating how rare it is to find fossils, many who study in this field sometimes have no luck in finding such extraordinary old fossils. Johanson feels “lucky” to have been able to find such fossils that many have been trying to find without any luck. When Johanson and Gray were at a camp in the Afar desert, they went exploring for sediments, fossils, traces that would lead them to a new discovery. They realized that many of the fossils that they were finding on their way had already been found, but luckily before they were about to leave back to the camp Johanson found part of a hominid arm. At first Gray did not wanted to believe Johanson, but then they began to form the puzzle of what it was a hominid.…
Initially, you get the impression of Celie as a shadow in the background- the kind of person that you wouldn’t notice even if she was right in front of you. She was utterly silent in her life, never getting in anyone’s way or saying what was on her mind; until she discovered the healing power of writing a series of letters, addressed to God first, and then her sister. Through her writing, she discovers her true nature and the woman that she was supposed to be in her own life.…
Lucy's description of her early disease is particularly upsetting. Her family, overwhelmed by financial and emotional turmoil because of the stress of her illness, is not as visible as the part they actually played. Lucy's mother was a somewhat blurred figure who seemed to disappear by the middle of the book and portrayed her father as a particularly vague individual. However, the day-to-day trappings of illness force her to rely on her mother, whose relationship is one of the most disturbed, and moving. Early on she comments that when she was a child she didn't understand that her mother's anger was caused by depression, but she never elaborates on this observation. Her mother compares being brave with being good, and says: "At a time when everything in my family was unpredictable and dysfunctional here I had been supplied with a formula of behavior for gaining acceptance and, I believed, love. All I had to do was perform heroically and I could personally save my entire…
During the 1900’s, there was a large division between males and females. Women were stereotyped as weak and passive, with little to no freedoms not to mention they were unable to attain work as easily as men. In Of Mice and Men and Flowers for Algernon both Curley’s wife and Fay help further the point that women didn’t have it simple in the 1900’s. Through their levels of loneliness, their mistreatment as women, and their image of only being an object, it is apparent that these women faced many challenges during their existence.…
Alice Walker’s historical novel, Meridian, explores sexual and racial discrimination through the perspectives of both the oppressors and oppressed. The almost purely negative portrayals of sex challenge the warped power dynamics under a patriarchal rule and emphasize the connection between personal experience of the oppressed and socio-political setting. Distinct perspective’s moral ambivalence underscore Walker’s implied argument about sexual politics via symbolism and irony.…
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any”(Alice Walker). Alice Walker is African-novelist, short-story writer, poet, etc…. She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for the most famous novel she have every wrote is The Color Purple. She was honored with O. Henry award, was inducted into California Hall of Fame in 2006 and receive Lennon Ono Peace award in 2010. Walker was part of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s for women’s to have equality in this world we live in right now. She wrote “The Color Purple” about her ancestors life, what they have been through past three generation suffering for slavery, abuse, freedom, etc…. Alice Walker is against female genital mutilation…
Although, in today’s society it’s not as common, women are and were treated as though they were nothing but child bearers and housekeepers. Judy says, “I want a wife who takes care of the children when they are sick, a wife who arranges to be around when the children need special care, because, of course, I cannot miss classes at school.” When I first read this it angered me because I believe that once you have a child it is both the mother’s and…
Lucy is a girl at the age of ten. She wants to her parents to feel good about each other. She obeys her mother without protesting. She hears her mother’s “dreamy voice”; when she gives her mother some flowers. She wants her to be happy. She is a girl who cares very much for her family. She is only 10 years old and could easily be called a caring girl. She is respectful to strangers, which we also see when she sells flowers to them.…