The book begins with a new guy brought in to begin anew. A man by the name Big Ed given to him by Perry, talks to Wendell telling him about and how Warden Daugherty does things and expects no more trouble from him or anyone else. Big Ed is one of the inmates but he as been there slightly longer than Perry and his mom and he is trusted to introduce newer inmates to the facility and help them settle in some.…
Throughout the novel “The Story Of Tom Brennan” Burke cleverly employs an enormous amount of changes as a result of one tragic event. The event involves universally known themes such as teen drinking and drink driving. She enhances the insight on the consequences of moving into the world through basing the novel on narrative voice of the protagonist, Tom Brennan.…
His sexual exploits surround a girl name Aurora. Aurora is a skinny young lady who is constantly in and out of the Juvenile center because she is a drug addict and gets caught by the Police quite…
The book starts with the narrator and co-protagonist, Ponyboy Curtis, the youngest member of the Greasers (Lower class) going back home after an outdoor movie night. He is encountered by one of the Socs (Higher class), and attacked until his gang arrives to help. The Greasers and Socs need no other party’s provocation to fight. The next day, the Greasers visit the movie theatre once again and find Soc’s girlfriends hanging out. After a failed attempt by the older members of the Greasers to flirt with them, Ponyboy unprecedentedly succeeds in a long-talk and escorts them to the girls’ home, only to encounter the Soc’s, who are extremely mad. Fortunately, the girls stop the fight and Ponyboy runs back home, where Dally is waiting anxiously for him. Dally is extremely mad by the fact that such a young boy like…
The story begins with the Brennans fleeing town. They packed all their belongings and left. They were ashamed of what went down just weeks recently. The harsh whispers that washed over and through the neighbourhood. They couldn’t handle it.…
The beginning of the book takes place in a place called the Bottom, and the first person they talk about is Shadrack. He has returned from WWI a veteran, and when he finally gets out of the hospital after being injured, he starts National Suicide Day as a way to deal with death. Then we meet Helene Sabat, her grandmother Cecile, and her daughter Nel. Helene is very strict. Nel becomes friends with the main character Sula, which marks the start of a lifelong friendship. Helene, however, doesn 't approve of Sula 's mother, Hannah. Sula 's family is very different from Nel 's. Sula 's house is always crazy. Hannah has a habit of sleeping with married men, she thinks of sex as fun and not a big deal. Sula begins the same behavior shortly after. We get to know more about the friendship between Sula and Nel, and a lot happens to them over the years. Sula learns that her mom doesn 't really like her, she and Nel are involved in an accident that results in a boy named chicken little drowning. Sula 's mom Hannah dies in a fire; Nel gets married to a man named Jude; and Sula leaves town for ten years, returns, and has an affair with Jude. A few years later, Sula gets involved with a man named Ajax, but when he senses that she 's getting too possessive, he leaves her. Sula falls ill shortly after that and eventually dies.The book goes ahead about 25 years. Nel visits Sula 's grandmother Eva in the senior home. Eva accuses Nel of standing by and letting Chicken Little drown all those years ago. We find out that it 's true: Nel watched him drown and enjoyed it. As she 's leaving, she passes Shadrack on the street, who is also lost in sad thoughts. Suddenly, Nel calls out for Sula and finally forgives her for cheating with Jude. The book ends with Nel grieving for the loss of Sula.…
"The four children's mom (Tabeitha) and Tabeitha's boyfriend (unknown) does drug in the home. Tabeitha and her boyfriend smoke meth. Tabeitha and her boyfriend take pills (Lortab, Xana, and Soma). Tabitha and her boyfriend smoke weed (marijuana). Tabeitha and her boyfriend smoke mojo (synthetic weed). The drugs are not being managed in the home. It is unknown if the children had access to the drugs. Tabeitha does not pay any attention to the children. The children do want they want to do. Tabeitha's mom sometimes is at home. Tabeitha's mom knows Tabeitha does drugs in front of the children. Tabeitha's cousin (Hannah) has to bring her food to feed her children." Tabeitha does get food stamps. Tabeitha gives her food stamps to the…
When daylight comes, he and the boys regroup only to encounter two young broads who want to do drugs and party. Although it was really what they had been searching for all along, the boys deny their request and decide to go home instead. In one night, his fast paced life as a thug was over. Left to deal with the consequences of what he had done already, the protagonist of this story will surely never go down a path like that ever…
This novel has been oversimplified, attempting to make not only the setting but also the characters and plot simpler than what they really are. This novel is a fairly straightforward read for a young adult. The story is narrated in third person, gives the reader details of the entire world where the story takes…
Before Lucas Mann started reading, he started off by telling the room which passages he was reading. It was a part in the beginning of his book, AND THE LAST PAGES. Talk about a spoiler. Then he said “It doesn’t really have a good narrative so it doesn’t matter”. This was amusing to me, and the rest of the room chuckled at his self-deprecating joke. Lucas started reading, and he had good material. It seemed like a book that I could pick up, read, and enjoy, much unlike the Jennifer Egan summer reading book. His writing wasn’t forced, it was as if he was letting us take a peak at his psyche, his way of being around Joyce, baseball, and weed. He was really comfortable talking about drugs, probably due to the fact that he was at his college. When he first mentioned mushrooms, I noticed a girl towards the front of the room in a Vassar Athletics jacket shift in her seat and look at her feet. She did it again near the end of his lecture when he read about his stoned car ride with Joyce. The second time she looked at her feet for a longer time. Maybe she was ashamed of being in the same category as this author; maybe she…
The time period in this book was somewhat recent so it just reinforced what I already had a pretty good idea about. She described the towns and schools that she went to with very good detail. In this time period casinos were becoming more popular in Las Vegas, which in the book her father figures out a system of counting cards to win gambling games. She grew up in the “Hippie” times, people…
This story is, to say the least, off-putting to a casual reader. I know I was thrown by the seemingly inexplicable behavior of Lenny and the nameless female protagonist. To focus specifically on the narratological aspects of this work, it is a highly frenetic and multi-faceted piece, where Lenny's crisp, staccato conversation only occurs in short bursts, rapid-fire like one of the guns he used in the Mekong Delta; by comparison, the narrator has long, flowery, vivid descriptive passages that abound with references to color and flowers. They are opposite in their analysis of the world around them, with the woman playing the role of the cautious, careful recovering addict and Lenny playing the chaotic force of addiction attempting to enter her…
Candy is old and handicapped so he isn’t included in the activities the guys plan to do. Crooks isn’t allowed out the barn, unless he is playing horseshoes with the guys. He can’t go drink with the guys or go out and pick weed in the field with them because he is black. Curley’s wife is desperate for attention. She doesn’t get any attention from Curley so she goes and try to find it from other men. She really isn’t suppose to be doing that but she does it anyway behind Curley’s back. She goes around batting her eyes and curling her hair in her fingers and men stare at her. She does that because she is lonely she wants the attention from Curley but he is too busy and doesn’t pay attention to…
Lines 4-6 exudes symbolism in many ways: “Hangars Hideout the boys called it, an undeveloped plot, a pit overgrown with weeds, some old furniture down there” (4-6). The name of the hangout has negative connotations, as if junkies and street trash “hideout” there to escape the wrath of normal day-to-day life. “Underdeveloped plot” symbolizes the youth of those that hideout there, perhaps of puberty age, and “overgrown with weeds” expresses that some of them have outgrown the hideout (4-6). Lines 4-6 are also used as a method of foreshadowing the action that comes later. With the addition of “some old furniture,” another negative connotation of the hangout is implied as trashy and disorderly, but conveys this hideout as a…
The book is divided into two parts, before and after. The event that splits the book up is to much of a give-away for me to say unfortunately. The before part is mostly about the gang hanging out, they smoke, drink and do pranks while the after part of the book is much more about somethings else, but I can’t give away that either.…