I really liked this book, It set
I really liked this book, It set
How would you feel if your parents sent you away to a disciplinary school without knowing the counselors there would beat you and harass you for almost everything you did, and the worst part is your parents didn't even know about it. I’m guessing you’d be very angry with your parents. if you would be angry with your parents congratulations because you have something in common with the main character Garrett.…
The summer before her freshman year of high school, Melinda Sordino, meets Andy Evans at a party. Outside in the woods, Andy rapes her. Melinda calls 911, but does not know what to say. The police come and break up the party. Melinda does not tell anyone what happened to her, and no one asks. She starts high school at Merryweather High School as an outcast, shunned by her friends for calling the police. She remains silent and sinks into depression. Melinda is befriended by Heather, a new girl, who clings to Melinda only to ditch her for "the Marthas". As Melinda's depression deepens, she begins to skip school, isolating herself from her parents and others who assume she is seeking attention. She slowly ignores her lab partner, David Petrakis, who encourages her to speak up for herself. The truth comes out about what happened at the party. Realizing the truth, the students no longer treat Melinda as an outcast but as a sort of hero instead. As Melinda was going about school days, her disguise used to make her stay in her own world alone, soon began to break apart as she learned how to speak up for herself.…
He was hardly going to class, working every day when he was supposed to be in school, and partying every night and having fun. School was more of a social event. He was just going to school to see his friends and make plans for the weekend. When he told the school counselor that he was planning on dropping out the counselor stood up, looked him in the eye, extended his hand and said, “Good Luck!” “The guy didn’t even give a shit!” Viper said.…
Sonny a boy who had a dream to build rockets, not matter what people told him what he could do he would do. He would build rockets and do what he wanted for a dream. His father did all he could to keep his sonny from building rockets, but Sonny did it anyway.…
10) Tommy sneaks under Max's bathroom stall and tries to hurt him, but Max escapes eventually.…
The "Time Machine" may be a laborious device to enrich our experience with the men on Anopopei, but that is its function. Although Leeds cites Martinez, he might have mentioned any number of other characters. When Gallagher learns of his wife's death, for example, he becomes an important figure in the novel for the first time. At this point Mailer introduces a "Time Machine" section on Gallagher's Boston-Irish background, his training in frustrated prejudice. Just as we first see Gallagher as fully human, stunned by the loss of his wife, Mailer highlights his ignorance and bigotry. Paradoxically, we are all the more impressed by Gallagher's intense feeling for his wife. He becomes a more complex and interesting character than would have been possible had his biography or his mourning been presented alone. Thus, Mailer uses the "Time Machine" to illuminate character, introducing the device at just that moment in the narrative when it best supplements the novel's action.…
The encounter many problems along the way, they have 3 friends who are always there to help, Mattie, Esperanza, and Estevan. Mattie is a doctor who looked at Turtle and found that she had been abused more than Taylor had thought, and this made life all the more difficult to raise her, and harder to accomplish being normal…
In the short story, “A Walk in the Woods” by Bill Bryson, the author’s word choice shows hate for his tone and depressed for his mood towards the Forestry Department. The authors tone shows hate when he says, “...which is not only a brutal visual affront to any landscape but brings huge, reckless washoffs that gully he soil, robbing it of nutrients and disrupting ecologies farther downstream. This isn’t science. It’s rape.” The author’s tone demonstrates hatred because he is mad that they are cutting down 80 percent of trees in the National Park. The author’s mood is depressed when he implies that, “to take one recent but heartbreaking example.” Bryson is depressed because one third of a land is available for logging. In conclusion, the tone…
Trace the development of the bullying. How convincing are the situation and Elaine's feelings are portrayed.…
on everyone in school. One day when he was talking to tucker about how he thinks everyone…
Another one would be smart people who are called, “nerds” who always get good grades and don't like to have fun and always care about school. On page 9 the teacher asks Rachel where she is from right after asking if she's present. Rachel then tells the teacher her whole address “I answer 4725 Northeast Cleveland Avenue, Portland, Oregon,97217, I hear laughter behind me”. The people behind Rachel are laughing because Rachel took the question literal and said her whole address or they could be laughing because they thought she was being a smart aleck. Rachel being new to the school she didn't know how to answer so she answered honest and is probably labeled by those kids behind her as a smart…
when he got on the school bus, nobody accepted him and all of the students ignored him…
“You used to be a good, dependable, ordinary man—not too bright maybe, but honest. Who knows what you done to yourself to get so smart all of a sudden. Like everybody around here’s been saying, Charlie, it’s not right.”…
Sylvia Barret, a new teacher is starting her first day in room 304. She finds out that teaching isn’t all that she thought it would be. Her first friend is Bea a veteran teacher who helps Sylvia out by explaining how Calvin Coolidge high works. The writer takes all the craziness of a normal high school and embellishes them; for instance the school guidance counselor is always using big words and thinks all the students need help. And Mr. Mchabe the administrative assistant who is nosy about everything. The Janitor who is never available. The students are also exaggerated, “the slut” who needs to be next to two boys boys at once in class. The student government organization president, he always is looking for a vote.…
Spent many years in the fourth grade, and now having a hard time to move on from Grade 5, Bradley Chalkers is not just an ordinary elementary student. He is the oldest in their section. He was always teased as a monster by his fellow classmates since he is an outcast. He was used to sit at the last seat in the last row. He tells enormous lies. He picks fights with the girls and the teachers say that he has serious behavior problems.…