In The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi, Charlotte, the main character, is a thirteen-year- old girl who had to travel across the Atlantic to America as the only passenger on a ship. On her sea voyage, her courage was shown by the way she handled the many challenges and dangers that she encountered. For example, when she wanted to join the ship’s crew, she met resistance from the crew members, who finally decided that she must prove herself worthy before they would take her. The crew proposed, “Let her [Charlotte] climb the royal yard [highest sail on the mainmast of the ship]. If she does it, and comes down whole, and still willing to serve,…
The proteins would be flushed out of the body quicker than usual with the high vulnerability of malabsorption. Normally, pepsin begins the enzymatic digestion of the ingested proteins; they linger in the stomach longer than most of the ingested food with the end result of gastric protein digestion is a chyme of mostly polypeptides and some free amino acids to be absorbed in to the body. Pancreatic Protease digests protein in the basic environment of the small intestine.…
Imagine being involved in a school activity that literally consumes almost every moment of one's life. Anna Skelly is involved in Hempfield Area High School Marching Spartan Marching Band. i have known Anna since middle school. We just became close because we both attend Cosmetology in CWCTC tech school. While interviewing Anna, I learned many interesting things about her family life, school activities, and hobbies.…
While growing up Jessica tried to fit in with her peers. She did not want to be seen as different. When she joined the basketball team, she started to feel more included. In high school she joined more activities and participated more. Despite all that she had done to blend in, the author realized that she stood out among her classmates. She was always the leader while everyone tried to keep up. Her friends seemed immature around her.…
20 years ago, a man saved her life, by putting his own life in danger. He ran across 4 lanes of freeway traffic, to bring her to safety after being in a car accident that could have killed her. The man was a total stranger, who took off after making sure she was okay – she never even got his name. Marsh wonders why he did so and started questioning why some people have a different level of altruism than others.…
She told to me that she was involved in many things other then just school. She was also involved in yearbook and student counsel as security also expressing that there was other groups that were at school. She said, “drama team and Y-teens were offered along with the sports of Football, basketball, tennis, track, baseball.”…
1. Finale by Becca Fitzpatrick was published in 2012. It is 454 pages long and the fourth and final book in the series. It can be categorized as both a romance and science-fiction novel due to its content with fallen angels and magic. It takes place in Coldwater, Maine in present-day.…
Have you ever thought about people in different social classes being in a relationship? “Sarah Cole: A Type of Love Story”, Sarah is in the lower class and Ron is in the middle to upper class. There are many people that think peoople in different social classes should not be together.…
Becca 's Story by James D. Forman The Plot: Throughout the story there were several incidents of suspense that revealed the characters. One incident of suspense was when the Confederate army was fighting the Union army at the battle of Gettysburg. Their were brigades along the woods to hold the opposing army off. Alex and Charlie could do nothing but watch because it was such a spectacle. The others were advancing towards the boys and they were silently praying to themselves that they would stop before they reached them. They didn 't stop though and the boys had to charge. They were reloading, shooting, tearing cartridges with their teeth, and sheltering. The whole time they were being fired at and dodging the fire. By this time Colonel Steele was yelling for his men to follow him. Alex and Charlie lost each other at this point even though they promised Becca they would stick together. Alex ran around frantically looking for Charlie and screaming to him. He then got hit in the same wound that was hit in a previous battle. He passed out thinking of Charlie and their promise to Becca. He laid on the ground waiting for someone to realize he was still alive. But Charlie was not found and reported missing in action.…
In the novel Along For the Ride by Sarah Dessen, you are taken through a tour of the life of Auden West. Auden was born into a family of writers who want their daughter to be the best of the best. She is a quiet girl who lived with her mother after her parents' divorce, devoting herself to schoolwork in order to please her perfectionist mother. Along the way, she realizes she lost most of her childhood because her parents treat her as an adult, since she was young and she never cared to participate in any of the important events of becoming a teenager. Auden decides to spend her final summer before college in the beach town of Colby where her father, stepmother, and new baby sister live. She starts working as the book keeper…
This novel by Susan Shillinglaw, explains the life of a neglected child who got abused, harassed and lied to by his own father. As the novel progresses, Charlie one day escapes the basement in which he has been kept only to be placed in a foster home. Instead of being relieved for being placed in a loving home, he continues to relive the moments of his torment. In order for Charlie to get a fresh start with this loving family, he must accept the challenge of coping with his past but also remember he can not be hurt anymore. The novel tells a depressing reality so individuals know to never let the past go, but instead embrace it since it shapes them today.…
As autumn to spring, as night to day, as black to white, all things change. Change is perpetual, eternal, inevitable, and constant. “Change is the essence of life. Be willing to surrender what you are for what you could become,” anonymous. The Newberry Award novel, “The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle” written by Avi, truly depicts great change. Set in a ship sailing vast seas and oceans of the 1800’s, the characters face troubles and hardships that lead them to the journey of change and transformation in their lives. The most characters that depict great change are Charlotte, our protagonist, Captain Jaggery, our antagonist, and former Second mate, Keetch. Through this tumultuous voyage, Charlotte metamorphoses into a lady of great beauty, Captain Jaggery deteriorates, and Keetch’s duplicitous nature arises.…
As girls grow in life, they mature and change into women. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, Scout, the main character, begins to mature into a woman. In the beginning of the book, she is a tomboy who cannot wait to pick a fistfight with anyone, but at the end, she lowers her fists because her father, Atticus, tells her not to fight. Scout's views of womanhood, influenced by how Aunt Alexandra, Miss Maudie, and Calpurnia act, make her think more about becoming a woman and less of a tomboy.…
anybody. He witnesses a young girl getting shot by a SS officer for running around, he witness a lady getting whipped for trying to pick something up, and he was whipped because he was hiding. Tadek knew that if he did not continue to follow the orders of cleaning out the trains, then he would have been punish because of not following the orders.…
One of the main characters of the play The Crucible, Abigail Williams, is the most spiteful and least complex character throughout the entire play. She is the villain of the play, even more than Parris or Danforth. She is on the lower end of the social hierarchy; the only people below her were slaves like Tituba. Abigail Williams possess wicked character traits that give her a negative perception. She is a jezebel figure who lacks feelings, an immoral character who lacks ethics and a manipulative person who lacks a conscience.…
