English and felt at ease with translating for her mother. This encouraged her to learn English to…
In the Star Tribune article May 31st there was an interesting story written by Suzanne Ziegler. She introduced us to Lee, a south Minneapolis homeowner who’s lawn was a challenge. He got frustrated with the condition of his lawn. He tried fertilizer, other chemicals, and even hired a professional landscaper in hopes it would improve his lawn. Nothing seemed to work.…
What would you do if you were the third child having to hide your whole entire life? Well in the book “Among the Hidden” by Margaret Peterson Haddix. This book is very suspenseful. In their town that they live in they are only allowed to have two children, but one family decides to have three. Luke, as the third child is not allowed to step outside, he has to stay hidden, because they are too scared the population police will come and get him. Therefore this book is a mystery, because it leaves you with a cliffhangers. The book is told in first person point of view, the genre of “Among the Hidden” is a mystery. “Among the Hidden” is rather short at 153 pages.…
One of the major plot conflict in “Hana’s Suitcase” by Karen Levin is ‘Character V/s The social world’ where ‘The Character” points out at Hana and “The Social World” points out at Adolf Hitler and his Nazi troops. Hana is victimized for the reason that she was in a period and place when community policies caused the Jewish masses to be exploited. She lived in a time when Adolf Hitler came into power and wanted Germany to rule the entire world. .…
The first major theme is that people should never stop moving forward. In other words, this means that no matter what life throws at someone, people need to find the strength to pick them selves up. “These thoughts were going through my mind as I continued to run, not feeling my numb foot, not even realizing that I was still running, that I still owned a body that galloped down the road among thousands of others.”…
Growing up the lesson, was we are capable of so much with determination. That is broad and containing the Invisible Knapsack. Will begin to make all obstacles visible to the most advantage. This is a great imagery because it is not the fault of the individual rather to influence or education of miss learned privileges.…
Theme is a perceptive statement on life based upon the literature piece encompassing of significant details without specifying, overgeneralizing, or restating a familiar cliché.…
Maya Angelou once said, “Freedom is never free.” This is true because a person always has to pay some sort of price in order to be free, whether in a literal sense or not. In the book Among the Hidden, by Margaret Peterson Haddix, Luke Garner is an illegal third child in a place where overpopulation forces the government to make unfair laws. Each family is allowed to have two children, so Luke envies his older brothers and cannot live his life the way he wants to. This is similar to in “Two Sisters, Two Americas,” by Brooke Ross, which tells the reader about an illegal immigrant named Veronica Saravia. Veronica came to the United States with her parents illegally when she was 4 years old. Her sister, Diana, was born in the United States. Diana…
A motto I got out of this book is that upbringings lead to opportunities. This means that not only do things happen by chance, they also happen because of their upbringings. Opportunities arise when you apply yourself and allow yourself to become involved. The longer you do these things, the better chance you have at growing as a person and in life. Bu not every person has the motivation to apply themselves in everyday life.…
Likewise, when people try challenges on their own it can “bring out [the] worst or [the] best” experiences. Furthermore, when going through an obstacle it can explain how positive or negative a situation can be, such as when athletes train and injure themselves they get to know their true talents and limits. People will not understand how well they can do during a real obstacle or challenge if no barriers exist. On the other hand, others claim even when talents are known they will not help people during a difficult moment, because Louie, Mac, and Phil still “cling to one another” on the raft in the excerpt, Unbroken. Louie goes though many challenges after the plane crashes and finds his abilities, but in some conditions people will always be afraid about their surroundings and rely on a friend. The society will learn how to conquer an obstacle on their own if no one assists them even when in…
Ultimately, by overcoming obstacles, individuals will become more resilient and acquire new outlooks on people and life. It is showcased in the novel The Outsiders…
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.…
The readings in the Reader by Judith Van Allen and Janheinz Jahn show what life was like for women and their roles in society. Jahn tells the life of a girl named Ewumi and describes what her duties were like as a woman. From a young age, Ewumi experienced what the gender roles were and how she was expected to live as she got older. When she became of age, she was able to pick a suitor. This surprised me because I thought that the women did not have a say in who they married.…
The poem I have chosen was Sous-entendu written by Anne Stevenson which is a poem written from a women point of view, which show how men see women. The way we get a to see that see how men perspective women as object because they often want more then an emotional connection. The poem describes a typical womanizer. The first stanza does a good job in showing how men tend to create a relationship with some women, and how they see that as naïve. I like how the poet, counter argues that women are not as naïve as men believe to be.…
Everyone will behave differently when they face adversity. Some of them might give up easily, or they fight with their courage instead of accepting adversity and tragedy. In True Notebooks, Mark Salzman shows us how the boys deal with obstacles. If those boys can’t overcome obstacles, obstacles overcome them. Therefore, they must persist in the end when they face adversity. Sometime, some of them are lucky to overcome obstacles by persisting in the end, but many of them can’t overcome obstacles because of the situation, or they don’t even want to overcome obstacles.…