Our values and morals are what distinguishes the difference between us all. While reading Revenge Garden and It Used to Be Green Once, one can notice the powerful underlying theme of the generation gap within the stories. The authors, Sue Harper and Patricia Grace, used this particular subject to create the bold and dynamic thought of diverse attitudes towards accepting others. The attitudes we have are reflections of the communities we live in. With both pieces of literature provided, they illustrate the generation gap that separates the adults and adolescents from accepting reality, facing very similar everyday struggles.…
Alaska Young is a teenager with a troubled past. She is mysterious and always keeping secrets. Throughout the book Alaska and Pudge spend numerous times together out on the field talking or with their friends plotting…
I have always been a big fan of Otto Kilcher, he is off the show Alaska The Last Frontier. Otto is a very funny guy and will try anything. Otto is my favorite person on T.V because he is very interesting. I met Otto at a store in Alaska, he asked me if I could read the label on a jar to see when it expires. After that he asked me if I wanted to see his homestead. So I decided to go to his homestead and we went in his old Dodge truck. After about a two hours we were on his homestead and you could see the ocean and there was lots of land.…
In Looking For Alaska, by John Green, there is a lot of symbolism and meaningful objects presented throughout the book. In my collage, I chose to include some of the book’s most important objects and pictures to help give a deeper understanding of the book.…
Throughout Looking For Alaska, Miles has an extreme difference in his level of maturity from the start of the book to the finish. He comes to terms with Alaska’s death, faces reality by realizing they weren’t as close as he thought they were, and finally he lets go of things and forgives…
Teens are portrayed as these wild kids that can’t be tamed. That these teens are just reckless and are always up to no good. Teens are preserved as people that don’t know what they want and so they are just running wild. Yes, that may be true like the boys in Greasy Lake all they wanted to do was to have freedom, but when they had a taste of reality, it was not what they expected. These teens did not know what they were getting themselves into, still when into the unknown of Greasy Lake. They seem at one point wanting to be rebels and to go against the rules and follow their own. These boys wanted to have fun to drink and party, they had no plans for the future. Yet, in the end, they get in trouble and just want to go home. These teens wanted…
rebellious teen is expanded upon more profoundly through the Youth Lens, the possession of power in this father/daughter relationship is an interesting aspect that needs to be further explored.…
Montana 1948, by Larry Watson is a novella that focuses on the life of young Montanan David Hayden in 1948 and the struggles of a family torn between loyalty and justice. The novella explores the way power can be abused within a small community. Through characterisation, Watson exposes how family loyalty can be challenged by moral truths and how unfair power structures can lead to the marginalisation of the oppressed.…
A dystopia is a place where negative events constantly take place. Based on this information we can infer that a daring job, such as a miner, can seem like a dystopia. In the text “Klondike Gold Rush” , the author describes a plot of ambitious miners baring treacherous conditions only for a chance to strike fortune. From a conflicting viewpoint , the passage “A Woman Who Went to Alaska” by May Kellogg Sullivan shares a slightly different view, considering the miners got the pleasure of coming across a property of riches but only to have their riches stolen from their grasp by the government. Going over these excerpts I can gather the life of a miner was full of uncertainty, laws, and endless loss.…
Hurston Neale, Zora. “The Gilded Six-Bits.” Literature Craft & Voice. Ed. Nicholas Delbanco and Alan Cheuse. New York: Mcgraw-Hill, 2010. 541-547. Print.…
The Klondike Gold Rush, also called the Yukon Gold Rush, the Alaska Gold Rush, the Alaska-Yukon Gold Rush and the Last Great Gold Rush, was a migration by an estimated 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region of the Yukon in north-western Canada between 1896 and 1899. Gold was discovered there on August 16, 1896 and, when news reached Seattle and San Francisco the following year, it triggered a "stampede" of prospectors. The journey proved too hard for many, and only between 30,000 and 40,000 arrived. Some became wealthy, but the majority went in vain and only around 4,000 struck gold. The Klondike Gold Rush ended in 1899 after gold was discovered in Nome, prompting an exodus from the Klondike. It has been immortalized by photographs, books…
If someone doesn’t feel remorse for their actions, should they be forgiven? In The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells, Griffin hurts many people as he fights for the power he believes he deserves. The decisions Griffin makes throughout this book impact those around him hurtfully, and Griffin’s adamant lack of remorse when confronted with the consequences of his actions show that he is not to be forgiven for making these choices. If he had shown remorse for his decisions, that would make us more willing to forgive him, because he regrets it, and is more likely to not repeat his actions. Griffin, however, shows no regret from start to finish, and this makes him unworthy of our forgiveness. Since Griffin has shown no signs of remorse while abusing his invisibility, he is past the point of redemption.…
These days relationships between parents and children are tough, especially with society at the front door. In the story “Teenage Wasteland” By: Anne Tyler the main issue is stating what it basically means to be a young person or teenager. Rebellious Teen Donny is what is known as a problem child, and Daisy cannot seem to figure out what his problem is. Through many attempts she tries to reach him through counselors, and outside help. This story reveals a lack of communication, feelings of inadequacy, and lack of parental control. These days relationships between parents and children are tough, especially with society at the front door.…
Alaska is someone I feel sympathy for. Alaska had a huge trauma when she was a kid which she still blames herself for. Her mother had a seizure one day when they were home alone and Alaska was very young and didn’t know what to do so she stood there and watched as her mother died. Later in the book she reveals that her father still blames her for her mother’s death and that that’s one…
Teenagers have struggles, pains, and insecurities. These struggles leave people emotionally and physically scarred. Today, young adults witness and experience abuse, addiction, and poverty. This is a lot for an adolescent mind to handle. In S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders, the teenagers are faced with extremely mature issues. They are partially to totally scarred from what they experienced. They lost their innocence either by choice of by force. As a result of the dismal situations the characters in The Outsiders experienced, they have been robbed of their innocence and will be damaged for the rest of their lives.…