Romiette and Julio by Sharon M. Draper is an updated version of the tragedy Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. Romiette has had another drowning dream.To relax herself, she starts to write in her diary. The next morning is Julio's first day at Romiette's school. After having trouble with gangs in Corpus Christi, Texas, Julio follows his father's new job to Cincinnati. On his first day of school, he hits a classmate, Ben, hard enough to make his nose bleed. When Ben covers for Julio, telling the principal that he had tripped and fell, Julio and Ben become friends, after Ben calls Julio. When Julio gets…
What I observed in the book of Shoeless Joe jerry would have never figure out how bad his life was before he met ray. Jerry would just stay at home all the time and stopped writing. Once Ray came into his life, he had a little bit of fun on this crazy adventure he went on. Jerry would have never found out about how much he loved baseball and found his passion again for writing. Jerry also helped Ray figure out some things. Jerry helped Ray realize how much more family is important to him by Jerry getting chosen to go with the players. Also Jerry helps ray control his jealousy by saying what you have is good and you need to be there for Karin and Annie. While Jerry gets to go because his family is all grown and they don't necessarily need him.…
On a psychological level, we see the main character, Janie Crawford, grow through four of the five stages of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Personal Development (depending on which version you read). Janie starts out in survival mode, or at least Nannie, her guardian- grandmother, is on that level since she is the one who makes major personal and financial sacrifices in order to make Janie’s life better than hers or Leafy's, Janie’s absent mother’s was. But even though life is pretty good for Janie, she has no sense of who she is. When she begins to tell her story, her first memory is having no personal identity (no stable name), no social identity (she is rejected by her Black peers for living in the White folks’ back yard), no family identity (she does not know her mother or her father), and no racial identity (she is startled to learn that she is Black). Because she is moving zombie-like through her life, Janie gives all her power away, first to her grandmother who forces her to marry at age sixteen, an older man, Logan Killicks, whom she barely knows and to whom she is not the least bit attracted, then later to her second husband, Joe Starks.…
I predict that Janie will call the 800 number on the milk carton to find out more about herself and her birth parents. The reason for my prediction is because after finding out she was kidnapped Janie kept searching her memory for clues to her past that might explain what happened. She also questioned her parents as to why there are no baby pictures of her but does not get the answers she is seeking. Calling the number might provide all the answers she…
a reason to search. They were always held back by their owners, and their owners…
When Miss Maudie tells Jem and Scout that their father is the best shooter in Maycomb they are awestruck. Scout and Jem had been discouraged because while all the other kids in her school told of all the great things their fathers did they believed Atticus was too old and feeble to do the things other fathers did.…
Who in chapter 4 states “ De day you puts yo hand in mine, Ah wouldn't let de sun go down on us single. Ah'm uh man wide principles. You ain't never knowed what it was to be treated lak a lady and ah wants to be de one tuh show yuh....” (Hurston 29). And just like he said as soon as Janie gave him her hand, Joe married Janie and headed to Eatonville, where Joe wanted to me a big Voice. Janie figured that the life Joe promised her sounded better then the one she had before. But what she wasn't ready for was a being with someone who could care less about what she had to say. One day Janie starts to notice that Joe was getting old and Joe noticed it as well. So to keep eyes off him he starts to harass Janie about her age and the way she looked. But Janie's had enough and stands up for herself. In chapter 7 Janie states “ You big-billies round here and put out a lot of brag, but 'tain't nothin' to it but yo' big voice. Humph! Talkin' 'bout me lookin' old! When you pull down yo' britches, you look lak de change uh life.” (Hurtson 79). Janie was getting tired of being insulted about her age and looks in front of everyone in the store, so she attacks Joe insult him about his looks and she also attack his man hood. He then get sick and blames Janie. He stops eat her food thinking that she's poisoning him and he's consoling with quacks to find a cure for his illness. Janie send for a real doctor to find out what wrong with Joe. The doctor checks Joe and come to the conclusion that his kidneys have stopped working and that Joe will soon die. Janie felt sorry for Joe and decides to see him before he dies but Joe was being distant and cold. Janie tried to talk to him but it escalated into and argument, then suddenly Joe…
Ashley and Luke were able to stay at their grandfather's house in South Carolina where they were relatively happy, thanks to their grandfather's live-in lady friend, Adele, who enjoyed mothering them. Yet they lived in fear that they would be removed from that home because Adele and their grandfather weren't married, and because Grandpa was frequently in jail and had a history as a wife abuser. Despite the instability of the situation, Ashley was so happy she felt like she was in a dream.…
Atticus treats Mrs. Dubose with respect. He talks to her in a nice manner, even though she is mean to him, he has respect for her. Overall, Atticus is a kind hero because he is nice to Mrs.Maudie and Mrs. Dubose even though she is not nice to him.Overall, Atticus proves himself as a heroic character because he teaches moral lessons to the kids, treats everyone equally and he is…
Precis of Gilman, Charlotte, Perkins “Mrs. Beazley’s Deeds.” In Barbara Solomon’s The Haves And Have-Nots (386-400). New York: New York / New American Library.…
During the twentieth century, Zora Neale was a famous African American novelist, folklorist, and anthropologist. Many of her works attacked issues concerning black heritage, which are still widely acknowledged today: Their Eyes Were Watching God, Dust Tracks on a Road, and Every Tongue Got to Confess. Their Eyes Were Watching God, specifically, described the difficult course that Janie Crawford endured in order to discover her inner voice. In the beginning, Janie was a young, black child who lived with a white family. During her adolescence, Janie began to gain an interest in romance with men; therefore, Nanny, her grandmother, forced her to marry Logan Killicks. Afterward, Janie ran away with Joe Starks. The two moved to a small town called Eatonville where they were married. Joe built the town into a thriving area, gaining the status of Mayer along the way. However, Joe began to mistreat Janie, restricting her from doing many things she enjoyed. Scared of what may have happened, she never spoke against Joe. Eventually, Joe became deathly sick. While Joe was sick, Janie told Joe how unsatisfied she was with their marriage. After Joe's death, Janie met Tea Cake. Happy with her mate,…
Throughout, the story we see the grandmother being manipulative, deceitful, and selfish. Aruther Breatha, the author of the article “O’Connor’s A Good Man is Hard to Find” even compares the grandmother morally and philosophically to the serial-killing Misfit (Breatha 246). The grandmother is seen being manipulative when she is trying to change her son Baily’s mind about going to Florida, so she can go to Tennessee. She is described as “seizing at every chance to change Bailey’s mind” (O’Connor 364). She even tries to make Baily feel bad about taking his children in the direction where a criminal is a loose (O’ Connor 364). She has no care, for what the family as a whole want to do, and is only concerned, with what she wants to do, and where she wants to go on vacation. When all her attempts to stop the family from going to Florida fail, she starts to become deceitful. The first of her deceitful action is bring the cat along even though Baily said not to so, then when the family is on the road the grandmother want to stop at an old plantation she used to visit as a child. Baily does not want to stop so she lies and tell the children that “There was a secret panel in this house” (O’Connor 368), and that it was filled with silver. This of course drives the children to bug, Baily, and the grandmother get what she wants. Once, the family turns down…
While reading Thirteen Reasons Why I found myself evaluating Hanna Baker when she was talking on the cassette tapes about suicide and the map at the beginning of the book showing the locations of the thirteen encounters. Thirteen people who made her life so horrible that she commit suicide. The person that was most obvious to me was Mr. Porter. Mr. Porter was Hanna’s…
the citizens of Eatonville in similar ways as the white man would, and forces Janie into the…
Janine - Mitch’s wife; she takes a phone call from Morrie, whom she had never met, and accompanies…..…
