Indigenous people are traditionally known for their strong connection to their land, culture, and community. However, in the novel In Search Of April Raintree written by Beatrice Monsioner, this reality is challenged. Beatrice Monsioner shows how big of a negative impact society has on Indigenous peoples through this novel. Two sisters April and Cheryl Raintree have been faced with brutal experiences of victimization. Their lives have been turned upside down for who they are and because of this April had chosen to leave her identity behind for something society would accept. While Cheryl went strong with her deep ties to her culture and people but at the end they had come to realize the truth.…
1987 ANWR Coastal Plain Report says that there is only a 19 percent chance of finding…
Laura Hillenbrand’s Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption follows the story of Louie Zamperini, a rebellious child who grew up to become one of the fastest runners of the 1930s. He competed as an Olympic track runner in the 1936 Berlin Olympics. The future was looking bright for Zamperini before World War II began, which resulted in the Olympics being cancelled and Louie being drafted into the Army Air Forces as a bombardier. Midway through 1943, his B-24 crash landed in the Pacific Ocean. For weeks, Louie and two other men drifted westward across a seemingly endless ocean, accompanied by a pack of sharks and surviving on scraps of bird and fish meat and the occasional rainfall. Eventually, he arrived in Japanese…
The story is told from three different POVs: From Libby Day in the present and from Ben and Patty Day in 1985. There’s a fourth narrative near the end that provides a surprising twist. You jump from past to present, slowly piecing together the story as Libby does. Whilst I’m not the biggest fan of multiple perspectives and constant flashbacks, I think that Gillian Flynn has this technique nailed down to a tee. It was a day in the year of 1985 when Ben – Libby’s older brother – allegedly murdered three members of his own family – including his mother, Patty, and two of his younger sisters – in cold blood. Only Libby somehow managed to escape the massacre. It was Libby’s coerced testimony that condemned Ben to a lifelong imprisonment. Now, after…
In the book Lyddie by Katherine Paterson is a story about a 12 yr old girl named lyddie that works in a factory to pay off debt that her dad left the family. The book takes place during the industrial revolution in vermont . There is a petition going around in the factory if she signs it she has a chance to lose her job. I think she should not sing it because she is making 2x the money that the other workers are making. One reason she should not sign the petition is she is making a lot of money.…
In Veronica Roth’s novel Allegiant, love can be shown through sacrifice, even if it means leaving those you love. Right before their plan to obtain the memory serum, Tobias explains to Tris: “They (The Abnegation) say that if the sacrifice is the ultimate way for that person to show you they love you, you should let them do it… That, in that situation, it’s the greatest gift you can give them.” (Roth 412) Then the realization hits Tris that Caleb, her brother, volunteered for the deadly mission to get the serum out of guilt, not love. “I love my brother. I love him, and he is quaking with terror at the thought of death.” (455) Caleb is still holding on to the burden of betraying Tris while he was working for Jeanine Matthews in Erudite…
Explain the importance of the concluding scene of Passing to our understanding of the novella. Your response should do more than argue Irene killed Clare, it should explain how this result is forshadowed in the text. In other Words, your essay should be able to answer the larger question concerning why Clare seemingly " has" to die.…
In other words, she sees the looks teachers give her, and it inspires her to do better in her school work and prove to them that her image does not define her personality. Her mother tries to get her to act like the rich kid she is, but the more her mother tries, the more she rejects the idea and rebels. She wears black and dyes her hair unnatural colors to hide where she really comes from, a rich family. She also hides her love for playing piano because she does not want to be classified as a rich kid, but doing so gets classified as a punk or a goth. Antonia, the other main character, is classified as smart or a teacher’s pet, so a teacher’s pet and a punk; that is not usually the types that are best friends. In the beginning of the book, they did not even want to be seen together. By the end of the book , that did not matter anymore because they were proud of each…
One of the most starch character development can be observed in Ava Bigtree. In the beginning of the story, Ava has a vast imagination. Ava’s imagination is fueled by the nature surrounding her. She has the ability to see every situation she is in through a positive lens. The author uses Birdman as a catalyst in Ava’s development and the loss of her innocence. Once Ava is raped, her imagination begins to dwindle away. Eventually, the nature that once fueled her begins to force her into a new mindset. “But if I observe my friend and fairy man from a different perch of my brain, I saw the birdman could be an anybody” (Russel 283). After this pivotal moment, Ava starts to notice the nature she lives in is not as magical as she once believes. When Ava is awakened to the danger of Birdman, her perspective of nature and the world around her begins to dull. “We walked back from the hammock in silence. We passed the same trees and their same orbiting bulbs the same white flowers the same sour creamy ponds but everything looked changed to me now. The moon had a bad charge” (Russel 291). One terrible experience, in the swamp, causes the small child to lose her former identity. The event shapes the way she feels about herself and the world surrounding her.…
Kellie Young begins her story "The Undercurrent" right away with rich descriptions, setting the reader's emotions for what she is about to tell. Immedietly you are able to invision Kellie's surroundings and gauge her emotional state; as she plunges through the cold Pasific Ocean, listening to her mother's panicing voice in her head. The tone through the story is candid, as Kellie tells of her mother's overbearing feelings, towards her actions, and Kellie's responses to her mothers concern is apethetic , giving two opposite thoughts to different actions. It is effortless to follow her story, as she gives a balance of detail and truth; putting you in the middle of her intenal…
Elion first went to college at the age of fifteen and graduated when she…
Vesta Davenport was a woman of many words. Or at least, that is what she strongly believed of herself. Numerous ways to describe the woman,as she was everything except [i]gentle.[/i] The word itself sent shivers down her spinal coral. She couldn’t possibly recall a time that was [i]gentle… soft.[/i] A foul-mouthed individual since the day of her birth, her mother recollected that her first word had been “Wo-d.” The sound had an awful resemblance to the word rude, and the joke had been a running gag for the family for several years now. Disturbing calls from her relatives “attempting” to be funny using something she said [i]years[/i] ago seemed to cloud the inbox of her phone, but she completely ignored them. Vesta pulled away and decide to want…
The novel Dawn, by Octavia Butler, possess many good qualities. Unlike many novels, Butler provides a clear and conceivable explanations for the biological events that take place in the story. Her main character demonstrates moral and ethical dilemmas that can relate to a person's normal life. These dilemmas can also compare to problems of slavery among African Americans in the past. Butler's African American heritage may have brought her to write such interesting literature.…
Aibileen Clark is a 53 year old African American who is from Jackson, Mississippi “who has been taking care a white babies” and “cooking and cleaning” (Stockett 1) for white families. Aibileen has been taking care of white families for all her life and she believes that she knows “how to get them babies to sleep, stop crying, and go in the toilet bowl before they mamas even get out a bed in the morning”(1). Aibileen’s son died when he was 24 years old. She says that it was like a “bitter seed” (3) was planted inside of her and she is not as accepting to white as she was before his death. After the incident she believes that her whole world went black. Throughout the novel that bitter seed in Aibileen slowly disappears as she learns to look…
A picture is worth a thousand words but a name is worth a first impression. The name given to a person at births establishes how the person perceives themselves as well as how others view that person. With nothing but a name, people can imagine and create images on how a person looks, what they talk like, how they move, and other characteristics that make a person who they are. In Natasha Tretheway’s Bellocq’s Ophelia, names and naming play an integral part of the story line of the series of poems.…