The book Alandra’s Lilacs starts off introducing one of the main characters, and author Tressa Browers. She becomes pregnant with her longtime boyfriend Lyndle Paul Benjamin Jr. or more commonly known as “Sug”. They soon get married and became pregnant with their first child, a son, who will be named Lyn Alan. Unfortunately, the baby doesn’t survive and dies shortly after his birth. Tressa and Sug desperately wanted to have a child together and shortly thereafter the death of their first child, become pregnant with their second child.…
After getting humiliated at a party, Brent drives away drunk and decides to kill himself. Letting go of the wheel on the highway, he ends up killing someone else. He killed a girl named Lea. Her mom asks Brent to put up 4 whirligigs, one in each corner of the US. Since they were Lea's favorite toys, they're meant to be monuments representing Lea's ability to make people happy. With wood, sum tools, a book on whirligigs, and a bus pass, Brent leaves on his trip to build the whirligigs.…
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Static vs. Change: Waknuk did not want to change anything about their society, and wanted to keep fighting Deviations until the whole society was pure according to the way church and they think god says it. For this reason, they had no progress. More and more deviations were created in the society as, Waknuk wanting to stay the same grew. Example: The Sealanders say that they are against the Waknuk people because the Sealanders accept change, but the Waknuk people try stopping it. For this reason the Waknuk people ended dyeing.…
The annual All Bonaventure Reads (ABR) book for the Class of 2021 was Nobody: Casualties of America’s War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond by Dr. Marc Lamont Hill. A meticulously metaphoric book with great detail on racism and the oppression of blacks. Although, it highlights the negatives of American history, it positively powers all blacks by reminding the reader that they too are human, although they may not always be treated as so. While doing so, the book portrays the three main values at Saint Bonaventure University: discovery, community, and individual worth.…
Paul’s uncle, Joe, and cousin, Joe Jr., are foils in this “lass struggle” that ultimately fractures the Crown family and forces Paul to leave his uncle’s home to find work on his own. The behavior and work ethic of Joe. Who is born to wealth and privileged in America, is juxtaposed with that of immigration Paul. Jakes portrayed Joe Jr. as spoiled and without focus especially when compared to Paul’s mature approach to life and work.…
I would change that to give the book an interesting twist. There are many questions we would like answered but we’d have to hear them from the guys side point of view. The book is very good and there are a few things that we can expand on to make more interesting. Something interesting to expand on could be how she told her parents and how they reacted. What happened after she told her parents? Or we could wonder what happened to Andy. There are many questions and I would add the answers to those question to the book. I didn’t like that the book was short, I felt like it needed a little bit more but overall it was a great…
If I were to change anything in the book I would have changed the ending. When it ended right in the middle of action I was very mad. I really wanted to know what happened next and just wanted to just continue on with the book. The story did end the way I expected. At the end it ended with a huge cliff hanger. So far there hasn’t been another book and it has been 5 years since it came out. The story didn’t end the way I expected. I thought the ending would have ended with Zach fighting the Bad and destroying their organization. Instead the book ends with Zach saving Senator Kerrigan's life, and Mr. Herbert taking one of the bullets and dying. I can relate to being a student athlete. Zach is a very smart and does well in school, and is a very good athlete who a variety of sports at his…
In Life, we are always faced with hard decisions. We are sometimes forced to choose between decisions that support you or your family. Lyddie is faced with just that. In 1991 Katherine Paterson wrote the novel “Lyddie.” The main character Lyddie lived with her family but then is separated from them when a bear invades her house and is mistaken for the end of the world. Lyddie’s father sells the farm so she has to work at a mill in Lowell that pays little and the working conditions are very poor.She has the choice to sign a petition to try and convince the corporation to give workers better pay and working conditions. Lyddie should not sign the workers’ rights petition because of her financial needs and the risk of being blacklisted.…
Though I get the main purpose of this essay, I don’t really think it has created an effect on me. Part of it is because I cannot relate to the character, another is that I know the narrator too well that I know what is going to happen. Everyone knows what is going to happen. Her personality is so set in stone that the room for interpretation is limited. We all know she is super anxious, worrisome, and over-protective from the way she talks to the audience, the way she thought of another woman over the screen, the way she rolls the stroller on the street. In addition, everything is so crystal clear and evident that there is no much need to go back and flip through the story once again to understand the underlining purpose. The ambiguity element is missing in this essay, thus makes this work less appealing and less effective on…
The autobiographical novel, A Death In The Family, written by James Agee is about how the Follet family deals and reacts with the death of a young father. Broken up into three parts, Agee formulates the story to display each of the character’s thoughts and feelings about the loss and grief of the adolescent father, Jay Follet. Part one of the novel opens up with a father, Jay, and his son, Rufus, taking an outing to the movie theater to watch a Charlie Chaplin motion picture. Both enjoyed these trips with just the two of them because it gave them the time to bond.…
I greatly enjoyed this essay. I thought that her descriptive writing placed a detailed imagine in my head and I could see every scene that she described about her journey in life. I thought that her enthusiasm for embracing her life and her colored skin was inspiring. To be able to take what some may think as a disadvantage in life, and turn it into a benefit is a great way to live in the world. I also enjoyed her metaphor of the bags filled with miscellaneous contents. Everyone…
1984 is about a parallel world 35 years into the future, in which all nations have been combined into three major countries: Oceania, Eastasia, and Eurasia. London still exists, but it is now a part of Oceania, governed by an entity called the Party, headed by a dominant figure called "Big Brother". The Party's one goal is power; power over everybody and everything in Oceania. There is constant surveillance; devices called telescreens are put in people's homes to monitor thoughts, actions and broadcast Party propaganda continuously, with no way for the person to turn it off or change the channel. Free thinkers are not tolerated, and the "Thought Police" are sent to capture the culprits. The Party is developing an official language called "Newspeak," whose goal is to simplify language by eliminating as many "extra" words as possible and reducing vocabulary to a small number of basic words, thus narrowing the range of thought.…