Louie is a courageous man who survived the beatings of the war. He was a great runner who changed his life by enlisting in the war. He was stranded with his two bombardier mates on a raft until they were found by the Japanese and dehumanized. After the war has ended he lived a life of alcoholism until he found forgiveness. In the book Unbroken, Laura Hillenbrand uses the life experiences of Louie Zamperini to show the traits of being courageous and determined.…
This month I read the second book of the Lunar Chronicles series, called Scarlet. The theme of this book is perseverance all the 3 main characters in this book are persevering to achieve a goal. Since Cinder escaped prison, Queen Levana started accusing Emperor Kai of his lack of security. She gives Kai 3 days to find Cinder or else Luna will attack Earth (Meyer pg 42- 48). Kai is persevering to find Cinder but it is very hard because she could be anywhere in the whole solar system. Meanwhile, Cinder is trying to continue on her mission to defeat Levana. She is going to Europe to find a woman who will guide her through her journey and knows her secret about being Princess Selene (Meyer pg 182). On this journey Cinder goes through many problems like almost getting caught by Kai’s troops, and she almost killed herself hooking herself into her spaceships auto control system in order to prevent it from crashing (Meyer pg. 183 & 243). Meanwhile, Scarlet is trying to find her grandmother. First she found the location of the kidnappers who had taken her grandmother…
Robert Renfroe, better known as Bob Riley once said, “Hard times don't create heroes. It is during hard times when the ‘hero’ within us is revealed”. In The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, Johnny Cade is a 16-year-old Greaser with long and greasy ebony hair covering his forehead. He has dark pusillanimous eyes and a scar that runs from his forehead to his cheekbone. Johnny is portrayed as an abused boy who was emotionally and physically traumatized, but throughout the novel, it is revealed that he is a gallant individual who is willing to risk his life for others.…
The monomyth or more commonly known as the hero journey was thought of by Joseph Campbell who said that any good story would follow these certain rules no matter if it was horror, comedy, or even a love story you’ll find that even your favorite stories would all follow these models or archetypes no matter what, for example the story “Leftovers” by Laura Weiss follows the hero journeys if you analyzed it and pay close enough attention it even plays into archetypes with immediately showing you the protagonist or in this case protagonists and letting you hear their stories.…
One person she meets is a handsome prince who likes her and she likes him they help each other along the way. Though the book tries to tell me that “taking risks can have rewarding results” I know this because in both books(Cinder, City Of Ember) there is a trend of taking place they both have info of some kind of problem for instance in cinder there is that horrible plague that she, Cinder needs to find the cure for.…
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…
Fallada uses Mia Pinneberg to unveil the challenges associated with the expectations of the “New Woman” in the 1920’s-1930’s. Mia embodies the modernized women conceptualized in Germany post-World War I. Her aspirations to climb the bourgeois social ladder stem from a society obsessed with aesthetic beauty, and related pressures from being a woman in a high-class society. She mimics the display of the “New Woman” and therefore is driven to bear the weight of all interrelationship problems related to this identity, including the alienation from others.…
"Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when victory is won." Louisa May Alcott wrote many inspirational novels that explain her personality and her hardships in life. Her writing supported her family, no matter where she was. When Alcott died, her older sister was left and still received the money from her sister's still selling books. Alcott's books are still being sold today, though they may be hard to find. Her most known novel, Little Women, taught the world to appreciate what you have in life, though you may wish for more, what you have is as important as the "fancy" things. Throughout her career, Louisa May Alcott wrote about the many things…
Stephanie Stewart is being escorted by her mother, Sara Stewart. Stephanie is on student council and plays the trumpet. She also enjoys acting and has been in several community plays. The things that Stephanie is most looking forward to in High School are playing volleyball, theater class, and seeing old friends.…
Based on where i am in the book, the novel Everything Everything is about a girl named rmMadeline who has (scid), a disease that prevents her from going outside. One day on her 18th birthday while her mother and her were playing board games and eating cake, the doorbell rang. It was a guy and his sister, their mom made a bundt (a cake thats indestructible). His name is Olly They had just moved right next door. Olly starts throwing pebbles at her window to get her attention and writes his number on the window. They start texting and start having feelings towards each other.Madeline’s nurse starts suspecting things,and soon figures it out. To make Madeleine happy she has Olly come over so they can really meet. Once they meet, her mother notices…
In his story “Cinderella’s Stepsisters” Toni Morrison compares modern day women’s rights to those of the ancient fairy tale figure “Cinderella.” According to him women stick together to wrong another woman, like Cinderella’s sisters had done, her, while copying their mother’s actions. He wants to know what happens to the sisters, after the story ends, when they grow up. He wants to know how their attitudes will be in regard to other children and old people. He feel’s that that sort of thing will apply to all of us someday, when we will be given the opportunity to choose between doing right and wrong. He goes on to tell us not to do what the stepsisters had done to Cinderella and tells us to help, not hurt women.…
with a large reward awaiting the sole victor at the end of the race. She declares…
wilight is a series of novels which starts out in the perspective of a seventeen year-old girl, Isabella Swan. But she goes by Bella. This story is actually set in the fictional vampire stories.…
The Plot starts with an old man reading a notebook to an old woman in a nursing home. The story focuses on the two lovers namely Noah and Allie. Allie’s parents did not want to marry him because of the unwealthy status of the family of the man. Allie has to go to New York together with her parents. Noah wrote 365 letters to Allie but none of them came to her. After more several years, Allie meet this man named Lon, a wealthy man and soon they engaged. Noah rebuilt the old house just to fulfill his promise to Allie, he even tried to sell it but he refused to accept the offer even if the offer is more satisfactory.…
In this novel, the author takes us to the African village of his childhood. The Dark Child is an autobiography from the life of Camara Laye’s youth in the village of Kouroussa, Guinea. The Dark Child was the author’s first work. The author begins the book with a very special contribute to his mother. He speaks upon his strong relationship his mother and he shared. Laye was raised by his mother so they shared a strong bond. His father on the other hand was a father to the village that Laye grew up in. In The Dark Child, Camara Laye's point is that life in Africa is neither the utopia described by Rousseau and others, nor the dystopia described by Golding, but a mixture of both good and bad. What he also seems to point out is that rural life, especially in Africa, has not lost its spirit of community contrary to life in more "civilized" societies. That sense of community has then rather unexpected result of making the individual more conscious of himself, as his passage from one stage to another in life is underlined by the entire community.…