Charlotte Doyle is a thirteen-year-old girl. She is traveling to America on a ship to be reunited with her family. The year is 1832 and she is leaving Liverpool, England. She has just finished at an all-girls private school. Charlotte is the daughter of a wealthy shipping businessman. Captain Jaggery is the captain of the Seahawk. He is very strict and proper. People are afraid of him and when Charlotte first boards the ship, she is not sure why. They become friends right away and Captain Jaggery asks her to keep an eye on the crew. Zachariah is an older black man who is the cook on the ship. He gives Charlotte a dirk and warns her that the captain is dangerous. One day she finds a round robin which means that the crew is rebelling against the captain. She tells the captain right away and things turn bad when he kills Zachariah. They become enemies and Charlotte realizes she has no other choice but to become part of the crew. Then the first mate, Mr. Hollybrass, is murdered. Captain Jaggery accuses Charlotte and locks her up to await her trial. She is going to be tried by her shipmates.…
In the book King Philip’s War by Daniel R. Mandell, Mandell argues that King Philip’s War is the fundamental turning point in the relations between the Indians and Anglo Americans and the Sovereignty of the Indians. This ultimately led to the war known as King Philip’s War.…
Many people read books and just walk away and never think about it again. On the other side, many spend endless hours, days, weeks, or even years pondering a book. A good book can leave you with so many questions. One of the most important things to do is examine the book. The Cay, written by Theodore Taylor, is about Philip, an 11 year old boy who gets in a terrible accident by virtue of World War II. Philip’s character acknowledges that through many conflicts, he developed matureness, open-heartedness, and independence.…
When he is in the city he runs into a so called “blind” preacher on the streets. The blind man was preaching that there is a God and that people need to give to the church through him. Hazel was very upset about this and started attempting to preach that there is no God and they need to follow him when he starts a new church without a God. When Hazel goes to the place where he is staying, he finds out the “blind” preacher is staying there too. This really makes the situation worse for Hazel. One night Hazel went into the “blind” man’s room and lit a match to see if he was really blind. He had been lying about it. He was just a crook after people’s money. He was using God to make people feel sorry for him and that would in turn make them give him…
In J.D Salinger’s book The Catcher in the Rye, the protaginist Holden Caulfied, struggles with life, one of the factors being his unstable state of mind due to the death of his brother. After his brothers death his perspective on life was shaken, culminating to his use of anger and trivial decisions to mask his emotions. We see his rapid choice of judgment evidently when he destroyed his parents garage windows. Holden holds his brother dear to his heart, because of his authenticity and humbleness; traits that arent seen anywhere else in his life.…
Paragraph one was a brief incite on what was to come. The conflict the author faced was the broken identity. As a result, he was motivated to regain his self-identity and not become a victim of the words of others. The narrator's grandfather clearer told him all that he faced and how badly he was treated. The narrator felt invisible because no one as ever seen him for who he truly is despite his educational background he was viewed by the White's as another common black boy. There was just one thing left for them to do is to kill his dream.…
The scene from the story that I remember most vividly is when Papa comes home and yells at Mr. Andersen for cutting down his trees. I remember this scene because it was very important. It showed that no matter what race you are, you cannot take advantage of others. Everyone has a right to what they own and even if you think you are superior to that person you cannot take it away. After…
There are many things needed to survive. Shelter, food, and water are some examples. Specifically, Timothy from the book The Cay had a plan of survival that was good/smart. While Timothy did not think about the smoke in the signal fire not being very visible, Timothy is correct with his survival plan because he could find clean/fresh water, he built shelter with materials on the island, and he built rescue signs for them to be saved. Another way that Timothy had a good plan is that he also managed to find fresh/clean water.…
The day comes that the Aleuts have to leave. The Aleuts try to offer Chowig half of what there payment was supposed to be and Chowig will not let them leave. This causes a fight to break out between the men of the island and the Aleuts. The Aleuts had the men of the island outnumbered and ended up killing almost all the men and escaped paying nothing. After this the people of the island were left in a hard situation because the men that did all of the labor were…
The story is set in 1942, town of Yazoo City, Mississippi during World War II. The story explores a family of three, Jack, Ellen, and Willie Morris. Willie is a shy boy. Ellen decides to go against father's orders and purchase Willie a faithful companion of his own for his birthday: a puppy. Although Jack firmly opposes this gift, his wife convinces him Willie is old enough to take care of a dog. Willie names his new friend Skip. The dog will become very well-known and popular among locals, and assist children to have higher self-confidence causing Willie make their first friends.…
Jose is one out of two that are picked to continue on with his education and take a test to receive a scholarship for another school. At school Jose becomes friends with a boy named Leopold who has a rich white father and a black mother. Leopold is told not to play with the black children he attends school with but cannot go to a white school because he is a mulatto. One day his father sees him playing with Jose and gets kicked by a horse and as a result ends up dying, while on his death bed Leopold’s mother begs his father for Leopold to have his last name but his father refuses because he is not white; without his last name he will get nothing from his father. Leopold has it easy and hard because he has a good life because of his father but hard because he will never have everything a white child has and can grow up and…
Hopelessness - Peter was bullied ever since he started kindergarten. The kids that were bigger and more popular teased him with no signs of stopping. His brother couldn't even protect him. Peter's parents and the other adults told him to stand up for himself, but that didn't work because he was put down right away by the bullies. Peter was always in the torment of choosing life or death because of the betrayal he experienced with his best friend Josie when they were kids.…
After some minor conflict between the new coach and the players, they head to camp. Boone forces whites to sit next to blacks on the bus, as a way to make them get along. At camp he forces them to pair up white with black, and, at first, this idea didn't work. After the first few days at camp, everyone is finally beginning to get along. Ray Budds causes some problems, and has planted it firmly into his mind that he will never get along with blacks.…
he is caught as a stow-away on a raft and his original story is not believed by…
The film starts in the late sixties when the son, Gabriel Sawyer, attends a high school anti -war rally in which an American flag is burned. Henry Sawyer, a Korean War Veteran, is deeply insulted by this show of disrespect. He feels his son has embarrassed him with this show of rebellion against everything the father believes in. Instead of trying to understand his son’s point of view and feelings on the matter, he lashes out at him causing a verbal and physical altercation. Henry cannot believe that his own son could be so different from himself, when in fact this is very common during the teenage years. His angry rejection drove his son to leave the home, never to return. I promised myself I would not let my pride come before my relationship with my own boys. The lesson I learned is that rebellion is a part of growing up and is not direct reflection of my parenting skills.…