“Show me Yours” by Richard Van Camp narrates the promising and apparent upturned in life experienced by Richard, a middle-aged man who at the beginning has experienced a nadir in his life caused by addiction issues and harmful friendships. After a bad night, by mere randomness, he decides to glue a found baby picture of him to his grandparent saint’s necklace and wears it under his shirt. Abruptly, the baby picture necklace becomes a trend in his community and seems to encourage care and positivism around the participants of the furor. Richard, who starts experiencing acceptance and recognition around the locality also reunites with an old love, Shawna, with whom he spends the night and appears to bring more hope to Richard’s situation. At…
Coyotes are known for reeling in chickens. That is what Mendez and other smugglers do to get large amounts of money from desperate illegal immigrants coming into the United States. Tragedies, like the Yuma 14/ Welton 26 occur often. Many deaths go unnoticed and some of those that enter the desert, never return. In the true account The Devils Highway by Luis Alberto Urrea, The Welton 26 faced betrayal, hardship, and the possibility of death with great courage and peserverance.…
Out of My Book is a television series concerning eight book characters who are marooned on an island called Eithiola. In the exposition of the show, which is about two or three episodes long, the main characters are introduced. Ava, Sophie, Prairie Evers, and Ivy are all from Earth and do not believe in magical occurrences. However, Sophie Foster, Fitz Vacker, Jeremy Thatcher, and Mary Lou Hutton have experienced the effects of magic and believe in its power. When the characters arrive, they are all spread throughout the island. Ava, Prairie Evers, and Ivy are on the southern end of the island while Sophie, Jeremy Thatcher, and Mary Lou Hutton arrive on the northern end. In the rising action, Jeremy Thatcher and Mary Lou Hutton explain to Sophie about the existence of magic. She chooses to believe them and they begin planning on exploring the island. Unaware of the other group’s presence, Ava, Prairie, and Ivy quickly find each other and decide to begin by building a shelter. Each group finds and teams up with natives on their side of the island. Unfortunately, they befriend opposing tribes.…
Even a great story wouldn’t have a place to go without an outstanding lead character. In the story “Always a Motive”, by Dan Ross, Joe Manetti is a great example of a phenomenal lead. Joe himself could carry this whole story with his believable personality and effective personality. He has a sad person that builds up the deep mood and adds impact to the story as a whole.…
Who is the central character? That is, on whom does the story focus? What do you learn about her? What are her circumstances of life? Why does she explain her actions as she does?…
People’s behavior and attitude at school are influenced by attitudes at home. In Stand and Deliver, several characters are influenced by the culture they come form. One of the students Claudia, she is what some would consider a "pretty girl." Everyone wants to be with her. Most people seem to judge her based on her looks and social life. Including Mr. Escalante, constantly jokes much to her dismay, about, but he soon apologizes. Claudia is told by her mother "Boys don't like you if you are too smart" as she grows up. Her mother thinks education cannot help her to find a good husband or a better life in the future. It does useless if her daughter do well in school. This kind of idea deeply influences in Claudia’s blood. Therefore, Claudia does…
When you are born, you are thrown into conditions that you don’t have control of, poverty, family issues, war and conflict, these are just some of the things that you have no control over. However, you do have control over one thing, How you respond to these situations. But as you can tell, these situations all bring their own, unique challenges, and there can always be more than one. But one of the hardest situations for most to respond to would be poverty. Poverty brings not only one challenge, but it is very dynamic, and gives birth to a wide array of crippling problems for people Like Wes Moore.…
Brotherhood tends to be Scott Hudson’s nemesis. Dealing with lost friends, or even a new sibling is a new hurdle he must climb, only to want to look back over to the other side. In David Lubar’s Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie, there are many vivid examples of brotherhood friendships. A true brotherhood friendship is one who puts others before themselves. As external and internal conflicts constantly sicken Scott, he learns brotherhood, whether that is brothers or bonds like brothers, is always is most important in one’s faith. Unfortunately for Scott, he doesn’t find this out until later……
Every author who writes a novel, portrays their characters using his or her own unique characteristics to form their personality and the role they play. In the novel “We were the Mulvaneys” by Joyce Oates, The Mulvaney family is portrayed as a picture-perfect, successful family living on a farm in Upstate, New York. However, throughout this novel, the characteristics of one character during a horrific incident ruined this family’s trust and respect towards each other. Marianne Mulvaney, who is the only daughter in the family, is characterized as a good-natured, popular, beautiful, Christian. On the night of her prom, Marianne gets raped and fails to press charges against the boy who sexually assaulted her, blaming everything on herself. This incident was the beginning of the family falling apart. I chose this character because the whole aspect of the story revolves around her and her decisions. I dislike that Marianne did not do the right thing in regards to pressing legal charges against the boy, which lead to difficulties in her family. Marianne Mulvaney, although honest and uncritical, made poor decisions that reflected upon her being absurd.…
The city of Chicago was one of the worst places to be at during the 1960’s. No one had good paying jobs. The town alone was run down on the Southside.…
In Runaway Girl by Carissa Phelps the reader knows from the beginning that the main character, Carissa, can't stand discipline and runs away when authority steps in her way. Nevertheless, she creates friendships with people she thinks she can trust, but only ends up getting hurt by their dishonesty and greediness. Carissa is a rebellious, stubborn, independent child who grows into something amazing after all the dramatic tragedies that took part in her life.…
“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.” (H. P. Lovecraft). The Crucible, written by Arthur Miller, is set in a controversial religious part of history that uses strict morals and disquietude to install panic of the unknown. In The Crucible, the reader can see that Abigail is a depraved, vengeful, manipulative, evil minded young girl who uses fear and spite to dictate the world around her. Using her vengeful and nasty, unforgiving past of witnessing her parents getting bashed in the head right next to her pillow helped her form a wall to hurt others before they hurt her. To be above everyone else at all times by using her evil mind, malicious words is how she sees success and safety in herself.…
Deception, an unruly deed, is a trait that is seen in many people. It is something that most of the people of today try to be successful at, although knowing it is morally wrong. In order for one to be deceitful, they must portray various behaviors and characteristics. They must be sly in concealing the truth from anyone that asks for such, they must be able to do things without the knowledge of others and do those things efficiently, all while being seamlessly orderly in the presence of others. During the Victorian Era women were granted no power in a household. Everything that was to be done by a woman was very set in stone with no exceptions and had to be confirmed by the husband of the household. A woman had no control…
There is something that often troubles our society. It is worse than all kinds of cancers combined and as horrifying to see. It is hard to catch and is more common than the common cold. It is lying. Everyone at one point in their life has lied. Many lie to the most important people in their lives because they don’t want to create conflict between them, but it just ends up making a bigger mess than if they would have told the truth. Some lie to other people they hardly even know because they want to be like them or make a good impression.…
The novel “We Were Liars,” by E. Lockhart continues with Cadence assigning herself a unique kind of project. She makes it a point to give away a personal item each day. She starts off by mailing a Barbie to Mirren and a striped scarf to Johnny as he is fond of that pattern. She continues gifting items each day to different people in different places. Cadence discusses her desire to be normal, and not have people always worried about her. She begins to have more vivid recollections of the night of her accident. She explains seeing “Mirren’s hand … holding a jug of gas for the motorboats… [and] Granddad holding on to a tree, his face lit by the glow of a bonfire” (Lockhart 49). Although she is beginning to remember images from that night, she…