try their best. Those that have high expectations achieve more because they try till they reach their goal. People that expect more of themselves achieve more than others with low expectations. In the books‚ The Lords of Discipline and My Sister’s Keeper‚ both show characters with high standards. There are people that achieve a lot more than people would expect them to. Tradd‚ a character in the book‚ The Lords of Discipline‚ had goals for himself that he was able to reach because he had high expectations
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My Sister’s Keeper written by Jodi Picoult in 2004‚ explores the lives of two sisters‚ Kate and Anna Fitzgerald as they come to terms with Kate’s illness and Anna being the only family member with the power to save her sister; regardless of the emotional and physical toll it has on the youngest child. The novels many themes and ideas focus on the thin line between what is right and what is wrong and how the different members of the Fitzgerald family interpret it and death. The bond between the different
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In the book “The Memory Keeper’s Daughter” by Kim Edwards a doctor and his wife have twins and the first child is a healthy boy but then the second child that comes out is a little girl with the signs of down syndrome and he asks his Nurse to take the baby away to an institution while he tells his wife the baby girl died. Through out the entire book it is a struggle for Dr. Henry’s wife Norah to have closure with the fact that her baby girl is said to be dead and she never saw her‚ held her‚ or cared
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The use of suspense and foreshadowing in Jodi Picoult’s My Sister’s Keeper helps readers later understand how the theme topic of tragedy can evolve into the theme topic of fate. As Picoult’s novel began to wind down‚ things finally seemed to fall into place for the Fitzgerald family. Anna’s lawsuit was closed and she came out medically emancipated‚ and her once divided family became united and reconnected again.The Judge only had one request for Anna before she officially won the case‚ her lawyer
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The Memory Keepers Daughter Almost everybody has done something that they have regretted later on in life. David Henry‚ a character in The Memory Keepers Daughter by Kim Edwards‚ shows that sometimes the past can be too heavy of a burden to carry. Damaging not only ourselves but also the people around us. David grew up in West Virginia with parents who worked hard but struggled to put food on the table and a sister with Down syndrome. When his sister died his parents were so overwhelmed that they
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In the novel‚ My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult‚ a child was genetically engineered to become a donor for another child’s benefit. This novel covered a story of the genetically engineered child that was trying to fight for the right of her own body with her parents. The novel questioned human ethics and morals and the extent of medical technologies that should be allowed. At the end of the novel‚ it concluded that there was no correct answer relating to this situation. I realize that it was a hard
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My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult About the Book New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult is widely acclaimed for her keen insights into the hearts and minds of real people. Now she tells the emotionally riveting story of a family torn apart by conflicting needs and a passionate love that triumphs over human weakness. Anna is not sick‚ but she might as well be. By age thirteen‚ she has undergone countless surgeries‚ transfusions‚ and shots so that her older sister‚ Kate‚ can somehow fight
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Timothy Winters What effect does this poem have on you‚ the reader? The effect this poem has on me is it makes me realise how lucky and grateful I am because I can afford things and have a lovely life style. However Timothy Winters has the opposite‚ he is very poor and can’t really afford anything. The poem is based on a little boy called Timothy Winters who is very poor and can’t afford much. The statement for the poem is that Timothy Winters is a poor little boy who cannot afford much and
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Papa Samba Diouf Arts 1301 Mr Kaminski Art Critique Every opening sequence in any fictional work is responsible for setting the general mood of the narrative. Our current pattern of videoclips--the type we like the most these days--tends to offer plots as a way of captivating more of the audience. That’s because we love fiction and stories and storytelling. A song is more interesting when it accompanies a story we can
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A Princess of Mars was written in 1917‚ during this time period there was not a lot of Sci-Fi fantasy books or stories‚ and nor were they very popular. This book was looked at as pulp fiction because it was like nothing anyone had really read; therefore no one had anything to compare it to. Also‚ instead of looking at the qualities of the book‚ which make it literature‚ they looked at the book as more of a comic. To them‚ this was a ridiculous story solely for entertainment. Which in turn may have
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