The book‚ The Skin I’m In‚ by Sharon G. Flake‚ shows that the color of your skin should not define you as a person. At times‚ people think that a color means that you’re something that you’re not. For example‚ in the book John-John says “I don’t see no pretty‚ just a whole lotta black” (Flake 09). John-John thinks Maleeka is ugly because she’s black. He looks at her and because her skin color is so “black” he judges her about it. John-John only looks at her looks but he doesn’t really know the real
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The Snow Star By Sharon Laferty From out of the blue and gold of a Christmas Eve sunset‚ comes Chrystalene. She was a snowflake‚ born in the clouds‚ as all snowflakes are. She began her journey‚ falling and spinning‚ with all the other little snowflakes on her way to the earth below. Chrystalene‚ however‚ was far too curious a being to simply drift along and wait to see where she would land. She began to look around her‚ peering at her fellow flakes‚ and noticing quickly‚ that she was not like them
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Over this week I read a novel by the award winning author Sharon M Draper. Draper has been nominated for Coretta Scott King Award for Authors and John Steptoe New Talent Award. Needless to say she is a very accomplished author. I read the New York Times bestseller Out of my Mind. First of all‚ Out of my Mind is about an eleven year old girl named Melody. Melody was born with cerebral palsy and was declared retarded and mentally handicapped at a young age. During the exposition of the book the future
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Who am I without him? In the story of‚ “Who am I without him?” by Sharon Flake‚ deals with character in my perspective. I chose to deal with character because there was a lot of character in this story. The main character‚ which remained nameless‚ was the narrator of the story. We got her point of view: That’s why I chose her. The story had a lot of conflict going in and out the story. Her and Raheem are supposed to be a couple that last forever and ever‚ but in the story it seems like Raheem
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1. Should Sharon tell Jill’s name to the security officer? Why -Yes she should‚ the police officer already knows that sharon was shopping with Jill so if Sharon tells the officer she doesn’t know the name of Jill he would automatically know she is lying‚ which would just cause more unwanted trouble. Also‚ Sharon should know what Jill did is wrong‚ and she shouldn’t get the blame for what Jill did‚ Jill needs to face the consequences so she knows next time not to do it. 2. Would it make any difference
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Everyone has a choice what they do with it is up to them. Sharon G. Flake wrote the book You Don’t Even Know Me which is a very intense and emotional book. This book speaks of topics one would not hear regularly. Many parents and the reader wonder why would they let a teenager read this book. She wrote this for young adults because she probably experienced this or saw many of her friends go through these kinds of problems. According to research by State Farm‚ every twenty-eight seconds a youth drops
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Rites of passage” - Sharon Olds and “Real boys” - William Pollack Although the main theme of the two texts is anger and how boys express this strong feeling as a way of solution to conflicts‚ the texts‚ in term of form they are fundamentally different. On the one hand‚ text 1(a) is a poem called “Rites of passage” written by Sharon Olds‚ which ironically shows how this violence has been present in the life of the poet’s son. On the other hand‚ text1 (b) is an extract from scholarly study
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Tamalii. In the Novel Walk Two Moons written by Sharon Creech‚ Sal goes through internal and external change due to the death of her mother. Sal becomes angry because she is having a hard time accepting her mom’s death and feeling like she did something wrong and that is why it is hard for her. Sal meets mrs. Cadaver the woman who held her mother’s hand in her last moments and was the only survivor of a terrible bus crash. It is hard for Sal to see mrs. Cadaver living life to the fullest while her
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Sharon Olds’ poem "Late Poem to My Father" exposes the profound effect that childhood trauma can have on someone‚ even in adulthood. The speaker of the poem invokes sadness and pity in the reader by reflecting on the traumatic childhood of her father‚ and establishes a cause and effect relationship between the abuse he endured as a child and the dependence he develops on alcohol as an adult. The idea of emotional retardation caused by childhood experiences is not uncommon‚ especially in our
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Name: Mykala Adams Bell: Second Bell Date: 9/16/13 Pages Required: Total Pages Read:220 Fire from The Rock The book Fire From The Rock by Sharon M. Draper is a historical fiction that is a must have to read it keep you engaged to keep reading the book in the story there’s a girl name Sylvia Patterson that’s looks forward to high school the new changes to her life‚ Sylvia was one of the first African American that integration that got pick to go to Central
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