friendships with quite a few of the other teenage girls. Among the patients admitted to her ward‚ Kaysen describes Polly‚ a kind patient with disfiguring‚ self-inflicted burns to her face and body. Lisa‚ another patient‚ entertains Kaysen with her flee attempts and embellished hatred for hospital authorities. Kaysen’s roommate‚ Georgina‚ struggles to keep a relationship with Wade‚ a vicious and unstable boyfriend from another ward‚ who tells the girls apparently strange stories about his father with
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Jamaica Kincaid “Girl” While reading all the commands the little girl needed to know‚ I was appalled at how the talk was and demands were. To me in this excerpt some of the themes that I came across were race relations‚ representation of women‚ gender roles and sexuality. All of which during this time frame were suitable and women understood that. When reading all the commands that came out to the young girl seemed to be labeled that maybe she was the maid or the help around the house. Doing
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for bringing cigarette-and-pot smoking rich kids into three-dimensional color. As naughty as these characters seem on every page‚ they are revealed to be real kids wanting to fit into accepted‚ meaningful lives as much as sleek clothes.." Rich girl Blair Waldorf is about to discover what it’s like to not get her way. Almost seventeen‚ she has careful plans: to lose her virginity to steady beau Nate and get into Yale. But life has alternate designs. Her mom is marrying a bald-headed dweeb and
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child population is content or happy with their current life status. In the books we have read in class‚ each author attempts to search for sympathy in the reader to make the novel they’ve written something readers appreciate. Sara Nović‚ author of Girl at War‚ creates more of a sympathy-searching plot than Hannah Tinti‚ author of The Good Thief‚ by using characterization and emphasis on tragedy. At age 9 or 10 it’s pretty tough to be unhappy with the endless
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Anne Bishop bases her story‚ “Match Girl‚ off of Hans Christian Andersen’s “Little Match Girl”‚ but she adds a disturbing twist. Bishop uses so much torture and violence that as a reader you want no more. “Little Match Girl” was a story based on an innocent little girl having to face the cold heart of society. On the other hand‚ “Match Girl” was a story based on a young girl that has to face a disgusting and cruel world. The misery and cruelty that Bishop adds to her story is too much for this
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Boys and Girls Throughout the story “Boys and Girls”‚ gender is a popular issue that came up. During the time period‚ women were considered to be second class. The narrator of the story‚ whose name you do not find out‚ struggles with the social norm. She does not enjoy the “dirty” chores she is entitled to do such as kitchen work with her mother. The narrator although older than her younger brother‚ is still considered to be below him. Laird which is a synonym for “Lord” is an obvious
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When I met Brooke I was a sophomore in high school. I was with my friend‚ Jon‚ at his girlfriend’s house when I tall skinny girl walked in the living room. She immediately caught my eye. She was a friend of Devon‚ Jon’s girlfriend. Brooke told me a few years after we met that Darian‚ Devon’s sister‚ and her did her make up just to catch my attention. Darian and her came in the room and started to talk with Jon and I. She introduced herself and told me a little bit about her like how old she was
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LOLOB’S GIRL By: Joan Aiken (1) Some people choose their dogs‚ and some dogs choose their people. The Pengelly family had no say in the choosing of Lob; he came to them in the second way‚ and very decisively. (2) It began on the beach‚ the summer when Sandy was five‚ Don‚ her older brother‚ twelve‚ and the twins were three. Sandy was really Alexandra‚ because her grandmother had a beautiful picture of a queen in a diamond tiara and high collar of pearls. It hung by Granny Pearce’s kitchen
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One of the book’s major points concerns the structural positioning of what she calls the Final Girl in relation to spectatorship. While most theorists label the horror film as a male-driven/male-centered genre‚ Clover points out that in most horror films‚ especially the slasher film‚ the audience‚ male and female‚ is structurally ’forced’ to identify with the resourceful young female (the Final Girl) who survives the serial attacker and usually ends the threat (until the sequel anyway). So while
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Me and Earl and the Dying Girl is a cliche movie‚ and is very predictable. The main character‚ Greg‚ is played by Thomas Mann. Earl is played by RJ Cyler‚ and Rachel is played by Olivia Cooke. The movie takes during high school in Pittsburgh. It is directed by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon. This movie is mainly about the growing friendship between Greg and Rachel. Greg has managed to map out the school’s social hierarchy‚ and become acquaintances with every group. He makes sure not to become too close to
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