I didn’t want the day to end. I dreaded going back to my dad’s house and going through the cycle all over again. The shift from a familiar environment‚ then being removed from it became frustrating and tiring. As a child‚ I had this perfect image of having two parents who show compassion but not in my situation. I got lost going back and forth‚ I started to lose myself‚ leaving a piece of my identity behind every time I left one of my parent’s houses. As the years went by‚ I didn’t really know who
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Reading Journal 2 My Brother Sam Is Dead The ending was not at all what I had expected even though‚ looking back now‚ it was heavily hinted towards in chapter 13 where Sam continuously talks about the cow thieves and tells Tim to get rid of them before they are stolen. To be honest I didn’t really like the ending‚ it was not what I would have expected or thought would happen. My real problem with the ending is that the mother (Tim and Sam’s) gave up all hope‚ telling tim he might as well get
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The American Revolutionary War is Brutal “Principle‚ Sam? You may know principle‚ Sam‚ but I know war.” (Collier and Collier 21). In the book My Brother Sam is Dead Mr. Meeker is Sam Meeker’s father. They disagree on whether war is beneficial or just simply awful. The authors have Sam join the war and his father against the war. Mr. Meeker knows about the terrible things war does to people. First‚ war turns families against each other. If one is stuck in the middle of sides‚ like Tim‚ it
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In the story‚ “Girl” by Jamaica Kincaid‚ the idea and tone come from a mother‚ who raises her child on her own past experiences and control of being a woman in her time and tradition‚ she is a guide to her own daughter in this changed world‚ to discipline her daughters new ways and views on society and their culture on how it used to be. The author shows in the story how she thinks the women should dress‚ behave and the jobs they should do. When it comes to the tradition times like when her mother
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In the pursuit of such an assessment‚ I relied upon the Flesch-Kincaid readability test to provide calculations. The Flesch-Kincaid readability test analyzes a written manuscript and determines the grade reading level‚ as defined by the US government‚ of the piece by taking the total words divided by total sentences‚ and the total syllables divided
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Why was Jamaica’s mother so serious about the “benna” song? What kind of song it was (6)? 2. Is “Girl” by Jamaica Kincaid poem or article or story? 3. What does the statement “you mean to say that after all you are really going to be the kind of woman who the baker won’t let near the bread? (38)” refer to? Essay response to “Girl” by Jamaica Kincaid After reading “Girl” by Jamaica Kincaid three or four times‚ I feel like the written of “Girl” displays as a theme of a poem. Therefore‚ I suppose
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The Outcomes of War A boy dressed as a patriot fighting for his freedom wondering what would have happened if he stood home‚ would that be better. In the book My Brother Sam is Dead the authors wrote about a boy named Tim in between the American Revolution with his family‚ Sam‚ Susannah‚ and Eliphalet Meeker. The oldest son‚Sam‚ has come back from Yale in a patriot uniform. There is one problem the head of the house‚ Eliphalet‚ is a loyalist and disagrees with war especially if his son is fighting
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killed” (34-35). Staying in the army or leaving one’s post was one of the many hard decisions soldiers had to make in the army. We see this decision take place in the historical fiction novel My Brother Sam Is Dead‚ written by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier. To begin with‚ Sam‚ Tim Meeker’s brother and mentor‚ decides to fight as a Patriot in the Revolutionary War. Sam’s decision causes a huge dilemma in the Meeker household because the family is Loyalists. Loyalists were the people
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especially when going up against an army like England’s. Just to be free from taxes‚ it is not worth it to go through as brutal war as it was and risk so many lives for it. The three reasons on why the authors‚ James and Christopher Collier‚ of the book My Brother Sam Is Dead‚ are against war are division of family‚ clash of generations‚ and principle vs. reality. The Meeker family has had a significant impact of division of family in this novel for being against the war. There has been many outbreaks
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encouraged to stop attending school and become a nurse. However‚ when Lucy left the Caribbean society she learned that she was not interested in this field. She states‚ “Whatever my future held‚ nursing would not be a part of it...I was not good at taking orders from anyone‚ not good at waiting on other people” (Kincaid 92). Therefore‚ when Lucy comes to America she took an identity of a nanny. Therefore‚ Lucy recognizes the domestic laborer constantly being imposed to such practices. This further
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