RAW is a realistic story of a teenager named Brett Dalton who has been sentenced to three months at The Farm for a break and enters charge. Brett learns a lot about himself during his time at The Farm. While there he finds love, he makes some new friends and he also manages to gain some enemies. The idea that I have made present within the book is that the institution can only assist in change; it is the individual who must want to change for that change to occur. I have written this book in a way that makes an impact on the reader by the consequences of the actions Brett takes in the book and many teenagers in
They present real life ideas and people to enhance the feeling to be able to connect with ordinary people. For example, in the Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice and Men they both have farm settings with each set of characters trying to better their lives. In the Grapes of Wrath, the Joads are a traditional farming family that is devastated by the Depression and the Dust Bowl so they had to move to California as a poor family to better their situation (Williams 25). This change was common for many families in the late twenties and early thirties. Steinbeck based a whole books to one of the occurring events.
3 3 H Skill 7: Evaluate major debates concerning alternative interpretations A7/S2: 4/12: I earned a 3 for my article response paper on Dr. Marathon Luther King. 3 H Skills 8: Construct and test hypotheses H Skill 9: Show connections and causal H Skill 10: Recognize the complexity of historical cause and effect H Skill 11: Interpret past events within context and timeframe H Skill 12: understanding the meaning of events and recognizing they could have taken other directions P1/S2: 3/24: I earned a 3 for my “Escape from Camp 14” discussion with Ms. Tapia. - The main character, a boy snitch who had never been in the outside world, had an uncertain life which could have went a completely different direction 3 3 H Skill 13: Analyze Human Modifications of landscape A/S2: 5/13: I earned a 3 for my article response paper on Haiti’s trash problem. H Skill 14: Conduct cost/benefit analyses A/S2: May/16: I earned a 3 for my article response paper on Walt Disney Project: Outcome: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
His outlet to the emotional turmoil in his life at the time was creating stories with his brother, which always featured anthropomorphic animals in the fictional kingdom of Boxen (Downing). The emotional impact of his mother’s death led to his deep remission of the Christian faith, which eventually resulted in his conversion to atheism and his initial love of European mythology (Downing). Lewis became widely familiar with medieval Norse literature, an influence that is reflected throughout the books in the series, most prominently in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Ward). This entire book imitates one of the immrama, a type of traditional Old Irish tale that combines elements of Irish mythology to tell the story of a hero's sea journey to the Otherworld (Brady). Medieval Ireland also had a tradition of High Kings ruling over lesser kings and queens or princes, as did Narnia.
English Honors 11 23 April 2012 Steady Winds My Ántonia, by Willa Cather, follows the story of Jim Burden, as he travels from Virginia to live with his grandparents in Nebraska and starts a new life. Throughout the novel, Cather incorporates the landscape and weather into the text as a way to set the tone for the coming scenes. The vivid descriptions of the terrain help inform the author of the characters feelings and emotions through their trials and tribulations. Whether rainy and stormy, or clear and bright, Jim Burden’s experiences mirror the surrounding conditions. Young Jim Burden’s feelings of loneliness become apparent right away in the novel when he first arrives in Nebraska.
Along the way, the meaning of being "American" changes significantly for John, who realizes he is more a product of the steel furnaces of Pennsylvania than of anything American. The family of immigrants that Out of this Furnace explores had a similar viewpoint regarding America as did many of their co-immigrants - they were leaving a bad town in search of a better one. As Kracha thinks at the novel's outset "he hoped he was likewise leaving behind the endless poverty and oppression which were the birthright of a Slovak peasant in Franz Josef's empire." Kracha finds out during his voyage for America that poverty may not be something he is leaving behind. He wastes his money on the birthday party of a pretty, young, married girl he meets aboard ship.
The story is based around the protagonist, John the Savage, a man who was considered primitive and lived on a reservation. John “was given two alternatives: to go on living in the Brave New World whose God is Ford (Henry), or to retreat to a primitive Indian village more human in some ways, but just as lunatic in others” (Bloom 1). John’s reading of Shakespeare influences the way he sees the world of the savage and the New World in different viewpoints; these viewpoints are in regards to his relationships with his mother, Lenina, and the world itself. One critic writes, “…it is by the standards of Shakespearian tragedy and romance that [John] judges…society…” (Thody 89). The predominant Shakespeare work in Brave New World is the play Othello.
An archetype is a pattern in writing in which connects certain types of writing one to another making the story’s ideas and characters mysteriously connected somehow internationally. There are different archetypes, such as the hero who always saves the day, or the most common one, the battle between good and evil. Both types have been written countless times by authors from all over In the folktale “ Anansi, The Clever One” by Donna Rosenberg in Folklore, Myths, and Legends: A World Perspective, an archetype I noticed was the main character in the story started off being the hero. His family was starving and lacking food so he went out in search of it, only to find an old man with thousands of captured and dead animals of all kinds. He brought
Ben Zietlow Dr. Schroeder United States History Since 1945 November 21, 2011 “The Way to Peace: The Vision of Henry Agard Wallace” During the 1930s and 1940s, many people in the United States government organized for war. However, some strove for peace and the continuation of the reforms which began during the New Deal. One such man was Henry Agard Wallace, Vice President under Roosevelt from 1941 to 1945, and Secretary of Commerce until his resignation in 1946. In these key positions, Wallace was a direct witness to the momentous and often confusing events of those years. From 1942 to 1946, he kept a diary of his activities, encounters, and thoughts.
In East of Eden, John Steinbeck not only tells his own family history, but also “tried to merge a double plot” (pg viii) and add the history of the Trask family, which makes the choice of narrator a hard decision. The narrator adds information on the Hamilton family and events, such as the Thanksgiving where all the Hamilton children decide to ask Sam and Liza to stay with them so Tom can take over the farm. However, the narrator provides details about and the thoughts of all other characters as well, such as Lee, Abra, and the Trask family, which makes the narrator more than just the first person. Many critics do not like the narrator because Steinbeck uses it inconsistently throughout the novel, using the first person in the chapters about the Hamilton family or the filler chapters, but using an omniscient perspective in the chapters about the Trask family or about Cathy. The narrator refers to himself very infrequently in the novel, and some details he adds to the novel as the narrator are very strange.