Peaches by Jodi Lynn Anderson Genre: Juvenile Fiction Publication Date: 2005 Recommended Age Group: 14 and Up Summary: A fun and lively novel about three teenage girls from Georgia. Birdie lives with her Dad on a farm where they grow peaches. Leeda, Birdie’s cousin, lives with affluent parents and sister Danay in a nice and slightly snotty neighborhood. Murphy lives with her single mother in a trailer park. They meet up on the farm during spring break after Leeda volunteered to work there over the summer to get away from her family and Murphy was sent there for community service after she broke into Birdie’s house and got caught stealing liquor.
Family is not the same for everyone. As the reader sees in the poems, “Snapping Beans” by Lisa Parker and “Nighttime Fires” by Regina Barreca, the two families are not the same yet they play very similar roles in the lives of the main characters. In “Snapping Beans” the reader is being introduced to a young woman, who is returning home from college for the weekend. She is sitting on the front porch beside her grandmother when she is asked: “How’s school a-goin” (15). The young lady wants to tell
It mat akin a commercial. In afternoon the family would take walk along the rave nine-spot to where there is a river with a small island. Her crony and h erself acted like peasantren in the woods doing child like overindulge, climbing trees, runway through the trees, skipping rocks, eating tight cookies and drinking hot chocolate. posterior in the afternoon they would, jest at hot dogs and Marsh-mellows. Her mother gets a bit teary during these visits.
She was ten and nothing existed for her but her song, the stick clutched in her dark brown hand, and the tat-de-ta-ta-ta of accompaniment," (Walker 22) provides example of one of the many times that Walker speaks of Myop's oblivion. Another symbol of innocence is the flowers that Myop so happily picks. Flowers tend to be a universal symbol for joy and life and Myop gravitates toward these life signs as a way of ignoring the cold fact that life is not always joyous. She is
“Over The River and Through The Woods” Task 3 – Critical Essay Unlike many other short science fiction stories, Clifford D. Simak’s “Over the River and Through the Woods” keeps its readers wanting to know how it ends. This story is about two mysterious children, Paul and Ellen Forbes, who unexpectedly walk into their apparent grandmother’s house in the woods with objects that have never been seen before. Their grandma, who is also named Ellen Forbes, knows nothing of these children, who claim that their father sent them there for a short vacation. The mysterious mood, imagery, and foreshadowing all contribute to this being a good story. It is commonly accepted that this story, like all other science fiction pieces, is not real, but unlike many others, it has an eerie, mysterious mood throughout, which makes it interesting and keeps readers reading.
The prose extract takes about how the persona has gone back to her childhood backyard, which is rusty and aged, and her hours swinging on the clothes line and climbing trees. The persona takes about how she is not a child anymore and that sense of freedom has long left her as responsibilities and age seep into her. As the persona reminisces, there is a definite tone of regret and loss as she describes the backyard. One very powerful metaphor present, is the last line of the extract “unlikely the washing line could support me this time…too many things tying me to the ground”. This line is both literal and metaphoric.
The old lady, despite her age and difficulty to walk, is determined to get to town to get medicine for her sick grandson. She uses her “ thin and small cane made from an umbrella” to get around. The narrator clearly explains the condition of the “deep and still” woods and how they prevent her from advancing: “ Something always take a hold of me on this hill – pleads I should stay.” Thorny bushes would grasp her dress, trapping her. But her steadfastness continued on as she dangerously crossed the log across the creek where she could have easily fallen regarding her physical state. “I wasn’t as old as I thought.” She would say.
They weren't only the audience, not only looking on; they were acting.” ❏ She is excited about having an almond in her cake which is very minuscule ❏ Towards the end of the story she begins to cry, hinting at herself realizing she is alone ❏ Miss Brill in my opinion is a widow ❏ The story was written in 1920 and it was very rare for a woman to not marry ❏ Perhaps the reason she made such a big deal about everything in the park is to help herself forget about her husband ❏ Perhaps her and husband used to go there every Sunday and that is why she attends by herself ❏ At the end of the story it reads, “She unclasped the necklet quickly; quickly, without looking, laid it inside. But when she put the lid on she thought she heard something crying.” ❏ Perhaps the reason she unclasps it quickly without looking is because it was a necklet that her husband and given to her and that is the reason for the
Think, think, think! It was Saturday morning, I was getting ready to meet my friends at the park, I told my mom I loved her and went, the park’s only ten minutes walk from my house. I got to the park and sat on the wooden bench, it was very old and was made in memory of ‘Lucy Wesley’. My friends didn’t show up, I waited and waited. I have to admit I felt as if someone or something was watching me...
Wadley’s story begins with her running through fields of flowers, jumping around peacefully, but then the scene changes to her being woken by her mother, and it was all just a dream. So she gets up and practices reciting a speech for school while having breakfast, then leaves for school. But when she returned home, an earthquake hit and that’s when everything changed. After the earthquake her school was no longer running and Wadley missed school so much, Wadley and her family lived in a tent camp for many weeks and since there was no school, she would take trips to the water tank and back. When her school did start back up again in a small tent, she was walking past on the way to collect water and she saw