Chapter 4: Grace thinks about home, how she was raised to be an Angel and how she never managed to accept her destiny like the other girls at the Angel House did. She also starts reflecting over how she was supposed to die pregnant. According to the People, that was how the best Angels died. Before she has had time to finish her thought, she is abruptly brought back to reality by some soldiers who want to see her and Kerr’s papers. Chapter 5: Grace is only 16 years old, a child, but yet she was sent to die.
Many events in the book were very sad and touching when Foster the main girl in the story keeps a pillow case just with her dads stuff in there after he died in the army, she lives with her mom and her boyfriend named Huck who isn’t as nice to Foster at most times making her call him Elvis thinking of himself as a really good singer making Fosters mom the backstage singer and some days he even hits her mom at times and finally one day they get into a fight making Huck break into their house and hitting her mom so badly that they have to run away from their house very fast finding a safe place with Huck coming behind them with his car chasing them and soon they outrun him and arrive to West Virginia. Foster a 12 year old girl with a huge love for baking can bake almost anything possible to bake but she only has one problem she can’t read at all when she starts “it’s like my brain starts to close
Another reason for why Antwone Quentin fisher is a role model is because he make difficult choices, he was a homeless when he decided to join the army even when he doesn’t have nothing in the world in that moment, and losing his best friend Jessie who represent too much for Antwone, who he saw how he was shooting and seeing how he was dying. “that was a poster that lured me in side… and at the bottom, inviting type was a phrase that really got me: join the navy, see the world”(pg.260) He also learned to treat people
He is a mean and uncaring person. He yelled at Bud for saying that he was Bud’s father. When Bud said he lived with a family that adopted him and he ran away from them, Herman just said we are sending you back to where you came from. The book takes place in 1936, in Flint, Michigan. Bud’s mother passed away in her sleep.
In Sonny's Blues by James Baldwin,Sonny's brother discovers that he has been arrested for possession of drugs.He reminisces on their past as children and can only imagine how his students could probably be doing the same things Sonny was. Sonny's brother has never accepted Sonny's way of life.He believed that the right way of life was to get an education and a good career.Sonny lived his life on drugs and with the dream of being a musician.Sonny and his brother were complete opposites which was a problem for their relationship.When his daughter dies,he finally decides to get in communication with Sonny. Music is a very important theme in Sonny's blues. Sonny's brother always had a difficult time understanding why Sonny would want to grow up
One day, Curley's wife hopes to leave and be able to live her dream without anyone's approval. She enjoyed talking to anyone she could, one day she went to the barn and found Lennie crying about the puppy he had killed. Allowing him to touch her hair, he rubbed too hard and made her try to yell for help. Curley's wife died by trying to get help, her neck was snapped by Lennie and just like that all her dreams were gone. In the novella, Of Mice and Men, one person can ruin a person’s dream forever.
Animals are being pushed further and further into insanity and then being blamed for their behavior, when in reality, it’s only natural for them to act aggressively. They are being attacked by their own species. They are taken from their families and forced to give a flawless performance multiple times a day. It is barbaric. The film shows a scene where a baby orca is taken from her mother and all the mom is left to do is weep in the corner by herself for her newborn kin.
How would you feel if you are set apart from others and put by yourself? And that also by your very own mother who kept you safe in her womb for nine months where in isolation you grow in stages and when your time comes to enter the world you are hated by her and she is unhappy to see you there. You being fragile and weak are victimized….and you suffer loneliness because even the world is not ready to except you in a friendly manner. You are like a beautiful flower grown in the wild with no one to care. In the novel Like Water for Chocolates After two days of her birth her father died and her life is cursed by her mother, who is no more able to breast feed her and is busy mourning and worried about her responsibility to run the ranch rather than bother for her baby.
He graduated from college had a summer job and in comes a letter saying he was now drafted into the war. Not knowing what to do he basically tries to hide his draft letter and when his dad asks him what’s his plans for the summer he says “Nothing, wait”. He starts to think about running for Canada and then one day at work while doing his usual job of removing blood clots from the neck of dead pigs something inside him broke. He walks away from the plant, goes home and packs, writes a letter to his parents, and starts to drive north. At this point in the story O’Brien to the point of view of the people who read it seems like a coward for running away.
He actually joined the Navy out of high school. Therefore when it shows that Rudy struggles to pay tuition, under the GI Bill, his tuition should have been paid after serving. One of the big reasons Rudy decided to go and pursue his dreams was the death of his best friend Pete who died in an accident working at the power plant. This did actually happen in real life, but Pete who he meets at work in the movie was actually his childhood friend growing up. In the movie, Pete gets in a fight with his older brother over Rudy and pursuing his dreams, fortunately this never happened.