Each of these mothers went through different hardships that kept secret for long time. The movie shows how the mothers past experiences help their daughters life. From this movie, I choose Lena who used to split bills with her husband, later divorces him. Lena’s weakness was when they had business lunches together, and she was the one who started split the meal bill half and half. Lena believes that sharing bills could make her independent and free, but the iron was different.
Mrs. Nagy treats everyone as if they are her own children, including six German children they temporarily adopt and Lilly, another young girl they take in while her father is away at war and her mother is ill. They show love by praying together and praying for enemy countries that are fighting the war against them. Mr. Nagy shows a deep-love for his family when he goes away for the war. He secretly had left them a book with detailed instructions for every day so that they would know how to survive on the farm without him. Love is an action that comes out naturally from all the Nagys and their friends.
The Honorable Judge: I, Sarah K. Hogan, am writing this statement on behalf of Candice L. Smith, whom is currently being tried. Having known Candice for almost ten years, I was bewildered when I heard of the charges filed against her. This incident seems exceptionally out of character for someone as honest as Candice. In middle school, Candice and I were assigned the same teacher, and met for the first time. Not only, did she help me with my studies, but ensured that I did not fall behind in school.
For example in “Destroying Avalon” Avalon had to face the death of her best friend Marshall who took his own life because of being bullied for so many years and not letting anyone to support him through his tough times. “Marshall is dead” was repeated in the book to emphasize the feeling of grief Avalon faced. In “The Colour Purple” death and loss is shown when both Celie’s children are taken away from her at birth and is given the impression that they where killed. Bullying occurs the day you are born by society determining colours, interest and behaviours that suit the type of gender you are. However bullying doesn’t really show it’s self until we go to school, this style of bullying can be verbal, physical or electronic.
Lilly Gregory MacLehose English Period 7 10/14/11 Speaking While Growing: Symbolism of Trees in Speak In the novel Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson the author explores the symbolism of a tree to the way Melinda is living her life. The main character; Melinda Sordino, broke an end-of-summer party by calling the cops, and almost everyone in the school hates her for this act. At the party she was raped by an older boy, and she is too scared to speak up and tell someone. Melinda is so desperate to hide from the world that she turns an old janitors closet into her own private get away. She withdraws herself from her friends and chooses not to speak up, and tell people that she has been raped.
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak The Book Thief is a story narrated by Death and is about a young girl by the name of Liesel Meminger in Nazi Germany whose mother planned to drop her and her brother off with foster parents in the fictional town of Molching, Germany. She could no longer take care of them, and on the train ride there, her brother died. That’s when Liesel stole her first book, The Grave Digger’s Handbook. She went on to meet her foster parents, Hans and Rosa Hubermann and Rudy Steiner, her best friend. Hans and Rosa began to hide a Jewish man, Max Vandenburg, in their basement until Hans made a mistake that forced Max to leave before the authorities came and found him.
Marji learns a lot from these books and reads them a lot throughout the novel when she is confused. When there is a fire at a local theatre and 400 people are killed, Marji’s parents went to demonstrations but refused Marji to go because she is too young. Many people are beginning die at the beginning of the revolution. It becomes almost impossible for the Shah to rule, so moves to the United States. After Shah stepped down from his seat, all the prisoners are released.
(Brown 2) Then August 4, 1944 someone tipped off the police and the Frank’s, Van Daan’s, and Mr. Dussel were all sentenced to attend the Bergen-Belson concentration camp in Germany. (Brown 2) Anne’s sister, Margot, was the first of both the families to die. (Gale 3) She died of a typhus epidemic that broke out in the camp. (Brown 2) Anne was never informed that her sister had died, but she had a feeling something was wrong. (Brown 2) Ernst Schnabel, on the topic of Anne Frank, wrote: “She sensed it, and soon afterwards she died, peacefully, feeling that nothing bad was happening to her.” (Brown 2) The epidemic killed around 17,000 prisoners.
A veil is seen as a controversial symbol all around the world. In Satrapi’s graphic novel, Persepolis, the author is forced to wear a veil to school by those that called for a cultural revolution in Iran when she is 10 years old. Her French non-religious school is abolished and boys and girls are separated for education. Her mother protests against the changes and her picture appears in newspapers across Europe. Marjane grows up to become a "rebel" and, after a confrontation with one of her teachers, she is kicked out of school.
Introduction In his novel, The Book Thief, Markus Zusak writes about a young German girl who is placed in foster care during the early years of World War II by mother who is too ill to take care of her. This character is forced to face a series of events during this time of Nazi Germany and survives this horrible part of her life by finding or stealing books. The author uses Death as a narrator to help discuss the stories event, helping to bring the mind and emotions of his characters to life. Within Zusak’s novel, which appears to be related to his childhood, he writes about the theme of duality. This theme, appearing more frequently in the epilogue discusses the kindness and cruelty of the human race while blending it with the duality of characters in the Nazi-era Germany.