Cowart, Shelby 7/19/12 AP English 11 Some Advice Dear Boy… It is always a huge breakthrough for any family when a child leaves home. This obvious proposition even applies to noble families during the eighteenth-century such as Lord Chesterfield’s family. In his own letter to his son, Lord Chesterfield delivers numerous opinions that many parents today would still agree with. In a tactful way, Lord Chesterfield sends subconscious messages through personification, diction, analogy, and rhetorical questions in order to impose his values on his incompliant son. It’s incredibly evident to the reader that Lord Chesterfield’s son takes advantage of him and this letter is probably Lord Chesterfield’s last effort to guide his son.
The Outsiders Ponyboy Curtis A groundbreaking teenage rebel story written by a brilliant writer S.E Hinton "The Outsiders" is about a gang of brothers and friends called the "Greasers" who learn the importance friendship. Ponyboy Curtis, the youngest member of the greasers, narrates the novel. Ponyboy theorises on the motivations and personalities of his friends and describes events in a slang, youthful voice. Ponyboy’s interests and academic accomplishments set him apart from the rest of his gang. Because his parents have died in a car accident, Ponyboy lives with his brothers Darry and Sodapop.
Eugene Cooper English 1020 29 January 2015 Sonny’s Blues Analysis The Harlem Renaissance was a movement in the 1920s through which African-American musicians embraced black heritage and culture in American life. The author was concerned about his older brother being caught in the drug addiction of heroin and crack that had made the front cover of the daily newspaper. After receiving countless letters from his brother in prison, one day he is released from prison and comes to dinner at his house. A memory from their childhood days in Harlem starts to take a toll on this unnamed character. Flashbacks of his mother saying, “Watch over your brother”, and “Protect your brother”.
History 152: United States History: 1865-Present Michael Brenes November 26th, 2012 Sita Basnet 20th Century America: The European perspective America has always been a dreamland for people from all around the world. In the document A Slovenian Boy Remembers Tales of the Golden Country, author Louis Adamic describes the psychological perception of America for Europeans in the early twentieth century. The Slovene-American author Louis Adamic describes America through the eyes of a boy, who lives on a small Croatian island and gets extremely fascinated by American way of living. The author describes how the economic desperation that Europe was going through in the early twentieth century forced many people to migrate. Even though the document was written in 1932, it mostly focuses on the social revolutions that were spreading in Europe around 1909, the same time when America was going through the aftermath of industrial civilization and civil war.
The first time a child leaves home is an important milestone in every family. This principle applies to even families belonging to the nobility in the mid-eighteenth century. In Lord Chesterfield’s letter to his son, he voices many opinions about him that many parents would like to say to their children even today. Lord Chesterfield skillfully uses subliminal messages in diction, humble concessions, contradictory language, indirect threats, and demoralizing lectures to impose his values on his insubordinate son. It is clear to the reader that his son takes his father for granted and the letter is a last-ditch effort by Lord Chesterfield to help him.
Baldwin organized his essay with a literary device of starting and ending with his father as the subject matter topic. Baldwin completes a long circle of personal narratives with his father as book ends. The different stories he narrates are justifications and explanations of the overwhelming rage and hatred that permeate his life. The function of the stories are to engage the reader into some detente or understanding of the incessant pressures on Baldwin. The stories are autobiographical episodes of his life such as his 3 firings with the NJ RR.
Theme for English B Research As many poems of Langston Hughes where he promoted equality, condemned racism and injustice, and celebrated African American culture, humor, and spirituality. “Theme for English B” talks about how a young man from a different culture describes himself being equal to the rest. “Theme for English B” is about a twenty-two year old colored man that was born in Winston, Salem that is attending college on the hill above Harlem he was assigned to write a page about himself. Hughes starts by saying what the instructor had assigned the class, The instructor said, Go home and write a page tonight. And let the page come out of you- Then, it will be true.
Compare and contrast Walking Away and Follower The detailed and emotional poem, “Walking Away ’’ was written by C. Day Lewis who was born in 1904 in Ireland. He decided to share his thoughts on his son becoming more independent. The title “walking away’’ suggests that his son has left him, or turned his back on his father. At the very start of the poem, on the first line it says “It is eighteen years ago almost to the day .’’ This quote suggests that because he remembers it so clearly, that this memory is prominent because it means a lot to him. The poem shows us how much his son Sean is growing up and instead of running over to his dad after the football game he joins his friends and starts “walking away’’ towards his school.
Simply stated, he is the man voted most likely to do anything in his senior yearbook. That anything turned out to be an English teacher, or better a life teacher, to a group of young men who were naive about the world they lived in and everything outside of their small boarding institution. Meet John Keating, the teacher played by Robin Williams in the influential movie Dead Poets Society. The teacher who used all aspects of the word ethos to motivate and transform his students’ lives. Ethos can be described as the nature, character, or unique values peculiar to a particular human being.
Caitlin R.P. Slattery English Honors 2 Period 4 March 1, 2012 Individual Novel Essay: The Chosen Proverbs say: “I was a son to my father and he taught me and said to me, let your heart hold fast my words.” Chaim Potok has written The Chosen, a finalist for the National Book Award; a novel with profound and universal themes that fill the mind with knowledge and wonder as the lives of two young Jewish boys intertwine. The setting of the Jewish communities are as different as these main characters, Danny and the narrator, Reuven, neither finding home or solace in the darker streets of the Hasids. Every sect of Orthodox Jews had their own looks, habits, and languages, and the places they lived were so full of the beliefs that they ate,