I think it’s also an autobiography because it’s mainly about her life, and what she has gone through growing up in China during that period. SETTING: 1.) Most of the book takes place in Shanghai and the labor camp. She was taken to a labor camp 17. While in the camp she was chosen to be in a propaganda film that was being put together by the communist leader at the time.
The book I chose for my independent reading project is called “Burned” by Ellen Hopkins. The project I chose to do is a book box because the book I’ve read has a lot of items that correspond to the events and characters in my book. The items I have chosen from my book is a journal, a diaper, a ring, a cell phone, and a pregnancy test. The first item I chose was a journal. The reason I chose this item is because in the book, the main character Pattyn Von Stratten used a journal write down all her troubles because her librarian Ms. Rose told her it would be good for her.
Among the painful experiences she endures, she also has some hopeful experiences; such as, when she is taken to New York and the British get her to document information about the black people who have been sent away. Her literacy skills are invaluable as they write a book called The Book of Negroes. She then heads to Nova Scotia, and then Sierra Leone where she helps the British establish a colony and finally to London where as an old woman she plays a key role helping the abolitionists campaign to abolish slavery by retelling her story and revealing the brutal and unjust ways the slaves were treated. She becomes the “face” of the campaign. The movie The Color Purple that is based on a book by Alice Walker shares many of the same themes as The Book of Negroes.
For more than two years Anne Frank describes her daily life in hiding in her diary. As Anne and her family were deprived of the freedom to do as they wish, Anne occupied her time by writing, starting a diary that would keep her legacy alive long after the horrors of the Holocaust had ended. The image of Anne Frank depicted in her diary relate to the common teenage struggles, as she stands out so much because her personality is genuinely captured through the words of her diary, as she was a remarkably skillful writer while she was only thirteen to fifteen years old in hiding from the Nazis. Through Anne’s self-presentation in her diary, she is the one who controls the readers’ viewpoints by showing her stream of consciousness through her private thoughts. Anne is so relatable because her words are sincere; she was able to depict the world around her very clearly, while simultaneously describing the world within her head, both the inside
Good morning everyone, I’m going to be reading a passage from Fever 1793, by Laurie Halse Anderson. Born on October 23,1961 in Potsdam, in Northern New York State. She read all the time; awful at math, but then lots of creative people were. She graduated form Georgetown University in 1984 with a B.S.L.L in Languages and Linguistics. For years, Laurie loved to write, but considered it more than a hobby, and became a freelance reporter, she also began to write all types of books, and accomplished to pile up a lot of rejection letters.
Really, what is the theme of these novels? In The Girl Named Disaster, Nhamo is the main character, the storyline revolving around her. Although many readers would say the obvious theme is strength, courage, or survival, I seem to have found that the center theme of this novel was Nhamo herself. Nhamo has struggled with problems even before her journey to Zimbabwe. Her aunt’s unwilling adoption after her mother’s death was the main tragedy that occurred before the first pages of the book.
Anne loved life and it was taken away from her. Anne's life before hiding, Anne's life while hiding, Anne's family and friends, how the Frank's got arrested, who survived the war and how Anne's diary became published was a huge part of her life. You can read about her life in several of her books across the world. Here are some of the diaries/books that are based on Anne Frank's life": The last Seven Months of Anne Frank, by Whill Lindwer(1992);Anne Frank : A Biography by Melissa Muller; Anne Frank: The missing Chapter, Roses from the Earth by Carol Anne Lee(1999). The Story of Anne frank by Mirjam Pressler(1999)- Battle over the American stage adaption of Anne Frank's diary; The Stolen Legacy of Anne frank by Ralph Melnick .
“Unman… to break down the manly spirit. To deprive of courage or fortitude.” (Pg. 75) The main character in this story needs something to look up to, but people keep letting her down. A Northern Light is a historical fiction book set in the very early 1900’s by Jennifer Donnelly. She has also written the Revolution and many other historical fiction books.
The audience is challenged throughout the text, as the reader’s assertiveness and insight into Sallies character is provoked through literary techniques, such as simile, symbolism etc. The biography is also a mix of detective novel, so the reader discovers what happened to Sallie and what she stood up against. Her pain and suffering from abandonment is explored and described by Sallie Anne as well as her sister in the following insightful narration. “when pat (sallies mother) abandoned Sallie for the second time, that really fucked her up… when your mother makes a habit of walking out on you, it doesn’t do much for your self esteem” and Sally stated “if only I’d had my mother, things would Have been different”. These lines emphasize the dramatic impact the repeated abandonment had on Sallie, and the course her life took.
An American Author: Zora Neale Hurston Zora Neale Hurston’s brought her culture to main stream America through her writing about her life and her African American culture. As a child she went through many things with her mother dying, her father beating her and treating her terrible, and being passed around her family from house to house. Some way some how she managed to make it through it all. Zora played a major part in the Harlem Renaissance and was an excellent novelist. That is why she has become a wonderful writer of today’s literature.