“It came into my head that I cannot run away. I am who I am wherever I am”. Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman is about a 14 year old girl who's father, the lord, wants to marry her off to a rich old man with lots of land. Catherine wants to just get away from the lady life and escape, but is always held in place by her pregnant mother, and her always nagging nurse/maid Morwenna. In Catherine, Called Birdy, many women gave Birdy advice but she never really listenened to them, but when she did, she made a decision that changed her life forever.
“Good Country People” is a short story about widow and farm owner Mrs. Hopewell and the people in her daily life. Mrs. Freeman, mother of two, is her farm tenant. Mrs. Hopewell’s daughter is Joy. Joy is a very intelligent yet miserable soul. When Joy was ten years old she lost her leg in a hunting accident.
Maxim was staying at the same hotel as they were when she catches his eye and they end up having lunch together. After knowing her for only a few weeks, Maxim proposes marriage. She accepts and he takes her back to his ancestral estate of Manderley. The new Mrs. de Winter begins hearing about Rebecca, Maxim's first wife, who drowned in a cove near Manderley the previous year. Soon thereafter she feels like she will never truly be accepted Rebecca's devoted housekeeper, the sinister Mrs. Danvers, is still in charge of Manderley, and she frightens and intimidates her new mistress.
At the beginning of the story, the protagonist (princess) thought that having true happiness meant finding a man/prince to sweep her off of her feet/ to instantly fall in love , and take her away from her castle/home. Throughout the story, the protagonist (princess) begins to realise that living up to society's expectations of her meant that she would be giving up her own dreams. At the end of the story she (the princess) turns away from love and marriage to choose not to give up her dreams to please others. The protagonist (princess) embarks on 'journey' in the narrative "the pumpkin Eater" by Isobel Carmody in a spiritual, physical and literal way. In 'the pumpkin eater' the protagonist goes on a spiritual journey through the story , to find that love a marriage and marriage entraps women, and that she was really swapping one prison for another.
Throughout the book, the Nagys illustrate a loving family life. For years Kate’s father has been a schoolteacher in Budapest. His wife has JMJ died there when Kate was nine year old and, as he sometimes laughingly referred to her as, “The most impossible, incredible, headstrong little imp!” After he had nursed her through the measles and several tantrums, he has sent her to his brother’s ranch for a short vacation. When finally at Christmas time he came to visit her, he realized that Kate changed. She was happy here, the ranch was where she had longed.
(Jessica, 2015) Jessica McClure Morales was born March 26, 1986, in the oil city of Midland, Texas. Her parents, Reba "Cissy" McClure and Lewis "Chip" McClure, were just 17 when they fell in love. After getting married, they had fallen on hard times; due to the Texas oil bust
He tells the story of when he was sixteen years old and helped a white woman on the side of the road change a tire. He was almost killed doing so. The book goes on to tell his story. We find out that he was raised by his grandparents PawPaw and Big Mama. His mother was too young to raise him and so she gave him to her parents to care for.
Thinking and wondering why I agreed to go and I decide to never embark on that roller coaster again, then we went and found my family at the picture booth. We searched for the picture of me and my sister, when we found it, my mother and my sisters laughed and made fun of the expressions on my face and how scared I was then my family, including me, we noticed the differences between me and my sister and how we reacted on Hades 360. My sister had also gone on roller coasters before, so she perceived what to expect, as she had gone on Hades 360 about two or three times before we went on it. A little later, after looking at the picture we left and my mother had asked me to describe the experience of going on my actual first real roller coaster I would be obligated to say exciting, but frightening it definitely made my adrenaline start pumping, something I would do again, but just not that ride right away. I would need to build my way up to that point again, so we went to check out the rest of the roller coasters in order of smallest to biggest or uttermost terrifying it would go Pegasus, Zeus, Cyclops and lastly Hades
GHOSTGIRL TOPIC: popularity, obsession, love and death. PAGES:328 PLACES: Hawthorne High TIME: this decade Characters Charlotte Usher (also called ghostgirl) – the main protagonist of the novel, a senior in High school. She has a Puppy love on Damen, and plans to be with him, but chokes to death on agummy bear before carrying it out. She then becomes a ghost. Damen Dylan – Charlotte's crush and Petula's boyfriend.
There's Primrose (or Prim for short), the narrator's sister; the narrator's mother, who was once very beautiful; and Buttercup, a mouser of a cat who the narrator originally tried to drown. (Not an animal lover, this one.) • Awake, the narrator dresses herself in hunting gear, grabs a goat cheese, and heads to the woods. • We learn that the narrator lives in a place called District 12, nicknamed the Seam, that is home primarily to poor coal miners. The narrator's father was a coalminer, but he died in an explosion five years ago, when the narrator was only eleven.