Caitlyn Chandler Music Appreciation Period 3 12.9.11 Ol’ Blue Eyes “Sinatra knew how to make sophisticated craft sound as natural as an intimate conversation or personal confession” – Gene Lees Francis Albert Sinatra was born on December 12th, 1915 in Hoboken New Jersey. He was the son of Martin, a Captain at the Hoboken Fire Department, and Dolly Sinatra. He attended Demarest High School in Hoboken. He was never really serious about school and ended up leaving before he graduated. In fact, he got expelled after only 47 days because of his “rowdy behavior” Frank took a job as a delivery boy for the Jersey Observer Newspaper, and later as a riveter at the Tietjan and Lang shipyard.
He was paler than before and breathless. 'Perhaps they knew where we was going to; and perhaps not. But they don't know where we are 'cos we never got there.' He gaped at them for a moment, then swayed and sat down" (Golding 711). The boys had all been shocked when Piggy had said that because he was the scapegoat of the novel.
He greeted me with a crushing handshake, then leaned in close in a transparent attempt to find out whether I was one of those bad boys who smoked. He retired to the den during the visit, but cruised by the living room now and then to let me know he was watching. He let up after some weeks, but only after getting across what he expected of a boy who spent time with his daughter and how upset he'd be if I disappointed him. This was my first sustained encounter with an adult outside my family who needed to be convinced of my worth as a person. This, of course, is a crucial part of growing up.
What do we learn about George and Lennie and their relationship from Chapter one In chapter one of this novella ‘of mice and men’ we are introduced to the main character George and Lennie and their friendship which is a key theme in this novella as referring back to the context, the book is set in the 1930s when the great depression has occurred resulting a vast amount of people to migrate and most of the migrant workers were alone. George In this chapter we learn that George is very short tempered when he says angrily “we could have just as well of rode clear to the ranch if that bastard bus driver knew what he was talking about”. John Steinbeck used alliteration when he uses the phrase “bastard bus driver” making George more angry and emphasizing on the fact that George doesn’t trust to many people. Coming back to the context, migrant workers travelled a lot in rough conditions and they get very tired so George could be tired from walking, and he blamed this on the bus driver. Secondly we also learn that George is quite aggressive when he says, “Lennie!” he said sharply”.
Love is the Most Powerful Weapon The stories “The Scarlet Ibis” and “The Gift of the Magi “ have similar themes. The theme to “The Scarlet Ibis” is it is never known how much you love someone until that person is gone. The author, James Hurst, showed that the narrator loved his brother by saying: “For a long, long time, it seemed like forever; I lay there crying, sheltering my fallen scarlet ibis from the heresy of the rain.”(Hurst 604). In the story, the narrator got his brother, Doodle, to walk and he took it too far because he started to get Doodle to jog. Because of the narrator taking it to far, Doodle died under a tree in a rainstorm.
As he had the chance to give the Germans what they gave them, Alter passed up on it. He was 19 years old and weighed only 80 pounds. The last three years all he had seen was death, and hatred. He was going to go out and cause that on other people. So instead of getting revenge he went to Poland to see if any of his family had survived.
This journey is to claim a three hundred dollar savings account and an old yellow pickup truck that Victor Joseph, one of the young men’s fathers left behind when he died. Victor travels with another young Indian called Thomas Builds-A-Fire. Victor had grown up to hate his father along with everything else in the world. And this trip would open his eyes and allow him to realize there was a lot he was blind to. In this documented essay I’m writing, I’m going to discuss the best critical discussion of three sources I found.
“Nothing was moving but I could hear the trains going through and that very lonesome sound.” “I just had this image of what the town might look like in fifty or a hundred years... I just had an image of these fires up on the hill and everything being laid waste and I thought a lot about my little boy.” Cormac said. “So I wrote those two pages then that was the end of it.” “Then about four years later I was in Ireland and one morning woke up and realized it wasn’t two pages from another book it was a book and it was about that man and little boy.” The novel was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction in 2006 and 2007 Pulitzer Prize for
Landale Brown English 14 (D04) Essay #1 Prompt: “What do you see that represent home when reading the story?” Throughout the story "Every Little Hurricane" and "Because My Father Always Said He Was The Only Indian Who Saw Jimi Hendrix Play The Star Spangled Banner At Woodstock" Alexis explore the nature of home through happiness and scant. growing up on the reservation was a matter of survival for Victor and his family, for victor it was the bad times that make the good times feels good, victor witness it all he was accustomed to life on the reservation, he was accustomed to alcoholic family member, fighting, not having enough food to eat or having proper health care, thus for many this would bring anger and discomfort however for victor
The Handmaid's Tale takes place in a city what used to be situated in the United States, now called the Republic of Gilead. In this alternative future state, approximately 150 years before 2191 , the democratic government has been overthrown and replaced by a totalitarian one. The difference between America and Gilead is that there are not any children. Children bring life and energy to a place, and without them Gilead seems dark and empty. Throughout the book, very few children are appear in the text, even though creating them is the goal all attempt to obtain.