The two cadets, Eugene Jerome, Arnold Epstein, & Sgt. Melvin Toomey. Eugene’s a 20 year old from Brooklyn, who is drafted into the United States Army during World War II and is sent to Biloxi, Mississippi, for basic training. Eugene learns to cope with fellow soldiers from all walks of life, falls in love, and loses his virginity under less than ideal circumstances, all while having to navigate around the eccentricities of his drill instructor and is seen throughout the play as the narrator . Arnold Epstein by his last name you can tell that he is
Inspired by true events, the novel shows a thirteen-year-old Roberto, as well as his brother and Jewish friend, captured one day by German soldiers in a movie theater.. The boys are unable to tell their parents what has happened to them. They were sent to a work camp. There Roberto's first priority is keeping his friend safe. His next priority becomes finding a way to escape and get back home again.
Pierra Smalls Dr. Hirsch-Thomas Eng 102-A13 5 February 2013 Fiction Worksheet #2 Baldwin The narrative, “Sonny’s Blues”, is written by James Baldwin. The unnamed narrator of the story discovers from a newspaper that his younger brother, Sonny, has been arrested for selling and using heroin. Throughout the narrative the narrator struggles with protecting his brother and fulfilling a promise that he made to his mother before she died. The narrator decides to write to Sonny in prison when the narrator’s young daughter, Grace, dies. Sonny writes a long letter back to his brother in which he tries to explain how he ended up where he is.
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”.
Later Cal’s wardrobe is changed by Jacob and he is taught all the tricks of seducing women. Cal starts dating and in his first date he meets with Kate (Marisa Tomei) who refuses his advance but later agrees to sleep with him in his apartment (Scott 2011). As days go by Cal manages to sleep with more women, but still not happy with the way his family is falling apart. Later Cal meets his wife Emily at a parents teachers conference where his son Robbie. As Emily starts out with David, Jacob goes with Hannah and avoids Cal most of the time.
Eventually, fighting against the state and struggling to keep her children fed becomes too much for Louise, and she is committed to a mental asylum. The children are sent to various foster homes in the region. Chapter Two: "Mascot" Malcolm is expelled from school when he is thirteen years old, and state officials move him to a detention home. Though Malcolm is a very popular student at the white junior high school and is elected the seventh-grade class
She was living in Bielitz, Poland, where she was born, and she reacts with terror as she watches her neighbors meet the invading Nazis with happiness. They were trying to hide the fact of war from Gerda’s father because he was sick and they didn’t want to worry him. When their town was invaded they couldn’t keep it a secret from him any more. Bad things started happening to the Jews, and the Nazis were taking Jewish men. In October, Gerda’s brother Arthur, was forced to leave with a Nazi and all of the other young men in town.
| Book Review | | English 135 | | Book Review | | English 135 | Professor Lisa Shuchter July 22, 2012 Professor Lisa Shuchter July 22, 2012 A good book to me is one that can catch my attention from the first sentence and keep my attention throughout the entire book. I love well written books that I can visualize with as I am reading. I love an author that can use words and phrases to keep me guessing throughout the book, it gives me the urge to want to know what is going to happen next. I want to keep reading to get to the end to fully understand what the author’s purpose is. I love a story that is very detailed because it gives me the chance to place myself in the story and really get into it.
Ponyboy remembers Bob saying this not even a week before. Both boys are victims of the violence between the Socs and the Greasers, and die before the story is over. They both have violent tendencies, look for fights, and end up losing their lives because of it; more important, both draw ideological lines in the sand. The Outsiders ends with its own opening sentence, as Ponyboy begins to write his assignment for English class, and it becomes clear that the story the reader has just finished is the assignment itself. It is inspired by Johnny's letter to Ponyboy, in which he explains what he meant by his last words: "Stay gold."
Music was the key to the communication between the brothers. In the beginning, the narrator reads the newspaper where it mentions about his brother going to jail for drugs. He starts to think about Sonny and compares him to his students at the school. “…Every one of them for all I knew, be popping off needles every time they went to the head. Maybe it did more for them than algebra could” (Baldwin, 79).