Cecile McMillian is Joss's 9yr old sister who is murdered by a vampire. Cecile haunts Joss's dreams asking him why he didn't help her when she was being attacked. Her death is the reason why Joss become the world's best vampire slayer. Malek is Joss's first slayer teacher. Malek trains Joss in learning how to track vampires and while Joss is training to stay awake for 3 days he falls asleep.
The story is written in the perspective of ten year old Sarah Starzynski, and present day American journalist, Julia Jarmond. During 1942 in Paris, Sarah Starzynski was taken with her parents by the French police who were going door to door, to round up Jewish families. Sarah, who was desperate to protect her three year old brother, Michel, hides in him in their secret hiding place, and locks him up in a cupboard where she thought he would be safe. Still innocent, Sarah promises to come back for him as soon as they are released, but little did she know, she wasn’t coming back. Sixty years later, Sarah’s tragic story intertwines with that of middle aged reporter, Julia.
(http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/photogallery/runnion.html) A 6 year old little girl name Destiny Wright staying with her grand mom goes over to her grand moms friends house for a sleep over and turns up missing and found dead. (http://articles.philly.com/2002-08-09/news/25336248_1_slumber-party-baby-extensive-police-search).
Wicked: The life and times of the wicked witch of the west Introduction Elphaba Thropp is born to a Unionist minister named Frex and his wife Melena in Munchkinland. The unusual thing about Elphaba is that she was born with green skin, unfortunately, the color of her skin cause her to be an outcast in Oz society. Additionally, her own family is revolted by her green appearance. During the early stages of her life, Elphaba is with her mother who is an alcoholic and the stepdad (Turtle Heart), the old Nanny, and her loving father. During this time, the Wizard arrives and takes over Oz.
In Germany at the end of World War II sixteen-year-old Gisela, her mother, brothers and grandmother flee their home ahead of advancing Russian troops. When an air raid destroys the train station, Gisela and her brothers are buried alive and must try to survive with little food or water until they can be dug out. (F) Pearsall, Shelley. ALL SHOOK UP. Josh is mortified when he has to relocate and live with his father who has a new profession: Elvis impersonator.
The Crucible is set in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692 where God and hard work consumes the people. At the beginning of the play, Reverend Parris is lying next to the bed of his ten year old daughter Betty who is unmoving and unresponsive. Hysteria is running through Salem because of the rumor that Betty is bewitched and she and several other girls where dancing in the forest with Parris’s slave Tituba. Solely afraid of losing his job, Parris questions Abigail. Even though Abigail denies that she and the girls participate in witchcraft, Parris does not believe her because Abigail has been out of work since Elizabeth Proctor abruptly fired her.
In addition, the naked girl running through the woods symbolizes the sexual desire present in all of the inhabitants of Salem, a desire that society forces them to suppress and negate. In order to express their innate desires (whether innocent or not), the girls must go outside of the community into the wilderness. Religion has not tamed the forests or the heathen Indians that inhabit them, so the Puritans view the woods as the Devil's stronghold. The wilderness outside of Salem is comparable to the wilderness in which Satan tempted Jesus. Although Jesus did not succumb to temptation, Satan led him into the wilderness to entice him to sin.
Many of the film’s ideas and problems are common of westerns, but Brooks puts a switch in Blazing Saddles. Brooks’ writes Blazing Saddles to parody the western through, caricature, satire of racism and stereotype reversal. Caricature throughout Blazing Saddles is very prominent. The most known and looked upon is the black sheriff, Bart. This is a very unique characteristic of a western.
Sherman Alexie imaginatively mixes narrative, newspaper excerpts, songs, journal entries, visions, radio interviews, and dreams to explore the effects of Christianity on Native Americans in the late twentieth century. In addition, he examines the impact of cultural assimilation on the relationships between Indian women and Indian men. Reservation Blues is a painful, humorous, and ultimately redemptive symphony about God and indifference, faith and alcoholism, family and hunger, sex and death. From The Oxford Companion to English Literature – a definition of magical realism: Magic realist novels and stories have, typically, a strong narrative drive, in which the recognizably realistic merges with the unexpected and the inexplicable and in which elements of dreams, fairy story, or mythology combine with the everyday, often in a mosaic or kaleidoscopic pattern of refraction and recurrence. The page numbers in the Study Guide refer to the Warner Books Paperback Edition, 1996 Chapter 1 – Reservation Blues Reservation
Symbolism and metaphors in One Hundred Years of Solitude A dominant theme in One Hundred Years of Solitude is the inevitable and inescapable repetition of history in Macondo. The protagonists are controlled by their pasts and the complexity of time. Throughout the novel the characters are visited by ghosts. "The ghosts are symbols of the past and the haunting nature it has over Macondo. The ghosts and the displaced repetition that they evoke are, in fact, firmly grounded in the particular development of Latin American history".