Molly Pals University Seminar 11/27/10 The Perks of Being a Wallflower Bibliography- Chbosky, Stephen. The Perks of Being a Wallflower. 1999. Main Characters: Charlie- Genius, something from his past is affecting his life but he cannot remember what it is, reads a lot of books that are given to him by his English teacher Sam- Charlie’s crush, Brings Charlie in as a friend but also introduces him to the party scene Patrick- Sam’s stepbrother, gay, has a secret relationship with the star QB of the school Older Sister- Typical high school teenager, thinks she is in love, hit by her boyfriend, gets pregnant but has an abortion Big Brother- In College, football player, comes home twice during the school year Aunt Helen- Sexually abused Charlie when he was a young boy, died a few years before the book’s current setting Teacher- Gives Charlie extra books and assignments because he is smarter than everyone else Anonymous friend- receiver of Charlie’s thought provoking letters Summary: Unlike the other books I have read so far for this class, this has a lot of small issues that would take pages to write about. The other books just had a couple of large issues that were easy to talk about.
Initially Steve Lopez saw Nathaniel as a story that would interest his writers. Upon Steve’s investigation he learns Nathaniel Anthony Ayers Jr. was a child prodigy that attended Julliard a prestigious school for the Arts in NYC and dropped out after his second year. He also learned that Nathaniel was obsessed with learning to play his Cello at a young age and focused on becoming like Beethoven with his compulsion over music. Steve also learns that Nathaniel dropped out of Julliard because he began hearing voices that controlled his thinking and led him to believe that people were reading his mind and planned on hurting him which disturbed his focus when playing his Cello. After Steve wrote this article, His readers began writing to him and donating instruments/opportunities to Steve that
The issue of his father soon became to haunt him as his cousins and friends constantly made fun of his unmanly nature. “I don’t know I just didn’t feel hard” He would always cry and retreated to writing love songs and poetry (2PACLegacy.com). Afeni realized his dreams and never stopped him from doing what he pleased. She enrolled him into the famous 127th Street Ensemble, a theater group in Harlem section of Manhattan where he landed his first acting career as Travis in “A Raisin in the Sun”. Tupac always wanted to be an actor and was much focused in school as his mom encouraged.
I will also provide an account of the narrative technique used in this story. Furthermore, I will give a characterization of the important characters in this story, David and his teacher. “Me Talk Pretty One Day” deals with a 41-year old student, David, who attend French classes in order to learn French. David is by far the oldest student among his classmates, who all are talented French-speakers: “everyone spoke in what sounded to me like excellent French”. The different students attending the French class have different nationalities, creating a diverse and interesting environment: “we learned that Carlos, the Argentine bandonion player, loved wine, music, and, in his own words, making sex with the womens off the world”.
Good Morning brothers and sisters. Going into to the world is an evident subject explored within the film Billy Elliot. The story is about a young boy who finds his passion for ballet in a stereotypical world in the 80s. Billy Elliot is a person we can all relate too. His home life isn't the greatest - he has lost his mother and his father Jackie is an alcoholic and cannabis smoker.
“When the symphony began, Paul sank into one of the rear seats with a long sigh of relief, and lost himself as he had done before the Rico” (81). Paul is not able to face his father with his love of art because he is afraid he will look down on him because of it. Paul tells outrageous lies to people at school about his friendships, to try and fit in and not feel alone. His effort to seem better than his classmates and teachers alienates him even more from them. Paul dreams of the glamourous world of the rich and famous.
“Sonny Blues” written by James baldwin is a story written in 1957 told in first-person singular narrative style. The story begins with the narrator, who reads about his younger brother named Sonny who has been caught in a heroin bust. The narrator then goes about his day However, he cannot get his mind off Sonny. He thinks about all the boys in his class, who don’t have bright futures and are most likely doing drugs, just like Sonny. Throughout the story the unnamed narrator struggles to embrace sonny for who is, its not until the end of the story when the narrator goes to one of Sonny’s Jazz shows, where he fully understands and truly fathoms who Sonny really is as a person and musician.
Brittney Lindsey Professor Howard English 102 29 Mar 2013 Journal 1 In The poem “My Papa Waltz”, the relationship between the speaker and his father is an abnormal relationship, his father is engaging his child in his drunken activities .Before the child drifts of to sleep, he gets the opportunity to dance with his father .The Father is so drunk that the alcohol on his breath second handily intoxicates his son and makes him dizzy along with the fast paced dancing. Even though this dancing is an annoyance to his mother, and the child is well aware of this. The son continues to hold on to his drunken father in comfort no matter what the circumstances are. I feel like the son is gaining comfort from his father because, he may not receive any attention at all from his father when he is sober and this is his only opportunity to bond with his father even though he is intoxicated with alcohol. In “The Secretary’s Chant” The speaker turns herself into a machine in comparison to the objects that surround her in her everyday scene as a secretary.
Me Talk Pretty One Day Essay “Me Talk Pretty One Day” is a short story written by David Sedaris. It’s a story about what we interpret to be his year studying in Paris, France. We hear of his on going struggles in learning the French language, and of his problem with speaking the language in public. David story is quite special in the sense that he’s actually forty-one. He’s not special in the sense that he’s going back to college, but rather in the sense that he’s in his forties and taking a year of French in Paris.
Motivation is your nutrition. Without it you will drown. In the essay “Me Talk Pretty One Day” (2000) by David Sedaris, we are introduced to an American who has high hopes on mastering the French language. He moves to Paris, but immediately feels alienated and worse than all his classmates. Already at this early state he feels insecure in the language.