For me, I insistently said that this book is a wonderful book I have read by John Green, even though some negative reviews on Amazon claim that the character Hazel is too perfect, people want to stop reading when they only finish the first chapter, and the story is too boring. One of the reviews on Amazon says that Hazel is too perfect and she is not a normal teenager. I disagree with the review. Although I have not finished reading this book, I already found some parts showing that Hazel is not really perfect. For instance, when Hazel is talking with her parents, she says “I am like.
Dearest Mr. & Mrs. Lee, I know that this letter is very overdue and most likely unwanted, and may be seen as “a trap to try and convince people” (Sarah Koenig, Serial, Ep. 11, 33:34). I thought, since I have never provided you with my side of the story, you both may get a better understanding as to the reasons why I continue to maintain my innocence for the murder of Hae. Your daughter was a great part in my life, and although my words may mean nothing to you, I hope that you will hear the truth in my version of events and understand that I, too, am a victim in this tragedy. I would first like to discuss the only “hard evidence” that the state has offered in convicting me of this murder; the outgoing phone call on my cell phone to Nisha Inez Butler on the day Hae was murdered.
She states in the first paragraph “… I haven’t noticed any women like me on television…” yet her next paragraph is centered on a television show about a woman with MS. Mairs tries to redeem herself by describing how this woman’s emotional weakness, for running back to her doctor/love interest, is inaccurate, but that is mostly a sexist representation of women and less a misrepresentation of the disabled. Mairs continues the rest of the essay in her mostly hostile fashion. She tosses in many rhetorical devices to the reader which, admittedly, makes her feel somewhat relatable and real. Her informal style of writing makes it seem like she knows her reader on an intimate level, therefor you are more inclined to accept her statements without evidence, succumbing to her requests for disability to be viewed as normal. She wraps up her essay
When being asked if he was happy, Montag’s seemed to search for the answer to that question throughout the whole book. Montag’s conversations with Clarisse gave him a different outlook on society. She was a young girl but made a big impact on Montag to the point were he was questioning his state of happiness. Bradbury says “He wore his happiness like a mask and the girl had run off across the lawn with the mask and there was no way of going to knock on her door and ask for it back”(Bradbury 9). This line from the book is when Montag notices that Clarisse has seen through the act that he is putting on and by her seeing through his fake happiness, he seeks to find true
In hope that this once beautiful young lady can have an impact on their lives before it’s too late. Terrie was definitely persuasive in this ad without having to say stop smoking. I don’t feel there is a need for a logical reason why to stop smoking it’s just basic knowledge that it is not healthy just from the things you see around you each day. This ad over all appealed mainly to all of our emotions in some way rather you are a smoker or non-smoker. These are not actors; they are real people telling their real stories.
James’ choice of language in the Governess’ manuscript displays this interpretation; Frequent use of the words, “mine”, “me”, “myself” give this interpretation verification. Her manuscript is written in first person, however her outlook on her surroundings and the story itself, constantly revolves around her own feelings and actions and very often little more than a monologue. James presents the governess as self important and as seeing herself as the centre of attention often. When she first sees Peter Quint, James writes “it was intense to me that […] he never took his eyes from me”. From the governess’ manuscript, how far away the ghost was from her, makes this account both unreliable and self important.
After the first time I put myself in her shoes per say, and realized that the author was just trying to emphasize the repetitive lives that the characters now live. It also shows how severe the handicaps are and how she is almost completely unaware of what’s actually happening in her life other than her present few moments. When Hazel mentions that she would play chimes on Sundays in honor of religion, still slightly confuses me. Is the author trying to show that the characters still have faith? Is the passage just simply trying to show how Hazel is trying to keep herself consciously thinking about something for a decent amount of time, but then her thoughts are quickly changed?
She asks “Wha’s the matter with me? Ain’t I got a right to talk to nobody?” (pg 87) She doesn’t get to talk to people very often, and when she saw her chance with Lennie, “her words tumbled out in a passion of communication, as though she hurried before her listener could be taken away.” (pg. 88) She was very desperate to want to talk to someone as dumb as Lennie, since normally people would try to avoid a mentally disabled person. She also wants to make sure that Lennie is listening to her when she says, “You listenin’?” (pg 88) Curley’s wife needs to be listened to, because just her talking wasn’t good enough for her. She needed the Lennie to understand her loneliness as well.
Everybody might think she’s crazy but I think she’s a legend, from blue lipstick to glitter cannons Ke$ha has it all, but most importantly she knows how to be herself. - If there is someone that has ever done the craziest things ever imagined I think that person would most likely be Ke$ha. - Would you ever write a dollar sign in your name to symbolize how poor you once were and make a joke out of it? Most people think that if you act like something you’re not more people will like you, I love Ke$ha because she doesn’t care what people think of her and if they like her or not, she’s always herself no matter what. Everybody might think she’s crazy but I think she’s a legend, from blue lipstick to glitter cannons Ke$ha has it all, but most importantly she knows how to be herself.
She states at the very beginning that she is not anti-gun, but her words throughout her writing say differently. She’s proknife and I am too. I will tell you why guns are still needed and why there is some merit to Ivins words. Her views are so unrealistic that it is hard to take serious so I’d consider her piece a work of humor instead. A benefit of a nation without guns would be that we would turn into a nation of great runners.