Rebecca Wagner Book Report One English 9 Block 4 9/14/11 Ride Like The Wind True Colors by Kristen Hannah is about a crime that shocks a small town, a terrible mistake made by our legal system, sisters who have lost their way, a boy who doesn’t know how to be a man without his father, and true love. I went on a journey to a corner of Washington State, 1992 where girls look forward to the County Fair and sleep in a dusty stall every once and a while. I loved this book and I could relate to a lot of the characters. It was compelling, passionate, and inspiring. It shows that even through hardships, your family will always be there for you.
Dreamcatcher Long time ago, in a native American village, the old and young people living there earned their own living and were regarded by other people as the ancestors of culture and life in America today. At night, when the storm bursted with a tremendous peal of thunder and a rush of rain, the strange and frightening dreams sneaked into the windows and stayed by the pillows on the children’s bed. Then children started having bad dreams every night. In the morning, people talked about the awful dreams which spreaded everywhere around the town in a short time like a plague. In the evening,with candlelight everywhere, a spiritual spider in the corner of the room heard the parents’ concerns.
When is loses its power, chaos occurs. For example when Jack states, “And the conch doesn’t count at this end of the island−” (Golding, 166). They have an argument and begin a chant. Jack leads the chant and Simon crawls out of the forest to be brutally murdered by the boys. This shows that when a once huge symbolism of power loses its significance, mayhem takes place.
English 9F 12/12/12 Does William Golding’s Lord of The Flies Suggest That Man is Inherently Good or Evil? A Greek Philosopher, Socrates, once said, “Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.” As we see in the Lord of The Flies by William Golding, Jack and many others boys had revealed their true, inner evil as the story takes place. An example is when all of the boys were on the island and had assigned specific roles for everyone, Jack’s and his “hunters” main priorities were to hunt, when they were supposed to look after the fire. They couldn’t give even a bit of thought about keeping the fire going which was their job, therefore showing their ignorance and love for killing. I think that William’s Golding’s Lord of The Flies suggests that man are inherently evil such as Jack because of factors such as ignorance, but also there are people who are inherently good because of their natural love for people, and calm inner-beings, for example Simon.
“[…] Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man’s heart, and the fall through the air of the true wise friend called Piggy” (182). This quote shows that Ralph has realized that he will never be the dame since he lost his innocence and learned that evil is in all human beings. In Golding’s Lord of the Flies a group of boys gets crashed onto an island and struggles to survive. Ralph is entitled leader, but the Jack disagrees and decides to run his own group. The boys start to fight and have mini war.
The broken conch symbolizes the end of any reason they boys ever had. Now the boys turn into savages and there is just mass chaos. The conch is destroyed there is no way the boys can or will ever have any order again. As you can tell while the conch existed it had great significance and it contained a lot of symbolism. In The lord of the Flies the conch started out representing order then it symbolized authority but in the end stood for chaos.
The almighty kept the demons out, but soon split into different forms of evil. The evil opposed the Lora’s will and Defeated again and again. Later, Grendel and Herot had a conversation about what the warrior’s next move was going to be. He found them sound asleep and suspected nothing. The monsters soon slipped though the door and silently killed thirty men and ran with there bodies while the was dripping.
They do hear plenty of rumours though from characters in the novel, building an aura of mystery and fear around Boo. The themes that Arthur Radley brings out include fear, compassion & forgiveness and youth. It brings out the theme of fear because the citizens of Maycomb are all scared of Boo and gossip and tell rumors about him like “Radley pecans would kill you” (Lee 11), “A baseball hit into the Radley yard was a lost ball and no questions asked” (Lee 11), “People said he went out at night when the moon was down, and peeped into windows” (Lee 10), “When people’s azalea’s froze in a cold snap, it was because he had breathed on them” (Lee 10) and “Any stealthy small crimes in Maycomb were his work” (Lee 10). The portrayal of Arthur Radley reveals the theme of compassion & forgiveness because at the beginning Scout and Jem think Boo is a “malevolent phantom” (Lee 10) and later in the novel they begin to realize that Arthur is a really good person and he just wants to help out. Jem realizes this when he says, “…he ain’t ever harmed us, he ain’t ever hurt us, he coulda cut my throat from ear to ear that night but he tried to mend my pants instead” (Lee 96).
Each level of Hell has a certain punishment and that punishment is for a reason. For Example, in Canto three the people are being chased by giant wasps, “Strange utterances, horrible pronouncements, accents of anger, words of suffering, and voices shrill and faint, and beating hands-” (Dante, 25-27). Virgil explains to Dante that the reason they are placed here is because they had no direction in life. Their punishment is exactly how they lived their life; they could not choose a side. Virgil told Dante “They now commingle with the coward angels, the company of those who were not rebels nor faithful to their God, but stood apart.
Moreover, he kindly irons and mends Jem’s pants, which get stuck in the fence while Jem is escaping and he tells no one about Dill and Jem’s attempt to give him a letter or of the “Boo Radley game”. Last, Mr. Arthur faces maltreatment from the citizens of Maycomb. Many false rumors are spread through town about him: “Radley pecans would kill you”, “Boo drove the scissors into his parent’s leg,” and “[Boo] dined on raw squirrels and any cats he could catch” (11, 13, 16). Being influenced by others, Scout also envisions Boo to be a rotten toothed, yellow-eyed, scarred monster. These callous generalizations and Boo’s innocent gestures combine to prove that Mr. Arthur Radley is represented by a