Choose one key passage. Re-write it in the space below. Discuss the importance of your chosen passage with respect to character, plot development, symbol and/or theme.…
5. How much time passes in the story? Why do you think that the author so frequently mentions time?…
The short story “The Tiger’s Heart” by Jim Kjelgaard follows Pepe Garcia, a master of his village in pursuit of a tiger who has terrorized his village. Pepe has many motivations as to why he is hunting the tiger which include pride, money, admiration, and because he is a hunter. Throughout the story, Pepe puts great emphasis that owning a rifle makes a man the “master” of his village, yet when he needed it most, the rifle fails. You would think that a normal man would lose all motivation and drive at this point, but Pepe’s desire to succeed shines through and he overcomes this challenge. Men who are powered by strong desires can overcome any challenge and Pepe is a great example of this.…
Four boys went out after the basketball game. Robert Washington is killed in a car accident, and the three other passengers escape injury.…
Third, in The Street by Ann Petry, Lutie’s son, Bub, is offered a servant-type labor of work as he cleans White’s shoes in the streets of Harlem for a low-pay. Finally, in The Ethnics of Living Jim Crow by Richard Wright, the Black narrator ends up losing his job when he forgets to properly address the white man as “sir.” Each main character are Black and go through psychological trauma based on the obstacles set up by the Whites. In cases like the Younger family and Lutie and the son, upward mobility is difficult because they are Black wanting to achieve the American Dream. On the other hand, in cases like Emmett Till and the Black narrator, talking is a crime which leads to devastating consequences. The Younger family, Emmett Till, Lutie, and the Black narrator all go through psychological effects of being Black. However, survival is the greatest resistance for Blacks in order to overcome the Whites’ obstacles…
"The Child by Tiger" by Thomas Wolfe is a short story based around a black man, Dick Prosser and the environment of the South. Though the story isn't based on primarily based on racial issues, there is a great deal of tension between the blacks and the whites.…
1. What descriptive details does the author use to make it clear that the setting of the story is a small town?…
In Animal Farm, by George Orwell, the author displays the power of rhetoric. The pigs within the novel effectively use rhetoric to persuade the other animals in a variety of ways. Three powerful rhetorical tools that the pigs use are ethos, pathos, and logos.…
This book deals the issues that can or already influence every teenager in America. It addresses the issues of peer pressure, sorrow, death, friendship, teen drinking, guilt and teen suicide. Various youth have said "That won't happen to me" or "I can handle my alcohol" or "I am ok to drive, I just had a few!" As teenagers, you have countless ideas and myths about drinking alcohol in addition to its affect on you and your body! Teenagers do not realize how drinking just one drink and getting behind the wheel of a car can cause harm to you and innocent people.…
2. In what ways is Miller’s use of dialogue effective in the first two pages of this scene to…
2. How well does the author provide the reader with a sense of what this book is about?…
My January/February Independent Reading book was Leon’s Story by Leon Walter Tillage, and the genre of this book is nonfiction (autobiography). I thought that this was an amazing book and I would recommend this to my peers. This book is about the perspective of the author growing up when he was younger. The overall theme of this book is racism. In Leon’s Story the setting is in the 1930’s where they live on a farm in order for his dad to pay off debts by share-cropping in North Caroline. There are certainly many different conflicts in this book but overall it has to do with racism and the unfair Jim Crow laws (Characters vs Society). This story is sad; it talks about the racism that African-Americans had to deal with at the time and gives a lot of examples of it. The protagonist in the book is Leon; he is friendly to everyone including whites and tries to do everything right and strongly believes that everyone should be equal. But the antagonists are mostly all white people. They’re the antagonists in this book because they hate all African- Americans including Leon and his family just because of skin color, and would even go to the extent of killing them because they don’t like their skin color. This book was short, and fast paced, yet detailed. This book had good details; the author did a good job of explaining everything very clearly, which made the book a lot more interesting. Here is an excerpt of the book so you can see what the author’s writing style is like, “I remember that as a young boy I used to look in the mirror and I would curse my color, my blackness.” Overall this book taught me a lot about how horrible racism was back then. I would definitely recommend this book if you want to read something short and fast paced that will also help you learn a lot more about racism.…
3) How would you describe Curley and his wife? What do their actions tell you about each of their characters?…
3) Analyze the plot structure of the story. Is there any foreshadowing? What would you say is the climax of the story?…
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates is a letter written to the author’s son revealing his own stories and also telling his son of the world that they live in. He tells him how it felt being black in the United States and the realities that came with it. Furthermore, he explains to his young son lessons that will hopefully open his eyes to the world’s harsh reality, Coates’ tells his son that “racist violence has been woven into American culture (Coates).” This violence has been following them since the day they were born and they have been running from it ever since. Gunnar Kaufman from the book The White Boy Shuffle, by Paul Beatty also encounters this violence after being mostly left alone at his previous home. Both of these men…