In Rachel’s Tears, Rachel Joy Scott dies in a school shooting at Columbine High School. The reason she is remembered after her death is because of the kind of person she was, and how she treated others before she died. The day April 20, 1999, to Rachel seemed like a normal day, but at the same time knew there was something off about it. Rachel loved to write about her struggles and experiences in her journals, and that day she Rachel did not write something but drew a rose and eyes with tears falling from them. A couple weeks after the school shooting Rachels parents were given back her bookbag and things she had with her the day she died. When they found her journal and found the picture they couldn’t believe what they had discovered. Rachel…
In “Chapter 1,” Irene Hunt begins the book with the main characters, Josh and Joey. Josh’s alarm is going off at about four o’clock in the morning, to wake him up to deliver papers. Joey, Josh’s frail little brother, wants to go with him, but Josh does not want him to. Also, the October chill, along with little sleep makes him irritable and moody. Despite his feelings, Josh knows that the infinitesimal amount of money he is bringing in for his family is important. However, he goes downstairs and sees his mother cooking in the kitchen. Josh is a little furious that his mother is cooking. His mother lets him know that his father is sleeping. However, she gives Josh some warm milk to drink to prepare him for his job.…
Louise Erdrich’s novel Tracks, published in 1988, recounts the story of an Anishinaabe family on an Indian reservation. The plot revolves around the life history of the protagonist, Fleur Pillager. Erdrich uses the multiple narrator technique by telling the story from the perspectives of Nanapush, an affable tribal elder, and Pauline Puyat, a mixed-blood girl. The novel recounts the incidents that took place between the years 1912 to 1924 in the life of Fleur Pillager. Erdrich divides the narrative into two distinct sections. The Nanapush chapters recount the conversation between Lulu, the daughter of Fleur, and Nanapush. In these chapters, Nanapush in an “authoritative and confiding tone” (Walker, 37) narrates the events that compelled Fleur…
Irene was born on May 5, in 1922, in a small village in eastern Poland. She had For sisters called Janina, Marysia, Bronia, and Wladiza. Irene’s father was an architect and chemist. Irene’s mother stayed home all day doing cleaning and cooking. There family was an energetic bundle of people that loved and respected one another. Irene and her sisters would catch hurt animals and treat them in there house until they got better. There family went to church and was raised under there Catholic faith, but later on turned from God.…
Louise Erdrich was a concessioner at the Gilles Theater in Wahpeton, North Dakota at the age of fourteen. At her workplace, she could watch the movie after the completion of her assigned work. She had watched every movie again and again; nothing was good to her except Costa- Gavra’s Z, a French film in 1969 that changed her life, regarded as the best movie in her life. She had changed herself in many ways: She realized that her parents were right about her career, she practiced to be success and engaged in work. She also knew life is more than the stag leap, or the flying T. The phrases “The forces of greed and hatred cannot tolerate us” was stuck in her mind after the third viewing of the movie.…
In the texts Night, written by Dr.Elie Wiesel, “My Ethics My Code”, written by Rachel Scott, and “Give”, by Anne Frank, the three stories all share an significant common message. The central message the three stories show is the theme of companionship, helping the unfortunate and standing up for other to survive and live. The three authors, Dr.Elie Wiesel, Rachel Scott, and Anne Frank all have a common belief of being a witness and not a bystander and ignore the terrible things. “People will never know how far a little kindness can go” (My Ethics, My Codes of Life)…
When Henry leaves for the Vietnam War, Lyman stores the perfectly intact car in the garage reminiscing the time they spent together travelling the continent in it. The New York…
Louise Erdrich was born on July 6, 1954 as the eldest daughter of seven children of a Chippewa Indian mother and a German-American father in Little Falls, Minnesota but she grew in Wahpeton, North Dakota. Louis Erdrich’s cultural identity was that she was of the Chippewa Indian tribe of the Turtle Mountain Reservation in North Dakota from her mother side. At an early age Louise was encouraged by her parents to write stories and that her father would paid her a nickel a story and her mother made covers for her first books and Louise continued her writing by keeping a journal when she was in high school. Louise Erdrich is known for her first novel Love Medicine which won her the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1984, The Plague of Doves, which was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize, and the Round House which won the National Book Award for Fiction. “Louise Erdrich”, “Poetry Foundation”, “OEDB”…
“Tracks” is an amazing novel written by Louise Erdrich. It is a powerful and dark story that is about a native American tribe called the Chippewas who are struggling to protect their land and traditional heritage. The story takes place in the early 1900s where it appears as though the migration of the white settlers and native American Indians have a feud over sacred land. In the story Nanapush and Pauline take turns narrating each chapter in the story. Both have different views and relationships with the main character Fleur. In each chapter, it demonstrates how Fleur is seen through the eyes of Nanapush and Pauline and they are helping prove Fleurs behaviors and actions impact the people around her. Erdrich uses Characterization,…
There are two readings that are similar to each other. One is called, “Shame,” by Dick Gregory, and the other is called, “Salvation,” by Langston Hughes. The major similarities found in the two readings are lying to fit in and longing for something/ someone. The two readings also have a similar introduction like the setting which takes place in Missouri, both authors are young, and are memoirs. The two readings have so much in common and have very detailed similarities too.…
"Compressed emotions," that is the explanation a teacher once gave to the ongoing question, "What is poetry?" He said it was someone's deepest emotions, as if you were reading them right out of that person's mind, which in that case would not consist of any words at all. If someone tells you a story, it is usually like a shell. Rarely are all of the deepest and most personal emotions revealed effectively. A poem of that story would be like the inside of the shell. It personifies situations, and symbolizes and compares emotions with other things in life. Louise Erdrich's poem Indian Boarding School puts the emotions of a person or group of people in a setting around a railroad track. The feelings experienced are compared to things from the setting,…
“Times Change, people change, thoughts about good and evil change, about true and false. But what always remains fast and steady is the affections your friends feel for you, those who always have your best interests at heart.” This was a quote from Margot Frank and young women who lived in a secret annex with her younger sister her parents and one other family. Margot Frank survived the Holocaust because she was studious, sisterly and very calm.…
7. What happened in the past between John Proctor and Abigail? How do each of them feel about it now?…
Finding the definition of a word is very simple. Typically, it would be beneficial to pull out a dictionary and find the textbook definition. This is not the case for the word literature. Although it can be found, pinpointing a concrete definition is nearly impossible. But, one characteristic that literature must have is the ability to stand the tests of time. When examining A Secret Sorrow by Karen Van der Zee and A Sorrowful Woman by Gail Godwin, it is easy to conclude that the latter is a true piece of literature. This can be seen by comparing the characters, symbolism, and plotline of both stories.…
Erendira was bathing her grandmother when the wind of her misfortune began to blow. The enormous mansion of moon like concrete lost in the solitude of the desert trembled down to its foundations with the first attack. But Erendira and her grandmother were used to the risks of the wild nature there, and in the bathroom decorated with a series of peacocks and childish mosaics of Roman baths they scarcely paid any attention to the wind.…