Kate DiCamillo is author of Because of Winn-Dixie. This book was published in March 2000, other major works she had written were, for example “The Tale of Despereaux” and “The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane”. When she writes, it usually features animals. After moving to the northern part of the United States from Florida in her early days, she missed living in the tropical state and the cold winter had also helped her to develop the story of Because of Winn-Dixie. Kate DiCamillo once said, “Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift.” I completely agree with her. She is a very good writer. And with this attitude, I wish she will write more and more books for the future generations. The main character of this book is called Opal. She is a 10-year-old girl who is living with her single dad. They moved to a new town called Naomi where she had no friends. One day, she met a stray dog in a supermarket. The dog’s name is Winn-Dixie. Thanks to this dog, Opal started to have more and more friends of her age in this new town. …show more content…
But, suddenly, there was thunder. Winn-Dixie hates thunder. He was very scared and hid under the chair. Opal and her father thought Winn-Dixie ran out of the house. Therefore, they went to downtown to search for him. Unfortunately, they couldn’t find him. Until now, Opal had never asked her father about her mom. She only knew a little about her. But during their search for Winn-Dixie, Opal and her father became closer. He told her more about her mom. Opal was happy. Later, they went back home and discovered that Winn-Dixie was only hiding under the chair. They were so glad. And finally, everyone at the party sang a song
Plot: The book took place in the 1860’s in Texas. Jim Coates is off for the summer doing a cattle drive. He left Travis his oldest son in charge of the house. The day after his dad left, Travis went into the dog run and got some meat but a dog was in there. It was a big yellow dog and ate a bunch of the meat. Travis’s mom let his little brother Arliss keep the dog. One day Arliss and the dog were by the stream playing in the water and a she bear and her cub were there. Old Yeller saved Arliss from the she bear. From then on Travis and Old Yeller had a special bond. Old Yeller
By building upon Rawls's Theory of Justice to address gender injustices, Okin’s liberal-feminist work has retained an enduring relevance in political philosophy, as many of the gender inequalities she addresses, such as women undertaking the majority of unpaid domestic labour, still exist today. Her work has had a major significance in political theory due to her illuminating the tendency for liberal philosophers to be gender-blind. This essay intends to firstly summarise the Rawlsian feminist theory in Okin’s ‘Forty acres and a mule’ for women: Rawls and feminism and secondly critically assess whether, due to her Western perspective and narrow definition of the ‘family’, her work is too limited to evoke a change within a patriarchal society
Originally published in 1999, Mary Pattillo’s Black Picket Fences explores the circumstances and conventions of the Black middle class, a group that has experienced both scholarly and popular neglect. In the Acknowledgments section of this work, Pattillo details the mentorship she received as a graduate student from William Julius Wilson at the University of Chicago. She recounts that Wilson often encouraged his students to extend, and even challenge his scholarly works, and that this urging provided the impetus for her research on the Black middle class (xiv). The challenge Pattillo (2013) refers to, becomes quite apparent when comparing her work to Wilson’s 1980 piece, The Declining Significance of Race. In this work, Wilson (1980) contends that in the industrial/modern era of the United States, class has surpassed race to be a salient factor of social stratification. He supplements his argument by referencing the progress and achievements of the Black middle class, relative to the “economic stagnation” of the Black underclass (p. 2). Pattillo (2013) offers a
Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut: A Diary from Dixie, by Mary Boykin Chesnut, Wife of James Chesnut, Jr., United States Senator from South Carolina, New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1905. I to 352 pp. Reviewed by Mayra Catalan 02/27/2016
The text is a poem called “Remembering Nat Turner”, written by Sterling Allen Brown. The poem is about an African American who walks the route of the slave rebellion of 1831, where he is given impressions about the rebellion from black and white people. The poem is a part of his first collection called Southern Road, which was first published in 1932. The original reader of Sterling Brown’s Southern Road.
Most readers should be able to relate to the characters in this book. The main character is a thirteen year old girl named Celeste Harris. She is an overweight junior higher who thinks nothing could be worse than popular mean Lively Carson stealing her best friend, Sandra. That was until her Aunt Doreen secretly enters Celeste into a pageant for plus-sized girls. Regardless, Aunt Doreen is a typical average aunt who is always in people’s business and has two daughters. While Kristen is the youngest and looks like a Barbie doll, Kathleen is the oldest who is getting married. Now, Sandra has been Celeste’s best friend since third-grade. That is until, Lively Carson, Celeste’s worst enemy who always makes fun of her, changes that. Finally, Violet Page is a famous large-sized model who is the host for the Miss Husky Peach pageant. She also is married to Theo Christmas who is Celeste celebrity crush ever since she saw him in concert.. Readers can learn a lesson from each one of these characters.
Crazy neon lights, crowded walkways, the sweet aroma of Memphis barbeque, and the sound of soft blues and rock n roll is a taste of what Memphis’s Beale Street is made of. Memphis Tennessee is a home for exciting things to do within the surrounding metropolitan area. But first, what specifically brings civilians to Memphis? Memphis is a prime destination for tourist and residents of Memphis because of the great time, inexpensive attractions to visit, but most importantly Beale Street. Beale is a famous street located in downtown Memphis that is connected by three co-joining streets. Memphis’s Beale Street is one popular destination spot in downtown Memphis. On these streets are many tasty places to eat, local shops to visit,
She was our friend.” (Lee 59) This was how Scout described Miss Maudie, Scout was explaining her perspective of herself and that she wants to be treated like an adult and that the only one to do so was Miss Maudie. Consequently, this helps the reader understand Scout. Also, Miss Maudie helps to develop Jem’s character by giving him a big cake when he’s supposed to have a small one like Scout and Dill.
The novel “To Kill A Mockingbird” by Harper Lee, is an American classic, narrated by the young Scout Finch, the most engrossing character in the book. The novel is about the adventures of two siblings over the time of about three years. Jem and Jean Louise (Scout) Finch were two young siblings who one day met another young boy named Dill. Over time, Jem and Scout grow up under the careful watch of their father and friends, learning how to be adults. They play games, they sneak into a courthouse, and they learn a valuable life lesson. Scout was an intriguing character. As the narrator, you learn more about Scout’s feelings towards the events in the book and soon learn to love her. Let me introduce you to Scout Finch.
Though the significant difference in the setting, but equally in the subject of separation, the authors, Bass, and Stuphen, communicate their thoughts mainly through imagery of the situations that happened in their lives. In the poems “The Albatross” by Kate Bass and “Ever After” by Joyce Sutphen, in the book 180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day, they use metaphoric language to expose their feelings. They capture the frustration of being apart from their partners and the urge to understand why the man that the woman in the poem loves is now strange and no longer has any part in their present. Shawn Lewis explains, “Next to the death of a loved one the death of a marriage is one of life 's most devastating experiences.... When the pain
Because of Winn-Dixie is a delightful book about a lonely young girl who finds friendship in a dog. The main character, India Opal Buloni, finds a homeless dog and she and the dog go on to have a marvelous summer. Friendship between a young girl and her dog would seem to be the central theme in the book. However, when looked at through a psychoanalytic lens the book then has deeper underlining issues. When looked at psychoanalytically the novel takes on a whole new theme. The theme changes from friendship to abandonment and loss.
The concept of displacement from rape in “Woman Thou Art Loosed” and “Mississippi Damned” is represented by mental distortion, trauma, and self-degradation.
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The book focuses on the lives of an eleven year old girl names India “Opal” Buloni, the protagonist, and her companionship dog names Winn-Dixie. Opal recalled her experience of the summer her life changed because of her adopted dog. In beginning of the first chapter, we are introduced to relationship of Opal and her father, whom she usually refers to as "the preacher." Her mother abandoned the family when Opal was three year old and is often unaccompanied in her trailer park as her father
In many of Faulkner’s stories, he tells about an imaginary county in Mississippi named Yoknapatawpha. He uses this county as the setting for his story “Barn Burning” and it is also thought that the town of Jefferson from “A Rose for Emily” is located in Yoknapatawpha County. The story of a boy’s struggle between being loyal to his family or to his community makes “Barn Burning” exciting and dramatic, but a sense of awkwardness and unpleasantness arrives from the story of how the fictional town of Jefferson discovers that its long time resident, Emily Grierson, has been sleeping with the corpse of her long-dead friend with whom she has had a relationship with.