When reading a book, is really hard to get the attention of the reader. Who is interested with hearing once upon a time? For me, I would eater the novel start off with something relatable then ease me into the plot. Life doesn’t always start off as a fairytale so I prefer that my novels don’t either. So while reading this novel, I was evaluating not only the author but the content and if it would live up to the hype. In “The Coldest Winter Ever” by Sister Souljah, her overall purpose in writing this book. Was to show the reader the real “ghetto” life and answer questions many of her loyal readers had. But to also represent the honest truth about living in the ghetto. This type of literature is an urban fiction novel, and the main point …show more content…
To the urban lifestyle of growing up in the ghettos and the hardships. She depicts the usages of drugs, gang, crime, poverty, teen pregnancy and mostly how it effects the community. But also shows how the outside violence comes into the home and can devastate the natural order of the household. In “The Coldest Winter Ever”, we meet Winter Santiaga, a Brooklyn born young girl. Who has never had to worry about where her next meal came from. Winter lives in the lap of luxury with her mother, three sisters and her king pin drug dealing father. Winter had it all, the finest clothes, her hair always done and friends who always had her back. Winter was her father’s pride and joy, she was always protected and guarded. No one dared to mess with anyone in Ricky Santiaga’s family, and if they did. Let’s just say it wouldn’t have been a pretty sight. Winter wasn’t oblivious to her father’s dealing she knew her father was a drug dealer and she just saw it as a sense of normalcy. She was always wearing new fashions, had money in her pockets and known she was in charge. But that was all about to change when her father decides to move them out of the ghettos into the rich suburbs. For Winter that doesn’t go over well with her, she loves being on top of her “ghetto kingdom” and will do anything to keep it. While her mother who has never worked in her life, since being married to Ricky (in compliance to his orders) …show more content…
While she might think that her plans are working, they only lead her down a path of destruction. She lands in a boarding house, when child services find her, she goes to jail, becomes pregnant by a man who she believed was rich. Also she becomes sentenced to 15 years in prison, over a street fight with a former friend she double crossed. In the end, she is still serving time and was freed by the warden to go to her mother’s funeral. To only discover that her two sisters were adopted by the man she once loved, her sister is with the man who impregnated her, and the younger sister has become just like her. She wants to warn her sister, but she realizes if she is just like her there is no use in giving her advice. She just decides that her sister must figure it out by
Sister souji has her participate in her meeting that she has for the young girls and older adults on how to make life better and fix the neighborhood talks some sense to them but winter seems to think it's just a waste of time and hates it there . She seems to feel sick and runs out the meeting and packs her stuff because she is tired of being there , goes into sister souji room and gets midnight file and see her file and it had newspaper articles of her father and mansion and her . She knew all along of who she really was and played it cool . Then stops by the Doctor room and steals money where she stashed her cash , steals it and puts it in her sports bag but they get switched up and noticed once she was already at the bus station that she had no money . Someone in her past seems to recognize her in a lexus which was bullet the guy she spent her seventh birthday with while her father was arrested
Jacin smiled at her and went to a close shop to get some bottles of water. He wanted Winter to get more fit and easily outrun those who wished to bring evil on her. Next, he would teach her some fighting techniques. As he headed out with the bottles of water, he noticed that Winter
An example of the cycle followed by her father, his father, and his father before him is told when Blunt recalls a major blizzard in December 1964 that trapped the family and some neighbors in their small homestead. She unemotionally describes how her father simply proceeded to go through the motions of keeping the pipes from freezing, calmly accepting the fact that he could do nothing as the storm progressed and he could not prevent loss of a of their livestock. Or how when he first ventured out to check on the animals in their nearby barn and nearly lost his way back in whiteout conditions. Later, when the storm passed, she told of playing amongst the frozen corpses of the cattle, jumping from ribcage to ribcage, daring her older brother and sister to cut off pieces of the animals, all with the calm acceptance that this was so normal, nothing strange about it.
The fall and winter of ‘62 had been a hard on the North Alabama counties where Charity and her family lived. Snow, wind, and rain had pounded them for weeks- Snow, which was rarely seen in the South, had been heavy the early part of January- and then the winds and rain had come- upsetting the early spring planting season. Being able to buy most of the things a family needed to survive, was as hard to do as it was to get the money needed to buy them with; and, it was getting harder by the day.
Winter Dreams There are many ways in which “Winter Dreams” is like and unlike a fairytale. “Winter Dreams” had the potential to have a fairy tale ending. Beginning the story, F. Scott Fitzgerald made the story seem predictable. The reader would have predicted a happy ending, like a fairytale. An ending where the ambitious young man gets the beautiful girl of his dreams.
“Winter Dreams.” Short Stories for Students. Ed. Carol Ullmann. Vol. 15. Detroit: Gale, 2002. N. pag. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 23 Mar. 2011.
Tobias Wolff is framing his story Hunters in the Snow, in the countryside near Spokane, Washington, where three friends with three different personalities, decided to take a trip to the woods for hunting in a cold, snowy weather. The whole story follows the hunting trip of these three friends. The reader can easily observe that the cold, hostile environment is an outward expression of how the men behave towards one another. Kenny, with a heart made of ice is rather hostile to Tub, while Frank is cold and indifferent to Tub and his pleas for help.The environment is matching the characters themselves, being cold and uncaring as the author described the two from truck when they laughed at the look of Tub: “You ought to see yourself,” the driver said. “He looks just like a beach ball with a hat on, doesn’t he? Doesn’t he, Frank?”(48). Near the beginning of the story the cold and the waiting surely creates an impact in the mood of the character. Tub is restless from the wait and the cold adds on to it. He complains about being cold and Kenny and Frank, his friends tell him to stop complaining, which seems to be very unfriendly. Wolff builds up the story on the platform of cold weather and the impact of the cold on each character slowly builds up.
...e last beating she received from Hy-Lo, a recovery from the loss of her cat, a recovery from the emotional stress of listening to her mother and brother get beaten, and eventually a recovery from a broken life. The importance of the theme of forgiveness cannot be overlooked either as she struggles to leave behind the man that stole the childhood she deserved to have. He seems warmer and dies almost immediately after she forgives him, almost as if he too needed to be forgiven in order to move on. She is able to face the future by obtaining recovery through forgiveness, forgiveness through understanding, and understanding through confronting her past. McFadden paints a vivid picture and helps us understand the impacts of an abusive past in a very real way that leaves a deep impact on the reader. Even though it's difficult to read about abuse, I thought this was a good
This is evident at the end of the chapter when Annie describes, “I surfaced once again and saw: it was winter now, winter again...I was here outside in the dimming day’s snow, alive.” (pg. 19) As Annie ages, the focus of An American Child shifts toward the angst-filled years of her adolescence. When Annie turned sixteen, the world, which had begun slipping away from her already, fell completely into the abyss. She explains, “When I was fifteen, I felt it coming; now I was sixteen, and it hit.”(pg.222) Annie found herself constantly filled with anger and often took it out, quite naturally, on her family- particularly her innocent parents. When angry, Annie felt as if she wanted to kill someone or bomb something big. Sometimes the anger would be so intense that in an attempt to appease and calm herself, she would whip her bed in her room with her uniform belt. As Annie realized the darkness she was sliding into, she began to fear that perhaps this was the natural course of things, and that her excitement with the world was merely childhood foolishness which she could never
“I more or less directed my camera toward poverty and racism in Washington, D.C. I did a lot of picture s of black people and I followed a charwoman around. By just being with her I was able to enter all areas of the community to see black people at their jobs and the inhumanity they suffered. And that’s what I was doing there – the preparation for my future work.” pages 14-16
For Winter, in her mind, if this is the way her father maintain the family by selling drugs she could do it too. She wanted to propose a business deal to one of her father’s workers “I’d offer him a partnership since he already knew the business. He’d go for it as long as he got his cut” (Souljah, 1999, p. 90). While trying to find connections with people who she thinks will help her make some fast money, her aunt turns her into the child services and is placed in a group home for teenage
One challenge Dania’s family faced was heat, temperatures in Lebanon where she and her family lives dip to below freezing every night in the winter and the conditions are dire, (pgs. 7,8), but Save The Children Provided a weather kit to help insulate Dania’s family’s garage from the cold and wind, (pg.10).
Those winter Sundays is a poem about a memory. This poem is composed of three stanzas narrated by an adult son remembering the care of his father during his childhood. He starts by depicting the excruciating physical work that his dad performed in the cold each morning. The speaker gives us insight into what Sunday mornings were to him as a child and apparent problems that the speaker was not aware of back in the day.
...self exaggerated stories. One thing she tells herself is that her mother was kidnapped by a lunatic. On another occasion a classmate asks where her mother is and she says that her mother is on a business trip in London. Their similarities help each other to grow and mature and eventually come to terms with their situations.
With this short essay Sedaris was able to appeal to our emotions as readers. When they got kicked out and they were very and almost “frozen” according to Sedaris, his images made us feel angry towards the mother. From his simply structured essay it makes you feel as an adult and as a child. It is structured in a way that would help the reader to stay with the story and builds the interest to keep reading until the end. Sedaris did a fabulous imaginative pieces that would appeal to the readers and appeals to the reader’s emotions as well. At one point he said, “Dusk approached, and as it grew colder it occurred to us that we could possibly die (Sedaris 73). He keeps his audiences remain emotional throughout the