“Safe” Safe is a feeling of protection from or not exposed to danger or risk. Safe, is how Tracy felt right before it happened. Tracy goes through considerable character development throughout the book. At first, Tracy would feel safe from her mother’s memory. That’s all she had of her… and that’s all that made her feel- safe. “She would tell me stories… if had trouble keeping at night, I remember that feel of the story –safe in the mouth- and I felt my mother in her pretty yellow dress… and her arms around me.” “Then I could relax and know I was fine.” (pg. 5 chapter 1). The presence of her mother was it. Even though she knew her “mama” died, she “knew in a way… that she didn’t die… not completely, since she came to me with …show more content…
What those many women went through is a big deal all throughout the world. “As a result of fear of violence, participants reported altering their participation patterns in solitary activities by: (a) reducing night participation, (b) participating with other people, and (c) modifying where they participated. These three modifications in participation resulted in a lower level of enjoyment during recreation and leisure activities. Actions which may be taken to address the problem of fear of violence include assessing and improving safety features of facilities, access to safe transportation, and recognizing fear as a constraint in future research.” (http://www.cabdirect.org/abstracts/19951810804.html ) Later with more and more visits to her therapist and more practicing playing the piano, she made more progress. She ended up becoming friends with Caroline again and even though they set it up, they were all friends again. And everything was back to normal, kind of. So as you can see, in the book "Safe" by Susan Shaw, you can tell there is significant character development in the main character - Tracy. She goes through a horrible experience on June fifteenth... She gets kidnapped and raped by a kid she knew. "Burgess Newman ". She was tortured by her thoughts of it. Throughout the story she was mostly inside isolated from everyone and everything. Until school started again. She had to go, she couldn 't not go. She started off isolated, hurt, feeling unsafe... to slowly healing and feeling safe once
Eric Walters wrote the historical fiction novel Safe as Houses, to state the strange occurrence that happened in Weston, Toronto 1954. Back in 1954, U.S had a hurricane named Hurricane Hazel, it was so strong that it caused a flood in Weston, Toronto and it had never happened before. Many Canadian authors had to write a non-fiction or fiction stories about it, such as an author named Eric Walters. Many people were wondering why would Eric Walters write about some flood, there were many reasons why.
Our class has been reading a book called “Brown Girl Dreaming” for the past two weeks. The author, Jacqueline Woodson talks about her life growing up. For example she talks about how her mom and dad divorced when she was young. She talks about how she moves to Greenville and how her grandpa is like a dad figure, and how her mother came back with a pale skinned baby after she went to New York. Character traits make up a person, and while reading the book, you can see what Jacqueline is like during her childhood. Jacqueline has many character traits, such as being jealous of her older sister, being naive, and she is also respectful.
This book is a study of the personal tales of many single mothers, with intentions to understand why single mothers from poor urban neighborhoods are increasingly having children out of wedlock at a young age and without promise of marrying their fathers. The authors chose to research their study in Philadelphia’s eight most devastated neighborhoods, where oppression and danger are high and substantial job opportunities are rare. They provide an excellent education against the myth that poor young urban women are having children due to a lack of education on birth control or because they intend to work the welfare system. Instead, having children is their best and perhaps only means of obtaining the purpose, validation and companionship that is otherwise difficult to find in the areas in which they live. For many of them, their child is the biggest promise they have to a better future. They also believe that though their life may not have been what they want, they want their child to have more and better opportunities and make it their life’s work to provide that.
Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson, is a story written in the first person about a young girl named Melinda Sordino. The title of the book, Speak, is ironically based on the fact that Melinda chooses not to speak. The book is written in the form of a monologue in the mind of Melinda, a teenage introvert. This story depicts the story of a very miserable freshman year of high school. Although there are several people in her high school, Melinda secludes herself from them all. There are several people in her school that used to be her friend in middle school, but not anymore. Not after what she did over the summer. What she did was call the cops on an end of summer party on of her friends was throwing. Although all her classmates think there was no reason to call, only Melinda knows the real reason. Even if they cared to know the real reason, there is no way she could tell them. A personal rape story is not something that flows freely off the tongue. Throughout the story Melinda describes the pain she is going through every day as a result of her rape. The rape of a teenage girl often leads to depression. Melinda is convinced that nobody understands her, nor would they even if they knew what happened that summer. Once a happy girl, Melinda is now depressed and withdrawn from the world. She hardly ever speaks, nor does she do well in school. She bites her lips and her nails until they bleed. Her parents seem to think she is just going through a faze, but little do they know, their daughter has undergone a life changing trauma that will affect her life forever.
The youth are acknowledged for having innocence, and witnessing certain events can take it away. In Sarah’s Key by Tatiana De Rosnay experiences cause innocence to be lost. Losing freedom affects an individual personality, making the person more mature. Losing hope causes an individual to change their views on life. A person’s family dying causes a lifetime of pain. When experiencing a horrible event, one should not let it change them.
She believes that at the age of three years old, she dropped the pistol that was on the floor in the bedroom, capable of shooting her mother. That was the whole point of traveling to Timburon as she did, to find the truth, but she didn’t. She did however, meet three beautiful ladies who had once known her mother from the way she styled her hair, to the color of socks she puts on her feet. Lily’s mother had come back to the Pink house to live with August, June, and May a few months before she was killed. She left her daughter and husband. The time she came back to get her stuff, and her daughter, was the time she was deployed into heaven, gone forever. Lily was a rock when she heard the news that her mother had left her with a man who abused her☺. From the time she left the peach farm at home, to the time T-Ray came knocking on the door of the pink house, Lily had gone back and forth with how much she loved her mother and how much her mother loved her. One day she would find out that her mother left her with T-Ray, and the next day she would find a picture of the two when she was an infant, noses touching. Did her mother love her? Yes! Did she love her mother? Yes! When her mother left her, she was in a state of depression. She needed to get away from the world. Deborah did, however, come back for her daughter. Sadly, Lily didn’t completely understand her rasoning. It took a long time to accept the fact that her mother left her and even longer to forgive her and realize that she really did love her
The book ‘Clear and Present Danger’ is a novel written by Tom Clancy in 1989 and published in 1990 by Thorndike-Magna Publisher (Beetz 824). This book has one thousand one hundred and forty pages, with the latest edition published by Berkley Books having six hundred and eighty eight pages. This novel like most of Clancy’s writings relies on a basic formula of good versus evil where the United States is represented as a nation that is on the right side (Sharp 398). In this novel, a United States ambassador and the visiting chief of the Federal Investigation Bureau are assassinated by Colombian drug lords. This assassination prompts a mystifying underground response and a series of investigations of the actions by the United States and the Colombian drug lords by Jack Ryan, the main character in the book (Clancy 524). This paper is review of this literary work by Tom Clancy.
In the book Deadly by Julie Chibbaro there were many themes that were analyzed and illustrated throughout the book. There were only three that catches the eye love can be blind, death can hurt and oppression of women. These themes stood out the most because this book take place in somewhere in the 1900’s because in that era there were many disease taking place in New York. Such as the typhoid, Yellow fever, small pox and other contagious diseases that cause many deaths and also when the Germ theory was just a theory not a law. This book mainly talks about Prudence, Mr. Sopher, and Marm especially but there are others such as Dr. bakers, Jonathan this book talks about how typhoid was carried by an Irish Woman named Mary Mallon and the disease
“Often it isn’t the initiating trauma that creates seemingly insurmountable pain, but the lack of support after.” (Harrell) There is a lot of trauma a victim of sexual assault goes through. This trauma can last years if not dealt with properly, in fact, ninety-four percent of women who are raped experience post-traumatic stress disorder and seventy percent of victims experience moderate to severe distress. Melinda Sordino is also a victim of sexual assault, she’s seen going through the life of a grade nine girl trying to fit into a new environment, make new friends, and find herself, all while coping with her past. Melinda’s distant relationship with her parents leads to her lack of confidence to ask for support and becomes one of the major
Escaping Peril a fictional book in the Wings of Fire series, by Tui T. Sutherland, was prodigious, a truly marvelous augment to the other sequels.
According to the FBI, more than 75 percent of all murder victims are women, and more than 50 percent of the women are between the ages of 14 and 29 years old. A part of that statistic is Kitty Genovese,a murder victim who is the focus of an editorial, “The Dying Girl that No One Helped,” written by Loudon Wainwright. Kitty was a 28 year old woman who was brutally stabbed to death while on her way home from work. The woman, named Kitty Genovese, lived in a pleasant, welcoming, residential area, in New York. There was at least 38 witnesses that came forward, and they all heard her cries for help, but no one came to her aid. Wainwright effectively demonstrates how society has started turning a “blind-eye” toward problems that can endanger someone's
Every person that lives to adulthood has gone through the stereotypical teenage phase: the sudden change in personality that causes every mother in the world to throw up her hands in exasperation. Because growing up is a such a relatable experience, countless pieces of literature have touched upon it, from Peter Pan to A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. A constant topic in all these books is change, due to the fact that coming of age is the maturing of a person from a child into a teenager into an adult. Another work that deals with change is Annie John, by Jamaica Kincaid, which tells the story of Annie’s growth from a ten year old to a seventeen year old in a series of loosely chronological anecdotes. A theme that
Miscommunication with her and the rest of her school led to her being singled out as the enemy. This from her calling the cops at an underage drinking party, but she didn’t call them because of the drink see on the fact that she had some herself, but it was because she was rape by (insert name here) this made her simple call the cops out of not knowing what to do. Without telling anyone what had happen, miscommunications, the situation made many students at her school that found put that she’s the one who got a few people arrested very angry. This warped her making her grades go down, making her angry and sad. With no friends to tell she was kept silent. In the end she does end up speaking out about it which actually ends up make the rapist get exposed, this helps her by allowing her to speak put about what he did and her reasoning for calling the cops. Now with her miscommunication fixed she was even brighter than before. While she did change from the miscommunication she changed for the best and now has all the friends she could ask for showing just how strong a seemingly simple miscommunication can change
Adolescence is the stage in life when you are no longer a child, but not yet an adult. There are many things that still need to be explored, learned and conquered. In the film Thirteen, the main character, Tracy Freeland, is just entering adolescence. While trying to conquer Erikson’s theory of Identity vs. Role confusion, Tracy is affected by many influences, including family and friends that hinder her development. Many concepts from what we have learned in class can be applied to this character from identity development, to depression, to adolescent sexuality and more. In this film Tracy is a prime example of an adolescent and much of what I have learned this year can be applied to her character.
As being part of being socialized as a woman, this author was mostly taught the dangers of being at places alone, especially at night, and what to do in such a dangerous situation. There were also warnings given on what constituted as dangerous situations and how they came about. Some of the norms and behavior that are associated with being a female, alone, in an unfamiliar place are having the keys ready to be used to get in the house or car before reaching them to outpace a possible attacker, always being aware of one’s surroundings, and not dressing in provocative clothes because society believes wearing such clothes invite rapists and molesters to attack. A major part of the female socialization process revolves around the education of sexual assault and rape. About one out of every five women will be raped at some point in their lives (National Sexual Violence Resource Center 2015), and about 91% of the victims of rape and sexual assault are female (National Sexual Violence Resource Center 2015), so education in this area is paramount to anything else. Women are also socialized to believe that they must always put on a performance so that they look their best/be pretty, as determined mostly by the mass media (Wade et. al. 2015). Many women resort to make-up, cosmetic surgery, and eating disorders in order to conform to the body images and beauty