The book Rules by Cynthia Lord is a beautifully written, touching look at the life of a young 12-year-old girl, Catherine, who’s coping with the conflicting emotions of living with her autistic brother, David. This book, sweet and at moments, heart-wrenching, is a simple story about a young girl who wants to be known for herself, not David's sister. Her eight-year-old brother has autism and because of his special needs, often takes the attention of their parents. They revolve around his disability and they don’t realize that not everyone gets or accepts David’s problem. Catherine’s mom works at home so she can keep a better watch and tend to David’s needs. However, the Dad is a pharmacist and isn’t around much, which doesn’t make matters any better. He has a tendency to be late which …show more content…
She says she'll think about it and goes home but she can't help wondering if Kristi only invited her because she can’t go to the dance with Ryan unless she goes too. The next day Catherine goes to the OT. She and Jason go on their regular walk but stop in the park to take a rest. Jason starts taping the communication board and asks if she wants to come to his birthday party and says, Kristi can come too,but Catherine says, that she can't come and then Jason points to his cards and says, your brother can come also. She replies saying he might be able to come at the end for cake not wanting him to embarrass her. Catherine is so happy for the rest of the day because everything works out since Jason's party is the same day as the dance she will have an excuse not to go and Kristi and Ryan won't be able to see Jason's disability. The next day Catherine goes to Jason's party. She is welcomed by the smiles of Jason’s family. She sets down the gift she got him and goes to get Jason. She finds him in his room, with one of the pictures she drew awhile ago and gave to him on the
Conroy displays his life through his novel, The Lords of Discipline, to give readers a visual demonstration of how life connections can transform the entity of a novel. Conroy's attendance to the Citadel, his family, and the South helped influence his innovative writing style.
Cathy's Book by Sean Stewart, Jordan Weisman, and Cathy Briggs is a break-out Young Adult first published September 12, 2006. A following of about 1000 members online of all ages and genders, it sold 6,000 copies in a meer 3 months of being published, and number 7 on the New York Times Best Seller list. And those are just the book's stats. Cathy herself is a very popular character with 1,200 friends on Myspace, 22 followers on Flickr, and 1,863 friends on Facebook. An impressive feat, considering she's a fictional character. After reading the book myself, I completely understand what all the hype is about. Cathy's book is a fully engrossing novel that blurs the lines between Young Adult genres and can definitely keep even the most hard-hearted of book critics distracted from their daily duties such as sleeping, eating, working, and the likes.
This book is about a girl name Ellen Foster who is ten years old. Her mother committed suicide by over dosing on her medication. When Ellen tried to go look for help for her mother her father stopped her. He told them that if she looked for helped he would kill them both. After her mother died she was left under her fathers custody.
Amy Tan and Sandra Cisneros are both excellent writers. Their stories are really interesting and entertaining, especially for college students and for individuals who are just looking for something to read. After reading several papers to do this paper on, I chose two that really spoke to me and were definitely worth the read. These two stories are Amy Tan’s “Rules of The Game”’ and Sandra Cisneros, “Only Daughter”. I choose to analyze these two stories in their socio-economic setting in terms of the notions of success, and compare and contrast how the main characters deal with these conflicts in their lives. Through comparing and contrasting Tan’s “Rules of The Game” and Cisneros’ “Only Daughter”, it is evident that their
"Give me a good theory over a strategic plan any day of the week," is the opening sentence of Michael Fullan's book “Six Secrets of Change”. The read is a guide for both business and education leaders who desire to make their organizations successful. The six secrets that are illustrated in this book are offered as a theory of action. Individually each secret may appear to be simple, yet Fullen layers them with intricate details that express its value to change. Although some of the secrets may be difficult to understand the author makes a conscience effort to provide real-life examples of these secrets through organizational practices. He discusses organizational attitudes and behaviors and provides example in which execution has been successful and other areas that have not been successful. By using these examples, Fullan provides a blueprint for organizational leaders that can be used to guide their action towards successful long lasting changes. Ultimately this will improve organizational culture and efficiency. Michael Fullan is a well-known, author of works devoted to leader...
In Joan Chen’s movie “The Sent Down Girl”, there are two gifts, one is a kaleidoscope and the other is an apple, received by the central character: XiuXiu.
In "The Rules of the Game," a short story about a young Chinese-American girl, Waverly Jong, embarks journey to become a chess master. Waverly's mother believes she is a key component during this journey. Even though the mother actually has no true role in Waverly's adventure, she continues to believe it is her as the one who is succeeding. This belief is a necessity for Waverly's mother because she has nothing for herself. Waverly's mother has to live through her daughter because of her own lack of success.
Should successful parents give up everything, including their happiness for their children? Some parents do this way, but the answer should be no because it is human nature to love their children, but it is inevitable for people to spoil their children. In Amy Tan’s Rules of the Game, it tells the story between a traditional Chinese mother from rural China who emigrated to the United States around 1950s and a daughter who grew up in the United States. Tan describes in detail the way the mother educates her daughter Waverly as an oriental female. Cormac McCarthy’s The Road is also telling a story about a parent and his child, and it reflects how a father teaches and takes meticulous care of his son in a harsh and dangerous environment. Both
The Rules is quite possibly one of the greatest marketing ploys to have ever been created and has developed into in its own words "a creature unlike any other." By successfully exploiting the classic notion of "happily ever after," Ellen Fein and Sherrie Schneider have created a mega brand that has sold millions of dollars of nonsensical teachings to unsuspecting women for more than a decade. I call these teachings nonsensical not because they aren't effective, but because of, among other things, Fein and Schneider's lack of authority, a number of glaring contradictions, inappropriate use of cause and effect, and an overall lack of evidence to support their arguments.
Siblings – the most annoying things in the world. They’re horrible, wonderful beings, and you would sacrifice anything for them in the end. In Jordan Sonnenblick’s novel Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie, Steven Alper, the main character, learns exactly how wonderful, and horrible, it can be to have a younger brother. Steven is your typical 8th grader – he’s continuously vexed by his younger brother Jeffrey, he has a crush on a girl who doesn’t acknowledge his existence, and he plays the drums in the All-City Jazz Band. While Steven struggles through life, his world halts when his five-year-old brother is diagnosed with leukemia, As Steven and his family strive to overcome Jeffrey’s cancer diagnosis, the Alper family learns the true meaning of sacrifice.
Carly’s Voice is a book about a young girl’s journey with autism. Carly was born in January of 1995 with her twin sister Taryn. The Fleschmann family already had a young son, who was rambunctious, then they added two baby girls to the mix. Before even being diagnosed with autism, Carly seemed different than her sister Taryn. She would show little emotion and not hit the milestones she should’ve been hitting as a toddler. This concerned her parents, her parents started Carly in early intervention. At the age of two Carly was diagnosed with autism and developmental delay. She was put into a school called Northland Educational Centre at two and a half, around this time her mother, Tammy, was diagnosed with cancer. There was a lot going on with
The nonfiction book I read was titled Beautiful Child and was written by Torey Hayden. Beautiful Child follows the life of a special education teacher who is new to a school is met with a challenging class consisting of five children, all with very different needs. The class consists of a child who has tourette’s syndrome (Jesse), a child who we later find out has dyslexia (Billy), two twins who have fetal alcohol syndrome (Shane and Zane), and a young girl who is selectively mute (Venus.) Although through the story we see each child grow and progress, Venus is the main character and we see her open up to Torey through books and most important She-Ra comics. As Venus’ story unfolds, so do the horrendous details of her family that include a past of drug abuse and prostitution. The quietness of Venus that left many confused, begins to make
This book is called, “A Child Called It” by David Pelzer’s is about the life of a child named David that lives in Daly City, California with his dad named Stephen Joseph who works as a fireman in San Francisco, CA .As well, with his mother named Catherine Roerva and his four brothers named Stan, Ronald, Russell, and Kevin (the smallest).At the beginning, David has a wonderful life because he has a wonderful time with his parents and his brothers. His mother cares and loves him. She prepares delicious food for her family and dresses up very nice like, does her make up. The family takes vacations together to different places for example, Portola, Memorial Park, the Russian River and camped out for a week. Stephen his dad doesn’t spend a lot of time at home because he has to work a 24hour shifts and he loves David who he calls “Tiger”. Catherine his mother makes sure her house is clean, loves her children, and plans the family vacations. She takes the boys to field trips while dad is working and prepares delicious and exotic food for her husband and kids. Also, they spend the holidays as a family with different activities .For example, in Christmas where the whole family decorate the tree and each year one of the boys is honor to place the angel at the top of the tree. However, everything changes when David mothers caught him at mischief and starts to punish him more than his brothers even if she caught them all committing the same crime. She started to punish David by putting him in a corner of his bedroom and he would stay there until one of his brothers will ask his mother if he could come out to play. Then, she grab David face and smashed it against the mirror and he repeated, “I’m a bad b...
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I enjoyed reading was Ian’s Walk: A story about autism by Laurie Lears and illustrated by Karen Ritz. This book was about a girl and her brother with autism. I love how this book addresses autism. At first the sister is looking at her brother as someone without autism that is she does not treat him any different, but by the end of the story she tries to see things the way that her autistic brother sees them. She begins to have an understanding that she should not care of what others think and that certain things that he doe...