Innumerable books in literature gravitate towards creating characters who induce the people around them in order to forge a dynamic change. In the nonfiction novel written by Holly Goldberg, Counting By 7s, this idea of implementing vicissitude in one’s person by influence of another is easily delineated by Dell Duke in regards to Willow Chance. As Willow confronts her inceptive days of a new middle school, she is dealt a behavior counselor, Dell Duke, due to misconception over integrity. Dell Duke, being one of several who were altered by Willow’s ubiquitousness, exhibited a prodigious expanse of permutation over the time spent with and or around her. Dell was portrayed as inadequate and arbitrary in being Willow”s counselor or anyone’s …show more content…
He showed little to no interest in prolonging his health at an ample level, interminably eating unhealthy food without any sort of exercise to counterbalance his eating habits. Almost consecutive to meeting Willow, Dell brings his cat “Cheddar” to school. A many precautions should have been considered beforehand, shortly after, his cat makes its departure out of the school forcing Dell, Quang Ha, Mai, and Willow to consequently go searching for his now lost cat. This paragon of his lucid absurdity is only one that was depicted throughout the novel. It represents once again, how Dell is incompetent of taking care of other people nevertheless, himself. Howbeit, Dell was able to redeem himself through his time spent with Willow. As stated in the novel, “Are you really planning on running? Dell mumbles a form of yes. But then adds: but I'm not going to join any kind of team in the spring. I made that part up. I'm just going to run for myself”. Dell was assuredly taking action to patronage his own well being with addition to the vitality of the people around him as Mai and Willow also pursued his weekly runs. He showed his potentiality in having self control as he was able to maintain his goal of running each week at a set time. As
Though people say “First Impressions are Important”, it is more important to not judge someone based solely on first impressions, as getting to know someone new could help develop a better understanding of one’s self. In Delusion Road, by Don Aker, Willa Jaffrey, a spoiled popular girl, had started grade 12 with a kind boyfriend and a ton of friends, though within minutes of starting school, Keegan Fraser, a new student, had angered Willa and her friends. However, soon after she got to truly know him, she began dating Keegan, and her life began to change as she discovered herself – Changing into a kinder person and realizing the troubles everyone else was facing. Her self-discovery
Counting By Sevens written by Holly Goldberg Sloan. The genre of Counting By 7’s is realistic fiction. Counting By Sevens is about a girl named Willow Chance, a twelve year old genius. She loves nature and medical conditions. She also loves counting by 7’s. One day, after her counseling session, she arrives home where there is two police officers. They tell Willow your parents are dead. Her friend’s mother decides to take her in temporally while they find a foster home.
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.
A. The Scarlet Letter. Enriched Classic ed. of the book. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 2004.
The Novel Killing Mr. Griffin by: Lois Duncan is a story about the plot of kidnapping the English teacher of Del Norte High school. Being a student of Del Norte High school, Susan McConnell (the protagonist) encounters some difficulties and joy after she finally gets accepted in the “popular” herd. These upside and downsides turn into major themes which are incorporated during the course of the book. The major themes that are developed inside the book are: peer pressure/manipulation, psychopaths, conscience/guilt.
Counting by 7s is a book about a twelve-year-old girl named Willow, She has a strange obsession with nature and has been
...t for an adolescent young lady, her other more unsafe conduct might be a sign to less delicate teenagers to stay as far away as could be expected under the circumstances. This is the turning point that seals the girls' friendship and starts Tracy on an intense downhill path, into drugs, alcohol, and exploration of sex, shoplifting, and a general transformation from, innocent school girl to corrupt girl. Tracy did things like getting her tongue and her belly button pierced because that’s what her new friend Evie had. If her friend did a drug, she tried it too. Thirteen depicts the Social Learning Theory extremely well. She sees her friend’s tricks on how to get guys, and how to steal, and she imitates what she thinks will help her fit in. This theory is all about imitation and following what you see being done. Thirteen is a great example of Social Learning Theory.
The plot of the book, Speak is that Melinda Sordino, a freshman at Merryweather High went to an end of the summer party with some of her friends. Things take a turn for the worst when a senior named Andy Evans sexually assaults her at the party without her friends knowing about it. Melinda is frightened, afraid, and does not know what to do so she calls 911 busting the party, and causing her friends and everyone at that school to hate her, even if they don’t know her.
In Phoebe’s Prince story, for instance, no amount of finger pointing or apportioning blame can address the underlying issues. For one, she was an emotionally disturbed girl who had tried to end her life before she got bullied in school. Apart from her depressive state, Phoebe had minimal communication of her challenges in school with her parents or any authority figures (teachers or even the school principal) in her life. These gaps are what are highlighted in this paper and hopefully when fully grasped can help to minimize the gaps that exist in our social
The Novel Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte took a surprising twist when Bertha "Mason" Rochester was introduced. Bertha leaves a traumatizing impression on Jane’s conscious. However, this particular misfortunate event was insidiously accumulating prior to Jane’s arrival at Thornfield. Through Bertha, the potential alternative dark turn of events of Jane’s past are realized, thus bringing Jane closer to finding herself.
Her friends always asked her for help doing some things, good and bad, but she did her best to stay away from that kind of things. Like on page 106 in the novel when her friend Heather says “When you get through a life sucks phase, I’m sure lots of people will want to be your friend. But you just can’t cut classes or not show up to school. What’s next-- hanging out with the dopers?” and Melinda replies “Is this the part where you try to be nice to me?” and Heather replies “You just have a reputation.” This shows how negative peer pressure affects people, like how Heather thinks that she will end up hanging out with druggies, because she has already been pressured into skipping school and class. Andy Evans, the guy who raped her, always put himself around her, almost as peer pressure to not tell anyone, because he knew he could overpower her and that he was intimidating to her. Although Melinda had gone through a lot in her first year of high school, peer pressure had affected her, and she tried to seem invisible to everyone, until she finally figured out where she belonged and who she was, then exposing Andy Evans which allowed everyone
One can learn responsibility through experience, whether the experience is great, or if it is tragic. In The Ninth Ward by Jewell Parker Rhodes, twelve year old Lanesha demonstrates her growth by bringing her and others to safety during a deadly storm. Once nurtured and cared for by her non-biological grandmother, Lanesha learns to take care of herself and others. This significance shows her transitioning from a girl to a young woman.
“Sula,” however, was in Ohio during the first half of the twentieth century, nearly 100 years after “Jane Eyre”. It is the story of a young woman who was raised by her mother and grandmother whom both did not have a good reputation in the town they lived in. Sula later leaves the town for a period of 10 years, has many affairs and lives a wild life. When Sula returns to the town, many people look upon her as evil because of how she lives her life. Sula’s story is contrasted with that of her best friend Nel, who was raised by a family with more social morals and later chose to settle in a life as a wife and mother. “Sula” deals with several different themes like race, family, gender and social conventions.
her is inferior to Rochester and others of high class. She is forced into this social
Nelly Dean’s position as a longtime servant for both Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange allow her easy access to the personal lives of these two dysfunctional families. Nelly was brought to Wuthering Heights by her mother, who was a nursemaid for Hindley Earnshaw. She grew up around the E...