Lost
Lost by Jacqueline Davies takes place in the 1900s, and depicts the life of sixteen year-old Essie Rosenfeld. Essie the main character works at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York. She notices a new girl, who seems rich and is very suspicious why she is working here. Essie gets to the new girl Harriet, and they become great friends. However, Essie feels as if Harriet isn’t telling the whole truth. Harriet told her about how her husband died in an explosion that had happened not too long ago, and when Essie went to the library she wasn't very surprised when she didn't see Harriet’s husband in the obituary. Later on Essie figures out that Harriet actually ran away from her family, and is pregnant. Harriet feels lost, and doesn't
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Zelda’s face was completely smashed in, and the rest of her body was crushed. When Essie’s mom saw Zelda she ran to Essie and wouldn't let her see what all the commotion was, and locked her in a room. Essie hit her head in the room, and after that she thinks Zelda is just hiding from her. Essie imagines Zelda sleeping in between her and her mom at night, and believes she is alive. The day her mom finally talks to Essie about Zelda, Essie calls her mom a liar and storms out of the house. This was the same day of the fire. When a fire started in the eighth floor of the factory, girls were scrambling to get out. Everything in the building was highly flammable so it only took a matter of ten minutes for the factory to be …show more content…
One of the storylines in the book is written on grey pages, and is dated in the past. It talks about past events that have happened to Essie, and her memories of Zelda. The last entry is February 27, 1911, when the family experiences a tragic loss. The two storylines then blend, leaving you able to understand what is going on. The second storyline takes place in the present. At first when reading the two storylines, it easy to get confused and hard to follow, but soon you will understand. However, later on in the book they blend and makes perfect sense. Jacqueline Davies did a perfect job putting the past and the present together. She also does a wonderful job at making you stand in Essie’s shoes. Actually feeling everything Essie is going through, and be empathetic. The story begins on February 5, 1905 when Essie is remembering the birth of her little sister Zelda. This is written on a gray paper to show this took place in the past. On the rest of the entries each of them, are memories of Zelda. Each character was characterized very well in this book. Zelda is the best characterized of all though. I ended up not liking Zelda very much, because of her actions. She was obnoxious, irritating, and spoiled. She would disappear all the time and this foreshadowed something bad to come in the future. However, Zelda was only six, so I understand why she would act this way. We also learn a lot about Essie, who always
The book I choose for the book talk is “Dead and gone” written by Norah McClintock, this book talks about a murder mystery of Tricey Howard. The main character of the story is Mike, an orphan whose parents got killed in a car crash. He lives with his foster father named John Riel, who was once a police officer. During a swim meet, Mike see Mr.Henderson is staring at a girl name Emily without stopping. Then he informs Emily about what happened in the community center. However, as return Emily blackmails Mike to investigate Mr. Henderson. During the investigation, Mike finds nothing suspicious, but realize Emily is the daughter of Tricey Howard. Tricey Howard was murdered years ago, but the police still haven’t find the real killer. At the meantime,
Since the start of this quarter I have been reading the novel Reconstructing Amelia by Kimberly McCreight and I am currently on 153. This book is about Amelia Barron and her alleged suicide. Right before Amelia jumped from the roof of her private school, she was caught cheating on a test. Amelia’s mother, Kate, is in disbelief that her sweet, perfect, obedient daughter would turn recalcitrant, and in even more disbelief that her daughter would commit suicide. When Kate gets an anonymous text stating that Amelia did not jump, she set out to find out what really happened to her daughter. This book jumps from three main perspectives; the perspective of Kate after Amelia dies, the perspective of Amelia before she dies, and various sources of social
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. Her father was a drunk. He would physically and mentally abuse her. Ellen was forced to pay bills, go grocery shopping, cook for herself, and do everything else for herself. Ellen couldn't take it any more so she ran away her friends house. Starletta and her parents lived in a small cabin with one small bathroom. One day at school a teacher found a bruise on Ellen's arm. She sends Ellen to live with Julia the school's art teacher. Julia had a husband named Roy. They were both hippies. Julia and Roy cared a lot about Ellen. After Ellen turned 11 years old she was forced to go live with her grandmother. Ellen didn't want to leave Julia and Roy but her grandmother had won custody. Her grandmother was a cruel old lady. Ellen spends the summer with her grandmother. Living with her makes her very unhappy. Since her grandmother owns farmland she forces Ellen to work on the field with her black servants. Ellen meets a black woman named Mavis. Mavis and her become good friends. Mavis would talk about how she knew Ellen's mother and how much Ellen resembled her mother. Her grandmother didn't think the same. She thought that Ellen resembled her father. She also hated that man. Her grandmother would often compare her with her father. Her grandmother would torture her because she wanted revenge from her father. Her grandmother also blames her for the death of her mother. While Ellen was staying with her grandmother her father died. When her father died she didn't feel sad because she had always fantasized about killing her father. Ellen just felt a distant sadness. Ellen cried just a little bit. Her grandmother was furious because Ellen showed some emotions. She told her to never cry again. After that Ellen becomes scarred for a long time. One day her uncle Rudolph bought the flag that had been on Ellen's father's casket. Her grandmother turns him away. Later that day she burned the flag.
n the short story, Tunnel by Sarah Ellis, humour is used to reflect the struggles of adolescence and the overall theme of change, maturity and growth overtime. The first use of humour as a form of criticism of adolescents is when the protagonist realizes that he is not properly trained to babysit his new child, Elizabeth or lb. He is shocked at the drastic different styles of play from his previous child. “In my babysitting course at the community centre they taught us about first aid, diapering, nutritious snacks and how to jump your jollies out. They did not teach Barbies.” The author uses juxtaposition and humour to criticizes the inherent pride that the youth carry with them about their knowledge. For example, the protagonist is prideful
It reveals that Louie is trying hard to become a better person and excel in life.
In Mary Rowlandson, “A Captivity Narrative”, Rowlandson recounts her experiences as a captive of the Wampanoag tribe. The tribe took captives from Lancaster in 1676 because of the ongoing violent altercations between the English colonists and Native Americans during King Philip’s War. Since many of the Native Americans brethren had fallen in battle, they saw it fit to take English folk captive and use them to take the place of their fallen brethren, trading/ransom pieces, or killing them in revenge. This was becoming a common practice for the Native Americans to attack villages and in result, some English started fleeing the area or started to retaliate. Rowlandson was a Puritan wife and mother, in her
Margaret Peterson sets her cliffhanger mystery book, Haddix: The Missing Found, in a modest neighborhood in Ohio. This book is in first person point of view, being told by the main character, Jonah Skidmore. The tone is fearful because Jonah voices his fears to his friend, Chip, multiples times throughout the story and usually has a fearful attitude when trying to overcome obstacles. Haddix: The Missing Found, is about a group of famous children from history who were stolen by futuristic time travelers and sent back to the 21st century as babies. These babies were soon adopted by random families around the world, and had a normal life. However, when they got to be around 13 years old, they start to get threatening letters sent to them telling them that they are, “one of the missing” (Peterson 20). These kids proceed to venture on a journey to find the person who is sending these creepy letters, and go through many obstacle along the way. Overall, I thought that Haddix: The Missing Found was a great read because it was very mysterious and kept me guessing the whole time I was reading, and I found that the characters were really relatable.
...ies or extracurricular activities, the kind of competition that Lia and Cassie undertook was something I could relate to, though it may not be as extreme. Furthermore, I liked how the author didn’t show or tell in this book. She used the strikethrough feature to allow the readers to infer both the outer and inner meaning that the characters may represent. For example, to introduce Emma, Lia’s stepsister, the author stated “My stepsister, Emma…” (Anderson 3). This feature was very distinctive to the author’s style, something I have never seen before.
The book is sectioned into three sections. The three sections were the stories of three kids, who were going through the same tragedy but in there view. I liked the way she did this because not only gave you a detailed look through one child, but you go to experience the knowledge of three different children and what they thought. It makes it possible for more people to be able to relate to this book.
Death and Grieving Imagine that the person you love most in the world dies. How would you cope with the loss? Death and grieving is an agonizing and inevitable part of life. No one is immune from death’s insidious and frigid grip. Individuals vary in their emotional reactions to loss.
“A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner portrays a young female adult, Emily, who has gone through a life in which she has unfortunately become mentally unstable. When her father had died, she had refused the townspeople to take his body away from her claiming that he was not dead. Eventually, she allowed them to bury the body. Following her father’s death, Colonel Sartoris remitted Emily’s taxes stating that her father had loaned a lot of money to the town and to pay it back, the town remitted her taxes. Over the course of Emily’s life, she was in the spotlight of the townspeople’s’ attention because of how peculiar she went about her life. She would not allow for a mailbox or numbers to be put on her house, dated Homer Barron, purchased arsenic,
The Bell Jar by Silvia Plath is a novel about a girl named Ester Greenwood, (based of Plath’s past). Only 19 years old, she works for a Women’s magazine in New York City. She aspires to be a writer but feels alone in the world. In the beginning of the novel, early signs of
...very confused and when Victor and the Creature started fighting over her, Elizabeth got very mad and didn’t want live like that, so she grabbed a lantern and smashed it over her head where she got caught on fire and she ran down the hallway on fire and catching everything on fire, and finally running off the stairs to fall to her death.
The story takes place years after the Civil War; the main character is Emily an aristocratic woman who has hardships and trouble all throughout her life. Emily’s family believed that they were better than everyone else and he believed that no man was good enough for his daughter. After her father’s death, Emily began to rebel and do things she knew her father would not have allowed. She dates a Northerner day laborer and kills him, so that he could not leave her. Emily is very stuck up and believed she was better than others. The town people put up with Emily out of respect for her family and she got away with more than she should of.
Cienfuegos, the city of a hundred flames and the origin of the girl Nieve - the girl named after Snow. Like her implies, she does fit in the world she is raised in. In a state that demands conformity, she is trapped between her abusive father and her cowardly mother, between her staying in her country and freedom, and most of all trapped in a world where she can 't be herself. This is the story told in “Everyone Leaves” by Wendy Guerra. The challenges that Nieve faces, although varied in nature, all deal with the topic of abandonment and the thematic statement that ultimately, the only person who one can trust is themselves.