5. Orphan Black 5.1 Plot Summary Season 1 and 2 The TV series Orphan Black revolves around a group of women who discover that they are clones and try to solve the mystery of their origin. The series opens with Sarah Manning witnessing a woman’s suicide who appears to be her doppelganger. With only a short moment of hesitation Sarah takes on the woman’s identity, a cop named Beth Childs. Quickly she discovers that she is a clone and has many sisters spread throughout North America and Europe. Together with two of them, Alison Hendrix and Cosima Niehaus, Sarah continues the search for their origin and discovers a movement called Neolution whose members believe that humans have the power to direct their evolution via genetic engineering. Furthermore, they get to know that each clone is watched by a closely affiliated person such as husband or boyfriend. A religious group called the Proletheans is introduced that believes the clones are abominations and should be therefore killed. They send Helena, the slightly psychopathic “lost” clone, to murder her sisters. Sarah eventually discovers that she has a twin sister and that this sister is no-other than Helena. The Dyad Institute, headquarters of the Neolutionists, tries everything to get hold of …show more content…
The first twelve of them are the results of illegal cloning experiments beginning in the 1970s and are all born in the year 1984 (Fawcett 1.1 00:27:11). Charlotte, the youngest clone, was created in 2006 as the sole survivor of over 400 attempts to continue the line of Leda clones although the original genome was lost in a fire (Fawcett 2.10 00:36:20, 2.5
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
“Geronimo: an American legend” is a story of an apache warrior who fought against the United States in order to preserve his peoples culture. The film starts off, ironically, with the first surrender of Geronimo. His people are sent to a reservation called turkey creek. On this reservation they were expected to become farmers that would produce mostly corn. However the apache where not harvesting enough to sustain their community and had to rely on government checks.
Which was sister souji who is a psychologist or someone who comes and preached and gives advice to those in trouble , in need of some good advice she is well known in new york . Winter gets introduced to sister souji who takes her in even though winter gives her a fake name . She asked sister souji if she knew her cousin midnight she said “yes” . Winter had lied and said that her mother was very sick and her mother wanted to see midnight which was her cousin . she asked if she could stay there which sister souji let her for a few weeks till midnight came to get her . Sister souji introduced her to her little sister lauren which who also liked to party and was a bit sneaky . Then the doctor who works down stairs and has her little clinic which winter seems to keeps an eye on because she make 300 dollars each patients . Sister souji gets invited to her friends party who most likely her boyfriend on the low but things don't seems to workout at the moment with his career and lifestyle as a rapper . Which winter sees a big opportunity to snatch and if she sleeps with the rapper she can make him fall in love with her body which is not true at all because the moment she gets a chance to go back to the mansion and gets picked to go up stairs . She gets played out. who she really sleeps with is the bodyguard .
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.
Unwind by Neal Shusterman describes a world, taking place shortly after the second civil war, where parents and families are able to “retroactively abort” their children when they are past the age of thirteen. When they turn eighteen, they are no longer within their parent's’ constraints and cannot be unwound. When teenagers are unwound, their body parts and organs become disassembled and can be transplanted into teenagers who require that specific part or organ. Families interpret this as their children’s essence being spread among other teenagers, in which their child will still live on. This book follows every move of the main characters Connor Lassiter, Risa Ward, and Lev Caldar. These three characters work together for most of the book
When terrible things happen to people their faith is shaken and they question the existence of God. The Shack, written by William P. Young, is a novel about a man named Mack who shares his story and his experience with faith. The novel begins with Mack receiving a note to meet Papa [God] at the shack; a place where evidence of his daughter's murder was found. In the Shack, Papa is portrayed as an African American woman, who challenges our traditional perception of God. A flashback of unfortunate events, then occurring leading to his daughter, Missy, being abducted, and presumably murdered. Mack decides to follow the note and meets Papa, Sarayu [Holy Spirit], and Jesus, where he learns lessons, lectures, and details about Missy’s death. Mack
Anne Orthwood’s Bastard by John Ruston Pagan tells the story of what Anne’s life was like living in early colonial America. The book depicts a very accurate description of what life would be like for any settler in the Americas. Settlers were enticed to move over the colonies by the Virginia company with the idea that they could achieve a life full of opportunities. There they would work as Indentured servants and serve out their term. Throughout the book there are many cases involving the sale of Indentured Servants and also the in Anne’s case of her pregnancy through her illicit relationship. These legal cases favored those with higher social status and higher economical statuses. Early American society was built with economic interests
she is able to meet her twin sisters that have been missing from her life for over 30 years.
It is set in alternate “England, late 1990’s where human beings are cloned and bred for the purposes of harvesting their organs once they reach adulthood. These "clones" are reared in boarding school-type institutions” (Cusk. 2011). The reader follows retrospective and episodic accounts of these experiences through a series of flashbacks from the main protagonist and point of view of ‘Kathy H’ introduced in the beginning of the novel as a “thirty-one year old carer” the only option available to the clones in which they can experience any sense of normal societal life i.e. employment, their own transport and accommodation (Ishiguro. 2005: 3).
The story building is in three acts. The first one tells us about the childhood of our characters(Hailsham), the second one about their teens and early adulthood(cottages) and the last one about their donations. The clones were made from normal people, but they grew up in institutions with other clones and when they reached adulthood they start to donate their vital organs.
The three Weird Sisters, or as Tolman explains, the “Norns of Past, Present, and Future,” embody knowledge that is utilised to bring about man’s downfall (92). The Sisters are not realistic characters per se, but are constant and unchanging, suggesting a spiritual, demonic level of being. To begin with, the Weird Sisters are shown, as a result of an evidently Mephistophelian exchange...
...ear old girl and was the first multiple to appear to the therapist. “Janet” comes out to drive. “Carol” comes out to grocery shop. “Mary” is the financial keeper. “Skeptic” claims that Beth is a liar and is acting everything. “Yardwoman” takes care of the yard. Beth once caused her family to be $6,000 in debt because all her personalities had a combined seventeen credit cards and ran them up. Beth was abused and raped from age ten until the age fourteen.
In Mudbound, by Hillary Jordan, characters of many different backgrounds interact in the Mississippi River delta. Although the novel takes place at a time when races are technically equal, many older white characters carry their prejudices into farm life, discriminating against their black peers, whether consciously or unconsciously. As she explores race relations in her novel, Jordan asserts that racial discrimination is insidious, still existing despite good intentions and a lack of overt offense.
The story of the Gadbury sisters is a documentary which the descendants of each sister shares their heritage, beliefs and where they originated from, giving insights on their convicted family history. Caroline, Sarah and Maryann were the three troublesome sisters, which were categorized to be very clever and organized with their convict offenses. Starting at age twelve these three sisters began their rebellious missions with robberies and shoplifting from Londoners. Through time the Gadbury sisters formed generations and generations of descendants although the concept of Gadbury family history changed over time as told by each descendant of the three sisters.
war. Through this hardship, the girls: Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy, learn to be thankful in all circumstances and help those less fortunate than themselves.