In chapter two of The View from Saturday, the author, E.L. Konigsburg introduces the character Nadia Diamondstein, a sixth grade girl who considers herself a hybrid/mixed breed, because both Judaism and Protestant run in her family. Like Noah Gershom, Nadia has a place as both a member of The Souls and the Epiphany Middle School Academic Bowl team. The chapter opens at the finals of the Academic Bowl. The commissioner of education reads the next question, “What is the name given to that portion of the North Atlantic Ocean noted for its abundance of seaweed and what is its importance to the ecology of our planet?” This time, Nadia’s buzzer sounds. Using a flashback, Konigsburg shows the reader events of Nadia’s summer, to explain how Nadia could …show more content…
Early on Friday evening, Allen picked up Nadia’s dog, Ginger, along with Nadia. A few days after Nadia’s arrival, Nadia visited both Grandpa Izzy and Margaret to have brunch together with Allen. At brunch, Margaret was strangely not at all curious about Nadia. On most other days, Nadia spent time at the pool, reading books, watching talk shows, and walking Ginger at the golf course. Then, on Thursday, Grandpa Izzy called and asked Allen to drop Nadia off the next morning at the apartment where he and Margaret live. Ethan Potter, Margaret’s grandson stayed with Izzy and Margaret this summer as well. The next morning, Nadia and Ginger went to the apartment where Nadia first learned that Izzy and Margaret would dig out a sea turtle nest that evening. Nadia then tells the reader of a sea turtle report from the fifth grade that had received an A and had taken encouragement from Grandpa Izzy. Nadia had planned to save the report for a Florida history report coming up in the sixth grade. Nadia uses a pun here to tell the reader wasn’t known then, saying, “I did not know when I started sixth grade that I would be living in the state of divorce and New York.” Nadia spends the rest of the day at …show more content…
From there, Allen goes to work and the others spend the day at the pool, at the movies, and later to see The Phantom of the Opera with Allen. Later, Allen announces that he has decided to get permitted for the sea turtle nest digging. The next Tuesday, everyone watches a turtle nest hatch, and then, after conversing with Ethan, Nadia learns that Margaret had set up a job interview in Epiphany with Dr. Gershom for Nadia’s mother. This causes Nadia to dislike Margaret very much, because although Margaret was only helping, Nadia takes everything personally. The next day, Nadia refuses to go to Izzy and Margaret’s apartment and instead stays at home. When Nadia’s dad comes back home, it is decided that both of them will go to Disney World, but Nadia and Allen’s plans quickly change when a storm hits and Izzy and Margaret need help moving a sea turtle nest to a safer area. Here, the chapter’s theme is reflected, because in the book, the sea turtles get help from people like Margaret so that they can safely reach the ocean. Like the turtles, Nadia’s mother along with Nadia get help from Margaret, so that they can comfortably adjust to life in
Ten year old Esther Burr creates a cheerful, reminiscent journal entry describing her day out with her father by using sophisticated word choice and an informal sentence structure. Burr’s purpose is to reveal her adoration for her father with flattering words and to also describe her day with such detail that she won’t forget it. She develops a complimentary tone in order to not only have a good memory of her father later in life, but also to appeal to her mother, who regularly reads her diary.
In “The Weekend,” George cheats on Lenore with Sarah, and she still chooses to stay with him and work out their issues. The story by Ann Beattie can relate to “The Awakening” by Kate Chopin because Edna cheats on Leonce with Robert and Alcee Arobin. After learning Edna cheats on him, Leonce decides to stay with Edna to work their relationship out. While nothing is wrong with their significant others, they cheat because something in them is unfulfilled. Lenore knows George cheats because he spends much of his time with the other women, but she never acknowledges it, until she talks with Julie one day; “she’s really the best friend I’ve ever had. We understand things—we don’t always have to talk about them. ‘Like her relationship with George,’
The poem was part of a Sandra Cisneros’s book called, My Wicked Wicked Ways, collection of poems that has the themes of Chicanas’ sexuality, culture, and history. It is a narrative because it paints a picture in my head even though it has a few words. For All Tuesday Travelers is an empowerment poem because it tells a story of a woman acting against the traditional role of being woman by using allegory, mood, and alliteration.
Susie’s mother opened the door to let Molly, Susie’s babysitter, inside. Ten-month old Susie seemed happy to see Molly. Susie then observed her mother put her jacket on and Susie’s face turned from smiling to sad as she realized that her mother was going out. Molly had sat for Susie many times in the past month, and Susie had never reacted like this before. When Susie’s mother returned home, the sitter told her that Susie had cried until she knew that her mother had left and then they had a nice time playing with toys until she heard her mother’s key in the door. Then Susie began crying once again.
Turtle at the beginning of the book is just a young girl whose mother has died. When Taylor
Gene jumped into the river even though he’s scared because of Finny’s persistence. After the two boys jumped, the other three refuses to do the jumping, so they headed back for dinner. Into their way back, the 2 best friends wrestle with one another and missed dinner. Consequently, they went straight to their rooms. Mr. Prud’homme, a substitute teacher for the summer session, went to Gene and Finny to discipline them the next morning for missing dinner, but he was soon won over by Finny’s ebullient talkativeness and leaves without giving punishment.
The novel begins with the mother ignorant to modern society. Junior emphasizes this. "No one had ever taught her anything. She was an orphan at six months"(23). "At the age of thirteen, she was married off to a man rolling in money and in morality whom she had never seen. He would have been the age of her father. He was my father"(24). She has been isolated in her home since she was married twenty-two years ago. Her husband went off to work and her sons went off to school. The mother stayed in the home and took care of her family and her house. She rejected any French influence in her home. Her sons were punished for speaking the language. She was content in her innocence.
First, after the mother tells Izzy she is going to Costa Rica, Izzy gets upset. She verbalized, ‘“Mom wouldn’t leave me. Right? ‘But that's only three days.’I stepped away from mom and the shards of tile. ‘I don’t have a choice.’ ‘But what am I supposed to do? That’s three whole month's”’(paragraph 11-14). Izzy gets upset with her mother due to the fact that her mother is leaving her in New Mexico for three month,s while she goes to Costa Rica. Her mother knows that it is going to benefit them, and she is doing it to help Izzy. Next, Izzy’s mother and Izzy argue over going to New Mexico. The mother announces, ‘“You’re going to New Mexico and that’s final.’ I swallowed and tried not to cry ‘Why do you always get to decide everything?”’(paragraphs 28 and 29) The mother wants the narrator to go to New Mexico and spend time with her Nana while she is in Costa Rica, but the narrator does not want to go to New Mexico and wants to stay home and she thinks that her mother is ruining her summer. Finally, the mother and narrator argue after they were talking about the narrator's plans. The mother says, “Honey, you can make friends at your new school in the fall. Besides, this is a wonderful opportunity for you.” “Opportunity?For me?Or for you?” (paragraphs 33 and 34)The narrator feels as though that she is not going to have a great
Morrie Schwartz and Mitch Albon are the main characters in the book Tuesdays with Morrie. Tuesdays with Morrie is the last lesson between Morrie, a college professor and Mitch Albom, one of his former students who is also the author of the book. After watching his college professor in an interview on the "Nightline" show, the author recalls a promise which he made sixteen years ago to continue keeping in touch with him. Now suffering from ALS, Morrie has very little time left, and Mitch knows this fact. Due to that, Mitch takes a trip from Michigan to Massachusetts so that he can meet him. Their meeting is successful and affects both of them so much to the extent that they meet for the following fourteen successive Tuesdays, up till Morrie
“You’re sleeping the day away.I can’t tell who is lazier, Polly or you,” Mother muttered as she stalked out of the room. “When I was a girl, we were up before the sun . . .” (1)This is our first look into Mattie’s world, we see the tension between her and her mother and we get to see Mattie’s much more lazier and childish side.Through the rest of her day we see inside Mattie’s world at the coffee house, her family owns, we experience along with Mattie her Mother’s nagging, but also Mattie’s constant complaining. ”Dash it all, Grandfather said I was a Daughter of Liberty, a real American girl. I could steer my own ship. No one would call me little Mattie. They would call me “Ma’am.”(2) This shows us Mattie’s desire for a more adventurous life, how her dreams are so much bigger than what her family wants, mostly because she’s never really experienced more than her everyday life. This shows Mattie is ready to grow up, she just needs that
Taylor begins to acquire feelings for Estevan and soon falls in love with him. Mattie decides to move Estevan and Esperanza to a different sanctuary with the aid of Taylor. She drives the refugees, accompanied by Turtle, to Oklahoma where she also chooses to officially adopt Turtle. Taylor uses Estevan and Esperanza to impersonate Turtle’s biological parents and sign the release documents; Taylor is finally given Turtle. The duo then drove back to their hometown of Tucson, Arizona, after saying their goodbyes.
In Blessed Unrest, Paul Hawken illustrates to the reader how groups of organizations with similar principles and ideals are coming together to form what Hawken defines as a “movement.” In the chapter “Blessed Unrest,” Hawken explains the vast problems that plague the globe, such as loss of water for agriculture or theft of resources from third-world countries by government and corporations. He writes that due to these problems the world today is facing a task exponentially more difficult than the abolition of slavery, the restoration of the planet. However, Hawken also describes in the chapter those who are eager to address and protest against these dilemmas. Individuals who are willing to come together under common goals in order to necessitate environmental and social change in the world. Hawken, as his primary point, illustrates how groups of organizations and individuals are coming together to form a “movement,” which Hawken describes as a new form of community and story focused on three basic ambitions: environmental activism, social justice initiatives, and indigenous culture’s resistance to globalization.
Summary B chapter one in Unthinkable gets in detail about what happen the day of the accident, and why and how it happens. Scott was working for a lawn mowing company with a group of friends for the summer when a reckless driver made a mistake on the road causes the 18 wheeler scoot was on to lose balance. Scott was on the back of the pick up truck at the time the incident took place. Scott flew over board do to the hit and his right leg unfortunately got stuck in the trailer dragged him 324 feet on the road. He was in critical condition so the doctor gave his parents a chance to pick the leg get cut off or it does not.
In the short story "weekend" by Ann Beattie, there is one main central conflict between the main characters of Lenore and George. This conflict arises from that fact that George and Lenore have a child together, live in the same house, yet they have no apparent relationship. George is always bringing back women to the house in front of Lenore and she hides how it hurts her deep down. George’s character is portrayed as an alcoholic older man who does not seem to care too much about anything that is going on around him. While Lenore is shown to be a “simple” woman who just lets George walk all over her by showing up with younger girls and who rarely shows emotion. Although Lenore is not as simple as she leads on to George, she has a lot of emotion buried inside of her that she does not always show, and her character is a lot more complex after a second glance.
It was late and the house was silent. Tom came home from work late a lot, so the silence was expected. By this time, Marie was in bed and his dinner, the evening newspaper, and the mail were waiting for him on the table. Tom closed the door and walked down the short hall to the kitchen. Everything was set on the table. He quickly looked through the mail and went over to the bin to throw an unwanted advertisement away. Tom noticed a crumpled piece of his wife’s stationary inside. He picked it up and opened it.