The book I read was Eleanor & Park by: Rainbow Rowell. It takes place in Omaha Nebraska. The external conflict in this book is Eleanor's dealing with a horrifying home life, mostly due to her abusive stepdad, Richie. She starts to look forward to her bus rides with Park. Park can't stop thinking about her either. Eleanor starts reading Park's comic books over his shoulder, and from there it's an up and down hill situation. A key issue revolves around Eleanor and her stepfather, Richie. There are countless times when Eleanor notices bruising on her mother's face. Richie abuses Eleanor’s mother physically and emotionally. Richie yells at and controls Sabrina Eleanor’s mother, and Eleanor is so used to it that she can sleep through the screaming.
In 1776, David McCullough gives a vivid portrayal of the Continental Army from October 1775 through January 1777, with sharp focus on the leadership of America’s greatest hero, George Washington. McCullough’s thesis is that had not the right man (George Washington) been leading the Continental Army in 1776, the American Revolution would have resulted in a vastly different outcome. He supports his argument with a critical analysis of Washington’s leadership during the period from the Siege of Boston, through the disastrous defense of New York City, the desperate yet, well ordered retreat through New Jersey against overwhelming odds, and concludes with the inspiring victories of Trenton and Princeton. By keeping his army intact and persevering through 1776, Washington demonstrated to the British Army that the Continental Army was not simply a gang of rabble, but a viable fighting force. Additionally, Mr. McCullough supports his premise that the key to the survival of the American Revolution was not in the defense of Boston, New York City, or any other vital terrain, but rather the survival of the Continental Army itself. A masterful piece of history, 1776 is not a dry retelling of the Revolutionary War, but a compelling character study of George Washington, as well as his key lieutenants, and his British adversaries, the most powerful Army in the 18th Century world. When I read this book, I went from a casual understanding of the hero George Washington to a more specific understanding of why Washington was quite literally the exact right man at the exact right place and time to enable the birth of the United States.
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.
Shirley Jackson was Extraordinary at writing marvelous novels, also known to be at competition with Stephen King. Especially for her book The Haunting of Hill House. Jackson created an amazing novel and even better characters, one of which is known as Eleanor. Jackson outstandingly creates this character isolated from society, which believes that hill house is her way out of isolation but finds herself to wanting a way out of Hill House.
Her name was Henrietta Lacks, also known as HeLa is credited for the huge advancements in the medical industry such as for polio, cancer, and many viruses
Markus Zusak reads as, Death, he watches over everyone during the time of World War Two, taking souls when the time comes for them to be set free. He tells us a little inside scoop of what's going on in the destruction that was happening outside of Liesel's story.
Lois Simmie, born in Saskatchewan and raised in Saskatoon is a critically acclaimed author. She has a fan base of all ages as she’s written for children as well as adults. Lois’s work includes, short stories, children’s poetry and children’s books. Her best-selling novel is titled They shouldn’t make you promise that. Lois found herself in a second hand book store reading a history booklet called Murder in Uniform, by Christina Stewart that told the story of John Wilson, the only member of the RNWMP, including the RCMP, to ever be tried and executed for a crime. The story fascinated her so much it would not leave her mind, she would find herself telling the story of John Wilson to friends and family only to find that no one had ever heard of this interesting part of Saskatchewan history. In 1992 Lois had told the story to Rob Sanders, publisher at Douglas & McIntyre., who agreed that if she wrote the story he would publish it, Lois then went on to find all the information she needed, a lot of it found in old police files at the national archives in Ottawa. Lois went on to write the book The secret lives of john Wilson – A true story of love and murder which is now the
Complex characters are pertinent in every book, movie, short-story, etc. These characters are given a variety of traits and different sides to their personality to make them as complex as possible. In order to make a complex character, an author must contradict who a character appears to be and who they are deep down inside. The author will question what the character looks like, dresses like, what they come home to, etc. In Rainbow Rowell’s Eleanor & Park, the complex character is the main character who happens to have a very difficult home life. This complex character is known as Eleanor.
In the story “The Passage” by Justin Cronin, published June 8, 2010, a lot of amazing things happened. In this dystopian literature of vampiric takeover, there seems to be nothing that can stop it. Or is there? Justin’s main characters set out on a journey of epic proportions. As they try to save the world, it might just crumble around them. Can these blood-suckers be beaten? Can humans prove stronger and smarter than supposed “super humans”? I suppose you will just have to find out by reading this amazing story of strength, fear, and love.
In the author's preface, Linda Brent speaks that everything she experienced in slavery, in the north, was strictly true. She trust that her readers excuse her deficiencies in consideration of circumstances. Whenever she would have spare time from household duties she compel herself to write these pages of her experiences in her life. She also says she doesn't write to attract readers because in contrary she would of found it better to keep her history a secret. In the end of her preface she says that even though she doesn't want to tell about her experiences, she wants to make the woman of the north aware about the conditions of two millions of women at the South, still in bondage.
This book has taught me a lot about Alexander Hamilton. Most of it was a surprise to me. This book includes where he was born, how he moved to the United States, what he had done to contribute to the country, and his wife and kids. This book has plenty of insight on one of our greatest leaders.
Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher begins when Clay Jensen receives seven audiotapes recorded by Hannah Baker, a girl from his town who recently killed herself. According to Hannah, each person on her tapes is a reason for her suicide. Clay is on the tapes, yet doesn’t see why. He has to listen to figure it out. When Clay finally gets to his tape, it is exposed that he wasn’t actually blamed for her suicide. Clay realizes that even though he didn't do anything bad to Hannah, he let rumors stand in the way of their budding relationship. Clay could have made a positive difference in Hannah’s life and hopefully prevented her suicide. Clay's possible role in Hannah's is hard for Clay to comprehend. He knows Hannah did this to her self, but is angry because he didn't do anything to stop her. Clay who’s normally calm gets so mad; he punches a fence and cuts his hand. Clay after staying up all night listening to the tapes brings himself to school the next day, realizing he cant hide the rest of his life and reaches out to another girl, Skye Miller. He does this hoping to keep her from the same fate of Hannah.
Most love stories start with love at first sight but not books written by Rainbow Rowell. Those books were written by Rainbow Rowell. Rowell wrote a book called “Eleanor and Park” which is a love story with a strange start. Rowell was born in Nebraska on February 24, 1973. Love and romance are what Rainbow likes to write books about, but they find love in a strange way. The characters in the story do not like each in the beginning, but at the end, they love each other.
2. The title of this book relates to the story, because in the book, Ponyboy and Johnny are “outsiders.” They can be thought of as Outsiders because they are labeled Greasers although they do not act like hoodlums, like the rest of the Greasers. They are thought of as Greasers just because they live on the East Side of town, and because they slick back their hair. But Ponyboy and Johnny are different then all of the other Greasers because they show their emotions, and are sensitive.
5.) Crooks- Crooks, the black stable-hand, gets his name from his crooked back. He is isolated from the other men because of the color of his skin. Soon, Crooks becomes fond of Lennie, and even though he claims to have seen countless men following empty dreams of buying their own land, he asks Lennie if he can go with them, because he wants to hoe in the garden.
Sacrifice, even when it comes to one’s ultimate end, is crucial in order to survive as a productive race. In the book Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens, he illustrates the hardships of the early-nineteenth-century lifestyles. With the resurrection of an evicted man, the novel sprouts from a broken family recovering and growing. This novel incorporates many grand gestures and adventures, such as the French Revolution, treason trials, and the sacrifice of one’s own life in the name of love.