Personally, not having a favorite picture book growing up it was fun to recall childhood memories while skimming the bookshelf. A Fly Went By written by Mike Mc Clintock is one that has always been fun to reading and looking over after so many years it is evident why a child would be intrigued. It all started with a small fly passing by very quickly and a small boy asking why he was in such a hurry the fly replied “I must get out of here” the frog is after me and when he asked the frog why he was after the fly he replied “I want no fly” the cat is after me and characters continue to be chased by something larger (“A Fly Went By”). The anticipation of what will come next is what keeps the audience pulled. The text rhymes keeping it fun to read and any beginner reader will stay engaged. The illustrations by Fritz Siebel seem to done with a done with a combination of …show more content…
Not having much knowledge of this type of children’s literature I decided to read one of her stories to include in the discussion and have become more educated on the types of books she is reading. Dogs of War by Shelia Keenan focuses on the military dogs who serve during World War I, World War II and Vietnam. The storyline of third story in the book tells the story of a boy who moves to a new place, gets a new dog and discovers a solider living near by who is struggling after the war. They start to interact with the dog and the solider begins to open up about the hardship of war and his military dog Sheba. The illustrations by Nathan Fox really capture the emotions of the solider and the pain he is dealing with along with the war setting in Vietnam. The audience for this book is geared for boys, but will appeal to dog lovers like my daughter. If it is appropriate for anyone under 9 or 10 is still in question. It is a heavy topic and it does include soldiers dying and war
“I have had a happy life and thank the Lord. Goodbye and may God bless all!”(199), these were the last words of Chris McCandless in a picture with him smiling and waving good-bye. Into The Wild by Jon Krakauer is an extension of an article first published in Outside magazine. In the book, Krakauer further explains the journey of Chris McCandless, while providing his own insight to provide the reader a better understanding of the McCandless reasoning. McCandless lived a nomadic life after he graduated from college, traveling from South Dakota to Mexico. However, his two year journey proved fatal when he took a trip to Alaska, his greatest undertaking. Among his remains several books were discovered, including a copy of Walden by Henry D. Thoreau
As with any genre, all novels termed ‘war stories’ share certain elements in common. The place and time settings of the novels, obviously, take in at least some aspect of at least one war or conflict. The characters tend to either be soldiers or are at least immediately affected by the military. An ever present sense of doom with punctuated moments of peace is almost a standard of the war novel. Beyond the basic similarities, however, each of these battle books stands apart as an individual. Charles Yale Harrison’s World War I novel, Generals Die in Bed is, in essence, quite different than Colin McDougall’s Execution. Coming years earlier, Generals can almost be seen to hold the wisdom one would expect see in an older sibling, while Execution suffers the growing pains that the younger child inevitably feels.
...and wounds soldiers but murdering their spirits. War hurts families and ruins lives. Both stories showed how boys became in terrible situations dealing with war.
Harrison Bergeron is a short story that creates many images and feelings while using symbols and themes to critique aspects of our lives. In the story, the future US government implements a mandatory handicap for any citizens who is over their standards of normal. The goal of the program is to make everyone equal in physical capabilities, mental aptitude and even outward appearance. The story is focused around a husband and wife whose son, Harrison, was taken by the government because he is very strong and smart, and therefore too above normal not to be locked up. But, Harrison’s will is too great. He ends up breaking out of prison, and into a TV studio where he appears on TV. There, he removes the government’s equipment off of himself, and a dancer, before beginning to dance beautifully until they are both killed by the authorities. The author uses this story to satire
The impact of the Vietnam War upon the soldiers who fought there was huge. The experience forever changed how they would think and act for the rest of their lives. One of the main reasons for this was there was little to no understanding by the soldiers as to why they were fighting this war. They felt they were killing innocent people, farmers, poor hard working people, women, and children were among their victims. Many of the returning soldiers could not fall back in to their old life styles. First they felt guilt for surviving many of their brothers in arms. Second they were haunted by the atrocities of war. Some soldiers could not go back to the mental state of peacetime. Then there were soldiers Tim O’Brien meant while in the war that he wrote the book “The Things They Carried,” that showed how important the role of story telling was to soldiers. The role of stories was important because it gave them an outlet and that outlet was needed both inside and outside the war in order to keep their metal state in check.
A war that still comes to mind and appears in people’s conversation today is the Vietnam War. The Vietnam War started November 1, 1955 and ended April 1, 1975. This war involved the United States, South Korea, Australia, the Philippines, New Zealand, and Thailand. The people who didn’t experience the war might wonder what it was like, what were the soldiers duties, how did the soldiers act, or even how did the soldiers survive the war. Tim O’Brien who wrote a short story that is called “The Things They Carried”, is a story that involves soldiers who are in Vietnam. In his story he writes about a Lieutenant named Jimmy Cross and his passion about a woman named Martha and how he becomes a better lieutenant for his men during the war.
This story if a little fish that stole a larger fish’s hat is not your ordinary children’s book, and definetly does not have a happy ending. Throughout the book the little fish continues to inform the reader that he is safe and that the big fish will not take his hat back. Towards the end of the book the little fish disappears into a forest if underwater plants letting the reader know he will not be found. But we as the reader see it differently when the big fish swims away with his hat. This ending is interesting because depending on the age of the child can be taken differently. A young child will most likely think that the fish just took the hat while older children may jump to the conclusion that the big fish ate the little fish. The illustrations on the book tie the whole story together. The choice of dark colors keeps the message and story constant throughout the book. What I liked about the book the most is the combination of the language used and the illustrations. Without either one of these the book would be completely different. The language is simple and straight to the point allowing the children to understand what is happening. And the images are very detailed and paint the picture for what is happening in the story. These combination of these two are what a child needs to read to keep their brains working and becoming intellectually better.
Fallen Angels, by Walter Dean Myers, begins with the introduction of an African American 19-year-old boy who lives in Chicago. Recently he's joined the army and been assigned domestic work as he hoped for due to his bad leg and unreliable strength on it. Then, by accident of paperwork, he was eventually sent to Nam and put directly onto the field. He agreed to wait for his injury profile to catch up with him and that then he could return home. His mother at home is quite worried for him and also for the future of her other younger son Kenny. Life is hard and money is scarce with the absence of the family's father. In Nam, the elder son Perry undergoes many experiences that are permanently damaging to his mental physique and deal with the balance of life and death. As any Vietnam Story, me...
Griffith, John, and Charles Frey. Classics of Children's Literature. 6th ed. New Jersey: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2005. 21-29, 322-374. Print.
I would recommend this book to a friend because the reader is able to comprehend different aspects of the war. This novel is written in an upfront style, which makes it easy for the reader to follow along. I am thinking about including something about how war gives soldiers mental disorders for my thesis argument. I would like to write about the mental health of our troops for my research paper. I intend to focus on psychological disorders and mental illness.
Fans of the novel like the way you get to see inside Grace and Marty 's personalities, and the way that these two kids are just like any other, if not a little more unusual. You will find yourself glued to the pages until you have finished reading the novel. The adventures will make it so that you only breath about every once in a while and you will like the characters you are reading about, even if you are an adult. The novel is vivid in description and it is almost as though you are able to make a movie of things in your head. Some felt that they were along for the ride with the heroes, Grace and Marty, in this one and they enjoyed every moment of
Children fool around every day with parental supervision always there to catch the youth when they are at risk of vulnerability. Without parental supervision, they need to be self-conscious of their own well-being. Once a child becomes an adult, they learn to take their own path through life with no safety net and to take responsibility for their own actions, unlike Chris McCandless. The novel, Into the Wild, by Jon Krakauer, exposes a cocky and arrogant, Chris McCandless, who is to blame for his own death, because he lives a life of taking risks, and depends on those that care for him to save him from the edge of disaster.
Christopher Johnson McCandless, a.k.a Alexander Supertramp, “Master of his Own Destiny.” He was an intelligent young man who presented himself as alone but really he was never lonely. However, he believed that life was better lived alone, with nature, so he ventured off throughout western United States before setting off into Alaska’s wild unprepared where he died. Some may say he was naive to go off on such a mission without the proper food and equipment but he was living life the way he wanted to and during his travels he came across three people: Jan Burres, Ronald Franz, and Wayne Westerberg. McCandless befriended these people, it is believed that he made such a strong impression on them that their connection left them with strange feelings after finding out about McCandless’ death.
The book I used was The Things They Carried, written by Tim O’Brien. This book is a detailed story about the things carried by soldiers in the Vietnam War both physical and non physical. In the book a soldier who was in the war tells his story about the guys he had met including the men in his squad and the experiences they all faced together both good and bad. There is also talks about the deaths of the men they were with, the rough setting of war and some background of each of the guys and some things about their life before the war. The common theme of this work would be weakness, this is a common theme because it is displayed throughout the book and weakness in the war and between troops is a sensitive topic because nobody wants to seem weak. A few examples of fear from the book are when Ted Lavender is shot and Jimmy Cross blames the death on himself, because of his weakness of Martha and the fact he can not let her go. Strunk and Jensen agree on a bet that if they sustained wheelchair bound injuries the other would kill them, Strunk backs out when sustaining a wheelchair bound injury and
The first book that I chose to discuss is “That’s Not My Tractor” written by Rachel Wells. This book is a book that my son has loved since he was very young, and