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Victoria, a fourth grader who attends public school in the Philadelphia district is the focus student presented in chapter 5 of From another angle by Himley and Carini. Victoria is a student Tara Shaw (the observer) is focusing on and had the opportunity to have her as a student in both the 1st grade and the 4th grade. She describes Victoria as a student with a lot of imagination who loves to read and write. Not all the time she is interested in doing class work unless in pertains to writing. Shaw goes into full detail of Victoria’s physical presence and gesture. She talks about her height and weight in comparison to the rest of the girls in her age group. She elaborates on the type of clothing she wears to school and how it differs from the
The points of view in “A&P” and “A Rose for Emily” show the fascination that people have with those in the upper class. Updike writes in the first person point of view. The narrator is Sammy, a cashier at the grocery store. Queenie, who walks around the A&P in only a bathing suit, fascinates him. Updike writes, “She had on a kind of dirty-pink… bathing suit with a little nubble all over it and, what got me, the straps were down.” (Updike, 2). He describes the girls in great detail throughout the story, obviously studying them. This first-person point of view shows the thoughts of Sammy, who is a member of the middle class. His fascination with Queenie is exemplary of the average person’s fascination with the rich. Sammy analyzes Queenie so much that he feels a particular connection to her, thinki...
One girl, Clarisse, is different from the society and does not act like them. Clarisse sees more than others, “Bet I know something else you don’t. There’s dew on the grass in the morning “(Bradbury 7). When she says that, it instantly proves to me that she slows everything down and pays attention to the
Child had some arguments against the education system for girls. As the class learned, girls would go to school and dip their toes into many of the sciences rather than focus their education on the classics to prepare for college entrance exams like their male counterparts. Child also argued that once young women graduated, they got caught up in going to balls and parties to live out their youth while they still could. The author thought that young people should be taught about frugality and industry in case they became impoverished at some point in their lives, like the struggles that she faced with David’s debts. Within the text, Child visited with the mother of an impoverished family. The mother hired a seamstress to sew and patch their clothing because the sixteen year old daughter did not have enough sewing skill. Child was taken aback by the statement because she thought that the young woman would have been able to sew to bring in money for her family. But, the mother replied that school, music, and dance took up too much of the daughter’s time during the school year and during winter break she would be spending time with her friends. “Now is her time to enjoy herself, you know. Let her take all the comfort she can, while she is single!,” stated the mother. Since young women did not learn domestic tasks in school, they did not enjoy them later in life. The arts
Lainey, the daughter, is going into 9th grade after the summer. She tries to obey her father as much as she can. She's kind, but at times, she is blinded by her friend. She's a very smart girl, so she excels in many of her classes in school. The fact that she' a good student, but can still be blindsided, is demonstrated by the psychiatrist when she remarks; “... And good students like you don't just skip class.” (Davis 48). She runs frequently and is one of the fastest students
Victoria explained how the cover of the book made her to choose this book to read. She said, “It was interesting and shiny. And you know how girls like shiny things!”(Patton). She said that it was a little hard to read, because there were lots of things going on and it was hard to keep up with the events that was happening in the book. But still she had really enjoyed the book. It took her 4 weeks to finish this book but of course if she didn’t have to go to school with all the homeworks, she would have finished it sooner. Still she claimed that it wasn’t th...
On November 11, 1990 Ms. Victoria Tucker was born in Bethel, Alaska. In a small village located in Emmonak, Alaska, originally called Kwiguk, Yup’ik for “big stream”, is when she moved away from her birthplace and where she was raised. This undersized city has a total area of 8.6 square miles, and a population of 817 people. Emmonak is located at the mouth of the Yukon River, 10 miles away from the Bering Sea and is 490 miles when travelling from Anchorage by plane. Here is where she attended high school. Victoria did not graduate from Emmonak School; she did however, continued to get her GED and successfully completed this in the year 2014. She has five siblings; Myra Tuday, Andrea Adams, Gabriel Tucker, Jessica Tucker
In “A&P,” Sammy is the typical teenager who believes to be distinct from the rest of his co-workers. Sammy works at the cash register noticing everything and everyone around him. For example, he enjoys every detail of the three girls’ physical appearance, “She was a chunky kid, with a good tan and a sweet broad soft looking can with those two crescents of white just under it, where the sun never seems to hit” (1). His sense of superiority is destroyed when he sees that in the eye of the rich, Queenie, he is just another working- class man. He finds Queenie to be the most attractive out of the three girls, his interest physical and mental interest grows as she gets closer to him, “she lofts as folded dollar bill out of the hollow at the center
If Arthur Pottinger could have had his way, his favorite sister Daisy would have achieved her goal to become a registered nurse. She would have enrolled at the Kingston School of Nursing and have graduated with honors four years later. That was also Daisy's foremost goal in life. In fact, it was the family's greatest desire for Daisy the sixth child in a household of seven children. That was until Veda Pottinger left home for employment in Kingston the big city
To start of, Peck uses high level comedy in the form of word play to intrigue the reader. The author has just introduced a girl named Priscilla who is the tallest girl in the entire school. She only has one friend and was “sort of above everything” (Peck 344). It was effective in the story not only to tell us that Priscilla didn’t know anything about the school, but to also tell that she is the tallest girl in the school. This high level comedy really adds to the story and will gets a real chuckle out of people.
At the beginning of the novel, Taylor is intensely independent. She stands apart from the other high school girls at Pittman County. She is the only girl not wearing “beige or pink Bobbie Brooks matching sweater-and-skirt outfits” (5). She is determined to avoid teenage pregnancy, which is so common in her high school. She is the only girl brave enough to ask the science teacher for a job. Taylor believes that she can survive on her own. She finds herself a rickety car. It is a ’55 Volkswagen bug “with no windows to speak of, and no seat and no starter” (11-12). She learns how to push start it all by herself. Her mother helps her to be independent and to conquer her fears. Mrs. Greer lets the air out of one of the tires and also the spare, forcing Taylor to pump the tire herself despite her fear of exploding tires. Taylor learns that “nobody was goi...
Long, clear view is a story about a day in the life of Vic Lange when he was 12 years old. Tim Winton invites the audience to consider what his life was like and how he fit into the family. As there are 16 other short stories mainly focusing on Vic Lange, this particular story shows who he was in the younger years. As the audience reads the short story they acknowledge that the author has put them in the position of Vic, this makes the author more intrigued. The story is written in second person. The first paragraph of the story explains that nothing is going right, there are many problems that affect Vic’s life. One of them being high school, he wishes he ‘never left primary school’. He lives in a local town that he cannot
Point of view is an essential element to a reader's comprehension of a story. The point of view shows how the narrator thinks, speaks, and feels about any particular situation. In Toni Cade Bambara's "The Lesson," the events are told through the eyes of a young, mischievous girl named Sylvia who lives in a lower class neighborhood. The reader gets a limited point of view of view because the events are told strictly by Sylvia. This fact can influence the reader to see things just as she does. The strong language gives an unfamiliar reader an illustration of how people in the city speak. Bambara does this to show the reader that kids from lower class neighborhoods are affected by their environment due to lack of education and discipline, that how different one part of society is from another, and that kids learn from experience. We also get an insight of Sylvia’s feisty, rebellious nature and her lack of respect towards people with an education.
Body Language 1.1 What is Body Language? Body Language is the unspoken communication that goes on in every Face-to-Face conversation with another person. It tells you their true feelings towards you and how well your words are being received. Between 50% of our message is communicated through our Body Language 40 % tone of our voices and 10% only are our words. Your ability to read and understand another person's Body Language can mean the difference between making a great impression or a very bad one!
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Sammy is just the normal average teenage boy that works at his town’s local A&P store. From the beginning of the story we are able to see that Sammy is very opinionated, sarcastic, and has a keen observational sense with lends insight into the deeper meaning of the story. While Sammy contently describes everything around him, we are able to get a feel for how he sees the world and how he thinks about things. Most of the story Sammy is found describing three girls that enter his store. Immediately we can see Sammy’s intense fascinations about these random three girls, thinking he’s just being a regular teenage boy. Sammy, however, goes beyond the surface details to glean insights about the people he observes. One of the girls he studies a little more intently, becoming fascinated by her. He points out how, “ She was the Queen,” (Updike 19), and how she naturally seemed to lead and catch anyone’s attention in an instant. What got him the most was the dangling bathing suit straps. Obviously this intrigued Sammy in a very sensual way, but they are also clues that he uses to construct an image of her inner life. Once he hears all of the girls speak, his imagination begins to spark about the girls, as he is...