For my independent choice reading, I chose the book Rebel Belle. The main character, Harper, is the school’s it girl. She has the boyfriend everybody wants and a group of friends who will do anything for her. This all changes and suddenly she’s a Paladin, protecter of the Oracle. At first she can’t figure out who this is, or even what an Oracle or Paladin is, but once she does, things start to get complicated. She is sucked into this whole other world that involves car chases, murders, and trying to save her own life.
Harper is a very uptight character. She doesn’t take jokes lightly, and she strings herself very thin. She is involved in almost all of her school’s extra curricular activities. On top of that she is also cheer captain. She cares so much about her image that she won’t even swear. “You say ‘eff or ‘G.D.’ Why not say the actual words?” Pg. 77. You find out that the reason why she cares so
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Which is why when her history teacher walked into the bathroom with a giant sword and started swinging, she was able to dodge every hit.
Later on in the book, is when Harper kind of figures everything out. She figured out that she is a Paladin, protector of the Oracle, and that the Oracle is David Stark. There is also the Mage. The Mage is David’s aunt. Who is also Harper’s Cotillion coach. The People that are after David believe that there should only be female Oracles. Also, the three are all trying to prepare for the “big night” or Cotillion. As it turns out, someone is going to try to put a spell on David, which could possibly ruin him.
At the end of the book, Cotillion finally rolls around. Harper makes a huge mistake and the spell gets put onto David. Now Harper has to try and either find a way to reverse the spell or help David control it. Some of her loved ones find themselves unexpectedly involved in her situation, and some of her close friends are
In Margaret Edson’s W;t, Vivian Bearing, a renowned professor of seventeenth-century poetry, struggles with her diagnosis of stage-four metastatic ovarian cancer. During Vivian’s time in the hospital, two of her main caretakers—Susie, her primary nurse, and Jason, the clinical fellow assigned to her—have vastly different goals for the procedure. The juxtaposition of Jason and Susie, whose values and approaches to life drastically differ, shows the progression of Vivian’s character from one who values knowledge above all else, like Jason, to one who realizes that kindness is the only essential part of life, like Susie.
Imagine living alone at 16, thousands of miles from your only family, no friends, and trying to gain land of your own. Hattie Brooks did just that, she was always known as Hattie Here-and-There because her parents died when she was young and she was shipped from relative to relative. She was bound to change that. She wanted something of her own, she wanted a home. So, in 1918 after receiving a letter leaving a homestead claim to her from a long lost uncle Chester she packed up all she owned and moved to Montana. She quickly found out how difficult and demanding farm life was. In order to own the land officially she had to prove up which included having to set 480 rods of fence, cultivate one eighth of land, and pay thirty-seven seventy-five
Red Queen is written with such passion, that it envelops the reader in the story, hung on each and every word. A beautiful tale of hardship, romance, and betrayal. Aveyard does an amazing job of making the reader feel as if they are right beside Mare Barrow on her journey, of becoming the Red Queen.
Before I get into all the specifics I’m going to give you a summary of the book I picked
At the end she risks her life and becomes a pretty to become and experiment to David’s moms to test a cure to the brain lesions created when they go ... ... middle of paper ... ... o save them from going through a transformation that will change them forever. The moral of the book is you don’t have to get surgery to look a certain way.
In the Princess Bride the author William Goldman decides to kill off Wesley the main character of the romance comedy. But when he does he has a strange drawback and has the sudden realization of what he had just done. He mourns, grieves, and finds himself in his very own “Pit of Despair.” Yet how can this be, he had never experienced such a tragedy himself, but in his writing of a fictional fantasy character he is overwhelmed with these genuine emotions. Sentiments and actions are easier to access and put into writing if one has already experienced the event. Skilled authors can write pieces without experience by using similar emotions and merging them to create what one would expect to feel. The more believable the world that is conjured is to the audience the more they will be impacted by tragedies and trials in a story. A true
A Rebel Without A Cause is a movie directed at the young adults of the 1950s. Teenager, a new term for young adults, is brought about within this film as a way to describe the character of the young adults. The movie was directed towards the teenagers because of their growing population and use of money for fashion and entertainment. However, within this movie, some of the most important understandings about family life during the decade are manifested. The issues of teenagers erupt because of family and school life, and as a result, the teens took drastic actions. The use of tobacco cigarettes and dangerous car races are two of the evident examples within the film.
The way she acts towards people who meet these standards says a lot about her character. When in court she says “you keep on makin’ fun o’ me. ”(Lee, Harper, To Kill a Mockingbird) When really her prosecutor was only being polite.
I received a free copy of The Girl from Everywhere by … from Hot Key Books in exchange for an honest review, this has in no way influenced my thoughts and feelings about the book.
Sundara is a girl that is trying to experience a new culture called football. The author develops Sundara’s character as she responds to the game by making her very curious. The author makes Sundara’s character respond in that way because she is trying to learn a new culture, she wants to understand why the audience loves the football player Jonathan Mckinnon, and she envies the cheerleader because she knows what’s happening in the game. That makes her character very curious about something new she has never experienced.
Both novels end on a more cheerful note. There is hope for the future. Aurelius has found the family he always dreamed of having. Hareton and Cathy will live a life together; they will be married on New Years, which symbolizes a new beginning. Hareton and Cathy represent an improved version of Heathcliff and Catherine, showing what they could have become if their situations were different. Love triumphs over revenge. Miss Winter tried to leave her past behind her, but it had caught up with her and she felt compelled to share it. She can now be free from the ghosts of her past. Margaret conquers her own personal problems and comes to terms with herself. Mysteries are revealed, plots unwound, and ghosts released.
The novel is essentially about women. Women from different periods, of different ages, and oddly the same in various aspects. We get to know women that apparently lead perfect lives, considering the external aspect, and all of them come to a moment in their lives when they stumble upon the superficiality of their days and face their disturbed inner selves. The fates of the three characters cross because of the fact that Laura is reading exactly the book Virginia wrote, while Clarissa Vaughan appears to be a kind of living breathing Clarissa Dalloway.
But what the other members of her community aren't aware of is that she's actually a hateful, and nosey the instigator of many of the town's problems and concerns. She often wrote Anonymous letters to the townspeople, gossiping and criticizing about others problems. One example of this behavior is when she writes to Mrs. Crane, “Didn't you ever see an idiot child before? Some people just shouldn't have children, should they?” (Jackson 4) What she says makes people feel bad when they receive letters like this. She writes these because she thinks that she can fix the problems of others. And make “her” neighborhood a better place. She then goes on to write to Mrs. Harper, “Have you found out yet what they were all laughing about after you left the bridge club on Thursday?” (Jackson 4) This probably made Mrs. Harper worried or even upset. Maybe she's not aware of the pain she causes others, they're not even aware that it is Miss Strangeworth writing the letters. This shows the reader that one should it be read deceived by another's
Presumably, complications start to revolve around the protagonist family. Additionally, readers learn that Rachel mother Nella left her biological father for another man who is abusive and arrogant. After,
Cinderella’s mother passed away and her father remarried a woman who had two daughters from a previous marriage. A few weeks passed and a prince is holding a three day festival and all the beautiful young girls in the town were invited. Cinderella wanted to go but her evil stepmother gave her two impossible tasks to complete before she could attend the festival. Cinderella completes the two tasks with the help of her bird friends and her mother’s grave. Cinderella goes to the festival and she dances with the prince all three days. Finally, the prince has fallen in love with her and eventually they get married. Fairytales and Disney productions threaten gender politics and women’s role by portraying women in certain areas like domestic behaviors