The book I choose to read is Where She Went by Gayle Forman. This book is a sequel to if I stay. If you don’t remember in the first book Mia hall and her family get into a fatal car wreck and Mia is the only one who survives. Where she went tell the after story of Adam after the love of his life decides to walk out of his life. There is not a movie to where she went yet but I feel like it if going to be a great movie and I think the same actors will be in it. After Mia hall wakes she decides that she is going to the college scholarship and pursues her dreams in music because she believes it is what best for her after losing all her family. Even though Adam is upset he still lets her go because he knows that if it’s meant to be she will come
Grace has never had a real home her whole life. For Grace and her mom, “there was always a better job or place to live, better schools or less crime” (15). A second theme of the story is give people second chances. Lacey and Grace had a secret plan, Plan B, in which they would drive Grace’s grandma crazy enough that Grace could go back to living with Mrs.Greene and Lacey. Grace should have given Grandma another chance because she might not understand everything she's lost such as “waiting for her daughter to come home” but years later dead (196). Another theme of the story is spend the most time with loved ones while they’re here. Grace finally realized her grandma isn’t so bad. They both want “to find a way to get them back”, they’re loved ones, and that’s through each other (196). Grace has lost her dad, grandpa, and mom, but doesn’t realize that her grandma lost them too and could be
The book I choose for the book talk is “Dead and gone” written by Norah McClintock, this book talks about a murder mystery of Tricey Howard. The main character of the story is Mike, an orphan whose parents got killed in a car crash. He lives with his foster father named John Riel, who was once a police officer. During a swim meet, Mike see Mr.Henderson is staring at a girl name Emily without stopping. Then he informs Emily about what happened in the community center. However, as return Emily blackmails Mike to investigate Mr. Henderson. During the investigation, Mike finds nothing suspicious, but realize Emily is the daughter of Tricey Howard. Tricey Howard was murdered years ago, but the police still haven’t find the real killer. At the meantime,
In the articles “Springing Forward” by Barbara Kingsolver and “Are Engineered Foods Evil?” by David H. Freedman, the main topic of discussion is about genetically modified foods. When reading the two articles there is are some similarities and differences between them. The two authors have different views on genetically modified foods.
The next day at school, Amal made a final decides to wear her hijab to school. Initially, she was not going to wear the hijab with that her peers including her chemistry partner and crush Adam- and her principal, Ms.Walsh, who was eventually persuaded by Amal’s parents to allow her to wear the hijab to school. Eventually, her classmates started to accept her decision and Adam and Amal started to become closer, their friends Simone and Josh begin to flirt (despite
The Ones Who Walked Away from Omelas is a short story written by Ursula Le Guin. In her story, Le Guin creates a model Utilitarian society in which the majority of its citizens are devoid of suffering; allowing them to become an expressive, artistic population. Le Guin’s unrelenting pursuit of making the reader imagine a rich, happy and festival abundant society mushrooms and ultimately climaxes with the introduction of the outlet for all of Omelas’ avoided misfortune. Le Guin then introduces a coming of age ritual in which innocent adolescents of the city are made aware of the byproduct of their happiness. She advances with a scenario where most of these adolescents are extremely burdened at first but later devise a rationalization for the “wretched one’s” situation. Le Guin has imagined a possible contemporary Utilitarian society with the goal to maximize the welfare of the greatest number of people. On the contrary, Kant would argue that using the child as a mere means is wrong and argue that the living conditions of the child are not universalizable. The citizens of Omelas must face this moral dilemma for all of their lives or instead choose to silently escape the city altogether.
Oh, the Places You’ll Go! was the last book published before Dr. Seuss died. Seuss’s last book tells the story of life and is by far Seuss’s most influential story. One might assume that considering Seuss was nearing the end of his life, he used this story as an all encompassing lesson of how to live. Oh, the Place You’ll Go! includes a lesson on practically every page. A young boy begins his journey in his small town and ventures forth into the world and discovers new sights and new people. Seuss gives descriptions throughout story about how to carry on through the high and low points of life. “You’re on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the guy who’ll decide where to go.” “Wherever you fly, you’ll be the best of the best.
The movie cuts between a perfect young romance, to an old couple, when Allie begins to disappear into the shadows of Alzheimer’s and starts to slowly drift away. Noah reads her the amazing story of how they fell in love, determines to bring back her memory, which come and goes a few moments at a time, and then disappears back into darkness...
I chose Among The Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix for a couple of reasons. First of all, I read the book and the summary really did catch my attention because it’s a very interesting and different story as described. I found it interesting because I was curious right away just by reading the summary in the back, I had so many questions like for example, what would Luke and his family ever do if the population police came to detect their home? Will Luke and Jen be able to come out of the shadows? Will a time come when the shadow children don't have to hide anymore?. The summary really captured my attention and made me want to read this book about these unusual children who aren't supposed to even exist. Another reason I wanted to read this book was because of the genre, by reading the back and looking at the cover I recognised this book as a
Even though, they did have their sarcastic conversations about being girlfriends who have boyfriends in college, like the book, Kim always reminded Mia not to become one of “those girls” who talks only about their boyfriends. In the movie, Kim was a friend that seemed to be beneficial to Mia, in the book Kim was so much more. For instance, their friendship began out of hatred for each other. It wasn’t until they get into a fistfight at school that they realized they have more in common than they initially thought. Mia actually considered quitting cello at one point, and Kim shows her the cellist from Nirvana and tells Mia’s parents about a music camp that would help serious musicians get more experience. Mia fell in love with the idea and never had doubts about playing the cello again. Even on the day of the accident, Kim knew that Mia would want Adam there. She personally went to Adam’s concert and told him about Mia and her family in person. Both came back to the hospital, and she helped Adam through his experience almost losing Mia. Kim is a much better friend than the movie leads the viewers to
Accepting Nick’s Invitation, Brianna wanders into a dream. That first day, Nick convinces Brianna to move into his spare room so she can attend college and work on the side. Within hours of that decision, he is training Brianna to become a dancer in a strip club. After the 3d night stripping, seeing how much money
I am reading a book called The Missing Girl by Norma Mazer. This book is about a man who watches the five Herbert sisters do almost everything such as going to school or even just having a conversation. I do not like how the author narrates this book. The author has this book in second person point of view, "Just as you're leaving school, pretty Mrs. Kalman stops you in the hall and says, "Autumn dear, do you know who I am?" Of course you know. She's your school counselor. You look at her briefcase and wonder what's in it--must be important stuff ". (Mazer pg.24) Second person point of view is when someone uses pronouns such as you or yours. In almost all of this book the author has it in second person point of view. I would like this book
The first choice that Mia could make was to live. She could choose to live so that she could go to Juilliard to pursue her love of music. Mia loved playing her cello and wanted to continue playing it in college. This would be a major reason for her to choose to live so that she could do what
In “Where the World Began” by Margaret Laurence, the author describes her hometown, a small prairie in Canada called Neepawa. She paints a vivid picture of Neepawa; its nature, its buildings, its inhabitants, both alive and dead. For Laurence, her hometown is not “uninteresting”, or “dull”, as the stereotype about small towns goes. In fact, even after having explored many different locations such as England and Africa, this little town is the place she is most drawn to. She provides the reason for this strong attraction herself: "Because that settlement and that land were my first and for many years my only real knowledge of this planet, in some profound way they remain my world, my way of viewing. My eyes were formed there". Laurence draws a strong bond between home and personality throughout the essay, giving immense importance to the influence of her childhood home on her adult outlook. She concludes by telling the reader: "This is where my world began … A world which formed me, and continues to do so, even while I fought it in some of its aspects, and continue to do so. A world which gave me my own lifework to do, because it was here that I learned the
Gail Godwin's short story "A Sorrowful Woman" revolves around a wife and mother who becomes overwhelmed with her husband and child and withdraws from them, gradually shutting them completely out of her life. Unsatisfied with her role as dutiful mother and wife, she tries on other roles, but finds that none of them satisfy her either. She is accustomed to a specific role, and has a difficult time coping when a more extensive array of choices is presented to her. This is made clear in this section of the story.
When the attempt fails and security tries to remove Adam, a family friend defuses the situation and informs Adam that Teddy has just died. Mia runs through the halls in disbelief and begins screaming that she just wants it to be over. At the same time she begins to see the bright light and her body goes into cardiac arrest. After a flashback; we find Mia’s Grandfather sitting by her beside. As she looks on, he explains that he wants her to live but he understands that with the deaths of her parents and brother that she might not want to come back. With the conclusion of his conversation the next few scenes show family and friends saying their goodbyes. This portion of the movie clearly serves at the falling action. You would expect that the falling action would not include any more tragedy. Just when you thought that it couldn’t get any worse we get the twist with Teddy. The director was able to show how all of the lose finally impacted