The contender by Robert Lipsyte is a well lesson taught book that every middle school student should read, including adults because it will make them understand what it takes to become a real champion. The setting in the story is in Harlem New York. Where the main character, Alfred Brooks lives is in a black community, where there are gang members, drugs, etc. As the book goes on, Alfred and his friends go to a gym where they practice boxing to become a champion. Alfred also goes to his Aunt Pearl because he lives there, ever since his parents died. He goes to many places including to his grocery store, where he works at. The main character, Alfred Brooks is a hard working guy that cares about his future life and his grocery store. He is
The setting of the book Lessons is in a small housing complex in New York City. The tone of the narrator, Sylvia, is sarcastic, humorous, childlike, mean, and vulgar. The characters names that are given to the reader are ironic to their personality traits. They are most likely nicknames from the narrator. For example, some of the names are Flyboy, Big Butt, Sugar etc. This name calling shows the immaturity and ignorance that children have on other individuals. The main characters are Sylvia; who is the Antagonist, and Miss. Moore, who is the Protagonist.
...e, more modern sort of neighborhood for the part of the book that takes place in a townhouse. But the general area that I’d start with is the East St. Louis area.
This book took place in the present time. It was mostly in Madison in Andy's high school and Madison Community College.
Third, I will discuss the third part of the book, The Arena. The Arena takes place all over the United States but mostly in the southwest. Thomas Black lives in a one-room cabin in the middle of nowhere with Red Dillon and a man named Meo. Here, Thomas is taught how to ride saddle broncs at a small barn with a wooden chute. Thomas rides saddle broncs all over the country including places like New York, Dallas, Denver, and mostly a town called Aztec. He went all over the world riding for the big circuit rodeo. Also, a small part of the setting takes place in a hospital where he ends up after a severe injury from a horse.
Durango Street is a novel by Frank Bonham. He writes about a young boy who lives in an extremely bad neighborhood. His name is Rufus Henry. Rufus was in a correctional camp for stealing a car. In the camp he met a friend named Baby. Baby lived where Rufus's mother had moved. Baby got released a little bit before Rufus and then went on to his home "the flats." Rufus was left out from camp with a parol officer. His parole officer tells him not to get involved with gangs but Rufus knows he has to join a gang to survive. He runs into one of the local gangs The Gassers, and gets into a little fight with them and the leader Simon Jones. He gets away in good condition, but knows that The Gassers are goin to be looking for him. So he finds his friend Baby and joins the gang The Moors. Rufus gets beat up into the gang, and soon after takes over. He beats up the leader Bantu. Rufus the takes contorl of the gang. The rival gang knows about this, and then beats up Rufus's little sister. Rufus then gets back at them and beats up the gang and blows up there car. He then meets up with a man named Alex Robbins. The man is a social worker who "sponsors" or helps gangs. They have meetings every week and talk about The Gassers and ideas they have. Alex suggests to go to the local football team (TheMaurders) and watch them train. Little did Alex know is that Rufus has an obsession with their star running back Ernie Brown. Ernie is actually Rufus's father, but no-one knows except Rufus and his mother. Simon Jones steals Rufus's book of Ernie Brown that he keeps in secret and in provate. Simon then reads it in front of everyone how Ernie is really Rufus's father. This makes things with the gangs very hostile. The Moors then meet these two girls named Nonie and Jannet. They talk with the gang and convince them to throw a graduation dance. The gang rounds up some money and has the dance. The Gassers try to ruin it by setting off smoke bombs in the ventalation systems, but the dance is not spoiled but turned out great. After the dance Rufus and Alex talk about Rufus going back to school, and they end off with a nice smile.
To start with, the setting of the book was in farmlands in Louisiana where Black and white Americans interacted. It was set during the 1970s era. It was around the time after
An adequate, detailed description of the setting in ay novel is essential to the reader’s experience. The reader is not provided with any visual cues (unless it is a rare case and the book is illustrated) and must rely solely on the author’s writing ability to achieve a sense of full emersion into the storyline. When the reader is provided with vague detail it is easy for the individual to become frustrated and quickly lose interest. In Chester Himes novel “A Rage in Harlem”, Himes does an excellent job of putting the reader directly in the center of twentieth century Harlem. At times his descriptive writing style border on the extreme, perhaps even making the reader in an emotionally uncomfortable situation. However, with his unique writing style was able to bring the city of Harlem to life for many individuals, who if not to Himes, would have never been exposed to the reality of Harlem and individuals who “lived” Harlem every single day of their lives.
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee is a novel about the act of growing up. The main character is a girl named Scout Finch who is the narrator as well as the protagonist of the story. She is a very curious person for someone of her age. The book discusses what she learns about people and about life. In the primitive stages of the novel Scout’s narrating is very childish, humorous, and innocent, although as the novel progresses it becomes increasingly dark. It takes place between 1933 and 1935 in a small quiet town called Maycomb located in southern Alabama. Scout’s father, Atticus, is a lawyer. Their family struggle’s with money because his clients are poor. Scout lives with her father, her brother Jem, and their cook Calpurnia. Her mother passed when her and Jem were young, for they continuously morn in her absence. However, they look forward to the summers due to the fact that their friend Dill comes and stays next door. They go on many adventures together.
“‘Old Mr. Bob Ewell accused him of rapin’ his girl an’ had him arrested an’ put in jail---’” (Lee 164). To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, takes place in a settled town called Maycomb in Alabama. It is based during the early 1930’s when the Great Depression hit. Poverty reaches everyone from families like the Finches to the “white trash” Ewells. Soon the settled town Maycomb gets into conflict characterized by poverty, racism, and domestic violence.
The novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, takes place during a racially intense time in history. Harper Lee’s novel was intended to bring a harsh sense of reality to the real world, and demonstrate how it really was during this time in history. This novel is set in Maycomb, Alabama, somewhere during the time period of 1925-1935. Times were hard for the citizens of Maycomb during this period, because of the depression. There are many fictional events in this novel related to non-fictional racial events in history.
earlier and ventures out into New YorkCity. The story focused around thepeople he meets and the
Horatio Alger, “Who Shall Win, A Story of School Life” , gives an example of what it means to have very little sources, but with the help of friends, one can end up winning through the story of two schoolboys in a competition. The Principal of the Oakland Classical Academy encouraged his students in the field of English composition by holding an essay contest. The price would be honor and $10. Two students seemed to have chances of winning; Julian Holmes and Harry Carter. Julian comes from a prominent background; his father is a lawyer that allows for a comfortable living. Harry, on the other hand, comes from complicated background; living with his widowed mother causing him to working for the school in menial acts to pay for his tuition. These boys indeed are competitors. Besides the original price, additional offerings were made to both students. When they shared what they wrote for the competition, both knew who the clear winner of the essay competition was, Julian. Julian offers Harry the price money (assuming that it was all his only desired from the competition, since winning would mean that his father would get him a row-boat); however, Harry declined the offer as he shared what his real purpose of winning (win the $10 that could help his mother, but also to get a job). Julian deliberately dipped his pen in ink and dropped a large blot on his essay. The day in which they announced the winner of the essay competition, the judges revealed Harry as the winner. Harry then understood what had happened. As Julian went back home, his father was angered as the carelessness of Julian, but Julian shared with his father the reason why he was so “careless”. After hearing his reason of action, his father was so pleased; he offered to bu...
Like the story would be hard to follow if it was set in a different time period or even a different part in the world, the reader would be so confused and lost. This story’s setting being in Harlem in the late 1930s makes the reader understand why the black people don’t like the white people. The reader feels pulled into this story as they read it because Hughes really makes you think about what’s going on.
Although pride can lead to beneficial outcomes, pride with the absence of empathy can lead to a devastating result. The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell shows that having too much pride and no empathy can get someone in some terrible trouble. The theme is proven by Rainsfords pride and unempathetic-ness, how the general had too much pride, and how the general only saw himself as the hunter, not the hunted.
Why are outsiders so fascinated with New York Is it the way that our city is portrayed by producers & directors? To the typical native New Yorker there is nothing special about the location in which we live it’s just average. the common notion to outsiders it that new York is this great city surrounded by fashion, gilts and glamour, normally they think of Manhattan which includes one world trade, the empire state building, central park, etc. people who aren’t from our city don’t know what it’s like to live here, they don’t understand what it takes out of someone to constantly put up with the stench, the noise, the exorbitant prices of everything & the long unending winters.