Have you ever been in need of a friend? Quarta the protagonist of the story, The Girl Who Was Born With Only 2 Arms and 2 Legs written by Stuart Baum, is desperate for some friends. She's different than all of her classmates. While all of her classmates have 4 arms and 4 legs Quarta only has 2 arms and 2 legs. After time she learns that not everyone will like you. I know this because she takes huge risks to get a friend, she doesn't expect friends but she doesn't like that, and at the end she realizes family is most important.
First of all, Quarta takes a huge risk to help Kako out of the tidal pool. She thinks he will think thank her and become friends with her but soon she realizes he does not have any interest in becoming friends with her. She
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When everyone made fun of her for saving Kako she wasn't terribly affected by it. She just walked away and ignored everything they said to her. Even though students call her a freak, she doesn't cry or get mad. She so used to getting made fun of, that stuff doesn't bother her. When she was called a freak when getting talked about one ball she didn't take it seriously and she laughed! She had started to realize at this point that no one did like her and not everyone will. She just pushes away all of the mean comments and don't let them get to her.
At the end, Quarta realizes that she's okay with being different and she should be happy that her family loves her. First, she doesn't care that she didn't win the one ball tournament she's just happy she's having fun. She’s not worrying about what anyone is saying about her she's just playing a having an amazing time. Also, she realizes that her family is the most important and the fact that they love her is the best thing ever. Even if no one likes her her family will always be there for her and to support her. Quarta sees that not everyone will like her but her parents will always love
Life has been tough for the teenagers on the street, they all find out about the struggles of living in these cold hard streets. Barbara Haworth-Attard shows us life on the streets of the four main characters in her book theories of relativity. Living on the streets is tough, and these four kids found out the hard way. Most of them will be stuck on the streets forever such as amber, twitch, and Jenna, but Dylan might be able to make it out
The Girl with the Brown Crayon tells a simple personal story of a teacher and a child, interweaving the themes of race, identity, gender, and the essential human needs to create, and to belong. With these characteristic charms, and wonder, Paley discovers how the unexplored territory unfolding before her and Reeny comes to mark the very essence of school, a common core of reference, something to ponder deeply and expand on extravagantly. The child, Reeny, meets a writer of books and story-teller, is introduced to his fictional characters, and debates, with other children, their virtues and weaknesses.
She’s just so weak. If she would stand up for herself, no one would bother her. It’s her own fault that people pick on her, she needs to toughen up. “Shape of a Girl” by Joan MacLeod, introduces us to a group of girls trying to “fit in” in their own culture, “school.” This story goes into detail about what girls will do to feel accepted and powerful, and the way they deal with everyday occurrences in their “world.” Most of the story is through the eyes of one particular character, we learn about her inner struggles and how she deals with her own morals. This story uses verisimilitude, and irony to help us understand the strife of children just wanting to fit in and feel normal in schools today.
The fifth child is the story of David and Harriet Lovatt, a couple who met at an office party neither of them wanted to be at, where they soon found each other. Both of them have a rather traditional mindset and believe that marriage, fidelity and a large family is more important than a successful career or sexual liberation which was the norm at the time. It didn’t take long before they started talking about having children, but decided to wait until Harriet could quit her job in two years so they could afford the mortgage of their victorian house that they decided to buy. Although in a moment of passion they ignored their plans and Harriet got pregnant with their first child, Luke. Eventually they came to have more children until they had 4 in total and both of them couldn’t be happier. Their dinner table was always crowded with relatives and friends. And they decided that they didn’t want more children.
“For a Girl I Know about to be a Woman” by Miller Williams was published from Some Jazz A While: Collected Poems in 1999. Miller Williams was honored as the country’s third inaugural poet, for the poem “Of History and Hope”, at the beginning of former President Clinton’s second term. Williams founded the New Orleans Review, the University of Arkansas Press, and the MFA in Translation at the University of Arkansas. He was also the father of singer-songwriter Lucinda Williams (“Miller Williams”). It would be interesting to know what his inspiration was for all that he has done. He has written so much it would and contributed to many things, it would be great to know what exactly his inspiration is for all of it.
Over the summer, after taking a break from reading a novel just for entertainment, I sat down to read How to Read Literature like a Professor and it was the exact novel to refresh and supplement my dusty analysis skills. After reading and applying Foster’s novel, How to Read Literature like a Professor, towards The Bonesetter’s Daughter I found a previously elusive and individualized insight towards literature. Although, The Bonesetter’s Daughter is full of cryptic messages and a theme that is universal, I was able to implement an individual perspective on comprehending the novel’s universal literary devices, and coming upon the unique inference that Precious Auntie is the main protagonist of the novel.
Your sparkling eyes gazed at the television, reading the word “Cinderella” by Disney. You had all your Cinderella toys lined up, ready to grab whenever necessary. Your Cinderella pajamas on, and your tea set is all prepared.Your mom adored your love for princesses. Didn’t we all love to sing along to the Disney movies about princesses and true love? Peggy Orenstein sure didn’t. Peggy Orenstein, the author of Cinderella Ate My Daughter has a sharp opinion about how a “pretty and pink” culture is influencing girls in a negative way. The author proves this argument by discussing gender colorization, dolls, and princesses.
Joan Brown’s piece titled Girl Sitting 1962 depicts a nude figure of a female body sitting. This colorful piece was made in 1962 and it is located in the Oakland Museum of California. It is oil on canvas, and can be seen on a white wall within a thin black frame around five by four feet. It has a composition of a female nude sitting to the left, leaving a big empty space on the right. The colors are made from a thick application of oil paint known as Impasto, where the paint are like globs, and does not look smooth at all. Instead, it is textured and shows off the brush and palette knife marks. Overall, the composition, application elements, colors, and size contributes together to give this piece an effect to make an individual feel small
Schoolyard mocking may seem like the end of the world to an adolescent, but the positive will always be present somewhere; therefore, when life is hard, one must search to find the good in any situation. Life will always work itself out with a sufficient ending. If life seems unbearable and simply seems like it is impossible to move forward, we should remember, as Julia Taylor says on the final page of Black Swan Green, “it’s not the end ”
The Red Scarf Girl take place during the Cultural Revolution, Ji-li and her family got caught in the savage change in china of the year 1966. Ji-li went through many hard struggles, as in losing and gaining friends, tough times with family, and because of her family, Ji-li was not allowed to do a lot of actives she wanted to do for examples; being a Red Successor and then a Red Guard. The reason there was a Cultural Revolution was because of Chairman Mao Ze-dong. The citizens trusted Mao with all of their hearts. China’s communities were brainwashed, so what’s good and what’s bad got all twisted around and if anyone contradicted what Mao said, that person would be jailed, tortured, or even killed; so he can keep a tight regain on the unfortunate
“The Osage Orange Tree” by William Stafford is the short story being analyzed. “The Osage Orange Tree” centers on the friendship of a newspaper boy, who is new to the community, and Evangeline, a shy girl who comes from an impoverished family. Evangeline has been an outcast from the rest of the children in the community for as long as she had lived there. Until the newspaper boy comes to town there was no one she considered a friend. Everyday, the boy goes out of his way on his paper route and the girl walks 200 yards from her house just so they can meet each other at an osage orange tree where the boy gives Evangeline a newspaper in exchange for a dime. Although this only time they really talk to each other they both consider each other
The nonfiction book I read was titled Beautiful Child and was written by Torey Hayden. Beautiful Child follows the life of a special education teacher who is new to a school is met with a challenging class consisting of five children, all with very different needs. The class consists of a child who has tourette’s syndrome (Jesse), a child who we later find out has dyslexia (Billy), two twins who have fetal alcohol syndrome (Shane and Zane), and a young girl who is selectively mute (Venus.) Although through the story we see each child grow and progress, Venus is the main character and we see her open up to Torey through books and most important She-Ra comics. As Venus’ story unfolds, so do the horrendous details of her family that include a past of drug abuse and prostitution. The quietness of Venus that left many confused, begins to make
“It would be very nice to have a friend again. I would like that even more than a date,” (21) Charlie remarks when he feels lonely. In the novel, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, by Stephen Chbosky, the author uses the theme of friendship to help Charlie overcome obstacles. The novel is about a friendless boy named Charlie who struggles with some demons from his past. Charlie finds a group of friends, sort of misfits like himself, who take him under their wings and introduce him to experiences that are common in teens, including parties, drugs, and sex. His new group of friends gives Charlie something precious that he has never had before, a sense of belonging. After Michael 's death, Charlie is eagerly craving any sort of social interaction.
Is unable to make friends. Well, he does have one friend. But, only because she shares his predilection for pain.
When you’re young, you don’t care about how a person looks or acts, they’re just people, friends. Growing up, you’ll find that qualities a friend has to have or can’t have become very important. It took a special kind of friend to show me that the true heart of a person is what really counts.