The Girl With All The Gifts by M.R. Carey tells the story of a young girl Melanie, a hungry(zombie-like human) whose life consists of tests, procedures, and restraints, only to find that after an attack on the army base of the harsh agendas of people like Dr. Caldwell whose motives are unwaveringly cruel. In the story, a fungi known as Ophiocordyceps crippled humanity by destroying all high thinking and turning ordinary people into cannibalistic monsters. However, the offspring of that generation were born differently, as they retained ordinary intelligence and could control their cannibalistic nature. From this, Dr. Caldwell wished to dissect their brains to hopefully formulate a cure for the disease. However, she runs into conflict with a teacher Miss …show more content…
But the information that we’re hoping to gain justifies that risk. It justifies anything” which to her, describes the children as no longer human but a puppet for the fungi growing inside them. In turn, Miss Justineau, Melanie’s favorite teacher, refuses to accept that any reason could justify the slaughtering of innocent children, displayed in the quote “Pretending not to see, she believes, takes her past some point of no return, past the event horizon of hypocrisy into a black hole of solipsism.” To simply wave off Caldwell’s actions was a crime worse than murder, and from her standing, no child deserved the fate awaited by entering her office. Melanie was sought by Caldwell for her genius IQ, and even when she tried to dissect her, Miss Justineau ensues in a quarrel with Caldwell, thwarting her plans. From this point on, she began to see the opposite thinking Miss Justineau had, one that was against any immoral actions, no matter how much knowledge is to be
“Westbury Court” was told in a span of several years, when she was only a young teenager during the tragedy occurred and from then on, it had always haunted her. There is no way for her to entirely dismiss this incident from her memory other than moving forward by learning the consequence of being unmindful and realize the importance of “Sometimes it’s too late to say, ‘I shouldn’t have.’” If she is unable to do this, then she will have no choice but to consistently feel that guilty conscience of putting the two children in danger hanging over
True love serves as a critical part of human nature; so much so, as to where one may commit immoral actions during the pursuit of such love. Cynthia Benjamin recaptures this classical situation in her short story, The Luckiest Girl, where the antagonist, David Allen strives for complete dominance over his relationship with the protagonist, Anita Wade. He manipulates her through emotional, social, and physical techniques.
Not every teenage girl or teenager gets along with their parents. Everyone sees things in different way. the difference in the point of view provokes the narrator's response, because they both see in a different view that they think their parents is selfish and neglecting or don't care about them but really their parents are helping them.
The artist John leech was the responsible to illustrated "the Ghost of Christmas Present" used in the first edition of a Christmas Carol, 1843, and wrote by the popular Charles Dickens. the illustration subject is about Christmas and was made of watercolor over pencil on paper. I believe that the importance of this art is to show a realistic composition about what's going on the story using Christmas symbols. Leech was representing a Christmas God who seems to brings help or an advice to the old men who seems insecure, also there is a spirit above the old men head, who seems like if is watching the conversation.
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.
Watch your classmates criticize your teacher; Watch your father being taken away, because of long dead relatives; watch you classmates humiliate you in front of the class; Watch yourself needing to choose between family and future; Watch yourself only watching unable to help. Unfortunate, that was the reality for Ji-Li Jiang. Red Scarf Girl is a memoir written by Ji-Li Jiang, regarding the China cultural revolution between 1966-1976. Throughout the book,Family is important in defining who people are in Red Scarf Girl.
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.
Girl by Jamaica Kincaid demonstrate how a mother cautions her daughter, in becoming a responsible woman in her society. Although the daughter hasn’t gotten into adolescence yet, the mother fears that her daughter’s current behavior, if continued, will tip to a life of promiscuity. The mother believes that a woman’s status or propriety determines the quality of her life in the community. Hence, gender roles, must be carefully guarded to maintain a respectable front. Her advice centers on how to uphold responsibility. The mother cautions her daughter endlessly; emphasising on how much she wants her to realize her role in the society by acting like woman in order to be respected by the community and the world at large. Thus, Jamaica Kincaid’s
Girl Time is a book written by Maisha T. Winn who is a former public elementary school and high school teacher. She has worked extensively with youth inside and outside urban schools throughout the United States. Winn provides information in the book about girls incarcerated in juvenile detention centers and girls who have been previously incarcerated.
She didn’t wake up every morning, happy to go to the school and learn more things, instead she felt terrified wondering what was going to happen to her. Some days were not as bad like the others but there was some days that Melba could've really got hurt but she always found a way out without getting too injured. Kids just kept taunting her every moment of the day and the worst part was the teachers didn’t do anything about it. Even though they know she is a child too and that they should care that because she could get badly hurt and it would be the teacher's fault because they didn’t do anything about it or to stop
The Girl with the Brown Crayon tells a simple, yet deeply connected personal story of a teacher and a student, as well as other students that embrace themes of race, identity, gender, and the essential human needs to create, and to belong. It is about maintaining order, though a sense of self, one’s own knowledge, capabilities, exposing the strengths and weaknesses while forming one’s own identity in school for the teacher and the students. Becoming a part of something greater than self, but not losing oneself, and how educational interaction can take place between teachers and students, all in an effort to fit in, belong, yet keeping one’s own identity through the growth of change and acceptance
Using the murder of Dee Ann’s mother as a means to intertwine the lives of the characters together, Steve Yarbrough examines the nature of relationships in “The Rest of Her Life.” The relationships in the story take a turn after Dee Ann’s mother is killed, with characters seeking to act more on their own, creating distance between many relationships throughout the story. Independent lifestyles prevent emotional bonds that hold relationships together from forming, thus preventing the characters from maintaining healthy relationships. The dysfunctional relationship present between Dee Ann and Chuckie in “The Rest of Her Life” is the result of the characters ' desire for self-gratification.
The author uses the denial and concealment of truth in order to reiterate that in the closed environment of the household, pampered upbringing only yields to immaturity in the outside world. In the narration, Stella-Rondo easily regains the position of the family “favorite” through the lies she produces and the family’s seeming acceptance of these lies as pure truths. In fact, however, Mama constantly questions these lies. She reprimands Sister for suggesting that Shirley-T is Stella-Rondo’s biological daughter, but she herself wonders how Stella-Rondo could possibly prove that Shirley-T is adopted. Later, she links Shirley-T’s silence and strange behavior to Mr. Whitaker’s consumption of chemicals, suggesting that she knows that Mr. Whitaker is, in fact, Shirley-T’s biological father. The author uses this characterization of Mama in order to show, that rather than not understanding the difference between truth and lies, she prefers one version over another, therefore...
She does this by revealing Miss Strangeworth’s ironic actions of her destructive attitude and hypocritic ways. This statement shed lights when Miss Strangeworth is writing letters to Mrs. Harper and Helen, and she notices how the town is becoming more vile, “The town where she lived had to be kept clean and sweet, but people everywhere were lustful and evil and degraded, and need to be watched; the world was so large , and there was only one Strangeworth left in it,” (Jackson, pg. 253). Miss Strangeworth exemplifies arrogance and hypocrisy by stating that she is the solution to all evil, yet she is initiating evil by means of writing letters to people conveying her pernicious words and telling them that they are not good enough. She expresses how she dislikes evil, therefore she is contradicting herself with her actions since she continues to spread evil through her judgemental
Jeanne Wakatuski is a young girl who had to endure a rough childhood. She thought herself American, with a Japanese descent. However, with WWII and the internment camps, Jeanne struggled to in understanding who she really was. It started with Manzanar, at first she knew herself as a Japanese American. Living in Manzanar gave her a new perspective, “It (Manzanar) gradually filled me with shame for being a person, guilty of something enormous enough to deserve that kind of treatment” (Houston and Houston 161). Jeanne faced the problem of being someone who was not wanted or liked in the American society. A good section that shows the discrimination at the time was when Jeanne tried to join the Girl Scouts, which is on page 144. She was turned