The first story, The Jubilee Express, by Maureen Johnson, is about a girl names Jubilee and her trip to Florida. Jubilee is forced to ride a train to Florida and stay with her grandparents, after her parents were arrested for getting involved in a riot over a collectable village set called the Flobie Santa Village. It all gets worse when the train is caught in a snowstorm, making it impossible for them to continue driving. Jubilee continuously called her boyfriend Noah, who failed to answer her calls. She decided that she would trudge across the road to a nearby waffle house, for warmth and food. While there she met a guy named stuart, who felt sorry for her, and invited her to his house. Stuart walked Jubilee to his house and on the way
“Suzy and Leah” by Jane Yolen were about these two girls who have had a different perspective towards the same situation. They both had diaries that they would write in, giving us pieces of information about who they were. The overall theme was that at first, they didn't get along, but over time they understood each other and understood where they had come from. Suzy the little American girl who went to school did not understand the struggles of Leah, the German-born Jew.
Molly Harding is an eighteen year old girl currently living in Memphis, Tennessee. She lives in a two story house in Germantown with her parents and her younger brother, Cooper. Molly is going to college overseas in the summer and has yet to apply for a passport and visa. On top of that, her class is going to Florida for their senior trip next week and she has to read some maps and brochures of local attractions before leaving on Monday.
The story “Checkouts” is about a girl moving to Cincinnati and she left her whole life behind. She didn’t enjoy it at first but she meets this boy called the bag boy at the supermarket. He lights up her eyes and likes her after he drops the jar of mayonnaise which she thought was cute and started to like him. He liked her little orange bow in her hair. Then she doesn’t see him again because their schedules don’t meet. She didn’t pick the checkout that he was in. She is in a state unacknowledged while he watches her go out in a state of fury. Then their paths cross and he sees her with a different boy and she sees him with a different girl and they are both with separate dates. The girl changes from the beginning to end by in the beginning she
The Sisters Grimm: Fairy-Tale Detectives written by Michael Buckley expresses the difficulty that two girls had to face when their parents disappeared making them move to many foster homes. Sabrina and Daphne had to get over what happened to them in the different homes and open their eyes to a new adventure with a grandma they never knew about. The book sets up the reader with a theme that no matter how difficult life gets do not give up, the setting gives the reader a mental image of what Ferryport Landing was like and the types of characters makes the literary work have great quality.
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquirel, follows the life of a group of sisters as they try to live under the control of their authoritative mother, Mama Elena. The story is told through recipes created by the youngest sister, Tita. As the story unravels, there is a theme of lost, love, bondage, and freedom. Throughout the course of each sister’s life, at least one of the aforementioned themes play out in their life. It is a story that contains deep pain and loss due to an evident cultural oppression perpetuated unto each of their lives by their authoritarian mother. This cultural oppression is due to the deeply established ideologies of the importance of being a righteous women. This effect caused by patriarchy, fueled Mama Elena’s authoritarian
As I began reading “Where are you going, where have you been?” by Joyce Carol Oates I found myself relating the experiences of Connie, the girl in the story, to my own personal experiences. She spoke of going to a friend’s house and having her friend’s father drive them to the shopping mall so that they could walk around and socialize or go see a movie. I found that this related very closely with my own experiences of being fifteen years old because it was always someone else’s parents driving my friends and I to the movies or to the mall.
Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou. In both stories, the characters recall adolescence their rites
Delilah Haswell glanced up from the patient file she was handed, meeting the quizzical gaze of the psychiatrist she was assisting over the year. Though her face showed no signs of the distress she felt within, her hands, cold and clammy, betrayed her indifferent demeanor. She prayed to whoever watched over pale, petite psychiatric assistants about to delve into the forefront of a metaphorical war field of the mentally ill that her superior, Dr. Walt, would fail to notice the miniature brooks that emerged in her palms. It wouldn't do her repertoire any good.
My family’s always been musically interested, I was a bit slow to catch on though. My mother and sister played the piano, and my father likes jazz. Since my sister played piano, and had become somewhat decent at it, my mother thought that I should be dragged into the musical arts. Time went by and I finally picked the saxophone around the beginning of fourth grade. We borrowed a saxophone from a friend and went to the music store where I met my first teacher, Matt Tracy.
Patricia Mills the Journey of fresh start 2010 I remember my doctor from U of M telling me that I need to join some type of program so that I would not be in the house alone because it would not be good with my bipolar I needed to get out He named a program called Fresh Start he said it was just down the street from where I live I remember getting up driving down there I look at the sign and drove past it I thought to myself I do not like the way that place looks, I am not going to go there but something in my heart did not settle well, I drove by about 6 more times before I went in there And then I noticed everyone just sitting around drinking coffee and going outside to smoke I said to myself this is just not for me I tried to mingle with
Can you guess who I am?I had the same man propose to me two times and both times I said “no”! I built a roller coaster in my backyard with my sister. I have a stamp that is worth 8¢ and it was made on my birthday. If you said “ Amelia Mary Earhart” well then you're correct! I was born in my grandmother's house in Atchison, Kansas, in 1897.
Why does changing world matter? With over thousands of cultures worldwide, it is hard to accept everyone for who they are. I have wondered what is the most important determinant of cultural identity. As an Australian with a background from Singapore, food dominates the lives of my family. ‘The Hundred-Foot Journey’ demonstrates the opportunities of a multicultural society. I believe we can embrace all aspects of various cultures, including their cuisines, and try and change the world to be more accepting of different cultures, as we all have the right to our own multicultural narrative to be who we are in every possible way without apology.
I had just gotten back from lunch. The half hour alone had helped calm my nerves: that poor Walter Cunningham and wretched Jean Louise Finch had flustered me. Undermining my authority in front of the entire class on my first day! I had cried my eyes out, not that I had let the children see—I must maintain the image of a perfect woman. Oh well. It was no matter, I tried to convince myself. A slight mishap, that’s all it had been. Now that lunch was over and class had begun again, I would finally be able to be the perfect teacher.
History has not always treated women the way it treated men. Female leaders in the past worked very hard to prove themselves as capable as men. They had to be especially skilled. Queen Elizabeth the 1st queen of England 1558-1603 overcame many problems, for example, marriage, image and religion.
The first of the three folk tales I will be discussing is titled The Sheep of San Cristobal, in which a young woman named Filipa looses her only son. She makes ends meet by growing beans and selling them to the local townspeople, who are very sympathetic to Filipa. When a rich sheep herder named Don Jose starts harassing Filipa because she refuses to marry him She wishes for him to fall off a cliff and break his neck, when her wish comes true she feels very guilty and makes penance by giving away all of Don Jose’s sheep to those poor enough to deserve them. At the end of her penance she finds her son. This story tells allot about Spanish Culture and shows how religious the