Jessie Keyser, a thirteen-year-old girl, has lived in a frontier village in Clifton, Indiana all her life, and thought she was living in the 1840s. However, a diphtheria epidemic breaks out, and the children of Clifton start dying, but Jessie’s mother unveils the truth to Jessie: Clifton is actually a historical preserve made for tourists of the 1990s. Because the site owners are not allowing modern medicine to be available for the children, Jessie’s mother sends Jessie on a perilous mission to Indianapolis to reach assistance from outside. Jessie proceeds her journey knowing little to nothing about the modern world and even worse, not knowing who to trust or whom to avoid. Running Out of Time acknowledges that perspective differs greatly between …show more content…
Jessie’s perspective of the modern world is more related to a fantasy because she has never been in an atmosphere like the modern world. Coming from the 1840s, she is unfamiliar with inventions, such as cars and phones, and she struggles to operate these machines throughout her journey. Jessie’s confusion about ordinary objects creates a humorous tone throughout the novel, thus, making the novel enjoyable to read. An example would be when Jessie escaped from the Clifton Preserve by hiding in the back of a bread truck. On the side of the truck, she saw the word “FlavorBest”. “FlavorBest? Jessie thought. Was that even a word?” (82). Jessie was confused because she did not understand that “FlavorBest” was the name of a brand (something found in the modern world) , and that it is not an actual word. Another example would be when Jessie reached the gas station and she went inside to buy a drink. She was surprised to see how much the cost of the drink. “It cost more than Perspective is an important factor in this novel, and it is also used to help the audience to connect with Jessie and to understand her development throughout the
Purvis wanted Jessie to toughen up so he would survive living on the Moonlight, which he achieved by treating Jessie as an adult, not like an infant. Purvis taught Jessie not to whine and which warned him not to show his concern towards the slaves. By being firm with Jessie, Purvis proves that he has Jessie’s best interests at heart and is looking out for him. Jessie realised Purvis's attitude towards him was Purvis’s way to show how much he cared about Jessie. Telling Jessie not to show concern towards the slaves and not to whine about his situation is evidence that Purvis and Jessie’s friendship was not sweet but instead helped by developing a friendship built on
Jessie very much like Polly could not see past the facts and disturbing bind Jack Wilson hung in front of them both. This wife he would do anything and everything to be with he would cheat, steal and borrow. And eventually result in murder, caused by Jack because of his selfish ways. He would do everything and everything to get what he wanted. Simmie portrays this by including letters that Jack had written to Jessie and that Jessie had written to Jack. Throughout the whole ordeal, showing the lies and disbelieving this he had said that anyone else would have caught onto right away. He was a mass manipulator and a liar to anyone that would listen. “Polly did confront Jack about the letter, asking him how Jessie could think they were getting married. She sat on the bed while Jack stood by the door, as if he couldn’t wait to leave. [I don’t know how Jessie got that idea. I’ve been trying to break off with her but I hated to hurt her…]” (p.60). This quote is just a small sample of what Simmie wrote to show us the personality of Jack Wilson. A how he manipulated the two women, which believed he could do no
All through their lives Pharoah and LaFayette are surrounded by violence and poverty. Their neighborhood had no banks, no public libraries no movie theatres, no skating rinks or bowling allies. Drug abuse was so rampant that the drug lords literally kept shop in an abondoned building in the progjects, and shooting was everywhere. Also, there were no drug rehabilitation programs or centers to help combat the problem. Police feared going into the ghetto out of a fear for their own safety. The book follows Pharoah and LaFayette over a two year period in which they struggle with school, attempt to resist the lure of gangs, mourn the death of close friends, and still find the courage to search for a quiet inner peace, that most people take for granted.
Taylor's want and need for a better life than the one she has in Kentucky inspires her to leave. With the money she earns from her job counting blood cells at the Pittman County Hospital, Taylor buys a '55 Volkswagen bug that is falling apart, "In this car I intended to drive out of Pittman County one day and never look back, except maybe for Mama" (10). Taylor's mother wanted the best for her and always expected the best from her;...
She would mostly be alone and sit by herself being buried in books or watching cartoons. In high school she attended a program for troubled adolescents and from there she received a wide range of support from helping her get braces to helping her get information to attend community college. (59) Even with this she was already too emotionally unstable due to her family issues and felt like she couldn’t go through with her dreams to travel and even go into the art of culinary. She suffers from psychological problems such as depression and worries constantly about almost every aspect in her life from work to family to her boyfriend and just hopes that her life won’t go downhill. (60) Overall Kayla’s family structure shows how different is it now from it was in the 1950’s as divorce rates have risen and while before Kayla’s type of family structure was rare now it is becoming more common. This story helps illustrate the contributions of stress that children possess growing up in difficult homes in which they can’t put their own futures first they must, in some cases, take care of their guardian’s futures first or others around them. Again, this adds into the inequality that many face when it comes to being able to climb up the ladder and become successful regardless of where one
Working as a teacher serving at-risk four-year-old children, approximately six of her eighteen students lived in foster care. The environment introduced Kathy to the impact of domestic violence, drugs, and family instability on a developing child. Her family lineage had a history of social service and she found herself concerned with the wellbeing of one little girl. Angelica, a foster child in Kathy’s class soon to be displaced again was born the daughter of a drug addict. She had been labeled a troublemaker, yet the Harrisons took the thirty-hour training for foster and adoptive care and brought her home to adopt. Within six months, the family would also adopted Angie’s sister Neddy. This is when the Harrison family dynamic drastically changes and Kathy begins a journey with over a hundred foster children passing through her home seeking refuge.
As people live to this day’s constant demands, they often mention how their lives are ‘horrible’, but no life can be more horrific than just one day in the groove of Wanda Bridgeforth’s life growing up during the 1930’s. Wanda Bridgeforth was a survivor of The Great Depression, and she has quite a story to tell. Surely, she can relate to someone like Scout from To Kill a Mockingbird, although her skin is a different shade. Wanda would had never known what it was like to grow up as an African American if she didn’t primarily reside in what was known as the ‘Black Metropolis’, if she didn’t have major money shortages in her family, if she didn’t live in a constantly cramped housing space, or if she wasn’t transported away to live with a whole different group of people.
Marie’s grandparent’s had an old farm house, which was one of many homes in which she lived, that she remembers most. The house was huge, she learned to walk, climb stairs, and find hiding places in it. The house had a wide wrap around porch with several wide sets of stairs both in front and in back. She remembers sitting on the steps and playing with one of the cats, with which there was a lot of cats living on the farm...
Justine Gale just got incredible news. The struggling single mom has inherited the flourishing citrus grove where she spent idyllic summers and formed lifelong friendships. Once on the fast track to success, Justine has recently learned her five-year-old daughter faces a lifetime of expensive medical treatments. Treatments, she can't afford. The decision to sell the land her family has owned for generations seems like the simple and smart way for Justine to provide for her daughter's future. But when she returns to Orange Blossom, she quickly realizes her plans could hurt every resident of the small town that depends on Castle Grove to survive.
At the beginning of the novel, Taylor is intensely independent. She stands apart from the other high school girls at Pittman County. She is the only girl not wearing “beige or pink Bobbie Brooks matching sweater-and-skirt outfits” (5). She is determined to avoid teenage pregnancy, which is so common in her high school. She is the only girl brave enough to ask the science teacher for a job. Taylor believes that she can survive on her own. She finds herself a rickety car. It is a ’55 Volkswagen bug “with no windows to speak of, and no seat and no starter” (11-12). She learns how to push start it all by herself. Her mother helps her to be independent and to conquer her fears. Mrs. Greer lets the air out of one of the tires and also the spare, forcing Taylor to pump the tire herself despite her fear of exploding tires. Taylor learns that “nobody was goi...
Erin George’s A Woman Doing Life: Notes from a Prison for Women sheds light on her life at the Fluvanna Correctional Center for Women (FCCW) where she was sentenced for the rest of her life for first-degree murder. It is one of the few books that take the reader on a journey of a lifer, from the day of sentencing to the day of hoping to being bunked adjacent to her best friend in the geriatric ward.
It is commonly believed that the only way to overcome difficult situations is by taking initiative in making a positive change, although this is not always the case. The theme of the memoir the Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls is that the changes made in children’s lives when living under desperate circumstances do not always yield positive results. In the book, Jeannette desperately tries to improve her life and her family’s life as a child, but she is unable to do so despite her best efforts. This theme is portrayed through three significant literary devices in the book: irony, symbolism and allusion.
...ndurance of poverty, as we witness how Walls has turned her life around and told her inspiring story with the use of pathos, imagery, and narrative coherence to inspire others around her (that if she can do it, so can others). Jeannette made a huge impact to her life once she took matters into her own hands and left her parents to find out what life has in store for her and to prove to herself that she is a better individual and that anything is possible. Despite the harsh words and wrongful actions of Walls’ appalling parents who engage her through arduous experiences, she remained optimistic and made it through the most roughest and traumatic obstacles of her life at the age of three. Walls had always kept her head held high and survived the hardships God put upon her to get to where she is today; an author with a best selling novel to tell her bittersweet story.
You can tell that she wants everything the go smoothly so she goes overboard to make sure she looked pretty. Gerald come out of the bathroom and its like night and day with his personality. He handcuffs her to the bed and starts to choking her. He demanded that she screamed for help because he knew no one would be able to hear. This was the perfect opportunity for Gerald to live out his rape fantasy. Jessie demand that her unhand-cuff her from the bed. At this point Jessie demeanor had changed she was not this submissive woman she told him that she knew he had been cheating on her for years. She could not figure out where they went wrong. This is exactly what Jessie needed. Everything that she wanted the say over they years came out. Just as that happened Gerald has a heart-attack and she is still handcuffed to the bed. No way to help him and no way way to escape. Jessie kicked him on the floor and blood started to puddle around his head. Jessie began to panic and scream. Even though she could see the blood on the floor. Her brain could not process the fact that the man she had been married to for so many years just died right in front of her eyes. She keeps calling his name as if he would wake up.
Critique of Peter Drucker's The New Realities. In the past 150 years, America and the world has experienced a paradigm shift in the study of Public Administration, political realities, the government political processes, economic-ecology and the drastic transformation of our knowledge society. The New Realities book is Dr. Drucker's field guide to the large-scale paradoxes of our time. Dr. Drucker's hypothesis is a penetrating examination of the central issues, trends, and developments of the coming decades and the problems and opportunities they present to America and the world.