Ryley Leither Journal #1 “The Revenge of Seven” Pittacus Lore 397/400 (Total Pages) Imagine your family and everybody else in America being attacked and the only thing that you can do is run and leave America. Well John Smith and the other 9 members were. They woke up thinking it was just another day; not knowing that you will never see your family or friends again. They were sent down to America from a different planet because the Mogadorians destroyed their planet. The Mogadorians have to kill the Lorien in order by #’s. Number one through three have died already and now there after number 4. When the 10 Lorien members came to America they all got split up. Number four; six, eight, nine and 10 are finally together. Their plan is to take …show more content…
First, Adam is a Mogadorian that is on the bad side. The mogadorians are the ones that want to kill the Loriens. Adam was the one that let all of the loriens that were captured to go free. Adam stays with the lorien and is working with them but all of the Lorien members still don’t know if they can trust him yet. Adam has to slowly earn his trust and make sure that the Loriens can trust him. Throughout the book Adam shows the members that he means no harm and he is there to help. Second, he is the odd one out because no mogadorian has ever even thought about going over to the other side. Adam is the only one that is on the lorien side. He also looks a lot different then all of the lorien members. He has to try to fit in with the lorien and make sure that the mogadorians don’t notice him and kill him. He is also putting himself into a lot of danger in America. When he is not with the other mogadorians. Last, most of the book he has not been trusted because he is a mogadorian. The Loriens were taught to kill all mogadorians that they see. Adam slowly gained their trust but he still hasn’t gotten number four to trust him. Number four feels like he is just waiting for the perfect time to …show more content…
He also thinks that he is the one that is going to take out Setrakus Ra. He always lets his feeling get him. First, number four is very different from all the other Lorien members because he has these dreams where the leader Setrakus Ra tells him secrets and how number four should join the other side or just kill himself now. All of number fours dreams always end up coming true in the long run. Another power that number four has is that he can pick things up with his mind. It gives him a huge migraine but the more he matures the more powerful it gets. Next, Number four thinks that he is going to be the one that kills Setrakus Ra because he thinks that he is the one. He feels like he was sent down to be the leader and lead all the others to the right path. He thinks that because he’s the only one that gets those dreams that he is the one that is suppose to kill the mogadorian leader and he feels he is suppose to get them back to there planet. Last, number four always puts his feeling for the girl he likes before thinking about his own life and the rest of the lorien. Number four finally got away from the mogadorians so they had to move to Canton, Ohio. He also had to change his name every time he went to a new school so he picked John Smith. In Canton he met a girl named Sarah; Sarah and John fell in love. John knew that the mogadorians would find him and they did. Well they took Sarah and said iff john does not
Then there is the relationship between Charles and Adam. Charles physically and mentally abuses Adam to the extent that he tries to kill him when Charles thinks that their father, Cyrus, loves Adam more. Throughout all this Adam still loves Charles, even after he finds out that Charles and Cathy had slept together and his sons may have even been fathered by Charles. Later in the novel, Adam forgives Charles and writes him a letter to try and put their differences aside, only to find out that Charles has died.
It is impossible to deny the similarities of characters, setting, cinematography and more, between The Return of the Secaucus Seven by John Sayles and The Big Chill by Lawrence Kasden. This paper will focus on the similarities and differences in the themes between the two movies. Specifically, focusing on relationships, aging, and death. The two films differ in many aspects but parallel in other ways. Impacts of these themes within the two movies are important to recognize because they are relevant to everyday life, relatable, and realistic.
With such rigid and different identities, Jack and Ralph have very different priorities, making it challenging for them to work together. Ralph’s identity is threatened when Jack lets the fire burn out to go hunting, so he lashes out at him, accusing him, “I was chief, and you were going to do what I said. You talk. But you can’t even build huts-then you go off hunting and let out the fire-”(70, 71). By ignoring what Ralph told him to do, Jack threatens numerous aspects of Ralph’s identity. Ralph identifies with being elected Chief based on his plan to get rescued, so Jack’s insubordination threatens Ralph. Meanwhile,
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Between bearing the burdenful duty of restoring their planet, protecting Earth, being marked for death, and preventing a superiorly developed alien enemy from galactic takeover, Pittacus Lore’s series The Lorien Legacies places extreme expectations on its young protagonists. As the last surviving members of their species, the seven Loric children struggle to incorporate their destinies as the saviours of their planet, Lorien, with their current states of being lost, inexperienced, afraid, and alone. The Loric have only themselves and a few human allies to depend on, but this little comfort has profound effects on their development. Number Six, one of remaining Loric, transforms from a war machine living solely from a revenge to a more human character with emotions and dreams as a result of the increasingly personal relationships she forms with both her kind and her human supporters. In each of the latest three installments of the series, The Power of Six, The Rise of Nine, and The Fall of Five, she makes another step from viewing her life as a job to enjoying being alive.
Solomon Chandler is also a very influential character in Adam’s development after his ordeal at the common. Solomon’s calm attitude and words of wisdom helped Adam cope with the pain from his father’s death. Solomon tells Adam to let out his emotions because that is normal. He also explains to Adam why he should have a deep sense of respect for his fears, which are the Redcoat soldiers, and the only way to overcome them is to face them. During the whole period of time when Adam and Solomon are walking through the countryside, Solomon acts as a shoulder for Adam to cry on. Solomon is also a temporary “replacement” for Adam’s father in that he acts as a father figure towards Adam.
Language: I decided to pick a really beautiful passage on page 46 in which a Trojan soldier is delivering a rally speech to his fellow soldiers. He ultimately states that they're defending their dying city, or in his words their city is in flames, and that this most likely be the last battle ever fighting. However, this is the best choice regardless for these men. I think this emphasizes just how important battle is to the ancient Roman society and we learn this throughout the novels that we've been reading because we see that many of these people remain fighting even though they know sometimes that it is a lost cause but it's better to die with glory than it is to go out without any. So this soldier is rallying all his other fellow soldiers to continue the fight and help them maintain their glory
The Iliad and the Fate Of Patroclus Throughout The Iliad Of Homer, the constant theme of death is inherently. apparent. The snares are not. Each main character, either by a spear or merely a scratch from an arrow, was wounded or killed during the progression of the story. For Zeus' son, a king.
Tacitus tells us in the introduction to his Annales that his intent is to “relate a little about Augustus, Tiberius, et cetera” and to in fact do so “sine ira et studio” -- without bitterness or bias.1 Experience, however, tells us that this aim is rarely executed, and that we must be all the more suspicious when it is stated outright. Throughout the Annales, Tacitus rather gives the impression that his lack of bias is evidenced by his evenhanded application of bitterness to all his subjects. But is this really the case? While Tacitus tends to apply his sarcastic wit universally – to barbarian and Roman alike – this is not necessarily evidence of lack of bias. Taking the destruction of Mona and Boudicca's revolt (roughly 14.28-37) as a case study, it is evident that through epic allusion, deliberate diction, and careful choice of episodes related, Tacitus reveals his opinion that the Roman war machine first makes rebels by unjust governance, and then punishes them.
He is the symbol of the biblical Esau—exiling his brother (Ralph) and raging because of his hurt over not receiving what he believes to be rightfully his (the title as chief) (Oldsey and Weintraub 94). Jack grows to hate Ralph and leads a man hunt after him. Jack becomes “capable of the most heinous cruelties in the service of [his] pride” just as any man could (Fitzgerald and Kayser 79).
The main character Adam Trask proves that by letting go of Cathy and deciding to create a new type of Eden that mankind holds the ultimate decision to rise above their destines. After finding Cathy and marrying her, Adam believes that he has found the missing part of his life. Cathy becomes the emblem of perfection and a key to happiness for him. As Adam continues to fall in love with her he starts to fall more out of touch with reality causing him to miss the obvious signals that Cathy does not feel the same way about him. Her manipulative ways are able to fool Adam’s kindness. Adam, being too naive to pay attention the obvious indications that Cathy does not love him is left in complete shock after she shoots and leaves him after the birth of their sons. After centralizing his dream around creating his own Eden with Cathy as his own Eve, he se...
Persepolis 2: The Story of Return is anchored around how Marji is affected by the social injustice that occurred during the Islamic Revolution. Growing up as “a westerner in Iran and an Iranian in the West,” (Satrapi 274) changes and molds her into the young woman she is at the end of her journey. In this second chapter of Satrapis life she moves away from the comfort of Iran and finds a life in Vienna. Marji desires to find her purpose and identity during her brief time here and faces many battles with language barriers, people and herself. Marjis past from Iran haunts her and instills the idea that she needs to make something of herself while in Austria. Finding that Austria took her down a darker path where the light was scarcer and the
Similar to the devotion shared between Celia and Rosalind, Adam, the servant for the De Bois Family shows a great degree of loyalty towards Sir Rowland. This is shown threw his generous acts towards Orlando. Adam's un-dying allegiance to Sir Rowland is shown through his response to Orlando's departure into the Forest of Arden: "Let me go with you; I'll do the service of a younger man in all you business and necessities" (Act 2, Scene 1). Adam did not allow Orlando to go alone into the forest and gives him all his life savings so that Orlando could survive. Orlando is a great model of loyalty and committed service. Orlando reciprocates the loyalty of Adam, who was at one point near death.
The four men all made it until the end and the oiler had passed away from the waves of Florida that has drowned him. The author says that the brotherhood that they have throughout the whole book has been built from the core. They always shared rowing so they are able to get to where they wanted to be. They got help in the end when they all were about to give up hope. Crane says that the brotherhood had a big part of the theme and it all came together. After all the things they have went through, they finally made it to the sore and lost one of their brothers that they went through along journey with that made them even
Adam, trying to warn readers of the dangers of intrusive evil while they are distracted