The title of my book is “How I Live Now”. It was written by Meg Rosoff, and has 163 pages. I chose this book because of the variety of themes it covered within the 29 chapters. Some themes included were innocence and family. These were both interpreted in an unusual manner and was much unexpected. This really caught my attention and convinced me to complete the book. The story is set in the summer in England. It is the time in which conflict in Europe intensifies. The beginning of this book takes place in Aunt Penn’s rustic mansion. The house is surrounded by a garden, field of crops, and hills. The barn is only a short walk away. Nearby, is a river that connects to other parts of the countryside. Later on, Daisy and Piper are sent to …show more content…
The army moves in and Daisy and Piper are sent to another house. In the middle of the night, soldiers come to tell them that the enemy is going from house to house killing people. Daisy and Piper escape to an abandoned barn. Daisy plans to sneak off with Piper to find the rest of the cousins. After a week, Daisy and Piper decide to leave in the middle of the night. After some walking, thinking their lost, the two girls find the river which leads to where Piper’s brothers are. They return to the cousin’s house, but it is completely empty. Once, on the trip back to the house from the barn, the phone rings, and Daisy answers. Some major themes that the author deals with are innocence, suffering, warfare, and family. When Daisy arrives in England, she is surprised by the innocence of her cousins in the English countryside. She enjoys being a part of untouched and pure lives. She has an innocent relationship with her cousin, and all this is ruined because of the war. By the time the war ends, all the innocence has disappeared. For Daisy, she mainly suffers from starving herself. However, the war introduces new kinds of suffering, such as death, destruction, illness, loneliness, fear, and
Lily traveled all the way up from Sylvan, Georgia to Tiburon, South Carolina without much help at all. That takes a lot of luck, at least some skill. Zach navigates all over South Carolina in his truck on a daily basis throughout the summer to gather honey. They both have skills in finding their way around. Lily's tireless heart is always searching for love from her father, whom she calls T. Ray, no matter how many times he crushes her with his words and actions.
Setting expatiates the theme of loss of innocence. For example, the four major characters in this story are sixteen and seventeen years old, which is the age when teenagers prepare to end their childhood and become adults. Also, the Devon school, where the story takes place, is a place where boys make the transition to full adulthood, and so this setting shows more clearly the boys' own growth. Finally, World War II, which in 1942 is raging in Europe, forces these teenage boys to grow up fast; during their seventeenth year they must evaluate everything that the war means to them and decide whether to take an active ...
Finding Zoe, written by Brandi Rarus, can be understandable when it comes to the theme when it talked about a story of identity, love and adoption and have a point of purpose to write. It is like Rarus 's unique to attempt to shed new light on the theme where she tried to explain about her experiences between her life and adoption. How she portrayed the theme is absolutely utter and it have all the different perspectives that help to build the strong theme. She has the two themes that built a suitable book, acceptance and compassion are her passionate themes of this book and they are applying to her life. Rarus’s though process was very interesting to use different proses, however it is easy to follow it throughout the writing. It is achieved
...ut Jake in a confused state of his life. His love has always been the river, giving him hope, peace, friendship, brotherhood, and love. The river gave him everything but has now taken away his only brother for no reason at all. No matter how much he tries to get away from his past, the river is his life and has become his home.
get home to Ren's house, and Kelsey decides to leave Ren and go back to Oregon.
The book I chose to do my book report on is "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich". The book is about the most forceful indictments of political oppression in the Stalin era Soviet Union. It is a captiving story about the life in a Siberian labor camp, related to the point of view of Ivan Denisovich, a prisoner. It takes place in a span of one day, "from dawn till dusk" (pg. 111) . This book also describes his struggles and emotional stress that he must going through.
I spent a minimum of half an hour in full pondering about having to choose a book. Not only a book, but the right book. I wanted to take this project as an opportunity to learn something new by reading literature I would enjoy. I did not want
Soon after David beat up Sam, David and his brother Will go back to school from summer vacation. It’s a new school because it was just built. As David and Will go into school there is an explosion. A really big covering is put over the school and there are soldiers that come in and tell the students that they are quarantined because there is a virus in the building. There was a testing place near the school and a teenager that was infected by the virus escaped. The soldiers tell the kids and teachers that they are in danger of dying and they cannot leave the building because they will spread the virus.
reveals the struggle daisy must encounter of being a married woman who longs for another man.
While Addie lies dying on her corn-shuck mattress, Darl convinces Jewel to take a trip with him to pick up a load of lumber. Darl knows that Jewel is Addie's favorite child. The trip for lumber is a contrivance- Darl's way of keeping Jewel from his mother's bedside when she dies. A wheel breaks on the wagon, and before Darl and Jewel can replace it, bring the wagon home, and load Addie's body onto it for the trip to Jefferson, three days have passed. By this time, heavy rains have flooded the Yoknapatawpha River and washed out all the bridges that cross it. The river is vicious, and the Bundrens' mules drown. The wagon tips over, and. Jewel, on horseback, manages to keep the wagon and its load from drifting downstream, saving his mother’s decomposing body. When the family finally makes it through the ordeal, they spend the night at the Gillespies' farm. Darl sets fire to the barn where Addie's body is stored in an effort to spare his mother. However, Jewel once again saves her coffin with a heroic act.
Daisy's carelessness reveals her corruption as a human being. She uses her wealth and social status to escape whatever she chooses, like the death of Myrtle. Additionally, her actions demonstrate the dishonest exploitation of power for personal gain and attention. Daisy’s character, due to her money, inherently values her advantage over the lower class, revealing a nature of entitlement. Additionally, she gives no respect to anyone around her, sometimes n...
Towards the end of the year, Sam breaks up with Craig because she truly loves Charlie. Sam and Charlie are kissing and Sam touches the inside of his leg. Charlie stops and starts thinking of his Aunt Helen. When Sam and Patrick leave for college Charlie starts getting flashbacks of Aunt Helen. He calls his sister Candice and says that he is the reason Aunt Helen died. Charlie was taken to the hospital where the reader finds out what traumatizing event happened to Charlie. Charlie stops writing letters so that he can participate in life.
The war constantly haunts the characters throughout the book. The effects of war are evident in their alcoholism and their unconscious cruelty to each other. It is the war and its effects they are running away from with their continuous drinking.
For my book I chose to read The Body by Stephen King. This novel is about four young boys taking a journey to find a body somewhere in the woods that is at the county line. This story is about more than just four boys going on an adventure its about them becoming closer to each other and learning real life lessons along the way. The four boys are all going into their first year of middle school so this is a time in their life when they learn things that will help them in life.
Theme is a literary element used in literature and has inspired many poets, playwrights, and authors. The themes of love and war are featured in literature, and inspire authors to write wartime romances that highlight these two themes. Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms deals with the collective themes in the human experience such as love and the reality of war. A Farewell to Arms is narrated from the perspective of Fredric Henry, an ambulance driver in the Italian army, and pertains to his experiences in the war. The novel also highlights the passionate relationship between Henry and Catherine Barkley, a British nurse in Italy. Henry’s insight into the war and his intense love for Catherine emphasize that love and war are the predominant themes in the novel and these themes contribute to bringing out the implicit and explicit meaning of the novel. Being a part of the Italian army, Henry is closely involved with the war and has developed an aversion to the war. Henry’s association with the war has also made him realise that war is inglorious and the sacrifices made in war are meaningless. Specifically, Henry wants the war to end because he is disillusioned by the war and knows that war is not as glorious as it is made up to be. The state of affairs and the grim reality of the war lead Henry towards an ardent desire for a peaceful life, and as a result Henry repudiates his fellow soldiers at the warfront. Henry’s desertion of the war is also related to his passionate love for Catherine. Henry’s love for Catherine is progressive and ironic. This love develops gradually in “stages”: Henry’s attempt at pretending love for Catherine towards the beginning of the novel, his gradually developing love for her, and finally, Henry’s impas...