Katie's Thoughts: Chapter Analysis

The article, “The Girl Who Lived Forever”, by Kristen Lewis, describes the hardships of Anne Frank, a Jewish girl, and her family, who like millions of other Jews, perished at the hands of the Nazis during WWII. Anne Frank lived during one of the most terrifying and horrific historical events the world has ever seen, the Holocaust. She and her family managed to survive for 2 long years in hiding, by living in a secret annex behind her father’s pectin factory. In August of 1944, the SS captured Anne and the others hiding in the annex. All but Otto Frank, Anne’s father, perished in the Nazi concentration camps. Though they lived through unspeakable and unimaginable challenges, Anne, her family and their friends showed a tremendous amount of courage trying to defy Hitler and his evil regime.

Laura Murphy is a member of the Lake Braddock Secondary School Parent-Teacher-Student Association in Fairfax Station, Virginia. Murphy is advocating for students at the high school to not read a particular novel. The novel that she is challenging happens to be the Pulitzer Prize winner Beloved by Toni Morrison. Murphy is not only challenging the book, but is also wanting to ban Beloved. In regards to future literature, “new polices are adopted for books assigned” that might have objectionable content.

On these pages, Katie can be seen to be suffering from anxiety. An example of this would be when she states “When were they saying? Had I done something wrong in class? My stomach contracted with dread…” (Page 128). This struggle of hers originates to the death of her parents. As a result of them dying, she has developed an anxiety problem and a constant fear of being a disappointed for people, and especially

Michelle Alexander 's view of the book was and still is efficient in respect to our general public today and our broader society. Michelle Alexander thoughts was positioned around a framework and was set up from the earliest point beginning with denying citizenship, The racial Caste framework is still to a great extent unaltered with just the dialect to legitimize its presence a movement in belief system, society and foundations. The essential vehicle for the majority of this is the war on medications, which isn 't a reaction to a huge medication issue in the chestnut and dark groups, rather a man-made good frenzy to lift a little issue. The station framework locks individuals up in the slammer actually and for all intents and purposes. The rate of detainment is the biggest imprisonment rate on the planet. I think it expanded by like 800% in 2 decades. 700 for every 100,000 by the turn of 21st century. These truths are imperative about medication use Drug use was higher among whites than whatever other race be that as it may; CIA admitted to fundamentally planting break in poor and dark groups to just about make the war on medications. These variables undermines the old Jim Crow System dark examples of overcoming adversity undermined the rationale of Jim Crow, be that as it may they really fortify the arrangement of mass imprisonment. Mass detainment depends for its authenticity on the across the board conviction that every one of the individuals who seem caught at the base

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In the memoir of Quiet Odyssey, Mary Pail lee explains in detail about her daily life of struggles through poverty, racism and harsh working conditions as an Asian- American women. Lee encounters with cultures other than her own, as a child who was part of a very small group of Koreans who immigrated to the United Stated due to the many Japanese soldier's invasion around the 1900s. One aspect of her life in America at the turn of the 20th century had the most impact on her identity was where she grew up from. She stated "Once he was sitting out on the porch smoking after dinner, and I asked him what we had to be so thankful for. He said, "Don't you remember why we came here?" I had forgotten that the fate of out family in Korea was much worse

Imagine being captured and living in a POW camp during WWll. Louie Zamperini did just that. He was a strong man and has been through so many traumatic events that has caused him to suffer physically and emotionally. He has lived as long as he did because of his determination to pursue his goals and fight for what he thinks is right. Louie was a tough kid. He didn’t like to follow the rules and never listened to his parents. He started drinking at a young age as well as smoking. This has helped Louie though because he has learned many ways to get out of a bad situation. As Louie Zamperini journeys through life, the novel, Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand describes him as a resourceful and determined man.

In this novel Abigail discovers the hidden obstacles and gems of family love. In her previous experiences, family was never a big part of her daily life. Her mum was divorced because her father found another woman and she was forced to be much more independant. Abigail nearly h never experienced the idea of a ‘traditional’ family. She is humbled by the love the Bows have for each other, even though they don’t have the best living conditions. The Gift gives her a sense of overbearing responsibility and commitment to her family.In the extreme circumstances of the fire, she truly displays how much she really values her families and how her perception of family has changed during her trip to the past.

What decisions have you made to become a man? In the book The First Part Last Bobby lives in New York with his daughter Feather and with his family and Bobby has a tough decision wether or not to become a man for his daughters sake. Feather's mother has died from eclampsia which makes it harder on Bobby and Feather because this means that Bobby is going to have to raise Feather on his own with the support of his family of corse though. Bobby faces the decision to become a man for his daughter the whole entire book and makes some chlidish decisions but also makes quite a few adult decisions as well. Bobby will eventually make the right decision by becoming a man for his daughter and taking responsibilty for Feather.

The chapter titled “Every Trip is a Quest” peaked my curiosity, the meaning behind the chapter name led me to a realization which had not occurred in my head before. Foster gives an interesting take on the daily like tasks and issues that we go through every day. He gives a very short, but descriptive made up event, in which a guy named Kip faces his own hardships and accomplishes his true mission. These sample paragraphs were my favorites, in this order

Their hands were covered with slimy blood and the lamb slipped free. It crawled off into the underbrush... After some time had passed, Miss Lonelyhearts begged them to go back and put the lamb out of misery. They refused to go. He went back alone and found it under a bush. He crushed its head with a stone and left the carcass to the flies that swarmed around the bloody alter flowers." (23-24)

1. The book starts with the main character, Colin Singleton, washed up on his bedroom carpet, devastated after being dumped for the nineteenth time by a girl called Katherine. Not the same girl of course, but by nineteen different Katherines. Everyone has their type of girl.

One of the group, Miss Louisa Reid, was sober enough to offer her account of the evening; “we was on a night out and everything were fine ‘till someone from the lower rooms started an argument with David and it escalated from there”

don't learn much about his past, but I don't think it was a happy one.

Setting: Time + Place + Atmosphere (mood or tone): The setting is in the nineteenth- century Chicago and New York City. The atmosphere is Gloomy and Reflective.