1. Louisa Reid Chapter 1 Analysis

“My strength did not come from lifting weights. My strength came from lifting myself up when I was knocked down,”-Bob Moore. This quote demonstrates that people gain emotional strength from fighting through adverse experiences. This concept is shown in the texts “ The Story of Green-Blanket Feet”, an excerpt from Spider Woman's Granddaughter by Humishima, and the text Mary Rowlandson, an excerpt from “From a Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson.” Both women go through similar difficult situations, however, they both find strength in protecting things close to them and they both come out of their difficult situations stronger. This concludes that a person’s greatest strength is protecting what they love. Green Blanket Feet gained her strength in protecting her children and Mary Rowlandson found her strength in protecting her religion.

said Malala Yousafzai, a girl who fought for education for women, also living getting shot by the Taliban.

Chapter 3 "Critical Thinking and Argument" of Andrea A. Lunsford's book Easy Writer, covers how to critically understand and make an educated argument. Lunsford first explains how to critically read and analyze the meaning or purpose of a text. Lunsford gives the reader a method to do this which includes previewing the text, taking notes, writing a summary of the text and the making an analysis of the work. Next Lunsford explains how to identify different types of appeals in a texts argument. These appeals include emotional, ethical and logical appeals. Emotional appeals center around personal values and human emotions. Ethical appeals deal with personal morals and the goodwill of humans. Logical appeals are based solely on facts and research.

In the story, True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, the author Avi created an external conflict. A major conflict that was developed in the story was Charlotte not knowing who to trust. A possible theme in the book, True Confessions of Charlotte doyle, is that you can’t trust everyone and every little thing someone said. According to the text on page sixteen Mr. Keetch said, “But it’s my strong opinion, miss, that you should take another ship for your passage to America.” Mr. Keetch warned Charlotte to take another ship because she was the only girl on the ship. Also as stated in the beginning of the story Charlotte was convicted of murder, and the men on the ship were really rude to her. Charlotte didn’t know if she could trust them or not.

In True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle Avi talks about how Zachariah is a low rank and slowly becomes a higher rank though the novel. In these paragraphs it will be telling people reading this about the novel True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle and how Zachariah is a marvelous person. First Zachariah gave a dagger to Charlotte to protect herself. Next he also tried to be Charlotte’s friend. In conclusion Zachariah took a punishment for the crew by being whipped. Zachariah is a great person for his actions.

Chapter 4 of Jones’ William Clark… starts with Lt. William Clark being ordered to see the commander of the military forces in Spanish Louisiana regarding the construction of a Spanish military base on a US-controlled area of the Mississippi. Clark’s meeting with the regional governor provided Clark with the opportunity to gather information on Spanish military assets in the area, info he disclosed to his chain of command upon his successful return. Shortly after this successful mission, Clark resigned his commission and returned home to assist his brother George Rogers with settling the latter’s legal issues and help his father manage the Clark family plantation. Getting the plantation’s crop to market, Jones writes, forced Clark into a long, bad weather-threatened trip down the Mississippi. Clark’s return home on the ship Star was equally as arduous, as he had to contend with hostile

the North to work in a hospital caring for wounded men of the war. His

Throughout her youth, Sarah Osborn struggled with emotional distress and feelings of guilt. However, after the start of the Great Awakening, her entire mind-set was changed. After the Enlightenment challenged a lot of religious ideas in Europe, the Great Awakening brought new life to religion in the colonies since the influence of religion started to decreased. Then in the 1730s-1740s when clergymen started giving intense and emotional sermons, it revived interests. Osborn had a new outlet through which she was able to relieve all of the emotional distress she felt. In this passage, Gilbert Tennent, a pietistic Protestant evangelist, came to her and preached about repentance in order to have an inner change and a newness to life. At the time,

From the beginning, she showed her prejudice by referring to the Indians as “wolves” and “beasts”. Arguably, one can make the point that she had just lost her sister, friends, she was injured, and she was carrying her wounded child. But can we trust a description of the Indians that is filtered through the lens of Puritan prejudice? Of course, there is a larger question than whether or not Mary Rowlandson was justified in her hostility to the Indians; an attitude which, by the way, she did moderate sometimes during her ordeal. But the real question is whether we can trust the information she presents about Indian behavior and practices while she was a captive. Did she, intentionally or not, twist the facts? The expectation is that the person

he Sovereignty and Goodness of God: Being a Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson. Mary Rowlandson lived in Lancaster, Massachusetts with her three children, her husband, and around 50 families, many of which were either killed or captured during the attack. Based on Mary Rowlandson’s writings it seems she was quite firm in her puritan beliefs, for example, strict adherence to studying the bible and god on the day of Sabbath was a central puritan belief, and while in captivity Mary was reflecting on how careless she was of gods holy time referring to the Sabbath, and how “evil” she had walked in god’s eyes. Mary believed that her fellow puritans were faithful to their god until their last moment, and she hoped

Martha Grimes is an extremely experienced and prosperous author. Martha’s date of birth is May 2nd, 1931. She is originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She grew up in Maryland with her mother and brother, and lived there for a large portion of her life. In present day, besides writing books, one of Martha’s hobbies is traveling to Britain. This is how she retrieves numerous ideas for her books.

In chapter 2&3, Mary Pipher first talk about that life likes a trial, and viewing past will make you to know yourself better. Later on, she started to talk about her story, she lived in the Beaver City, and growed up from a big religious family. However, in her family, everyone had their own view on different things. Therefore, she was seeking for the solution why. That is the reason made her became a very independent thinker, another reason becasue she loved reading so much. Pipher had a wonderful childhood. From her experiences, she knew thatg everyone has their own experiences, and Pipher expressed that for herself writing is best way to find her voice. She tried to write different types stories. Moreover, she tired to compare her writing

Avi book, “The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, we learn that we shouldn’t trust someone base on their looks because inside they might be hatred or a bad person. Charlotte trusted Captain Jaggery because she thought she was just like her dad. Someone who has classy like her and not wearing filthy clothing. But when Zachariah told her about Jaggery and Cranick, we shouldn’t trust everything you see, even salt looks like sugar.

After Hester is released from prison Hawthorne leaves us wondering if her choice to stay in Boston was even a choice she could make. Chapter five opens with Hester coming into the light and leaving the cell in which she had been punished in for so long. However, once she is out, she decides to stay in Massachusetts, in the same community which has shamed her for so long. Hawthorne describes the decision when he writes, “it may seem marvelous, that this woman should still call that place her home… But there is a fatality… which almost invariably compels human beings to linger … the spot where some great and marked event has given the color to their lifetime” (71). In this quote Hawthorne is not only speaking of Hester, he is speaking of

Characteristics of the genre the work does/doesn’t meet: The book is not true so is considered fiction, also Carrie falls in love with the Charles so it is romance.