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I find the theme in this book to be something that an anyday person or child would experience in a day or much longer piece of time. Any person can experience times of confusion and emotional instability, but if that person sticks it out; they will find an answer to their problems or they will answer answer it for themselves. This pertains to a lifelong conflict, but it does not just pertain to that. It relates to a situation in a day, week, or even, an

I will recommend this book to everyone because it has elements that I feel most books do not have. It was enjoyable to read because I have had many problems with my father and this book helped me come to a revelation. This book kept me going and all I wanted to do was curl up underneath my covers and read this book. It was such an inspirational tool that will never leave my heart and I will always cherish how it made me feel. I am really excited to read his other book Into the Air. If it is anything like this book, I will love

For one to have true closure, one must forgive. In John Grisham’s Bleachers, people from the town of Messina are intertwined in a web of forgiveness with each other. Some characters are asking for forgiveness and others are wondering whether to or to not forgive. One may ask how a football player could forgive his coach for hitting him and breaking his nose or how a woman could forgive the man that broke her heart. Another may ask how a mother and father could ever forgive the man who caused the death of their son. It comes down to one thing. When one has the strength and courage to accept what has happened and forgive, there can be closure.

I honestly enjoyed reading this book not only because it was short and to the point but it brought clarity to me that life is too short to live in the life of suffering. It helped me to see the importance

In the book I can connect to some of the things in it. In life people have happy things happen and negative things happen. “Life throws too much crap at us as it is, so why hold onto something

In FYS we were taught many ways to live in the world through the stories we read, speeches we listen to, and the projects we did. In the book, Ordinary Grace, by William Kent Krueger, The Chosen, by Chaim Potok, and Destiny of The Republic, by Candice Millard, I saw a few prominent themes of how one should live. In these three books I learned about the author 's voice through their writings. I saw how one should live their life. In these books the authors shared common themes through their writings. The authors showed how to live life with forgiveness and live life with faith. Krueger and Potok both showed me through their novels how to forgive someone and they did this by showing that there is a bigger picture in

Furthermore, I also like how he added the theme and message about how a child needs a good role model or someone to look up to for good advice and decisions. For example, the other Wes Moore looks up to Tony but copies him towards stealing and killing. I like how the book states that if you have someone you can look up to, you will create a better life and a better future for yourself. However, I think the transition from first person point of view and third person point of view threw me off a little. Sometimes when I finish reading the book in the morning and continue reading later in the day, I pick up the book and start reading again. I usually get confused on which Wes Moore the author is talking about. I always have to read one or two pages previously to see whom they are talking about like he or I. To conclude with, I enjoyed reading this book and I think this book could help kids follow a right role model to have a better

This book was a very good read. It was very eye opening. More than what I expected. It was a very well written book about the hidden lives of young

This could be a great learning book even for kids that are younger to help them better understand that not everything in the world is not perfect. My favorite part about this book is that every experience in this book are

The chapter “Good Form” of the novel The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien presents the idea that although you can hide behind a mask the pain will never go away. Through powerful use of pathos, O’Brien reveals that no matter where you go in life and what you do, your past will always haunt you. Your past will always be there whether you make up a story to hide it or whether you accept it. O’Brien uses pathos to make the reader feel what he once felt.

Dave Eggers is a victim of circumstance, his life flipped upside down by the tragedy of his parent’s deaths, leaving him to raise his younger brother Toph to the best of his ability. Dave, going through this traumatic event in his early twenties, doesn’t have the opportunities that most people his age have to be young and carefree because he was forced to assume a parental role. This misfortunate, heartbreaking story is something that one simply cannot help but sympathize with, and what we learn in part III of the novel is that Dave knows that. He uses it to shape himself, to form his identity, and the way he responds to people and situations. By doing this, he creates a shield which makes him untouchable. Since people feel sorry for

The beginning of the book talks about what it was like before things went horrifyingly wrong. The family took vacations together, his mother was a loving mother and wife, and Dave's father was his hero. This eventually changed, as did everything in Dave's life. His father never turned out to be his hero, but a drunken firefighter who left him, and at times he wished his mother dead. When the torture and abuse began it was minimal, Dave describes it in the book as punishment instead of discipline but as the book progressed so does the intensity. As the story progresses Dave's feelings are expresses, he speaks of his mother, as either "The Bitch" or just "Mother" there is absolutely no love in the way he speaks of her at all. His anger is also expressed and shown in way he talks about his, once beloved hero, his father and his brothers.

By looking at things in a different light, people are able to come out of the denial and see the experience for what it really was. This allows them to reclaim what was lost. After she explores the wreck, she “find[s] her way back to this scene carrying a knife, a camera, a book of myths in which our names do not appear” (89-94). She has freed herself with the knife blade, captured some things permanently with the camera and carries the book of myths which no longer has her name. People can free themselves after they have a record of the truth. Once this occurs, they have worked past the denial and the false memories they have created and are no longer a part of it as symbolized by the absence of names in the book of myths. This strong image of the exploration of the wreck show how by looking at an experience again, one can uncover the full truth and retrieve some of the good that was lost.

A life lesson I learned from this novel was to forgive yourself. Throughout life, we humans do too many irrational things to count. We don’t say things we wish we could have said, the things we did or said to someone or maybe we did something very simple minded. We all do this and it isn’t something you need to dwell on. Therefore, we need to forgive ourselves because the past is the past and there is nothing anyone can do to change that. We

Upset, defeated, alone, are all the emotions whirring inside of me. My dream, of becoming a ballet dancer, was never going to happen. Why should it? Talent like that doesn’t run in my family and anyway, we don’t have enough money for me to do ballet classes and photography as well. Notwithstanding, the fact that both my parents work. My dad was proud of my mum, although conversely, he would prefer her not to work!