A Very Brief Summary Of Lydia's Story

Lydia Darragh was a brave Quaker Housewife living on Second Street when the British occupied Philadelphia on September 26th, 1777. Many major wars were taking place, and they were known as the American Revolution when referred to as one. She supported the war effort and was read out of her meetings because of that support. There is no concrete proof of Darragh’s stories, but a family member brought her memorable actions to life. That member was Darragh’s daughter, Ann, who recounted the story years after it played out. Since Ann’s testimonies have some information that does not fit with other accounts, some historians have dismissed it as a fake tale. The British made Darragh move out of her house so that they could use that area. Lydia wanted to stay because she had two children to take care of. She decided to ask Lord Howe for permission to remain where she was. On her way, she met up with a British officer who surprisingly turned out to be a second cousin, Captain Barrington, from Ireland. Due to Barrington, Darragh was allowed to stay in her home while keeping a room available for British officers to hold meetings. Lydia Darragh carried out many courageous actions to support the Americans in the war.

Josie Moraine is a normal teenage girl living an extraordinary life in New Orleans during the 1950s. Her dad remains unknown and her mom, Louise is a prostitute. Josie has lived her whole life taking care of her mother and has never gotten anything in return for it. She had years of embarrassment from her ignorant mother and many felt sorry for her. At the age of 12, she lived on her own in a small apartment on top of a book shop in return for work and her mom lived at Willie’s brothel prostitute house. She wants more than anything to leave the Quarter and get out of New Orleans to develop her life. Josie wants to be known for her accomplishments and not her mother’s actions. On her way to try and leave New Orleans she gets wrapped up in her

Having to go through sexual assault and then a year of bullying made Melinda speak up. Melinda went down a rough road in her life. Through all this Melinda grew strength and wisdom. At the school Melinda warned the girls about what Andy is capable of doing. She told Rachelle to watch out and to be careful around him. In Melinda’s later years she began writing her about story to help her express her feelings. She began warning others what sexual assault can do people and the harms of bullying. Even tho Melinda’s experience harmed her in many ways it gave her a story to help

“When I was little I would think of ways to kill my daddy.” This beginning to the novel “Ellen Foster” by Kaye Gibbons, prepares readers to enter the world of one of the most influential and appealing young woman protagonists in modern fiction. Ellen Foster, the main character of the book by Gibbons, is, in my view, the most fascinating and remarkable character in the story. Readers are introduced to the narrator Ellen, a determined, yet mature and individualistic eleven-year-old, who lives in the South during the 1970s. She lives with an alcoholic father and a sick mother. Ellen must go through many hardships and face much trauma, when she foreshadows her mother’s death and the long journey in front of her by saying that a storm is coming- “I can smell the storm and see the air thick with the rain coming.” (p.7). Young Ellen must go through much more than the average child her age, but she knows that she will get her happy ending. After dealing with her abusive father and depressed mother, Ellen deserves to go to a happy family, one that will accept her with smiles on their faces and joy in their eyes. Even if it means jumping from foster home to foster home, from a cruel grandmother to a condescending aunt and cousin, Ellen will find the people that will love her, even if it means first having to go to those who don’t.

This character was chosen to be the narrator of this story. Along with her other two friends, she tells her compelling story about her life and the reason why she left Haiti to come to live in New York. She has triumphed over the

In Laurie Halse Anderson’s Speak, the protagonist, a freshman named Melinda must learn the key to recovery after enduring extreme trauma. She struggled to find someone to speak to, due to the school shunning her for calling the police at the party. Throughout Speak, Melinda seeks to recover from the trauma she experienced, especially the cruel actions from her ex-friends. Through symbolism, Laurie Halse Anderson displays the theme in Melinda's perspective.

McKnight Malmar’s story, “The Storm”, is a suspenseful short story about a woman, later in the story revealed to be named Janet, coming home to an empty house with no sign of her husband, Ben. The story is told in third person limited point of view where the reader follows Janet who has to process her husband being gone, and finding the lifeless body of a woman while alone in her isolated home during a thunderstorm. The story starts with Janet being excited and relieved to come home to her husband, where she imagines a kind, almost platonic Ben to welcome her home by kissing her cheeks and touching her shoulders (Malmar, Pg. 1). Through the progression of the story, Janet uses her time alone to shift her happy thoughts of Ben into doubt and reason. During the storm, Janet is able to see her life with Ben as the abusive relationship it truly is.

When we heard about the storm coming this way my family immediately started to make travel plans to some place safe. Once they found somewhere safe enough from the storm they came to tell my cousins and I that we were going to Chattanooga, Tennessee and we were wondering why so far. We all began to pack and once we were all done, everyone met at my grandmother’s house and split into three trucks. Everything was smooth sailing until we got to the Huey P. bridge they had lots and lots of traffic which

Morning brought the peace of a warm sunny day to the small town of Tributary; such a contrast to the violent events of the day before, still there was a sense of mourning in the air. The town folk spent much of the day recovering lost property. Everyone felt fortunate to have found their missing belongings. Everyone except Corvida Bratleigh! Rather than being thankful her playhouse was undamaged by the tornado, Corvida was angry that her playhouse was in Nikki Fernandez’s garden! The playhouse was hers, not Nikki’s and she was going to make sure that Nikki did not step one foot in her lovely little house.

n the novel Salvage the Bones, Jesmyn Ward presents a heartfelt story behind the destruction caused by Hurricane Katrina through the perspective of the character Esch. From a depressed and drunken father to her three brothers, Esch lives in a world of men. While Esch’s father is busy preparing for the hurricane, her two older brothers, Skeetah and Randall, are often occupied fulfilling their own dreams and desires, leaving Esch in charge of their younger brother. Esch’s mother died giving birth to the youngest child, Junior, which forced Esch into the role of a motherly figure. At the mere age fifteen years old, Esch battles the realization that her life is falling apart.

The book is a testimony to the strength and determination of her grandmother, her mother, and herself and their resourcefulness in recreating themselves during

Before Thanksgiving Bethany went back to the beach for the first time since the attack. She was very brave going back to the beach after what happened. Even though the shark could still be there, she wouldn't let that stop her. She started walking up to the water, her freinds and family cheers made her feel that she could do this even more.

Karly Segrave was a fifteen year old girl when Hurricane Katrina Hit. Her mother worked at St. Tammany Parish Hospital, so when it was time to evacuate she stuffed everything she could into a backpack and went on her way. Most of the employees at the hospital brought their familys with them, so space was limited. Karly slept under her mothers cubical for three weeks. “At first it was fun,” she watched movies, played games, and had tons of people to talk to. Then days turned into weeks and the hospital begun to run low on food. She began to realize that it wasn’t all fun and games.

It is pretty strange when Tretheway has not been ridden out the storm at that time, yet her ability to extend that empathy to the local residents is undeniable. Thetheway refacts all the deaths and “bodies washed away” (65) through the lens of witnesses – her family and the whole community – with emotional depth and

It’s a scary sight, as rabbits and birds run for their life, the storm gets even closer. All of nature has a grudge against you, as even the wind pelts the soil against your home. Your mother gives you a wet cloth, which you put on your forehead. You still feel the dust, inside your mouth, on your skin, on your teeth, in your breath. You group with your family in complete darkness, and wait for this disaster to end.