A Year Down Yonder

With this took into place, the book is at its ending point. Only a few things are left to happen until they are

In chapter 6 April finally finds a way to get rid of the DeRosiers.  She writes a Christmas story for a contest and incorporates parts of her life at the DeRosiers.  As a result her teachers believe her and at spring break, she is transferred to St. Bernadette's Academy to finish school.

Sally Thomas family is given an opportunity to make a name for herself by being given social and business opportunities. While the southernmost states have a different outtake on slavery, Sally and her family are treated with much more respect. Sally is able to own her own business as a laundress and comes to be popular in the town for her kindness and fairness.

The best part in the chapters is when they arrived in Bellingham. It was about the time when things were about to change. It was nice because it described how John felt towards making new friends and adjusting to a new life.

Instead a favorite scene this paragraph will be about the most exciting scene in the book. The most exciting scene is when they listen to the news and hear that Holland and Australia were decimated by a tsunami. This is an exciting seen because Miranda and her family start to worry more and more that that will soon happen to them. Since they see this happening they start to worry about others like Miranda’s dad. This also means that they have to start getting more supplies.

The novel begins on a Halloween day with Annie McGowan going to the park with two of friends, Marla and Rene. When they arrive at the park, Annie notices someone new and could not keep her eyes off him. She decided to go up to him and she introduces herself to him. She finds out that his name is Kevin Griffin. Later that night, Kevin was accused of kicking Sue; however, Annie finds out that he was innocent because Sue was the one who

My favorite chapter so far was chapter five because Salamano tells Meursault why he bought his dog in the first place. That story made me so sad it was good to know the backstory. The rest of the book has very little emotion and that story is a nice change of pace and topic. That chapter ends with my favorite quote from the whole book so far. Salamano says, “I hope the dogs don’t bark tonight. I always think it’s mine.” I’ve read this quote over and over again and I think I like it because it shows such longing and disappointment. I wonder if Raymond feels the same way about the woman he

An invigorating event in the story is when Lesia saves Amy Scott, who is the daughter of Jack Scott, a store owner. Lesia is selling her butter from the cow Faith (who has a mashed-up face), eggs, milk, and woven belts when she sees a girl chasing a butterfly. She looks like she will tumble into the river. When the little girl falls into the river, Lesia runs to save her from the current. Jack Scott is not too thankful but this event helps Lesia sell the butter and bread from Minnie.

The second chapter was about scout name Tom lemming and he sees an old looking highlight tape of this kid named Michael Oher. Lemming wants to meet with Oher because he saw how big this kid was with nice feet. It was tough trying to find Oher because he didn't really have a lot of hype around him, no one knew who he was.

The book starts of by showing the reading with a small scene of children running along the train tacks one summer night, in this chapter we meet our two main characters nine year old Pharoah and Lafayette, as they experience one of the few peaceful days in their lives. In the next chapter we meet the children’s mother LaJoe who is described to be a beautiful, gentle woman who has been though too much. We also learn about the children home, an apartment complex known as Hery Horner Homes named after the Governor. In this chapter we also learn a bit more about LaJoe and her past life, and how she was

Two Girls of Gettysburg by Lisa Klein begins by introducing Lizzie Allbauer and Rosanna McGreevey. These two are cousins living in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Lizzie has lived there her whole life with her Father, Mother, and 2 brothers. Rosanna is Lizzie’s cousin, she moved out of her parents house in Virginia and in with her sister, Margaret, and Margaret’s two kids.

After riding along a little further, the family is involved in a car accident. The main reason that the family is involved in the car accident is due to the grandmother. The grandmother remembers a mansion that she visits as a young girl. She is eager to go, because she wants the children to see how she grew up. This further states how the grandmother social class, because she lived in a mansion. During the time of the grandmother’s life, only plantation owners and their family lived in mansions. This also stressed the social class of the grandmother, because you can tell from this that the

Early in their lives, two young sisters, Ruth and Lucille, experience loss and abandonment from the men in the family. Their grandfather had died in a train derailment into Lake Fingerbone before they were born, and their father leaves them while they are very young. Then their mother commits suicide, but not before dropping the girls off on their grandmother’s porch. Moreover, then, “she sailed in Bernice’s Ford from the top of a cliff named Whiskey Rock into the blackest depth of the lake (23), again into Lake Fingerbone. After only a few months their grandmother dies leaving the girls to the remainder of the family, a collection of eccentric females. The girls deal with all of this by relying on each other. Soon, their great Aunt’s,

My favorite part of the section we read in class was when Mameha came to see mother to express her interest in becoming big sister to Chiyo. It was very clever of Mameha to come there in the fashion she did and acted the way she acted. I thought it was very funny the way Mother and Mameha haggled over the money they would receive from Chiyos work. We learned some more about the process of becoming a geisha in these chapters and how important having a big sister is for gaining recognition and clients. It seemed that the help you receive from your big sister is a deciding factor in how successful your career as a geisha will be. I look forward to seeing more of Mameha and Chiyos

The ending of the book was very disappointing to me. I really enjoyed reading about how his mother was in pure denial and wanted to keep her son near her forever and how his father knew how hard it would be but he also knew that