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At first, the boy explains dust as “soft” and “white,” adjectives, which are gentle and benign. Yet the boy continues, “Only the alkaline made your skin burn. It made your nose bleed. It made your eyes sting. It took your voice away,” using parallelism to emphasize the physical injury resulting from exposure to dust (64). At the outset, the nameless family seems to understand their early internment as a means of gaining the good graces of the American people. However, as time progresses, what appeared noble has become a source of pain and regret. Eventually, “the dust got in your shoes. Your hair. Your pants. Your mouth. Your bed. Your dreams. It seeped under the door and around the edges of windows and through the cracks in the walls” (64). Dust became inescapable, blowing inevitably into all areas of life and manifesting its damaging effects. The absence of freedom, dust, blinds the nameless family over time, making it difficult to comprehend the degree of captivity and their need for refreshment. The passage, “One evening, before he went to bed, he wrote his name in the dust across the top of the table. All through the night, while he slept, more dust blew through the walls. By morning his name was gone,” contrasts the ubiquitous disbursement of dust with the loss of civil liberty (64). The boy’s name is a symbol of his personhood, his individuality, and his uniqueness. As the

As a child Dave Pelzer was brutally beaten and starved by his emotionally unstable, alcoholic mother; a mother who played tortuous, unpredictable games that left one of her sons nearly dead. She no longer considered him a son, but a slave; no longer a boy, but an 'it'. His bed was an old army cot in the basement, his clothes were torn and smelly, and when he was allowed the luxury of food it was scraps from the dogs' bowl. The outside world knew nothing of the nightmare played out behind closed doors. Dave dreamed of finding a family to love him and call him their son. It took years of struggle, deprivation and despair to find his dreams and make something of himself. A Child Called 'It' covers the early years of

the beginning of this novel Jennings Burch is taken to an orphanage with no idea why he is being put there. In the orphanage, he was not aware of the rules, so he was starved the first few days for not following the commands made by a clicker. Jennings eventually made a friend named Mark, who teaches him the rules and keeps him company. Jennings is adopted and brought back in the span of a week. His mom eventually came to pick him up, but his stay at home did not last long because his mom broke her back and he was sent to the orphanage. Jennings is in and out of numerous homes, getting abused and embarrassed along the way, but meets many loving people. In one home, he reunites with Mark, but a few weeks later Mark passes away from a disease and Jennings runs away. A police officer takes him in and his old bus driver Sal, who becomes a father-figure, takes him in and he lives the rest of his childhood with Sal and his mom. Jennings’ survival in this story is due to his immense psychological strength.

Liz is known for being called “The Dreamer” by many people. She has been a sex slave forever, forced into doing things she never wanted to do. However, though she could be beaten and abused, tortured, or forced into cruel labor, they could never make her stop with her dreams. Along with this, she says that even though she and Amber are literal slaves, many are slaves too, only enslaved to an idea or to a thing. Many characters had been seen enslaved to things, like Denwood being enslaved to the torment of losing his son.

“Treat people how you want to be treated.” -The golden rule. Mrs.Bigio would be very depressed if she was treated like how badly she treated Mai Thi in the middle of the book. She was a very depressed and enraged person, but then reinvented herself into a grateful and joyful person.

As I read through the beginning of the book, I was continuously vexed by how careless Julio and Romiette behaved around gangs. By analyzing the pair's’ actions, we can infer that they don't see The Devildogs as a serious threat. This excerpt is a magnificent example of that. This passage describes how Julio and Romiette respond to a potentially dangerous situation with careless actions. The duo is stared down by potentially dangerous gang members, and they reply by loudly dancing on the table. Not only would common sense tell them this is not a good idea, but also the fact that Julio moved away from Texas to escape gangs. You would think that these combined factors would encourage Romiette and especially Julio to take gangs as a serious threat.

Finally, self-discovery of inner talents can be introduced when one has dealt with the loss of innocence. Dutchy is a character in the novel that learns of his inner talents through the hardships in his life. Dutchy meets Niamh on the orphan train and become very close. Dutchy learns that he is great with children. Since he is being rude and disturbing the res of the passengers on the train the adults in charge of them tell him to go sit with Niamh and Carmine.

He had trouble adjusting to his new stepfather, like Luke." It should have been his father there " (page 33) and " father's hands were like that" (page 35) demonstrates how Lulach praised his father and didn't want to accept his stepfather being in his dad’s position. In this story, many language features have been used. The dialogue tense emphasises the emotion behind the relationship between the stepfathers and sons. Also characterisation is strongly used to connect with Luke and Lulach, for an example, “how would she react, he thought, if I kissed her?” Shows that Luke is a bit of a dare devil and has curiosity to his

The drive-in is what I like to call a hangout place for both groups to pickup girls and have fun. This is a key place for Bob because this is the place that starts the not yet created feud between him and ponyboy.

Luke ran from his house to her this is my diorama because this is when he meets jen it is important because jen is an important part of the story Luke can’t even sit at his dinner table anymore watch tv, or listen to radio. But jen (the third child) can do all of that. Jen is the kind of the of person to be uncareful and loves getting into trouble when luke it the complete opposite he is careful and believes the government can look at computers tvs etc so he never experienced that when jen did not care about the government she believed that the government were too lazy. Jen did not want to be hidden so she set up this rally where thousands of shadow children to help her in this rally Luke did not go which lead to a fight between him and Jen. she took one of the parents car and drove because her brothers told her how to drive. The place of the rally would be at the white house thinking they can’t shot thousands and thousands of people When only forty kids came. Luke did not know that so he waited by the radio to hear about the

An example in the book is when Adam was dealing with his depression. Unfortunately, Adam had not embraced the responsibility and role of fatherhood, resulting in disregarding his sons entirely, much like his own father had. That vile feeling in Adam left him with the mindset that he would never better. When he finally brought his mind back on track and started caring more about his son’s interests, it showed in the character’s development as he let go of his father’s ways and became his own man.

First, the town takes down the trees around Luke’s house to build more houses. This made it difficult for Luke to stay hidden. Next, Luke’s mother started working at the factory to make more money to support her family. Then, Luke was restricted to his room. He couldn’t go anywhere but his room. As he was searching for ways to look outside he found a small vent that allowed him to look out. When he was looking out the window, he noticed Jen also looking out a small window. Next, he came to a decision to go over to Jen’s house. When they were talking Jen told Luke about the rally. The rally is kind of like a protest for shadow children. Jen went with the rest of the shadow children. When he went to Jen’s house the next day, Jen’s dad told him she had got shot and killed by the population police. Luke was very sad. The population police came to Jen’s house to talk to her dad while Luke was there and Jen’s dad had to hide him. He hid inside a closet under some blankets. After that, Jen’s dad got Luke a fake I.D. so that he could go live a normal life somewhere else. Next, he went on living a normal life as Lee

Luke wakes up to a phone ringing. A conversation between him and Sara. He arrives at the bakery. Luke and Sara start baking a cake together. Luke walks in her office, and sees a picture of Sara and Dean He asks about the picture while recalling the plans from his journal. Sara invites Luke to dinner.

Luke slammed her front door, causing the flowers on each side of it to shake. She was such a bitch. Luke hopped into his car, revved the engine, and started to pull out of her driveway, but then he stopped. Everything he said repeated in his mind, and her face flashed into his head. She was right. He couldn't control who she hung out with. He was just overprotective, and he didn't want to see her get hurt by someone like Ryan-- or someone like himself. Luke knew he most likely ruined everything.

Imagine your child being killed in the most horrific way possible. Now imagine him dying because he was being a good person and trying to help out people you called inferior. That's the story that this book tells. The story of a boy who tries to make friends with someone his father's regime considers an enemy. And accidentally getting himself killed. This book teaches the dangers of racism in a very compelling way.