Analysis Of Annabel 's ' Annabel '

This book is great for people who enjoy gore, suspense and a little romance. If you love to see good character cooperation and the characters in a lot of life or death situations where you really don’t know if they’ll make it or not this is the book for you. This books also shows that even the underdogs can still make a difference, and that gives us hope in life when there seems to be nothing left. Again if you love gore, suspense and a little bit of romance this is the perfect book for you, you won’t be

I would recommend this book to my friends who are interested in books that are filled with action, fantasy, life lesson and a bit of a romance. I believe that this book shows how true love is real, no matter what gender you are or who you choose to love. According to this book, “There’s someone out there who will one day find me and fall in love with me and prove that all this waiting actually meant something.” (pg.

I found the book to be a wealth of knowledge. The chapter titles were catchy and I was able to put visual images with some of things which were discussed in the book. In Chapter 2 Allies and Enemies, I automatically saw boys against girls; each group thinks they are better. However we are interchangeable.

First, as intro says, "If strong ideas and action offend you then read no more.” This quote is very accurate, because in order to enjoy the book you must be willing to accept the opinions expressed and be willing to hear tales of wild adventures. I really enjoyed this book because it was a more mild version of historical fiction. It didn't have many strong references history-it was more of an action-packed story than one about history. Finally, It had a strong main character, Charlotte Doyle. Who is a female; I like that because it showed that girls can be action heroes

The young girl in the story is struggling with finding her own gender identity. She would much

It captured my attention from the beginning. I like how the Rand was descriptive words to help me have an image of what was happening in the novel. I like the story line. I like the idea of someone breaking way from everyone else and being different from others. That they are able to think for themselves and that it is ok to be different from others. I also liked how the novel had some romance because I do enjoy romance novels. The Language Police written by Diane Ravitch, I did not quit enjoy the book. I do not really like books like that. I do not recommend this book if you are not interested in how the bias panel chooses stories for children. I do recommend the novel, Anthem. It gives the reader a sense of individualism, there is a story behind

I think the book appeals to everyone who has ever felt rejected, castaway, or uncertain whether their family or friends would accept them if they knew what really goes on under the surface.

Everyone goes through changes in life, especially ones that define who you are. In David Kaplan’s short story “Doe Season,” he portrays a young tomboyish girl that metamorphosis into a young woman over a short hunting trip. Not only does the young girl enjoy spending time with her father, but she enjoys the things that he does – shooting, camping, hunting. This is not typical of your average girl, or even a 9-year-old girl. Throughout the story there are symbols that show the audience Andy’s conflicts with herself and her gender or sexuality. It is also clear that she struggles with herself and her gender role in society.

The only downside to this novel is that I wasn’t particularly into the exposition. The first couple pages didn’t interest me to the point where I would not want to stop reading the book. However, the climax did change the

Overall this book is good so far. Once I start reading it, I cannot put it down. It is a story that talks about the struggle of a young African-American girl named Shivana who is dealing with her poor lifestyle, going to school and being sexually active at such a young age. She is only fifteen and has been hooking up with a man who is married and has children. I found that this was so disturbing because I feel like Leroy (the married man) is using her for sex; he claims that he loves her but I am pretty sure he is doing it out of pleasure.

Do you know what it's like to be starving without no food? There's a big problem with kids and not eating in America, and i'm sure in other places too. School for children is a very important place for them. Some kids don't get to go home and have a meal or even eat at all. Many school give free food to kids while they're at school, these programs such as schools or free camps save starving children that never get to eat. In the story Anna Quindlen points out that getting food stamps for people that actually need it takes more time then selling weapons. “Stamp application is twelve often impenetrable pages; a permit to sell weapons is just two.” This shows we have a big problem in America.

In 1997, Rolling Stone Magazine published The True Story of John/Joan. This true story, about the real life Bruce Reimer, chronicled the diagnosis and lifetime of a man who was given gender reassignment surgery as a small child due to an accident during the circumcision process. Every attempt was made by both parents and doctors to raise him as a female and according to the female gender roles appropriate to the times. Nonetheless, Bruce remained adamant in his own gender identity as a male, rejecting feminine options from the very beginning (Colapinto, 1997). Despite clear evidence of the enormous social impact on the development of gender roles and suggestions that gender roles

If we are able to raise our children with more open hearts and eyes then issues that we see in society today such as prejudice and hatred will not be as prevalent in the future seeing as the youth are the future of tomorrow. I now work at the YMCA to serve as a role model to kids in my community. Not only do I work with children, but I try to speak out more on what I believe is right and wrong in daily conversation. Before, when more serious topics started in the classroom or in a social setting I would keep my opinion to myself because I did not want my opinion to conflict with others. Because of this novel, I now feel that it is a good thing to have conflicting ideas and it is even better to discuss these ideas.

Jazz Jennings, a transgender teenager was born on October 6, 2000 in South Florida. She was born a boy and her whole childhood she liked girl stuff. Like dresses pink and anything sparkly. When she was younger she wanted to dress herself like her big sister. She wanted to dress like a girl all the time, even her family noticed it. Everybody said it was just a phase she was going through but it wasn't just a phase. She always knew she was a girl. In an interview with Yahoo she said “Although I was presented male to the public inside I was feminine, it was okay to be that. That's who I was and I can't change that, I was born that way.”

This is due to the character development, the challenges they have to face, and the setting. My first point is the character development. Calliope also known as Cal has strongly grown as a character after she found out about her genetic intersex condition, and especially through her development from being a female to a male. I find this to be very interesting and unique because not many books have such a strong and drastic development of character as this, especially while being this meaningful and having such a strong message. Additionally it grabs the readers’ attention and the reader wants to read more and more to see how the character plays out. In addition to this, my second point is the challenges the characters have to face. One of the greatest challenges that a character had to face was Calliope who had to face that she was not a “regular” girl in fact she is intersex, and learning how to live and deal with that. This caused a strong suspense and deeper interest in the book because of the curiosity of how Calliope was going to react and what she was going to do about this. Finally, my third point is the setting. The setting of the book takes place from the early 1900s when recapping family history to the present, in places such as Smyrna; where Desdemonda and Lefty (grandmother and grandfather of Calliope) lived before they immigrated, Detroit; where they immigrated and started a family, and San Francisco; where Calliope came to terms with his/her gender identity. As the setting rangers between the 1900s to the present it makes the story more interesting and dynamic because of the different time periods as well as the different places around the world, rather than having the story in the same setting plus the same time period. In conclusion, I had a great first impression of the book, and I am quite excited to read more because just after a couple of chapters I was