Analysis Of Gathering Blue By Lois Lowry

The book Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry is about an orphaned and disabled girl, Kira, and her adventure through a corrupt dystopian society. One of the main themes in this book is power and the corruption it entitles. The Guardians have complete power over what the villagers do, how they live, and where they live. Another article that reveals the same truth is titled “Political Corruption in France is Common”, written by Reuters international news. This article tells about the many types of corruption going on in the government currently. One of these examples is when the president-in-waiting was attacked by the media, so that he wouldn’t be elected into office. In the article it reads, “Francois Fillon was professing a devotion to jolt the

Aristotle once theorized, “Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.” The book, “The Color of Water” describes the lives of James and Ruth McBride and their journeys to find this happiness. Both of these characters, among other characters in the book struggled for the majority of their lives with the issues of race. They felt as if they were caught between two different worlds; the world of blacks and the world of whites. These struggles left all of the characters feeling forlorn. In McBride’s memoir it is made clear that in order to find happiness, the characters must first be able to confront and then overcome the racial divisions that were so prominent in their lives.

In the short story “Sonny’s Blues” by James H. Pickering, a brother is trying to understand what has led his younger brother, Sonny, to drug addiction and how to help his relationship with Sonny. The instructive purpose of this analysis is to examine how James Baldwin uses the narrators characteristics to construct the central conflict of the story. The two opposing forces that create the central conflict are presented as a person versus self, by a clash of two feelings. On one hand the parental characteristic of the narrator wants to help his brother. The other a closed - minded characteristic of the narrator wants to push his brother away. The central idea of the story is trying to overcome an internal conflict to be able to save relationships with those we love most but tend to push away. A change in thinking and acceptance moves those struggling back together where they want to be.

Similarly, Denver’s Emerald Closet functions as a holding space that allows Denver to reflect on her trauma and experience her own pleasure. Morrison uses the environment to demonstrate how Denver is able to feel comfort for her trauma. The narrator describes the closet as being, “hidden by post oaks, five boxwood bushes, planted in a ring, had started stretching toward each other four feet off the ground to form a round empty room seven feet high, its walls fifty inches of murmuring leaves” (Morrison 34). While the closet is a part of environment’s natural creation, it is described as being a house, very similar to that of 124 Bluestone. The descriptions of the “round empty room” and “seven feet high walls” demonstrates how the closet

Maslow 's hierarchic theory is represented as a pyramid, with the lower levels representing the more fundamental needs, and

Social status often establishes one 's credibility and integrity within a society. The power that social status has, encourages people to heavily focus on it. With this focus on social status ever pressing, one’s identity often gets intertwined with and reliant on their place in the hierarchy of society. People become fixated on one idea they have of a person in a certain social class, that anybody who breaks out of specific stereotypes may often cause anger amongst others. In the short story “Greenleaf” by Flannery O’Connor, the main character, Mrs. May, is obsessive about the way others perceive her and her place in society. Mr. May’s identity is so strictly tied to her desire to get to a higher social class and her notions how society

“Crossing the Swamp” by Mary Oliver explores the speaker's immersion into a dense marsh in relation to nature’s grandeur. The poem moves as she does, both universally and literally, to emphasize acceptance of having no control over nature’s sublime and autonomy over her outlook when confronting struggle.

There is a theme in “The Girl in Blue” by Ann Rinaldi. The theme is that gender does not affect skill level. “The Girl in Blue” is set in 1861, and is about a Michigan native by the name of Sarah Louisa. She is about to be forced to marry a man of her abusive father's choice when she decides to run away and join the army. She joins the army under the ruse that she is a boy and participates in the battle of Bull Run but her gender is eventually found out by her doctor and general. She is not punished for her actions but discharged and sent to work as a spy for the Pinkerton agency. She is sent to spy on a southern ally who is under house arrest to find out how she is sending messages to the south. She discovers how and is rewarded with a break. She travels home to find her abusive father had died and her sister is betrothed to the man she ran from. She leaves to go back to her job as a spy and that is where the story ends. Some of the reasons the theme could be gender not affecting skill level is that first of all the general does not punish her for her actions. Second, she is sent to work as a spy for a job only a woman could do. Lastly, before she even goes to war she has to do all the work for the house instead of her father.

James Baldwin was a famous write who talk about issues that were affecting society. He mainly wrote about racist discrimination, Baldwin was a victim by the daily judgments attitudes of the community. He was influenced by the situation of blacks in his country as well as his personal experience of poverty when he lived in Harlem. For instance in the sonny’s blue reading, the narrator mentioned he lived in a housing project and he said “I had the feeling that I was simply bringing him back into the danger he had almost died trying to escape”. The narrator and his bother sonny knew how dangerous, poor, and neglect neighbor they were living. Even sonny said “I wanted to leave Harlem so bad was to get away from drugs”. In the reading, he also focused in the importance of brothers boundaries. The relationship between sonny and the narrator had the good and bad moments; when they were little they were closed to each other. We can tell by the way the narrator recall the moment sonny was born, the dreams of sonny of going to India, and the fact that sonny loved to read about people specially nature. For instanced he remembered that “I caught him before he fell when he took the first step he ever took in this world”. However, this boundaries were falling apart when their mother died and the narrator decided to went to the army. He clearly reflected the importance of the cultural and political revolution that changed the county in the World War II. The narrator mentioned the time

Color is a puzzle, once all the pieces to coincide with one another, the hidden message is revealed. The importance of color is essential as a simple color can represent an emotion or symbol related to the story. Writer, Lois Lowry in her novel, “Gathering Blue”, demonstrate the value of color being incorporated into our daily lives by providing a heartwarming story of how each person represents a color needed to bring the whole community together. Lowry’s purpose was to show that colors can identify a value in a person or in a community. Therefore, through several chapters of the novel, the author proclaims that it is the color within the people that bring everything back to life.

There are many diverse reasons people set out on a mission or goal, some do it for fame and glory, some do it for their family or friends, and some set goals to better the world. Scarlet Benoit, from Scarlet, sought out to find her kidnapped grandmother. In the King of Mazy May, Walt Masters wanted to warn Loren Hall that his claim was going to get jumped. Farah Ahmedi, from The Other Side of the Sky, undertook the mission to escape Afghanistan with a prosthetic leg and her mother. However, as diverse as these goals and characters are, all three had someone helping them or was helping another.

Maslow's foundation tier, the one upon which all others are built upon, is the physiological need. Air to breathe, food and water, and adequate sleep are all basic biological needs that the individual must have met. Not only to be motivated by the next level of need in the hierarchy, but to survive. The body's biological drives to fulfill these needs will predominate all other activities, as the very life of the organism is at stake. ( Boeree 1998, 2006)

“The Color Purple” by Alice Walker is a series a letters by and to the main character, Celie. The book begins with fourteen year old Celie writing to God about her father raping her and taking away her children. After Celie's mother dies, Celie focuses on protecting her sister, Nettie, from her father's sexual advances and encourages her to run away. A widower called “Mr. __” wants to marry Nettie, but their father rejects him. Eventually Celie marries Mr. __, who later is called Albert, and her living conditions do not improve at all. Celie becomes infatuated with Shug Avery, a blues singer who is her husband's mistress. Years later, Celie helps nurse Shug back to health. Eventually, they fall in love with each other. Meanwhile, Nettie

The book Daytripper has a great storyline for reader to discover, it was written and drawn collaboratively by brothers Gabriel Bá and Fabio Moon, and they have produced a masterpiece. Their story of Bràs de Oliva Domingos, in each chapter issues to enjoy every single moment in life which nowadays people have forgotten how colorful life is; the book reflects how people play different roles in their life, emotion of particular time, and the purpose of life. The answers are all in the book, as Bràs told through glimpses of pivotal moments in his life, is beautiful and colorful in every single moment.

Crayons, a variety of colors, vibrant or plain, with both humorous and simple names. Despite being broken or dull all colors reside in the same box with one simple purpose to come together to create a masterpiece At the young age of 3, the brain is in one of its most impressionable stages as most education specialist will refer to the brain as a sponge. For most, learning in school begins with shapes, colors, and numbers for me, race.