Analysis Of If I Should Die By Amy Plum

Darcy is the main character, Jamie is Darcy’s sister and Hakeem is Darcy’s boyfriend/ ex boyfriend, Tarah is her best friend. Copper is Tarah’s boyfriend and Liselle and Brain are brother and sister. Now you know everybody in the book. Every character in the book plays a very special part in it. They make the plot special and unique in its own way.

One common thing that all of the religious characters in As I Lay Dying seem to share is that they are judgemental of others and their mistakes. This is especially true for Cora Tull and Reverend Whitfield, both of whom are very religious, but are also judgemental of others, especially the Bundrens, while ignoring their own lives and pasts. Faulkner’s portrayal of these religious characters reveals that those who are judgmental of the lives and choices of others should address their own failings before worrying about others. If you are someone who is described as religious you should not be judging others because god doesn’t li

Compare the ways in which poets reflect on parental relationships – Daddy by Sylvia Plath and Mother Who Gave Me Life by Gwen Harwood

Many live under the assumption that those who come to the United States want to become Americanized and assimilate to the melting pot our culture has formed into. This is the populations ethnocentric belief, which is the belief that the ways of one’s culture are superior to the ways of a different culture, that wants others to melt into the western ways. In Ann Faidman’s The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, Faidman fails to completely remain objective when demonstrating how cross-cultural misunderstandings create issues in the healthcare field, specifically between the Hmong and western cultures that created dire consequences between the Lee’s and their American doctors. Faidman uses her connections with the Hmong and the doctors who cared for them in order to disclose the different views, beliefs and practices the Hmong and Western cultures practiced. With her attempt to be culturally relative to the situation, Faidman discusses the series of events and reasons as to why the Lee’s faced the fate that they did and how it parallels to the ethnocentrism in the health care system.

The book "Just Mercy" is a book that Stevenson wrote aknowledging the Economical Injustice in a racial world and how american social and ethnicity can affect the American legal system. Being the author, narrator, and protagonist of the book, Stevenson was a poor African American male growing up in a rural community in Delaware. Post High school, Stevenson continued his studies at Harvard Law School. There he and friend, Eva Ansley birthed the Equal Justice Initiative. Stevenson worked as an activist and lawyer. He stood by victims that were wrongfully accused some to be men, women and children of all races. Stevensons passion and drive for his clients exuded well throughout the entire book.It often displays many challenges he faced. Through his perseverance and dedication he paved a way for many people within the cases that he took on.

A tool is a device or instrument used to carry out a particular function. Although betrayal is not considered an actual object, Dewey Dell within the book As I Lay Dying uses this to achieve a safe plan. Just like in the definition of a tool, she uses betrayal for a particular function; this particular function is to get rid of her brother Darl. Dewey Dell is the daughter of Anse and Addie Bundren. She is about seventeen years old. In this novel, she has sex with a boy named Lafe and conceives a child. She does as much as she can to avoid her secret to escape along with trying to abort her baby. When Dewey Dell betrays her brother Darl because her fear of him knowing about the pregnancy along with her mother’s extreme influence on her

Both Mother Who Gave Me Life by Gwen Harwood and Woman to Child by Judith Wright, explore the bonds shared between mother and child. While both poems explore the same themes, each poet uses different techniques in doing so. Woman to Child is from the point of view of a mother. Although the poet has used the personal pronouns ‘I’ and ‘me’, the poem is not from Wrights point of view, rather, from every woman’s, as majority of women have experienced the intimate experience of becoming a mother. Like Woman to Child, Mother Who Gave Me Life also uses personal pronouns, but unlike Woman to Child, Mother Who Gave Me Life is a personal elegy for Harwood’s mother.

Just finished “As I lay Dying”. I had a love hate relationship with this novel. As the Bundern’s family traveled farther in their journey, the events became difficult for me to read. The family could not catch a break and Faulkner never really made it clear they deserved to.

In this story, Carolina and Savvie are sisters that can't be apart from each other. “I will Follow you” by Roxane Gay follows a story about these two girls that have lived a very difficult life and all they have is each other, they keep thinking back and forth about their very traumatic past as little as ten and eleven years old. Savvie and Carolina were kidnapped and molested, after six weeks of them being kidnapped by this perpetrator, they try to maintain a normal life but they keep getting flashbacks. When the perpetrator (Mr.Peter) returns to their lives he sends a letter from prison to the girls and asks them for forgiveness. These girls are put to the hardest test, will they let Mr.Peter still take advantage of them after they are

Me Earl and the Dying Girl, a novel written by Jesse Andrews, introduces Greg Gaines, a 17 year old loner, has miraculously passed through high school under the radar and without a scratch. Greg is clumsy, awkward and he sticks to his method of not being included in any social group at school, but knowing at least one person from each group. The only person Greg spends most of his time with is Earl whom he makes “really bad” films with. Earl, who comes from a wild and broken family speaks more wisdom throughout the novel than Greg who remains cynical. Greg refuses to call Earl his friend but rather his “co-worker” in respect that Greg stands by the fact that he doesn’t have any friends because he isn’t worthy of them. In a way, Greg seems very self concerned and doesn’t really pay attention to the issues of others.

In the book and the movie, the protagonist is Nick Carraway, he is the person with the good intentions, but he ends up leaving and going back to his hometown to marry a girl that has been waiting for him.

Throughout this semester our course has encompassed rituals, traditions, ethical dilemmas, grieving and death. As a mortuary affairs Marine deployed in Iraq Jess Godell shares her traumatic and human account of war and her experiences with Death and Dying in the novel Shade It Black.

“I Survived” by Lauren Tarshis is a great Historic Fictional series. The notable commentary behind the “I Survived” series is that each story takes place during a significant historical event throughout history. The events that the series highlights are The Destruction of Pompeii, The Nazi Invasion, Japanese Tsunami, The Battle of Gettysburg, The Attacks of September 11, 2001, The San Francisco Earthquake, The Bombing of Pearl Harbor 1941, Hurricane Katrina 2005, The Shark Attacks of 1916 and The Sinking of the Titanic. Lauren Tarshis adds a dramatically twist to each real event by adding the role of survival by the lead character of the book. Another aspect that makes “I Survived” such a great series is the wide range of eras in which these

In the story “Please Move Now, Please Don’t Be Dead” By Karen Dufilho the story takes a look at the internal thoughts that cross our minds in stressful situations. With this, the story starts with a women paralyzed in thought as she finds herself at odds with her own morality. Presented face to face with a hobo in cardiac arrest, she finds out that her good intentions only go so far. While, looking at the dying man with a heavy heart she starts to debate whether she should help or pretend to be oblivious. She tosses messages back and forth in her head “should I do CPR, but I don’t know CPR” “would I have to admit that I did nothing” hoping someone else would find him and do the right thing.

In the young adult novel Before I Fall, by Lauren Oliver, the reader experiences life seven times through a young girl with the hope of surviving. It is the chilling, heartbreaking story of Sam Kingston, who is forced to relive the night of her death in a fatal car accident, every night for a week. The only way to break the curse is for her to realize her wrong-doings, and find a way to make things right with the people she has hurt in the past. Through her repeated days, Sam learns that the first glimpse doesn't always give us a full picture of what is truly happening around us.