In No Promises in the Wind many people brought gifts to Josh and Joey, when they were on their journey. Some were actual gifts while others were not. Some were gifts that weren’t physical, they were figurative. Throughout the entire book, Josh and Joey made many friends, and with those friends came many gifts.
One gift was from Josh’s mother Mary when she told Josh that he could go on his own. It may not seem, that was a helpful gift, and it was additional permission, yet I believe that was a present to let him go. I conjecture that the police officer that let them sleep under the steps. It was Josh, Howie, and Joey, the police officer saw that they were under the steps however let them sleep since he knows how hard it is to find a place to
The three Items that Jeremy and Lizzy delivered where the book to Ms. Billingsley, the lamp to Mr. Rudolph, and the telescope to Mr. Grady. All of these Items are very special to these people, they mean something very important to them.
Is there an issue in your community that is causing problems and making people's lives harder? For inspiration, let me tell you about some big community issues and the people who solved them. In the book, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, by William Kamkwamba, William finds a book about windmills and makes his own for his community helping to solve their water, electricity, and famine problems. In the book, Fever 1793, by Laurie Anderson, a doctor named Dr. Rush tries to save a patient and in the process discovers that the yellow fever virus is what is violently killing the people of Philadelphia. William Kamkwamba influenced events and impacted society with his ideas and by solving problems in his local community.
Famine is a sad reality for many people across the world, forcing kids, pets, and adults to go hungry for days. In his memoir and movie The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, William Kamkwamba tells the story of how he saved his family and village from famine by persevering to build a windmill to help create energy for his village in Malawi. Both the movie and the book show his resilience through his actions and his work ethic. My first reason Willam showed perseverance was in his actions. One movie scene shows how he had to fight other people to get a little bit of grain for his family at the trading center.
Unit Title: Theories & Arguments – “Inherit the Wind” by Jerome Lawrence & Robert E. Lee
piece of love and good fortune that was sent from the women to their family.
Inherit the Wind is about a 24-year-old teacher named Bertram T. Cates, who is arrested for teaching Darwin's Theory of Evolution to his junior high-class. Some high-profile Hillsboro town’s people press charges and have Cates arrested for teaching evolutionism in a stringent Christian town. A famous lawyer named Henry Drummond defends him; while a fundamentalist politician Matthew Harrison Brady prosecutes. The story takes place in Hillsboro, which is a small town in Tennessee. Cates is merely trying to teach to his class that there is more to life than just what the Bible teaches. He is not trying to be nonreligious; rather he is just teaching his class to think outside the box. The town’s people think that Cates is trying to push
The decade of the 1920’s was a busy grouping of ten years in America. The power of women’s desire to vote won them suffrage while uncertainty sprouted from government actions such as prohibition and especially the Scopes Trial of 1925. Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee’s play Inherit the Wind is a depiction of this unsettling event that took place in 1925. The four main characters of the play are Bertram Cates, Rachel Brown, Henry Drummond, and Matthew Harrison Brady. The friendships between these four main characters are used to show that friendship is a powerful bond, and how the bonds protected Bertram Cates from a larger punishment in court.
Often times when reading, characters will seem as if they've been plucked straight from the real world and thrust into the plot of a story. Inherit the Wind by Robert Lee is a novel adaptation of a play that was originally written in 1955. Inherit the Wind focuses on the predominantly devout Christian town—Hillsboro. Bertram Cates, a school teacher labeled as an "evolutionist," is being prosecuted by a well-known and beloved politician—Matthew Harrison Brady. Consequently, a quick-witted and intelligent lawyer—Henry Drummond—comes to town to defend Cates and "the right to think." After reading Robert Lee's novel adaptation of Inherit the Wind, it was evident Rachel Brown and I possess some similar qualities and traits. For example, neither of us like to go against the popular belief, we try to be open-minded, and we are put under an abundance of pressure from our parents and society.
In the story The Boy who Harnessed the Wind, The main character, and author, is a teenage boy by the name of William Kamkwamba. He was able to apply everything that he learned, and learned extremely quickly. He could lead his friends when they needed it, and when they didn’t. These three characteristics; intelligence, creativity, and persistence, are what best represents him.
My reaction to Ames' stance, near the end of the book, on critical legislative initiatives to correct the problem of lynching was racist by any modern-day measure. She opposed the anti-lynching bills that African-Americans had introduced in Congress to obtain federal sanctions for lynching. “The responsiveness of local chapters to the anti-lynching campaign confirmed his feeling that that no issue so surely touched the heart of black frustration.” (238). Jessie Daniel Ames, at first, appeared unbiased, refused to support, and then eventually, became aggressively opposed to anti-lynching legislation. “Her outrage at the cruelty and injustice of lynching is undeniable” (250) it was her way or the highway. Her way was lobbying, fundraising, and
What if you had to choose between someone you love and the faith you have believed in your entire life? In Inherit the Wind, Rachel Brown has to choose between her loyalty to the church and her love for Bertram Cates.
I think Rachel was looking for the ways for her independence and willing to protect Bert during the trial. Rachel believed that Bert was innocent.
To understand the differences and similarities between the Gift of the Magi and the sesame street version of it, it is necessary to look at the main concepts of both stories. The Gift of the Magi is a classic story, adapted into many T.V shows and movies in modern day. The original story is about a young married couple in New York city during the 1900's that sell their most prized possessions to buy something for their significant other. The item that they buy for each other though is for the other's most prized item, therefor, they can't use their gift because they don't have their prized possession anymore. The main concept of the sesame street version is two friends that live together, that trade their favorite item belonging to
novel No Promises In The Wind. People in No Promises In The Wind didn't have much money to buy others gifts. But somehow they could put together enough money to afford a gift for someone.
Christine is an ambitious woman. With the realization of her poverty, Christine works hard to better herself for her loved ones and learns the true meaning of earning your living. For instance when Christine’s mother wishes for her to be a teacher, Christine strives for it. Even though it’s not her dream, “Why should you not strive to realize the dream that those who love you have dreamed on your behalf?” (53). She considers everything her mother has done for her, and puts her dream on hold, and works hard at her mother’s dream. As well, when she first arrives at the village for teaching she felt intimidated. The village called Cardinal, which was painted red and said to be full of hatred. Her first night there, “The wind spoke cruelly to me”