On 14 September 2017, Runaway Home by Jeremy J. Kamps is a play that aired in the Fountain Theatre in Hollywood. The Fountain Theatre which is a small theatre with some decorations, but the place can describe that the play’s setting is not in a big city. In Runaway Home play, there are some places, such as the grocery store and a small house. Runaway Home is a performance that tells about a daughter named Kali (Camilee Spirlin) and her mom named Eunice (Maya Lynne Robinson) are returned to the Lower 9th Ward neighborhood of New Orleans, three years after Hurricane Katrina. Kali’s father, Tat (Leith Burke) did not come with them and Eunice’s mother and Kali’s grandmother died when Hurricane Katrina destroyed their place. Eunice has …show more content…
After that, Armando and Kali getting closer, and finally Kali get her part-time employment. Armando give her a job as a cashier. In the middle of the play, Eunice is looking for Kali, and meet Tat, her boyfriend after they have separated for several years. She told him that Kali is missing. Kali meet Lone Wolf, and they are often see each other and share everything. Until one day, the Lone Wolf give Kali a gun. He said that he feels safe with the gun on his hand, so Kali ask him to borrow it. Eunice’s neighbor named, Shana has stayed in New Orleans all three years, staunchly guarding her home, and the homes of her neighbors while attempting to galvanize the community vigorously against the ways the administration recuperation exertion has abused them together with the Lone Wolf and her friend, Mr. Dee. After a few weeks, Kali works at the Armando’s store, Tat meets Kali at the store, and they both have serious conversations. Suddenly, Kali pull out the gun from her bag and point it to her father. Accidentally, Kali fire the gun and damage the ceiling. Tomorrow morning, Armando come to the store and get mad to Kali because some people said to him that there was a shot from the store last night. Kali get fired and Armando ask her to give the gun because it is illegal for a girl who just 14 years old holds a gun.
The climax occurs right after Kali get fired, someday Kali come to visit Armando at night,
after removing the chip from the back of her phone, she hunts down and tracks her alt. After following her alt into an alley, she sees that her alt hired a striker to kill her. She gets shot in the left shoulder and only narrowly escapes thanks to chord scaring them off. After Chord patches up her shoulder, she runs away from him again, but this time, she goes to another striker job. After killing the target, she finds an empty room and sleeps there for a while until her alt’s striker found her and tried to get the jump on her. After getting outsmarted by West, she kills him and runs away to her alt’s house. When she gets there, she finds out that the striker that she killed was her alt’s boyfriend and that the next day, her alt was going to attack Chord. She immediately runs to chord’s house and tells him about her alt’s plans, only to find that he knew all along. The next morning she gives him sleeping pills and sets up a trap for her alt to fall into. When she arrives at Chord’s house, she shoots and misses by a fraction of an inch. She runs over to Chord’s house, after leaving him
Adversities are a natural part of an individual’s journey through life, but what is it that empowers us to persist through such hardship despite feelings we have reached the end of our capacities? Perseverance. Perseverance is the foundation that enables individuals to push through challenging situations. Both the novel, Walking Home by Eric Walters and the novel The Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis are two works of literature that prove how perseverance is the key foundation for individuals to pass barriers set in their way. Muchoki and Parvana are characters who both persevere through family trauma that hits their household, they are able to preserve getting over the discriminatory mental barriers within their damaged countries and additionally are able to persevere through the physical agony faced upon them in their journey.
- Characters: The main character is developed by what type of book the author is writing. My main character Sugar Mae Cole was developed because of the way she acts toward different characters in the book. And by her personality and sugars personality is sweet kinda like her name and she is polite. She is always trying to brighten the other characters up especially her mom Reba. She has a different personality that any of the other characters and connects with them in a different way that is what makes her the main character. she is cautious and also believes in people and things like her mom. Her mom Reba is about to give up but Sugar still believes in her and she believes she and her Mom will get a home and things will
Because it is very credible, emotionally appealing, and slightly academically based, bell hooks's essay "Keeping Close to Home: Class and Education" is an essay that I consider to be very touching. While arguing in her essay that the rich class and the working-class should come to respect and understand each other, bell hooks employs three elements of argument: ethos, pathos, and logos. With her usage of ethos, hooks relates her experience as an undergraduate at Stanford. Providing an experience from a time before she went to Stanford, hooks uses pathos to inspire the audience. However, hooks uses logos by appealing to the readers' logic. These readers are the working-class and the privileged, the audience of her book: "Ain't I
“Home is where the heart is.” In The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros develops this famous statement to depict what a “home” really represents. What is a home? Is it a house with four walls and a roof, the neighborhood of kids while growing up, or a unique Cleaver household where everything is perfect and no problems arise? According to Cisneros, we all have our own home with which we identify; however, we cannot always go back to the environment we once considered our dwelling place. The home, which is characterized by who we are, and determined by how we view ourselves, is what makes every individual unique. A home is a personality, a depiction of who we are inside and
I read the scary and suspenseful book called “Ghost House” by Paul Kropp. There were four kids (Tyler, Zach, AJ, and Hammy), and AJ made a bet that Tyler and Zach could not stay in the Blackwood house -that was originally haunted- for 12 hours without getting scared and leaving. I thought they would leave but it turns out that they stayed the full 12 hours and in the end they ended up winning the $200. One of the things I took away and I think that everyone should take something away like this from it is that you should never make bets that you don’t have any information on. Tyler and Zach didn’t know much about the Blackwood house and they made the bet anyway. This ended up in them almost losing their lives. I would recommend this book to
Picking up the book Fun Home, one would imagine that the novel would embellish some sort of comical life story of a misunderstood teenager. Although the short comic-book structured novel does have its sarcastic humor, Alison Bechdel explains her firsthand account of growing up with the difficulty of living of finding her true identity. Alison was a teenager in college when she discovered that she was a lesbian, however, the shock came when she also discovered her father was homosexual. I feel that the most influencing panel in Fun Home is where Alison and her father are in the car alone together. Not only does this panel explain the entirety of the novel in a few short speech bubbles, but it is the defining scene that connects
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic is an autobiography written by Alison Bechdel. The graphic novel takes its readers through Alison Bechdel’s childhood using engaging diction and detailed drawings. One of the big themes of Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic is the discovery of one’s sexual orientation. Over the course of her life, Alison Bechdel eventually comes to the realization that she is a lesbian. Ultimately, Alison Bechdel uses this novel to recount her experience of events that helped to shape her personal identity, which resulted in a transformation of the way she sees herself. In the end, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic is a wonderful narrative that shows its readers the complexity of personal identity, and how things like love, the values of
The Birth House by Ami McKay tells the story of a young midwife named Dora, living in rural Nova Scotia during the early 1900’s. Dora is trained in midwifery by Ms. Babineau, the midwife of Scots Bay until her death when Dora takes over. Dora is challenged by Dr. Thomas, a professional doctor who opens up a modern hospital in the community who encourages the women of Scots Bay to abandon traditional midwifery as a means of giving birth. Dr. Thomas persistently attempts to convince the residents of Scots Bay that modern medicinal technology is a safer and cleaner means of giving birth than allowing Dora and Ms. Babineau to deliver their children, despite their vast knowledge and experience of women’s reproductive health. The novel discusses
In “Keeping Close to Home: Class and Education”, bell hooks writes about her experience with her family as she, a young educated black woman, first of her family, goes off to Stanford University. While her parents’ attitude towards her leaving her home to further her education was not the best, hooks used this struggle to make an educated point that while pursuing a higher education, it is important for young adults to maintain family and community values. While reading this essay, I not only agreed but also connected personally with hooks’ point about never forgetting where you come from due to my family’s immigrant background.
Alison Bechdel's graphic memoir, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, documents the author's discovery of her own and her father's homosexuality. The book touches upon many themes, including, but not limited to, the following: sexual orientation, family relationships, and suicide. Unlike most autobiographical works, Bechdel uses the comics graphic medium to tell her story. By close-reading or carefully analyzing pages fourteen through seventeen in Fun Home one can get a better understanding of how a Bechdel employs words and graphic devices to render specific events. One can also see how the specific content of the pages thematically connects to the book as a whole. As we will see, this portion of the book echoes the strained relationship
I enjoyed the book, This Boy’s Life and I found the lack of stability in Jack’s life interesting. Jack and his mother, Rosemary, move around a lot in the book, causing Jack to never really have a place to call home. In the beginning of the book, Jack and Rosemary are moving from Florida to Utah to escape Rosemary’s ex-husband, Roy. However, Roy follows them to Utah, so Jack and Rosemary move to Seattle. Then, Rosemary meets Dwight and eventually decides to marry him. This leads to her and Jack moving to Chinook with Dwight and his children. At the end of the book, Jack moves to California for the summer to live with his father and brother. After the summer, he starts prep school at Hill in Washington D.C. Here he gets kicked out his senior year and then decides to join the army. Each time Jack moves, he wants to start a better life for himself, but is never able to accomplish this task. I think that the lack of stability in his life, from moving all the time, is the main reason he cannot change his life around.
Fun Home is a retelling of Alison Bechdel’s life through the lens of her relationship with her father. However, because of what she considers to have been his suicide, Alison is left with an incomplete picture of who he was in life. By calling Fun Home an autobiography, Bechdel enters an autobiographical pact with the reader that ensures that what Bechdel is telling us is the truth. However, elements out of her control leave Bechdel unable to provide certain objective facts necessary to her narrative. As an attempt to remedy these absences and in turn maintain the validity of her story, Bechdel uses intertextuality to fill in the gaps of in her retelling. By overlaying masterplots of fictional narratives over her own, the reader is able to get at an understanding of the kind of person Alison’s father was. In this way Bechdel is able to reveal things about her father that she can 't prove to be true, but are reflective enough of his life to become true.
The movie “Babadook” contain basic elements leaning toward psychological human emotions that contain elements of the supernatural world, a mother grief and depression and one’s inner self and how a mother copes when things turn into a horrible nightmare of one’s unconscious imagination. In Freud’s opinion the unconscious mind has a will and purpose of its own that cannot be known to the conscious mind (hence the term “unconscious”) and is a repository for socially unacceptable ideas, wishes or desires, traumatic memories and painful emotions put out of mind by the mechanism of psychological repression. (Freud’s).
I would say that Martha’s job is at stake because Evan would consider her to be snooping if she read her brother in law Tom’s case file. However, Evan left the case file out so it is not a violation of Tom’s privacy. But, Tom’s reputation could still be harmed and the family may not get along with Martha if they were to find out that she chose to open Tom’s file, nor Tom if they found out about his serious drug addiction. So, family relationships would be affected. Evan’s job would also be affected because Tom could sue Evan for leaving his case file out. This is an issue of confidentiality because Evan’s neglect can cause Tom’s personal information and mental health to be made public if Martha tells anyone and then it could reach Tom. Martha