Analysis Of Sharon Creech's Walk Two Moon

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.

“But as i sat there thinking these things, it occurred to me that a person couldn't stay locked up in a house like phoebe and her mom tried to do”. Sal has to deal with her mom being gone. Sal has to learn to do things on her own. Some her father can't help with or might not understand but she is not alone. Sal still has her mom's spirit. She is in the trees and will always be with sal.

In the novel Alabama Moon a boy named Moon is the main character. Moon is very independent because throughout the story he does a lot of things on his own including living alone. On page 3 I found out that he was ten years old because it said “I was ten years old and he’d taught me everything I needed to know about living out in the forest.” So this showed me that he knew how to live in his own out in the forest and that he was ten years old which was pretty young to be living on his own out in the forest. At first when Moon was scared and lonely without his dad he was aggressive with the other characters. On page 27 Moon really showed his anger toward Mr.Abroscotto

Dancing” three woman represent a cultural shift of Puerto Rican immigrants, by each woman's lifestyle was one was halfway Americanized half Puerto Rican looking, one was Americanized, and one was still in the Puerto Rican culture. In the home movie, there were three women the cousin, mother, and the brother's girlfriend sitting on the couch together wearing all red dresses, During the time of the party, each woman is experiencing something different just by looking at how they were dressed. During the home movie, All three are years younger and older than each other. The author had asked her mother why every woman at the party was in a red dress, all the mother could say was that it was all a coincidence.(52)

Stargirl was another fantastic book Jerry Spinelli. He added interesting characters, such as, Leo the quiet and shy one, Stargirl unique and fun one, Dori Dilson Stargirl only friend, Archie the wise and elderly one, Kevin Leo’s friend that likes the stoplight, and Hillari Kimble the popular bratty one. This book takes place in MICA, Arizona. Now, in paragraph one I will discuss the plot of Stargirl. Next, I will talk about the theme in Stargirl. Finally, I will evaluate Jerry Spinelli`s job on the novel Stargirl.

In “Bitch Planet” by Kelly Sue DeConnick there is another world built through the cartoon. Women are dictated by their fathers, or controlling men of the society, and punished for being obese or not what the men perceive as perfect. It brings the reader into a futurist world which has some of the same twisted ideas of the modern world. It enlarges the idea that bigger women are unwanted and sexualizes thin women in advertisements and in casual conversation. This is can be seen throughout multiple panels of the comic. The comic is repetitively sexualizing the thin women and shamming the bigger women with the use of language and background images.

Octavia Butler’s Dawn explores a world of the unknown after humans nearly destroy their kind along with Earth, causing an extraterrestrial species to intervene. The protagonist, Lilith, finds herself in a predicament as she is captured and locked in solidarity for a long. The extraterrestrial species that intervenes, Oankali, strip her of her clothes, mysteriously cut her and then tell her it is her role to mother a group of humans and prepare them for a return to Earth. In the novel Lilith is conflicted, she knows she has no control of her body and that humans have been “enslaved” by the Oankali but begins to trust and connect with them, especially Nikanj. Through the relationship of Lilith and Nikanj side by side with Humans and the Oankali, Octavia Butler explores the monstrous aspects of people and acts within the cultures.

The protagonist in Ernest Hemmingway’s The Sun Also Rises, Jacob Barnes, is a down on his luck war veteran living in France. Jake is characterized by his experiences prior to the events of the book and he narrates the story from a quiet observer’s third person perspective, often times quite cynically, exemplified when he tells his friend Robert Cohn, “You can’t get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.”Although never openly stating it, Jake on several occasions implies that due to a war injury he has lost the ability to have sex which leaves him feeling very insecure about his own masculinity, likely contributing to his

The book Obsidian by Jennifer L. Armentrout is based around the life of a young female named Katy who just moved to a small desolate town near West Virginia. The story begins with Katy's mom encouraging her to speak to the twins living next door. Daemon has a mysterious and arrogant vibe to him, and Dee (his sister) instantly hits it off with the protagonist. A friendship was forged on many levels between the three characters. For example, Daemon is very against Dee and Katy being friends due to their differences, he states "You don't need to be friends with someone...someone like her." although there is a void between Daemon and Katy the chemistry between them is undeniable even though their personalities seem to be incompatible. Strange

One of the first versions of Sleeping Beauty was published by Charles Perrault in 1697. However, he based his story on a tale by Giambattista Basile in 1634, called Sun, Moon and Talia. A lord got a beautiful daughter, named Talia. He asked many astrologers and wise men to tell him her fate and after a while they concluded that she would be put in great danger by a splinter of flax. The lord ensured that no flax, hemp or anything of that kind was brought into the house to keep his daughter safe.

This is the opening quote that Naomi Shihab Nye samples from Jorge Luis Borges in her poem “Making a Fist.” Opening with this quote may impress upon readers that this poem is morbid. What Nye gives us instead is her youthful remembrance of the childhood reverie she maintained at the thought of dying. One may note these qualities by the euphemisms she uses for death as if it were as simple as “the life sliding out of me,” or by the smile that visits her when she remembers her mother entertaining the questions she, a seven-year old with a stomach ache, had regarding her supposed impending doom. Making these qualities apparent through performance is an act of child’s play itself.

When a small town gets taken over by invaders and left with no guns, how can the citizens fight back for their beliefs? The book The Moon is Down, written by John Steinbeck, is about how the town fought back and many different forms of resistance. The two most important forms of resistance shown in this book is quiet resistance and violent resistance.

There are always problems in a society, and the roots of it are nearly the same for other societies in different countries. Negative stereotypes of groups of people tend to cause others to avoid and discriminate against them. The close-mindedness of people towards race and religion divides societies because their ignorance misinforms how beneficial diversity is in a society.

Near the beginning of Wilkie Collins’s novel, The Moonstone, John Herncastle’s cousin explains, “The deity commanded that the Moonstone should be watched, from that time forth, by three priests in turn, night and day, to the end of the generations of men… One age followed another—and still, generation after generation, the successors of the three Brahmins watched their priceless Moonstone, night and day” (2). As a result of remembering the past, and specifically their deity’s command, the Indian priests are bound by a circular, repetitive chain of events. In contrast, Rosanna Spearman and Franklin Blake, two non-Indian characters in the novel, are able to use their memory of the past to break the cycle

First Cathleen Ni Houlihan would be performed followed by The Rising of the Moon. Both settings of these one-acts would be constructed with minimalistic design juxtaposed with highly detailed acting decisions. This will utilize the audience’s imagination to create a realistic backdrop for both of these scenes, and keep the focus of the production of the evolving relationship between the protagonists and the unlikely defenders of Ireland, i.e. the ragged man and the poor old woman.