Analysis Of That Was Then, This Is Now

In this book a boy named Haroon and a boy named Jay get a point of view. Jay is white, kind of a jock, and on the football team. Haroon is brown, smart and on the Reach for the Top team(which is like a team that answers trivia and competes with other schools). It all starts off when the school goes on a lockdown where police are rushing in the school with dogs and bombarding the hallways. Jay and his friends Kevin and Steve go on the rooftop of the school thinking it is just a regular drill, but then they look down and see a bunch of police cars and they see police that look like swat teams. They see down that the police has taken 2 brown kids with handcuffs. When they go back down the principal makes an announcement telling all students to leave the building immediately.

As I have previously stated, I never lived in the streets in a bad part of town. My life has consisted of farmland and dairy cows for as long as I can remember. Despite these differences I can draw a clear parallel to my life from the book. During their high school years the boys go through many travails. In one of these Rameck starts hanging out with a tough crowd and he ends up being charged with attempted murder. The charges were eventually dropped. After all of this drama Rameck learns who his true friends are. I have never been accused of attempted murder, but we all go through a stage where we hang out with people that we shouldn’t. For a short period I started to hang out with some of the wrong types of kids. Through a lot of drama I got myself out of that situation and learned who truly had my best interest at heart. I learned who my true friends were just like Rameck.

In the novel That Was Then,This is Now, we encounter two main characters. Bryon Douglas and Mark Jennings are two teenage boys from the same hometown with totally unique views on how to live life. Bryon Douglas is a 16-year-old boy, tall and strong with dark hair and dark eyes to match. He has a baby face that makes him look like a “St. Bernard puppy” that catches all the girls. Mark Jennings is 15 years old and lives with Bryon. He is short and compact with golden-brown hair and eyes. He has a sympathetic smile that gives him the look of a “friendly lion”. Although Mark and Bryon are best friends, you would never guess they were so close due to their opposite personalities.

I found it difficult to relate with the book, The Pact, for near the first half of the story. The three boys, Rameck, Sam, and George all grew up in impoverished neighborhoods in New Jersey. They were surrounded by drugs, violence, theft, prejudice, and death. None of the 3 had a father figure within their home while growing up and discovered that it was extremely difficult to find any positive role models within their area. As kids, Sam and Rameck both caved under the peer pressure and became entangled in immoral activity. Rameck had even let adrenaline take over during a fight and stabbed a man in the thigh with a switchblade. As a result he spent 4 days in jail, some time on house arrest, and faced attempted

Foul language, gang violence, rivalries, dysfunctional families, underage drinking, and drug abuse at a young age are all examples of things a teen should not learn about. Children or teens can be immature and take the examples of things within the book the wrong way and use it to their advantage. Overall, this book should be on the banned book list and not be read by

Rough times at home, dad drinking, problems at school, does this sound like anybody? All this stuff is happening with Doug in the book Okay for Now by Gary D. Schmidt. Doug who is 14 years old is in a home trying to get through these times. In upstate Marysville, New York in 1968 Doug lives with his abusive Dad who’s an alcoholic, his brother Chris is mean and is being accused of robbing a store, his brother Lucas who is in Vietnam, and his mother who is quiet and passive. The book Okay for Now by Gary D. Schmidt is a fictional story. In the story Schmidt shows symbolism, dynamic changes in characters, and imagery throughout it.

The book I have chosen to read for my independent reading assignment is called, “Three Little Words” by Ashley Rhodes-Courter. Ashley Rhodes-Courter was just only three years old when her mother was taken by the police. Ashley had a younger brother named luke. Her mother, Lorraine, was a drug addict and an alcoholic. Her step-father Dusty was abusive as well as a drug addict and an alcoholic. Lorraine, Dusty, Luke, Ashley, and lorraine’s twin sister all lived in the same, small, trailer park home. Lorraine had ashley when she was a teenager. Their home soon became the local teen hangout. As well as having parties with drugs and alcohol while ashley was there. Ashley soon caught onto what Lorraine and Dusty were saying. She started repeating the bad things that came out of Lorraine and Dusty's mouth.

This is similar to the book because the filthies are fighting for acceptance and respect. This is important to the youth because teenagers are going to need the ability to fight for respect.

Imagine a young boy who has to watch behind his back in case a snotty rich kid was lurking in the streets wanting to beat up on little kids. “The Outsiders” by S.E. Hinton is full of differences so the reader can understand that people have different views than them. This book is a “call to action” because social class and violence issues are a big part of the world's problems 51 years ago and even today.

In the midst of conflict, two characters from different books lead a similar life. Kenan, a middle age man is trying to survive the siege upon his city. Paul, a boy not old enough to understand the concept of money competing for his mother’s affection.

The first problem in this book is that the main character Scott has just moved to a new school and he’s one of hose kids who has the brains, but then he also wants to play football but he skills are not up to speed with the other player on his new schools team. That leads up to the first problem he is struggling to find new friends in the new school. He’s a smaller kid to so everyone likes to pick on him and he’s just struggling to find friends when he wants to be two different people at the same time. He’s gnarled between the two people he can choose to be. During school he wants to be a kid that

The novel that I am reading is All we have left and it’s by Wendy Mills. Aila is a Muslim and she got caught with cigarette in her hand. Her parents don’t trust her anymore and she wants to go to a program that is a NYU and it’s for drawing program she just can’t go because of her mistake. Alia told her mom that she hates and her mom and runs out of the building and the reason why they don’t trust her because the last time she ran away from home. Now, Jesse is going to Nick’s house and her friends are telling that he’s not right for her but she thinks he is. She goes to his house and he tells her about the bombing of 9/11 and she remembers her brother’s death in the twin

Kathleen Jeffrie Johnson novel Target accounts the life of a sixteen year old boy name Grady West . Grady was your average high school sixteen year old who hung out with a group of friends, very outgoing, and likable. But, everything changed on a tragic uneventful November night. While walking home Grady was attack, beaten, and raped. From that very moment Grady’s life changed. He would no longer became the Grady he once was to his friends, family, and even to himself. Grady tried to escape his friends, old school, and what happened that night. But, every so often the memories reoccur. A year later, he now attended Thomas Jefferson High where no one would know who he was and what had happened to him. His journey at his new school is

In this book, you follow the life of Sam who has never had a completely normal life. At Sam’s young age his brother died in a fire and ever since then, he has been haunted by vivid nightmares that leave him gasping for breath. His parents keep reassuring him that these dreams mean nothing, but, they are keeping something from him. On one ordinary day of school, Sam’s life changed forever when he was snatched from his class by a team of strange people who took him on to a plane, and then taken to a place called The Academy, where he finds out the truth about his life. Sam and his new friends, Alex and Eva, have been told about a prophecy that speaks of thirteen people who can save the world

Now I don’t believe that they say “I wish that I can go back to the good old days” so that they can go back to a time where it was socially acceptable to be racist and to say sexist things. Did they believe that nothing was wrong with America even though there was the issue of poverty and segregation? Maybe, I don’t know, have you seen the things that vocal trump supports and people in the rural south say? The people that I give the benefit of the doubt to most likely reminisce about their own experiences and memories that make this time period especially desirable. Dika touched on this point in her book, “Could it be because this return was not about going back to the adult world of the 1950s, but to our own symbolic youth, and