Analysis Of Two Summers By Aiy Summers

From Willa, With Love by Coleen Murtagh Paratore is told through the eyes of a young teenage girl, Willa, who helps her mother, Stella, and her stepfather, Sam run their popular business, the Bramblebriar Inn. It’s August time in Bramble, on Cape Cod, Massachusetts and Willa is enjoying her summer. She tries to keep herself busy to keep the thought of missing her dreamy boyfriend, JFK as she calls him, who is away for six weeks at a baseball camp and her best friend, Mariel, who is visiting her mother for the summer. To fill up her schedule she helps her mother plan weddings at the inn, spends time getting to know her newly discover half brother, Will, who is visiting, takes walks along the beach with her dog, Salty, and reads tons of books.

The Blossoming Universe of Violet Diamond by Brenda Woods is about a girl named Violet who is biracial which means that she is both black and white. Violet’s African-American dad died before she was born, so she lives with her white mom and teenage sister. In the beginning or the book, Violet’s daily struggles of being biracial in a mostly white town are illustrated. In addition, she questions her mother about her dad and her African-American grandmother. In the middle of the book, Violet meets her African-American mother for the first time, where the atmosphere was tense between her mother and her grandmother. In the matter of a day, Violet’s mother and grandmother reconcile which results in Violet spending two weeks of the summer with her paternal grandmother. In the end of the book, Violet finds her definition of family and begins to accept herself for who she is.

The novel that I chose was Spoiled by Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan. The main characters include Molly, Brooke, and Brick Berlin. This book is about a sixteen year old girl named Molly Dix, who, after the death of her mother, moves to Los Angeles, California to live with her biological father, Hollywood movie star, Brick Berlin and her half-sister Brooke. Molly isn’t used to living the life of a rich girl, so when she arrives, she is both excited and terrified; not only that, she’s meeting her dad for the very first time. Brooke welcomes Molly to high fashion and fame with an overwhelming dose of “sisterly love”. But in this town, no one is ever what they seem. I think that Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan built the story in a way that would

In “How to Write a Memoir” William Zinsser gives very detailed and important advice to writers interested in writing a memoir. He gives the specific advice of “Be yourself,” “Speak Freely,” and “Think Small” (Zinsser, 2, 4, 6). These tips advise writers to not only think about what they want to say in their story but also how they want to tell their story. Many memoir authors choose to follow this advice and write their story using these points, but many do not. In the memoir “A Summer Life”, Gary Soto follows Zinsser’s writing advice through his use of writing from the point of view of a young child, speaking freely about his early life events, and writing about his life in small structure chapters.

This book is called "Twins", it was written by Coraline B. Clooney. Caroline is an America author ho has written suspense, horror, romance, and mystery themed books. The book is about a girl named Mary lee, she is the twin sister of Madrigal. Before college, their parents decide to send Mary Lee away to boarding school. Mary Lee expects her sister would be on her side, and help her stop their parents from sending Mary Lee away, but instead, Madrigal agreed to the ides. In boarding school, it was hard for Mary Lee to make friends, while back at home her sister, Madrigal, is getting more beautiful, more popular, and got a boyfriend. Mary wishes that she could live her sisters life.

The theme of the story is under some circumstances people can be blind to the truth. Character Edie determines the style of the story by talking about the circumstances of her life as a fifteen year old girl and as an older woman. She retells the stories of those that she has known, and the man that she believed she loved deeply. Sometimes the things we want to happen may not be the things that life has for us. We need to be open to all the opportunities in life that are different from what we believe.

The same things in differnet environment can exactly different meaning. Both speakers use same imagery as setting to expresstheir attitude. The speaker in “The Lonely Land”shows his negative feeling. Nevertheless, the speaker in “the summer in Yakima Valley indicate opposite feeling in the poem. Both speakers understand the importance of nature; however the speaker in “The Lonely Land” express cold and loneliness feeling from setting and the speaker in “Summer In Yakima Valley” express relaxed and peaceful feeling in the poem.

In “Summer Life”, Gary Soto takes the reader through a guilt-filled day from his childhood. He describes himself at 6 years old stealing a pie. Utilizing Biblical allusions, Vivid Imagery, and an immaculate diction

The theme is normally the message the author wants the reader to understand and take in. The theme of the story started with this quote, “From my office, I could look across town to the weather signal on the Mutual of New York Building and the lights that alternately spelled TIME and LIFE above Rockefeller Plaza; that pleased me obscurely, and so did walking uptown in the mauve eight o’clocks of early summer evenings and looking at things.” (Pg. 6) The theme of this story is about time and life. It took time for the character to finally realize the things she wanted in life. She thought she wanted to live in New York and settle in. However, her time in New York wasn’t the best experience she had hope for. Her life was a mess, and she wasn’t focused on the right things she was suppose to be focusing on. Seeing the words TIME on Rockefeller Plaza, one of New York’s main attraction gave her hope again. From the beginning she believed that time would help her adapt to New York. When she first got to New York, she was young. Being young gave her opportunities and time to find jobs and work her way up. It took time for her to realize all the problems she had been living with. It took time for her to realize that Los Angeles was a place she enjoyed living in in the future. New York was a stage of time where she had to discover herself as an individual. The last sentence of the passage showed that she was happy living in Los Angeles. “There were years when I called Los Angeles “the coast,” but they seem a long time ago. (Pg. 8) Normally, people living in the east coast would call Los Angeles the coast, but it was a long time ago since she called Los Angeles the coast. This provides the reader a hint that she had settled down in Los Angeles and have been living there for a long time. It took her a long time to discover the life she wanted. New York wasn’t the one for her. It only took time for her to discover what she

“Freedom Summer”, a book by Bruce Watson, talks about that historic time of 1964 in Mississippi. He explains in detail about the events that went on. Even the most painful details from that summer he has you relive as he tells about them. The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee went to Mississippi to educate African Americans and help them vote. Watson talks about the murder of three innocent people while down there in Mississippi. Three people that were young and just helping African Americans be educated were murdered for helping. He uses many different quotes from those that were there or experienced what went on. All these to tell the story so important because it shaped American democracy. It made sure that African Americans had

The tone of the story, objects, and the sentence structures help us relate to the dark theme. "Speaking softly the names of our dead" and "now that summer has long since fled and time has had its way." these quotes are examples of how the writer's word choice affected how we feel about the story. The two quotes listed in the previous sentence give a dark, like death, feeling. The first quote gives a sense of hearing reminders of those how have passed in the wind. The second quote gives an understanding of "how time has had its way" an abundance amount of things significant to the narrator happened during the summer like him helping his younger brother walk as well as helping him accomplish other things that everyone thought he would never be able to do. Now all of those memories seemed to have been ages ago when in reality it might have been only a couple of months ago. Thereupon the unfortunate event of Doodle's death in the middle of August making it seem as if time were flying by. "summer was dead, but autumn had not yet been born, that the ibis lit in the bleeding tree" this quote is foreshadowing awful events that are to come. We later find out that it had been in the summer when the two young boys bonded. It might have started with pride, but it ended with the forming of an improbable

The symbolism in the story helps relate to the theme because it helps tom change throughout the story.“ The work could be duplicated but it would take 2 months and the time to present was now”(Finney 22). This quote shows how long it took for Tom to get his work done and how determined he is to his work.This is what the thesis is because it helps show how Tom wastes so much of his life with his work. “He had a sudden mental image of his apartment just on the other side of this wall- warm cheerful,and incredibly spacious”(Finney 27). This quote symbolises safety of toms apartment and the place that Tom spends most of his time working. This supports the thesis because this is the place where Tom wastes most of his life and time. “He walked to the front door closet to help her on with her coat. He kissed her then, and for an instant, holding her close, smelling the perfume she had used, He was tempted to go with her”(Finney 20).This quote symbolises Toms wife Clare and how he loves her also the reason works so hard. This supports the thesis because it shows

Seventh Grade features a boy named Victor who tries to get his crush, Teresa, to like him by pretending to know french, when he really does not. By doing this, Victor makes a fool of himself and messes up. The theme of this story is to be yourself. This is shown in paragraph fifty when the narrator says,” He raced to metal shop. After metal shop there was biology, and after biology a long sprint to the public library, where he checked out three french books.” By trying to be someone he is not, Victor is now putting more work on himself because he has to learn French in order to tutor Teresa. On the other hand, in The Cat Who Thought, Jan Skiba purchases a mirror for his daughters which causes them to obsess over their flaws and begin to dislike themselves for it. The theme of this story is the inside matters, the outside does not. According to paragraph six, the narrator states,” A glass mirror shows only the skin of the body. The real image of a person is in his willingness to help himself and his family and, as far as possible, all those he comes in contact with. This kind of mirror reveals the very soul of the person.” The daughters got so caught up in how they look that they began to dislike themselves. So, the theme of this story is the inside matters, the outside

The theme of All Summer In A Day is depression. One example of this is the bullying marot went through, which played a major role in her depression. Another example of margot's depression in the passage is while all the other children sing and dance while margot barely moves her lips unless the song is about the sun. This is because margot misses the sun so much that she has become depressed. Another example of depression in margot is when she refused to shower because she was so psychologically disturbed she started not acting sane.

The initial impression one makes on his or her classmates during Plebe Summer often carries with them throughout their time at the Academy. In many ways, it is unfortunate because people are not given a second chance to prove their worth, but in other cases, flaws in character and work ethic are observed and they are accurate from the first impression.