“Why did you leave me” (289). The whole book is about how melody has a dieses called cerebral palsy. Then she passes a test to get on the whiz kids team. But when they go to the champion chip to Washington D.C. they left her on purpose. Then she was realy mad at them and herself. Then she said a lot of her thoughts. “She thinks a lot of things in her head”. Melody is a different in some ways because she is waiting for Mrs. V was opening the medi talker box. “She says that she would have a heart attack (132)”. That is a lot different than what other people would say. Some people might say that is a little crazy. Melody says “I am surrounded by thousands of words (1)”. Some people would think that would be a little weird or different from
“ I’m not going to sing a song that’s not word perfect. You don’t want me to make a fool of myself, do you?” p13
(1) Patrick Carman’s Pulse is a fantasy action book that tells the story of a young girl named Faith Daniels, who lives on the outside of the states and finds out she has special abilities that need to be trained for an upcoming battle against the states with the help of Dylan Gilmore, a friend and love interest she made throughout the book. (2) The book starts with a young girl named Faith sleeping, but she isn’t just sleeping, objects are somehow moving by themselves around her without her noticing. (3) During school, her life was pretty normal if it weren’t for the fact that a very sporty boy named Wade Quinn decided to force Faith into a relationship with him and went on a date with her, feeding her two wire codes, which is basically something
Willow is a pretty unordinary girl, she has really loving adoptive parents, grows her own herbs in her garden, talks all about statistics, always counts by 7's, and doesn't care what people think of her. She's finally in middle school but even though she loves statistics she isn't very smart so the teachers are suspicious when she does extremely well on her first test. She gets called to the principals office and he determines that she is cheating so he sends her to the district counselor Dell Duke who has seen his fair share of rebels. Along with her "friends" Dell and Quang-Ha she learns the values of having faith. In Counting By 7's by Holly Sloan she and her friends discover that you should always believe in yourself and others that things will work out.
In the book Gone by Lisa Mcmann, there is a girl named Janie who is a dream-catcher. She gets sucked into people’s dreams around her. Janie's struggles consist of finding out her dad is dying, the risk of being around people and leaving Cabel, the only guy who knows her secret. Janie realizes that in life people have struggles, but with struggles there is always a point when you finally learn to take control and they will eventually start to fade.
This book by titled “The Perfect 8th Grade” which she wrote in her third year of college but decided only to published the book after becoming a writer with the help of her father at the age of 27.
Callie Baker 10-23-17 English III-3 even Mark Yoder Extra Credit In the book Silence by Natasha Preston, Oakley Farrell is a fifteen year old girl who has stopped talking since she was about age five.Her family and friends have no idea why she won’t talk ,but her parents try to help her but she refuses to have help. She has only one friend at her school and they have been friends for 11years. Her and her friend,Cole Benson, like each other and get closer everyday. Oakley is hiding something that she doesn’t want anyone to know because it’s the reason why she doesn’t talk. There is a fight between Oakley, Cole, and Max over her relationship with Cole, and the camping trip that Max and Oakley go on to bring them closer together. Also, there is
It was the first time I ever heard anybody sing without using any words" (Holiday). This new form of music would bring solace to her worries and would later influence her to be the next big star in the music
“I’ve watched those things a million times”. Sharon Draper repeats this sentence so many times because Melody has a photographic memory. In the five chapters the character Melody refers back to some past moments about her and her life in her school.Also there was no ending to her memory it is filled with even what the commercials said.
when they don't have the full story. Girls Like Us by Gail Giles shows just how different someone can be from the way the world sees them. Girls Like Us tells of Biddy and Quincy, graduates of their high school’s special ed program, who are paired together as roommates in their first experience of the world on their own. Initially, it seems like a bad set up because the two couldn’t be more different. Quincy is very skeptical of the everything and is always ready to fight, while mild mannered Biddy is too scared of the world to leave her house. But as they face their pasts and new problems together they realize that they might have more in common than they thought
Out of My Mind is a novel by Sharon M. Draper. In this novel, Melody Brooks is an eleven-year-old girl with cerebral palsy. Melody's body is stiff and uncooperative, forcing her to use a wheelchair. Her mind works well, but she cannot speak. Melody hates her boring special education classes and the fact that she cannot make her thoughts and opinions known, even to her parents. Hence Melody has to fight to get what she wants. Eventually, Melody is given a computer that helps her speak and communicate in a regular fifth grade class. Melody even gets the opportunity to participate in a trivia competition. Unfortunately, even great success cannot change opinions of those who cannot see beyond the physical. This is a fact Melody is forced to face despite everything she accomplishes. Out of My Mind is a brilliant novel that takes the reader into the world of an amazing eleven year old girl who eventually realizes she is no different from the kids around her despite her body's disabilities.
The book the Girl with all the Gifts was written by M.R Carey. It was first published in Great Britain in June 2014 by Orbit. There were five main characters in the book. All of the characters except Melanie lived through or before the breakdown. Melanie is the most crucial character. She's the last intelligent hungry and was based from Pandora and was fascinated by her. She was the 10 year old little genius of the base. Very curious, fierce, fast, loves to learn, and was always mesmerized about the outside world. Melanie learned to love and be a true human. Without her the story wouldn’t be called the Girl with all the Gifts. The whole storyline would be changed, she was the last piece of evidence that could create a new world with what was
But she still has a variety of powerful words throughout the
This leaves the song open ended, with no set boundaries and allowed oneself to express and reveal individuality through interpretation.
Analyzing the word, "beautiful" in this stanza, one should perceive that she is not actually singing about the outside of her, but what she consists of emotionally and mentally on the inside. She reveals that her thoughts and emotions are of worth and value and they are of her opinion. They are consumed through her, and no one else and if anyone disagrees, she does not take that into affect. Her diction is actually pretty precise. To quote a famous cliché, beauty is not skin deep. She explains that the beauty is the sentiment.
This is shown in the novel Before I let Go by Marieke Nijkamp. This novel is about a girl named Corey goes back to her hometown of Lost Creek, Alaska to visit her best friend Kyra. The day of Corey’s flight she gets a call that changes the whole view of the trip. Her best friend Kyra has taken her life. Corey being upset and in disbelief still goes on the trip to figure out why Kyra has done the unthinkable. When she arrives she realizes that everything and everyone have changed. The parents of Kyra state, “Corey, after you left, Kyra finally understood that the community loved her too, that she belonged here,” (Nijkamp 27). The thing is, Kyra was extremely bipolar and Corey was the only person that ever understood her. Corey does not understand the change in her old society. She does not understand that after she left the community came together and changed as a whole but unfortunately used Kyra’s artwork (which was something Kyra hates doing) to help them