Analyzing Aimee Bender's Lemonade

When siblings Jessie and Evan (The Lemonade War, 2007, and The Lemonade Crime, 2011) accompany their mother on the time-honored midwinter holiday visit to their grandmother’s home in the mountains, the changes are alarming.

One day I was walking down fifth street and I saw a man pull something out of the trash and he saw me eyeing him and he told me what was one man's trash is another man's treasure. The kid wanted to play on the recreation basketball team, but, his grades were poor, so he left the house in a rage and meet someone. In the story The Treasure of Lemon Brown written by Walter Dean Myers, the author portrays the theme that sometimes you have to let someone else open your eyes because people get too focused on one thing that they can't see other things.

People often think of family as positive, loving, and with no flaws. However, there is almost a stereotype that all families love each other and there aren’t problems or challenges in a family. Sometimes families put people through challenges and some families aren’t “perfect”. In the book Make Lemonade by Virginia Euwer Wolff, Jolly has two kids and goes through challenges with her family. Most careful readers can see how Jolly has these challenges with her kids and how she is far off from the “perfect” family. She goes through many of these challenges in life and finds a way to overcome them. Jollys family shapes her identity because the challenges she faces ends up making her stronger. Jeremy and Jilly challenging her, LaVaughn helping her out, and her past family all shape her identity.

In Sandra Cisneros’s “Geraldo No Last Name,” the author uses a brief and economical style through sentence structure and description to create the effect of bluntness. The first way Cisneros conveys this effect is through sentence structure. Cisneros uses short, effective sentences while describing the situation. The style is a very straightforward, having the reader feeling blunt and insensitive. Referring to the text, Cisneros writes, “That’s the story. That’s what she said again and again. Once to the hospital people and twice to the police. No address. No name. Nothing in his pockets. Ain’t it a shame.” This is a prime example, as last sentence, “Ain’t it a shame,” emphasises how much Cisneros does not care for Geraldo, and leaves the

Each of the characters in the book The Lemonade War are different and unique in their own ways. Jessie and Evan are the main characters. Jessie, is math smart. She is a good calculator for money, and will know how much of something she needs to buy. She and

When a war starts only one can come out victories. America as shown over and over again that they can take on anyone and that they aren’t afraid to fight. Like in both world wars America came out victories and showed they could stand and fight. But through their victories they gained a arrogance that they couldn’t be stopped. When America entered the Vietnam war they got a gut check and were shown that they can be stopped. Both the world wars showed everyone that America is a power house and is not a force to reckoned with, but the Vietnam war also showed that even the most powerful can get beat.

Spiked Lemonade was a bit of a slow read, but it kept my interest. Sasha and Jag were a match made in heaven. When very proper Southern Bell get with hot bearded stud with a dirty mouth got together, sparks flew. While Sasha stayed proper, Jag’s dirty mouth kept spitting out the hottest dirty words. Instead of Sasha getting mad for the way he talked, she was more turned on that she expected. And when jag and Sasha finally got together, their sex was nothing but hot. As these two falls hard for each other, soul searching also got in the way. This book had me laughing with words that would come out of not only Jag’s mouth, but also his friends Cali and Tango. A fun and sexy read for anyone who is looking for anyone that is looking for a hot

In the movie, Patton, his speech brought on several emotions response for me, ranging from surprise to a surge of energy and pride. These rapid changes in emotions came from his rather unorthodox speech, in which Patton would go from talking as if he were an angry coach, to a proud father. The speech I believe did it’s job in inspiring the men to fight as I attempted to place myself in the shoes of the soldiers about to go off and face the world’s greatest threat, the Axis powers. I believe this inspiration was drawn from several powerful images and points that Patton conveyed to his men throughout the speech. The first being his recollection of childhood, in which the people we looked up to were champions, winners, and that was what U.S. military needed to be. As children we all dream of being a hero one day, somehow saving the day from evil. Patton used this desire to basically say, you have the

Already within one Month, Beyonce has made millions from her album Lemonade. Released in late April, Beyonce originally released her album on Tidal. The incentive behind it was that Beyonce was part time owner, and only had it exclusively available on Tidal for around a day until it was released to iTunes. Tidal claims to have only a few million subscribers, which falls far behind other leading streaming services. The goal of releasing the

“Never mind,” I laughed “Why are you here? You look 16, unless you’re really tall.”

In the article “Beyoncé’s Lemonade as an A+ Essay” by Guy Dixon, he elaborates his stance on how the album clearly presents organized information, inspiring students on how to articulate their essays. First of all, according to Katherine Acheson, Beyoncé’s Lemonade and student essays share the “same clarity and organization of thought...that [one cannot] avoid feeling” (Dixon 1). Initially, students think that a grade-worthy essay would be a paper with pertaining information. However, based on Acheson’s perspective, a more prominent feature of an essay is the empathy the reader develops. Consequently, a text meant for an intended audience would find success in relating to them instead of information with no psychological meaning. Moreover,

Beyonce’s “Lemonade” album gained a lot of praises for its artistic portrayal of various emotions, but it also displayed the pop singer’s twisted understanding of Christianity.

Beyoncé didn’t have to squeeze any lemons to make this type of juice, serving us ice cold lemonade and piping hot tea, she gave us “Lemonade”. She released an hour-long HBO special which introduced all twelve songs from her album of the same name, “Lemonade”.

Beyoncé’s visual album Lemonade ties nicely into Crenshaw’s article, specifically the beginning of her album when she is discussing her relationship with Jay-Z. In the beginning of the album, there are several images that bring symbolism of female sexuality. The images include women in white with the overlay of trees and water. Beyoncé’s album is a reclamation of violence both physical and sexual. There is a recurring motif of women wearing white with bound hands. This represents the women that have experienced violence and feel as though they are bound in the chains of their gender and their race. The women who are all bound together are all black and they are bound by sleeves tied to each other’s arms. This could symbolize women who feel

The video begins in black and white with Beyoncé’s soft-spoken voice stating the directions to her grandmother’s fresh squeezed lemonade, while three young girls run out of the house in dresses. The visuals for All Night were captivating as it flashed various images and universal symbols of love and life, personal moments such as wedding videos, pre and post pregnancy footage and of random couples on the streets with footage of various sexual preferences and various colors and creed. This video was the ending to Beyoncé’s critically acclaimed rocky love story turned visual album “Lemonade”. The narration in this video really pulled the visuals to another level as she spoke on almost divorcing her husband of coming up on ten years Sean “Jay-Z” Carter. To want to give their relationship another shot despite the infidelities to make it last a lifetime. This video aims to show that love has its ups and downs but the ups usually will always prevail.