Harlan Coben brings excitement to the novel in many ways. All starting with the disappearance of Mickey Bolitar’s girlfriend, Ashley. Along with Mickey meeting the town’s eerie old lady they named “Bat Lady.” And potentially revealing a connection between Bat Lady and the fatal crash that killed Mickey’s dad. Ashley Kent was a prim and proper young girl, the second Mickey saw her he fell in love with her. While witnessing his father's death, and with his mother in rehab, Ashley is the only reason Mickey’s life is liveable, until she goes missing. Mickey then visits the go-go lounge, a club where he’s hoping to find Antoine Lemaire, who may be a possible suspect. Mickey uses a fake ID to get into the club, and ends up being caught by the owner, and the bouncers. When Buddy Ray, the owner of the club, asked Mickey why he was there, Mickey held up a picture of Ashley. Buddy immediately recognized Ashely, due to him keeping her held captive, but earlier that week Ashley had escaped, only making Buddy Ray more mad and proceeded to beat up Mickey for answers. “Here’s what’s going to happen,” Buddy Ray said to me, again with his quit lisp. “With Derrick holding you in place, I'm going to sock you in the gut again. Harder this time. Then if you don't talk, well take you to the dungeon” (Corben 187). “Bat Lady” was the name given to the old lady who lived in the old dilapidated house. The people of newark rumored that she ate children and was 100 years old. One day when Mickey walked
In the sports novel The Batboy by Mike Lupica Brian is the batboy for a Major League Baseball team. During the season he meets his idol, Hank Bishop, who is not who Brian thought it would be. The theme of the the book is to never give up, which is expressed by both of the main characters in the book.
In Chapter two of Night, by Elie Wiesel there is a story involved following around a woman, Mrs. Schachter, who had lost her mind, to empathize how quickly the prisoners are changing. The section involves the people from the ghetto on a cattle car together, and since they were from the ghetto together most of them already knew each other which helped demonstrate the sudden change in demeanor. Wiesel mentioned; “I knew her well. A quiet tense woman with piercing eyes, she had been a frequent guest in our home” (Wiesel 24). This illustrates how Mrs. Schatcher changed on the ride, and how she became an entirely new person it seems. Even though Mrs. Schatcher went hysterical, not everyone else on the cattle car did. Some tried their best to stay
Kids all over the world have summer jobs. Most kids rarely get to meet their favorite baseball player. Brian is one of the few lucky kids who gets to meet their favorite player. You’ll find help and motivation in places without even looking for it.
Have you heard about the salem witch trials? They were a dramatic time when many people were acused of being a witch and hung for it. In history class to english class this is used in may classes as examples to learn from. In the cruibable there are manyh people that you could blame for the cause of this tragic event. You could blame abigail williams, or possibly danforth, and even john proctor; but the most blame could go to Mary Warren. Mary warren is to blame for these tragic events because of her willingness to play along with the games of abigail. Mary warren has many flaws but the three major flaws that make her responisble are; she can be easily influenced, she is also highly emotional, and lastly she is young and foolish in her thought and actions.
Both men, McMurphy and Luke were turned into examples, much like Jesus Christ and left behind a legacy. Luke at the prison was cool without a doubt, motivating all the prisoners to follow his lead which attracted attention of the authority who believed that Luke had to be dealt with since he was getting out of line and also taking the other prisoners with him 'Thats my darling luke, grins like a baby bites like a gator' we see here in this qoute that dragline was one of many whose heart Luke won, dragline calls him 'darling' which shows how much luke is loved by his fellow prisoners and what a huge impact he has had on their personality. When McMurphy started popping the bubbles of the 'rabbits', making them realize that they had been ripped
Where to begin? From start to finish this summer has been like no other. The 2D girls hit it off from the first week of camp with awesome sports and trips. Our very first trip was to gymnastics where our girls showed us their cool flips and tricks! Beach, Liberty science center, bowling, pump it up, and keansburg are just a few more of the fun trips we went on. Each day is jam packed with non stop fun and this is just glimpse of our everyday with you girls. Charlotte and Marilyn are always first in the pool showing us their cool pool tricks. When we have four square Linda, our superstar four square player, will be the first one running to be ace. Ruby and Leah are our star kickers helping us win our line soccer games! Who can forget our group name for the scavenger hunt?!? The 2D omelets definitely rocked it, taking first place! In dance, Grace, Mira, and Felicia always blow us away with their awesome moves!
In the beginning of the novel, Cole behaves cruelly when he becomes emotional. For example, Cole beats up Peter after Peter has told on Cole for breaking into a store. Another time, Cole hated the stare he was getting, he spit into the wind, were the wind would catch the saliva and carry it back to Edwin. The only reason to why Cole spit cause he hated the stare he was getting and he wanted the saliva to hit Edwin. Whenever, Cole was asked to eat the ingredient separately, he told Gravey it won’t taste good, but you mixed the food together it tastes good. Cole got really mad that he made the food going flying cause how he acted, once he is angry. Cole becomes very angry and he ends up acting very harsh.
Deborah from Soldier’s Secret is characterized through indirect characterization. She is shown to be a stubborn person through her words, thoughts, and through other characters.
In Ken Kesey’s novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, an individual’s capacity for self-sacrifice is affected by compelling circumstances. The novel follows the experiences of Chief Bromden and his fellow patients within a psychiatric hospital ruled by an authoritarian Nurse Ratched, who imposes strict rules within the facility in order to maintain stability. The novel is centred on Randle McMurphy’s and Nurse Ratched’s rivalry caused by their polar opposite views on how the institute should be run. McMurphy, a boisterous patient, believes that his fellow patients should have more freedom, on the other hand Nurse Ratched believes in the institution being run like a dictatorship where discipline is the important aspect for stability.
“Everything is not what it seems,” while this lyric may seem trite, it holds great truth. People, places, activities, each can be viewed in more than one way depending on the circumstances. From these viewpoints spring complexities and mystery in the shape of differing facades.
This story takes place in several different foster homes amongst Ashley and her brother Luke because they were taken away from their biological mother, Lorraine Rhodes, which became a life changing experience for them. Ashley experiences throughout her childhood with various issues including; abandonment, abuse, endangerment, and emotional challenges. Due to these challenges, Ashley has a hard time coping with love and attachment because she doesn’t know what it is like to have a real family.
The character I got was Mrs. Henrietta Levitt and I believe that she is liberal because she believes in an active government that is directly involved with the people, tax-funded social programs, a need for change in society, and feels that less money should go towards the military. First, Levitt believes that the government should help people in areas where their needs are failing to be met and develop programs. In contrast, Conservatives believe that the government should be less involved with the people and be smaller taking more of a let people be responsible for themselves stance on things. In addition to that she believe that in order to meet the needs of society a moderate amount of change is necessary again unlike the conservatives,
Lord of the Flies is a novel written by the Nobel Prize-winning author William Golding about a group of schoolboy stuck on a deserted island, attempting to establish a well-organized society but fail. The story lacks a real female character. Hence, most critics pay no attention on this issue. Nevertheless, the issue of femininity is implicitly presented in the story; male characters are rejecting the femininity. For example, in the protagonist Ralph’s memory, he never read one of the books standing on his shelf because that is the book about two girls (Golding 112). Also, when the boys’ hair grow longer due to the long stay on the island, they refuse to tie the hair back since it would be like girls (Golding 172). The novel embodies the confrontation between masculinity and femininity. In light of this, this paper argues that by considering Piggy the representative of femininity, Lord of the Flies illustrates how the exclusive nature of masculinity repudiates femininity, which causes the final disintegration of the society on the island.
Batman is one of the many fictional superheroes which appears in the “American comic books” that is published by the DC comics. The character is a secret identity for Bruce Wayne, the only heir to Wayne Enterprises. Bruce Wayne swore an oath of vengeance when he witnessed the death of his parents;Thomas Wayne and Martha Wayne (Diamond, 2015). Bat man combats criminals in Gotham: a fictional city, with assistance from various characters, for example, his butler Alfred and Gordon; Gotham city police commissioner. Unlike many of the superheroes characters, Batman possesses no powers .Bruce Wayne trained himself intellectually and physically .it is from dedication to training he possessed the useful traits of physical prowess, martial arts skills, detective skills and indomitable will to fight for justice. Though his motive is to combat crime and protect people of Gotham city from criminals, the justice system in most of the times views Batman as a villain and vigilante. He can inflict fear to Gotham city criminals thereby bringing calmness to the city. I identify myself with the Batman character through his selfless will for justice, his strong determination to do good
Can one person create or stop the war? Wonder woman, directed by Petty Jenkin is a superhero origin movie where the main character Diana, the princess of Themyscira (Gal Gadot) is conflicted with this question. She believed that killing the God of war, Ares would stop the war. She is naïve and is unaware of the way of the society. The movie is set in the time of World War I which is favorable as it was a changing time of the history. The movie has a clear and simple plot. The performances of the actors were solid, the action scenes are well-constructed and the special effects have shown the different situations in the movie with a beautiful soundtrack giving it a life. The film showed the development of Diana as a person and shedding of her childhood innocence as she witnessed the horror of wars and ultimately learns that evil is not manifested in one single person.