LA Essay Billie Wind, Billy wind is the main character in Jean Craighead George. She is stuck with a punishment to go out into the everglades. She is sent on this journey because she does not believe in the tribal legends. Billie Wind’s journey has evolved her into a believer of the tribal legends through the wildfire, building a house boat and setting sale, and getting trapped by a hurricane. Billies journey is started by a small forest fire that turned to something much, much bigger. At the start of Billie's Journey, she sees the animals flying away and leaving what she found out was the animals were trying to warn her of the forest fire.
Chapter 4 of “DEATH WIND” by William Bell. Allie and Razz are mingling and enjoying themselves at the dance held at the nearby community center following Razz’s win at the skateboard compaction. Razz leaves Allie sitting in a chair while he calls his sponsors, when Allie is approached by Slammer and two of his goons. In spite of Razz, Slammer yanks Allie towards him the other two pushing her arms behind her back, unable to scream they bully her out the side door. With no time past an angry Razz bursts through the door after them. Razz and Slammer stand across from each other crouched down with their fists up ready to fight. With a few blows Razz stand victorious looking down at
Billie Jo Kelby is not a boy. She’s a girl; a wiry, thin, redheaded girl that looks more like her father than her mother. She lives on the Great Plains in 1935, during the great drought known as the Dust Bowl. She lives with her pregnant mother and her father, and life seems good, or as good as it will get in her dusty world.
I am a long-time teacher of Belle Chasse Primary School. I am writing to you concerning your son, Wind-Wolf. I understand that you have voiced concerns over our methods in teaching your son. However, I want to assure you that my major concern in helping your son, my student, Wind-Wolf.
In the play “Inherit the Wind”, E.K Hornbeck, a newspaper columnist is presented as cynical and insolent. His character represents H. L. Mencken, a newspaper columnist for the Baltimore Sun that covered the Scopes trial.
Williams short stories told in The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind contribute to the larger narrative by showing his past experiences and upbringing which helps show why, and how, he was able to build a windmill. One of the stories he tells us is about is how at the age of 13, he discovered the radio, and along with Geoffrey taught himself to fix people’s radios. Even early on, he was into science and very resourceful. He taught himself to fix a radio, which almost no-one else in the village could do and this experience was a building block he would use later to build his windmill. Another example from The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind are the stories he tells about his hunting and the traps they would use to kill birds.
In The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, the authors William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer use allusions to make the story more interesting. For example, one allusion that they mention is, “My father talked about the early days of MBC and hearing Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers from America and the wonderful sounds of Robert Fumulani” (68). Dolly Parton is a singer-songwriter, actress, author, businesswoman and humanitarian. Dolly Parton is best known for her work in country music (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolly_Parton). Kenny Rogers is an American singer who has won many awards and has a lot of fans all over the world (http://www.kennyrogers.com/#bio). William’s father is recalling his memories from when he was younger, and the famous musicians
Joseph Boyden uses the story of the windigo as both a literal and figurative image of discord in his novel Three Day Road. Among the Native people living in the Great Lakes Region of Canada, the windigo is an evil spirit associated with death, cannibalism, and greed. According to legend, a windigo is born when a human eats another to satiate their hunger, usually in the peak of winter when food was scarce. Once the windigo develops a taste for killing, the craving spirals into an obsession that can only be cured through death. The windigo represents loss of respect for life and destructive change, which manifests itself in the European settlers, soldiers, and Elijah.
Inherit the Wind is about a 24-year-old teacher named Bertram T. Cates, who is arrested for teaching Darwin's Theory of Evolution to his junior high-class. Some high-profile Hillsboro town’s people press charges and have Cates arrested for teaching evolutionism in a stringent Christian town. A famous lawyer named Henry Drummond defends him; while a fundamentalist politician Matthew Harrison Brady prosecutes. The story takes place in Hillsboro, which is a small town in Tennessee. Cates is merely trying to teach to his class that there is more to life than just what the Bible teaches. He is not trying to be nonreligious; rather he is just teaching his class to think outside the box. The town’s people think that Cates is trying to push
Billy Pilgrim is the person that the book is written around. We follow him, perhaps not in a straight order, from his youth joining the military to his abduction on the alien planet of Tralmalfadore, to his older age at his 1960s home in Illum. It is his experiences and journeys that we follow, and his actions we read about. However, Billy had a specific lack of character for a main one. He is not heroic, he has very little personality traits, let alone an immersive and complex character. Most of the story is written around his experiences that seem more like symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder from his World War Two days, combined with hallucinations after a brain injury in a near-fatal plane
Most of the book is the narrative from Billy Pilgrim a unique character who has the ability to become “unstuck in time”,
According to the cops, you were nothing but a no good hood they all knew was destined to die young and violent. None of those cops would think to charge a Soc with your death. They're too busy kissing up to their rich mommy and daddy's.
The novel The Divine Wind by Garry Disher reflects on values, ideas, experiences and beliefs experienced by Hartley Penrose and his family and friends. Set in Broome, the story follows the characters as they experience the harsh implications of World War 2 and its effect on their lives. Disher reflects on subjects relevant to society today, such as racism and prejudice, friendships and relationships and the importance of family.
Barbara Kingsolver’s novel, “Flight Behavior,” strays from the customary novel average readers are used to. Kingsolver’s education in biology is exposed throughout her novel causing the readers to experience a more scientific perspective on the story. The story takes place inside Dellarobia Turnbow’s mind; a restless farmers wife who got pregnant at seventeen and, as a result, had a shotgun marriage. Her life since then has been a wreck. Her marriage is deteriorating, her farm is failing and she finds no more joy in her life. She attempts to rendezvous with a man to temporarily help fill the emptiness in her life. However, on her way to the tryst she sees a remarkable sight which she believes to be a treacherous forest fire.
The Way of the Wind by Amos Oz, is about a man named Shimshon Sheinbaum, and his view of his son, Gideon. Shimshon was a military, political, and social hero amongst his kibbutz. He is a founding father of the Hebrew Labor Movement. People in his kibbutz looked for him for guidance, because this man was in top physical and mental shape devoting all of his life to learning as much as necessary and the remainder to stay in peak shape. As one can imagine, he would expect the same of his son, and he does but his son isn't the same man as his father. His father didn't have someone else make a decision like that for him and he can't make that decision for Gideon. Shimshon, regardless how much he cared for his son, pushed him too far and had too
Kamkwamba was born in a family of relative poverty and relied primarily on farming to survive. According to his biography, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, his father had been a rough fighting man who changed after discovering the Christian God. A crippling famine forced Kamkwamba to drop out of school, and he was not able to return to school because his family was unable to afford the tuition fees. In a desperate attempt to retain his education, Kamkwamba began to frequent the library. It was at the local library where Kamkwamba discovered his true love for electronics. Before, he had once set up a small business repairing his village's radios, but his work with the radios had been cheap.