Blue Dolphins Reflection

I give this movie a six out of five-star rating. How it managed to keep me on the edge of my seat the entire time is beyond me; I am still in disbelief that I was fully engaged for the entire two hours and twenty-six minutes. Although I had heard many great things about the novel, the film exceeded all of my expectations. The Natural teaches many valuable lessons about perseverance, determination, commitment, karma, relationships, and staying young at heart.

Annabella teaches Kira a few things about dyeing her own threads but later dies. At the end of the story, Kira finds out that her father is actually alive, and she meets him for the first time. In this essay, you will read about the main conflict, the setting, about the characters, and some of the fantasy elements that were used.

Kira also starts to question her freedom when she and Thomas go downstairs to visit the little girl Jo. Jo is a little tyke who is also and orphan like Kira and Thomas but has an amazing voice. She is being locked in a room all by herself and forced to learn songs. All she wants is to sing her own songs, but the Council of Guardians won't let her. Kira starts to see what Jo is going through. All the nice things, the food, and the comforts are not worth it if she has to give up the freedom she had to weave what she wants. Kira goes back to her room and cries wishing she could give this all up

She also saves her pride and arrogance as the Choragos remarks, “Like father, like daughter: both headstrong, deaf to reason! She has never learned to yield.” She had many chances to prevent her demise but her pride stood in the way. Through the progression of scenes leading to her tragic ‘fall’, she is every bit of the woman she was at the beginning.

Nora finds strength in realizing her failure, resolving to find herself as a human being and not in what society expects of her. Nora’s recognition comes when Torvald so

She smoothes over Sofia's betrayal of the family, her running away and fighting with her father, by calling it lucky that she ended up with such a loving husband and a beautiful blonde baby. Her story about the thieves who got caught the night Sofia was born similarly reflects her desire to look on the brighter side of things. She needs this positive attitude to craft positive family stories out of unfortunate events.

However, this bridge was the connection they have. Similarly to Arana’s parents, the little girl’s parents are also different, so she’s stuck being the bridge. Likewise, Marie Arana was also the bridge between her parents and wandered the middle, unsure of which side to choose. Marie Arana saw the girl struggle to be that strong bridge and what she saw was herself. The author says there could have been multiple different thoughts during that moment, but what hit her was how the girl looked back and forth between her two divergent parents. The author states “ As I looked down at their fleeting radiance, I had no idea I would spend the rest of my life puzzling over them.” Just like as a child Arana would puzzle over her parents, the little girl was doing the same, trying to fix together the pieces of how two very different people could ever get

Being isolated from one's peers is not an easy thing to handle. Rayona spends her days alone, wondering about her mother and blaming herself for her troubles. This enhances her feelings of inadequacy. Rayona pulls inside herself by keeping her worries private. When others inquire about Ray's condition, she conceals her problems with lies. By lying she dismisses her difficulties; denies their existence to herself. Inside, she is falling apart; the stress she has to deal with brings her near to a mental collapse.

“The twists and turns of your life can be so unexpected, and that's a good thing to learn.” Whale talk is a story of a kid named T.J and some of his friends that go through a life of a teenager. In the story Whale Talk by Chris Crutcher, people who have been through traumatic events cope with challenges in their lives by overcoming, forgetting, or learning.

Rayona is in a way lost and can’t seem to find her place in the world. She thinks about herself in the way that she thinks others think of her. She is fifteen years old at the time and does not have a lot of sense of her self. Rayona is half African American and Native American, which makes her think she’s different from others and makes her have a low self esteem. She struggles with her identity and physical appearance. Another thing that makes it difficult for her to find her true self is that she lacks information about her heritage. Her dream is to have a “normal” life, meaning to have a functional happy family and to be able to fit in. Rayona feels like a real family is the opposite of what she has. She goes through a series of events and learns a little about her self in each of them. Rayona is

This semester I learned a lot about writing in English 151. It has been a roller coaster ride with these essays for me this semester. I learned step by step how to write a good essay and how to have your readers be engaged in what you’re trying to tell them. Each essay I did has taught me something valuable I can take to the next level of English. I feel as if as the semester went by I did not take my writing that seriously and that reflected in my grades I received in each essay. It made me a better student and writer and it will reflect next semester. In this essay, I will reflect on what I learned throughout this semester that you should apply in your writing when you begin English 151.

“The squid and the Whale” is a very honest and most vulnerable, revealing, sympathy evoking for the children who go through disturbing emotional turbulence while having to deal with parent’s divorce. Of course there is now convincing evidence to suggest that marital distress, conflict, and disruption are associated with a wide range of deleterious effects on children, including depression, withdrawal, poor social competence, health problems, poor academic performance, and a variety of conduct-related difficulties ( P. A. Cowan & Cowan, 1987)

Here, Nora pulls together the tragic circumstances. She sees that she was never truly happy in the house, just content. Her father kept her as a child would a doll, and Torvald continued this when they were married. They formed her opinions for her, set expectations to which she was supposed to adhere, and wrote a vague script of how she was supposed to act. She was like a puppet, with no thoughts or actions of her own. When she finally realizes the injustice being done to her, she decides to free herself.

The resentment within the young girl’s family is essential to the novel because one can understand the young girl better as she makes her decision.

Throughout Kura, the reader is able to witness the many challenges that the characters face. These challenges range from the cultural situation in which the children live to the personal challenges that Kura herself faces when given the responsibility of taking care of her little cousin, Riripeti.