Book Report: Black Sea Of Trees

Violent imagery characterizes the ruthless and cruel forest by describing how the forest has been eating itself to live forever. “...a choir of seedlings arching their necks out of rotted tree stumps, sucking life out of death” (Kingsolver 5). The setting in this novel is defined by this quote. In order to survive, one must be willing to put their needs first, or else they will suffer the consequences. In this world, nothing is safe. The forest

• The citizens appear to have some sort of fear of the outside world known as the Uncharted Forest. In the Uncharted Forest there is thought to be scarce food, wild beasts, and ruined cities it has grown over.

Japan has the highest suicide rate in the world, 60% higher than the average suicide rate according to the World Health Organisation. Studies from 2014 found that 25,000 Japanese people took their own lives annually. That is estimated at 70 suicides a day. This has become a very overwhelming statistic in Western society as suicide is heavily stigmatized that that region of the world. However, in Japan, unlike in many Western Countries, suicide has an honorable historical origin. During World War 2, it was deemed honorable to fly one’s plane into the enemy,

Elijah Anderson published a novel called “The Cosmopolitan Canopy” where he looks at the “race and civility of everyday life”, as he puts it. He throughout the novel defines the “cosmopolitan canopy” as accepting of people from all backgrounds. In other words, the canopy is composed of a diverse population, lots of people and public spaces. Most importantly it has the spirit of positivity and civility. The best example of this would be Reading Terminal market in Philadelphia. Anderson believes that it epitomizes the idea because of how interactive people of different races, social and economic classes are getting along (10). The novel looks critically at public space in Philadelphia, who is allowed in them and how people interact within them.

It’s a Monday in early July and I am involved in what every fifteen-year-old kid wants to be doing with their summer: summer school. My teacher walks in with a slightly tanner skin, a coffee, and he has his sunglasses still on. He ambles to the front of the class and sets a few books down. After taking a few moments to collect himself, he looks up from the books and says, “Okay, class, today you are going to have the choice of what you want to do. You can read your summer reading book or pick from one of these.” I did not have the assigned book at that time, so I got up to see the selections that my teacher laid out. None of the novels caught my eye, even after reading the back cover. I decided to just take a random book and make it look like I was reading, not that my teacher—who looked like he was sleeping—was going to care. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair was the lucky book of the day, but I never would have thought that I was the lucky one for having chosen it that day.

1) Haiti’s political climate in the time of the first story, “Children of the Sea”, were corrupt regimes. Considering Haitian family members are being forced to bear each other 's children, or become an object on the street to showcase the dehumanization methods used by the macoutes. The population is forced into a false hope of the return of the country’s president, only to be shot or arrested on sight. Protest and free speech is not allowed against a political opposition, which is only sought to rule for one 's own gain. Even when you are not in Haiti, and may be in another country such as the Dominican Republic, Haitians still face oppression in the story “Nineteen-Thirty-Seven” at the site of a massacre. It forces people like Danticat

In today’s society, you have the people who are independent, curious and want to adventure out and you have the people who want to get rich. In the story “Into the Wild” by Jon Krakauer there is a young man named Chris McCandless, who is the type of person who is an independent person who set out on his own. As for Krakauer, he explains McCandless’ story as he makes his way to Alaska by foot telling the reader who he met, what he did and where he went as he was traveling. When Krakauer was telling the story, he jumps around telling us what happened when he was in Alaska at the beginning of the story and so on. He also wants the reader to understand the purpose of why he wrote the story and the goal he achieved.

The Forest People, by Colin Turnbull, a British anthropologist, focuses on a tribe of pygmies, called the BaMbuti. The setting of The Forest People is the Ituri Forest, located in northwestern Belgian Congo. Throughout the five trips to the Ituri Forest, Colin Turnbull created The Forest People with his anthropological observations of the time he spent living among the villagers. One of the most fascinating aspects of Turnbull’s observations is based on the religion of the BaMbuti pygmies.

Suicide is prevalent in many countries, but the majority of these cases are hidden away because of the stigmas associated with suicide. In other countries though, suicide has been and may still be revered as an honorable act, the sacrifice of oneself for an important reason. This self-sacrifice is most prevalent is the Japanese culture, where these ritualistic suicides were seen in the codes of samurai to the kamikazes of World War II. The rates of suicide have been increasing over the last few years, including in Japan, and it is important to know the reasons for this newfound spike in order to assist the victims and the survivors of suicide.

Are you interested in history or about the navajos of world war 2, well I did my book report that I find very interesting, code talker, the author of this book is Joseph Burchac. This book Is based on the Navajos of world war two, that are in war with the Japanese, which takes place back in the 1940’s,The genre of this book is tragedy, and A adventurous book.

Throughout the second semester of my first year attending Rogers State University, I learned valuable life lasting lessons, concepts, and morals that will forever change the way that I view the world and the people that make up the cultures and societies in it. Multiple works that I studied and discussed in class consist of works by Neil Gaiman such as The Graveyard Book, The Wolves in the Walls, The Sandman: Dream Country, and The Ocean at the End of the Lane. Another important work that influenced me along with the Gaiman works is Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro. These literary works influenced me to think about the meaning of life and the purpose in my life because my life is not always guaranteed to be here tomorrow. Although I still take things for granted, I have learned from studying these works that the things in this life should be appreciated because they have meaning and a purpose. While I studied multiple literary works this semester, I believe that the five works discussed above had the greatest impact on me as a student, a brother, and a friend because they taught me important values I will always cherish and reflect upon in the wide, wide world.

American novelist Upton Sinclair wrote a book we all know as The Jungle, which portrays the harsh conditions and terrible lives of immigrants in the United States. In doing so, Sinclair exposes the meat industry’s harsh working conditions, health violations, and unsanitary practices. The Jungle is one example where the communication of a message generated a profound effect on the world. The novel uses rhetorical devices, a distinct tone, and three modes of persuasion to prove the meat industry’s overall lack of sanitation.

Hearing a wide variety of beautiful birds and seeing the glistening sunlight reflections over a river is an everyday occurrence in nature. It is the place people go to ease strong feelings by prevailing the beauty of the untamed woods. The woods at which a multitude of creatures and occasional people use for protection from opposing thoughts or actions. Obtaining protection from nature is one of man’s best ways of securing their safety from the unwilling. With the tremendous amount of foliage, the woods are able to conceal any person like the spots on a fawn.

domains” (Harrison). Forests, according to Harrison, have retained to this day their associations in the cultural imagination of the West. The German tradition in particular seems to be intertwined with mythical conceptions of the forest which, in fairy tales, for example, is constructed as the supreme authority on earth, as the great provider, and as the place where society’s conventions no longer hold true (Zipes).

One tree exposed itself after the other until it seemed as all the trees bordering the trail became Koa trees. I was dragging my jaw on the floor as I slowly walked under the chattering giants all wearing orange coats around their trunks. Seed pods began to envelope the forest floor so much that Mikey and I lost each other for a while foraging on the trail. We soon got more than a hundred seeds so decided to just relax under