Book Summary: North Of Beautiful

In the short story “the White Heron” (1886), Sarah Jewett portrays a young little girl, Sylvia, bear the temptation of money and affection from the young man with mental struggle, and resolutely determined to protect the fairy of nature – a white heron. Through describing Sylvia’s authentic emotions and using of vivid theme colors and exquisite word choice, Jewett delivers the story like showing a lifelike 19-century country-life drama in front of the readers.

Chapter three of Eyal Press’ Beautiful Souls follows Avner Wishnitzer, an Israeli combat soldier serving in the occupied territories during the Second Intifada. In the 6-Day War of 1967, Israel captured the West Bank and the Gaza Strip and has since kept the land under an Israeli military occupation. In 1987 to 1991, a Palestinian uprising involving resistance and civil disobedience, known as the First Intifada, occurred in the occupied territories. Consequently, Israel deployed many soldiers into the occupied territories, and an estimated 1,674 people were killed in total. The Second Intifada, a much more violent Palestinian uprising in the occupied territories, transpired from 2000 until 2005. In response, Israel enacted Operation Defensive Shield, a large-scale military operation, in 2002 to stop the terrorist attacks and suicide bombings of the Second Intifada. An approximate 4,426 people were killed in the Second Intifada. Avner Wishnitzer’s public refusal to serve in the occupied territories was worth getting kicked out of Sayeret Matkal and being disgraced by Israeli society because it made people question the occupation and the treatment towards Palestinians. Even if Avner had been my father, I would have condoned his choices because I could create my own reputation in the military. Additionally, the current controversy over the Israeli occupation legitimizes his stance and actions for many Israeli citizens.

Throughout the book, “The Western Place” , by Maxine Hong Kingston, there is a differential gap between the two sisters who come from two different sides of the world. A lot of differences between the two sisters and their personal lifestyles comes from one sister living in America as a Chinese-American and the other sister living in China. In the story Brave Orchid who is the sister that is brave, outspoken, and sometimes cruel sees life as a bundle of opportunities to take with no regret. However, it is different when her sister Moon Orchid comes into town from China because she is the complete opposite. Moon Orchid is rather humble, timid, and quiet while she observes the lifestyle of her sister and nieces and nephews.

I did find it a little complicated to keep up with all the characters after new ones kept being introduced but as the story continued to develop it became easier for me to keep track of who was who. Since point of views kept changing throughout the story it also confused me a bit but once I realized it was a style like the one of The Tortilla Curtain since both books are by T. C. Boyle, it also became easier to understand. Imagining a life like the one in Drop City definitely seems more corrupt. It made me question if maybe the characters them selves will end up making a mess out of their community. Star is a character who already shows that a life like that is only enjoyed for a certain amount of time. I also think that bad things will continue to happen like the rape because it seems like nobody take measures on their

The main focus of the book is the more you grow up, the more you are subjected to how unequal society is and how you or others affect the life you live. As growing up the daughter of a wealthy southerner, Scout comes across others that look at her life and the comparison of it to theirs. As Scout

This can be shown has how the people that live around her effect her future or what people will think of her, the best example would be her cousin ends up going to jail then as a reaction to that would be everyone would think that her family is fulll of criminals or even worse… she is one too. Later in the book she explains how she sees all these people that she wants to be like untill she learns their back story when she finds out they get abused and arent taken care like she explains, “Sally got married like we knew she would, young and not ready”(101) this effects how she sees herself as a person and who she wants to be in the future where shee wants to choose when she wants to get marred and make bigger decisions as an

The short story, "Tepeyac" by Sandra Cisneros, is about a woman remembering what it was like when her grandfather was alive. The author reminisces about the details of her childhood street. She thinks of the street side vendors, the old women, and all the people who lived near her. The author uses syntax and diction to make this story unique. Sandra Cisneros uses syntax by creating lengthy sentences that would normally be broken into paragraphs to illustrate her childish thoughts; she uses diction by incorporating Spanish words to give the reader a sense of what her culture was like.

The question of whether Into the Beautiful North could be a modern fairytale really sparked a few thoughts in my head, since I would have never made that comparison upon reading it myself. Say, though, I decide to break down an actual fairytale and then juxtapose this analysis to that of ITBN, I now realize that a lot of similarities can be identified. The issue of magic realism plays in heavily, adding in a few fictional aspects here and there to the book. Above all though, and using the fairytale of Cinderella as my base throughout this essay, it’s easy to make connections from fairytale characters to the characters portrayed in Into the Beautiful North. The reasons above lead me to state that Urrea’s novel can in fact exemplify a modern fairytale.

Beginning with the structure and pace. The script opens in 1905 in Jessica’s world. It introduces her as a showgirl. The world feels authentic. However, the opening with Jessica feels much too long. Too much time is spent with Jessica and her encounter with JP Morgan, as well as the Spencers. She dominates the entire first ten pages. We do not get to the main protagonist Glenn until a bit later. His introduction feels rather flat for the hero. He’s a poet, but the audience doesn’t know much about his character.

This novel is exciting because of one person—Trice. She hid her real identity and went through many challenges in order to protect herself The author built this character actually give me many positive influence to my life. Trice used her actions to fight against any troubles which inspired me to face on my future troubles, for example, receive a denied message from university messed up my feeling. But later i thought that it doesn’t matter because i wouldn't bleed or get any physical pains. And there must be some other people suffer more than me, like Trice(although she doesn't exist in this world). I am excited when I read Trice stand out for justice, she’s brave enough to point out other’s mistake, and she use her clever and calm brain

When looking at the magical realism and fantastic elements present throughout the novel, especially through the character of Arcangel, readers are able to see the discrimination this character had to go through despite his education. While looking at Emi and Gabriel’s relationship, it shows the dysfunctional realities of stereotypes and projecting such stereotypes on other people can cause such a sour result. Looking at Buzzworm, a favorite character of mine, I really liked him and Manzanar’s perspectives on the connections to the people around him and the roles we all play with each other. They both acknowledged the roads that connect each of us. By reading Natalie and Marisa’s papers, I was able to see what stood out to them in the novel as oppose to just my perspective on the novel. This novel offers unique perspectives to the readers, showing that the world is not the same for everyone. These characters go through different struggle and triumphs, and by reading this novel gave me a greater knowledge of the lives that other people

In the movie, Yellow Submarine, it is mainly about a place called the Pepperland that was destructed by the Blue Meanies. Before the Blue Meanies attacked, Pepperland was full of joy, happiness and fun. This movie has a significant meaning behind it that can be identified through the songs that were written by The Beatles. The songs show great meaning of what was occurring within the Beatles time and the actual time. During the late 1960s, it is shown that the band was in trouble, which later led to the band splitting. With that occurring came the song, Only A Northern Song. Based on the song, there are personal, others, and The Beatles view on the song.

I was looking But I wasn't looking for you. Then you changed everything.

This is due to the character development, the challenges they have to face, and the setting. My first point is the character development. Calliope also known as Cal has strongly grown as a character after she found out about her genetic intersex condition, and especially through her development from being a female to a male. I find this to be very interesting and unique because not many books have such a strong and drastic development of character as this, especially while being this meaningful and having such a strong message. Additionally it grabs the readers’ attention and the reader wants to read more and more to see how the character plays out. In addition to this, my second point is the challenges the characters have to face. One of the greatest challenges that a character had to face was Calliope who had to face that she was not a “regular” girl in fact she is intersex, and learning how to live and deal with that. This caused a strong suspense and deeper interest in the book because of the curiosity of how Calliope was going to react and what she was going to do about this. Finally, my third point is the setting. The setting of the book takes place from the early 1900s when recapping family history to the present, in places such as Smyrna; where Desdemonda and Lefty (grandmother and grandfather of Calliope) lived before they immigrated, Detroit; where they immigrated and started a family, and San Francisco; where Calliope came to terms with his/her gender identity. As the setting rangers between the 1900s to the present it makes the story more interesting and dynamic because of the different time periods as well as the different places around the world, rather than having the story in the same setting plus the same time period. In conclusion, I had a great first impression of the book, and I am quite excited to read more because just after a couple of chapters I was

“Normal, normal keep acting like everything's normal. I’m climbing a wall as if I’m the lamest superhero in the world and you are dying and everything is normal.” “The Coldest Girl in Coldtown” is about a girl named Tana she was in a very tragic Situation that left everyone dead except her and 2 others. She saves her ex boyfriend Aidan who turned Cold and a vampire named Graviel who was a secret. Soon after the Tragic Situation she goes to a Coldtown because she too might be infected and does not want to hurt her sister or dad. The Puritans would loathe the novel “The Coldest Girl in Coldtown” because of the Supernatural occurrences, people naturally born evil, and many people were law abiding citizens.