Breaking Their Hip : By Karen Russell

Stage One epigraph gives a false expectation of what the girls would expect. To start the short story Russell uses an epigraph to help develop the relationship between

Through Women’s Eyes by Ellen Carol DuBois and Lynn Dumenil addresses American History from 1865 until present day. The third edition of this textbook includes visual and primary sources over several centuries. I used this textbook in a history course, “Women in the United States, 1890 – Present;” I found the textbook to be engaging, helpful, and useful throughout the course. The way in which in the information was presented allowed me to learn, assess, and analyze the difficulties women faced.

he hesitation or decision-making issue within characters’ mind is regarded as an suspense. In “Just Lather, That’s All ”, the barber struggled in whether or not to kill the enemy who now infront of him. In the end, the barber did not want blood on his hand. Meanwhile, in “The sniper”, two snipers who were from different sides fought against each other in a war. While examining the corpse, the sniper discovered that the enemy was his brother. Also “The Black Cat” narrates the process of the protagonist from normal to committing a crime step-by-step. Internal conflict moves the story’s plot, thought the short stories “Just Lather, That's All”, “The Sniper” and “The Black Cat” respectively.

“What doesn’t kill us, makes us stronger” (p. 28). In the scientific novel Survival of the Sickest by Sharon Moalem with Jonathan Prince, self-acclaimed “Medical Maverick” Dr. Moalem makes in-depth analyses of current human diseases that, ironically, may have led to the survival of mankind in the past. He presents a novel concept that greatly contradicts what have been universally accepted beliefs surrounding biology and the process of human evolution for a long time. With the use of myriad scientific studies and research, he formulates surprising theories about a positive correlation between disease and humanity. Moalem narrates the scientific world’s findings that strongly exemplify his assertions, however arbitrary they may seem at first. Three of the diseases that he examines, hemochromatosis, Type 1 diabetes, and favism, could have been particularly useful for resistance against other illnesses and survival in a historically harsh environment.

“We must open the doors and we must see to it they remain open, so that others can pass through it”

Healing is a long process, and the first step in this process is forgiveness. Before one can forgive other people for various grievances, one has to forgive oneself. In John Grisham’s Bleachers Neely Crenshaw has a lifetime of built up frustration and regret. No matter what he does or how far away from his hometown he moves, he can never forget what occurred there. Neely was once Messina’s golden boy All-American quarterback before a knee injury in college ended his promising football career. He once had a lovely, caring, upright girlfriend before he tossed her to the sideline for a more seductive, promiscuous vixen. Eddie Rake, Neely’s high school football coach, was once his idol who he was always trying to please, before a halftime altercation in the state title game led to Coach Rake slapping Neely, and Neely in retaliation knocking Coach Rake out cold. However, fifteen years later Coach Rake is on his death bed and Neely is drawn back to Messina, along with all of Rake’s former players, to pay tribute to the legendary coach. Once back in Messina Neely finally confronts the demons he has been trying to escape his whole life, and forgive himself in the process.

n the novel Salvage the Bones, Jesmyn Ward presents a heartfelt story behind the destruction caused by Hurricane Katrina through the perspective of the character Esch. From a depressed and drunken father to her three brothers, Esch lives in a world of men. While Esch’s father is busy preparing for the hurricane, her two older brothers, Skeetah and Randall, are often occupied fulfilling their own dreams and desires, leaving Esch in charge of their younger brother. Esch’s mother died giving birth to the youngest child, Junior, which forced Esch into the role of a motherly figure. At the mere age fifteen years old, Esch battles the realization that her life is falling apart.

“That’s why they were only taking a few things at a time; they weren 't really coming for ivory and paintings. They wanted me!” Even when she wasn’t in her room she was always afraid of something. “I always dreaded that my parents would divorce. It was my third biggest fear, right next to the fear that one of them would get abducted by heartmen on the road to Sugar Beach, or my first fear, that I would get sucked into the lagoon by neegee.” Out of all three fears only one seemed to happen. Her parents relationship finally came to an end after a lot of fighting, disagreement, and cheating. “Daddy, I hold your foot, don’t leave us. Daddy, please, I beg you” she cried that day. From then on, except the servants and cook, “it was only women at Sugar Beach.” Even after dealing with something so hard in her life that wasn’t even what affected her the most.

rate people in society during this time period. The narrator of the story is symbolic of all women

Imagine being stuck at the cruising altitude of the average passenger plane in the midst of the worst blizzard you’ve seen. This is what happened to the unfortunate groups climbing Everest in May of 1996, which Krakauer was a part of. Many climbers reached the summit in time to get down to camp before the storm set in, but for the others, they would end up fighting every second to survive the wrath of the blizzard. Tension and suspense are very similar, tension being a feeling of nervousness, excitement, fear, and suspense being a state of uncertainty, or having to wait for an outcome. Jon Krakauer creates a sense of tension and suspense throughout his book, Into Thin Air by order of events and using devices such as pacing and foreshadowing.

2) Rising Action ideas and/or incidents are that desire + danger = tension. Tension is the process the story follows as it builds to its main conflict. We see the beginning of difficulties that seem overwhelming and insoluble from the text.

Jon Krakauer, the author of Into Thin Air, uses and creates tension and suspense throughout the book by the order of events, using devices such as pacing and foreshadowing, and by employing organizational patterns. Tension is a strain or tense feeling that the book gives to the reader and the author usually creates tension to raise the emotional level of the story. Suspense is the anticipated feeling the reader experiences when waiting for the outcome of the events of the story and the author creates suspense to keep the readers hooked. Jon Krakauer uses these literary effects to really connect with his reading audience.

Rule of the Bone, by Russel Banks, was written during a time where there was a boom in homelessness of teens accredited to abuse and a negative family environment. This novel uses the character Bone’s experiences as a critical lens for viewing – and challenging – the idea that a home with a mother and father is always the best option for American youth. Throughout the novel, Bone’s character growth stems from his views of what his family life is like. Rule of the Bone poses the question of whether a person can choose their own family, or whether family is strictly the nuclear household in which someone is born. The answer can be found in the critical analysis of the nuclear family, the bond of biological family, and whether or not a person – particularly a young adult – can actively choose who they allow to be their true family, all seen through the lens of Bone’s inner character growth.

Whether from a huge explosive moment of tension build up like the fight between Becca and Howie, or the slow understanding and release of tension like the asking of “what’s next” after the mutual understanding that they grow from. Tension moves the characters towards their goals and it is the writer's way to move them along the path but not without their struggles. Scene beats pull out the story and help the protagonist along without letting them directly to have their goal. That would just be too

Points of tension occur all throughout the story. The near-end climax is the greatest center of tension during the story, Pyotr realizes the absolute necessity to escape from the house before he is to experience more of his father's abuse. Its ironic that Pyotr's mother slides into a deep apathy for the situation that occurs minutes away before Pyotr's departure.