Bridge To Wiseman's Cove Quotes

The Glass Castle, a both heart throbbing and emotional story written by Jeanette Walls shares her life through her child eyes. Walls grew with a different lifestyle than what we would normally see today. A family that isn’t much of a family but is a sense of stability and security to her. Throughout her life her family has been through hunger, unstable homes, a drunk father and very little of outer family relationships. She struggled along with her brother and sister but with free-spirited parents for her that is all she needed.

‘A Bridge to Wiseman’s Cove’ by James Moloney portrays the difficulties of Carl Matt in an ominous way. Carl is living a miserable life, his mum, Kerry, had run away and hadn’t returned, his sister, Sarah, left him and his brother, Harley, with their aunt Beryl in a town that shut Carl away. In the contemporary world of Wattle Beach, Carl has to face the fact that his body image isn’t ideal for anyone, he is isolated with no friends at all and he has no family but his mischievous brother. He is however, blessed with a job on the barge that brings him friends and people that care for him. On Carl’s first days of moving in with Beryl, he followed a girl that he found attractive, soon he saw her friend. They were Justine and Maddie. These girls brought extraordinary hope into Carl’s life, especially Justine. They care for him. Moloney’s ABTWC can inspire everyone living in a depressed world that there is indeed hope on the other side, that they can conquer any challenge they’re cursed with.

As Henry Miller once said, “Chaos is the score upon which reality is written” (“Chaos Quotes”). Miller seems to believe that no matter what actions we take, the world is destined to return to chaos. He seems to be right. Today’s world has been overrun by social issues such as hunger, segregation and depression. While government programs everywhere take action to prevent these issues, their efforts are futile. The truth is, to prevent these social issues, the world must kill the seed from which they grow. In Jeannette Walls’ book, The Glass Castle, she perfectly demonstrates how one social issue can become a source of many others. In the book, Jeannette’s father

The moral message apparent in this coming-of-age novel questions each of the teenage boys, who in various ways show us what it's like to grow up in rural Australia if you are smart or poor or of a different race. This moral message makes me question the past of the Australia I have came to

Carl Matt is a15-year-old who goes through many bumpy roads to reach the happy ending. James Moloney’s novel, A Bridge to Wiseman’s Cove is set in wattle beach and the island wisemans cove located In Victoria Australia, the book was first published in 1996. A Bridge to Wiseman’s Cove follows the story of Carl Matt as he settles in to Wattle Beach. the novel portrays Carl as he grows and learns to accept himself through exploring relationships with different characters throughout the book, the people that help Carl in his development are Skip Duncan, Justine and Joy Duncan. The purpose of having bold characters and a meaningful setting is to make the novel more interesting. The use of language is important in a novel thus meaning that the

James Moloney’s “A Bridge to Wiseman’s Cove”, uses varying family circumstances and community expectations to express how these things effect an individual. The novel displays character foils that even further explores this idea, as the protagonist interacts with these foils and situations, resulting in development of his ability to voice himself. Fluctuating amounts of dialogue and distinct characterisation of key and minor characters further explores this idea.

In A Long Walk to Water, Linda Sue Park tells a story about one out of a thousand Southern Sudan lost boys named, Salva. Salva is a boy who ran away during the Southern Sudanese War. Salva moves from country to country to get away from this war. During the war he loses touch of his family. Salva soon escapes the war, now he’s trying to find his way to safety. Salva was able to survive In A Long Walk to Water, by having bravery, courage, and showing grit.

Slaughterhouse-Five book is antiwar novel, and it written by Kurt Vonnegut. A man named Billy Pilgrim who is unstuck in time, and always goes all relives various occasions throughout his life. Billy pilgrim is a main character in this book. “Billy is born in 1922 in Ilium, New York. He grows into a weak and awkward young man, studying briefly at the Ilium School of Optometry briefly before he is drafted” (Borey 1). Then, after training he sent to the Germany during the war. Billy acknowledges diverse values and sees horrible and morbid occasions in a different contrast to others. Billy experiences acknowledges a lifestyle that is not visible to other people. Many readers would contend that Billy's encounters make him crazy; however,

Imagine having to run away from your hometown with thousands of other boys you don’t know. Then imagine having to walk 16 hours a day to provide dirty water for your family. Well there’s a boy named Salva that had to run away and walk thousands of miles not knowing where he’s going or where is family is. But for a girl named Nya she had to persevere walking through the hot weather stepping on thorns for 16 hours everyday just to provide dirty water for their family. Nya and Salva have a hard and sad life, but they couldn’t have survived through it without unity, love, and perseverance.

She had a healthy body, she was intelligent. She had an “abundant sexual drive and possessed strong arms and back,” (2, 8-9). She was herself blind to her own positive qualities as she was too busy trying to please others with her looks, “she went to and fro apologizing,” (2, 10). She apologized to everyone for her imperfections. The imagery of, “Everyone saw a fat nose on thick legs” (2, 11), portrays the indifference society felt towards her. She wanted to be appreciated, but she was only seen her for her looks and not her inner self. She had learned from the time she was a child her imperfections made her not good enough or socially

“I looked at the round face in the Polaroid again, the way the sum fell on it. My brother’s face, Hassan had loved me once, loved me in a way that no one ever had or ever would again. He was gone now, but a little part of him lived on. It was in Kabul. Waiting” (Hosseini 239).

1 Alexandre Duforest E7 P6 Ms. Olsen 11/5/15 Suffering to Survive Many kids, both boys and girls all over Africa are suffering in many ways. Either their family is poor and they do not have any food or water, they have lost their family by running away from the war, or they are even just suffering from diseases they get from their water. In all the ways they are still suffering and they should get help or at least be thought about. Salva and Nya, the main characters from the novel

In the novel a bridge to wiseman's cove by james maloney carl matt a teenage boy called carl matt overcomes hardship fears and issues such as belonging body image and family. These themes help carl grow as an individual person and benefit him and helps him develop as a positive sense of self he finds people he can proudly call a family feels he belongs to the duncans and the barge and faces his fears and shame of his body and appearance. His values and attitude wishes and expectation alter significantly.after reading the novel you see how much carl has changed as a person and feels as he fits in wattel beach and is no longer an outcast as he is perceived earlier in the novel.

In puberty a classmate delivers a cruel blow by telling her "you have a great big nose and thick legs" (Piercy 223). Here we see the beginning of a conflict that will plague the young girl for the rest of her life. Although a girl can be healthy and intelligent, it is not expected for her to possess the physical qualities of "strong arms and back, abundant sexual drive and manual dexterity" (Piercy 223). These traits typically being male, the young girl sees them as being unnatural and negative. The girl feels as if she owes society an apology for possessing these characteristics. Piercy drives the point home by writing, "everyone saw her fat nose on thick legs"

The classmate in this poem is a metaphor for society and how through puberty both sexes go through changes and become more aware of one another as well as pass judgment between both sexes, particularly more in women. The girl realizes that standards have been set for her and she needs to look a certain way to be beautiful. However, according to society she is just a girl with “ a great big nose and fat legs” and thus affecting her emotionally which has negative effects on her self-esteem and putting pressure on her emotionally ( Piercy 791).