Brief Summary Of The Hate U Give By Angie Thomas

In the beginning the class we were assigned groups and as a whole we had to find the literal point or subject of the readings that were due for the day and relate them to identity, attitude, or prejudice. This was to allow us to prepare to write our second major essay we had for writing 1. We were assigned the Andrew Sullivan readings, “what’s so bad about hate?”. The short excerpt from the article stated various situations in which the actions were categorized as a regular crime or a hate crime. The author then continued to discuss how adding a hate crime just complicates the verdict because no one except the individual knows why they committed the crime. Throughout the reading as a group we categorized the reading as one of identity. Everyone

In the same fashion, dealing with Maureen Walls, the youngest child of the Walls family, had to rely on her friends and people she hardly knew to provide for her. This situation went as far as Maureen going to her friend’s house to eat meals and

the beginning of this novel Jennings Burch is taken to an orphanage with no idea why he is being put there. In the orphanage, he was not aware of the rules, so he was starved the first few days for not following the commands made by a clicker. Jennings eventually made a friend named Mark, who teaches him the rules and keeps him company. Jennings is adopted and brought back in the span of a week. His mom eventually came to pick him up, but his stay at home did not last long because his mom broke her back and he was sent to the orphanage. Jennings is in and out of numerous homes, getting abused and embarrassed along the way, but meets many loving people. In one home, he reunites with Mark, but a few weeks later Mark passes away from a disease and Jennings runs away. A police officer takes him in and his old bus driver Sal, who becomes a father-figure, takes him in and he lives the rest of his childhood with Sal and his mom. Jennings’ survival in this story is due to his immense psychological strength.

The summary of the story is a memoir, which is about Jeannette and her family who are constantly low on food and money, family moving around the country a lot, and having a hard time to re-settle. The family is very dysfunctional with a multiple of stories to tell. The book is filled with much different kind of experiences that the family including Jeannette has been through together.

“When I was little I would think of ways to kill my daddy.” This beginning to the novel “Ellen Foster” by Kaye Gibbons, prepares readers to enter the world of one of the most influential and appealing young woman protagonists in modern fiction. Ellen Foster, the main character of the book by Gibbons, is, in my view, the most fascinating and remarkable character in the story. Readers are introduced to the narrator Ellen, a determined, yet mature and individualistic eleven-year-old, who lives in the South during the 1970s. She lives with an alcoholic father and a sick mother. Ellen must go through many hardships and face much trauma, when she foreshadows her mother’s death and the long journey in front of her by saying that a storm is coming- “I can smell the storm and see the air thick with the rain coming.” (p.7). Young Ellen must go through much more than the average child her age, but she knows that she will get her happy ending. After dealing with her abusive father and depressed mother, Ellen deserves to go to a happy family, one that will accept her with smiles on their faces and joy in their eyes. Even if it means jumping from foster home to foster home, from a cruel grandmother to a condescending aunt and cousin, Ellen will find the people that will love her, even if it means first having to go to those who don’t.

Can you imagine losing your dad, being kidnapped, and having your stepdad go to jail all before you even become an adult? The main character, Stephanie, in the book Taken, by Norah McClintock experienced this. Stephanie was brave enough to escape from her kidnapper, and was daring enough to eat nothing but birch bark and maggots in able to survive for six days. While Stephanie was trying to escape the woods and get home, she always thought about her family, and how important they are to her. The survival skills that her grandpa gave her helped her sustain herself and she constantly thought about how she should treat her mom better.

“The Lost Children of Wilder” is a book about how the foster care system failed to give children of color the facilities that would help them lead a somewhat normal and protected life. The story of Shirley Wilder is a sad one once you find out what kind of life she had to live when she was a young girl. Having no mother and rejected by her father she has become a troubled girl.

This book is a memoir so it is all about Ashley’s life in the foster care program. Each chapter talks about the hardships she went through at all the different foster homes. Ashley was taken into foster care when she was only three years old. She was in 14 different homes in a total of nine years. She had a brother, Luke that was also in the foster care program with her. They were separated multiple times, but always ended up at the same foster home together. It was not until Ashley was adopted that they were separated for good. Ashley’s mom was in prison multiple times, she was also a drug addict. She had visitation rights, but her visitations were always supervised. At these visitations she always promised Ashley that she was going to turn her life around, and get both her and Luke back. It never happened; as a result, Ashley had a lot of trust issues and a hard time believing people actually cared for her. Ashley was adopted and had a tough first couple of years adjusting to having a family. It wasn’t until about the end of the book where she finally got used to having a real family.

Sonny has a “rough” time where he finds himself in “jail” for “narcotics trafficking” (208). Skloot reveals how not having a guardian and guidance leads someone to turn to occupations they would have never committed to before. Also, she emphasizes how authority is needed in a child so they may stay in the right path of life. Also, Deborah becomes so upset she cries out for help: “‘...Just being sad and crying to myself..Why, Lord, did you take my mother when I needed her so much?’” (218). Deborah changed from a happy child to someone in desperate need of a parent when she lost her mother. Skloot reveals how the requisite fostering of a parent lifts the children up in awful

In Julia Alvarez’s fictional book, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, she tells the story of four sisters immigrating to America. Their story is told in reverse chronological order; starting when they are adults, and ending when they are children. The four girls are born into a privileged household in the Dominican Republic. While they are young, they must flee to the United States when their father gets himself into trouble. When the family comes to America in 1960, they struggle to adapt to the new culture.

This book taught me just how important it is to pay attention to those around you and not just contribute to the bystander effect. In many cases throughout this story it was obvious that the there were some terrible issues going on within this family that still some how seemed to go unnoticed. Both parents being alcoholics, their son going to school with bruises and injuries daily, having to steal food from classmates and having to wear the same dirty clothes all year round. To me those all seem like obvious red flags, yet for some reason the numerous adults in this memoir who knew what

Twelve year old Carolina, Carol, and her friends are partying and having swim parties; without Carol. Instead, she will be spending her summer in a middle of nowhere desert in New Mexico. She is going out there because her grandpa, whom she has never meant before, has dementia and her family is going to sell the ranch he lives on. While her father and Grandpa Serge won’t stop bickering, there are chores to do, snakes everywhere

The ones who love you the most can hurt you the most. Trying to live with their abusive mother Matthew, Callie, and Emmy find it difficult to live in the same house. The Rules of Survival by New York Times best selling author, Nancy Werlin, published by the Penguin Group in 2006, is a story about a seventeen-year-old boy and his sisters trying to free themselves of their emotionally and physically abusive mother. I would recommend this book if you like suspenseful novels that will make you want to read more. If you like to read about the growth and development a character has gone through such as relationships with family and growing more independent then read this. Although this is a story about a mother being a threat to the family there are many important and interesting choices that come along and have to be made.

She is not afraid to stand for what she believes in, in the beginning of the book, she wanted to be a prophet and she even had her own holy book with her own rules. Because she was not allowed to go to the demonstrations, she re-enacts the demonstrations with her friends. She then snuck out to demonstrate with her maid Mehri from morning till night. At the age of fourteen, she declared herself a rebel and she talked back and even shouted and hit the principal.

In his story "The Time Machine," by H.G Wells begins with a group of Well’s friends listening to the Time Traveler talking about his theory that time is the fourth dimension. The Time Traveler proved his theory by making a mini time machine and making it disappear. His group of friends end up coming again, and find the Time Traveler not looking so well. That is when the Time Traveler starts to tell his story.