Chapter Notes On The Summer Village

Boarding School Seasons by Brenda J. Child offers a look into the boarding school experiences of many American Indian students. Child favors unpublished sources such as letters to give an uncensored inside look into boarding school experiences. However, she also includes other sources such as school newspapers, oral history collections, photographs, biographies, United States government publications, and annual reports. Government boarding schools were created to help the American government gain more control over Indians and to push the Natives to adopt the white ways of life such as language, skill, and education. While integration was the ultimate objective, Child sets out “to show that even with the challenges of cultural assimilation and a devastating land policy, American Indian people, even children, placed limits on assimilation and also defined and shaped the boarding school era.” (viii) The boarding schools designed to tear American Indian families apart did not succeed in isolating children from their tribes, but created bonds and

Caleb walk in front of the group and asked everyone individually, “ let's take a vote to go in the forest or to head back the way we came” they took the vote and going through the forest won so they started off into the forest and Daniel hesitated but walked in,afraid of being left alone at the mouth of the forest. The

Life is full of various memories that shape who we are as a person, like making your very first friend, or learning how to ride a bike. Literature retells these stories using rhetorical and literary devices to help the reader visualize the story and apply it to their own lives. In the autobiographical narrative by Gary Soto “A Summer Life” the author recreates his childhood experience of stealing a pie by using imagery, diction, repetition and Biblical allusions in his writing.

In Revolutionary Summer, Joseph Ellis attempts to display the importance of the summer of 1776 in a narrative form. In doing this, Ellis must balance his knowledge as a modern-day historian with his desire to ensure that the reader sees the narrative as it was in that time period. In his presentation of facts throughout Revolutionary Summer, Ellis recognizes that hindsight can be both a powerful historian tool to provide context as well as a negative mindset that can skew the true facts of the time. Therefore, he uses hindsight only in order to provide context and importance for certain actions, and, similarly to a textbook, strives to present the facts as they were at the time, without any modern perspective. However, Ellis’s writing

In 1984, by George Orwell violence contributed to the plot by having three stages of reintegration. The stages are learning, understand, and to accept, Winston was forced to learn that 2+2=5 under torture, understanding that the party is good, and seeks power for its own. Winston accepts and understands the Party as he wishes the burden of torture on someone else who he loves, this allowed Winston to accept that the Party’s leader Big Brother is eternal and that 2+2=5, he comes committed and loyal to the Party and its purpose, he then awaits his execution to prove his devotion to the party.

Beware of The Pack St. Lucy’s Home For Girls by Karen Russell has a lot of hidden agendas imbedded into the story. The story creates an unsettling atmosphere with its childlike fairytale approach in how the girls transgress into human beings. They are confused, angry, and distraught and as the story progresses even competitive towards the idea of changing. Conformity is a major argument throughout the story; Russell shows this through the use of characterization, conflict, and symbolism. Mirabella is the youngest of the pack and the only one with a name that differed from the rest, which Ironically matched her personality.

I stop at the edge of the clearing and look at her for a moment. "I'll be back," I repeat, trusting that they'll just take my word for it. They nod and go back to eating and talking. I walk through the darkening forest, leaves crunching with barely a sound under my boots, ferns, bushes, and low branches brushing my clothes and face. I act as a silent shadow moving through the trees until I reach the tree-line.

Whether it’s not sharing the something meaningful with a friend or taking something that never belonged to us, we have all encountered situations where our actions did not match with our behavior. When we are younger and just learning to differentiate the right from the wrong, little mistakes tend to leave us feeling guilty. In the excerpt from the autobiographical narrative, A Summer Life, Gary Soto recreates the experience of stealing pie at age six which left him feeling guilty and shameful, through the use of concrete imagery, contrast, repetition and alteration in pace. Instantly after spotting the pies in the rack at the German market, Soto’s innocent mind had set to steal a pie for him. The short time pleasure of having stolen and possessing

The author of this essay Anna Quindlen purpose of writing School’s out for Summer is that when summer begins it has an effect on many hungry children. She thinks that America is not acknowledging child hunger enough. She thinks that people in America should hear more about child hunger publicly on the news and in the newspaper. She wants this so we could stop this in America.

The leader stayed quiet, thinking and listening closely. Seokjin spoke up, ready to back up Taehyung. "We won't get any further if we don't figure out /who/ sent him, and /where/ he came from. Yoongi-ah, we all know you're treating him more kind than the rest of the prisoners, and we understand why.. but

The fire is hope for them because if someone see it that person will help them get back to England. When the boys give up hope they become savage. Mankind goes chaotic if they have no hope because they do not care what they do

“Hmm…” Lisha turned her head toward the canyon. “Hmph” She turned away and caught up with her group.

because of the love of a baby. Tommy Luck was known as "The Luck of

Antigua is a small island that was discovered in 1493, by Christopher Columbus. The natives that lived there were made slaves by the British and the economy thrived on producing sugar. In 1834 the British abolished slavery giving Antigua its independence. The sugar industry was failing so the economy relied on tourism. A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid is about Antigua. Kincaid narrates her novel in second person, blaming the tourists for ruining the culture of Antigua. Kincaid explains that the British were cruel to the Antiguan people but she forgives them for it. Kincaid also talked about how the Government is currently corrupt and how beautiful Antigua’s land is. Kincaids novel is broken up into four parts that address all of these issues in Antigua.The way A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid was written is effective in the way that it tries to persuade and inform the readers.

I gazed up at the mountain now drenched in light red and squinted, trying to keep my eyes open, as the bright sharp light burnt into my eyes. Struggling to keep my eyes open, I finally closed them unable to the pain any longer; I wiped my watery eyes and thought where Samneric’s fire was? There was a rumble inside me, and I looked hopefully at the jungle wondering if I could find Samneric’s fire as well as something to eat. In the morning light the jungle seemed like an old and tattered rug chewed to bits by moths, yet despite this the jungle and the whole island was beautiful shining in the sun’s warmth. I kept on walking as the jungle beckoned me calling me with its beauty. As I passed between the trees, the canopy overhead plunged me into velvet darkness. The only source of light was from the small gaps in the shell of overlapping leaves, where the sun glistened through. Moss and lichen covered the ground in abundance, thriving in this humid atmosphere, and feeding on the eerie green light that managed to penetrate through the ceiling of emerald leaves. The strange green shade and the various knotted pillars made it impossible to see for great distances or to walk about freely.