See How They Run Essay

Authors in many instances use the main elements in the story such as setting and narrative to prove a point in the story. For example, writers often use characters, their actions, and their interaction with other characters to support or prove a theme. In the short story “Our Thirteenth Summer”, Barry Callaghan effectively uses characters to develop the theme that childhood is fragile and easily influenced. One of the ways that Callaghan makes effective use of characters to develop the theme is by describing the tension between Bobbie and his parents. This usage of characters supports the theme because Bobbie’s childhood is no longer free to do what he wishes, but has to bow down to his parents’

Question One: Doug has a difficult family life. His father behaves less like a parent and more like a bully, but in Marysville, Doug meets other adults who show him kindness and compassion. Name a few of the adult characters in Okay For Now who offer Doug guidance and instruction. What does Doug learn from them? Support your response with evidence from the text.

Jimmy knows too well the agonies of abandonment. First, when his mother, Cecilia, ran away with Richard to pursue a better lifestyle. Then, due to his father’s, Damacio Baca, alcoholisms and violent behavior; he also had to leave Jimmy behind. In spite of the drawbacks from abandonment to being a maximum security prisoner in Arizona State Prison, Jimmy preserver’s the darkness of prison by overcoming his illiteracy. However Cecilia and Damacio is not as fortunate as their child; Cecilia is shot by Richard after confronting him for a divorce and Damacio chokes to death after he is released from the detox center(Baca 263). Therefore the most significant event in this section of the memoir, A Place to Stand by Jimmy Santiago Baca is the death of Jimmy’s parents.

I was pleased to have attended a lecture cosponsored by the Ethics Center, the Fresno State office of the president, the Fresno Bee and Valley PBS. The lecture began with Dr. Castro recognizing a few leaders on campus, including a past Fresno State president, Dr. John D. Welty and campus volunteer Mary Castro. Dr. Castro then mentioned a few things about Mr. Brooks stating that he is a columnist for the New York Times and an analyst for the PBS “News Hour” and NPR’s “All Things Considered.” Dr. Brooks also teaches at Yale University, one the finest university in the country. Dr. Castro continued by saying that he learned that Mr. Brooks office hours are from 9am to 1pm and how “cool” it sounded to him. I was surprised how many people attended the event. I was fortunate to find a seat. David Brooks mentioned how he has some remote roots in the Central Valley because his father grew in Chowchilla, CA but Mr. Brooks grew in New York.

My essay will be on how one character is dynamic throughout Okay For Now. Gary D. Schmidt is the author of Okay For Now. He tells a thrilling story about a young boy whose life changes very fast and it affects all of his family. The character analysis is on Doug Swieteck. This essay will be showing how Doug hates his life at first ,but then changes his mind throughout the book.

The book “Ugly” by Robert Hoge it is a inspiring, true story about, Robert, a boy who grew up in Brisbane, Australia, with a tumor the size of a tennis ball on his face and two deformed legs. Robert had four other brothers and sisters, who were all older. The story is the journey of Robert Hoge and his life with artificial legs and deformed face, and all the challenges he faced along the way.

In the book Always running there are lots of examples of an individual making a difference in society. Luis the main person in the book he is the person that leads the walkout and leads the students to try to make a change he fights against injustice in the school against Mr. Madison after he decided to fire one of the Latino teachers at the school. Luis also fights against cultural appropriation when he tries out to be the mascot of the school, the mascot was an aztec and before Luis became the mascot all the other mascots were White people who probably made fun of the culture. One of the techniques that the author used in the book and I saw this a lot is vocabulary he had to make a 3 page glossary with spanish words he also didn't use spanish

"Anything Goes" is a comedy, romance, and drama filled musical. In this play there are several different characters with their own plots and problems. All the plots later intertwine somehow as the characters interact with each other. The main character, Reno is a stage performer who is the main performer in "The Angels", a group of "evangelist" showgirls. Reno is in love with Billy. Billy is a businessman working for Elisha Whitney. Billy is also in love with a girl named Hope Harcore. Hope is engaged to a wealthy English man named Lord Evelyn, but she secretly loves Billy. Billy is supposed to be in New York doing work after he drops Elisha's passport off, but then he realizes Hope is on the boat. He sneaks onto the boat using an extra passport and ticket from a "pastor" who is actually a famous mobster named Moon Face Martin. He is trying to win Hope over. Reno and Moon are helping Billy stay under cover while getting to Hope. All of these characters interact which each other as they are all on the same boat and all have different purposes. In a turn of events, Reno and Evelyn fall in love. This helps Hope and Billy be able to get married, but Hope's mom, Evangeline, insists Hope marries Evelyn for his money. Elisha ends up receiving a large profit for a deal and Evangeline Harcore changes her mind. A triple marriage ceremony concludes the musical as Hope and Billy, Reno and Evelyn, and Evangeline and Elisha become married couples. This show is filled with plot twists,

"I'm standing on the street. I see the man through the window of my mother's shop, his tall frame and broad shoulders, the dark brown leather jacket that he wears" (Carter 216). This is one of Graces many flash backs in the novel. This flashback comes to her after her and her new-found friends, and an old friend, break into Dominic Novak's house. Dominic is the scared man Grace believes murdered her mother. After Dominic arrives home early while the group of friends is still there, they are forced to hide. Grace jumps into the closet to hide, and is ironically greeted by a brown leather jacket causing Grace to remember what she saw the man wearing the day her mother was murdered. "The cuff is stiff in one place and i finger it, know instantly that its dried blood. My mother's blood is on my hands" (Carter 216). After Grace examines the jacket, she finds dried blood and knows then that it's her mothers and is now even more positive than she was before that Dominic had killed her mother. This helps convey the theme because it shows how Grace didn't give up and even broke national security rules to prove she was right about her mother's

An advocacy activity I observed this following weekend was at an off-Broadway play performed at Second Stage Theater in New York City. The play, Notes from the Field is written and performed by Anna Deavere Smith. In this performance, she gives her viewers a look into the past history of our country as well as some recent major headlining news that took part in our society. She re-enacts the behaviors of some characters but gives the viewers a different perspective then what the media portrays it to be. In the play, Anna shows some tragedies that took place in schools, and prisons systems. She shows the division of ethnic groups and how the civil rights actions have still failed even in today’s communities.

The character that caught my attention the most this episode was Cutty Wise. It was interesting to see him figure out that he does not want to be part of the game anymore. After so many years of rolling with the dealers he could still manage to control himself to not pull the trigger while lined up at the kid. However, the most shocking part was that he could admit that he is not cut out for the game anymore to Avon, and that Avon was cool with it even after how he acted the whole episode.

After reading the information about my style (C/DS) I feel it accurately describes many traits I possess. The traits that stood out the strongest were mainly traits associated with Cautious but I can also see how the Supportive and Dominant traits influence my personality. The hardest part was to weight how strongly the two secondary traits influence my main trait of Cautious. It was interesting to know only 15% of people have two secondary traits that support and influence their primary behavior trait.

In the novel Catch Me If You Can by Frank William Abagnale, Frank is a well defined static character. Even though he faces different challenges throughout the novel, he remains the same a the end of the story as he was in the beginning. Being said this, he still continued to run away from his problems and did cons. He is a confident individual who ran away from home at a young age to find a life for himself. Frank is a smart, young and charismatic boy. During his early teen years, his parents started to go through a divorce, which left him torn between whom to choose to stay with. After learning about the divorce that was about to take place, Frank decides to runaway. Frank states, “One June morning of 1964, I woke up and knew it was time to go.

I wonder who killed Graces mother and why her Grandfather is lying to her. My first guess who killed her mother is it’s the scar man. I think that because when she saw him she had a flash back from when her mom was killed. She also had nightmares about him after she saw him. The seconded reason is Grace said when she saw him the second time “ The scar that has haunted my dreams every night since the moment my mother died”(Carter 144). My third reason is because when she went to the party and the scar man was there and she said, “ The man who killed her is at the party” (Carter 148). My second question is when Grace told her grandfather about the scar man why did he tell her to forget about him. My first guess is maybe its because he doesn’t

This spring, our drama department will be performing M*A*S*H, or Mobile Army Surgical Hospital. M*A*S*H was originally a book in the early 60’s, then brought on as a movie and a play during the late 60’s. It eventually became a very popular TV series on the 70’s and a little into the 80’s. In the play, you will learn about and come to love the three main characters; Hawkeye, Trapper John, and Duke, (Zane Brown, Cody Woolston, and Orion Ingmire) as they indulge themselves on the 4077th care base with jokes and pranks to pass the time and to take away from the horrors of the war. On stage you’ll find more hysterical characters such as; Gen. Hammond, “Radar”, “Hotlips”, and “Ugly”, (Connor Polanka, Brenan Cooper, Mackenzie Owens, and