Chasing The Falconers Essay

The book the I am reading is called Dead And Gone, By Norah McClintock. Furthermore the book is about an 14 year old boy named Mike who's parents have died and know has to live with his foster parent John Riel. In the book Mike has to serve community service for stealing CD's. Working at the community center Mike meets a girl who's mother got murdered, And Riel knows something about the murder because he was an ex police officer. During this time, the police had found a body that mite of been Emily's mother. The main theme of the book is crime, murder, drama, adventure, and thriller.

The book I have chosen to read for my independent reading assignment is called, “Three Little Words” by Ashley Rhodes-Courter. Ashley Rhodes-Courter was just only three years old when her mother was taken by the police. Ashley had a younger brother named luke. Her mother, Lorraine, was a drug addict and an alcoholic. Her step-father Dusty was abusive as well as a drug addict and an alcoholic. Lorraine, Dusty, Luke, Ashley, and lorraine’s twin sister all lived in the same, small, trailer park home. Lorraine had ashley when she was a teenager. Their home soon became the local teen hangout. As well as having parties with drugs and alcohol while ashley was there. Ashley soon caught onto what Lorraine and Dusty were saying. She started repeating the bad things that came out of Lorraine and Dusty's mouth.

This book is a chapter book that contains appropriate age fitting vocabulary for children aged 8 to 12 year olds. Stolen Children contained no illustrations, having pictures throughout the book would have helped me understand the story line better. This book was very interesting and lead the reader to stay on their toes. There were 5 main characters in this book they were Amy who was the babysitter, Kendra the 3 year old girl, Smokey one of the kidnappers and Hugh another kidnapper. The main conflict of this book was when the girls (Amy and Kendra) had gotten kidnapped and were missing for a week. the setting of this book takes place in an old run down cabin that is in the middle of the woods. In the book, Peg Kehert wrote clues that Amy the character who plays the role as the babysitter gives off throughout the story.

Rooster is a dance piece choreographed by Christopher Bruce. It was originally premiered by the Ballet du Grand Theatre de Geneve in 1991. It is a contemporary ballet piece performed by ten dancers to eight of The Rolling Stones’ most memorable hits.

Bone Gap by Laura Ruby takes readers on a journey of magic realism in the small town of Bone Gap, Illinois. This young adult novel features brothers, Sean and Finn O’Sullivan, as they struggle through feelings of rejection and loneliness due to continuous abandonment. When the beloved Roza mysteriously disappears, it only adds to the previous loss of their father and desertion of their mother. As the novel progresses, the line between reality and fantasy blurs while a determined Finn strives to find Roza. Unfortunately, Finn cannot remember the face of the kidnapper. Despite this, Finn continues his quest to deliver Roza from the dangerous kidnapper, but while doing so, Finn uncovers a magical secret. This magical secret questions truth

Libertad by Alma Fullerton follows the journey of a boy named Libertad and his brother, Julio, as they cross the country in search of their father. Despite what the synopsis may lead one to think, it is not captivating at all. In addition, it lacks depth and creativity. Demonstrating use of harmful substances with a poorly constructed plot that lacks realistic solutions to conflicts, Libertad makes a horrible teen read.

The book, Incarceron, leads you through conflict after conflict. Claudia, the daughter of the Warden of Incarceron, is trapped wanting to know the truth about an awful arranged marriage. She realizes her real love that supposedly died is alive and well in the living prison of Incarceron. The boy’s name is Finn, and his memory has been wiped. As Claudia tries to find Finn she goes thru many conflicts that come with coming of age.

The Flying Troutmans by Miriam Toews showed many experiences related to situations that occur in an individual’s daily life. The novel shows evidence that proves dysfunctional in a relationship such as husband and wife relations, a child and a mother relations or relations between two sisters who live a different life.

After reading the novel Nest in the Wind: Adventures in Anthropology on a Tropical Island, written by Martha C. Ward, I learned about a culture on an island that is much different but similar in many ways to ours. The Climate of the Island was tropical with heavy rainfall. The Island was known as a “tropical paradise”. Ward a female Anthropologist went to this Island to study its inhabitants . Some area she focus on was Family, Religion, sex, tradition, economics, politics ,medicine, death, resources and daily activities . Ward approach to getting this information as accurate as possible was to live among the Pohnpeians as . She got involved in their culture and community. She even , though unwanted gained rank in their society. Her and

The Maltese Falcon, was not only a detective film, but a film that displayed many different aspects of the female and the male character in the movie. The film was more than a story, but a story that explored the ideas of the detective genre and the different characteristics of femininity and masculinity. It also brought forth subjects of sexual desires and the greediness of money. The characters and the visual motifs in the film contributed to the developing of the plot and assisted in creating a more detective and gender oriented film. In the film, The Maltese Falcon, the role of men and women are portrayed in different ways in the film to show the distinct functions of masculinity and femininity

In traditional hard-boiled American detective fiction there are many themes that seem to transcend all novels. One of those themes is the concept of power and the role in which it plays in the interaction and development of characters. More specifically, the role of women within the novels can be scrutinized to better understand the power they hold over the other characters, their own lives and the direction of the story. Dashiell Hammett’s The Maltese Falcon exemplifies the varying ways in which female characters attempt to obtain and utilize power in hopes of influencing, manipulating and succeeding.

Dashiell Hammett who worked for a detective agency, wrote the novel The Maltese Falcon in 1929. In this novel the protagonist is a fictional character that Hammett created and named Sam Spade. Sam is a private detective hired by another character in the novel named Brigid O' Shaughnessy. Being a detective comes with many job responsibilities and being a private detective becomes even more complicated. In Hammett's novel there are many conflicts throughout his writing. Most conflicts have to do with Spade in some form considering he is the detective and also the protagonist. Are the conflicts in the story relating to Spade within himself; man versus self, or caused by another character; man versus man?

In the story “Lord of the Flies” by William Golding, he shows how the boys lost all innocence and civilization. The boys went from having innocent child minds to taking lives of other people, acting savage, and losing all civilization due to problems on the island. The boys had forgotten where they came from and became savage in order to survive; it was the need of survival that caused the loss of innocence among the boys.

The students and staff of the Cavalier Nation show their pride for our country and also our school. On Patriot Day people show they are proud of our country and the people who serve or has served in the military by dressing in red, white, and blue. The students and staff of the Cavalier Nation also showed pride for the school. Everywhere you look, students in blue and white shirts and face paint roam through the halls, proudly displaying our school colors. People even dressed up as Olympians in support of those competing in this past year's Olympics.

Finally, I am finished with middle school. Anxiously thinking about the first day of high school, I knew that it would be hectic and wild, but I was ecstatic. Of course, the night before I could not sleep. I lay awake dreaming about how my first day at John Paul II will go. How will it be meeting new people and seeing old friends from last year? Will high school be hard? Will I get lost? I kept thinking about the unknown and worst possible outcomes. My first day of high school was unexpected.