Christopher Lane Quotes

Marion Pritchard was a WWⅡ hero. She registered Jewish children and took them under her wing as one her own and went and found safe non-Jewish homes for them. Marion was someone who was a survivor during WWII and she helped people. She also made people feel safe by bringing them to a safer place. The things she did went down in history and she was known as a hero. Some people thought of her as a hero but some did not. I wonder why they didn’t think of her as a hero, but we will find out.

Johnny Cade is a shy and scared guy, but by the end of the book, he has developed a sense of braveness. Johnny got beat up by the Soc’s in the beginning, but then they tried to beat him and Ponyboy up but Johnny murdered him. Ever since then, he has developed a sense of braveness. On page 12 it says that, “He had a nervous and suspicious look in his eyes, ever since he got that beating from the Soc’s. He has acted like he was going to get beat up by every person he saw besides his gang. (pg #12). Then on page 57 it says, “You really killed him, huh, Johnny?” “Yeah” Johnny said. With these two pieces of evidence we we tell that in the beginning of the book Johnny was scared of every person he saw, but by the middle of the book, we can tell that

What would you do if you were in a family crisis and given a 10,000 for your family member passing away? In the play Walter Younger goes through many different moral problems and has bad ego due to the money that has been given to the family. In this play during the late 1950s, there was a lot of racial problems, black skin color was discriminated and abused. Walter younger shows that he cares more about money rather than caring about his families care and well being. He rather open up a liquor store to get more money and keep his family living in the ran down apartment not thinking about all of the bad stuff that can possibly happen to his kin. Throughout this book making this a great mood changing book to read many sequal of events happen throughout the book.

“Anyone else would’ve laughed it off, but for Curt Lemon it was too much.” (pg.84)

¨The Boy On the Wooden Box” by Leon leyson is a tremendous book about the Germans invading Poland During World War 2. The main character, Leon lason, (as the narrator and the author) lived these horrifying times and watched people die around him. Leon was only ten years old at the time, and he saw way to much at his age, such as people getting beat, dying, and people starving to death right in front of his eyes. In fact, he watched his own brother die. As Leon tells his life story during these difficult times, you’ll learn that life then was a struggle.

Nathan Scott is main character and the basketball star of the Ravens high school, just like his very proud father. Dan Scott wants his son to be an over achiever, but he gets pushed even harder by his dad than the team's coach. Dan Scott went to tree hill and was a well know basketball player and pushes his son to achieve his best. When the team celebrates a victory they decided borrowing their schools bus. Several arrests were made; Dan to talk to the coach and police and manages to get Nathan out of trouble. Unfortunately others are less lucky and got kick off the team. The coach had to get new players, so the coach invites Nathan's step brother Lucas Scott. Who only plays basketball for fun because his passion was reading books. Nathan

For 54 days, Brian Robeson, was stranded on an island with only his knowledge, the clothes on his back, and his hatchet. In the book Hatchet, written by Gary Paulsen, Brian got stranded because the pilot of his plane had a heart attack. Not only did the pilot having the heart attack test Brian about what he knew about planes, but it also tested him on how much he knew about how to survive without the major necessities. “You are your most valuable asset. Don't forget that. You are the best thing you have.” (page 51). Brian had to take the words from his english teacher to help him get through the 54 days in the Canadian Wilderness. This is the power of positive thinking, after he got over the fact that he was stranded all alone, he used positive

Everybody has made foolish decisions and done things that they have regretted before in their lifetime, but most of them have not resulted in death. In Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer, Chris McCandless’ foolishness was a big part of his adventure to Alaska. He was not mentally stable which led to bad decision-making, he did not consider the emotional consequences that would present themselves to his friends and family and he was very unprepared for the Alaskan wilderness. Chris’ journey and his quest for ultimate freedom were foolish.

Tim O’Brien frequently recalls back on memories, adding backstories to small details. During the war due to high pressure and tension, Tim purposely overlooked a lot of the sensory details of the dead bodies to avoid the guilt and trauma of killing another person. In Good From, Tim O’Brien reveals the difference between happening truth and story truth by giving examples of the two, “Here is the happening-truth...There were many bodies, real bodies with real faces, but I was young then and I was afraid to look. And now, twenty years later, I'm left with faceless responsibility and faceless grief.”(121) Tim feels severe guilt for killing people in Vietnam but never formally recognizing them as an actual human being. To reconcile for his killings, Tim provides a backstory for all the people he killed. He created the story with the man with the star shaped hole as a representation for the actual people he killed. He wanted the people he killed to be viewed as real people with facial features. After his happening truth statement, Tim O’Brien follows up with “the story-truth... His jaw was in his throat. His one eye was shut, the other eye was a star-shaped hole. I killed him.”(121) By substituting the dead with an actual human figure, Tim can provide a character for he and the readers to empathy with. Tim O’Brien can finally recover by recognizing and honoring the dead soldiers he killed as well as extend their story to a broader audiences. Brien concludes the chapter by saying that“ “What stories can do... is make things present. I can look at things I never looked at.”(121) Tim affirms that he feel humans and alive again by having emotions. The ability to feel grief for the dead allows Tim to reflect the past and move forward with his

Haddon reveals human emotions, motives, actions and relationships to be troublesome to understand and to manage. This is presented throughout the characters in the novel and how they deal with their possible outcomes and issues of these aspects. An example of this is from the way Christopher understands human emotions, he uses drawings of emoticons to perceive the way individuals are feeling, due to him being unable to understand human emotions because of his disability. This also creates a perspective of the individuals around Christopher finding him challenging to comprehend and perceive how he is thinking and feeling emotionally. In addition, Christopher’s father, Ed Boone occasionally exemplifies his characteristic of getting unnecessarily

After wandering through the woods and even getting whacked on the head with another soldier’s gun, he reunites with his regiment that survived the enemy charge and feels guilty about

In literature, the nature of a character’s villainy plays an important role in novels and play. These evil characters enhance the good in the other characters. In the novel “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” by Harriet Beecher Stowe, there are many acts of evil committed by multiple characters, but one that stands out in the novel is Simon Legree. Simon Legree is a vicious slave owner of Tom. He exhibits no remorse and cruelty.

In this scene (pg.6 - 10), Christopher is confronted by the police about who killed Wellington. He automatically trusts the police but this trust is soon abolished when the police officers push Christopher too far. When Christopher first sees the police he immediately becomes more comfortable saying “There was a policewoman and a policeman. The policewoman had a little hole in her tights on her left ankle and a red scratch in the middle of the hole. The Policeman had a big orange leaf stuck to the bottom of his shoe which was poking out for one side.”

What is the point of being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable?

Girls have a habit of dating men that are so wrong for them, but are blinded by their good looks, or charm that they can't see it. So, when a good, decent guy comes along they can't appreciate him until they're married/engaged to the charming man and then his real colors show and it's too late. The same scenario happens in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s story, Winter Dreams. The reader is introduced to two main characters, Dexter Green and Judy Jones. Dexter, is a hardworking entrepreneur and Judy is a spoiled rich girl. He meets her again when they are both grown and is overtaken by her beauty. He begins to see her even though, he knows that she is running around with numerous others. He stays loyal to her until the end when he finally see that she will never settle down with him. At the end of the story Dexter is engaged to another women when Judy finally sees what a terrific guy Dexter is. Dexter is a perfectly nice gentleman and Judy is a fool for not appreciating him.