Dies Drear Book Report

The Haunting of Hill House is a book about four people that all have backgrounds of experiencing supernatural events. Because of this, they were all chosen to explore the supernatural happenings occurring at Hill House. The house was originally built by a man named Hugh Crain. It had been a place of mysterious events and also the deaths of those who lived there. Dr. Montague, a supernatural investigator, then carefully selected three people with paranormal backgrounds, and invited them to explore the occurrences at the house. Luke, the future heir of the house, Theodora, a careless artist, and Eleanor Vance are invited to the house. Eleanor Vance is the main character and narrator of the story. She lived alone,

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.

“Forgotten Dead” by authors William D. Carrigan and Clive Webb, delivered a collective narration of the numerous lynching crimes against Mexican people in the southern west states of the United States. Their purpose was to describe that extend of mob violations against the minority groups of people in the United States. By, arguing how many of these racial crimes were prejudice to eliminate the potential competition for territory, and gold mines’ economy that were potentially able to provide the envy position that Anglo people were afraid to loose. They wanted to figure out, who these forgotten dead Mexicans were at the time, and what types of “crimes” they committed to face such cruelty death in the hands of the mob Anglo groups. They uncovered the grand extend of violent scenes that Anglo vigilantes members of mob groups organized the banishment of many Mexican in what they had considered part of their territory at the time.

The story has two main settings. First, the family’s house symbolizes union but not quite right. The family was tired of the grandmother. There was an atmosphere of oppression and manipulation by the grandmother. For example, from the beginning of the story the author stated, “You all ought to take them somewhere else for a change so they would see different parts of the world and be broad” (O’Connor 485). The grandmother uses this setting to suggest that the grandmother is very demanding. Finally, into the wood O’Connor uses the setting of tall, dark and deep wood to represent something that is difficult to deal with. O’Connor also mentions that “Behind them the line of woods gaped like dark” (490). It explores the dark consequences of death, where the family encounter strangers in the wood and we only learn what’s happening from the noise people make, gunshots and screams. The setting in this story is very good which states expression of mood and it helps us to know the meaning of the

If this story had been told from a first person point of view, the reader my not have gotten this in depth of a description of the setting. Without the reader understanding that the house was boarded up and abandoned, to the point where it seems

The parents left their children to the care of the house instead of caring for them and showing their love to them. By doing this, it led to their children to be reliant on the house. ‘ “Don’t let father kill everything” He turned to his father “Oh I hate you” ’-P.7 “I wish you were dead.”-P.7 Mr. McClean also said that the house is replacing the parents in the children’s heart “This room is their mother and father, far more important in their lives than their real parents”-P.6 The house was supposed to benefit the family and help them with their everyday life, but instead benefiting the family, it broke the family up completely.

During the month of May, 2017, my Language Arts class was assigned a book project. Everyone received a book and worksheets that went along with the book, which helped us understand the meanings and ideas in the book. That year we read The Great Gatsby. The teacher would

She added a new group to the book club. This group was just reading science passages before because Ms. J needed to find an interesting book on level for this group. The students made a paper booklet for their books and wrote the questions that were posted on the board and their answers for that book on a different page. So the first real page in the book would be the questions for chapter one the next page would be where the students recorded the questions and answers for chapter two, and so on. The new book added was named Summer of Riley. This novel follows the story of an eleven year old who has a dog named Riley that they are trying to save from being put to sleep by the law enforcement for chasing livestock. This raises a lot of interesting questions for the students including how to lawfully go about protesting a law, which is quite interesting to hear their conversations about it because they would never be in the position of William but they apply the story to their lives, which was fascinating. Ms. J really fosters the love of reading in her class, which I have really loved to

The novel, The Dead and the Gone, written by Susan Beth Pfeffer, has a dark and terrifying feeling. This book has haunting themes of family, faith, personal change, and courage about a young boy who takes charge for something he has never before. It devastates readers with brutal apocalyptic events that are yet, so detailed and descriptive that the novel will knock you off your feet. Alex Morales, a 17-year old boy who comes from a poor, Puerto Rican family. Alex is used to working hard for what he wants, and what he wants is to succeed.

A Lesson Before Dying, a historical fiction novel set in the 1940s, is written by Ernest J. Gaines. In this novel the reader gets to experience the struggles of a twenty-one year old black man by the name of Jefferson. Jefferson finds himself the sole survivor in a liquor store shooting. Although he is an innocent man, he is found guilty of murder and because of the racist era, he is sentenced to death. Determined to morph Jefferson into a man with dignity before his death, Miss Emma, Jefferson’s godmother reaches out to Grant Wiggins, a teacher at a local school. Although Grant isn’t sure he can do anything for Jefferson, he agrees to visit him in jail. As the days to Jefferson’s execution wane, Grant and Jefferson form a bond that ends up bettering both men.

The English department does a wonderful job of finding texts that keep the students interested in what they read, but challenges them with new vocabulary and terms they would not normally use. These topics are also at different lengths that target specific skills that all students need and at different levels so that students with different developmental levels can improve. The English department also works with our school’s library to find some of the newest books that the students will enjoy and do their best to bring those books in. The school’s librarian and one of our freshman English teachers have started a “Book Club” on campus so that students could read some of the newest books and be able to talk about them in an educational setting. Many students are a part of this new club and some of them have stated that this club has really helped them improve their overall reading and summarization skills.

The house is another symbol used in the story which seems to carry an associative relationship with Emily Grierson. In the opening paragraph, Emily is referred to as a “fallen monument” (Faulkner, p.668). Once young and full of promise, Emily’s appearance in later years are described as “bloated, like a

Fictional novels, in this case, The Graveyard Book, can teach us about ourselves. A fictional novel is imaginary and is not necessarily based true facts. The Graveyard Book was published in 2008 by Neil Gaiman. This book is about a normal boy named Nobody Owens but is known to his friends as Bod. Bod is raised in the graveyard by educated ghosts, a solitary guardian who is neither living nor dead and is under attack by the Man Jack. Two ideas that have been demonstrated throughout the novel is that life is full of endless possibilities and relationships are a key part of our identity. This novel teaches us about ourselves and the experiences that we have with our relationships with other people in our life with

On their walk they would pass one house and one house only which was in the heart of the woods. It was a dark brown house with white curtains. The house was very old and looked to be falling apart. They assumed it was abandoned and thought nothing of it. But every time Derek walked passed he would get a minor headache not even recognizing

Another element of setting in which the supernatural is evoked is the time of day in which the story takes place. The majority of the story takes place at night and during twilight. The cleaning lady, Mrs. Muldoon, says that she won’t stay in the house during the dark hours of the night, suggesting that uncanny happenings occur during the night. Spencer Brydon always entered the house during twilight symbolizing that he is at a threshold crossing in which he will transform himself into his doppleganger. The night and twilight setting stimulate a dark and mysterious feeling towards the house. Finally, the last major detail that evokes the supernatural within the setting is the location of the house. The house is located on the west side of town, which is closer to his origin (United States of America). The house being on the west side symbolizes what he may have been if he had stayed in the United States of America. This suggests that his doppleganger of the person he would have been if he had stayed in the United States is actually present.