Elsewhere Quotes

Darrell Mercer was forced to leave his home in Philadelphia to move all the way to California to live with his uncle against his will. He will have to go to a new school, to make new friends, and to have new teachers. Darrell will have to watch out for Tyray and Rodney the bullies of the school. It will be a hard time in his Junior years.

“He loves the theatre apparently. A great enthusiast when he gets going. He has his down periods like a lot of people, but he’s your support, your natural energiser.” Justin to Lewis about Roy P3

In the book as in my personal life, there were two people with very similar environments yet their lives took completely different paths in the end. Their paths determined by the choices they made at different situations in their lives. Those choices explain who they have become and create the goals that they have set for themselves. The choices also opened up other opportunities that they each will have in their future. No matter what life may hand you always be careful with your decisions you make. Consider how this will affect me tomorrow, a week from now, or even a year from now and go with the one that leads to a better life for

During the second World War, an olympic record holder, Louie Zamperini, was one of the few men that got shot down into the ocean and was stranded for 47 days on a lonely, little raft. The great American hero we all have heard of didn’t start out like you would have thought. He was a young scoundrel who was influenced by his brother to run for something better than away from is problems. After years of running and going to the German Olympics to set the best lap run in the 5,000 meters, Louie had gone into the Air Force and had gotten into trouble at a Japanese POW camp after a crash. The book Unbroken, written by Laura Hillenbrand, expresses Louie’s life exceptionally well, especially

Louie Zamperini had a very tragic and interesting life. He was a runner for the Olympics. He won many wristwatches from his competitions. After reading about Louie Zamperini in Unbroken, I believe that the author, Lauren Hillenbrand, lucidly defined Louie as resourceful and determined.

Furthermore, I also like how he added the theme and message about how a child needs a good role model or someone to look up to for good advice and decisions. For example, the other Wes Moore looks up to Tony but copies him towards stealing and killing. I like how the book states that if you have someone you can look up to, you will create a better life and a better future for yourself. However, I think the transition from first person point of view and third person point of view threw me off a little. Sometimes when I finish reading the book in the morning and continue reading later in the day, I pick up the book and start reading again. I usually get confused on which Wes Moore the author is talking about. I always have to read one or two pages previously to see whom they are talking about like he or I. To conclude with, I enjoyed reading this book and I think this book could help kids follow a right role model to have a better

I found it extraordinary with every decision or turning point a character faced in their lives. What I have assimilated from this book is you cannot let where you come from determine your path, it is only you who can determine your future. This is also why the author Wes was one of my favorite characters in this narrative. His story is one out of a multitude that shows anyone can have a bright future. But I did not discern any similarities with the characters and myself. We all were born into different situations and grew up around opposite influences. Overall, my impression of the novel is positive I believe it is an outstanding book and anyone else who reads it I would hope agrees. I would definitely recommend this book to people because it may help them appreciate

In the book, Hatchet, Brian had to adapt to the wilderness around him. Through this process he changed because he was more aware of how nature was working, how he learned how to hunt through this process, and how he became thinner because his food source was not as abundant. When he was living in the Canadian wilderness, Brian noticed how the fish moved and what shape the foolbirds were. In this way, he was more aware of his surroundings. Brian had to find a way to get food and hunt with the right tools. When he noticed what shape the foolbirds were, he used that to get them for food. He did not get as much food as he did when he was living in civilization. Therefore, his lack in food meant he got thinner and lost 17% of his body weight. Brian

I really had to take a had look at both my characters and decide what are their ultimate goals for this book. What motivates them to continue on or fight when they need to? What values do they have and why? Who is important to them ultimately who would they live or die for?

The person in the Annex stealing bread was Mr. Van Daan claiming he was hungry. The man in the storeroom requests extra money because he knows that there is a door behind the bookcase and the people in the Annex don’t want the green police come and get them so the pay off the workman. Mrs. Van Daan reacts so strongly to selling the fur coat because it reminds her of the good days when her family had money and jews were free to live among Aryans peacefully and in harmony.

In Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s novel, Americanah, a young woman named Ifemelu migrates from her home country of Nigeria to the United States on a student visa. Upon her arrival in America, she is immediately overwhelmed by the stark differences between her glorified idea of America compared to the actuality of America: “She stared at buildings and cars and signboards, all of them matte, disappointingly matte; in the landscape of her imagination, the mundane things in America were covered in a high-shine gloss” (127). This quote exemplifies Ifemelu’s delusion of grandeur in America. Even more so, Ifemelu states early on in the novel that “Nigeria became where she was supposed to be, the only place she could sink her roots without the constant

The death of miles is clearly due to evil spirit of Peter quint, rather than the protective, loving, governess. Wilson wrongly believes that the governess is the cause of Miles death, "she has literally frightened him to death"(Wilson 1934). The whole novella the goal of the governess has been to protect the kids. She always adores them and has a connection especially with Miles, so the last possible way he could've of died is in fear of the governess. The governess and Miles have such a deep connection that she even refers to them as a married couple while sitting at the table exemplifying the love she feels for him.

Sadly, this was easier than I thought it would be. Sometimes when I read a book, the events really hit me hard because of the details put into every line. When I hear about the same events happening in real life, of course it is sad to hear about, but no one other than people close to the person really feels the heartache. Throughout the course of reading your series, my eyes were opened to see the good and the bad our world has to offer. After looking at the hardships many of your characters face, there are certain themes such as the importance of friendship, love, and hard work that become very important. Boxer would not have been able to live as happy of a life without having her friends there to support her no matter what. I love the characterization included in the book because it makes you feel as if you are living in the

The protagonist of the novella, a twenty-year-old woman who has been put in charge of educating and supervising Flora and Miles at the country estate of Bly. The governess has had a very sheltered upbringing and little life experience, and her new job puts an immense responsibility on her, since she has no one to supervise or help her. She is intelligent as well as sensitive and emotionally volatile. Over the course of two short interviews with her employer, she fell in love with him, but she has no opportunity to see him or communicate with him. She is extremely protective of her charges and hopes to win her employer’s approval. She views herself as a zealous guardian, a heroine facing dark forces. However, we never know for certain whether

Gross, and her position as a whole and how these relationships may have caused her decline in mental state. Upon arriving at the estate it is clear that the governess adores the children and is eager at her opportunity to mold them. She states, “But it was a comfort that there could be no uneasiness in a connection with anything so beatific as the radiant image of my little girl, the vision of whose angelic beauty had probably more than anything else to do with the restlessness” (30). After a mere one day on the job, the governess has already put Flora on such a high pedestal that she would stop at nothing to protect the well-being of the child. Even prior to meeting the second child, a young boy named Miles, the governess performs a similar set of mental exercises in order to adore Miles just as she did with Flora: “What I then and there took him to my heart for was something divine that I have never found to the same degree in any child-his indescribable little