Flawed Dogs, By Berkley Breathed

Pieces of You is a fictional novel written by Daniel Armand Lee, comprised of ten short stories taking place in the late 1990s and early 2000s. The stories are personal accounts by different men in New York, ranging from young students to adults, written in Lee’s undergraduate years at Stanford University. Each short story allows the reader to connect with the narrator in varying hardships of life.

In the award winning novel Spill, Simmer, Falter, Wither by Sara Baume there is lots of detail using imagery and a strong unbreakable bond between a man and his dog. During this novel there will be two characters a 57-year-old bitter man named Ray and an eager one-eyed dog named One Eye. While these two are very similar in many ways they also have differences and challenges that unfold during the novel.

Dogeaters is Jessica Hagedorn’s first novel. The author returned to her native Philippines in 1988 to write the work, and it was published in 1990 when it received the American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation. The novel reflects the eclectic life of its author whose experiences have included acting, singing, songwriting, and writing poetry, drama, and fiction. For the most part, Dogeaters has been well received by critics and scholars who commend its experimental nature and innovative writing style. Jessica Hagedorn is a well-respected post-colonial author whose works present gender, social, and cultural themes. Dogeaters is considered one of the most widely studied novels about the Philippines and is an important example of

David Dobbs explores the science behind the impulsive teenage psyche in “Beautiful Brains”, published in National Geographic in October 2011. Dobbs is an acclaimed author, with articles featured in New York Times, The Atlantic, and Wired among other publications. Some of Dobbs’ renowned work includes “Reef Madness” and “My Mother’s Lover”.

Dorothy Allison’s essay, Panacea, recalls the fond childhood memories about her favorite dish, gravy. Allison uses vivid imagery to cook up a warm feeling about family meals to those who may be a poor family or a young mother. Appeal to the senses shows this warm feeling, along with a peaceful diction.

Science fiction is a way for an author to express their concerns in the world while using fiction to bring up controversial ideas. In Unwind , Neal Shusterman is able to incorporate science fiction in a way to not only get his points across but to also make the reader think, and adjust the message to relate to one's own life. Unwind takes place in the future where it is an option for parents to choose to have their child unwound, meaning they would be taken from their family and taken apart. Their body parts would then be given to someone who is sick or injured. The reader is introduced to the main characters: three teenagers who have relatable backgrounds to teenage readers in order to help one connect and feel a part of the story. As readers start learning about these characters, Lev, Connor and Risa, new issues develop which create life or death situations that these adolescence have to deal with alone. While this story is science fictional the plot of these kids struggling to find who they are and what their purpose is, while their parents have given up on them, is something most readers can relate to in one way or another, whether it’s being unsure about the future, having family problems, or being told something can’t be done. In Unwind, the author, Neal Shusterman,

For the past few decades, the development of technology and the expansion of the knowledge has enriched our life, especially for our childhood life. However, relatively speaking, kids now are getting less freedom than the past due to the world has more potential dangerous such as the increased rate of abduction. Dealing a complicated problem with a very simple violent way may result in a worse impact in the near future. Because of parents excessively protect their own children and outside world is too horrible to play alone, more and more kids lost the opportunity of touching the nature, instead they indulge in the virtual world created by electronic products. In the story “The Shortening Leash”, Jessica and Hanna give us a relatively accurate and unbiased information about the situation that kids now lost freedom a lot according to the board surveys and three statistic graphs. While they mentioned that we are not supposed to latch our kids due to over-protection. Otherwise, let children pursue free exploration is not equal to stop your ear to them.

When thinking of Mexican American immigrants what comes to mind? The American public consistently listens to the media telling stories of how these people cross the border illegally, which is deemed as a crime. Immigrants are portrayed just as stealing American jobs and benefiting from government programs such as welfare. Countless people think it was a voluntary action for them to come to the United State, therefore whatever comes their way is what they deserve regardless if it is health problems, racism or low paying jobs. However, what most of American people don’t realize is that the majority of Mexican migrants are forced to migrate to the United State in order to survive. They constantly risk their lives to cross a dangerous border in order to find the jobs that the American people don’t want to endure. In the book called “Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies”, the author, Seth Holmes focuses on the lives of an indigenous Mexican group called the Triquis. Throughout the book, he focuses on the journey of the group from their hometown of Oaxaca to farms in California and Washington. The book also emphasizes how racism and health problems of migrant workers have become invisible to the American people. It is commonly seen that their personal damage such as health problems and placement on the social hierarchy system is only to be blamed on their sole decision to come to a country where they are considered illegal. Instead of blaming the Triqui people for their sickness,

In life, progressing ahead and following with society 's standards is something everyone tends to look up too. Wishing for events and things to occur is a constant worry in life as well. The downfall of this is that keeping high expectations can lead to even higher disappointments. Wanting and needing are too different aspects and many people have a hard time understanding this. This leads to difficult life situations and making hard decisions that could have been avoided in the very beginning. In both the novel Everybody has Everything by Katrina Onstad and the poem "The Wolves" by Paisley Rekdal, the two stories share a familiar idea in concept of appearance vs. reality and a mixture of rethinking identity. They use the comparison of appearance vs. reality to emphasize the actual significance of the main character as they experience intense feelings and emotion throughout the book/poem. As many people have said that everything in life is not as simple as it seems and the things that occur might not at all be what is it cut out to be. Different situations can change people for the better or the worse in many ways such as building them up or tearing them down as a person, taking an emotional toll on them. This alters their perspectives and is proved in these publications by characterization, tone and mood.

Justin Torres Novel We the Animals is a story about three brothers who lived a harassed childhood life. There parents are both young and have no permanent jobs to support their family. The narrator and his brothers are delinquents who are mostly outside, causing trouble, causing and getting involved in a lot of problems and barely attending school, which their parents allowed them to do. The narrator and his brothers were physically abused by their father, leading them to become more violent to one another and others, drinking alcohol and dropping out of school. Physical abuse is an abuse involving one person’s intention to cause feelings of pain, injury and other physical suffering and bodily harm to the victim. Children are more

(1) Braden’s analysis was a very deep reading on what he saw behind the story. But after reading deeper into the life of Stephen Crane it is very easy to see that “A Dark Brown Dog” is the story based off what Crane witnessed on the streets. The young boy lived in a very run down part of the city in a fifth story apartment; tales of the father coming home and abusing not only the dog but his family as well.

In this short story a pilot for the British army has been hit and is slowly losing consciousness due to the blood loss in his right leg. His plane starts to descend and lose altitude so he makes the painful decision to eject from the falling aircraft totally losing consciousness. Waking to an unfamiliar hospital room and a dangerously familiar sound of a german bomber he asks the present nurse where he was and she replied to him saying “ You are in Britian.” He waited for her to leave then he crawled to window with agonizing pain in his leg to look out the window. As he looked he saw painted on the fence in German, “Beware of the Dog.” this gave away that he was in German territory.

Pink is not only a clothes color for well-dressed individuals with exceptional taste in clothes or for brave, courageous, stable, and smart men, it is also a color associated with sexuality and love; here, however, it is associated with dogs and Rio di Janiero. In the poem “Pink Dog” by Elizabeth Bishop, the speaker reveals her anxiousness of the flux of human life by presenting the metaphor of the pink dog. The images of the Carnival, as a token of lavishness, symbolize ambiguity. The Carnival is a place of no order and reversed rules. Extravagant celebration is paralleled with the abandonment of moral principles and social hierarchy.

“Bones Never Lie” is a fictional novel written by Kathy Reichs. This novel focuses on two main characters - Dr. Temperance Brennan and Detective Andrew Ryan. The two are trying to solve a murder case just been linked to one thousands of miles away. They linked these two to the murder because both of the children had facial tissue under their fingernails, and it matched one another. The two bodies have lots of things in common, other than the facial tissue. For one, they were posed nicely, and had everything perfect when their bodies were found. Near the beginning of the novel, they are able to rule out a man as a killer because of how well taken care of the girls were. As Dr. Brennan gains more evidence, they can link more cases to the

Life is a complicated twist of suffering, laughing, and learning all merging to tell a great story - or great many stories. Based on this view, "it is not the end goal or outcome of life that gives life meaning but rather the quality of the story, the quality with which one lives out and develops his or her role."