Goin By Patricia C. Mckissack

Grandma hasn’t walked for a year, and Cesia was desperate to keep her mother alive. “Please, leave me a little water, leave me a bible, and bread and I know God will help me,” remarked grandma. Cesia insisted that if grandmother wanted to stay behind, then let her be, but Cesia’s mom asked her, “Would you leave me?”

In Gabrielle Roy’s The Road Past Altamont, the stories recount Christine’s time as a girl, leading into her transformation as a woman. They explore thoughts and movements of both Christine and her family. The Almighty Grandmother and The Road Past Altamont have resonant themes of aging, distance and displacement which highlight most of disagreements the grandmother, mother and daughter have in the stories. Roy manages to capture the relationship of grandmother and mother, as well as mother and daughter in separate stories, but at the same time conveying the similarities of what happens as each woman ages over the course of time. The repetitive cycle for these women is inevitable when comparing how

However, Janie felt confined under her grandma's beliefs. 'Where were the singing bees for her? Nothing on the place nor in her grandma's house answered her,'; she feels (11). Janie could not find answers of sexuality in her grandma's house as her grandma had very different views.

Flannery O’Connor’s gripping short story titled, “A Good Man is Hard to Find,” follows a dysfunctional family of six on a road trip to Florida lead by the nagging head matriarch, the grandmother. At the beginning of the story, the grandmother’s feisty attitude is made apparent as she is not in agreement with the original family venture. Instead, the grandmother convinces the family to visit Tennessee to drop into an old plantation which houses a mysterious secret panel. A series of unfortunate events happen once the family decides to go along with this new venture and causes the family to get lost along the way, but what the family loses is more than just their sense of direction; they end up losing themselves to a malevolent character called, “The Misfit.” Flannery O’Connor’s dramatic tragedy gives way to a symbolic journey in which a southern family trip ends in horror to demonstrate to the reader that there is hidden significance within every scene in the story to allow us to dig deeper into our own existence.

The title of the book "Running on empty", by Peter G. Peterson tells what really happens behind the scenes of both Democratic party and Republican party, and how in their own way they are bankrupting our future. "Running on Empy" provides a cogent look at americans political, and physical deterioration describing the financial crisis in the United States. Having hands on experience with this several political and govenment views Mr. Peterson discuss how our country is totally in debt and how we as americans can rebuild our future. Being a republican Peterson calls out mistakes made by both parties being equally irresponsible and presenting nonpartisan solutions. As a Democrate I believe that the democratic party focuses more on everyone being equally happy and healthy and ignores the fact that they could help the financial crisis by decreasing some of the social programs they 've created that help people in our society. I truly believe that some of the programs that were created by the democrats have cost our citizems an exponential amt of money, with minimal improvement to our society. Also , a lot of these elected programs have handicapped our society. I personally believe that if you teach a person to fish , they will always eat. But, if you just feed people the fish you 've caught , it promotes laziness and the people will eventually starve. My take on this comparison is that the democrats only supply the fish to the less unfortunate and the Republicans teach the less

Over the course of first semester in college I have learned how to read, write, and learn again. That sentence may be hard to understand, since when getting to college you are already supposed to know how, but it is true. Starting off with I Stand Here Writing by Nancy Sommers, I have learned how to enhance my writing by using personal sources to combine personal and academic writing. With the help of The Mind at Work by Mike Rose I got an example of how the teachings of Sommers can be applied in writing. We ended the semester off with learning how to read again. In James Gee book Semiotic Domains: Is Playing Video Games a “Waste of Time”? I got another look at how to view literacy, which I was not aware that there was another way to look at. Literacy should not be the ability to read and write but thought of as a semiotic domain. All that is saying is that from what is written, categorizing the text to certain domain and producing and adding meaning adds depth to what is written while we also get a better understanding as well. Overall I have a gained an alternative perspective on learning and when experiencing new things, changing your mindset will lead you to success in that domain.

There are many benefits to reading books. The benefits are that people can understand their own lives, empathize with other people, and illuminate issues of morality. Literature helps people understand their own lives. In the biography While the World Watched by Carolyn Maull McKinstry. It details the 16th street Baptist church bombing that occurred on September 15, 1963.

The beginning of the memoir confronts the reader with Kingston's forgotten aunt. The little knowledge of her aunt begins

Granny has been through several triumphs in her life. She was about to marry George and he left her at the altar. After that happened she married and her husband John which passed away. She learned to be an independent woman that did not rely on anyone. “She had fenced in a hundred acres once, digging the post holes herself and clamping the wires with just a negro boy to help.” (67) She did both chores that the woman and the man would do. At the end, Granny blew out the light in fear of

In the story Eleven by Sandra Cisneros there is a theme about, say something before it's too late.And I have evidences because in the beginning a girl she wished she was 102 for she would know what to say. And also in the middle of the story of the story she she doubted not saying anything.And at the end she is very mad she wish she could go back in time and change the past she wished that she said something.

Granny Grommet and Me uses the right words to set the theme, mood and tone of the story. At the start of the story, Granny and her friends get ready to go surfing. They wear their wetsuits, caps and sunblock. The words used here set the theme for the book and shows the reader that the story is about Granny going surfing. Further into the story, words and phrases such as safe, lovely and warm, ‘float me out’, peaceful and ‘shut my eyes and clench my toes’ encourage the reader to feel the emotions that the child in the story is feeling.

A literal interpretation of the grandmother portrays an elderly southern woman attempting to maintain the proper and genteel values of the South. The grandmother places great importance on her appearance and the opinions of others. This importance is revealed at the beginning of their journey when the story compares the grandmother, a reflection of the past, to the daughter-in-law, a reflection of the present:

Susie’s mother opened the door to let Molly, Susie’s babysitter, inside. Ten-month old Susie seemed happy to see Molly. Susie then observed her mother put her jacket on and Susie’s face turned from smiling to sad as she realized that her mother was going out. Molly had sat for Susie many times in the past month, and Susie had never reacted like this before. When Susie’s mother returned home, the sitter told her that Susie had cried until she knew that her mother had left and then they had a nice time playing with toys until she heard her mother’s key in the door. Then Susie began crying once again.

     As a little girl might be alone in a strange place, Marian is scared. She goes to the nursing home slowly, and pays attention only “vaguely” to what goes on until the climax. Everywhere she goes in the nursing home, she is rushed and shoved and pulled about

Looking at Mary’s life history can help us better understand her experience of aging and late adulthood. Mary was born in 1941 in a relatively poor family. Our informal interaction and interview had given a chance for she to provide her life review. Life review is a healing process according to Robert Butler (Butler, 1974). She said that she lived in a government subsidies unit where bathroom and kitchen were shared with other families when she was young. Growing up in harsh life