Golden Glass By Susan Beth Pfeffer Analysis

From 1993 to 1996, The United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda was commissioned when a peace treaty signed by the two tribes – The Hutus and Tutsis. Under the supervision of Romeo Dallaire when the peace broke lose. The next few months were “hell” as slain government officials, innocent Tutsis and Hutus laid on the streets in this massive genocide. In “Shattered” by Eric Walters we are introduced to a former soldier from the civil war in Rwanda named Jacques. Jacques was born and raised in the Canadian army as his father and grandfather were soldiers too. He was trained in the Special Ops Unit that he could withstand unarmed combat. Jacques served in Yugoslavia, Haiti, the Middle East twice wearing the blue beret of The United Nation

The poem “Wordsmith” by Susan Young follows the speaker watching their father as he constructs their house. Throughout the poem, their bond as father and child is made abundantly clear that they both love each other and value time spent together. Firstly, neither of them explicitly state how much they care but rather convey their familial feelings through actions instead. The speaker only watches their father “from the sidelines” (8) as they “watch with something akin to awe” (3) and never expresses their admiration aloud. Likewise, their father hardly outright states his affection but does it through working. The speaker understands this as they compare “all of the empty crevices” to “the words [the father] did not know how to say” (17). Another

As the producer of ‘ABC’s First Tuesday Book Club’, I feel compelled to inform you that recent episodes have been substandard in quality and irrelevant for today’s contemporary audience. The best suggestion is for an entire episode devoted to the poetry of Gwen Harwood, a widely celebrated Australia poet. Her poetry presents unique ideas about the beauty of music, the growth from childhood to adulthood and the recollection of memories and experiences. The nature of her poetry is both intense and brilliant, qualities which effortlessly justify the enduring value of her work to still hold great value in today’s society.

The similarities between the stories may not appear very apparent at first over closer analyzation the appear more apparent .Both stories are focused around a brother and a sister whom

The novel Make Lemonade by Virginia Euwer Wolff is mainly about a seventeen year old girl named Jolly, who encounters many difficulties as she has two children from two different, absent fathers. Jolly desperately needs help raising her two children, Jeremy and Jilly, and LaVaughn helps babysit temporarily. LaVaughn is caught up in Jolly’s problems and she guides her on the right path. However, LaVaughn cannot sacrifice her academics to babysit for her because she wants to go to college and she wants to start to build her future. These two main characters take separate paths as they each develop and mature throughout the stages of the novel and they have similarities and differences. Both, Jolly and LaVaughn, illustrate actions that

The person someone becomes is influenced by the losses they have experienced in their life. In Catcher

Ted met his first girlfriend in college and eventually falls in love. His girlfriend did not see Ted as someone who would be successful and eventually broke up with him and this broke his heart. This was about the time he learned the truth about his family too. He developed

“ In praise of the F word” by Mary Sherry, the author has her point that flunking students is a way that can help students do better in school. Flunking students can be helpful in getting them motivated and lead to success in their education. Students who don’t want to put in effort because they are lazy, a troublemaker, or good student that gets just passed along to next grade deserve to fail. Is it not going to be easy for students to be successful in their education. The students need to try hard to get to their goals. The students have to pass through failure to have the motivation to do better in school. If more students go through the teacher’s threats of failing, the students will want to put in the effort to able

In many stories and novels, parents play a huge role in them. Sometimes the viewpoints of the parents cause a lot of tension between characters. In the stories “Two Kinds” and West Side Story the characters are influenced by parental involvement. West Side Story by Arthur Laurents, is basically a modern Romeo and Juliet, and “Two Kinds” by Amy Tan. Two Kinds is a story of a little girl who’s mom is so into her thought that her daughter could also be a prodigy at something if she tried hard enough, and urged her to try many different types of talents, especially piano.

In the end, I believe that Ashleigh will take the money. Only because her father treats her better, and makes her feel better about herself. Her mother just doesn't have the comfort quality. Ashleigh is being pressured by her father, and she realizes that it's already set up and ready to take action. She is trusting her father to be able to pay back her mother’s money and for her not be caught. Ashleigh’s decision will be highly effective for her, and both her parents...no matter what it may

“The Other Wes Moore” by Wes Moore is about two boys with the same name. They both grow up in the same neighborhood and with the same family situation. One Wes Moore’s father died and the other Wes Moore’s father left when he was a young boy. Both boys had mothers who had multiple jobs to support the family. One Wes Moore got into drugs while the other went to military school.

“The Other Wes Moore:One Name, Two Fates” by Wes Moore is about two people with the same name, same hometown, same family situations, but very different fates. It follows both Wes’s through their childhood and adulthood. It shows the choices and uncontrollable factors that caused their paths to so drastically change. I believe that the main factors that caused this were the family and friends around them during their life. The main people who effected them were their fathers, their mothers, and their role models.

Another reason why Ashleigh decided to steal the money is because her dad said he needed the money.Her dad said he needed to celebrate something a quote that supports this can be found on page 2,”Of course I can afford it.Besides,I have something to celebrate.”Another reason why he needed the money is that he said he needed it for life,a quote that supports this is on page 2,”All i need to do is put a little financing,and i’ll be set for life.”Lastly, another reason why he needed the money is because he needed to pay somebody back,a quote that supports this can be found on page 3,”Well it isn’t for so much for a deal as to help pay off one i already made,dad

Both ¡§A Rose for Emily¡¨ and ¡§Barn Burning¡¨ address the influence of a father, and the protagonists of both stories make their own

City of Glass is a novel written by Paul Auster in 1985, and its one of the stories included in the series of novels The New York Trilogy (1987). One of the essential themes that recur in many of Austers works is the search for identity and personal meaning, and this is exactly one of the main elements of City of Glass. It deals with this detective writer, who descends into madness when he becomes a private investigator himself by mistake. In the following essay, I will focus on the characters and the very twisted point of view, which is a big part of the whole novel. Besides that, I will concentrate on the themes that are dealt with in the story.