Line, Colby. "Gone--Michael Grant." Prezi.com. Prezi, 29 May 2013. Web. 01 May 2017. This book, Gone, is part of a six book series, and is the first of the six. It takes place in California, in a fictional town called Perdido Beach. The plot of the story starts at the beginning of the book, where everyone over the age of fifteen disappears. No one knows why it happened, and the kids that are left behind begin to develop strange powers. This source gives a very detailed and thorough explanation of the plot within the book. It also comes with a nice presentation that describes the characters, their powers (if any) along with the main theme, and a few extra details. Throughout the book, some of the characters learn many lessons along the way …show more content…
Purpura, Lia. "Gone." Poets.org. Academy of American Poets, 13 May 2014. Web. 01 May 2017. This poem, by Lia Purpura, shows a connection to Gone in its own way. The poem is fairly short, and refers to being “gone,” the biggest theme in the beginning of the book Gone. The narrator talks about being gone, where she will no longer be where she wants, and can no longer miss or have a connection to this location. The poem is simple, but has some similarities. Aside from being gone, it has a contrast, where the narrator implies she isn’t afraid of going away, which is precisely the reasons the kids in Gone are scared and alone. Everyone is gone. A similarity, is that in the poem, the narrator says she won’t miss anything when she is gone. The same can most likely be said for the kids in the novel. But that is only assuming there is an escape from their prison.
Demetriou, Danielle. "Japan Earthquake, Tsunami and Fukushima Nuclear Disaster: 2011 Review." The Telegraph. Telegraph Media Group, 19 Dec. 2011. Web. 03 May
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When the tsunami caused by the Tohoku earthquake caused the reactors to automatically shut down, build-up of hydrogen pressure began inside, and would eventually cause an explosion. The reactors, at the same time, were overheating, and the facility had tried to cool it off with local water. This did not prove to be successful, and the extreme heat, mixed with the high air pressure, set off a series of explosions. The explosions, along with steam leaks from the reactors, sent radiation all over the surrounding area. This had caused the government to issue a twelve mile evacuation radius around the power plant, and no-one was allowed into the area. Today, some parts of Fukushima are opening back up, and are being deemed safe to live in, five years after the
In the final stanza, he makes the reader sad as he assumes the inevitable will happen and she will die. He expresses this through metaphors such as a “black figure in her white cave”, which is a reference to the bright white hospital rooms and although he is the black figure he thinks she just sees a shadow which could be the grim reaper or even death himself, coming to end her journey. No one wants to deal with the sorrow of losing a loved one for good, as
In the last stanza of the poem, this is a realization of the poem where a schoolgirl who is hiding underneath her desk understands the meaning of death, grief, and sadness unlike the society around her. When the schoolgirl says
Gone” by Micheal Grant is the first novel is a 5 booked Series. The novel follows the story of the children of Peridido Beach, a small town located in Southern California, who are one day suddenly abandoned - and forced to grow up extremely quickly - when everyone over the age of 14 disappears into thin air. Throughout the book I read and experienced a story of anger, intelligence, determination and most of all bizarre events that left me hungry for more. This creepy, unrealistic yet haunting novel captured and reeled me in from the first paragraph making it an overall intriguing and entertaining read.
The poem at first comes off as a simple poem about spring and winter, but there are many hidden meanings as well. As well as the fear of the end of the world.
This line also marks a change in the poem for the narrator from expressing her frustrations to possibly coming to terms with them and attempting to put her experiences behind her and move
He was one of the children taken away. On the last line, when he says, ‘I came back’ clearly backs this point. The producer uses lots of negative words such as snatched, humiliated, took to show the intents of the white people and all the lies they told. The author uses lots of past tense words as the poem is about an event that happened in the past. The emotions that the author wants his readers to feel are sad and angry.
The poem “Where have you gone” by Mari Evans is about one that has lost something precious to them whether it could be a family member, friend or something that is very valuable in general to his/her life. As for the poem, it theme of this poem is that valuing things or people after they have left is simply too late. First, the stanza “Where have you gone with your confident walk with you crooked smile” shows that someone precious to them has left them or had passed away due to a war for example. When he/she left that person, it was too late to value that person anymore. Secondly, the stanza “when you took your laughter and departed” indicates how one has missed the good times of his/her laughter before he/she departed.
At this point in the poem, the speaker’s attitude toward loss is rather blasé due to the fact that the items she has misplaced holds no emotional attachment and can be replaced.
The poet creates these emotions for the reader when he talks about how the narrator’s mother cannot protect herself anymore. The narrator talks about how he has to protect her: “So I protect her from knives, / stairs, from the street that calls / as rivers do, a summons to walk away, to follow” (12-15). The tone for this poem is downhearted, gloomy, and distressed. The author displays his feelings toward the subject of the poem when he shows that the narrator knows she will never remember his name, even though he is helping her so much. The narrator shows these feelings after he helps his mother get dressed: “when she sometimes looks up / and says my name, the sound arriving / like the thrill of a bird so rare / it’s rumored no longer to exist”
Early in the morning of April 27, 1986, the world experienced its largest nuclear disaster ever (Gould 40). While violating safety protocol during a test, Reactor 4 at the Chernobyl power plant was placed in a severely unstable state, and in a matter of seconds the reactor output shot up to 120 times the rated output (Flavin 8). The resulting steam explosion tossed aside the reactor’s 1,000 ton concrete covering and released radioactive particles up to one and a half miles into the sky (Gould 38). The explosion and resulting fires caused 31 immediate deaths and over a thousand injuries, including radiation poisoning (Flavin 5). After the
It is a sad poem and it makes you feel great sadness for the author because it brings you back to a time or memory you have that you were in the same position at one point in your life. After reading so many of the similes in the poem it gives you the effect of reality that she has been dealing with this issue for quite some time and can’t seem to shake her feelings. In the poem she says “Like a train off its track, toward a boarded-up station, closed for years”. This gives proof of how she is still dealing with the lingering pain. A boarded up station would have no use to a train that is on the wrong path.
Like every poem it accommodates literary devices such as simile, metaphor, personification and so on but, every poem has its known theme, meaning, title and topic. Reading an unseen poem becomes difficult and hard for a reader to understand because every sentence has its known point. Reading the title of the poem the word ‘left’ tell us that it is about the past. The word ‘charpoy’
The final stanza of the poem represents the woman going into labor and the delivery of her child into the world. “I wither and you break from me;” (16). This line represents the moment the
On Friday, 11 March 2011, a 9.1 magnitude earthquake/nuclear disaster shook Fukushima city at the north-eastern coast of Hionshu island near the town Okuma. The earthquake caused a tsunami with 30-foot waves that damaged several nuclear reactors in the area, leaving nearly 20,000 deaths and 2,500 missing caused by the initial earthquake and tsunami and by post-disaster health conditions. (CNN, 2017)
Though the poem absolutely doesn't shy away from the problems of life, it has a beautiful inspirational feel. It gets a little dark when the poet describes his father's soul leaving behind the evils of the world. In the end, however, the poet also mention