Goodbye Day By Jeff Zentner

For example, when Alexandra finally admitted that she was lonely made me finally realize how strong she was. It takes a lot of guts and bravery to admit your true feelings. Another example is when Emil came back from Mexico and out of nowhere kissed Marie on the lips even though she was married! I never would’ve thought that was gonna happen. I was super happy when it did happen though. Even though they didn’t end up together, i’ve always liked the thought of them being a couple even though she was married. Emil seemed like a better fit for her. Frank seemed like a jerk to Marie. Emil on the other hand, seemed like the man who would take amazing care of Marie and keep her happy. He seemed like the man who would love to have a family with her. He has kept his feelings for her to himself until that very moment where it seemed perfect. He leaned over and kissed her. His love was so very strong that he couldn’t even hold it in anymore. This book is filled with many thrills and ups and downs. It helps you relate and connect with the plot and the characters and makes you understand the whole concept of knowing that being human isn’t all perfect all the time. It shows that you're going to cry sometimes. It shows how there is despair and agony in life. It helps you understand what it truly means to be

The theme dealing with a loss is a theme that shows up a lot throughout the book. Lily is having to deal with the death of her mother and not having anyone there to make her feel loved. Only in the end of the book, she ends up with too many mothers to even count. She has August, June, the black Mary, Rosaleen, and all of the woman in the Daughters of Mary group. August, June, and May also had to deal with the death of May’s twin sister April. The death of April is especially hard on May and towards the end of the story May kills herself. The death of May is not only hard on August and June but also on Lily, Rosaleen, Zach, and everyone in the Daughters of Mary. Each loss that they had to deal with would bring each of them closer and closer to each other. For example, if Lily wouldn’t have missed her mother and left, she and Rosaleen would probably not have even met the calendar sisters and everyone

The book is called Heaven Changes Everything. From the authors of Todd & Sonja Burpo. The book is about a boy who can see Jesus and tells the rest of his story. If you seen the movie then you would understand the true meaning of the book. Colton made an unforgettable trip to heaven when he was 4 year old.This book gave hope to millions of readers. In Heaven Changes Everything, the Burpos share details about the experience of Colton’s visit to heaven. Also, it gives quotes from the bible like, “ I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am.-John 14:3 NIV.”

Losing It by Emma Rathbone was far from a favorite of mine. While I loved the idea of telling the story of a 26 year old virgin who was insecure about her lack of sexual experience the story fell flat from everything I was expecting.

This weekend I read a book titled, “When I’m feeling angry” by Trace Moroney to my 5 year-old cousin. This book does a great job in showing how feeling angry may look like, gives examples of what children might do when they feel upset and it gives different ways to express anger in a more desirable way. Through out the book, I stopped to ask my cousin a few questions to see if he was understanding and perhaps relating to how the character handles his anger. My cousin agreed with the character in the book that when he is angry he feels like a volcano wanting to explode. He added that sometimes when he gets really really anger he can get red like a volcano too. He told me he gets angry when his parents don’t let him do fun things or when his

The first day of middle school was very scary for me and it was hard bad day. This reminds me of the song “Had a Bad Day” by

All of the characters in the novel are grieving. They are grieving for the loss of a father, a mother, a sister; they are grieving for the marriage that will never satisfy; they are grieving for the words they will never get the chance to say, the words they will never hear; they are grieving for the

In The Road, Cormac McCarthy depicts the boy as a “Christ-like” figure that gives hope for humanity’s survival. McCarthy uses several references to the bible and how it relates to the boys “Christ-like” features or character. The bo+

It is a brilliantly written book, with foreshadowing woven in every chapter. It is a story of karma and having faith. All Stanley’s life, nothing ever goes his way. He has awful luck and doesn’t understand why things are the way they are. But by persevering and keeping faith,at the end of the book he gets a reward of a lifetime. This is applicable to life as well. After the war, it was extremely difficult to find hope. This book reminds us that everything happens for a reasons. It demonstrates how nothing is truly hopeless, but that hope can just be hard to find sometimes. That is one of life’s most valuable

1.) Reading all of these pieces I felt I had to go back through and re-read, at least once. Carver’s pieces all carry really strong messages, and make you think although they all have a very monotonous tone. I find this to be especially evident in his poetry. The two poems we read are both things that personally affected him throughout his life(his father and class). In both there is no noticeable emotion, they carry messages without being personal. I’m conflicted if I like this or not. In almost all literature there is tangible emotion. Even in fictional pieces you can find that. It’s something I take for granted; it really draws a reader in and makes them feel connected or empathetic to the story. Reading Carver’s work, it lacks this. This

The subject of death and aging is a touchy topic for many people. Mitch Albom approaches this topic with openness and a willingness to accept his fate, throughout the novel Tuesdays with Morrie. Shakespeare's poem “Seven Ages of Man” also explains the course of a human life, like Morrie experienced his. These two passages contain views that differ but both focus on the concept of living life until death. The involvement of death and aging in Tuesdays with Morrie and “Seven Ages of Man” provides a comparative essence when analyzing purpose, tone, and style.

Between the three main characters, they’re all telling you their past in their own unique ways. Though, the more each of their stories unravel, the more everything perfectly ties together. Like a puzzle, you never know what piece will go where. In the book, you never know how things can

In '' My left foot ,'' The author was fighting to overcome a inability whereas

Another work that describes the life of minorities within society is Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel, Never Let Me Go. The main characters, Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy are students, but more importantly they are clones. They were produced for science and the harvesting of their organs, just as animals are harvested for their meat. The novel described them as being the same as the majority human population, with the only difference being that they were created by science rather than physically born. These students were kept apart from the rest of society and were raised in something similar to boarding schools. They were looked after by women that played the roles of teacher and caregivers. When they were younger, Kathy, Ruth, and their friends approached one of their caregivers because they wanted to show that Ruth was wrong about her being afraid of the children. After surrounding the woman to greet her, Kathy says that they, “can still see it now, the shudder she seemed to be suppressing, the real dread that one of us would accidentally brush against her” (Ishiguro 35). Despite the fact that the students knew they were different, they did not see themselves as the caregivers did. At the end of the novel when Tommy and Kathy meet with the caregivers, the women tell them the truth about how society viewed them. They said, “…you were kept in the shadows…they tried to convince themselves that you weren’t really like us. That you were less than human” (Ishiguro 263). The clone children were

The poem “If We Must Die” by Claude McKay is not only a sonnet, but also a story that portrays so much more than what first meets the eye. The poem is discussing a group of people who are going off to battle. The narrator of the poem is preparing the group to die, but implying that they must die with honor and in a noble way. The group has been pressed into a corner and there is no way out without a fight and warns them that death is most likely in their future. This poem sheds light into the author McKay’s history and the importance of the time in which he wrote the poem. This poem uses a group of men’s final battle to discuss how one handles his last choice in life, and how he will be remembered.