Helen on 86th Street

The protagonist are Kayleigh and Andy Kayleigh is 12 years old and she is pretty brave and Andy and he is 11 years old he is brave also and there both curious about the “Klowns”. The setting is at the carnival in the evening and there trying to find what the clowns are up too. Andy is funny and he teases Kayleigh.

In his poetry, Komunyakaa writes each poem based on real life experiences and is written like a person narrative. His childhood experience inspired him to write “My Father’s Loveletters”. In the poem, the author talks about how his father would “ask me [Komunyakaa] to write [t]he same letter to my mother” (Komunyakaa 2-3), and “[h]e’d beg her [to] [r]eturn and promised to

This story is mostly about a ten year old girl named Opal. she wants friends because she is new in Naomi, Florida. She also wants her mama, who left her when Opal was only 3 years old. In the book, Opal learned that she can’t hold onto something that wants to go.

Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? by Joyce Carol Oates has a constant theme of reality and fantasy running parallel for 15 year old Connie. This short story begins with a description of Connie’s vain personality. The narrator describes her as pretty and self-centered (Oates 421). To emphasize her selfishness, Connie is contrasted with her sister, June, who is chubby, plain, and well-behaved. Connie’s mother always praises June for her work ethic and help around the house, but says Connie can’t do anything due to “trashy daydreams”. There isn’t much of a father figure in Connie’s life due to her father being away for work most of the time and detached when

If she was free to express her feelings, she wouldn’t have had to shove them aside and try to find other things to occupy her mind with. She finds greatest comfort when she writes, but her husband believes that it is bad for her to do so because it is too stimulating. She makes comments many times expressing how writing makes her feel better, that it would “relieve the press of ideas and rest me” (349) and that she “must say

The novel that I chose was Spoiled by Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan. The main characters include Molly, Brooke, and Brick Berlin. This book is about a sixteen year old girl named Molly Dix, who, after the death of her mother, moves to Los Angeles, California to live with her biological father, Hollywood movie star, Brick Berlin and her half-sister Brooke. Molly isn’t used to living the life of a rich girl, so when she arrives, she is both excited and terrified; not only that, she’s meeting her dad for the very first time. Brooke welcomes Molly to high fashion and fame with an overwhelming dose of “sisterly love”. But in this town, no one is ever what they seem. I think that Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan built the story in a way that would

The novel Parvana written by Deborah Ellis is about a young Afghanistan girl who has to pretend to be a boy in a war torn town called Kabul. Parvana is a very courageous girl because she does everything for family, such as going to into town to help her father him with his work, knowing that there are no girls allowed outside of their houses. Parvana is also very brave because she wants to earn more money for her family, so her and a friend Shauzia decide to go and dig up bones to earn more money. That’s not the only time Parana was being courageous, because Parvana had to go with her mother to go and get her father from the jail and bring him home.

Joyce Carol Oates' "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" is about a young girl who is

Helen would have also been more prone to abuse, and other effects of low self-esteem. Some of the narcissistic characteristics Helen’s mother exhibits are her utter disregard for everything Helen says, speaking over her, her attention only engaged once benefits to her are involved, for instance: “Vice president! His income must be– does he know you’ve got a mother to support?” (Treadwell 17), and immediate overreaction to any criticism. Many children with narcissistic parents may have grown up in both neglectful and verbally abusive situations, but Helen’s situation would have been compounded beyond that as she seems to have grown up with only her mother as a parental figure. Helen’s father was revealed in the second act as, seemingly, long dead, leaving Helen alone to a single, powerful, influence. The Second character who exhibits the next most pressing issue is Helen’s husband, Mr. J, who proves himself to be a sexual predator. Helen’s physical repulsion such as when the Telephone Girl asks her “Why’d you flinch, kid?” (Treadwell 10) and her reactions to Mr. J touching her should really have been plenty of notice for him to stop. In the beginning, Mr. J has both status and rank, as her boss, over Helen, and this puts the relationship on shaky and inappropriate grounds due to Mr. J’s power over her. That he constantly touches her, treats her differently, and makes her feel indebted to

The desire to attain a pensive repercussion to readers through the work of literature is limned in Richard Wilbur's, The Writer. The poem follows the progression and contemplation of a father’s daughter who is aimed to write a story in the peace and serenity of her home. As he observes her, he finds that she types at unequal rates, breaking at certain intervals sometimes puzzled to regain her thoughts. “Young as she is, the stuff / Of her life is a great cargo, and some of it heavy: / I wish her a lucky passage.” The father believes that her message is to be of significance and that she should not fret when stuck in a state of absence. He only desires the best for his daughter and acknowledges that despite the length of time needed, one should

It is in human nature to aspire, to dream, or to wake up everyday with a goal, life is about much more than just ‘getting by’. A successful civilization needs much more than just food and shelter, people need art, music, and motivation. The award winning novel written by Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven, goes by the motto “survival is insufficient”. The Traveling Symphony in this novel abides by this motto. The Georgia Flu becomes an epidemic and wipes out majority of civilization. To the Traveling Symphony, “life is insufficient”, means life with basic survival means is not enough. Throughout the novel, people strive to find the desire to find meaning in their life.

“Where are You Going, Where Have you Been,” by Joyce Carol Oates introduces the two main characters in the story, Connie and Arnold Friend. Connie is a beautiful fifteen year old girl going through a normal change from adolescent to adulthood. However, Connie changes between two different sides of her personality. One side, she is innocent and young, and the other, she is grown and mature. She tries to act older than her age and her head is filled with daydreams and music. However, when Arnold Friend comes to her house, that she is faced with the reality of adulthood, which she is not ready to face. All this is happening because of what she is going through at home, she is dissatisfied because her mother constantly nags everything

The summary of this story begins with a fifteen year old girl named Connie. At home she was perceived

Imagine finding out that one of your parents has a whole other family. This happened to the main character in the book Two Summers by Aimee Friedman. The main character in this book is Summer Everett. Summer is sixteen years old and her parents got a divorce when she was eleven. Ever since her parents split her dad has lived across the ocean in France and she lives with her mom in upstate New york. This story takes place in the French countryside and upstate New York. Summer’s whole life changes in one summer. A conflict in this story is when Summer finds out that she has a secret half sister named Eloise. In this book Summer is going through her fathers sketches and finds a sketch of a girl in a poppy field which she thought was her, but it turns out it was her secret sister Eloise.

Street Berlin is an oil on canvas painting, painted by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner in 1913, just before World War I occurred. Kirchner created this painting during a period of loneliness and insecurity shortly after the Brucke group disbanded in 1913. The painting portrays to well dress women walking down the streets, surrounded by men glancing at them. For Kirchner, the women are a symbol of the modern city, where glamour and danger, and intimacy and alienation coexisted. The clashing colours showcase the excitement and anxiety Street Berlin displays, whilst the tilted horizon destabilises the scene.