Holly Goldberg Sloan's Counting

In “Departures,” Storm Jameson depicts her isolation as a child and its continuation into adulthood. Behind the cold barriers that Jameson builds around herself in both her child and adult life, an unending cycle of fear continues within her. This cycle is reflected in the narrative structure of the anecdote. Jameson’s authorial choices to employ Labov’s elements in a disjointed fashion and have a brief complicating action reinforce her social detachment both as a child and an adult. Along with the disjointed narrative elements, an omitted coda and resolution convey that the detachment continues throughout her life in a cycle of fear and isolation.

Experiencing further unstable environments, these children are forced to move from one foster home to another. They rarely develop meaningful relationships and constantly endure lack of care and protection by adults. Sabreen, another gifted student, was able to excel in school despite her unstable environments. She, too, became a ward of the county battling to find a stable home, constantly being placed in unstable environments, environments that do not encourage any achievement. When her situation becomes untenable, she goes AWOL, like Olivia, refusing to return to county supervision. Corwin masterfully frames the problem that wards, like Olivia and Sabreen, face when they feel that going back into the system is not an option. The additional struggles can be seen through Olivia and Sabreen accepting jobs with long hours in order to make enough to pay their bills. The responsibility on taking care of themselves financially detracts from their studies, which quickly can become a vicious, never-ending cycle.

Counting by 7s by Holly Goldberg Sloan is the book that I´m reading. The main character Willow Chance is obsessed with the number 7 and she is like an outsider. She is very smart and wise but she doesn't fit in at her school. She doesn't have a lot of family. On page 109 it says that ¨My dad had one brother but he was older and drifted away from the family.

The first portion of the novel deals mostly with Hewes life and why he lived the life that he did. Young’s portrayal of a young Hewes, ever defiant, immediately causes a reader to reminisce of his or her own childhood. It soon becomes evidently clear that “where one ended up in life depended

Both mothers were able to communicate their feelings to the other moth and then could then find a compromise, how much they cared and loved for the children, which aided to give them a close emotional relationship. Baby suggs and sethe both experience loss making their bond stronger. Baby suggs had already lost her children to slavery except for halle. Sethe did not want this for her children especially with all the rape, torture, and dehumanization that comes with slavey. Both Sethe and Baby suggs had to deal with society rejection in their town, and are ostracized and made outcasts. Baby suggs throws a huge feast because eshe is so happy that Denver came that she doesn't even notice how extravagant the feast is. Sethe is ridiculed by the community for her act of murdering Beloved. These two acts only strengthened the bond between Sethe and Baby suggs. and both could support themselves. Both had to make

So, the day of the final trial of custody Pattie and Jairo decided to sign the papers to be the rightful guardians of Willow Chance. This changed everything! Willow now knows that basically everything before that was temporary was now forever. She would live with the Nguyens, she would continue her garden, and she would have a loving and caring family. Her problem of not having a permanent lifestyle was now gone, and replaced with a permanent

In the book as in my personal life, there were two people with very similar environments yet their lives took completely different paths in the end. Their paths determined by the choices they made at different situations in their lives. Those choices explain who they have become and create the goals that they have set for themselves. The choices also opened up other opportunities that they each will have in their future. No matter what life may hand you always be careful with your decisions you make. Consider how this will affect me tomorrow, a week from now, or even a year from now and go with the one that leads to a better life for

Later Sarah’s feminist outlook for women’s rights at the time becomes obvious when she rebels against social standards. Handful and Sarah become allies and create an unlikely bond throughout the story; both realizing one another’s desires for freedom. Sarah teaches Handful how to read; knowing that it was against the rules, because she made a promise to Charlotte to help free Handful.

Throughout the book, the author points out the lives of characters and what obstacles they go through which leads them to choose a different style of life by running away, giving up their

“A genius shoots at something no one else can see, and hits it,”. In Counting by 7s by Holly Goldberg Sloan, a genius twelve-year-old girl named Willow Chance unexpectedly loses her adopted parents in a devastating car crash. Due to the car crash, Willow must go live temporarily with her new friend Mai and her family. As time goes along Willow finds it hard to cope with her loss but soon learns that she wants her temporary living situation to become permanent. Throughout the novel Willow has shown readers her sense of determination, excellence, and respect.

With the experience of being ignored, betrayed, and deprived, she becomes more afraid of loss and danger, but longs even more to have something to hold dear and belong to. When she gets into the convent school she finds temporary safety, being sheltered from the dangerous and unpredictable "outside", but her stepfather eventually brings her out into the

     Throughout the story there are several aspects of the Protagonist’s character that play a major role in the shaping of her future. During her childhood she

loses his hand, and eventually his life. A few lines in the section that I felt were specifically

At this point, the narrator finally discovers what the realities of life are. She also discovers deep within herself the reason for her feelings toward her parents at the funeral of Steve Gauley.

Susie worries most about her gifted and petulant sister Lindsay. Lindsay is only one year younger but still is not told directly about what's happened to Susie; instead she hears telephone snippets and bits of conversations between her parents and the police. After hearing her father describe Susie's features, she asks her father not to lie to her, so he doesn't; but even answering her question, he can't face the truth of his words. Susie watches Lindsay sitting alone in her bedroom trying to harden herself. As the story unfolds, it is clear that Lindsay carries the hardest burden, because no one will ever be able to look at her and not think about Susie. By losing her sister, Lindsay is in danger of being robbed of herself.