Home Quotes With Page Numbers

People are unsure about sending juvenile delinquent, Cole Matthews, back to a remote island off the coast of Alaska, where Cole was assaulted by a wild bear and left to die, or if he should go directly to jail. In the text, it states, “When you’re released, you’ll still have your parents to deal with and you’ll still be facing a jail term. I doubt the Hearing Circle will consider returning you to the island after what’s happened.” In this quote, it is clear that Cole is facing quite the odds, Cole Matthews should go back to that island, back to where it all started. He should go, against people's opinions, he still has time on his Circle Justice sentence.

Homer’s epic poem “The Odyssey” develops the theme of home by revealing that home is a feeling that is above all others. Homer does this through the character Odysseus and the use of symbolism.

Alternatively, Elijah Whiskeyjack is another character that has a notable connection to storytelling and words throughout the novel, albeit in a much more selfish capacity. To Elijah, words are tools that he manipulates to create alternate realities and inflate his importance through tales of his wartime escapades. Elijah’s superiority and sense of worth stem from his relationship with words and stories. What separates him from Xavier in the army besides brutality, is not military skill but his ability to “out-talk even the officers with his nun’s English” (65). While men of Indigenous descent typically experience discrimination, Xavier describes being perceived as “something less than them” (13), while “they are drawn to Elijah and his easy

Home as defined by the Merriam Webster dictionary is “one's place of residence”; however, this is not true for Ender Wiggin in Orson Scott Card’s book “Ender’s Game”. In “Ender’s Game” Ender sees and lives through many different physical homes, but a physical home is not home for Ender and is instead just a means through which Ender’s true home, built on lies, isolation, and loss of innocence, can be implemented and exist through.

“…and when she looked up, I was overcome with panic that she’d see me and call out my name…and my secret would be out” (3).

“You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them”, says Maya Angelou, an American poet, memoirist, and civil rights activist. This quote reflects to Sarah’s journey in the novel Sarah’s Key by Tatiana De Rosnay, since the main character, Sarah, faces events that affect her well being, as they make her both weaker and stronger. These events causes her to lose her innocence, makes her persistent, and then eventually drives her to be pessimistic. Sarah experiences traumatic events through her journey, which leads her to change both in a positive and negative way.

In the novel, Among the Hidden, a young boy exists illegally. At the end of the novel, he ends up leaving his family and he gets a fake ID card so he can live a normal life. He doesn’t want to leave but he has to because the Population Police is after him. The mood of the events for this chapter would be described as sad and depressing. A few vocabulary words to describe this could be remember, good-bye, and painfully.

[In the novel the glass castle by Jeannette walls, her dad Rex walls has a drinking problem, Jeannette and her siblings starve, and she is constantly being bullied. all while moving constantly]. The family goes through more rough times than fun, but that does not stop them from being there for one another. In the glass castle Jeannette and her siblings show how *Overcoming challenges is easier as a family than alone. *

After viewing the documentary Paper Tigers, please answer the following questions. When possible, use scenes/examples from the documentary to support your answer.

Working Title: Are HBCU’s Still Beneficial to Civilians who want to Receive a Higher Education?

Without the buffalo,” helped me infer how the character is losing grip of their Ego. In other words, this quote can be interpreted to how the character relates the buffalo to his father. The father could symbolize the buffalo which can be like the anchor to a ship. It completes the situation in the

To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee is a book that has been a staple of high school English courses throughout America, and has recently faced backlash due to its “in your face” method of pointing out the injustices of racism in the mid-to-late 1900’s. Set in 1930, the plot follows a young Jean Louise Finch, otherwise known as Scout, and her older brother Jem through their transition from childhood in the quiet town of Maycomb, Alabama. During the first half of the book, the children, along with Dill Harris, who was visiting for the summer, are fascinated with their next door neighbor, Boo Radley. Abused by his father during his childhood, Boo was extremely reclusive; he hadn’t been seen in decades, but was rumoured to leave his house at night,

Home is considered to be this place where you live permanently with your family, a place of comfort. When a character or a human for that matter embarks on a journey all they really long for is to return home to their family and loved ones. Thus, their homecoming is an important aspect to heroes in a fantastic journey. In the Epic poem The Odyssey performed by Homer and in the film 2001: A Space Odyssey we are able to obtain these very different notions of home. The main protagonists of each work have a different approach towards this notion of home. The protagonist Odysseus is constantly urging to return home to his family. In contrast, Dave, the protagonist is embarking on a journey in which he knows there is a big chance that he won’t

“Home is where the heart is.” In The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros develops this famous statement to depict what a “home” really represents. What is a home? Is it a house with four walls and a roof, the neighborhood of kids while growing up, or a unique Cleaver household where everything is perfect and no problems arise? According to Cisneros, we all have our own home with which we identify; however, we cannot always go back to the environment we once considered our dwelling place. The home, which is characterized by who we are, and determined by how we view ourselves, is what makes every individual unique. A home is a personality, a depiction of who we are inside and

In Things Fall Apart, When Ogbuefi Udo’s wife, Ezeugo gets killed by a neighboring village, it was decided that in order to compensate they would have to give Umuofia a young boy and a virgin girl. While the young boy’s fate remains undecided, the virgin girl’s fate is quickly sealed. For someone else’s crime, she must give up the life she has known and her hand in marriage to a complete stranger. She is considered a complete replacement for the dead woman, implying that men are the dominant sex, while women are meek and delicate and are interchangeable.