How Lucky You Are Debi Alper Analysis

The theme of this book is that the human capacity to adapt to and find happiness in the most difficult circumstances. Each character in the novel shows this in their way. For instance, their family is randomly taken from their home and forced to

In a way, Liesel and Max give each other purpose. Max needs Liesel to brighten his life with stories from the outside world and to bring him the energy of youth. Liesel benefits from Max because she learns a lot about suffering and he is someone with whom she identifies. They both rely on each other for comfort, friendship, and trust. They quickly become good friends. They share their nightmares because they are the only ones that can relate to one another,. Max has left his family and Liesel has lost her brother. Sharing their misfortunes the two become connected through sharing their souls and the printed word. Liesel teaches Max that he can express his scrappy personality through words "I have hated the words and I have loved them, and I

According to Marian Erickson, “Most of life is choices, and the rest is pure dumb luck.” Real people’s lives depend on this quote everyday, which leads to the outcome of each problem individuals face. In the passages, characterization of the main personas helps one understand the theme. Conflict and symbolism also help lead to the overall idea that life is not always guaranteed to be full of success. The book The Other Wes Moore, the poem “If,” and the informational text “The Art of Resilience” all share a common theme of how choices and luck contribute to the success of life.

Sexton initially presents examples of success stories in which people, with lives of hardship, receive everlasting happiness due to superficial commodities. Sexton creates emphasis for the multiple stories

Just tell the story of Freak the Mighty, no big deal.’ ” (p. 150) Before Freak, Max didn’t know a thing about writing but now, Max is ready to write a book. This shows that Max has learned a lot from Freak. This represents my theme because even though Freak dies later in the book, he lives on through the knowledge and new perspective he gave to Max.

In the story “ Two Kinds” Amy Tan presents the theme ¨Be grateful for what you have when you have it because nothing is forever¨ through the main characters Ni kan and her mother and also through foreshadowing. Tan takes you through a story of a girl and her mother as they both individually learn a good life lesson.

Max, the Jew, is similar to Leisel in the sense that he finds literature to be very powerful. Comparatively, when I was going through the time in my life where I loved to do research, I had another friend, named Jessica, who also had the same passion. We would read books upon books about various subjects, and when I was doing this I felt elated and at peace.

The short story that I read, Blackberries in June by Ron Rash, opened my eyes to let me see that life can be unfair and cruel and that life is full of disappointments. An example of this idea would be when Charlton had to quit high school and work full time for his father because his father was in an accident which resulted in a shattered hand (Rash 207). Another example of this idea that life can be unfair is by looking into Linda’s past, she was not thirty years old and had to take care of her children. Her husband, Charlton, pays her in-law by a percentage of profit instead of an hourly wage which could have been used to help her through the tough financial situation that she and the rest of her family are in (Rash 210). The idea that life

The short stories can be described as the lottery or gamble of life though a game.

Towards the end of the book it is adoring how appreciative and emotionally mature he had become. Alex learns to depend on Beijing natives for the duration of his struggle to escape. The soldiers react violently

The difficulty that Ben faces in his own identity is to analyze what it means to be an Asian American male. One of the stereotypes regarding Asian males is that they are sexually inadequate, nonetheless this is not declared until more than halfway through the narrative, when Ben went after a sexual relationship with a white woman (Tomine, 58). For Ben, his ethnic identity lies in his sexual identity. According to the

Everyone has different experiences in life, and it’s these experiences that can shape their identities. In the novel “Speak”, the main character, Melinda, does not have the greatest life. She doesn’t have many friends, her parents have bad chemistry, and her school is overall a struggle to get through. The 2 largest factors that affect melinda’s identity are her friends and her friends and her art teacher, Mr. Freeman.

In the first book, Where the Wild Things Are, Max wants to be a “wild thing,” that is, he wants to live his body in a raw, socially unacceptable way. His mother is at first complicit

The sketchbook provides him with an outlet to cope with his circumstances. Max is often found in the basement alone with nothing but his thoughts. He is able to produce this art “in the loneliest moments in the basement” (277). He wanted to write a story explaining everything he had been through leading up to where he is now. However, the thoughts all came out as something different, sketches. He found the collection of his thoughts had “felt true”(277). To Max they feel more true because they were random thoughts which he feels meaning in them. He knew that he would eventually want to share his views of the cruel world with Liesel when she is old enough. Losing everything, Max finds great significance in this sketchbook which helps him relieve emotions. Max’s use of drawing while he is in the basement helps him subsist with his unforutante turn of events. He was figuring out ways to express his feelings during this time. Illustrating and writing a story called “The Standover Man”, is how he spends most of his days. For Max the art is used as a way he can express his story to Liesel. He often finds himself still in pain from his past and scared of “standover men” in his life (225).

One day she leaves her purse in the shop and then Alissa returned back to rich lady. “Here is your purse”, (12). When she run to the shop the owners of the shop shouts at her then she was very angry the owner of shop says a lot of slang at her and she cried then the rich lady said “wait”. The rich lady asks to Alissa what do you want then she said “I want to go to school” (15). Then the rich lady said she will going with me, and she will going to school finally Alissa was very happy. In reality the behave of people are different same people are kind and some people are not, for example rich lady was kind she understand Alissa is a honest and smart grail and the end she achieves her goal but, the owner of shop don’t understand