I Am The Messenger

Ed shows a lot of helpfulness to everyone and especially Christopher. This is what lets Ed be so good with Christopher, patience lets Ed be

It is fascinating when two people from completely different backgrounds have common characteristics. A world of poverty is depicted in Liz Murray’s book Breaking Night (2010). The memoir tells the struggles of a young girl’s journey from living on the city streets to attending one of the top schools in the country. Although our lives are quite different, Liz Murray and I show similar traits through struggle and success.

big event and lead Ed to his next card and clues. 2. Why does Ed feel guilty at the end of the game?

As a child, Jeannette’s sense of wonder and curiosity in the world undermine the need for money. During her young adult years, a new wave of insecurity associated with her poor past infects her. Finally, as an experienced and aged woman, Jeannette finds joy and nostalgia in cherishing her poverty- stricken past. It must be noted that no story goes without a couple twists and turns, especiallydefinitely not Jeannette Walls’. The fact of the matter is that growing up in poverty effectively craftsed, and transformsed her into the person she becomeshas become. While statistics and research show that living in poverty can be detrimental to a child’s self-esteem, Jeannette Walls encourages children living in poverty to have ownership over their temporary situation, and never to feel inferior because of past or present socio-economic

Markus Zusak’s intricate novel, The Messenger tells a story of a teenager living in a low socio-economic area of Sydney. Throughout the text Zusak employs a variety of literary devices to assist in the readers connection with Ed’s journey of self-discovery as well as questioning their own. Ed Kennedy narrates the book as the protagonist, following his ‘epitome of ordinariness’ life. Ed is faced with a number of challenges, which contributes, in his journey of self-discovery. Each literary device used in the book compliments the challenge during the text.

With both characters from each story, not knowing what to do now that their lives were changing, they clung to something to help them get by; education. In Education as a Weapon in the Hands of the Restless Poor, the teacher told the students, “Rich people learn the humanities in private schools and expensive

To progress in society, one needs knowledge to further themselves. If one does not gain a good foundation for that knowledge, society will leave them behind. There are certain obstacles that prevent others from pursuing an education such as an inability to access a place of learning, not getting good education from teachers, or just flat out quitting school to make easy money by joining a gang. In Gwendolyn Brooks, “We Real Cool,” seven delinquents quit school to engage in rebellious behavior and in Toni Cade Bambara’s “The Lesson,” a teacher takes several underprivileged children to a high-class toy shop. By using point of view, diction, and symbolism, Gwendolyn Brooks and Tone Cade Bambara show the reader why it is important to learn

The documentary, “Hoop Dreams” depicts the structural, psychological, and environmental issues that perpetuates poverty in America through a cohort of individuals, Arthur Agee and William Gates. Agee and Gates’s lives are chronicled through a longintudinal study of four years, from the summer they enter high school, to their entry into college. Both African-American teenagers are recruited from different parts of Chicago, but they came together to begin their freshman year at St. Joseph’s High School, the institution that built Basketball superstar Isaiah Thomas. Both Arthur and William begin their journey in a similar manner, but were exposed to the complexity of their dream, their education, and negative societal factors that ultimately change the course of their lives.

Ed has an explosive personality because he cannot handle his emotions. Whenever he is mad and tries to explain himself, he often can’t piece together his thoughts which makes him frustrated and lashes out on Christopher. For these reasons, Ed demonstrates the theme of order versus disorder. For example, when the name of the man Ed’s ex-wife had an affair with is mentioned, “Father banged the table with his fist really hard so that the plates and his knife and forked jumped around” (Haddon, 2003, 49). Additionally, Ed lied to Christopher for two years about his mother passing away when she actually moved to London to be with the man with whom she engaged in adulteries. Ed is a dog because he is loyal to Christopher, is guardian and protector and can be aggressive. Ed was trying to protect Christopher by lying because he believed the truth would hurt more. Ed is specifically a golden retriever because they have a yellow tint in their fur. Christopher hates the color yellow which is what ultimately happens to Ed. Once Christopher finds out his father killed the neighbor’s dog, he becomes frightened and hates his

Toni Cade Bambara addresses how knowledge is the means by which one can escape out of poverty in her story The Lesson. In her story she identifies with race, economic inequality, and literary epiphany during the early 1970’s. In this story children of African American progeny come face to face with their own poverty and reality. This realism of society’s social standard was made known to them on a sunny afternoon field trip to a toy store on Fifth Avenue. Through the use of an African American protagonist Miss Moore and antagonist Sylvia who later becomes the sub protagonist and White society the antagonist “the lesson” was ironically taught.

For the first time he interacts with complete strangers who help him find his way to London so he could find his mother. This is different from how Ed interacts with people because Ed can perceive others emotions and facial expressions unlike Christopher, Ed can also lie were Christopher would rather tell the

In the beginning, Ed Exley and Lou Bloom like two faces of a coin, opposite one another. Ed Exley starts as an honest character, tries to do his role as what a law enforcer supposes to do, or at least expected to do. An obvious fact tells Lou

Mark Zusak’s I Am The Messenger has a culmination of themes throughout the book, throughout the book it explores the themes of Trust and courage. Ed’s moment when he shows trustfulness is when he with Milla comforting her by pretending to be her dead husband Jimmy,” Her voice is painful but soft ‘Where have you been?’ Something is stuck in my throat- the words. Finally I recognize what to say ‘I have been looking for you.’ I speak that sentence if it is the one great truth I have ever known.

Adichie mentioned how the wealth dictates stories. I agree on her statement which reminded me of the lost cause which occurred after the civil war. The lost cause had specific narratives about what had happened during the war. The lost cause was composed from people of the south who viewed what had occurred during the war differently. The focal message that was being promoted was confederate fight was heroic, the reason for the war was not because of slavery, and people that were slaves were happy to be. The people that helped promote those ideologies was the UDC meaning The United Daughters of the Confederacy. That organization was composed of women from upper class antebellum families using their political and social influence to keep the

Living in constant fear with his family and siblings in South Africa since young, he has grown comfortable in his own setting and his house without education. Mathabane’s parents hide from the police if they do not have their pass book and is force to do labor work for months. Without food supply, he and siblings suffers without food and plays in the yard each day, occasionally finding food with their mother. “Each day we spent without food drove us closer and closer to starvation” (Mathabane, 37). He lives in the neighborhood with rascal boys that have a bad influence on him. “Since staying at home meant hunger and chores, I began attaching myself to gangs of five-, six- and seven-year-old neighborhood boys who daily roamed the filthy streets of Alexandra in search of food and adventure” (Mathabane, 53). His mother realizes that he needs schooling so that he does not choose the same lifestyle of his parent. “I want you to go to school, because I believe that an education is the key you need to open up a new world and a new life for yourself, a world and life different from that of either your father’s or mine” (Mathabane, 133). Excelling through education will give them knowledge and know more about the world.