What Is The Theme Of If You Re Lucky

The book Three Times Lucky, written by Sheila Turnage, is about a young girl and boy who are best friends. They think of themselves as detectives who go out and solve some of the town’s biggest problems. Mo and Dale are with each other through all of this and they do not leave each other’s sides. The kids are having a great summer until they find out about the murder of Mr. Jessie. As professional detective, Starr is hired for the case, Mo and Dale decide they want in on finding out who killed Mr. Jessie. While all of this is going on, Mo’s adoptive parents are kidnapped by the murderer of Mr. Jessie. Everybody in the small town is there for Mo and they all do whatever they can to find her parents. In all of this a huge hurricane is coming their way. As they prepare for the storm, Mo gets a call from the Colonel telling her that he escaped and ends up coming back home to Mo. They are both very excited to finally see each other after a long time. They are happy to be together, but Miss Lana still isn’t with them. The Colonel, Mo, and Dale set out in the hurricane to go rescue Miss Lana. They end up finding Miss Lana at the old house of Mr. Jessie. They call Detective Starr and he comes to arrest the murderer. They all are pretty shaken up about this experience but they go back to living their normal lives.

Question One: Doug has a difficult family life. His father behaves less like a parent and more like a bully, but in Marysville, Doug meets other adults who show him kindness and compassion. Name a few of the adult characters in Okay For Now who offer Doug guidance and instruction. What does Doug learn from them? Support your response with evidence from the text.

Jimmy knows too well the agonies of abandonment. First, when his mother, Cecilia, ran away with Richard to pursue a better lifestyle. Then, due to his father’s, Damacio Baca, alcoholisms and violent behavior; he also had to leave Jimmy behind. In spite of the drawbacks from abandonment to being a maximum security prisoner in Arizona State Prison, Jimmy preserver’s the darkness of prison by overcoming his illiteracy. However Cecilia and Damacio is not as fortunate as their child; Cecilia is shot by Richard after confronting him for a divorce and Damacio chokes to death after he is released from the detox center(Baca 263). Therefore the most significant event in this section of the memoir, A Place to Stand by Jimmy Santiago Baca is the death of Jimmy’s parents.

Grace has been told for more than half her life that she was crazy. Her mother’s death that she witnesses was an accident, there was no scarred man, and there was nothing she could do to change what had happened. But Grace knew they were wrong. With the help of her friends Noah, Megan and Rosie, she managed to discover that the scarred man was Dominic, the first love of her mother, who was there to kill her mother, but chose instead to stage her death. Grace came down just as Dominic was taking the picture, and picked up the gun that was lying on the floor. Firing blinding, she missed Dominic and shot her mother instead. The traumatic moment of shooting her mother was blocked from Grace’s mind as it was unable to handle what she did. Her family tries to protect her from this, saying it was an accident, trying to get Grace to stop pushing. When pushing too hard, Grace discovers the truth of what happened that night, and what she did, and with the

My essay will be on how one character is dynamic throughout Okay For Now. Gary D. Schmidt is the author of Okay For Now. He tells a thrilling story about a young boy whose life changes very fast and it affects all of his family. The character analysis is on Doug Swieteck. This essay will be showing how Doug hates his life at first ,but then changes his mind throughout the book.

"Anything Goes" is a comedy, romance, and drama filled musical. In this play there are several different characters with their own plots and problems. All the plots later intertwine somehow as the characters interact with each other. The main character, Reno is a stage performer who is the main performer in "The Angels", a group of "evangelist" showgirls. Reno is in love with Billy. Billy is a businessman working for Elisha Whitney. Billy is also in love with a girl named Hope Harcore. Hope is engaged to a wealthy English man named Lord Evelyn, but she secretly loves Billy. Billy is supposed to be in New York doing work after he drops Elisha's passport off, but then he realizes Hope is on the boat. He sneaks onto the boat using an extra passport and ticket from a "pastor" who is actually a famous mobster named Moon Face Martin. He is trying to win Hope over. Reno and Moon are helping Billy stay under cover while getting to Hope. All of these characters interact which each other as they are all on the same boat and all have different purposes. In a turn of events, Reno and Evelyn fall in love. This helps Hope and Billy be able to get married, but Hope's mom, Evangeline, insists Hope marries Evelyn for his money. Elisha ends up receiving a large profit for a deal and Evangeline Harcore changes her mind. A triple marriage ceremony concludes the musical as Hope and Billy, Reno and Evelyn, and Evangeline and Elisha become married couples. This show is filled with plot twists,

A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines takes place in 1940’s, a time period of segregation. This was a time when blacks were often at fault for a crime they did not commit, such as what transpired in this book. A man named Jefferson was convicted of a crime he did not commit and was insulted during court. Now his family, friends, and even Jefferson himself were trying to prove the white community wrong about their beliefs that a black man is unequal and lacks dignity against Jefferson and the black community. Not only is Jefferson going through a period of suffering on death row, but others, like Grant Wiggins and Miss Emma, are also facing their struggles and they will try to prove others wrong and redeem themselves through knowledge,

All refugees, the circumstances notwithstanding, face immense hardship throughout their lives. In time, these hardships give way to new opportunities, dreams, and perspectives, as even in the face of suffering, one always retains their intrinsic self. Kim Ha, the protagonist in Thanhha Lai’s Inside Out and Back Again, experienced this through her family’s daring escape from war-torn South Vietnam. Consequently, Inside Out and Back Again serves as a fitting title for her story.

In conclusion family should always help each other out. By helping each other out you can do this much more efficiently like how the Gilbreths had a family council to made sure everyone knows what's happening and how they are handling the situation. Also finding tactics to help make things go faster for people who live in a large family like the Gilbreths is helpful because then you can spend more time with your parents and siblings other that spending a long time doing something like taking a bath. So being efficient can help in many was in in this novel it helped bring the family together and spend more time doing other things like studying for school or helping the father with motion study. Lastly, the movie and novel Cheaper By the Dozen

A Lesson Before Dying A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines tells the story of a black man, Jefferson, with unequal rights, being accused of killing a white man. Although, the accusation was far from being right, he is a black man, and blacks were treated unfairly. Throughout the journey of the trial, Jefferson and Grant became very close, and they both learned a lot from each other and the trial. Grant learns the lesson of being a man, because he develops feelings, and becomes humble.

Arn Chorn-Pond is the main character in the book “Never fall down”. At the start of the book we meet Arn as a kind and slick person, but later when he and his family gets forced to follow Khmer Rouge. Under these four years he becomes a man and learn to hide his emotions. From kind, slick and a young boy that doesn’t know much, he becomes an intelligent, kind man with the heart on the right place and a real fighter.

Spending time in jail can really change a man. In the novel A Lesson Before Dying by award-winning author Ernest J Gaines, the story is about a young man with a challenge of a lifetime. Grant one of the main characters is given a task of changing a man. The novel takes place in Bayonne Louisiana, where the Civil Rights Act has not yet taken place. Segregation was still an issue at this time, and many of the characters throughout the novel face segregation head-on.

Oftentimes, when writing literature, authors tend to form story elements that follow a certain archetype. An archetype can be any common example of a character, theme, symbol, situation, or setting that reappears in various genres of writing, and is a universal pattern. Particularly, character archetypes are general models or outlines that other characters can be based on, like a ruler, a hero, or a rebel. In The Safest Lies, the story focuses on Kelsey, who grew up terrified of the wicked world outside of her secure home. Her apprehension was instilled by her mother, Mandy, who was kidnapped when she was seventeen. After not stepping outside of their house since her miraculous escape over a decade before, Mandy tragically disappeared

In the novel As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner, we are introduced to the Bundren family. This isn’t the typical family you usually read about and they are far from the normal day to day families you encounter in real life. In the novel we see a very strange and distinct relationship between the members of the family. The most interesting character of the Bundren family is Darl. Darl is the closest thing to a narrator in the story. Due to the fact that Darl is nothing like the rest of his family his relationships with his family seem to be very negative, all the relationships he has except one. The one relationship that really stands out in the story is the one between Darl and Cash. The reason that this relationship stands out is because

In the novel Catch Me If You Can by Frank William Abagnale, Frank is a well defined static character. Even though he faces different challenges throughout the novel, he remains the same a the end of the story as he was in the beginning. Being said this, he still continued to run away from his problems and did cons. He is a confident individual who ran away from home at a young age to find a life for himself. Frank is a smart, young and charismatic boy. During his early teen years, his parents started to go through a divorce, which left him torn between whom to choose to stay with. After learning about the divorce that was about to take place, Frank decides to runaway. Frank states, “One June morning of 1964, I woke up and knew it was time to go.