Juniper's High School: Chapter Analysis

Lynda Barry is a writer, teacher, and cartoonist who is best known for her comic strips about troubled family life. “The Sanctuary of School” portrays school as the haven that Barry found it to be during her childhood. School, Barry explains, was the place she felt safe and where she had the opportunity to utilize art as a coping mechanism for her home life. Through this narration of her childhood, Barry also addresses the importance of funding our nation’s education system and providing students with opportunities they do not receive at home. I believe that the message of the author is crucial as students in underprivileged neighborhoods may not have the creative outlets they need in school. The essay allows me to reflect on my own fortunate

Lynda Barry attended elementary school in run-down Seattle neighborhood, with a beautiful view of the distanced Cascade Mountains. The condition of the neighborhood reflected her treatment at home: neglect. The neglect was strong enough to cause the seven year old Barry to sneak out in the early, dark morning, with stars still gleaming, to get away from the negativeity, perhaps in an unsubcontious way, and ended up in a place where she didn't feel negelcted-school (721-722). In her essay "The Sanctuary of School, " Barry's personal anecdote complement, supports, and enhance her political argument in the funding of schools (especially in the realms of the arts, music, and creative activities) by pointing out neglect and involvement.

"[When I was a new student] I wish I knew about all the study opportunity you have,” said Samuel Sonjonues, “honestly, people fail that first test because they didn't know who to study with or where to get help from."

This passage takes place when the school in Cange is built. The school gave a lot of the Haitians hope for a better future for their children and the entire country. The passage shows that even the Haitians themselves acknowledged the fact that an education could have had a great impact on them and allowed them to escape poverty. This is an especially impactful point in the book because the quote came directly from a woman who knows first hand about Haiti’s poverty. The author makes it clear that the school will not only educate Haiti’s youth, but also lower hunger among Haitian children. The author also mentions dignity when discussing malnourishment, which can be a huge obstacle when trying to fight world issues like hunger. The end is the

Personally, “The Sanctuary of School” offers the strongest conflict. Namely, the conflict of Man v. Society, because troubled children like Lynda Barry contend with those who think before and after school programs are unimportant.

“But that sort of summer has given way to something more difficult, even darker, that makes you wonder whether year-round school is not a notion whose time has come.” Most students are very eager towards the end the school year to be free from the “prison” that holds them from August until May. Students want to be relieved from all of the built up stress from throughout the year and they want to be able to do what they want without having to worry if their homework is done or if they are prepared for the test the following day. However, many children and their families rely on school for one very overlooked reason that is addressed in Anna Quindlen’s essay, “School’s Out for Summer.” In it, Quindlen discusses a problem that many don’t even realize exists: a lack of ability to feed children at home. Many Americans rely on the school to feed their children because the parents can not. This is a problem that many people do not realize exists, and it is a problem that can be fixed.

In her short memoir ‘Sanctuary of School’ Lynda Barry remembers her early childhood years at home, feeling somewhat invisible. Growing up in a rather crowded home, which was occupied by relatives who would come and go, and parents who spent the late hours of the evening fighting over shortage of money, Barry and her brother grew accustomed to such a lifestyle. Learning to make the best out of this, the siblings would lay in the living room and watch television until the morning crept in. Feeling such anxiety to rush to school, Barry would make her way there lifelessly, as the sun would slowly rise. While waiting on the playground before making her way in, young Barry states “In a perfect world my absence at home would not have gone unnoticed.”

In this Chapter O’Brien explains how fear and having guts intertwine and in many cases there’s really no difference. I think the soldiers feel the need to shake the dead man's hand to make death not seem quite as "real." By turning death into something darkly comic, they don't have to face their own mortality. In this Chapter O’Brien explains how fear and having guts intertwine and in many cases there’s really no difference.

The Sanctuary of School In Lynda Barry’s essay, “The Sanctuary of School”, she tries to reach out to young adults and help older adults analyze what they detect social situations. In the essay, Barry views through eyes of young people. She reaches out in hopes to help troubled children by sharing her story believing it can be relatable to the audience. She uses different techniques to make the reader think of ways the audience used to cope during tough times.

The first section of reading assigned for this reflection was from Difficult Conversations by Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, and Sheila Heen. The first chapter discussed blame and how to avoid it in difficult, or any, conversations. The authors made it very clear that one must be able to differentiate between blame and contribution. The main difference between the two is that blame is judging the other person and their actions and contribution in understanding the impact both parties had on the situation (Stone, Patton, Heen 2010). In a difficult conversation, both people involved have contributed, big or small, to the issue. Identifying your own role can be difficult because that means self-evaluation and accepting responsibility must occur. If the contribution conversation is not had, blame is the first place most go to. This can be very detrimental to a conversation because it does not allow the problem to be solved. One party will become defensive if they feel blamed and they will shut down. The outcome of one party shutting down

experience when visiting an inner city elementary school; located in the inner city of Los Angeles, Edwin Markham Intermediate School is described a haven. He described the elementary school to be different from what most people would expect. The school was clean, the students we involved, and the teachers were encouraging.

A week before Christmas, Jonah McCarthy’s having a mid-life crisis. He’s tired of being the third wheel in the unique relationship he shares with his brother Sebastian and their wife Brie. Sebastian’s life has blossomed with the birth of two daughters and a thriving pack.

“The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.” Martin Luther King Jr composed that quote which explains the genuine meaning of education. Education teaches us to think in diverse and more critical ways. Education is a gigantic part of the book To Kill a Mockingbird because it defines the caste system of Macomb County. The class system in the book goes Finches, Cunninghams, Ewells, to the Black community. These are the a few of the families in Maycomb County that define the class system.

So, since this is like in another world from Reawakened, i don’t have to recap that book. The book has a very quick pace, it jumps from chapter to chapter rapidly and you usually need to read some twice because sometimes you’re like ‘uhhh… what just happened again?’. It starts with Kells applying for a job at the circus just to get some money for college. The circus has, guess what, a white tiger!! What a surprise. She slowly makes a connection with this tiger, reading her favorite poems and occasionally drawing him. The cursed tiger then can randomly shift into a human (only for 30-25 minutes of course). He asks the manager of the circus to call Mr. Kadam, who quickly goes over to Oregon and buys the tiger, persuading Kelsey to come with him

In 1946, Juan Peron became President of Argentina with support from the working class. He bettered the lives of Argentinians such as improving the public health system, increasing working wages, as well as granting the power for women to vote (Partnoy 11). During this time, Alicia Partnoy, the author of The Little School, was involved in a political youth group who tried to fulfill the needs of Argentinians. However in 1975, Peron died and his third wife, Isabel Peron, took over as president and did not represent the needs of the working class. Instead, the power was left to the military who attacked, kidnapped, and killed political youth groups or any political activists that “threatened the country’s security” (Partnoy 11). The