Kate Dicamillo's The Tiger Rising

Rob cross his arms over his chest and smiled”(Giles 115). This shows that Rob has success with his plan on killing Lance from being popular ever again. Rob set up a trap like a Rattel snake lowering a mouse with it s

The main theme in the book, The Dark is Rising, is obviously the conflict between the dark and light. It is one of the many suspenseful fantasy books about the battle between good and evil, Susan Cooper wrote about the dark, light, and the mystical powers.

Leaving the comforts of the first world, Jessica Alexander abandons her job, fiancé, family, and home to venture into the misleading volunteer work of Humanitarian aid. Chasing Chaos: My Decade In and Out of Humanitarian Aid by Jessica Alexander is a conglomeration of stories that are written from Jessica’s memory. “It is a true account based on [Jessica’s] best recollections of the events and [her] experiences.”.

The book I have read is Through the Woods by Emily Carroll. This is an Eliot Rosewater book for 2016-2017 so I decided to give it a try and I think you should too. It is a pretty scary read so If you are the least bit frightened by anything you might not want to read this… especially at night. I enjoy watching scary movies and reading scary books so I found it very hard to put this book down.

Rob blamed his ex-girlfriends for all his breakups and to him, it was never his fault. Rob viewed himself as the victim but after his breakup with Laura, he seeks out answers to why all of his relationships failed. His high school girlfriend, Penny Hardwick was one of the first girlfriends to break his heart. In Rob’s eyes, she was a prude. Never did she ever want to do something sexual or intimate and Rob even said in the film,“I wasn’t interested in Penny’s nice qualities, just her breasts, and therefore she was no good to me.” Because of this, Rob broke up with Penny and not long after they broke up, Penny went and slept with another guy. This hurt Rob and left him feeling betrayed and unwanted by Penny. When Rob and Penny go out to dinner together as Rob seeks out as to why she did that, Penny describes how she was so heartbroken when he dumped her, that she essentially allowed her next boyfriend to rape her, proceeding to storm out of the restaurant in tears. After meeting with Penny, he realized a lot of his failed relationships was his fault and was just a jerk to some of the women he dated, but he was so heartbroken that it lead to him placing the blame on others and overlooking the negative aspects of himself. Once he analyzed all of his relationships, Rob learned a different lesson from each breakup, allowing him to better himself and hopefully build a future with

¨For these men, nothing was ever going to be the same¨ (Hillenbrand 251). War impacts everyone, from POWs to normal citizens. In the novel, Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand, Louie Zamperini was made invisible in POW camps. He was tortured, starved, beaten, and stripped of his dignity. Opposite of Louie, Miné Okubo was an American citizen that was put in an internment camp after the bombing of Pearl Harbor because of her Japanese ancestry. Both Miné Okubo and Louie Zamperini experienced isolation and dehumanization in their situations. Even though Japanese-American internees and American POWs were tried to be made invisible in World War II, both groups resisted and made efforts to regain their dignity.

Throughout history, Native Americans as a whole have faced relentless battles to maintain their identities and beliefs from those who entered their land and robbed them of many things they held dear like life (many were killed), homes, and traditions. It is no surprise that as time has progressed forward many Native Americans have worked during the last centuries to keep their stories and traditions alive. Mary TallMountain's "The Last Wolf" emphasizes the importance of maintaining Native American history, storytelling, and resistance to colonization. As I read through the poem, it was clear from TallMountain that Native American history and storytelling are important to keep ongoing because they would cease to exist completely if no one continued to tell the stories.

Claire Standish or “the princess” portrays the stereotypical popular teenage girl in The Breakfast Club. She is in detention with everyone else because she decided to skip class and go shopping, which also plays into the stereotypical teen girl image. It can also be assumed that she is spoiled and rich since her father tried to get her out of detention but failed, and she mentions to the group that her parents only use her to get back at the other one. She brings a fancy lunch of sushi while the other teens either have nothing or the standard lunch one’s parents might pack for them. There are a couple of times in the movie that she brings up her social standing and could even be considered as looking down on those who are not as popular as her. Even closer towards the end of the movie she informs the others that if they were to say hello to her in the hallway in front of her friends, she would have no choice but to ignore them. By the end of the movie, she has opened up to everyone else about her fears of letting her peers down and has formed a close relationship with Bender.

The Catelli name and land is under threat. Willow Isabel Catelli, daughter of the estate leaves Italy and travels to her dead husband’s homelands to beg the help of his brother. She will settle for either the security of marriage or a child heir. But, true to their Scot blood, Cameron Laird and his pack are a stubborn lot. Wolf-shifters don’t take orders. Their help has a price, her body to share amongst themselves. Dungeon pet puss by night, lady of the manor by day, Willow finds herself bound in this world of not only BDSM, animal role-play, voyeurism and delicious lashing but also wild, ravenous wolves who lust for her human flesh. She cannot escape. She doesn’t wish to.

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All through the book The River at Night, the women try to stay calm and strong however, fear is always present within them. There are four women all alone in the middle of nowhere who’s guide just recently died, they are nothing but afraid, “Sandra spun around and screamed//Her face had contorted with so much terror I feared I might turn to stone if I saw whatever she saw, but I forced myself to look behind us” (Ferencik, pg. 129). Although the women are courageous and brave through the entire trip, there are parts where strange things began to occur and it frightens them all quite a bit. Fear plays a large role in this novel since it is a thriller novel; it provides some action to grab more attention.

The story is told from his point of view thus allowing one to see how he talks about Christina and Stella to his ex-wife and "She," the paramour whom he now lives with.

Rob's career as a DJ is initially how his relationship with Laura was created which shows a symbolic relationship with music and all of his relationships including Laura. In one scene, Rob organizes his music collection, he does his organizing autobiographically. This leads me to believe that every song played in his life throughout the movie shows great importance or denial and is symbolically related in his perception of how he feels in his past relationships. His musical passion and interest

She was the one to dump him because she said he was too much work and was dull. Rob realizes that they really had nothing and he wasted his time being with someone that was not really in heart. He feels angst because he decided to date her for no good reason, and he was responsible for wasting his own time with her. Rob learned not to waste his time with the wrong people that do not treat him right, or people he does not really feel

Rob starts to become aware of where he is in life and where he wants to be and he begins to understand who he truly is. He also grasps what Laura wants and what he has to do in order to be with her. The connection between Rob’s identity status and his capacity for intimacy is that since he doesn’t truly know himself and is not that mature he is basically incapable of having an intimate relationship.