King of the Lost And Found is about a character named Raymond Dunne, who is currently in the 9th grade. He has an abnormal condition that causes him to faint randomly at any time of the day that doesn’t have a medical solution or history. His mother recently married her second husband. Raymond has mixed feelings about having a second father. He decides to stay with first father while his mother leaves to live in California, even though he misses his mother. Raymond wishes to be popular at his school. He attends a leadership group to help further evolve Raymond’s skills to socialize and take action in certain situations to better succeed in life. Raymond carries around a set of keys that are copies of the school that he has made over time that can open any door in the school. Raymond volunteers often to help out around the school. The new principal calls Raymond in because she believes that Raymond has control issues. The principal believes that Raymond likes to think that he runs the school when she notices the key, and that the keys are suppose to bring attention to Raymond.
One day in his sophomore year of high school Raymond meets Jack Alexander. Jack is in the 12th grade, he is considered very skilled at basketball and popular until he quits the basketball team because he doesn’t enjoy the sport anymore. Jack picks Raymond up after he fainted in front of the painting of the founder of the school. Jack felt sorry for Raymond because everyone was just stepping over Raymond
Our actions and interactions with others and society are what define us. Society’s perception of an individual may contrast with that individual’s perception of self. Our actions and interactions with others create certain stigmas which may not change despite progression and change an individual has undergone. But however at the end of the day we are our own creators and we chose who we interact with.
Among the Hidden is a science fiction novel written by Margaret Peterson Haddix, published in 1998. Luke Garner is hiding from the Population Police. He meets a brave girl named Jen, who wants to revolt against the government because she is a third child like Luke. The Garners live on a farm in a community where families can only have two children. In the fall, the woods behind twelve-year-old Luke’s house are destroyed. Luke must stay hidden!
When he gets to the school he goes to the gym to see all of the students at the school this year, and when he walks in he sees Chris immediately. Later that day Coach Fulton goes to the lady in charge of all of the student records, and finds out that Chris came from a high school in Indianapolis, but he is disappointed when he finds out that Chris didn’t put basketball as an extracurricular activity. So after about a week Coach Fulton decides to call Chris’s old coach in Indianapolis to see why Chris doesn’t play basketball. When he calls him he learns about Chris’s accident, and finds out that that is the reason that Chris doesn’t play basketball anymore. Chris’s accident was just that an accident where the player that got hurt was out of position, and when Chris was going for a rebound Chris hit him with his elbow in the eye socket. This left the player temporarily blind in that eye, but after surgery he was able to regain his eyesight. After the accident Chris made a promise that he wouldn’t play basketball again, and his parents decided to move him to a new
Through thick and thin bestfriends are always there for eachother. In the novel The Contender Alfred Brooks struggles to become a contender and reunite with his best friend James. Alfred is a high school dropout and has a job at a grocery store that’s going nowhere. James, his best friend is also a high school dropout but he is messing with the wrong crew. Throughout the story, Alfred begins to train at Donatelli’s gym to become a boxer. Later in the story James, who has been doing drugs, goes to rob the Epstein's store , where Alfred works, and almost gets caught. At the end of the story Alfred finds James in a cave with a cut arm that was caused by the burglary. James asks Alfred for a fix but Alfred, the contender, takes him to the hospital
In the novel, All the Broken Pieces, by Ann E. Burg, Matt makes a comparison between himself and his brother when he defines his brother as “summer” and himself as “fall”. This metaphor can be explained not only by their physical features, but their emotional and mental characteristics as well. His brother features summer and hasn’t faced any misery, while he himself looks like fall and has come across atrocious things.
In the book 1984, Smith is trying to be an individual in a society that is ruled by Big Brother. as a consequence of him trying to be an individual, he is testing the rules of the party. The individual in an authoritarian society is forced to follow the rules and beliefs of the rest of the society.
As you already know the story(The Palace Thief)Is being told by the main character,Mr Hundert a dedicated teacher trying is best to help a young man make it in life and not give him shortcuts like everyone else in his life.
The play Lost in Yonkers written by Neil Simon take action in the United States in 1942. In the Jewish family, Kurnitz becomes a tragedy. Died a wife and mother of two children, her name was Evelyn. She left the widowed spouse with a debt of $9,000 for her medical treatment. Eddie, her husband, quickly got a decent position of a Salesman, which allowed him for the year to eliminate this burden. But, his duties related to the continuous travels and he has somewhere to leave his sons, Jacob (Jay) and Arthur (Arty). The only possible place where to leave them for an almost a year will be his mother's house. She is a senior woman with a very heavy character with whom he had no contact for several years. The father took the boys in Yonkers, where
Summary: Raymondis a special kid. He has Dyslexia. He has trouble with school because at first no one knew what was wrong with him, but as soon as they diagnosed him it got better because that way he knew he wasn’t dumb.
If you believe in yourself and have dedication, pride, and never quit, you will be successful. Markus Zusak, the author of The Book Thief, creates a story of a young orphan named Liesel Meminger, who is living with her new foster family. She learns the wonders of reading from her foster father and grows to love books. During Liesel’s time with her new family, she shows determination through her efforts and kindness with her encounters with other people. Liesel in The Book Thief expresses her traits, such as hardworking, and bravery.
The Stranger by Albert Camus follows the story of a man named Meursault, who received notice that his mother had passed away. Meursault was not emotionally connected to his mother, and his reaction is not what the reader would expect, as he did not seem to care at all. Therefore, the day after attending his mother’s funeral, Meursault goes to the beach and meets up with his girlfriend, Marie. After the beach, Meursault and Marie go to a movie and spend the night together. When he returns home from work the next day, Meursault runs into his neighbor, Raymond, who beats his mistress. Later in the story, Meursault, Marie, and Raymond go to a beach house, which is owned by Raymond’s friend, Masson. At the beach, Masson, Raymond, and Meursault
Losing one’s memory can be a mysterious affliction, and the causes can be quite complex. Severe memory loss is introduced in author Oliver Sacks’ collection of stories The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, and lectures given by professor Jim Davies can help with understanding of some of the concepts introduced in the book. In chapter two, The Lost Mariner, the patient Jimmie is suffering from aspects of both retrograde and anterograde amnesia, which Davies explained as loss of memory of events or facts learned before an event (the event that caused the amnesia), and loss of ability to create new memories after the event, respectively. In more detail, and in relation to our book (here, the target example), retrograde amnesia would consist of any loss of memory that happened prior to an event, such as an injury or onset of disease in Jimmie’s case. Dr. Davies’ explanation of retrograde amnesia helps to understand Jimmie’s case, where in the year 1975 he is unable to recall any events after 1945. As well, the explanation of anterograde amnesia as including symptoms such as inability to form new memories, learn information or tasks, or to recall the recent past is useful when applied to Jimmie’s experience of not being able to recall events that happened even a few minutes prior. Jimmie’s suffering from both retro and anterograde amnesia, as explained by Sacks, results from Korsakov’s syndrome – a destruction of memory caused by alcoholic
The Last Kingdom, written by Bernard Cornwell, is a novel following a young Anglo-Saxon boy named Uhtred through his journey of growing up as a dane after being taken in a battle. When Uhtred is seven years old Danes come to where he lives,Bebbanburg, and kill his brother. Since he is next in line to own and rule Bebbanburg, his father takes him into battle against the danes. However, when Uhtred sees the man that killed his brother, he charges into battle and meets someone that would shape him into being the man he will become. After his father is killed in the battle, the man who killed his brothers takes him back and raises him as a son due to his courageous behaviors at the battle. The influence the Danish culture had on Uhtred at such a young age is more than prevalent through his actions and thoughts in the book. Although he was born and Anglo-Saxon, Uhtred displays traits of a Dane.
The movie The Lion King II: Simba’s Pride follows the life of Simba and Nala’s daughter Kiara. She falls in love with Kovu, a male lion from an exiled pride known as the Outsiders who was once lead by Simba’s evil uncle named Scar. Separated by Simba’s prejudice against the Outsiders, who are followers of Scar with a vindictive plot planned by Kovu’s mother Zira, Kiara and Kova struggle to overcome the two obstacles that are keeping them apart. Desperate to be together, Kiara and Kovu become the key to join both prides at peace. This paper will be focused on Kiara’s life within the movie and also examine Kiara’s process of development through Freud’s psychosexual and Erikson’s psychosocial stages, and as well as Piaget theories.
In “The Journey to the West,” the monk was accompanied by Pigsy, the Sha Monk, the Handsome Monkey King, and the horse. Each of these supporting characters possess a certain magical ability that assisted the monk on his journey, additionally they had their own flaws. This contrasts the monk, which has no magical ability and was devoted buddhism. The strengths, weaknesses, and backgrounds of these supporting characters encapsulate the idea of buddhism throughout the novel, and by including them and Xuanzang the book is able to summarize the idea of buddhism.