Krystyna's Story Quotes

In Marie Lu’s Legend, Day shows his true character when he faces tough obstacles and rigorous tasks throughout the novel. For example, Day’s valor/bravery shows when Day rushes into the hospital to find the cure for his family. This shows that without a care for his own well-being he is looking for what's best for the ones he cares about. This also shows that even though he knew the consequences he still decided to look for the greater good.

The War What do you do when your by yourself in the middle of a war? Sophie is stuck in the middle of a war break out, with her bonobo Otto. Sophie was hiding from rebel soldiers fighting against the government, that could kill her at any moment. In the novel, Endangered, Sophie Biyoya-Ciardulli chose to save a baby bonobo from a random trafficker. She risked herself to help the bonobo to survive a war that broke out, and rescue him from the rebels.

Although everything may seem like it fits perfectly, sometimes people just tell you what you want to hear. Ariana’s last two years have been filled with Kaitlynn sob stories about how she was wrongfully committed. After Briana Leigh’s confession her story all fell into place. This lead to Ariana taking a drunk Briana Leigh to a lake and drowning her. Ariana couldn’t believe that she ever thought Kaitlynn had lied to her. Just like always, Ariana formed a plan. This time, her plan was to get Kaitlynn out of Brenda T. so that they could finally move on with their lives like they always daydreamed about. When Kaitlynn finally does get out, they meet at the lake, where Briana Leigh Covington was killed. In this part of the book, Kaitlynn’s walls

In Chapter 10, we can see that Lily is starting to become enmeshed in the Boatwright’s family and culture, as a result of the very traumatic events that unfold. To begin with, during the night when Lily is sleeping, she wakes up with a start, thinking about May. She first thought about how she had died, but then thought about all the good memories she had of May like she had known her for the majority of her life. On page 199 it says "I closed my eyes, all the best pictures of her came to me. I saw her corkscrew braids glistening in the sprinkler, her fingers arranging the graham-cracker crumbs working so hard on behalf of a single roach's life." This indicates that Lily felt like family to May and that she knew May and what type of person

I think the author added rebellion of culture as a theme because we’re so used to following our ways and not rebelling against culture and it mixes us up from what we’re used too and intrigues us. I think the author hints that rebelling is acceptable in the novel so that we think about it and decide if it actually is. In the chrysalids rebellion happens because if a person is being harmed or discriminated in an unfair manner they are allowed to rebel. He thinks rebellion is ok because maybe a deviation could be helpful, for example David and his friends could talk without speaking. Also, I think the author argues it is ok to rebel to protect someone else from harm. Many people in the chrysalids rebel from their culture and society, these are just some examples of why the author lets rebellion happen.

Lina Vilkas, a passionate fifteen year old girl who loves art and never lost hope throughout the book because she was determined to survive. Lina was taken away from her very own home and was compelled to dig for beets ,while trying to keep herself alive in the worst circumstances. She was courageous many times throughout the novel. Her courage showed when she yelled at a guard named Nikolai Kretzsky “I HATE YOU”. Lina expressed her opinion and confronted the man who could take her life in a matter of seconds.

In Matthee’s novel, Fiela’s Child, the main character, Lukas/Benjamin, battles back and forth with his identity, however the author is able to establish the idea that one’s personal identity can be established through the environment that one grows up with rather than what skin color one has, and because of Matthee’s use of personification, symbols, and imagery, she is able to set forth this idea in the near end of the novel.

Day 1: Character Serafina has changed a lot. In the first book she was very unsure of herself and afraid. She was afraid she would do the wrong thing or say the wrong thing. She was also afraid she would disappoint her mother and that she would never be as good of a ruler as she was. Serafina was weak like a guppy, but now she is muscular and strong.

Harper lee once said, “people generally see what they look for and hear what they listen for. This quote links to how Mathee successfully challenges stereotypes and prejudice in Fiela’s Child by using not only strong diction but also, positive/negative connotation in her writing.

​In the novel Jubilee, the character Vyry is displayed as a virtuous woman. In fact, this one character exemplifies the spirit of the African American woman. According to an excerpt by Margaret Walker, the author of Jubilee it is evident that the character Vyry possesses these admirable virtues. “Peasant and slave, unlettered and untutored, she was nevertheless the best true example of the motherhood of her race, and ever present assurance that nothing could destroy a people whose sons had come from her loins.” (Walker, p. 486) I believe this quote means no matter where you come from, nor your background, that doesn’t decide who you are, or who you become. You choose the person you want to be. Nothing

The book Cinder is full of multiple magical and science fiction elements; however, the most striking of the elements is the authors made up power known as “glamour”. Glamour is the ability of special people, known as lunars, to control what other people feel, do, and see. Cinder is about two major groups of people that are at odds with each other; one of those groups is the Earthens and the other is the Lunars. Some of the Lunars have to capability to use glamour to control not only other Lunars, but also all Earthens. This element affects the plot of the story because it reveals the main conflict: the Earthens despise everything to do with the Lunars because the Lunar Queen, Queen Lavana, uses this power to manipulate and deceive the other

In the works of Wislawa Szymborska, the writer portrays death in different perspectives. The writer’s unique views of the world and her fascination with death are what create different themes in her poems. Whether positive or negative, the writer personifies death as a figure to recognize. Wislawa Szymborska sections her idealism of death into different themes.

Part 2 – Choose twelve words/phrases that you deem to be critical to the book. They should be chosen from a variety of chapters. Give examples of the words being used in the text and explain why you think each word or phrase is critical.

Death is not a foreign concept in 1960’s USSR Czechoslovakia, nor in The Guinea Pigs by Ludvík Vaculík. Throughout the novel, the narrator, Vašek, a lowly banker, comes across many instances of severe suffering. Before these murders, the black tomcat and the barrel, symbols of death, come as not only a warning of an end, but as a factor in the homicides that are about to occur. Whoever is in the presence of the barrel has a death in their future, making it a warning of fatality. At the end of chapter four, Vašek discovers a barrel in the corner of Chlebeček’s office.

The novel explores what life might be like outside of camp on one occasion, when Ivan Denisovich’s wife sent him a letter about carpet dyeing. Despite having an opportunity outside of camp, Denisovich was indifferent because “he lost the habit of scheming how he was going to feed his family” (44). The guards give prisoners work to do, and that is the prisoner’s only purpose in life once they are incarcerated. How the sun represents incarceration despite the sun’s lively connotations, it transcends the confusion that the labour camp and the Soviet government were stirring in the prisoner’s head. Using the moon’s symbolism, it leads prisoners and the readers to contemplate on this underlying turmoil.