A young boy tells about how one year and one person changes his life, his perspective and overall demeanor on life. It goes way back to his grandfather being a welcher. So his family and Hegberts did not get along due to the past that the neither of them were involved in. Landon was his name and and hers was Jamie, He and his friends would make fun of her at school. The nicest person you could know and they were cruel. Throughout this whole book Landon tries to make it up to Jamie.
In the book it starts off pretty slow telling the backstory of Landon's family, his grandfather was not a very nice man. He ripped off many people who ended up hating their bloodline. Landon was a senior in highschool and wanted to go to UNC like his father did. But at this point they didn't even know if landon
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There were many practices and rehearsals before the real play. And they had to perform the real play multiple days in a row because the theater was completely pact and more people were lining the walls of the theater. A few days before landon said some things to Jamie out of anger than he didn't mean. He really regretted say those things to her. He knew he had to make it up to her so he did the best he could for the play and thought that would be enough. But for jamie it wasn't she asked him for something else as a favor. Jamie had set out donation jars for the orphanage she wanted their christmas to be special this year. She needed Landon to go around and pick them all up because she didn't have a car and it would take her a very long time to do it. He of course said yes and all the money only added up to like seventy dollars. So Landon added money to the jars but the book doesn't directly tell you this. She bought many things for the kids and even Landon and landon got her something too. This is where they really hit it off. Landon states he doesn't know how he fell in love with her it just kind of
Landon has problems learning his lines for the play. Jamie, who is additionally within the play, agrees to assist him on one condition: Jamie warns Landon to not feel love for her, he doesn’t take it serious so he basically ignores it. Landon and Jamie begin to be active along at her house after school, however Landon remains cautious of ruin his image, as he is being friendly with an unknown like
In the book as in my personal life, there were two people with very similar environments yet their lives took completely different paths in the end. Their paths determined by the choices they made at different situations in their lives. Those choices explain who they have become and create the goals that they have set for themselves. The choices also opened up other opportunities that they each will have in their future. No matter what life may hand you always be careful with your decisions you make. Consider how this will affect me tomorrow, a week from now, or even a year from now and go with the one that leads to a better life for
Many times, in society young people think they have it all under control, they have it figured out even though they don’t. During these teen phases, they try to experience many things. such as drugs, drinking, and sexual exploration and become involved in various mischievous activities. It is about the coming of adulthood. It is no longer trying to be like them, but copying one. The three friends are not as "bad" as they pretend to be. Boyle gives them an opportunity to rape, but got interrupted because they wouldn’t have done it anyways they were to scared.
A walk to remember is a novel about a young boy who goes on a journey through his whole life learning about compassion, truth, respect for elders and the meaning of love starting from a young boy to when he is more mature to understand what he went through when he was younger. Landon was a very mixed personality, he was a little bit of a bully at school, but at home, he was very polite to his parents so he was indecisive about his true personallity development. It shows us that Landon has mentally changed from knowing Jamie and that she was a major part of his life. In A walk to remember Landon is a gentleman to his girlfriend Jamie, Landon is selfless he doesn't take anything for granted, and he is very polite to his parents and fellow elders about the truth and respects their boundaries.
When a young author from New York City decides to take a trip to the southern city of Savannah, he finds himself falling in love with the town and ends up renting an apartment. He encounters many different characters, including Danny Hansford and Jim Williams, that gives the reader a good look into the aura of Savannah. The main conflict in the book occurs when a murder happens in an old mansion located in the town. The book follows the progression of the trial and the outcome following the court’s decision.
The protagonist of this book is Sarah. In Sarah’s point of view, she starts off the book by describing her surroundings and she is having a conversation with her brother Miles about school. Her and
“This book is a four to five month snap shot of life in 1960, it is from the perspective of a nine year old boy so it has that innocent approach. This is story of two families one white and one black, who live half a mile apart going through the same stuff in 1960” said author Gary Brice.
The book is basically about how you can help someone in a time of need by just being there for them. Jill writes about what learned when she was helping her friend and how all it takes is just a few people to help someone. Kara writes about how much she appreciated just the little things people did for her. From people taking them meals, to doing their laundry to just watching and taking care of her kids for just a few hours. Jill writes that she felt awkward
It is about a 14 year old boy named Ponyboy Curtis, who is in a gang called the Greasers. The Greaser have an awful reputation in their city, and members of the public believe that they are hoodlums and they deserve to be in jail. Some of the Greasers have embraced their role, and they act like real hoodlums and fight Socs, another gang that hates Greasers. Ponyboy is proud of his gang, but sometimes he wonders about doing the right thing and has an inner conflict. The book expresses his thoughts very clearly,
This book is about a girl named Finley who comes back to her hometown, Williston, every summer. She has a childhood friend named Betty, and Betty was murdered during the summer. All summer, Finley spends her time trying to get the guy who killed her to face the consequences. His name is Calder, he confessed to killing Betty but because it wasn't done properly they couldn’t convict him. Finley does this with another girl, Serena, who was in love with Betty. Finley pursued this mission despite her very close friend, Owen, telling her to give it up. No one talked about Betty, and that made Finley angry and vengeful. Throughout the summer she sets fire to the school, press people for answers, and uses her dad's position as a newspaper reporters to her advantage.
In the movie they let us see that the girl has brown hair commonly worn a ponytail. In the novel there is tension between Landon and his father because Landon is not outgoing enough. In the movie Landon hates his father because he abandoned his family and has new ones. Landon in the novel Spark showed us that this boy have no goals to achieve and that he has absolutely no plans in his life. But in the movie they showed us a different image of Landon that he is a kid with many goals and he has past high school and is a boy who want to change himself. In the novel Spark mentioned that Jamie do not sing in the play that she do with Landon. But in the movie they twisted around and Jamie sings in the play. Also in the novel Jamie volunteers at an orphanage. But in the movie Jamie tutors junior high student. Landon in the novel becomes school student body president after his father forced him to run. In the movie Carter does not run the Student body president. In the book and in the story Landon dedicated a star and named it after Jamie because he want to show her how much he loves her. He want to prove it to her this is the way that Landon showed his love toward her. The most interesting thing that spark did is that many people were complaining why he was able to kill one of the major characters. Most readers where mad that he killed one. But from the very beginning of the story we as a watcher would believe that Jamie would die because of her health problem and that she would not be a survivor. He want that in the book as well but Spark could not do it and he made it as a debate question for the readers and the
At the beginning of the book a boy named Miles is going to start going to a new school called Culver Creek Preparatory School which is located in Birmingham, Alabama. One of the days before school started he was wrapped in duct tape and thrown in the schools lake… luckily he lived. He eventually makes friends and gets very close to them. He meets the Colonel they become very close. Then comes a girl names Alaska her and miles (they call him Pundge) get very close and spend a lot of time together. Alaska had asked people to set off extra fireworks so she would cause a distraction while she was driving away but the next day they found out she had died in a car accident that night. Miles and the Colonel are very sad and are wondering what had
The book was about Samantha Jones and her son Tyler, and about how they were pulled into the most dangerous situation of their lives. Danny, or “Marco” to Sam, was the one who pulled them into it. He is a member of the FBI, going “undercover” as a former member of the FBI, one who was in witness protection program and had stolen from and betrayed those he
The book is about the Tennis Team captain of Eastwood High School, who name is Ezra and his recovery from his car accident, which almost crippled him. Ezra was the class president and dated the hottest girl, but after a party, he crashed into another car. The story is about how Ezra found himself after the accident, and his romance with the mysterious Cassidy Thorpe.
The novel is precisely about Bayard Sartoris who is a white boy and he befriends Ringo, an African-American boy at a time when racial discrimination and slavery was still common. The two boys’ relationship is closely monitored by Granny while Bayard’s father, John Sartoris is busy in the civil war since he was a soldier. The Civil War was between the northerners and the southerners regarding the issue of slavery hence the friendship between the two boys was suspicious to the people at that time. Bayard Sartoris is forced to assume the roles of a man despite the fact that he is just a twelve-year-old boy who deserves to have a role model who would guide him appropriately. The two boys enjoy their friendship since they are naïve about the harshness of the Civil War.