Linda Sue Park Chapter 6

These questions are meant to serve as guide to help you pick out the most important information. Answer these questions to the best of your ability. Bulleted lists are acceptable as long as they consist of more than a few words. These concepts should be well thought out.

_______ is an understanding of how cultural differences across and within nations can affect the way in

The wall of the alveolus (air sac) in the lung is composed of which type of epithelium? simple squamous epithelium Yes, this single layer of squamous cells is ideal for the diffusion of gases in the lungs.

The book opens up to an adult Gene, visiting his old school years later. He comes back after fifteen years to get closure. He visits the buildings that were once so familiar to him, and reflects on how he’s changed, and the constant state of fear that had been so familiar then. But the main reason for his visit is to see the tree. There is a tone of regret as he remembers what happened so long ago, and how it all started.

“Mom frowned at me… that gives it its beauty.” (p. 38) When Jeannette devises a plan to uproot the Joshua tree, which has grown sideways in the direction of the constant wind that passes over it, her mother quickly dismisses the idea. Rose Mary claims that the tree is beautiful not because it grows straight like the other trees, but rather because its struggle defines it and makes it unique. Rose Mary is typically unwilling to tamper with nature and she is particularly drawn to the unique form of the Joshua Tree. Through the figure of the tree a young Jeannette learns an important lesson about non-conformity.

In this chapter of A Single Shard, Tree-ear has finally reached the Rock of Falling Flowers. It was not like he thought it would be. From his place on the top of the cliff, he was able to imagine the women jumping off the cliff, knowing it meant death, with their silk dresses billowing a they jumped. They displayed great courage that day, and as he stood on the cliff, he remembered Crane-man’s words: jumping off the cliff was not the only way to show true courage. He was still enjoying the view when he heard the voice behind him.

"My first class is biology. I can't find it and get my first demerit for wandering the hall. It is 8:50 in the morning. Only 699 days and 7 class periods until graduation,"(6). Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson, is a novel following the freshman year of Melinda, the narrator, who was a victim of rape at an end-of-the-summer party.

Have you ever wondered what it would be like if you were very distant from home and your family? In Linda Sue Park’s novel, A Long Walk to Water, is based on a true story Salva Dut, who was a Lost Boy. Salva and his family live in Southern Sudan, in a village called Loun- Ariik. When the rebels invaded, Salva had to run away from home and family to elude war. He came across some people that aided him on his journey to Kenya, but Salva had to be abandoned and abandon some of the people that were important to him. The lesson that can be learned in this book is that sometimes you have to abandon things to help you survive.

Chapter 39 which is the last chapter in the book shows the realization that Carrol really didn’t acompish much in Washington and decides to come back and live , she realized that majority the town will not change and instead just decides to live in the town and get married and has more kids. Carol looks at coming back to this town as a job and doesent really enjoy coming back to that town “After a week she decided that she was neither glad nor sorry to be back. She entered each day with the matter–of–fact attitude with which she had gone to her office in Washington. It was her task; there would be mechanical details and meaningless talk; what of it? (page 465)” When I was reading the book I thought maybe there could be a change or maybe she could have sparked a reseince of art and bring in a new culture but instead the town was pretty much the same with not that much change in the town. She feels very defeated that she didn’t accomplish what she really wanted to in that town, in the beginning she had many bright ideads and very creative and with dreams of creating a new culture in the town. At the end of the book all the excitement she had for the future was gone and she just decied to just become a wife and a mother to fit in with the

The writing style is straightforward, formatted in a way that’s reminiscent of Wallace Steven’s Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird. Instead of a blackbird, Baylor presents ten rules that a child should follow when searching for a rock. His frequent use of hyperbole, “A rock as big as a horse is MUCH too big,” gives room for the child to use their imagination. Along with hyperbole, Baylor uses parentheticals to

At the beginning of A Single Shard, Tree-ear was a young orphan raised by a wise elder named Crane-man. The foundling had an immense ambition; he was entirely passionate about pottery for practically all of his life. During the beginning chapters, the novel reveals Tree-ear struggled with judgement and responsibility.

“An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” carries the person who reads through a sequence of experiences that may provoke very diverse responses from different readers at the end. Components of realism are in the setting, the portrayals of the characters, mostly Farquhar, the convicted, the psychosomatic thoughts that spool through this mind as he “escapes” and the staggering ending.

As she is developing, she is tantalized by the societal norms he represents. She is ready to give up the backwoods (a symbol of herself) for all he (a symbol of society) has to offer. Convinced of that, she sets off to find the secret of the elusive white heron and in order to find the heron, she had to climb to what was literally the top of the world for her, the top of the pine tree. The world from the top was different than the city and it was different from the woods at ground level. From the top her perspective about the world changed, it was vast and awesome, and she understood her place in it more than before. She understood it to mean more than to sacrifice her own self for the gifts this man had to offer that were tantalizing but incapitable with her personality and true self.

Outside the hospital, Sal heard the warbling of a bird, and it was a familiar warble that she stopped and listened for its source. The sound was coming from somewhere in the top of one of those trees, and she thought, instantly, of the singing tree in bybanks.

Ever since the first person to climb Everest, many courageous people have been climbing, mountains, cliffs, and canons. This one special little girl decides to climb a humble tree creating a new journey for both the girl and the tree. In the passage The White Heron by Sarah Orne Jewett the little girl climb a magnificent tree. The author uses languages and selection of details to make the climbing of the tree into a dramatic adventure. The little girl is Sylvia and she is insignificant to the tree.