Moon Shadow Research Paper

Ruby Moon skipped down the corridor of Fire to her Grandmother’s place and never came back. Now Ruby’s Parents are haunted by her disappearance and spend their nights piecing together information to find an answer and hopefully their daughter. Throughout their interrogation of their oddball neighbours, they begin to piece together the truth; the shocking plot twist reveals that maybe Ruby was never going to return home. In Scene 9, the actors aimed for an insight into the cyclical lives of Ray and Sylvie Moon. The actions and language portrayed display the frustration of Ray and the hopeful optimism of Sylvie.

“We live the Old Way” are the words that author, Catherine Knutsson, uses to introduce readers to the fascinating culture of the Métis Indians in her intriguing book, Shadows Cast by Stars (1). Set in an unspecified future, sixteen year old protagonist, Cassandra Mercredi, finds herself and her family fleeing from the mainland of UA and going to find refuge on “The Island” (Knutsson 21). They have been targeted because they are “marked by the precious Plague antibodies in [their Native American] blood” (Knutsson 1). According to Essentials of Young Adult Literature, Knutsson’s book is categorized as American Indian and Indigenous Literature (Short, Tomlinson, Lynch-Brown, and Johnson 177). After analyzing the text, the categorization is correct because the story is told from the perspective of the protagonist, Cassandra, who provides readers are given insight into the cultural beliefs and values of the Métis tribe. Additionally, her character communicates the traditional roles of men and women within the tribe, while integrating cultural details that provide authenticity to the story.

The film, Moonrise Kingdom, follows the story of two 12 year olds in New England, Sam and Suzy, who run away together to an island in order to pursue their loving relationship. A search party for the pair ensues before chaos can erupt due to an oncoming storm.

Charlotte "Lottie" Digges Moon was born in 1840; she was the third child for her parents and had four sisters and two brothers. Her father, Edward Moon was the largest slave holder in Albemarle County; and was also a merchant and a lay preacher in the Baptist church. Her father was the owner of a fifteen-hundred-acre tobacco plantation known as “Viewmont”. As a young girl growing up Lottie was known for her astuteness and mischievous behavior. While living at home she studied with tutors, and in 1857 she went on to further her education at Albermarle Female Institute.

The horrible accounts of the holocaust are vividly captured by Elie Wiesel in Night, an award winning work by a Holocaust survivor. It describes his time in the Holocaust and helps the reader fully understand the pain he went through. In the text, Elie continuously mentions how he is losing his faith to god. It is evident that he has nearly, if not completely lost his faith during the events of the holocaust. In the memoir, Night, Elie Wiesel’s faith changes because of the absence of God, the dehumanization of the prisoners, and all of the death that surrounds him.

Everyone continued with their lives, the simple notice of an enemy rising seemed to slip their sights. Until the day that it happened. A monster from the depths below, one that no one had ever imagined to exist, tore its way through the settlement before leaving with some of the remaining humans. Those that were Hunters from a Tribe followed it, finding the bodies of their fellow survivors lifeless in the woods not far from the settlement. This was the beginning of their true

In the year 1908, what is today the sprawling suburb of Robinson Township was nothing more than a farming community. Moon Run, a community in the township, was a prosperous mining community that was built by the Pittsburgh Coal Company. Today, nothing except the Interstate 79 exit sign, Moon Run Road, and Moon Run Presbyterian Church acknowledges the name of this small community by the highway interchange. The workers in these mines were Catholic and Presbyterian, and both denominations needed a house of worship.  The Roman Catholic workers were about to establish a parish that has become an icon of Robinson Township for almost one hundred and ten years.

Moon Shadow, a Tang boy in the Middle Kingdom, otherwise known as China, lives with his mother and grandmother. His father, Windrider, is in the “Land of the Golden Mountain”, or America, in seek of money to send to his family, and bring them overseas. Moon Shadow’s grandfather died in America on the ship dock years before because he was lynched, or hanged, by the “demons”, or white people in America. Because of this tragic event, Moon Shadow’s mother does not ever want to or talk about the Land of the Golden Mountain, Grandfather, or her husband. All she ever says is “... He was a maker of most marvelous kites…” However, one day a distant cousin of Windrider’s, Hand Clap, comes with a message for Moon Shadow: Windrider wants Moon Shadow to

“Life is one long curve, full of turning points”-Pierre Trudeau. Brian, from Hatchet, Moonshadow from Dragonwings, and Rachel from Eleven all faced life-changing experiences. Brian faced loneliness and hunger. While, MoonShadow faced a new country and culture/traditions. Rache

Wes Anderson’s Moonrise Kingdom uses elements of cinematic style to create a lively juxtaposition to the melancholy themes throughout the film. The audience feels cheerful throughout the film because of Anderson’s unique use of cinematography, sound, and mise-en-scene.

In the poem ‘Moon’, Kathleen Jamie explores themes of abandonment, loneliness and disconnection. She does this by utilizing a clearly dysfunctional relationship between a mother and child. The child replaces the either mentally or physically absent mother with the presence of the moon. To explore the emotional distance between child and mother, the author uses dark and light imagery to empathize the child’s loneliness and to evoke the scene of a parent visiting they child late at night. Personification of inanimate objects illustrates the detrimental effects the unavailable mother has on the child’s mental wellbeing. The poem ends with dialogue from the protagonist, the child, pointing out that the moon is not her mother, as if to be

Annie Dillard’s “ Total Eclipse “ depicts her own existential crisis while watching the 1979 solar eclipse. Using metaphors and Stream of Consciousness Writing she details her own dissociative hallucination.

Does your backyard or patio lack sufficient shade during the day? Spending time outdoors on a hot day is not a lot of fun when little shade is available. What you will need to do is make your own shade. The best way to do this is to set up a DIY backyard sunshade.

When you picture a sunset you may only see the beauty behind it. Often times you may not look at a sunset and wonder why the sun sets the way it does. The answer is physics. Physics is in every sunset and makes the sunset the way it is. The first change you see when viewing this stunning phenomenon-taking place is the coloration of the sun. According to the physics of sunsets, “On an airless world like the Moon, the Sun at sunset would look no different than at any other time” (Ethan, 2013). In reality, we are not in an airless world and our atmosphere is what makes the sunsets so spectacular and looking nothing like the sun at all when it sets. In order to reach our eyes, the sun needs an immense amount of light to pass through our atmosphere.

In a town of the Tang People there is a boy named Moon Shadow, he is seven-years old, lives with his mother and grandmother. His father left his family before Moon Shadow was even born. Hand Clap, who is a cousin of Moon Shadow’s mother, who works in a laundry place in San Francisco, comes to visit Moon Shadow and his lovely family. Hand Clap tells Moon Shadow and his family that Moon Shadow's dad has paid for Moon Shadow to go to San Francisco or as other people call it, the Golden Mountain. They call San Francisco Golden Mountain because all the men left their family behind to go to San Francisco because someone found gold, and all the men there are looking and mining for gold.