Nikki Thompson's The Emerald Woods

"Greensleeves" by Alan Spence is a short story describing the life of an elderly lady living alone on the top floor of high rise flats in Glasgow. Spence creates a character readers feel sympathy for through isolation and lonliness, themes that run prominently throughout the story.

The Artslink Queensland production of Ruby Moon by Matt Cameron can be described as an example of the Australian Gothic dramatic style. Ruby Moon, set in picture perfect Flaming Tree Grove, is about the tragic dilemma of a couple, Ray and Sylvie, trying to cope with the earlier disappearance of their young daughter, Ruby, while on the way to visit her grandmother at the end of the cul-de-sac (Queensland Education, 2014).

Coming from a lonely and abusive home Mary had to find happiness outside of her house. Her mom made a friend from their church and she happened to have a three month year old baby. Mary always occupied the Richardson’s by helping with baby Alyssa, while also distracting herself from reality. Meeting the Richardson’s ended up being Mary’s worst nightmare. One night the Richardson’s went out and asked Mary and her mother to watch Alyssa.

Angelyn Mitchell interprets Chopin’s work “The Story of an Hour” as a feminist piece of work. She believes that Chopin wants to prove the double conscience of females, which is when women connect their inner self with their outside and gain freedom. “In ‘The Story of an Hour,’ the quest for freedom is complicated by three important factors: biological determination, patriarchal social conditioning, and the patriarchal institution of marriage.” Mitchell uses Mrs. Mallard’s heart condition to show biological determination. “Richards, a friend of her husband, rushes to relate the sad news of his death before someone ‘less careful, less tender’ can do so.” Patriarchal social conditioning is shown by showing that Mrs. Mallard does not act as a woman

Culture defines humanity. Culture makes humans different than any other living organism ever known. Culture is what makes humans unique, and yet culture is easily the most misunderstood characteristic of individuals. In Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan develops the theme of incomplete cultural understanding leads to an inability to communicate one’s true intentions through juxtaposition and conflict between mothers and daughters and their cultures.

Waverly was going to tell Lindo of her and Rich’s engagement, but whenever she mentioned him, Lindo cut her off and began to talk about something else. Waverly was convinced that her mother did not have any good intentions, and that she never saw good in people. Due to this, she was afraid of what her mother will say when she would meet Rich. According to Waverly, she and Rich shared a “pure love”, which she was afraid her mother would poison. Waverly planned to go to Auntie Suyuan’s house with Rich for dinner, knowing that her mother would then invite the two over for dinner to her house, and this would give her mother a chance to get to know and warm up to Rich. However, when they went for dinner, Rich did everything incorrectly- he didn’t understand Chinese customs and made several mistakes that were seen as

Deej Logan was just like any normal high school girl. She woke up on her first day of school and combed her hair, picked out the “perfect” outfit and headed out the door. What she didn’t know is that after that day nothing would be the same. Nothing that day seemed to be going right. At school drama was swarming all around her, not exactly what she hoped the first day would be like. By the time the last bell of the day rang she was more than happy to get out of that school. She drove home as quickly as she could but as soon as she got home she realized that she had forgotten to pick up her sisters. “Great.” She thought sarcastically as she sat back down in her car and drove off. Just then she pulled out her phone to message one of her friends about her awful day. That one decision changed everything. Before she had a chance to send the message Deej veered off into oncoming traffic and was killed on impact.

A young lonely girl named Sophie daydreams about a shop to which she later finds out has its own reality. Years later, when she kept the the daydreams dormant, she comes across a little girl who tells her that due to her estranging from thinking about Mr. Truepenny’s shop it has been going out of business. After finding out that all children are seeing the reality she created, she starts visiting Mr. Truepenny’s shop again.

Leigh Anne leaves her Ordinary World by Crossing the Threshold into the Special World, where she must overcome a series of challenges. Leigh Anne’s journey begins when she helps out a juvenile in need. As a wife and a mom of two Mrs.

Throughout the course of history, human nature has embraced conformity and being average. However, human nature expresses itself in a variety of ways and these differences make everyone an individual. Civil rights activists have recently made a strong effort to encourage people to embrace and express their differences. The recent push for a more open society has resulted in both backlash and acceptance. Kay Ryan explores what being an individual means and the choices we can and cannot make about ourselves in her poem “The Turtle”. She uses the turtle, an often ill-suited creature in regard to survival, to contradict the common misconception that people can choose their sexuality. Kay Ryan, an open lesbian, often uses poetry to express her position on particular subjects in regard to sexual orientation.

The novel, “City of lights”, by Lauren Belfer, shows all of the complications during the late 1800’s,early 1900’s. Louisa Barrett, the main character, had a hard position in society, because she was a women. During the 1900’s,Women's suffrage was happening during the Progressive Era. Women weren’t allowed to work, but Louisa found her way and she even became the headmistress of Macaulay school for girls; talk about powerful women rights. Little Millicent Talbert was the one and only African American student in Macaulay school. An African American in school during the early 1900’s? How is that even possible? Thomas Sinclair, the man who created the powerhouse lights. Name sounds very familiar, doesn’t it? Oh let’s not forget about the President

Hannah, a freshman in college, has had a life of asthma, major depression, and epilepsy. While on theatrical stage in her first college debut, Hannah collapses on stage in a seizure. After running tests on Hannah in the hospital, the doctor suggests that her lifelong health issues could possibly be because she is a survivor of abortion. This is the first time Hannah not only learns she’s an abortion survivor, but adopted too. In anguish and searching for answers, Hannah journeys with her friends to Mobile, Alabama in search of her birthmother. When Hannah first reconnects with her birthmother, Cindy, tracking her down at her work office, Cindy rejects her yet as again as she did at her failed abortion. Hannah finds herself asking God what to do in her situation.

These constant beatings in Maggie Johnson’s home, furniture thrown from parent to parent, and every aspect of her family life as being negative, her family situation is not an extremly healthy one. But, despite her hardships, Maggie grows up to become a beautiful young lady whose romantic hopes for a more desirable life remain untarnished.

The book I read for my summer book report was Blue Moon by Alyson Noel. Blue Moon is part of a series called The Immortals, and it is the second book of the series. The female protagonist Ever Bloom is immortal. In the last book she went through the process of becoming immortal. Now she is learning how to control the power of manifestation while going on a journey through her boyfriend’s past. Being immortal means to live on forever and never die. So Ever will go through the endless past of Damen’s childhood discover something she had never knew about her perfect boyfriend.

The story is about a woman, Monty, who has psychological issues due to problems she had in the past. She has a confident friend, Ginger, who is probably as unbalanced as herself, nevertheless she considers her a heroine, and listens to her advice.