No Promises In The Wind Themes

The book Hunter in the Dark written by Monica Hughes was a story about tragic accident that happened to a boy that took him by surprise causing his life to change. This book being published in 1982 reflects on the style used, as well as being written in a genre of a young adult literature. This book was published being a Canadian book but reached out across many countries.

The Only Thing To Fear takes place in a world in which Hitler and the nazis won WWII. America was divided by the Axis powers: Germany in the east, italy in the Dakotas, and Japan in the West. The main character, Zara St. James is 16 and lives with her uncle on a small farm in the Eastern American territories, under rule by the nazis. Zara is half-Japanese and is looked down upon by many for her lineage.

Individual’s social contexts and personal experiences shape the way they deal with challenges. Discuss this idea in relation to “Game as Ned’s” key themes. The Novel “Game as Ned” by Tim Pegler explores the concept of how an individual’s social contexts and personal experiences shape the way they deal with challenges. Isolation and fear are both themes in “Game as Ned” and they shape the way Ned deals with his challenges.

In the book Devil in the White City Larson’s use of themes greatly impacted the flow and message of the book. Themes such as evil, existing anywhere and everywhere in the world with those committing these acts of evil usually hiding behind a facade of goodwill and well meaning intentions. Another theme that was a key concept in the book, was that of delusions and the consequences of them. As the book progressed, the characters that represent the themes delved deeper into the depths of what these themes really represented until their whole essence is what they represented. The themes that Lason used are independent to one another but in their extremes they morph into a similar if not just one an over arching theme. This is the same for

In Moonrise Kingdom, this theme is showcased through Sam and Suzy’s childhood romance. Anderson’s portrayal of first love- naïve and untouched by experiences of prior hurt encapsulates the beauty of the innocence of children. This fits Anderson’s trademark theme, as experiences of first love can never be regained once lost.

Hillenbrand, L. (2010). Unbroken: A World War II story of survival, resilience, and redemption. New York: Random House.

As I sat in class to watch Spike Lee's "Do the Right Thing", I noticed that a 20 year old film could convey such overwhelmingly real, modern social viewpoints. Many of the themes portrayed in "Do the Right Thing" which pave the way to the inescapable disarray of the movie that are issues which we confront today. Bedford–Stuyvesant or better known as Bed-Stuy, this Brooklyn neighborhood has gradually been the objective of gentrification since the mid 90s. Hip hop fans realize that Bed-Stuy is home to some of the most illustrious and well known artists like Jay Z, Notorious B.I.G., Mos Def, Lil' Kim, actor-comedian Tracy Morgan, thus some more.

“If you are alive, there is hope for a better day and something good to happen...” (pg. 54). Throughout the course of A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah, we familiarize ourselves with the exceptional hardships that Ishmael has experienced as a child soldier, in Sierra Leone, and what actions he takes to overcome them. Despite the fact that Ishmael has been through these devastating hardships and that he became the fear that he himself feared, Ishmael is able to instill hope and keep the reader going through the themes of powerful memories, nature and redemption. He does this through the use of powerful memories that contrast the fear and danger of the war with the remembrance of the beauty of life. Furthermore, nature leaves the reader striving

High Noon, which is an old western type of movie, is about a sheriff named Will Kane that has to fight to save his town. "The Most Dangerous Game", which is a short story about a man named Rainsford who has to fight for his survival. High Noon and "The Most Dangerous Game" have similar main characters and similar story patterns, but have a different overall theme.

In the book, Unbroken, by Laura Hillenbrand, Louie Zamperini was majorly obsessed with vengeance throughout the end of the book that his life was consumed by the quest for it. Louie felt as if the Bird had stolen his dignity at the POW campsites, where he was beaten, humiliated, starved, and stripped of his powers of self-defense. Louie was overwhelmed with his anger that the only objective he sought was to get revenge on the Bird. In other words, Louie was angered about his loss of dignity at the POW campsite, he wanted to get revenge on the Bird by killing him, and how Louie eventually forgives the Bird for what he did to him. These three reasons show how Louie’s loss of self-dignity in the POW camp was pursued.

An accident occurs during their trip and it leaves the women alone and terrified and as they stumble upon people who promise to help them, they soon find out that's not the case. Wini and the girls must learn how to make survive the haunting wilderness if they want to make it out alive and they must learn that everything they knew is different from the challenges they face.

All the Pretty Horses is a novel about a sixteen-year-old boy, John Grady Cole. He lived with his grandfather and worked on a ranch. Soon after the death of his grandfather, the ranch John lived and worked on was to be sold and John was told he was going to have to move into town, but he didn’t want this to happen. He decided to skip town and go to Mexico so he persuaded his best friend, Lacey Rawlins to go along with him. The two boys are joined by another, younger boy, Jimmy Belvins and they all headed off to Mexico riding horseback.

“War doesn't make boys men, it makes men dead” (Ken Gillespie). During the novel, All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque describes the horrors of war through the character Paul. Convinced to join the war, Paul and his friends, enlist to fight for Germany because their teacher, Kantorek, describes the war as honoring and a great adventure. But, the men quickly learned that they were wronged by their teacher. In the novel, Remarque communicates two major themes through the use of motifs.

The novella The Atonement by Ian McEwan produces a reoccurring theme of lost innocence. The children in the novella lose their childhood innocence after one wrongful accusation which tears the Tallis family apart. The setting in the novella develops the mood to be light and airy as the Tallis family resides in the English countryside. Nonetheless, the light and airy mood changes to one that is dark and full of mystery as the Second World War starts. Each character is tested by themselves and others to see if they can keep their innocence. But, each child grows further away from their childhood selves as their lies and misdeeds grow. With the use of literally devices McEwan shows how the loss of childhood innocence is harmful. The

The book Silence, by Shusako Endo follows a theme of a silent God who accompanies a believer in adversity. The main character of the book is Sebastian Rodrigues. It tells of Sebastian Rodrigues’ arduous journey halfway around the world to Japan in the 1630s, in order to track down a rumor that his mentor Father Ferreira had abandoned his faith, at a time where the Japanese leaders were extremely hostile to foreigners and Christianity and also suspicious of their intentions. He travels with two other missionaries but one of them falls sick whilst travelling and is deemed unfit to carry on to accompany him. The book is not fast paced, but immensely character driven. For example, we see the growth of Sebastian Rodrigues as a priest. At one point he labels Kichijiro a coward. “Was it possible that he was of our faith – this wretch.” Here we see him being judgmental. However, later in the novel we see him for the first time-sharing a proper