Old Yeller Analysis

Not only is Atticus brave, but he is also strong. Atticus demonstrates his strength when he helps move furniture out of Miss Maudie’s house during the fire. Atticus wakes up Jem and Scout and tells them to stand along the street. Men fill the street, and the old Maycomb fire truck is being pushed by a group of men. As the fire is being extinguished, men are moving furniture out of Miss Maudie’s house. Atticus brings out Miss Maudie’s rocking chair, her most valued piece of furniture. Mr. Avery is upstairs throwing down furniture. Before the stairs give out, Mr. Avery squeezes through the window and slides down a pillar. The fire is growing, and it is making its way to the roof. A second fire truck has come to help extinguish the fire. Miss Rachel’s house has caught on fire. A third fire truck appears. Miss Maudie’s house then collapses, and men scramble to get the fire out. Dawn comes, and everyone goes home. Likewise, Atticus reveals his respectfulness when he does not retaliate when Bob Ewell threatens him. Atticus is coming home from the post office when Bob Ewell approaches him. Ewell begins to curse, spit, and threaten Atticus. Standing contently, Atticus does not try to even the score by retaliating. He takes out a napkin to wipe his face. Ewell proceeds to curse

Mason is frequently required to make adult decisions throughout this book and it changes the relationship that him and his brother have. Tex by S.E. Hinton is about a 15 year old boy named tex, who loves his horse Negrito. Tex lives with his 17 year old brother Mason and their pop, who hasn’t been home in five months. Wherever Tex goes there is trouble and he is usually with his best friend Johnny Collins when it happens. These decisions fall in Mason's hands because their pop isn’t home to do it for him without their pop Mason is pretty much Tex’s father and has been his whole life pretty much. Masons and Tex’s relationship changes alot throughout the book.

In the memoir written by Rick Bragg called All Over but the Shoutin’, the writer talks about when he visited his father in a small house in Jacksonville, Alabama. The father he remembered is not the man that he encountered. The man that he expected to be was a young, black-haired, well-groomed man of yesteryear. Instead, he found an old, grey hair, smelly man. Bragg’s no longer recognized his father. Just as the father’s physical appearance had changed dramatically so did the attitude. The author memories of his father clashed with the person that he sees in front of him now. The narrator view of his father has changed since last seeing his father, for now, it’s old vs. young, sick vs. healthy, trying to be a father vs. neglectful.

There was a sighting of a mad dog last week in Maycomb. As you can tell from our weather reports, it has been a cold winter, which makes this sighting even more surprising. The dog was first spotted by Jeremy Finch, son of Atticus Finch, who told his African American housekeeper, Calpurnia.  She knew the characteristics of a mad dog and saw the threat that it posed. Calpurnia called Heck Tate, our own town sheriff.  Heck picked up Atticus, and they pulled up outside the Finch’s house as the dog strolled closer. Knowing that the dog’s mind was long gone, Heck Tate advised that Atticus be the one to shoot, due to his great skill and his nickname, “One-Shot Finch”.  Atticus sadly accepted and killed the crazy dog.  Heck later sent some townsfolk

This essay by David Adams Richards, was really interesting. I liked many things about his style of writing. I liked how he made the title of the essay "My Old Newcastle" a paradox. The structure of the essay was different than the other essays I have read. I liked this essay in terms of structure but I'd have to say my favorite structure of all the essays that I have read was "the swan." Not to say that I havent enjoyed and learned lots from the other essays that I have read but I enjoyed the structure of "the swan" the best. I really liked the descriptive words that the author used to describe his hometown of Newcastle, New Brunswick. Even though I have never been to New Brunswick I got a good picture of

After some years though, Tom starts to worry about the potential punishment for his acts and tries going to church to seek salvation. He carries a Bible everywhere he goes in hopes of warding off Old Scratch. This, of course, does not work when one morning - with his Bible under a stack of mortgages - Tom opens the door to find a black horse and a black man who says, 'Tom, you're come for.' Tom is thrown upon the horse and swiftly taken back to the old Indian fort and gone in a blaze of fire. Irving illustrates this moral through the use of an allegory, where the characters, objects and plot represent more than Simple elements of the story.

The Maze Runner is set in modern time in a place called the Glade. All of these boys, ages twelve to seventeen, are stuck in a place called the Glade. The only way to get out of the Glade is through a maze with giant walls, impossible to climb over. No one wants to be in the maze at night though, because that is when the Grievers come out. Grievers are very dangerous creatures that can kill someone in an instant.

Feeling the heat from the South Florida sun, the concrete under your feet, the smells of barbecue in the air, corona on the taste buds. The memory that I’m choosing is Sunday get together after church in my old neighborhood of west Opa Locka Miami Dade County. This memory is important due to it happened almost every week, and it was sort of a cooldown every week from all the craziness that went on in the neighborhood; where all the families would meet and become one big family.

The selfish attributes the dogs possess cause the friendships between them to fall apart. Although the dogs are considered a pack they do not deeply care for each other. The dogs mostly look out for themselves. When Bella and Athena are attacked with stones by the boys in the park and Bella attacks the them Atticus is excited because “They will come for her, but they will not come for us” (Alexis,25). When the problem arises that the dog 's territory is being threatened because of Bella and Athena 's action, Atticus does not worry and tells the dogs they will not have to leave because they will not be the ones targeted. The selfishness Atticus displays by not caring about the other dog’s safety is a critical reason on why his

The novel No Country for Old Man portrays a similar perception of the violence along the Mexican-American border, the struggles, and dangers that an immigrant faces. The character of Llewellyn Moss is being chased by Anton Chigurh, a serial killer with the purpose of murdering Moss and anyone who interferes in his goal. Moss took 2.4 million dollars from a drug cartel and his life is in line, “they would never stop looking for him. Never as, in never” (36). Not only is Moss undergoing thru fear and exasperation, it is also his wife, who is later reached by Chigurh. Many immigrants flee from their country for a “better life”, but mainly because of safety. Even though immigrants are settled and safe in the U.S., they experience

Her smile is what I want His humor is so dark Why do you taunt What happen to that spark The one we had is long gone

Then, Manuel ends up having to give up Buck to the man in the red sweater because he gambled and lost. The man in the red sweater puts him on a ship and brings him up north. After they arrive up north, Buck gets sold to Perrault and Francois. Perrault and Francois are sled dog trainers that work for the Canadian Government. He meets lots of new dogs there, including, Spitz, who Buck hated and ended up injuring and killing him for the leadership spot. Buck learns that the dogs up north there are cruel and try to stay away from as many fights as possible. Then, Perrault and Francois sell him and the other dogs to the Scotch Half Breed. The Scotch Half Breed is a mail delivery individual. Buck and the other fellow dogs learn that they have to pull extra hard because the mail sled is very abundant. Buck meets a few new dogs, but most of the dogs from Perrault and Francois came with him. After the Scotch Half Breed, Hal, Charles, and Mercedes buy the dogs from the Scotch Half Breed. Hal, Charles, and Mercedes have no clue what to do and how to survive there. They end up traveling up north even more, but the dogs are very weak and exhausted, and close

Dorothy, a farm girl from Kansas, lives with her Uncle Henry and Auntie Em. When Almira Gulch, brings a sheriff's order to take Dorothy's dog Toto away to be killed because Toto bit her leg. Auntie Em and Uncle Henry refuse, and they give the dog to Miss Gulch. As she rides away on her bike Toto jumps out of her basket and runs back him to Dorothy. She knows Miss Gulch will come back for the dog later, she runs away with Toto.

It was a gorgeous, clear sky Friday in April and today was going to be the best day ever. My class and I were going to our teachers, Mr.Ferguson’s, house because we had earned it by reading for reading month. He had told us that his house was so close by that we could walk to it. My friend Grace's nickname was ‘wagon’, and when we got to Mr.Ferguson's house there was a wagon her long lost cousin.

As invention of technology made life much easier to travel, everyone seems to be moving away from home. People are moving from place to place, from the rural or countryside to the urban and the cities. However, life in city are often depressing, hard and chaotic. It seem to be a place where rest does not seem to exist but is a constant movement of people and object. The streets are occupied by the poor, the homeless, and the screaming voices of desperate people making surviving seem impossible. There, everyone suffered from the nostalgia of their life and childhood days in the countryside, yearning for a better, peaceful and quiet life. The country music singer Tim McGraw and his wife Hill Faith sang “Meanwhile Back at Mama’s” to remind their