Perfect Places Chapter 1 Summary

Summary: Unfriended by, Rachel Vain, is about a girl named, truly, and her best friend, Hazel that went to middle school. They both know everything about each other. They just want to be invited to the most popular table at lunch. Then one day a girl named Natasha, came up to truly and invited turkey to come to the popular table, but it meant leaving her best friend, hazel. Truly didn’t care, she was excited, but she also was sorry for hazel.

In chapter nine, we get to witness yet another of Francisco’s relocations, this time to Fresno, to a strawberry farm. We also get to see Francisco go to school again, this time in the sixth grade, and make a new friend. This new friend is none other than his teacher, Mr. Lema, and he helps him improve his English, whilst also agreeing to teach him how to play the trumpet. Francisco’s hopes to learn the trumpet are quickly shattered when he goes home to see all of his belongings packed into cardboard boxes.

According to Corrie & Betsie Ten Boom, life was a faith-building experience. Those two women were faced with one of the toughest experiences of their lives. Each day, Corrie and Betsie had to persuade each other that everything was going to be okay, once they were free from the “hell”, or the concentration camp they were placed in. And, yet, Corrie and Betsie somehow managed to keep in mind that God was with them.

Greg Gaines is a senior at Benson High School. He navigates high school by gaining everyone’s acquaintances. His only real friend is Earl Jackson. One day, Greg’s mother tells him that his childhood friend, Rachel Kushner, is diagnosed with leukemia. Greg’s mother wants him to revive their friendship and make her feel better. As the book continues we see the three friends become closer. But the closer they get Rachel’s sickness gets worse. Eventually having Rachel end up on a hospital bed. Days led to weeks and Rachel wasn’t getting better. She started giving up hope, not fighting for herself. But on the night of the high school prom Greg decides to pay her a little visit. He gives her a flower and shows her a tape that she wouldn’t forget.

The parallel in the fist and fourteenth chapter is that they both are listening to the heartbeat of the earth. In chapter one Papa explains to Esperanza that the land is alive and if you lie down on the ground, you can feel and hear its breath and heartbeat. At first Esperanza can’t hear the heartbeat to which her father tells her “Wait a a little while, and the fruit will fall into your hand,” only when she takes her fathers advice does she hear the land’s heartbeat. Esperanza, Papa, and the land are all connected and there hearts beat as one. In chapter 14, Las Uvas (Grapes), Abuelita is brought home by Miguel who had taken Esperanza’s money to do so.

“On Entering a New Place” by Barry Lopez is a piece of work that will really make you think. By definition, a preconception is; a preconceived idea or prejudice. Preconceptions of unknown objects or beings could really affect a person, which is what happened to the man in this reading. In the first two paragraphs, a man is having preconceptions about the desert he is crossing, but when the third paragraph comes along, he says “You can’t get at it this way. You must come with no intention of discovery.” Implying that you cannot have preconceptions to things that you are not familiar with.

Paul Watt and Kevin Stenson, The Street: It’s a bit dodgy around there’ safety, danger, ethnicity and young people’s uses of public spaces, chapter 15 in Geographies of youth, youth cultures: Cool places The aim of this chapter is to question young people’s feelings and experiences when moving around a town in the South East of England. The town, named Thamestown by the authors. The area in which Thamestown is location, is described as a predominantly white, wealthy middle class area of the south east of England. Between June 1994 and July 1995 Watt, Stenson and other researchers investigated, how an ethnically mixed group of young people use public spaces in terms of danger and safety. Several key points arise in this chapter. Racial segregation

In chapter 19, Flora and Turtle are trying to follow the stock market. The price of WPP is rising. Crow doesn't want to go to the Westing house because it's too painful. Upstairs, the judge and Sandy discuss Crow. Her full name is Berthe Erica Crow, and she's divorced from Windy Windkloppel.

People who enjoy realistic-fiction novels that include sibling rivalry, sports, making life changes, and the tension of a dysfunctional family environment will be interested in reading this journal writing from the first person perspective of Paul Fisher. This novel includes characteristics of middle school encounters ; therefor, ages 10 and up will appreciate this

This novel was set during the post war period, this was a time when independence and rebelling against parents and law was more important than doing the right thing, during these times of independence, and teenagers needed friendship more than anything else.

Providing the two heroines with strong and engaging personalities, the novel portrays the life of two young Chinese girls, who because of historical events and family secrets, have to grow up faster than what they had planned. The book delivers emotional themes that are powerful yet familiar, and is written in a compelling manner.

‘I’ve been feeling weird all day.’ Shawn thought while lying down on the hospital bed fully awake. Upon hearing a sound, Shawn’s head shot up. ‘Sounds like someone’s coming, wait, it sounds like more than one person. I’m counting two. Huh, that’s weird, it’s 3:30 in the morning and the nurse already went through here on her rounds half an hour ago, strange.’ Shawn mused surprised. The footsteps were coming closer to his room so Shawn closed his eyes feigning sleep.

The Apple Tart of Hope by Sarah Moore Fitzgerald. The two main characters are Oscar and Paige best friends. Both Oscar and Paige have a close bond which seemed unbreakable until the Paige has to move to New Zealand and leave Oscar for a couple of months, which takes a turn for the worst leading to a broken friendship. In this book, it gives good lessons about trust and honesty.

Antigua is a small island that was discovered in 1493, by Christopher Columbus. The natives that lived there were made slaves by the British and the economy thrived on producing sugar. In 1834 the British abolished slavery giving Antigua its independence. The sugar industry was failing so the economy relied on tourism. A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid is about Antigua. Kincaid narrates her novel in second person, blaming the tourists for ruining the culture of Antigua. Kincaid explains that the British were cruel to the Antiguan people but she forgives them for it. Kincaid also talked about how the Government is currently corrupt and how beautiful Antigua’s land is. Kincaids novel is broken up into four parts that address all of these issues in Antigua.The way A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid was written is effective in the way that it tries to persuade and inform the readers.

Starla, a young girl who is same to the normal girls, and she wants to find a boy friend who can always stay with her at anytime. She is the main character in this story, and she has a boyfriend who was called Steve. Steve is a man who is really violent and possessive. He wants own Starla, he says that “It means you are mine.” Finally, they are breaking up, because she realized she can live by herself. I cannot say Steve is selfish, because none of boys want his girlfriends have a lot of contacts with other boys, especially, the body contacts. The theme of this story is every people have their own rights to live by themselves, even they are couples. It is really important for everyone to keep some space between each other, because it might