Poppy Chapter Summaries

In this chapter we start seeing a flow threw the book Etta Mae is getting back from another one of her trips and is coming to her home which she shares with her good friend Mattie Michaels. As she arrives in a new car , with a new outfit and carrying records. This chapter the author , Gloria Naylor adds in song lyrics to give us the reader some additional information on the evens happing . “I love my man I’m a liar if I say I don’tI love my man I’m a liar if I say I don’t But I’ll quit my man I’m a liar if I say I won’t I’ve been your slave, baby Ever since I’ve been your babe I’ve been your slave Ever since I’ve been your babe But before I’ll be your dogI’ll see you in your grave My man wouldn’t give me no breakfast Wouldn’t give me no dinner Squawked about me supper then he put me outdoors Had the nerve to lay a matchbox on my clothes I didn’t have so many But I had a long, long way to go”

However, Eleanor could not alter her absolute reality of loneliness. The commonality of the absolute reality between Eleanor and the Hill House is what strengthened their connection, which became crucial in the story. In Chapter Nine, Eleanor heard her mother's’ voice while being haunted by the Hill House: “What fools they are, she thought; now I will have to go into the library. ‘Mother, Mother,’ she whispered, ‘Mother’, and she stopped at the library door, sick… I can feel the whole house and heard even Mrs. Montague protesting, and Arthur, and then the doctor, clearly, ‘We’ve got to look for her; everyone please hurry.’” (Jackson, 169-170). In this point of the story, the connection between the House and Eleanor is stronger than ever, and Eleanor’s isolation from the rest of the group intensifies the connection. Eleanor sees what the House sees, and the House is in control of Eleanor’s thoughts and actions. The House intended for Eleanor to be separated from the group in order to surround her with the absolute reality of loneliness. As the Gothic heroine, Eleanor needs to be saved from her fate in order to live by the Gothic Hero. The character of Luke Sanderson does not suit the traditional Gothic hero, but does try and save Eleanor from her mortal fate when she climbed the iron stairway in Chapter Nine. Luke manages to save Eleanor from the danger

Twelve-year-old Emily is on the move again. Her family is relocating to San Francisco, home of her literary idol: Garrison Griswold, creator of the online sensation Book Scavenger, a game where books are hidden all over the country and clues to find them are revealed through puzzles. But Emily soon learns that Griswold has been attacked and is in a coma, and no one knows anything about the epic new game he had been poised to launch. Then Emily and her new friend James discover an odd book, which they come to believe is from Griswold and leads to a valuable prize. But there are others on the hunt for this book, and Emily and James must race to solve the puzzles Griswold left behind before Griswold's attackers make them their next

In this section it opens on a small town named Holcomb which is located in Kansas. Mr. Herb Clutter wakes up and eats a light breakfast, while on the complete other side of the state Perry Smith smokes a cigarette as his breakfast and then his friend Dick Hickock comes to pick him up. Nancy Clutter is awoken by a phone call and she arranges to meet with her friend to teach her how to make cherry pies. After she makes cherry pies with Jolene she leaves and Bonnie Clutter shows Jolene her collection of miniatures. Jolene goes to bed depressed as she usually is. Herb Clutter is on the way home from a 4-H meeting while the killers are slowly approaching Holcomb, the Clutters go about their day as per usual. Dick and Perry stop to buy rope and gloves. Meanwhile Kenyon Clutter is in the basement building a hope chest for one of his older sisters. Kenyon is fifteen years old and interested in anything but girls. Perry remembers that the reason he came to Kansas in

Eleanor Douglas and Park Sheridan are clearly outcasts amongst all of those around them. Eleanor because she is very poor and comes from a home of many siblings with an abusive stepfather. Park because he is half-Korean and his primary interest is comic books and mixtapes. The two misfits meet on a school bus on Eleanor’s first day at a new school in Omaha, Nebraska. Eleanor, wearing men’s clothing and having a full figure, is the perfect target for the bullies on the bus of whom will not let her take a seat. As if to her rescue, Park offers a place for Eleanor to sit on the way to school.

Although Eleanor is not running from the police, she is running around the city trying to protect her husband from impending danger. Beyond that, she is searching for the love she once shared with her husband. At the beginning of this film, Eleanor is snarky and resentful towards her husband. She doesn’t like the lifestyle of a starving artist; having to barter for goods and constantly drifting from place to place. Eleanor longs for stability, something her husband has yet to provide her.

Wacobi goes out to walk the busy streets of Spain, he loves the walk from his parents villa and unlike America, and Spain is quiet and less confusing….

The book describes that many homes of people who suffered from pellagra were unsanitary when removing sewage waste, thus transmitted by a microorganism, which is believed to have carried the disease, by direct contact with infected human excrement. But this explanation was not quite right. Many people failed to see alternative explanations. People also then observed that individuals who were pellagra victims were also malnourished. To pinpoint the cause of pellagra, a surgeon, his wife, and his assistants ate a ball of flour and small amounts of feces and urine from two pellagra patients. Not one person came down with the disease and so the surgeon looked for individuals on a more malnourished diet, prisoners at a local prison. The surgeon

Ezra Faulkner was like any other popular, handsome, male jock. He “owned” the popular kid table, was a star athlete, and was dating the most popular girl in school. That was, until he got in a car accident. The accident left Ezra with a shattered knee joint, enabling him from ever playing sports again. His hopes and dreams went down the drain. Suddenly Ezra was thrown in a new world filled with completely different people. Ezra has a hard time moving on in the story, but he attempts to move on several times. Ezra develops through these events, giving us the theme that even though it’s not easy, sometimes you just have to move on.

In the beginning of the book the reader is introduced to Amy and Dan Cahill. The children are in a car on the way to their recently deceased grandmother's property. Upon their arrival they are greeted by all branches of the family, they are all there for the reading of Amy and Dan’s grandmother’s will. To everyone's surprise instead of all being given different sums of money or property they are offered one million dollars or a single clue that will render them the most powerful Cahill. Dan is content with the million dollars , however amy forces him to take the clue and they give up their money. Dan and Amy are given their first clue ; Amy is baffled so she decides to go to her grandmother’s library . She then solves the clue and figures out

During High School a teen goes through a lot of conflict with many different people. Eleanor, a character in the book “Eleanor and Park”, is a great example of what some teens are going through today. Eleanor is forced to sit next to Park, a kid that reads comics and listens to punk, on the first day of school. They both could not be any more different. It also doesn’t help that she is over the average weight and is made fun of at school for her looks. And with Eleanor struggling with her home life and her step dad Richie, Park becomes a safe spot for Eleanor. Richie is very protective of what goes on in his house so when he finds out about both of them together, it's not good. But Eleanor eventually finds a way to deal with everything and leave some things behind.

Richie’s House: Eleanor is sent back to Omaha from a good friend of her mother’s, the Hickman’s, home when they get sick of catering to Eleanor. “Mr. Hickman kept telling his wife [...] “she’s not ours.”(36). Forced against her will to stay with her mother and now stepfather, Richie. Like her broken family, Eleanor now lives in a broken down home, Sharing one small bedroom with her four younger siblings and uses a bathroom connected to the kitchen. “This house was designed by cave trolls”(17). This is where Eleanor’s narrative really steals the spotlight. Her step-dad is

After finding out Richie knows Eleanor’s secret, Eleanor immediately flees Omaha to go to her uncle’s house in Minnesota. Park tells Eleanor to write letters and call often, she does not say anything. As Eleanor gets into her uncle’s house she realizes she needs more time with Park and runs outside to find him, but he has already left. Eleanor is surrounded by dozens of unopened letters, comics, and mix-tapes sent by Park. She never opens them. Park is completely destroyed by Eleanor leaving and the lack of a single letter or call. Park ends up going to prom with another girl, and although he says holding her hand was like holding a mannequin, this seems wrong. Park is in love with Eleanor, so he should not have gone with someone else to prom. This takes away from the charming love in the novel. Finally, Eleanor sends a postcard. Park opens it, and it reads just three words. The novel does not tell the reader what those three words are, but the reader can take a good guess. This ending was to short, and did not reveal enough information about Eleanor and Park in the

“Mommy, mommy, mommy!” my thoughts are abruptly interrupted, “Look, we made you breakfast!” As I sit up I try to inconspicuously wipe the tears away, I see my sweet Kylie carrying a plate with scrambled eggs, bacon, grits, and toast, nearly dropping it on the floor with her excitement. Hurrying behind her is Jaxon with a handful of fresh flowers; for only 3 years old he sure is growing up to be quite the gentleman. “Wow, all of this for me? You two are the best kids in the world” I told them. They climb up the bed to sit on each side of me. I place the plate on my lap and add the flowers to the others in the vase on my bedside table. “Well, daddy helped a little bit” says Jaxon. I look up and see my loving husband standing in the doorway, “Come on daddy there’s enough room for you, too. You can sit next to me” Kylie says to her father. Sean walks over and flops on the bed playfully causing the kids and I to bounce up as if we were on a trampoline; we all burst out into laughter. I finish the last few bites on my plate and

Hooraying and yahooing we race home for summer vacation. Quickly the neighborhood turns into a paradise for kids with space to recklessly bike ride, chalk games of hopscotch on hot sidewalks, run like mad during red rover, and swing, slide, and build castles in the sandbox from early morning till dark. Yet, the time with Christine is the best; we are inseparable. Living at the other end of our block, across the street in a little white house, she is part of the neighborhood antics but our favorite pastime is cutting out paper dolls. Feeling like grown up six-year-olds, we walk the three blocks to my Great Uncle Lyle’s stationary store where we drool over the variety of paper doll sets. From time to time he awards me a set, but I remember one day when he doesn’t and being quite full of myself, Christine and I select our paper dolls, march to the counter, and inform the clerks to charge it to my mother. Racing home to get our scissors, we find my mother waiting at the door. Dragging our feet and with long faces we reverse our path, returning empty handed, to spend the remainder of the day creating dolls out of corn husks and silk. Other days we arrange furniture in the enormous dollhouse at my grandparents and one afternoon grandpa allows us to paint it. It doesn’t matter what we are doing, the principal thing is that we are together. Sadly, the summer before the start of Fourth Grade, Christine moves to California with her family. My soul mourns for years and I