Quotes In Everything Matters By Ron Currie Jr.

George, the main character in the novel, uses expert power to help his friend Lennie. Expert power is someone who is using a high level of knowledge that others do not possess. In the novel, Lennie has a lack of intelligence. So because of that George uses his expert power to take care of Lennie and make the decisions for him. For example George once said, “Don’t ever speak to him. If he comes in here you move clear to the other side of the room” (Steinbeck 29). In this quote George was talking about how Lennie should stay away from Curley, because he believes that Curley will stir up some trouble for Lennie. This quote showed how George used his expert power to protect Lennie, because it showed how he gave Lennie good advice by using his power. George helped Lennie stay out of trouble by using his prior knowledge and helping him make the decision.

The Help by Kathryn Stockett gave everyone insight to the life of an African American woman in the early 1960s. The Help criticized racial inequality, and gives society an insider's view of segregation and fear of the status quo in their own race. Throughout the 1960s many African American woman worked in housekeeping. The novel follows the lives of three maids who are have a book wrote from their point of view. The story follows them as they go through the struggles of life and how stressful writing the book is on them because of time period and how dangerous it was to be seen with a person of the different race if you weren't working for them. Being seen with a person of the different race could get you labeled or worse thrown in jail for an integration violation.

The text "Dougy" the characters who arise to fear, dougy through being shy and facing the moodudda. Gracey through racial tension with the whites and about leaving the town with her. scholarship. cooper and his friends give into fear about how the blacks get everything for free and they get nothing. Characters in Dougy when faced with fear and panic either rise to the challenge or give into fear.

“Bartleby is blind but he sees. The lawyer has eyesight but he is blind. Unlike Bartleby, he does not know where he is. He is in prison without knowing it. He has learned nothing. He has gained no insight into himself or into his society, and he has gained no understanding of Bartleby’s rebellion. He has denied his own capacity to love. What remains is only the sentimentality that emerges in his final words of pity and self-pity. “Ah Bartleby! Ah Humanity!” (Melville, p. 45) (Shulman, p. 22)

“As long as you live, shine feel no grief at all Life is short Life demands its toll” (Pilich).

Dunstan Ramsay is Fifth Business The novel Fifth Business by Robertson Davies is a fictional autobiography of the narrator, Dunstan Ramsay. Dunstan outlines his life experiences and pays special attention to saints and religion, both of which interest him. Although the story is about Dunstan, he seems to have a supporting role in the lives of others. In this book, Dunstan Ramsay is referred to as: Fifth Business because he is the one who knows the secret of the hero’s birth, or comes to the assistance of the heroine when she thinks all is lost, or keeps the hermitess in her cell, or may even be the cause of somebody’s death if that is part of the plot.

An Ordinary Man by Paul Rusesabagina takes the audience through a journey of expression and of events that occurred during the Rwandan genocide. In the autobiography, Paul shows many emotions and several tones. The most frequent one was emotional. three direct quotes that demonstrate this tone are, “the person's throat whose you don't cut will be the one who cuts yours”(), “ I was a hotel manager doing his job”(190), and ¨their uniqueness was gone..loved ones erased with a few swings of a cheap machete¨

Many people today can’t bare life without their fathers. But when your whole family dies except for two of your sisters, that really hurts(Berger). Sometimes people take family for granted our family. They think “Nothing will happen to me and my family”, till something happens to a loved one. Weather it is a disease or cancer, or even death. It can change you life forever.

Hannibal - granto landing, MO (Chp 1-6) - Huck and Tom sneak into the Widows Garden. They later go to a cave with a group of men and tom says that they are the new gang. Miss Watson tries to explain prayer,to Huck. - Miss Watson is someone who wants to help Huck. She wants to teach him right from wrong.

John Hale a man of many mysteries. In the beginning he had an evil mystique about him. As though he was the one inspiring the witch trials, trying to convict everybody, even though they hadn't did anything wrong. Though as the book progressed he eventually turned out to be a completely different man than expected. John Hales approach to the witch trials.

2) The story of Tom Sawyer takes place in the 1800s, a time where racial discrimination was recurring within many of the communities in the United States. Various characters within the book such as Tom and Huck have dialogue that uses the aforementioned prejudice towards Native and African Americans like after the murder of Muff Potter, "Tom we got to keep mum. You know that. That Injun devil wouldn't make any more of drownding us than a couple of cats." or "She's a goner, just as dead sure as Muff Potter's a goner. That's what the niggers say, and they know all about these kind of things, Huck." Whenever someone is to mention these phrases during conversation, no one had argued in the opposition because in this period Missouri was a slave

The book, Inherit The Wind, written by Lawrence and Lee is based on a true event called, “The John Scopes Monkey Trial”, which happened in Tennessee in 1925. This book is about a trail of Evolution versus The Bible. In the book Inherit The Wind there are lots of people but one of them as the biggest reputation and that person is Matthew Harrison Brady is a famous politician loved by the people of Hillsboro. He believes in the word of the bible. He argued against Henry Drummond in the trial of Bertram Cates versus Hillsboro. Unfourntently Brady's negative character traits cause him to lose popularity over the course of the trial. These negative traits are arrogance, need for attention, and closed-mindedness.

Predictions: My predicted of this chapter was that it was going to say the same thing that I was thinking. But guess not. But as I started reading further into the book it give you some interest ways to so what or who care. But my real prediction was that the writer of this book” they say I say “was give us permission to literally saying who care and starting an argument with the writer of the book.

"We are always in great shape when we role with God in our heart, mind, body, and spirit, because there is nothing to fear, but God; so who are you?" ~ Jon Barnes

When a loved when is gone it feels like a hole in the world. With much grief he says, “Never again will anyone inhabit the world the way he did. Questions I have can never now get answers. The world is emptier. My son is gone. Only a hole remains, Avoid, a gap, never to be filled”(33). This phrase describes his emotions and how he views the world without his son. The author gives advice on what to say to someone who is mourning. He says to never say its Ok because its never okay and death is awful. “ What I need to hear from you is that you recognize how painful it is. I need to hear from you that you are with me in my desperation” (34). When some passes away no one really knows what his or her loved ones are feeling because each death is unique and each person is different. The wisest of words don’t even make the pain go away, and all that can be done is lending an ear to listen, a shoulder to lean on.