Rae Of Hope Chapter Summary

“You don't understand the power of loss when it first hits you like a baseball coming fast from an out-of-control pitcher. You reel back stinging from the blow.” (Bauer,162). Throughout the novel Hope Was Here we see characters go through struggles and gain strength to overcome them. In our everyday lives we have struggles that we also have to overcome. In the novel Hope Was Here, one of the characters Braverman has to choose his family or education. The character Addie, faces the struggle of miscarrying three babies. In my life I have struggles and so do the people around me. For instance, my grandma went through the struggle of losing her husband. From this novel it is learned that if there's no struggle there's no strength.

In Call Me Hope by Gretchen Olson, Hope is a twelve year old girl trying to escape the reality of her verbally abusive mother who has basically shred her life to pieces. She struggles to get through daily life dealing with her mother who brings her down every time she finds a reason to be happy. Hope, whose father left when she was a baby because she cried too much (according to her mother) has to tiptoe around the house and be as quiet as possible to avoid interfering with her mother. Hope tries to do everything to please mother so she can attend Outdoor School which she has been dreaming about forever. In Abduction by Peg Kehret, 5-year old Matt is kidnapped by his selfish father which he has never seen before while walking out of his kindergarten

This paper will focus on the Statue of Dionysos leaning on a female figure. Also known as the Hope Dionysos. The statue is displayed at the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art and is located on the first floor Roman and Greek art chamber. Upon entering this sector, you will notice a grand statue that catches your eyes and captivates you as it welcomes you in gracefully. The exhibition is set up in the back center of the room, and is noticeable due to the largeness in scale and the enigmatic yet calming disposition the statue portrays. My first impression of the sculpture was how detailed and realistic the statue is. Since the statue was so defined you would be able to identify what he was wearing and how his body was shaped to how long his hair was during this time period. I was profoundly intrigued by how peaceful the statue of Dionysos embodied and found myself coming back to it and looking in awe. In curiosity, I would choose this statue for my assignment because I wanted to learn more about the history of the Hope Dionysos. In this essay I will be describing my formal analysis of the artwork, the subject matter behind it, the artist and the historical content of the statue of Dionysos.

Question 8: Analyse how specific techniques were used to portray inspiring ideas in a visual; or oral text.

"And, Aylmer, spare me not, though you should find the birthmark take refuge in my heart at last." Aylmer was overly joyed with Georgiana’s decision and immediately started planning the attempt of removing the birthmark. Aylmer “Georgiana, you have led me deeper than ever into the heart of science.” Aylmer without ever thinking back on his dream he set forth with the surgery. Georgiana awoke and looked into the mirror to see that the birth-mark no longer appeared. Georgianna’s birth-mark had disappeared but she wasn’t at her best, “My poor Aylmer," she repeated, with a more than human tenderness, "you have aimed loftily; you have done nobly. Do not repent that with so high and pure a feeling, you have rejected the best the earth could offer. Aylmer, dearest Aylmer, I am

In “The Birthmark” we first learn about the main character named Aylmer. He is fascinated with science. “He has devoted himself, however, too unreservedly to scientific studies ever to be weaned from them by any second passion” (Hawthorne 952) He eventually finds love with his wife Georgianna, but there is something about her he just will not seem to take much longer. Georgianna has a red birthmark on her cheek which is the shape of a small hand. While she thinks it is beautiful, the most important person in her life doesn’t feel the same way. In fact, Aylmer is truly disgusted and in shock by her mark, claiming it is a “visible mark of earthly imperfection” (Hawthorne 953). Finally telling his wife how he feels, Georgianna is in disbelief. She is upset, hurt, and confused, even questioning their marriage as she tells him “You cannot love what shocks you!” (Hawthorne 953). The last thing she would have thought is that the person she planned to spend the rest of her life with doesn’t see her beauty mark the way she does.

Georgiana had always lived with the birthmark, and was quite fond of its charm. Many people in the town believe it was a fairy’s handprint left to sway all hearts; to them the mark only magnified her appeal. The mark’s charm had rarely been questioned by anyone other than the jealous women of the town, and its peculiar nature had once intrigued Aylmer and amplified his attraction to Georgiana. He begged for her hand in marriage, but soon after they were wed, he queried whether Georgiana had ever considered having the birthmark removed. She was hurt by the implication that the mark depreciated her and grew upset with her husband. As time passed, Aylmer continued to stare at the mark, unable to keep his eyes from wandering to it. This continued until Georgiana was no longer able to ignore the way his eyes were always fixated on this sole imperfection, the crimson hand that kept him up at night and plagued his dreams. She asked Aylmer to remove the mark, or take her life because she no longer wanted to live if she had to live with the mark. She preferred death to the harsh scrutiny from her husband.

“The Shawshank redemption” is a film in which Andy Dufresne is wrongfully given two life sentences for the murder of his wife and her lover and is sent to the Shawshank prison where Andy is subjected to a variety of different beatings by the guards and other inmates, even being raped by other inmates. After getting involved with doing the guards taxes the crooked warden forces him to hide his many untaxed revenues. After Andy escapes he leaves the jail in scandal by giving evidence to the press surrounding the warden’s dodgy dealings. This paper will be analysing how the director, Frank Darabont uses stylistic features to present the idea of hope in the film. The primary features used in this film was symbolism but there is the use of lighting

Based on this reading, it seems like many students at this school are not able to achieve success because of the environment that they're in. There are a lot of violence in the school and the teachers aren’t that great. In the reading, The Hope in The Unseen, it states, “With the school’s dropout/ transfer rate at nearly 50 percent, it’s understandable that kids at Ballou act as though they’re passing through. Academics are a low priority, so stop to read the names of the honor students as they jostle by the bulletin board.” At Ballou, teachers often look down upon students that are not top in the class and with that being the case, those kids end up not finding the purpose of doing good in school.

It was easier to be afraid, in a way, when she really had no clue about what was really going on in her

Ree Dolly: A Hero Among Criminals and Degenerates The novel Winter’s Bone, by Daniel Woodrell, is the story of a teenage girl whose name is Ree Dolly. Ree is a high school dropout who takes care of her younger siblings Sonny and Harold, as well as her vacant mother Connie who is an empty shell of her former self. Jessup is one of the best methamphetamine (crank) cooks in the Ozark’s, the area in which the characters live in. His career path, however, puts him into deep trouble with different factions such as the crank dealers and the police, and this forces Jessup to leave his home as a man on the run.

While reading chapter six Axis of Hope it was interesting to learn about the Muslim culture. I enjoyed reading about how following Jesus wasn’t allowed. Almost 800,000 people in Iran follow Jesus, but its costly to those who do. Most who did follow Jesus were either imprisoned or killed. To think being imprisoned or killed for expressing what you believe in is unthinkable.

But Aylmer overlooks the precious and pursues the superficial by asserting that the birthmark is “the visible mark of earthly imperfection,” and that it “shocks” him. Georgiana perceives a lack of love in his overdone negative reaction to the birthmark: ``Then why did you take me from my mother's side? You cannot love what shocks you!''

The Film “The Shawshank Redemption” shows a common theme which seemed to be the effect of hope in grim circumstances. Hope for something better, hope to keep your head up when you’re locked in a call for a crime, hope for a better future. The film tells a story of Andy Dufresne the main character, a banker who is sentenced to life in prison for the murder of his wife and her lover, despite the claims of innocence. While in prison Andy just like many others uses hope has a way of survival. Andy viewed hope as an important tool.

Many times, authors have a title to their work that can be intriguing and thought provoking, as if it were bait to an inevitable hook that would catch and keep you enthralled. In Alan Lawson’s circumstance, this is not the case. In Lawson’s A Commonwealth of Hope: The New Deal Response to Crisis, the title is very straight forward, as most would expect from a work mainly targeting the attentions of colleagues and other scholarly minds. The highly biographical book leads its readers on a chronological story of the Great Depression, the social and political life of Franklin Roosevelt and the progression of reformist ideas that sparked the New Deal.