Rash By Pete Hautman Analysis

Hospitals are meant to help some people heal physically and others mentally. In the novel One Who Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey published in 1962, readers are introduced to a mental hospital that has goals that do not align with helping people. Within the hospital, characters with varied personalities and opinions are intermixed with three main characters playing specific roles with supporting characters close by. With the characters’ motivations, themes develop such as the emasculation of the men in the hospital by an oppressive nurse. Symbols, such as laughter and the “combine”, are also pertinent to themes as the readers watch the men transitioning from being oppressed to being able to stand up for themselves causing change in hospital policy.

He was watching the TV approximately 12:30 p.m. when the armed individuals burst in and asked for his prescribed hydromorphone pills. One of the robbers said, “Give the pills up, it’s not worth getting shot over.”

The book “House Arrest” by K.A. Holt is about a boy named Timothy who was on probation. Timothy was on house arrest for an year so that means he has to stay out of trouble, write in a journal, check in with a therapist, and a probation officer for a whole year. But as time went by it got harder and harder for him to stay out of trouble especially when he has to help his family stop struggling with some problems. As Timothy is struggling with his sick brother, a mom that has depression, and a horrible probation officer he has to find some solutions to help his family and follow the rules while he is on house arrest.

Center field by Robert Lipsyte was an extraordinary book about Mike Semak is basically home alone. His parents, coming home only on occasion, fret over every detail of his high school career while spending all their time at their new flooring store. A passing altercation in a hallway with another student draws threats of lawsuits and criminal charges. Mike’s baseball team, and much of his school, Ridgedale High, is run by Coach Cody, a mysterious former Army Ranger hired as “dean of discipline” because “there had been gang violence and drug dealing in nearby New Jersey towns. The school board was afraid it would spread to Ridgedale.”

The book is about a 15 year old named Maurice Anderson who lives in a bad part of New York, and gets sent to Juvie for stealing prescription pads, from a drug store and selling them to a local

When disaster strikes, two responses exist: lose hope, or find an inner strength to rise above. “Werner” is an essay where the author, Jo Ann Beard, presents the idea of rediscovering yourself, rebuilding a life after loss, and rising above adversity. Werner, Beard’s main character, finds that the only way to truly move on after a tragedy is to take a leap into what is unfamiliar. After a fire burns down everything Werner has, he is forced to grow and become a new man, leaving his old life behind. Throughout the essay, Beard illustrates a man who faces challenges to his sense of self, and who sequentially must change and become someone new to find who he is again. Beard’s use of the third person, candid diction, and conflict resolution compose an elaborate work that focuses on the concept of becoming a new and better person after a traumatic event.

This book is about a teenage boy named Kamran who is the star on the football team and is very smart. His brother Darius is in the military and Kamran wants to join the military like his brother. One day, Darius is blamed for a terrorist attack on the U.S. Kamran’s life is completely flipped upside down and the people he thought were his friends have now turned on him and his family. Kamran has to find ways

In this book a boy named Haroon and a boy named Jay get a point of view. Jay is white, kind of a jock, and on the football team. Haroon is brown, smart and on the Reach for the Top team(which is like a team that answers trivia and competes with other schools). It all starts off when the school goes on a lockdown where police are rushing in the school with dogs and bombarding the hallways. Jay and his friends Kevin and Steve go on the rooftop of the school thinking it is just a regular drill, but then they look down and see a bunch of police cars and they see police that look like swat teams. They see down that the police has taken 2 brown kids with handcuffs. When they go back down the principal makes an announcement telling all students to leave the building immediately.

The book Stand Off by Andrew smith is a sequel to his other book Winger. The book starts in the senior year of the main character Ryan Dean West. All Ryan wanted was to relax in his last year at Pine Mountain, but instead he is haunted by his past. His coach expects him to be the new captain and take his dead friends positions on the rugby team as the “Stand Off”, then somehow he gets roomed with a twelve year old names Sam Abernathy, a cooking wiz with extreme claustrophobia. Things gets worse when Ryan starts to only draw N.A.T.E( The Next, Accidental, Terrible, experience) which means he can't even draw for fun anymore. Throughout this book the author tries to show how a teanager would handle death and friends in high school.

In the novel Raw by Scott Monk, we are introduced to Brett Dalton, a troubled teen who finds himself in a juvenile detention center after getting caught stealing a car. As readers, we are taken on a journey of self-discovery as Brett learns to face his past mistakes and take control of his life. Monk's raw and honest portrayal of Brett's experiences captivates readers and sheds light on the harsh realities of the juvenile justice system. The title 'Raw' is a perfect depiction of Brett's journey throughout the novel. He starts off as a rebellious and selfish teenager, constantly getting into trouble and only caring about himself.

Zero tolerance policies arose during the late 1980’s in response to a rising tide of juvenile arrests for violent offenses and the expanding view of youth as dangerous. During this time discipline in educational settings became much more formal and rigid. Discretion was removed from teachers and administrative staff in favor of broadly instituted policies, which often involved law enforcement and arrest. In 1994 Congress passed the Gun-Free Schools Act, which forced states to pass laws mandating expulsion for a minimum of one year for bringing a weapon to school in order to receive federal education funds. By the mid 90’s roughly 80% of schools had adopted zero tolerance policies beyond the federal requirements and in response the federal government began to increase funding for security guards and other school based law enforcement officers and equipment. These changes occurred primarily between 1996 and 2008 and mirrored changes in the juvenile justice system to more closely emulate the adult system.

This summer I’ve read the book Heat by Mike Lupica. This baseball themed book is a out of the park excitement. It’s about a 12 year old cuban boy named Michael who is newly orphaned but loves to throw killer heat. But everything goes downhill when Michael can't prove his age by a lost birth certificate and gets kicked off the team. Michael tries to do his best by supporting the team by the sidelines. It gets worst, since his brother Carlos is only 17, they have to stay in the shadows so they don't get separated into foster homes.

In the words of the philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, “Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.” In other words, humans harbor an ever present looming evil nature within themselves. Evil is the force in nature that governs and gives rise to wickedness and sin, or the wicked or immoral part of someone. This concept of inner evil rising to the surface permeates William Golding’s dystopian novel Lord of the Flies, that evil exists in every human, proven through the characterization of the marooned boys. There is foreshadowing of the dangers of the boys’ inner immorality from one of the boys, Simon. As the novel progresses, evil starts asserts itself as the boys cast off their innocence and humanity, and turning against each other. Even the

Throughout Canadian history, Issues of ethnicity and race have been a prevalent problem as a multicultural society. The novel In The Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje, Ondaatje shines a light upon to the forgotten immigrant workers by creating intersection between history and fiction effectively shows us the overall poor treatment the forgotten immigrant workers who built Toronto’s waterworks and viaducts because of racism, marginalization and difference while also highlighting them in a positive light.