Rhian Savage Characters

I am reading Blades of Glory by John Rosengren and I am on page 179. This book is about a hockey team from Canada. The name of the hockey team is the Fighters. The main character is named Blake. Blake is 16 years old and is the captain of his team. Blake is a very positive leader but he has serious family problems. Blake’s dad passed away when Blake was ten. Blake was extremely upset about his father’s death and Blake considered quitting hockey. Blake’s mom did not let Blake quit because she knew that Blake’s dad loved watching him play. Blake was elected captain of his high school hockey team. Blake was determined to be the greatest captain he could possibly be. The team is doing very well, and made it to the section championship game. Blake was injured, but he

Saul’s life mirrors that of Fred Sasakamoose who was the first native to play in the National Hockey League and like Saul, Fred was continually running away from his past throughout his entire career. Saul starts of the story by explaining how he lost this vision of the game. He explains how he wishes he could go back to the times that he had that ability however he is incapable of doing so. Right from the start Saul explains how he used Hockey as an escape from reality. Sadly his reality is being a native boy stuck in a residential school in a country that is incredibly racist towards natives. This sensation of escape is also portrayed in the way Saul describes his play style. He often refers to the sense of freedom on the ice and uses it frequently throughout the novel to escape whatever situation he happens to find himself in at the particular time in his life. The first major indication of this in the novel is when Saul used hockey as an escape from his solitude in St Jerome’s residential school and how it finally allowed him to be accepted by the older boys in the school. The strongest evidence of how hockey provided an escape for Saul and native players is when Saul gets an offer to play for a native reserve tournament team called the Moose, in Manitouwadge.

Everything is fine and well until after a regular training day finley gets approached by coach saying he would like to have dinner . At this dinner coach has bad news he says that he has friends that were just murdered ,so their son will be moving to Bellmont and he is a national high school star . Coach say he shouldn’t tell anyone about the details jus6t that he came from back west . Coach also says that he would like for Finley to talk and “hang with him , because he believes they have somethings in common.

There were many events that happened in his childhood. He was born in Brantford, Canada. He started playing hockey when he was two. He was outside playing hockey with his friends anytime he could. He went to high school in Sault Ste but he left before graduating. Then he played for jurors, then the Edmonton Oilers ask him to play for them.

Where the situation gets interesting is that Brampton which is Montreal and Laval’s true affiliate has already sent their young goaltender Michael McNiven to the Beast and per Murray Pam of Sporting News Canada He was told a week ago team directive was to play McNiven as much as possible.

Throughout The Martian by Andy Weir, leading botanist and mechanical engineer aboard the Ares 3 - Mark Watney -experiences hardships that drive his biggest question: will I survive. Watney struggles to make ends meet as he tries to survive on Mars in a makeshift habitat, and attempts to communicate with his fellow crewmates as well as NASA. As a result of Watney’s circumstances, isolation is a major theme of The Martian, and this theme is showcased throughout his various trials and tribulations.

Roch Carrier’s The Hockey Sweater captures Canada’s essence and the complexity between linguistic and national tensions that was felt between the English- and French- Canadians. The story follows a young boy living in a small village in Quebec as he navigates his way around hockey season, school, and church. One day when his favorite hockey sweater has become too small for him and torn, his mother gives him another that proves to be problematic in the young boy’s life.

Throughout this tournament in Espanola, the Moose are introduced to a scout from Toronto, by the name of Jack Lanahan, who gives Saul an invitation to the Marlboros, an NHL team. Saul agrees with the invitation, and heads down to Toronto to join the Marlies. During his time there, he enrolls in the rookie training camp, where he starts scrimmages with the other rookies. However, “Once the scrimmages began, none of the other players would call me or send the puck my way. They weren’t tough or violent. They just ignored me. I skated around the perimeter of the play like I didn’t exist” (159). Prejudice towards Saul appears in the form of disregard in the rookie camp; all the other rookies turn a blind eye to him, leaving his competency of the

Junior ends up just going home and he hears some bad news. His grades are slipping. They say if he can get drafted this year, they will help him with his grades. He accepts an offer once again. Now the “All-Star” is more determined and motivated.

The Huaorani people face many challenges throughout their endeavors in protecting the rainforest in Ecuador for themselves, or at least from those that want to terrorize their indigenous territories. The Huaorani people fight back to try and restore their land, and by doing so they have to fight by using environmental organizations to have them help succeed in their journey. Organizations, such as ONHAE, CONFENIAE, Via AUCA, and many others will help the Huaorani indigenous peoples fight back in order to save their rainforest in Ecuador.

Ice hockey is a major part of the socialization process of young Canadians, beginning when a child puts ice skates on for the first time. The organization of youth hockey at a young age, most likely from the time a child is a toddler, is the institution in which many children in Canada grow up in, besides of course, their family household, unless his or her parents decide to send their child off to another province or city to live with another family in order to play hockey, in which the child must adapt to this new environment. Through enculturation by hockey, children learn the values of the game on both a small scale, the game itself, and a wide scale, a positive outlook on life,

In the novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley , the world state is not just an ordinary world. It’s a world where babies are created inside incubators, without parents. A world where everyone is designed to be a certain way and assigned to certain beliefs. John known as “The Savage” is the one character that is taken away from his home from the other side and is brought to a civilized society where he now lives in denial from all the drugs and sexual temptations which at the end leads to Johns choice to suicide.

The Merriam-Webster definition of Savage: not domesticated or under human control or lacking the restraints normal to civilized human beings. This definition along with abounding others refers to animal activity. However it is more common for humans to do something savage or cruel than it is for animals.

Bowling argues, just how modern Hockey is become too political and is affecting the authentic of players performances skill due to economic gain through marketing and endorsements. “That Don Cherry can use his few minutes of nationally televised screen-time every week to lobby for increased support of Canada's armed forces proves just how powerfully the hockey/nationhood .This explains notions of patriotism and manhood

A story to consider Epic needs to have a heroic character, like The history of the Kings of Britain, demonstrated by describing each king and his adventures during their lifetime. Indeed, most of the epic stories are realistic, but like Dr. McDonie described in his lecture notes, the book was mostly invented. Indeed, about 99 of the kings that seen in the story, 70 were invented by Geoffrey of Monmouth. Additionally, the introduction of romance to the story will change the perspective of women and question the reader, where they have been in the entire book. As a matter of fact, I agree with my classmate Dung Dinh with his point of view, of whom the book was written to. Considering that Britain was conquest in 1066 by the Normans, the book