The novel, Armada, is a sci-fi narrative about an eighteen year old schoolboy whose world revolved around a fictional game called Armada. His name is Zack Lightman and he lives with his mother in Beaverton, Oregon, where he is also a senior in highschool and an employee at a secondhand video game store called Starbase Ace. His father died when he was less than a year old, and he has two close friends who are also seniors in his high school. I chose the theme of sacrifice, which is expressed well in this book. There are other themes that could fit into this book, but sacrifice is the one that I feel conveys this book well. Armada opens up with our protagonist, Zack Lightman. Zack is pretty much just an average kid in high school. He has decent grades and a bit of a temper. He is in his seventh period english class with a half an hour left and he can't wait for it to end. Outside he sees a glaive fighter, an enemy ship in the ever so popular video game Armada, an MMORPG, made by Chaos Terrain, that you pilot a remote drone from a base and fight off alien invaders. Zack thinks he is hallucinating and ignores it, not telling anyone in fear of being made fun of and laughed at. He looks back at his two friends, who play the other …show more content…
Zack finds a seat by a girl that he thinks is attractive and they chat for a while before the room darkens and people go up to the podium in front of them. Zack recognizes the first one as an EDA (Earth Defence Alliance) general from Armada and he talks about an invasion that is headed towards Earth in three waves, each one bigger than the other. The general shows a video to the new recruits about them sending a probe into space. The probe spots one of Jupiter's moons and sees a swastika on its surface. They send it down to investigate and as soon as they know it, the unknown beings have declared war on
For a 12-year-old Cuban boy living in the Bronx, baseball is his family's only way out and means a better tomorrow. In the novel, Heat by Mike Lupica, baseball represents a way out and a better tomorrow. He loves baseball and idolizes the Yankees pitcher El Grande, who was also Cuban-born. Michael Arroyo is a young boy who has reasons to distrust the representatives of the state must figure out how to continue life on his own terms while navigating the adult world and avoiding both the well-meaning and the badly-intentioned interference of grown-ups. Michael is also the best baseball pitcher on his South Bronx all-star team. Michael's arm is so good, that a rival Little League coach begins requesting proof that he's only 12 and eligible to play. They ask for his father but, recently, his father took a trip to Florida and had a heart attack, killing him. Michael and his 17-year-old brother Carlos, are trying to avoid Child Protective Services until Carlos turns 18.
This is a story of baseball and how it is a team sport. The book relates with the title by showing how this boy named Sandy Comstock that plays on the Grantville Raiders and has a big game coming up. It was against the Newtown Raptors. He wanted to beat them and become one of the best teams. By the time he knew it he ended up on the Newtown Raptors team and he was going to play is old team. It was kind of like a baseball turnaround.
The main character in this book is called Lucas an 11 year old boy who loved playing football. His Uncle Benny got him into football after Lucas's father was injured in a fire. Both Lucas's Uncle and Father are firefighters,in New York City
Junot Diaz was born in the Dominican Republic and immigrated with his family to New Jersey, where a collection of his short stories are based from. Out of that collection is a short story “Fiesta, 1980”, which was featured in The Best American Short Stories, 1997. This story is told from the perspective of an adolescent boy, who lives in the Bronx of northern New Jersey with his family. He is having trouble understanding why things are the way they are in his family. Diaz shows Yunior’s character through his cultures, his interaction with his family, and his bitterness toward his father.
What are the characters doing? The characters are threatening the countries that attack their allies in the order that they got involved in the war.
“‘It’s probably the start of World War Three,’ said Lee. ‘We’ve probably been invaded and don’t even know.’”
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
According to New York Times, in the twentieth century over 108 million people have died because of war. Knowing this, it is easy to say that people affected by these numbers have developed depression, or a similar disease relating to the trauma they have endured. Characters in the book A Thousand Splendid Suns and the movie Life is Beautiful have done just the opposite. In A Thousand Splendid Suns, Mariam and Laila make sacrifices for Laila’s daughter Aziza, in order for Aziza to get the most out of the life they are living. In Life is Beautiful, while in a concentration camp, Guido, the father of Joshua creates a game to comfort Joshua and distract him from the torture of the camp. Through the sacrifices they made, the lies they told to loved
The novel, ‘Enrique’s Journey’ follows the difficult quest of a Honduras boy in search for his mother after she is forced to leave her starving family in order to find work in the United States. Lourdes, Enrique’s mother, knows she will not be able to afford to send them to school, and they would be forced to grow up in poverty as she did when she was a child. Finding work in the United States was Lourdes only way of being able to send money in order to support her family. As a boy, Enrique and his sister Belky are were also split apart from one another, leaving Enrique completely alone. Over the years, Enrique often shuffled from one home to another, eventually spending most of his young life with is grandmother, while his sister sets out to get her education and is well cared for by their aunt. After the depression sinks in for Enrique, he turns to drugs for comfort and begins to rebel against his grandmother. She eventually kicks him out and he is faced with the sobering reality of being completely alone. Frustrated with his mother, and the circumstances he faces in life, Enrique embarks on a
For the sake of a better cause, people give up to some degree substantial feelings or belongings in life. In the novel, Bodega Dreams, by Ernesto Quinonez, characters sacrifice their most precious beloved things to succeed in East Harlem. The Puerto Rican community of East Harlem in New York City expresses how immigrants deal with their hardships to keep the white supremacy out of their community. The protagonist, Julio (a.k.a Chino), gives his point of view as he deals with his relationship and contributing to the community’s drug company led by William Bodega. Throughout the novel, Sacrifice is represented in the developments of love, business, and culture in the East Harlem community.
In Aldous Huxley’s, Brave New World, the focus is constantly on the question of whether or not the advance of technology requires a sacrifice of human individuality, religion, love, and many other aspects of life. Therefore, Aldous Huxley's theme is that the price of happiness and social stability will be the sacrifice of the most cherished possessions of our culture. In the novel, Mustapha Mond states that "God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine, and universal happiness." (Huxley). Here Huxley shows how religion can be sacrificed for peace. This world he has created with his novel shows religion is no longer needed to satisfy human desires. Unfortunately sacrificing and eliminating these aspects of life causes citizens
This novel was set during the post war period, this was a time when independence and rebelling against parents and law was more important than doing the right thing, during these times of independence, and teenagers needed friendship more than anything else.
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.
Sacrifice is seen throughout the Les Miserables, because it is a prominent part of human living. Sacrifice is greater in those who have less. Hugo conveys sacrifice through the characters Jean Valjean and Fantine, showing how they sacrificed in order to gain a better life, self-forgiveness
Mothers make a variety of sacrifices in their lives. The risks taken by mothers can come in many different forms; they can be physical, emotional and spiritual. The majority of those sacrifices revolve around taking care of, providing for and protecting their children. In A Thousand Splendid Suns, Laila makes sacrifices for Aziza and Zalmai, Nana risks things in her life for Mariam, and Mariam sacrifices things for Laila and her children. In A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini explores the aspect of sacrifice taken by mothers. Women will go to extreme lengths of sacrifice in order to ensure the safety of their children.