Shadows By Ameliah Summary

Most curriculums being taught to students withhold a mass amount of history. Some may do this because they feel some events do not have the same importance as other topics being taught. Such topics for example would be the rape and sexual exploitation of thousands of African American females during the time periods where racism and segregation was the norm. It is important for people to be educated about the horrific events that these women went through without justice. It is also essential because it shows the amazing activism Rosa Parks took part in. Most people are often just taught about Parks’ actions on the bus. At the Dark End of the Street by Danielle L. McGuire shows how Rosa Parks and many other dedicated their lives to receive equality not only for themselves, but for all African Americans in the south. Danielle L. McGuire’s work is an amazing way for people to not only learn more of Rosa Parks story, but to get a better understanding of what all African American woman had to deal with during this time period. The realism of sexual violence and its dominant impact on the African American women was one of the many events that helped ignite the Civil Rights Movement. McGuire wrote At the Dark End of the Street in order to resolve the negligence of this reality.

In Ellie Wiesel’s non-fiction novel, Night, he is telling his experiences of living in a concentration camp. The following passage is one that gives an example of how human lives were disregarded, “Faster, you filthy dogs! We were no longer marching, we were running like automatons. The SS were running as well, weapons in hand. We looked as though we were running from them.

Margaret Peterson Haddix’s Among the Hidden, Among the Hidden’s 1st book revolves around survival, love, and friendship. As a reader, I felt that the plot was unexpected.

Clouds are often associated with the proposal of free thinking; which is what sleeping is presumably thought to be. During Mia Hall’s out-of-body-experience, she contemplates over the idea of staying alive to live her life as an orphan, or leaving to succumb to the fate her family had no choice of enduring. As Mia deciphers over the choice of life or death, she declares that; “sleep would be so welcome -- a warm blanket to erase everything else” (Forman, 278). A cloud is a symbol of sleep, and contains the element that Mia’s loved ones fear throughout the hours of her coma. Mia has a choice to join her body once again, or to turn into the light and have a rendezvous with the clouds which she desperately wants to meet.

In the short story, The Kiss by Peter Goldsworthy and the film adaptation by Ashlee Page, the authors effectively use techniques to show a sense of impending doom for the characters. This is conveyed through the use of weather and setting and psychological doom that is created in both the film and story, the authors use a variety of literary and film techniques to portray this.

Warriors’ sunset by Erin Hunter is the book I read and this book is about shadows of the past continuing to haunt the forest, scourge, Tigerstar and a medicine cat died. Brambleclaw is haunted by a dark figure on a dangerous quest for revenge and must struggle to remain true to his clan. Bramble claw thinks Greystripe is dead and Firestar wonders if she should hire a new deputy or not.

After her bruising encounter with the law, Angela Marchmont has vowed to give up detecting, and is doing her best to forget the events of last winter and the terrible lie she told to save herself. So when a letter arrives from beyond the grave requesting her help and reminding her of the past, she is anything but pleased. Drawn reluctantly into one final case and spurred on by her guilty conscience, Angela soon discovers a viper's nest of family betrayals and hidden enmities which have lain undisturbed for years, and which may have led to the deaths of more than one person. Despite her unwillingness to reopen old wounds, Angela knows she must put aside her own feelings and solve the mystery if she is ever to find peace. Can she get to the heart of the matter, right the wrong she has done and be happy at last?

Her parents did not know because they were on a vacation in Cuba.Her parents said they would be there in a day.

In the excerpt “Living in the Dark,” the author Cheryl Bardoe ends her excerpt by saying that ocean exploration is worth the study. In the text, the author stated,”This is definitely worth investigating your whole life to study,” Herrera says.” In my opinion, I believe ocean exploration is worth investigating.

But Selah notices Amelia’s bag. When Amelia goes into the bathroom, Selah looks in her bag to see if anything was unusual. She sees the clothes, money, and food and realizes what Amelia plans to do. She gets very worried about her best friend. She quickly calls Jenny to warn her of what's happening. Jenny is surprised by Selah’s call, but beyond grateful that she took the time to call.

After the storm was over, a group of dissatisfied kids had gotten together to discuss the weather. They wanted the weather to be as other cities. James the librarian son told the group about a story his grandfather told him many times during bedtime. His grandfather shared a story about a mystical legend of people called the "Shadow Snatchers". The Shadow Snatchers were a mythical tribe that believed in the ritual of snatching children shadows. The Priest would catch a child sleeping and cast a spell to steal their shadow.

Lord of Shadows was an average book in my opinion. It wasn't particularly bad but compared to most of Cassandra Clare’s other works it did not stack up. There are a lot of good parts such as her always excellent world building and writing style, but the bad parts almost completely ruined my experience reading it. I would most likely not recommend it to a peer.

In the beginning of the book Moon Shadow was questioning his mother about his father. Moon Shadow’s mother doesn’t like talking about it a whole lot.Moon Shadow’s mother finally tells Moon Shadow about his father went to the Golden Mountain to find gold.Moon Shadow asked his relative’s about the Golden Mountain. His relative’s told him that the demons kill any tang men who come to the Golden Mountain. If the tang men work for the demons then the demons won’t fill the tang men. Moon Shadow goes to the Golden Mountain with Hand Clap. So Moon Shadow and Hand Clap get on a demon boat to the Golden Mountain. Once they arrived at the the mountain the demons made Moon Shadow and Hand Clap take off their cloths and dance with no cloths on their bodies.

Throughout author Jun'ichirō Tanizaki’s In “Praise of Shadows”, he expresses his firm belief that simplicity and contrast - common Japanese values - have immense beauty, even as these elements become less common in a changing society. As the world around him shifts away from these values, and more towards values of innovation and uniformity, he feels Japanese traditions deserve to remain appreciated and understood. As a result, Tanizaki utilizes “shadows” to represent not only literal shadows but also the various traditions in Japanese culture that are becoming more underappreciated, as time goes on. Similarly to shadows, these Japanese customs seem to go unnoticed and are no longer a significant aspect of everyday life. Tanizaki’s use of metaphors and repetition throughout “In Praise of Shadows” help to exemplify his high gratitude of traditional Japanese Culture.

As soon as her grandfather left the house, she thought about grabbing a bag and leaving. But, she was sure he would be true to his words. Just the thought of him being beaten bloody and taken away stopped all thought of running to him. Bobby should have told him to stand up to his mother. That other person’s father should place his concerns where they belong. Bobby should be with him now and he should understand how upset she is. The plane meant nothing. She could have several lined up for him to choose from and all better than the one that… will not be taking him away with that woman.