Sharon Creech's Walk Two Moons

For a realistic fiction, you would think that it’s about a kid with small problems right? Well, in Lost in the Sun brings in a bigger problem to the genre. So, this big problem is the main character killed someone, which I’ll tell later. Lost in the Sun is a great book by Lisa Graff, also author of Absolutely Almost.To add, this book has 289 pages, the main character name is Trent in this realistic story of a limited third person. The good thing about third person limited is it’ll show what Trent is feeling especially in the middle, but there’s a curse to it as well. Not only we only feel what Trent feels, but Fallon has a creative appearance and conflict that will make you curious.

The Artslink Queensland production of Ruby Moon by Matt Cameron can be described as an example of the Australian Gothic dramatic style. Ruby Moon, set in picture perfect Flaming Tree Grove, is about the tragic dilemma of a couple, Ray and Sylvie, trying to cope with the earlier disappearance of their young daughter, Ruby, while on the way to visit her grandmother at the end of the cul-de-sac (Queensland Education, 2014).

Generally, when innocence is thought of, the first speculation recalled to one’s mind is the thought of pureness and the idea that the specific individual is free from moral wrong. On the other end of the spectrum is the term known as guilt. Guilt is the emotional notion in which one feels that they have compromised his or her own standards in a negative way. In the novel Sarah’s Key, Sarah frequently proves to struggle with both guilt and innocence. These specific themes are put on display when Sarah realizes she is not going back home, the scenario in which Sarah boards the cattle car to the camps, and the tragic event in which Sarah takes her own life.

Unlike animals, humans are able to observe past the mere monochromatic vision of survival. We have an impeccable ability to desire more than just living to breed, and breeding only to someday perish. Thus, we gradually brush this canvas with the colours of ethics, control, and knowledge. Whether the colours fade or become prominent through time, this canvas becomes our perception of normality and we allow it to justify our actions; favorable or harmful. We, as well as the narrator in the short story The Hunt by Josephine Donovan represent this. However, because of the narrator’s difference in perception, self-indulgence, and greed for power, the story introduces a feeling of infuriation to the reader.

Mary Engelbreit once said, “If you don’t like something change it; if you can’t change it; change the way you think about it.” This quote is a strong connection with Sal, when she grew up she had tons of external forces that caused her to think about things in a different way than before. She never really knew how to feel sometimes because she didn’t know how they would turn out. Sal couldn’t just change her problems, but she could change the way she looked at them. In the book Walk Two Moons, Sharon Creech, external forces greatly impact Sal’s life growing up.

Angelyn Mitchell interprets Chopin’s work “The Story of an Hour” as a feminist piece of work. She believes that Chopin wants to prove the double conscience of females, which is when women connect their inner self with their outside and gain freedom. “In ‘The Story of an Hour,’ the quest for freedom is complicated by three important factors: biological determination, patriarchal social conditioning, and the patriarchal institution of marriage.” Mitchell uses Mrs. Mallard’s heart condition to show biological determination. “Richards, a friend of her husband, rushes to relate the sad news of his death before someone ‘less careful, less tender’ can do so.” Patriarchal social conditioning is shown by showing that Mrs. Mallard does not act as a woman

Between the late 1800s and early 1900s, the Chinese population had expanded dramatically from having only about 55 people to 151,000. Most of the population has immigrated to California as the livelihood in China had became awfully difficult for them by sacrificing most of their valuables in order to improve their lives. The majority kept the Chinese culture with them and expanded it through establishing Chinatown, a community full of Chinese influence, with their presence in a new environment. In the remarkable novel, Outrun the Moon, Stacey Lee describes a teenage girl named Mercy Wong with a unique historical backdrop who chases after her dream in becoming an entrepreneur to create a better life for her own family. This book is astounding

“My father started chipping away at a plaster wall in the living room of our house in Bybanks shortly after my mom left us one April morning” (Creech 3).Sal went through tough times. In the book, Walk Two Moons, By Sharon Creech, Sal the main character, goes through tough times when her mother disappears, When she moves to ohio, and when she leaves Bybanks. Sal’s view of Bybanks, Kentucky is important to sal because she made a lot of memories there. My first piece of evidence is, “I’m a country girl at heart, and belong at this fro farm.(1)”

Throughout the novel, A House in the Sky, by Amanda Lindhout, the audience can identify the theme of emotion versus logic. Within the novel, the main character Amanda makes a lot of life changing decisions, which are based more towards her emotions than logic itself. This strongly impacts not only her life, but also those close to her. Amanda Lindhout’s A House in the Sky is an exemplary depiction of the ideas of feminist criticism, new historicism, and moral criticism. Although Lindhout describes the consequences that come from her decisions throughout the novel, she also stresses the aggravation that comes with being female. The novel, A House in the Sky, portrays the complications of female development and identity through the main character.

Brotherhood is very present in the novel “Billy Lynn’s long halftime walk” we get to meet Billys whole new family called the Bravos squad. In the novel we learn that Billy is the army and is going on a two-week victory tour because they won a big battle in the Iraq war and was caught on tape. On their last week they are invited to a Cowboy’s football game and a man named Albert Ratner and he wants to buy their story and turn it into a big movie, they are offered $100,000 in advance. When they are at the football they go to a meet-and-greet with the Cowboy’s cheerleaders and Billy falls in love with a girl named Faison, after the encounter they are told they will be in the halftime show. His sister tells him that Billy should go AWOL and that he will be safe because she has lawyers that will help him.

“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place” (George Bernard Shaw). As humans, it is imperative that we communicate effectively with each other, and this is no more evident than in Ann Fadiman’s novel “The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down.” This book captures the story of Lia Lee, a child born into a Hmong refugee family from Laos with severe epilepsy. For Lia’s parents, Foua and Nao Kao, the faith of their daughter stemmed from a vindictive spirit that caught Lia’s soul leading to her falling, where as in the medical world, the doctors viewed Lia’s condition as a birth trauma marked by disturbed electrical rhythms of the the central nervous system. The discrepancy in interpretation of Lia’s illness between her family and the doctor’s at Merced Community Medical Center who treated her was the main issue that plagued the two parties. This issue was further exacerbated by the fact that Lia’s parents did not understand English. The language barrier that existed between the parents and the doctors resulted in huge misunderstanding that contributed to lack of trust between the two parties. Moreover, the language barrier was hindrance to bridging the cultural barrier that existed for the Lees and the doctor’s who treated their daughter.

Adversity can be seen in many different ways. Some people look at adversity as a learning experience, while others view adversity as a situation marked with misfortune. When a person is faced with adversity, rather than viewing it as something to hate, they should see it as a opportunity to grow. In the stories by Doris Lessing, W.D Wetherell and Alice Walker, they all show different types of challenges each character had to over come and their journey to do so. These stories all shared similar outcomes, they demonstrate how each character used an obstacle they were faced with, and turned it into a beneficial experience and how it shaped them into the person they are today.

In the book, “Where the Mountain Meets The Moon” by Grace Lin, I think that Minli is a determined because of her struggles, motivations and most of all because of her actions. The first reason why I think Minli is determined is because of her struggles. For example, her family is poor so she uses one of her only two copper coins to buy a goldfish from a man because she thinks it will bring her family good luck. Her mother is mad, but her father feeds the goldfish rice.

In Tess Uriza Holthe’s novel, When The Elephants Dance, the folk tale Ghost Children’s lesson for the characters to learn is to be grateful for who you have and to not to hold a grudge, as you’ll never know when you’ll lose them.

In order to understand the flaws in a society, you must first understand the flaws in ones self. “Once Upon a Time” by Nadine Gordimer is a twisted fairy tale to show the created monsters of the brain. It tells the story of a happy family living in South Africa with everything they could ask for. Despite this, their life becomes one of isolation and irrational protective measures. Gordimer uses sound imagery and irony to express the theme of fear and it’s affect on the families view on safety.