Jade Deluna is in her last year of high school. She’s a very bright seventeen-year old who gets straight A’s in all her AP classes. Her academic schedule is very hectic and on top of that she struggles with her anxiety disorder and also with her strained family. Jade and her family move to Settle the beginning of her freshman year. They had moved in a couple blocks from a zoo. Besides the medicine she takes, Jade finds that visiting the elephants at the zoo help her stay calm. She even has a live webcam of the elephants in her room that she can watch whenever she wants.
One day, while she was watching the webcam, she noticed a young boy in a red jacket carrying a baby who would visit the elephants often. His name is Sebastian Wilder. He lives on a houseboat with his
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Sebastian had told Jade that she had died during childbirth but that wasn’t true. She was still alive. When she was pregnant with Bo, she would talk about how she didn’t want to have the baby and how having a baby would ruin her life. She wanted to give the Bo away but Sebastian wanted to keep him. After she had give birth to Bo, she never saw him or asked how he was. Until a couple of months ago when she called him saying that she messed up and wanted Bo in her life. Her family had gotten a lawyer to file for custody. Sebastian didn’t want to give Bo up so he made the mistake of taking off with Bo without saying where he was moving to. Now he has to live in secret.
Later on in the story, Sebastian moves to New Mexico with Tess and Bo. He had asked Jade to go with him and she said yes. But she then changed her mind that is until Sebastian was moving to Santa Fe. Jade had applied and gotten into a university in New Mexico and decided to go live with them. She left her life behind in Seattle to start a new one. It’s a great opportunity for both of them to start
Ben and Ellie plan to free the animals and leave Taronga. Raja watches Ben with curiosity, sensing that he has changed. Ben is afraid for the fate of the animals but Ellie tells them they will have a better chance outside of the zoo than at the hands of Molly. The first of the animals are released.
The movie Water for Elephants and the book Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen are both intriguing stories that capture one’s heart when reading the book or watching the movie. Though both versions of the story seemed fascinating, I happened to find the book better than the movie for many reasons. Due to the book being told from one of the main characters, Jacob’s, point of view, gave a certain view and understanding of the use of imagery, characterization, and detail, in which the movie was not able to illustrate as well.
Kara runs through a obstacle course of her life, dodging darts of stuffed animals that try to get in her way. All the while explaining that this is the nature of her everyday. When she actively resists, turns and fights back, the Animals come to life. In self-defense, she goes too far and pummels a poor stuffed animal into submission. The animals around her are appalled and proceed to beat her in retaliation.
About an hour later, the staff gains control over the stampede of rhinos. Teddy does a count of the rhinos and notice that one is missing. He notices immediately that it was Rhonda the rhino, that was missing. Every employee took alert of this because Rhonda was pregnant. Teddy knows that he will be a hero to FunJungle if he finds Rhonda. He also has to be careful to not get shot by the hunter who is in range. He will never give up to find his favorite animal. Teddy knows that he will find Rhonda, but it will be an extraordinary case.
They explore their childish side they didn’t experience in their younger years as they focused on their careers. Ezekiel installs a playground set on their fifteenth wedding anniversary and together they build a treehouse for their twentieth. After their last major purchase of a home they decide to scale down their careers to something they enjoy. Luna begins work at a hardware store and provides graphic designing services on the side while Ezekiel is hired as a manager in a local store for his project managing expertise. Together they rebuild and strengthen their relationship and enjoy the comforts of owning a permanent home. After settling down and recharging from their draining, young-adult lives, they even begin to foster animals again. This time they foster dogs and cats, providing the animals their own home temporarily to allow the injured and scared to heal as they did. From sun up to sun down the animals, Ezekiel, and Luna go through their lives happily and with a smile that only having a permanent place to go could
Growing up with parents who are immigrants can present many obstacles for the children of those immigrants. There are many problems people face that we do not even realize. Things happen behind closed doors that we might not even be aware of. Writers Sandra Cisneros and Amy Tan help us become aware of these problems. Both of these authors express those hardships in their stories about growing up with foreign parents. Although their most apparent hardships are about different struggles, both of their stories have a similar underlying theme.
In this sometimes heartbreaking, inspiring novel, Rob Horton, a glum,twelve year old boy living his sad, lonely life with his dad, was wandering through the woods one misty Florida morning when he finds the most unexpected creature, a beautiful tiger. A real life glistening tiger, locked up in a cage. On the same outstanding day he meets a fierce girl named Sistine Bailey while in school. Together, with the tiger always in their hearts;guiding them and leading them to make choices, they go through heartaches,happiness and loneliness. Also, despite their opposites,they uncover the meaning of true friendship and learn that the most important things in life, can’t stay hidden forever. In my opinion, this book teaches an important lesson. I think the lesson taught in this novel is inspiring, and is something worth-while. I think this book teaches you that you can’t focus on your past, and you can’t keep the whole world locked up forever.
Aria Koy's life had changed far more than she'd cared for in the past three decades. First was the move to America, then her American boyfriend, then finding a job and an apartment, then her boyfriend's suicide attempt. After that was her boyfriend leaving her for her coworker, the two of them moving to Los Angeles, and her move to a suburb in New Jersey. Now she was a nurse in a hospital living in an affordable apartment and occasionally taking double shifts just so she wouldn't have to go home to an empty house.
My name is Sonia Singh and I am a first-year psychology student at Guelph-Humber. My email is regarding the personalized hoodies that are going to be distributed to students apart of the psych society. I had not been able to attend the previous meetings but I was told to sign up for a personalized hoodie and I would like to know where I could sign up. Thank you.
Elephants who surround their matriarch as she weakens and eventually dies, and in the next day they attend to her body as if holding a vigil. A cat who wails inconsolably after losing her sister, where she never been separated from her and spends weeks walking back and forth of the apartment, crying and sounding sad. A turtle who comes ashore and stares for hours at the photo of its dead loved one. A giraffe who keeps going back to the same spot where
If Bashkim lives with Luis, his sister will be with them too. Bashkim lost his mother and his father is unsteady to do things, living in different house with his sister is more pain for Bashkim. He also did not like his sister living in another foster care house, Bashkim thought his sister is already adjusting her new family, which concerns Bashkim. “I can’t stand that Tirana is holding that woman’s hand, and I think how bad Nene would
Afterwards, she started looking for a summer job because she needed something to preoccupy her time and hopefully get her some money for future college. However, she didn’t expect getting a temporary job at a circus and becoming fast friends with a tiger, named Dhiren or Ren for short. Kelsey first met Ren at the circus, she also met many friends but she felt a great bond and connection with Ren and always visited his cage time to time. Then suddenly Mr. Kadam, a kind man from India offers to take the Ren from the circus and includes Kelsey in the offer. She was negotiating if she would go or not, then finally she takes the deal. Nevertheless, Kelsey does not even think about what she’s getting herself into. Arriving in India on a long plane ride, Kelsey gets lost with Ren, who she was in charge of looking after while Mr. Kadam went to set things up at the “conservatory”. She couldn’t leave his side, hence, chasing after him. While running after him she had saw a man, back-turned, that sort of looked like Mr. Kadam. She decided to ignore the fact that it was impossible
18 year old Cricket had loved her best friend, Janssen, for as many years as she had lived in their secluded living space. When Cricket was younger her parents got a divorce, forcing Cricket’s mom, Cricket and her brother, Ben, out of the house and into something better for all of them. When they first moved away from all their family friends, it was a hard transition. They had never lived in the country and of course they never really heard any of the country animals (coyotes, wolves, hyenas, etc.) in person. The adjustment wasn’t easy for the kids or for their mother, so they decided to get a puppy to keep them busy. They named this puppy Jupiter and loved her with their whole hearts. Janssen was the boy who lived up the road and was always over at their house. He and Cricket grew in their relationship when Cricket’s dad became aware of her mother’s successful life. While he was there he began to get very physical with Cricket’s mom. Janssen stepped in, as a 17 year old, and very harshly said not to mess with this family or with him. After that Janssen and Cricket were inseparable. Their relationship grew as well as them. Time came for Cricket to graduate and the days were rough. She could either choose Janssen, or the college that she
Alba the daughter of Blanca and Pedro falls in love with Miguel the younger brother of Amanda. Miguel was there the day Blanca was born. After eighteen years Miguel sees Alba and it is love at first sight. When Blanca and Alba moved back home, Alba and Esteban grew very close, as if they were father and daughter. He taught and showed her many things. When he found out she was in love with Miguel he did not approve. Esteban was a part of the conservative party, in favor of everything staying the same. Miguel being a part of the lower-class he was communist and wanted equal rights for everyone. Alba was not into politics, but Miguel was a revolutionary who joined the guerrillas after the military coup. Alba devoted herself to Miguel. Even though she was not into politics she would help with protest. She started to parrot a lot of Miguel’s political views, she would even get into debates with people.
“Don’t ruin this for the family Jamal we need this meal!” screamed Jamie, Jamal’s sister. The two have been hunting for server hours and had not found anything until they found a lonely elephant, and even with their primitive weapons they decided that because the family hadn’t eaten that week to go out and try to get the elephant and bring him back to the hut in the wood.