Stella By Sharon M. Draper: Summary

The main character is named Jackson. He loves nature facts and wants to become an animal scientist when he is older. At first he doesn’t like Crenshaw and then they become friends. I can relate to him when he reads, because I read a lot too. Another character is Crenshaw. He is Jackson’s imaginary friend. He is a huge black and white cat. Another character is Robin. She is Jackson’s younger sister and loves driving him crazy.

The book focuses mainly on a woman named Celie, who has lived a hard life already when, at the age of 14 she begins

The scorching heat of the summer day in Stamps, Arkansas made the dusty roads and cross tracks have mirages. It was a slow moving town otherwise, in my opinion. I amongst many other blacks were segregated from the whites. The whites are richer than the blacks in my town, but through hard work and determination I do have a similar lifestyle to the whites. One thing that was important to me was helping one girl accepting herself in this disconsolate town that she can do anything she puts her mind too..

The time period of the setting in the book is the late 1960s and through the 1980s.

The setting of the book is in the New England state of Woburn, Massachusetts. This is a sleepy little community that is overcast by local factories. The factories

For this summer reading, I chose to read Fried Green Tomatoes at The Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flag. The book is set in Alabama; it is mostly set in the early 1900s to the late 1980s. While in the early 1920s, this was the time of the Great Depression, a time where poverty and racism were well known. The story is told in both present, from the 1920’s - 1940’s, when the events were occurring, and past tense, when Ninny Threadgoode retold the events to Evelyn Couch, in the 1980’s. Fried Green Tomatoes at The Whistle Stop Cafe begins with “The Weems Weekly” introducing the opening of the cafe ran by Ruth Jamison and Idgie Threadgoode. Then, Ninny Threadgoode and Evelyn Couch meet in the visitors lounge in a nursing home. Mrs. Threadgoode

Lions of Little Rock by Kristin Levine is about a 12 year old girl named Marlee. The book takes place in 1958 in Little Rock, Arkansas, which was the time of segregation when the two races were separated from each other. Segregation took a big stand in this time period. Marlee is shy until she meets Liz. Liz is a new girl at school who is brave and is passing for white, meaning that she is one color, but makes it that she is another. The author uses elements of historical fiction related to the time period to express emotional impact of events during the process of integration, or the blending of people of different races into living one life together, that is not separated. The theme in this book is that friendship and courage will always

In the Red Convertible by Louise Erdrich, the main character Henry loses his hold on reality. The story takes place in North Dakota on an Indian Reservation where Henry lives with his brother Lyman. Henry and Lyman buy a Red Convertible that later in the story illustrates Henry’s lack of ability to stay sane. The brothers take a summer trip across the United States in the car. When they return, Henry is called to join the army, which turns out to be the transitional point in Henry and Lyman’s personal life. The Vietnam War changed Henry’s appearance, psyche, and his feelings about the Red Convertible.

The setting of the story occurs in various locations. The book starts out in Natchez, Mississippi in the 1930’s and carries on to the north. Wright spends most of his time going from one place to another, due to the fact that his family is poor and can never pay their rent. This frequent moving makes Wright’s life unbalanced and out of control. He’s never had a place to call home except for his mother. An example would be when Wright went to live with his Uncle Clark, while his mother was ill. After living with his uncle, he realized his real home was where he was with his mother. Wright’s mother was the only person in his life to show him how to act out of love.

2. Where does the story take place? Provide specific information about the place, time, and social context of the book. How is the setting important?

The main story in the novel is of Josephine Alibrandis life when she is 17 years old and at the end of her high

Celeste Tyree is a privileged black nineteen-year-old sophomore at the University of Michigan who boards a train from Detroit to Mississippi to join the civil rights movement in an effort to increase African American voter registration. “Freshwater Road” by Denise Nicholas follows Celeste as she becomes part of a movement called “Freedom Summer”, organized by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. The story also follows her father, Shuck, as he tries to manage his business in Detroit all the while also containing his fears about his daughter’s activism in Mississippi.

In the beginning, the author explains how this young girl, Lizabeth, lived in the culturally deprived neighborhood during the depression.  Lizabeth is at the age where she is just beginning to become a young woman and is

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surroundings. The main character in the story, Phoenix Jackson, is an old black woman who