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The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls and Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson are both novels about people trying to get their lives in order. In these books there is at least one character that only appears for a short amount of time but has a major effect on the story. If the book is analyzed enough, these characters can be picked out. Ken Fink and Bob Gross both changed Suzanne Walls life, even though they were only in the story for about 2 chapters. Milholland in Snow Falling on Cedars was able to change the complete direction of who was guilty for murder, although he only appeared in one chapter.

A beautiful man and a beautiful woman falling in love. Usually, these stories have a sort of happy ending for both of the parties when the tale is done, but that’s not what Fitzgerald displayed. Instead, “Winter Dreams” has a different tale, one of how it is like to string a person along with a pretty character and enchanting words. In “Winter Dreams.” Fitzgerald displays society’s view of using people as playthings, using characterization and dialogue as examples like this.

The story takes place during an epidemic outbreak that spread rapidly as well as vigorously. Steven Johnson begins the book in London during the nineteenth century (1854). The book discusses the contaminated conditions in England. More than two million people were living within a 10 mile radius. In particular, he starts by painting a picture of the lower class. He calls them rag-gatherers, deredgermen, bone-pickers, myud-larks, night soil men, and more. The main character in the story is a man named Dr. John Snow. While everyone is convinced that people are dying because of the terrible smell, Snow spends his time trying to prove that the smell isn’t what’s killed people. He didn’t know it at first, but research and proof supporting his research proved time and time again that it was a bigger deal than smell. In his book, Johnson says,“Great breakthroughs are closer to what happens in a floodplain: a dozen separate tributaries converge, and the rising waters lift the genius high enough that he or she can see around the conceptual obstructions of the age.” (pg. 149). His belief was that cholera, a disease commonly spread through water is what’s causing all the deaths. Johnson gives the reader a view of Snow’s day to day efforts of proving himself. And although, Dr. Snow played a colossal part in this story, Reverend Henry Whitehead, whose expanded knowledge of the

When I was fifteen, I was an ordinary girl. I got stressed about fitting in at school, worried about grades, had a secret crush, and had a not-so-secret addiction to Doctor Who. I had body image issues and was insecure, but knew that it was something everyone worried about. The only things that I cared about were the banal subjects that mattered, and will continue to matter, to every teenage girl in this American society. I loved going to school, if only to talk to my friends, and the only characteristic that made me different from any of them was my love of winter guard. All that my sweet little life consisted of until I was sixteen was my dream of becoming a lawyer and a vast array of minuscule problems that could probably have been fixed with a few kind words, or at least a little bit of chocolate. That all changed two months after my sixteenth birthday, when an unfortunate turn of events landed me in the hospital.

After Hitler refused to stop the invasion of Poland, Britain and France declared war on Germany. This was the beginning of World War 2, and the United States would shortly join to fight the Axis Powers. In July, 1944 there was an assassination attempt on Adolph Hitler (Page 3). This was the start of the book called The Longest Winter by Alex Kershaw. The Longest Winter, Lieutenant Bouck leads his platoon in the Battle of the Bulge and also through prisoners of war camps in Germany. Kershaw is able to talk about the platoon specifically and describe their struggle through the POW camps. In this book, Alex Kershaw focuses on mainly on the platoon of the 394th Infantry Regiment, 99th Infantry division. The Longest Winter is a book that tells

Winterkill is about Emmeline (Em), a young girl who is determined to uncover the truth about her village and herself. Em`s grandmother was wayward and punished by death which left a stain on Em and her family. Anyone with a stain is deemed undesireable and is treated as a second class citizen. Em believs she is wayward becuase of the stain and her curiosity of what is past the village walls.

Stitching Snow by R.C. Lewis is a science fiction novel that follows the life of Essie, a girl

The book “Wintergirls” tells the story of a girl named Lia. As Lia lives her daily life she is forced to deal with her ex-best friend's suicide, her parents divorced, cutting and anorexia. Both Lia and her ex-best friend Cassie struggle with maintaining a positive body image; Cassie attempts to being the skinniest girl in the school by throwing up after every meal and Lia starves herself in order to be skinny. Before Cassie died she atmented to call Lia thirty-three time and Lia did not pick up the phone leaving her feeling guilty throughout the book. Lia does not get along with her mother so she lives with her father, his wife Jennifer and her daughter Emma. Throughout the book she tries to keep her weight loss a secret so the won’t send her to the doctor or a mental hospital. Lia adores her sister Emma and views her as the only good thing in her life. As Lia continues to push herself to eat less and exercise more she begins to see Cassie as a ghost. Lia reaches a tipping point when she passes out in the same motel room Cassie died in; as Lia is slowly dying she realizes that she wants to live. Lia goes to the hospitable and begin to eat and rest and slowly becomes”a real girl” again.

“Have fun, enjoy life, get married later, much, much later.” Snowed In was written by Rachel Hawthorne. Ashleigh Sneaux and her mom move to Great Lakes, Michigan to begin a new life after Ashleigh’s mom divorces her dad. They begin working on setting up a Bed and Breakfast at their home. Ashleigh’s mom got married very young and they changed as they got older and realized that they both wanted different things. Ashleigh’s mom has portrayed a strong message to Ashleigh about not getting in a serious relationship until she is older, for fear that things may end up the way they did for her. Will Ashleigh listen to what are mother is telling her?.

It was a normal winter morning. I woke up freezing my butt off. The night before we

The universal thing I learned from the film winter’s tale is hope, faith and great sacrifice for love. Like Beverly Penn did even after she Dies, she doesn’t stop to protect Peter Lake from Pearly Soames who wants to kill him. The thing I learned from the culture of New York City inside the story of winter’s tale is a broad fantasy that people will be guided by the angels to reach their goals in life. Helping knows the man’s achievements and their errors in life that will lead them to find the man’s purpose in life.

A poem is an experience, not a thought. It is an experience both the author and the reader share with one another. Authors of poems use tones, keywords, hidden messages, irony, and diction to create their work. They use these tactics so the reader thinks about what they are reading and try evaluating what the message is that the reader wants to get across. In the poem “Snow” by Louis MacNeice, he uses these same characteristics to get the readers mind active in the words. Let’s examine the poem “Snow” and see what the meaning behind this poem is.

On a snowy and windy night, I was at Barnes & Noble in Green Bay with my friends, Alan and Karina. Christmas music played overhead, the smell of hot chocolate and freshly brewed coffee wafted over, the customers were kind and cheerful, and snow was beginning to blanket the parking lot outside. We were sitting near the cafe wrapping books to support their mom’s school fundraiser. I stared outside and remembered my mom’s warning of the large snowfall that was almost upon us. Around 7:15, the snowflakes were becoming larger and we could barely see outside the window.

I chose to read the novel “Snow” by Orhan Pamuk for my book report. The novel “Snow” is about a poet named Ka who is a political exile living in Germany. Ka travels to Istanbul to attend his mother’s funeral and is asked by a friend at a local newspaper to travel to the town of Kars to write about the municipal elections and a string of suicides being committed by Islamist women who are being forced to take off their headscarves at school. Ka has been experiencing writers block while living in Germany. Upon his return to Kars, poems begin to start coming to him. Throughout the novel, Ka has poems come to him after a significant event occurs or when something inspires him. Ka ends up writing 19 poems during his stay in Kars. When the

“We’ve got to get those crops in soon honey. The rains are coming and so is the cold.”