Summary Of Clouds By Mia Hall

Jeannette Walls changes over the course of the the story because at first she always believed in her father but now she knows her father isn't reliable. In the beginning of the story, Jeannette was being taught how to swim. Rex was letting her drown and then after some time taking her out the water. Soon she finally learned how to swim by her dad’s method. Instead of thinking he was crazy she believed in him. She taught that the way her dad taught her was the only right way and her dad had done this only for her sake. A quote to prove this, ‘“If you don't want to sink, you better figure out how to swim." What other reason, he asked, would possibly make him do this? Once I got my breath back, I figured he must be right. There was no other way to explain it” (Walls 67).

In Dianne E, Gray’s Holding up the Earth generations of girls are linked together by one special place, a meadow. The author’s inspiration for the setting of the book comes from her childhood, growing up on a farm in York, Nebraska, near the land her great grandparents homesteaded in 1868. The story’s exposition begins with a girl named Hope coming with her foster mother, Sarah, to stay with Sarah’s mother, Anna. Anna introduces Hope to the stories of the girls, Abigail (Abby) and Rebecca who lived on the farm in previous generations as well as her own story. After Hope learns all about the girls and the meadow she finds out at the climax the meadow she had been reading about in the girls stories is the same meadow she had scattered her mother’s ashes on so many years ago and was never able to find again. The story’s denouement concludes with Hope finding her place with Sarah and Anna on the farm. Throughout the story the past brings hope to the future.

When reading, The Way to Rainy Mountain I found out one of the most prolific American Indian writers of the 20th century was N. Scott Momaday, and he grew up on many different Indian reservations in southwest American. He first lived with his grandparents on the Kiowa reservation. Then N. Scott Momaday moved to Arizona where his parents were teachers on Indian reservations. This exposed Momaday to the traditions of his Kiowa ancestry, as well as the traditions of other tribes, such as the Apache, Pueblo, and Navajo.

The poem I decided to compare to myself to is titled," Sometimes When It Rains" by Gcina Mhlope on page 148. This poem has a lot similarities and differences from me. First the speaker is not a child anymore like me. I also like to sit and meditate, daydream, and think while it's raining. When it rains I think of homeless and what they are doing to shelter themselves from the rain.

“Her sleep like an untamed good object, like a soul in a body.” The eloquent and careful description of the daughter sleeping makes each and every person who reads this story feel connected to the scene. The comparison to a soul in a body shows the love behind the mother’s words. That even her daughter sleeping can be such a beautiful, angelic thing in her eyes. Through the description, the author makes the picture perfectly clear, and not just the scene, but what she thinks of her daughter. Since the author describes her daughter in such an angelic way, the love and affection that the mother has for her daughter is unquestionable.

Ann M. Martin’s latest heartwarming novel, Rain Reign, focuses on Rose Howard, an eleven year old girl with Asperger's syndrome who is positively obsessed with homonyms. She lives in Hatford, New York, with her single father and pet dog, Rain. But, when Hurricane Susan hits the city, Rose finds herself trapped in her house with her father and Rain nowhere to be found. Rose and her father find out that they have to make some tough decisions and sacrifice for the ones they love. One of the main lessons that Rain Reign provides is the idea that if you love somebody, you have to be willing to let them go.

In “The White Umbrella”, author Gish Jen illustrates the life of a Chinese family living in America, where they don’t fit in. The narrator, a girl who is embarrassed by the fact that her mom works, tries hard to keep it a secret and doesn’t realize how much she needs her until she might be dead. This short story teaches the lesson that you should appreciate the things that already make you happy and not get distracted by what you think will make you happy. Throughout the story, the author shows this theme by the character’s actions, repeating important symbolism, and in the turning point of the story.

(O’Connor 12), trying to convince the Misfit not to shoot her, as he is ‘one of her babies’. This excerpt explains that the grandmother wants to live on, and doesn’t even realize that the rest of her family died of senseless murder. O’Connor interprets that the sky may be defined as a symbolic character as well. The sky represents a symbolic theme; the sky represents a state of mind, perhaps the grandmother’s thoughts. When the family becomes faced with the Misfit, the sun and clouds are not visible.

“Saplings in the Storm” is an essay written by Mary Pipher. This In this argument, Pipher discusses the swift mood changes in girls as they reach adolescence, and uses an analogy to the Bermuda Triangle as the thesis to her argument. She states that s often in her argument: gGirls and their unique personalities “disappear mysteriously into the Bermuda Triangle”. Pipher uses and repeats this analogy various times in order for her readers to understand her analogy and enrich our understanding of girls at this age group.

While examining the differences and similarities of death and sleep the reader is left with

Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys is a book about a girl named Lina Vilkas. This book took place in 1941, the time when World War 2 was going on. Lina is fifteen years old and has a wonderful family. In the book she would get arrested by the Soviet Union because she was Lithuanian and Joseph Stalin, the leader of the country at the time, did not except this. Lina, her brother, and her mother were all separated from Lina’s father because he got taken to a different camp. Lina and her family got loaded onto a train and they were sent to the north (Siberia) where they would have to work and live in very harsh and strong conditions. Lina would record everything that would happen from then on and she would try getting it to her father so they

Out of the Dust is a verse novel by Karen Hesse published in 1997. It won the Newbery Medal in 1998. The book is set in Oklahoma the years 1934–1935. The book is about a family of farmers during years of the Dust Bowl. The books main character Billie Jo's and is about her life and struggles.

Wendy Miller is passionate Registered Expressive Art Therapist with the International Expressive Arts Therapy Association, whose story has beauty and tragedy but most of all hope. She is a well-educated woman that has received several awards, taught at various Universities and has written numerous documents and books. Her current book, Sky Above Clouds is a collaboration between her husband, Gene Cohen and herself. Wendy and Gene offer an account of love, illness, wisdom, aging, and death. It is important to note that this book was put together after his passing. Therefore, it is composed with love and sadness “between the living and the dead.” (book) A book about a portion of her life that was extremely heartbreaking but also groundbreaking.

Throughout this story, Ameliah begins to go through her parents belongings because she wants to figure out who Joe is, but that she was too scared to before. First, Ameliah wants to figure out who Joe is. She has told her friend, Heather, that there is a photo of her mom and a man that she had never met before. Ameliah was wondering if the man in the photo was “Joe”, but she now can not find it. This may be because she feels threatened by Joe since he claimed to be a friend of her dad's. Next, immediately when Ameliah sees Joe, she is encountered by an uneasy feeling. She feels there is something off about the way he looks, like she has seen him before, but she can not place her finger on where or when. Also, Nan seems to be concealing information. When Ameliah began to ask her about how she met Joe,

The perception of the Other in literature can take on several forms and on one line of thought it is considered to be “an individual who is perceived by the group as not belonging; as being different in some fundamental way” (The City University of New York). The group sees itself as the standard and judges those who do not meet that standard. The Other is almost always seen as a lesser or inferior being and is treated accordingly. They are perceived as lacking essential characteristics possessed by the group. For an example, Charlotte Gilman’s short story “The Yellow Wall-Paper” portrays a woman narrator as being the Other. The gender division, an important component of the late nineteenth-century society, is exemplified in “The Yellow Wall-Paper” much more significantly than in the typical “American” literary work. It attempts to shed light on the fierce alter egos and divided selves of the dominant tradition. However, the narrator seems to contradict the traditional feminine roles and becomes hysterical as her way of revolting. Gilman effectively uses the narrator’s intuition, obedience, and secret rebellion to challenge the authority John embodies as a husband and physician. This also engages the basic issue of late nineteenth-century assumptions about men and women. In this aspect, this essay aims to explore in detail the gender otherness present within the story and how this contrasts the central idea of what it is to essentially be “American”.