Summary Of Marlene Perez's 'Dead Is The New Black'

The second theme of the story is to always trust your instincts. In the story, Tammy had a feeling that something was going to go awfully wrong that semester in the Daughters of Eve. She ignored her instincts and still joined the club. Well, turns out that Irene tells them to get revenge on people. The first revenge was on Peter and they beat him up badly in a dark ally. When Tammy realized that they were going to do this more than once, she quit. If she had trusted her instincts from the beginning she wouldn 't have hurt anybody.

The theme of this book is to be strong through the toughest times. This theme is shown throughout the book when Kira is the only one alive in her family, Anabella passes away, and even when Matt was lost. Another theme could be trust your instincts. Kira has all these thoughts about the council, Annabella, beasts and many more but she keeps them to herself. Day after day more thoughts pile up. If Kira were to trust herself, her life would have a greater quality. As you read more of the story the theme becomes a larger part of

There are many themes within this play/movie. First, I noticed that love is a major theme. Roger had lost his girlfriend; April to suicide after she found out she had contracted HIV. He is trying to write one more song for her, and cannot find the right words. Another key theme for this movie was acceptance. Each of these characters accepts each other, and overall really cares about each other despite their differences. Angel who is also infected with AIDS soon found Collins, who was left in an alley after being beaten by thugs. Angel proceeded to take car of him and take him back to his place to fix him up.

In conclusion, the three most important themes to me in the story, abuse, fear, and karma are what made the story so good. He abuses her, she has fear, that he pokes fun at, and he is punished for his actions. Her greatest fear saved her from enduring anymore abuse from

Introduction: Orange is the New Black by Piper Kerman portrays the experience of a middle-class white woman serving a 13-month sentence in a minimum security prison in Danbury, Connecticut. Being from a different cultural and socio-economic background than most of her fellow inmates, Kerman’s prison experience wasn’t as dreadful as the others. Without directly putting herself in their shoes, Kerman acknowledged to the readers that the guards abused their power towards other inmates; knowing the guards were most likely use to the abuse and neglect and wouldn’t be listened to if they were to report the abuse. The mistreatment that certain women encounter as they get caught up in the system because of racism, poverty, and low-level drug involvement

To begin, important theme that runs through the novel is the idea strong female characters like Taylor and Lou Ann. Furthermore, Taylor does not care about a man in her life and tries her best to do everything in her

The theme of the book is to be patient. Being patient has a lot to do with Sarah who is the only girl on the football team. It took a while for Sarah to get on the football team, but her impressive kicking skills really showed why she should be on the football team. Sarah is the type of girl who workouts everyday and wants Vanden High School to win the state championship. At first Sarah had to wait for a week to get on the team because she disguised herself as a boy, which wasn’t the smartest idea, but a way to show off her talents.

This novel contains several eye opening scenes, with the gang violence and difficult struggles of suicide within his mindset. Several students don’t get to hear the actual reality of what could be happening to a person sitting right next to them. “...my naked back splattered with grit. A razor glistened in my hand… The blade touched the skin and each time this song became louder in my head.”

Anchor: We hate to bring you news of another plague but we have detected a new plague. Named the Bubonic plague or as others call it the Black Death. Originating from the Central Asia’s arid plains we predict it to have a devastating effect on all of Europe’s population. I’m here with our heath specialist Dr. John Smith to tell us about and how to prevent it, over to you John.

Daisy grew up as a city girl. She went to a high school where there were predominantly blacks and the odds of attending college were very low. The students that attended the high school came from the same neighborhoods that faced poverty and drugs. Some students came to school only to be sure that they ate lunch and others to have a place to stay that had heat. Daisy had not come from the best neighborhood and she knew her peers had similar situations. She also was aware that her aunt could not afford to send her to college even if she got accepted. That influenced Daisy because she applied for a number of financial scholarships to attend college. Because of her financial burden she knew she would have to work very hard to overcome her obstacle.

A theme shown is media's image of a perfect girl. Throughout the book there is a contrast between the Cheerleaders and Angie's appearance which shows the theme. This contrast between the cheerleaders cheerful spirit with a slim body shape making them the media's “perfect girl” and “The Duke” (Nickname

In Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Gabriel Marquez employs the motif of flowers within the novel to illustrate the role of women within a Latin American society; the cultural and symbolic implications of this associate flowers with purity, victimization, gender barriers, and deceit. In doing so, Marquez creates a microcosm of Latin America, exposing the core of Columbian culture and society with all its aspects such as ethnicity, and social norms and conventions that led to a series of insecurities and poverty in the community, and its affect on the role of women. The cultural context of this novel must first be considered before examining the symbolic importance of flowers.

Discussions of loving blackness in hooks’ class stems from her reading of Nelia Larson’s novel Passing. hooks wants to discuss Clare’s love of blackness and the consequence of her love for her race. She writes, “I asked the class to consider the possibility that to love blackness is dangerous in a white supremacist culture-so threatening, so serious a breach in the fabric of the social order, that death is the punishment” (9). Death in society can be literal, but it can also take other forms, such as isolation and self-segregation. hooks’ students’ stark refusal to discuss loving blackness is a testament to these impediments and how they have been fixed in the minds of citizens white and black.

“Orange is the New Black” is Netflix’s hit new original series. Currently in its second season, OINTB has received critical acclaim (Metacritic, Rotten Tomatoes) for its unusual subject matter as well as its varied and multi-dimensional portrayal of race, gender, class, queer and trans issues. However, while it excels specifically with issues of gender and sexuality, the show falters a bit more on issues of race and class.

The theme of the story is that you have to face your problems head on before you move on. In Ghost Girl: Love sick there is a lot of highschool drama and also a lot of boy problems as well the main characters of the story are Charlotte and Scarlet. In the story Charlotte and Scarlet both have a lot of problems at school and with boys as well. But the only main problem in the story is the boy problems between the characters in the story. Charlotte has to return to the tragic site of her death which was highschool. Charlotte has one more assignment to complete, but no one explained to her on what would happen for if she would fall in love with her class project. Charlotte would do anything even die (again) just to have