Analysis of Maybe One Day Maybe One Day by Melissa Kantor, is about how two best friends, Olivia and Zoe, are inseparable because they have spent most of their lives doing what best friends do including dancing together, but a life tragedy makes them become closer. They got cut from the dance team and didn’t know what to do with all their spare time. Later that year Olivia was diagnosed with leukemia, a type of cancer that doesn’t have a good survival rate. Through all that happened while Olivia tried to fight cancer it not only made her and Zoe closer but made them more like family. Unfortunately, Olivia did not make it and Zoe had a very tough time with her loss, she thought about joining dance again to keep Olivia alive within herself. …show more content…
In those four parts there are chapters, the chapters range from 5-19 pages each. The book expands over a year in time. The author uses a chronological order for the book by telling the story from the beginning of a special friendship between two girls to the tragic ending. Although she used chronological order, she used flashbacks to tell us some stories that happened in the past. An example of a flashback in this book is when Olivia and Zoe were watching the dress rehearsal for “The Nutcracker” and Zoe describes how they used to hold hands; “damp, sweaty palm against damp, sweaty palm” backstage before they went on to dance (Kantor 236). The plot is about Olivia Jaeger 2 getting cancer and how it can change everything she ever dreamed of with Zoe and how it made the bond between them stronger than ever. This life changing event will have an affect on not only Zoe but also on the people closest to her, such as her family. In Maybe One Day the tone changes between solemn and hopeful. The day Olivia said, “I have leukemia, Zoe” was the day Zoe thought nothing made sense and saw the world differently. Zoe couldn’t grasp the idea that people could still be living their lives joyously while her
Chapter 30 begins with Niska collecting stones that speak to her, in order to build a fire. Xavier is fading away, while Niska tries her best to keep him alive with her stories. She figures that she knows of no medicine or other methods to help ease Xavier’s pain. She want to tell him of his first hunting story alone when Xavier was 6 years old. When tracking a moose, he found a rare chance to witness a mating dance of grouse. Xavier forgot about fear as he watched the dance; however he was hungry, so he shot the female strangler. The next day, he and his aunt tracked and killed the moose. They were proud and returned home for a feast with other awawatuk. Xavier told them of his hunting story by dancing, from then on, he was nicknamed, Little
After Josie and her best friend had a fight, they both acted aloof towards each other, which resulted in both of the girls to become sad.
It follows the story of a suburban housewife named Carol White (Julianne Moore) who develops an illness her doctor cannot diagnose and her husband (Xander Berkeley) cannot understand. The film raises various factors into play such as class, gender, race, self-help culture and so on. The biggest question to answer is whether Carol’s illness is real or not. Haynes does not provide his audience a direct answer to this predicament.
It really broke me inside when I read this story’s ending. I think she shouldn't have given up on her
are only four different scenes in the entire novel. Chapter one is set at the
Skylar woke up feeling different than usual. She is filled with the overwhelming feeling of anxiety. Yet, she is always filled with great joy. Not knowing what lies in the future she gets up ready to take on her life changing story. She makes it to the hospital with anticipation coming over her. She goes under not knowing if she is going to make it out alive.
Sadly, things changed when Olivia was pronounced dead, and her brother, Micha, lost his life just minutes after his sister.
One girl, Whitney, has to deal with the divorce of her parents and deciding where she wants to live, while Zoe has to deal with her mom who is not only a celebrity but also an alcoholic. I will be evaluating two of the character in my book, Zoe and Whitney.
The chapter consists of eight sentences that explain the internal monologue of Molly Bloom. To begin the chapter, Molly’s husband has just asked her to make breakfast in bed. Though she becomes annoyed by his question, she is also surprised and curious about whether or not he has had an affair. The thought reminds her of her own nefarious acts with Mr. Boylan. Her mind begins to wonder toward thoughts of sex with both her husband and Boylan and, although she enjoys sleeping with Boylan more than her husband, her mind shifts to the kind-hearted Bloom who wipes his feet on the front mat come rain or shine.
Following this tragedy, Ayla learns of sorrow, and what it means to lose someone who cares about you. This stage in her life is incredibly tough as Creb cannot care for her alone, and the strain on Creb to protect Ayla is intense,
The story itself is about seventeen year old Mia Hall, who is put into a coma after being in a car accident that killed her parents and younger brother, Teddy. Now it's Mia's choice whether she wants to live, wake up without any parents, or to let everything go, and follow her parents. The book has many happy points, as well as sad ones, where she recalls parts of her life, which ultimately lead up to her decision.
'The Story Of Tom Brennan' focuses on grief each family member has and how they express it toward the accident. Kylie wants to talk to her family but can't because nobody want to talk about the accident, so she bottles it all up and tells the whole school about it though a speech about domestic terrorism. Kath, Fin mother has to deal with Fin critical state. Fin is a former athlete on the Mumbili football team, would be restrained to a wheelchair or a bed for the rest of his life. Kath has to do everything for Fin in his condition so she doesn't have time to hide away like Tess does, she has to get on with life and can't let the grief get to her. This theme is important to my generation because you can lose people around and this novel shows how and how not to deal with
“This Morning, This Evening, So Soon” shows an interesting portrayal of race. The primary idea behind it is that it is not just black and white and I mean this quite literally. This story presents the idea that there are many different groups that are discriminated against. An idea that was previously explored in “Previous Condition”, when Peter’s Jewish friend Jules, attempts to sympathize with Peter’s anguish by explaining that he has also been discriminated against for being Jewish.
The article “Me Talk Pretty One Day” is written by David Sedaris. This article is about getting over your fears of learning a new language and how it will take time to learn. The main key points of this article are getting over your fears of learning a new language, the first day of class, and understanding the language. My goal is to provide a simplified, more detailed essay of the article about in a way the audience would enjoy. I want the audience to feel confident about attending their first foreign class. I agree that there is nothing to fear in attending their first foreign class and it would take time get used to the language. But I want to further substantiate the author's claim with my own experience and elaborate on how learning
In “The Autonomous Female Self and the Death of Louise Mallard in Kate Chopin’s ‘Story of an Hour,’” Mark Cunningham expresses his opinion on how he believes Mrs. Mallard dies in Chopin’s short story. “The Story of an Hour” was written in the late 1890s, during a time when it was controversial for women to be independent. The ending of her story has created somewhat of a dilemma among readers for years. Some people conclude one ending based on the details and clues Chopin wrote throughout the story, while others come up with a totally different opinion. Mark Cunningham writes a brilliant article on his view of the story’s ending, where he clearly conveys his take on Louis Mallard’s death. Although there are many times when he repeats the same information, Cunningham makes good use of textual evidence and authorities, as well as logic, which makes it easy to agree with his claim.