Summary Of The Bicycle By Jillian Horton

In The Bicycle, by Jillian Horton, the author is demonstrating the importance of being your own person. Hannah goes through the story, listening to and following Tante Rose until she makes the choice to sacrifice her gift to have more freedom. Hannah, the main character, is a pianist who lives with her aunt, Tante Rose. In this story, Hannah is determined to become a gifted pianist, in her faith and herself as an individual. Hannah reflects on herself and tries her best to be the best pianist by sacrificing many hours to her gift. Hannah even moved in with her aunt Rose so she can use her master piano and will always be able to practice. Tante Rose says Hannah has a gift, and she says that it will take hard work and focus, but Hannah is going

To this day, she won’t be involved with our family. The Bicycle (Chapter Two) Summary: Out of two new hobbies started from Rachel a title

Tante Rose forbids Hannah from being able to ride a bicycle, due to Tante Rose breaking her collarbone after falling off a bicycle. “The second thing she forbade me to do was ride on a bicycle. Tante Rose had hurt herself badly once when she was pitched from a bicycle.” Although Hannah did

Hannah remains a wonderful role model to her peers in all of her work ethic, kindheartedness, and her spiritual life. No one would be able to find one cruel bone in her body. Passionate about everything she does, she never gives up on anything. She is not swayed by the majority; she finds joy in being her own person. The following quote perfectly sums up Hannah’s outlook on life. “Do not compare yourself with others. It is our uniqueness that makes us who we are.” - Tina J.

Ruth, in particular, cannot accept the hardships in her life, and instead runs away from the majority of her issues. McBride uses Ruth’s bicycle as a symbol of her tendency to avoid her problems by running rather than facing and conquering them. He writes, “The image of her riding that bicycle typified her whole existence to me. Her oddness, her complete nonawareness of what the world thought of her, a nonchalance in the face of what I perceived to be imminent danger from blacks and whites who disliked her for being a white person in a black world. She saw none of it” (7-8).

Amy Westervelt article “Bike-Sharing Grows Up: New Revenue Models Turn a Nice Idea Into Good Business” explains how the bike –sharing program started and grew into a dependent, and steady business that became global. In the story there is a failure in the small town of Ojai, California when starting up a bike-sharing program due to how it was handled. At the time there many other small towns in the United States that also ran unsuccessful bike sharing programs. Many years later there was a relaunch in Paris that end up being successful, from having cool bikes, better placement for them and reasonable pricing; therefor the US had a trial run at the Democratic convention in Denver in 2008. Washington, D.C. flourished so much that it became

Hannah Baker is one of the main characters in Thirteen Reasons Why a novel by Jay Asher. Hannah is a very honest, maybe not with others but she's honest with herself. For example when she says “ i know what you’re all thinking Hannah Baker is a slut” (page 23). She is facing reality and knows what people think of her without being upset with the fact people think that. Hannah doesn't only show honestly but she shows courage. She never really got control of what people said about her  but it was shown in this statement “ I needed a change just like they said, so i changed my appearance. The only thing I still had control over.” (page 163) . She did not deny the fact of what other people thought.Hannah kept everything in order. When it came to

Actually, how we see ourselves does not come from who we really are, but rather from how we believe others see us.” This was true in Hannah’s case. Hannah’s low self-esteem was caused by her peers’ increasingly low opinion of her. She believed that her classmates saw her in a poor light, so she did as well. In the novel, Hannah said, “I have no excuse. I could have stopped it-end of story. But to stop it, I felt like I’d have to stop the entire world from spinning. Like things had been out of control for so long that whatever I did hardly mattered anymore”. She felt that her actions did not matter anymore because no one would see her differently at that point in time. Her reputation had been built up as someone who was “easy” and untrustworthy. Others’ perception of Hannah caused her to doubt and hate herself in the end. This caused severe changes in her self-identity.

She can't stand the fact that there's a chance her daughter may fall off of the bike, however continues to watch her fly down the path, hoping for her to remain safe. As the poem goes more in depth, the mother's emotions spill out as well. It's revealed that the mother anxiously waits for her daughter to face the hardships of growing up, knowing that she won't be able to be with her every step of the way. Life is a mysterious, yet dangerous path and the daughter is undertaking life by living it to the fullest even at a young age. As stated, "as I sprinted to catch up, while you grew smaller, more breakable with distance" (14-17).

One day, my brother Percy and I bored so we decided to ride our dirt bikes. I rode around our yard until I met up with Percy and he said

“It was never a lost poem, Ryan. And you never found it, so it did not belong in your collection” (Asher). Hannah trusted Ryan to see the poem she wrote not knowing he would take it and put it on the school paper she didn't trust him after that and felt horrible about what everyone was saying about her poem she made. The main cause of Hannah's alienation is having her friends stab her in the back betray her and people making fun of

In this text, Charles and Frances show the readers their views in slightly different ways, but they both show that they love cycling. Frances describes the benefits of cycling and how people trying to discourage her encouraged her more. Charles describes his relationship with cycling and then shows how cycling is better than other types of transport. Frances was strong ignoring people trying to stop her and staying set on her goal. She shows her determination and how she was “firmly set to do this thing”.

When I was younger my dad used to teach me how to ride my bike, first we started with training wheels until I had the basics down. Then when I was done with the training wheels we would ride in the back yard of my old house, which was muddy and bumpy. He would push me and tell me to keep my balance and keep both of my hands on the handle bars. But that was kind of complicated because of how muddy and bumpy it was in the backyard. Over and over again I would fall of the bike but I would always get back up and try again because I was no quitter. Then the next day my parents told me we were moving to another house and I didn't know what to think and that night I slept in there room. The next morning we went to the new house and I got on my bike

Hanna Baker was a sophomore in high school in the novel Thirteen Reasons Why. She was a depressed character who goes through many tough situations throughout the book she has been through everything from being cyber bullied to being raped (sexually harassed). I think this can relate to many of us, the tough times part not the sexual harassment, many or in fact I’m sure all of us go through tough times at least once in our lives. After all these rough times, she records 13 tapes because to her that could be her solidity and her way of expressing how she feels, this sort of relates to me in a way because I know that when I feel the need to express how I feel I tend to write a lot. Her tapes are passed on to people that have hurt, disappointed and bullied her in one way or another and this links to her emotional instability. At the end of the novel, it shows how emotionally unstable she was because she ends up committing suicide. We all feel isolated at some stage in our life and that could either have a positive or negative effect; in Hannah’s case, sadly, it was negative. This novel has many good life lessons to learn from; firstly, don’t bully and be rude to anyone because you don’t know what is going on in their life in the dark and learn to accept people and yourself for who they are and don’t judge if you don’t know the reason behind the actions. I think if the other characters in the novel knew about these lessons Hannah would be alive. This goes back to one of my reasons why stories matter, “some help convey messages and teach life lessons.”, this novel also raises suicide

She looked at me from across the room with those bright green eyes and grinned at me with those oddly beautiful staggered teeth. “Can we sing Hannah Montana again today?” she mouths to me as her teacher is trying to get her attention. I smile, nod and point to the blabbering teacher and she blushes. The smile on my face slowly washes away as I think to myself, “I cannot listen to one more Hannah Montana song.”