Summary Of The Story ' Ghosts ' By Edwidge Danticat

¨You can't hide from crime.¨ This book is called Ghost by Jason Reynolds. This book is a very well thought out and not that long 180 pages. This book is written in first person, and is realistic fiction.

In the 1960’s the author was growing up with her mother and five other siblings, moving from place to place in search of a home where the

Dr. Gabor Mate, a Hungarian born Canadian physician, who is also a neurologist, psychiatrist, and psychologist, but who specializes in the study and treatment of addiction, reveals revolutionary evidence pertaining to addiction. In Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, Dr. Mate worked with patients suffering chronic drug addiction for 12 years. With 20 years of experience as a family practitioner, Dr. Mate is a renowned speaker and teacher throughout North America; sharing his extensive knowledge with diverse audiences including health care professionals and educators (Mate, About Dr. Mate, 2016). The Realm of Hungry Ghosts, Dr. Mate’s most recent best-selling book, illuminates the origins and causes of addiction. As Co-founder of Compassion for Addiction (a non-profit organization), Dr. Gabor Mate encourages a greater understanding; “addiction is the attempt of affected human beings to escape a profound discomfort with themselves and their world” (Mate, Compassion4Addiction, 2015). Drawing on cutting-edge science, Dr. Mate presents the world with a shocking discovery: “The source of addiction is not to be found in genes, but in the early childhood environment.” Therefore, Dr. Mate simply “calls for a more compassionate approach toward the addict.” (Mate, 2016) As cutting-edge science concludes addiction to be a mental health issue, rather than criminal behavior, the American legal system demonstrates a devastating disservice to its own society.

Using his primary expressive purpose, Danticat talks about his memories from his time living in Westbury Court. Much if not all of these happen to be rather violent memories, such as whenever his father's camera being stolen, or when a cabdriver was shot in front of the apartments. However the only memory he remembers most fondly

This book report is over Haunted Houses by Patricia D. Netzley. The book is part of a series called The Mystery Library. The main goal of the series is to examine strange and often unbelieveable or unexplainable events. The author’s writes this series and her other books for the age range of kids to young adults. This book in particular goes into depth about the history of haunted house and everything surrounding them like sightings, ghosts, poltergeist, speaking to spirits, and investigation.

Suspicion is one of the dangerous weapons of humanity. In this scene, a peculiar meteor like object flew over Maple Street, causing all of the power to go out. A young boy, Tommy, presents the idea that aliens are behind this. “‘They sent four people...who looked just like humans… but they weren’t.’ There’s a quiet laughter at this...that comes from a desperate attempt to lighten the atmosphere. The neighbors look at one another...concerned,” (Serling, pg. 5,6). This quote shows that the crowd is starting to become suspicious of one another. The crowd is panicked and willing to believe anything, even though there is no proof saying that someone is an alien. Tommy declares that one of the families that live on Maple Street are aliens. The crowd now believes that someone isn’t who they say they are, just because a young boy decided that that was the only logical explanation. The suspicion is shattering the neighbors’ trust in each other. This may cause neighbors to turn on each other. In this scene, one of the neighbors, Les Goodman, tries to start his car, because no one else’s cars are working. “He stops suddenly as behind him…the car engine starts up all by itself...The crowd...continues to ask questions in an air of accusation,” (Serling, pg. 6,7). These stage directions show that when Les’s car starts, the crowd becomes immediately suspicious of Les. The crowd becomes

During the Communist regime in the former Soviet Union, life was very difficult. The people who lived within the countries controlled by the Soviet government experienced levels of oppression akin to slavery. They could not express themselves through any means and had to conform both body and soul to the views of the Communist Party. People could be arrested, imprisoned, shipped off to exile or executed often without trial. Some twenty million people died while Joseph Stalin led the USSR and for many years after his death it was still dangerous to dare criticize his regime, although some scholars put that number closer to forty million people who died. Now that the Soviet Union has broken up and Russia is its own country there is more freedom, but the people still live under the yoke of an oppressive leader who does not tolerate political or social challenges. The people do nothing to stand up to this government because they have all been scarred by the decades they lived under Stalin.

The book I chose for my Theme Project is Breathe: A Ghost Story by Cliff McNish. In his new rural house, a young boy with a dead father begins sensing ghosts of children, and a mother, in the house. The Ghost Mother meets Jack and offers to become his mother, and he accepts. But when he finds out that the mother has been doing horrible things to the Ghost Children, and killed her daughter, she resorts to possessing his mother. She slowly kills off the four children, sending them to the hellish Nightmare Passage. After sitting down once, the boy communicates with the daughter on the Other Side. She tells of how her death from pneumonia drove the mother to suicide, and refused to go with her loved ones to the Other Side. Finally, with

The world renowned Haitian-American author Edwidge Danticat who was known for many of her great writings over the years. Including but not limited to novels and short stories that related to her epilogue “Women like Us”, which focus on the women of her descent that related to her life and her mother. Danticat was born on January 19, 1969 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti to Andre and Rose Danticat. Her parents immigrated to the United States when she was only four years old. While her parents were away Danticat and her younger brother stayed in Haiti under the custody of their aunt and uncle.

Deb Bailey’s life started in Kenton, Ohio at San Antonio Hospital on February 24th, 1960. Life as a child for my grandmother was no walk in the park but her loving Mother Wanda Marie (Hogue) Fawley made life so much better at home. Wanda had a big house with many rooms, some electric, little plumbing, and one telephone. To make life harder Wanda was a deaf mute. She attended a special school that was considered

During that time in Liberia, there was a civil war going on causing her mother to make that decision of sending her only daughter away for a better life. Although she traveled with Pan Am, her family entrusted her to a man she didn’t know to bring to her extended family. The possessions she departed with were a suitcase some articles of African clothing and a purse. Her first twenty-four hours were scared and frightening. Once she arrived in New York, she had to take a bus to Providence, Rhode Island to meet her family. On the bus ride, in shock and terror she thought America was depressing by its appearance. Due to it being winter, she expected warm weather with blossomed flowers and

Ghosts, as with any other misunderstood group or people, have been preyed upon by others without understanding. The lack of knowledge about ghosts and haunting activity has led people astray as to what they really are. What Hollywood and television portrays is very inaccurate and cannot be relied upon as truthful. They show these spirits of the dead as being evil in nature, filled with malice and harmful intent. But that this is not the case. The field of paranormal activity is amazing. It has caught the imagination of people from every walk of life. It has always interested me and has influenced me to pick this as the topic for my research. Through this research I wish to uncover the truth about the existence of ghosts.

Considered one of the most respected African plays, The Dilemma of a Ghost revolves around a newly married couple, Ato and Eulalie. Ato’s Ghanaian family has saved tremendously to send him to University in the United States. After he completes his studies, however, Ato surprises his family by returning home with an African-American bride, Eulalie. Spread out over a year, the play mainly focuses on the cultural differences that both Ato’s family and Eulalie struggle to accept in each other. Aidoo captures a number of upsetting problems confronting the post-colonial Africa, as she highlights the

Our lives are build out of experiences. Depending on where we live, what we are going through, or our state of mind, we build our personal lives by making some concessions and adjustments in order to cope with others. In the play GHOST by Henrik Ibsen, Mrs. Alving and Pastor Manders are two characters whose stories differ because of secrets, misunderstandings, and masquerade.

The Caribbean is known for its ghost stories, myths and haunted landscapes. Dawn of the Dread, by Geoffrey Philp, was set in rural Jamaica. Being set in the high hills of mount Airy, the author highlights the hilly and mountainous features of the Caribbean terrain. This story revealed both past and present aspects of the Caribbean culture. It revealed notions of ghost stories, corruption, religious practices, homosexuality and police brutality. It embodies love, Rastafarian beliefs and violence. It revolves around the life of Darren Lee, his girlfriend Grace and Georgie. Regardless of his contrasting beliefs, Darren was responsible for saving the town from zombies.