Warriors: A Dangerous Path, By Erin Hunter

From one person to another, everyone has been brave at least once in their life. In a tough situation, one may not realize how brave they can be. In The Downsiders by Neal Shusterman, a subterranean city is under New York, full of misfits and outsiders who don’t belong on the surface. Downsider, Talon and Topsider, Lindsay are constantly being put through tough situations, yet time and time again, they show their bravery. Although bravery may always be in us, bravery can come when one needs it most.

Armed and Dangerous, a memoir by Gina Gallo, presents the reader with an in-depth look into the life of a Chicago police woman. Gallo, whose father was also an officer, spent 16 years of her life patrolling some of the worst, rundown streets of Chicago's south and west side. Her stories while on the beat are shocking, somewhat comical, and extremely frustrating as she gives the reader her life story as an officer from her first days at the academy to her heartbreaking end as a policewoman.

Fireheart has changed throughout the book by he always wanted to try to follow warrior code, but sometimes he has to do what he thinks is the right thing. One day his friend Graystripe met this RiverClan she-cat and he like her. They would meet up at the RiverClan territory secretly. It was against warrior code meeting up with another Clan warrior in this case a RiverClan warrior and they also broke the code of not going into other Clans borders! If someone found out they would be in big trouble. Fireheart noticed that Graystripe was always leaving and sneaking out behind the nursery. One day Fireheart followed him and didn’t like it. He told Graystripe that they should stop meeting, but he was to stubborn to listen. Then he tried to convince

“Leafkit, Shimmerkit, and Shiningkit come forth!” yowled Flamestar, who then turned to face Leafkit. “Leafkit, from this moment on, until you earn your warrior name, you will be known as Leafpaw.” Flamestar glanced at Rainshimmer. “Rainshimmer, you will be Leafpaw’s mentor, I hope you pass on your expert hunting skills to this apprentice.” Leafpaw strode confidently over to her mentor and touched noses. Then Flamestar turned to face Shimmerkit. “Shimmerkit, from this moment on you shall be known as Shimmerpaw. Tigerflower, you will be Shimmerpaw’s mentor, and I hope you pass on your fighting skills and understanding of others to her.” Shimmerpaw scampered towards her mentor and touched noses rather clumsily, for it was more of a crash then a gentle gesture. Lastly, Flamestar turned to Shinningkit. “Shiningkit, from this moment on you shall be known as Shiningpaw, and your mentor will be, Kinkwillow. Kinkwillow I hope you pass on your knowledge to this young apprentice.” Yowls and cheers came from the clan as Shiningpaw finished touching noses with her mentor. Emeraldkit reluctantly started yowling her sisters names as loud as she could, even though she could feel jealousy climbing up her back like spiders. “Shiningpaw! Shimmerpaw! Leafpaw! Shiningpaw! Shimmerpaw! Leafpaw!!!!” she yowled. With her head hanging low, Emeraldkit padded to the nursery thinking, I’m going to be the strongest, bravest, and smartest warrior ever! They’ll

Out of nowhere, a lion from the forest entered the scene and jumped on the militants. The animal seized one of the attackers by the neck. Two other lions leapt at other militants who tried to attack the first lion, and the incident caused the assailants to flee.

In The Last Hope, the Dark Forest is finally defeated when they attack the Clans. They survived once they united as one to drive out the Dark Forest, though there were many losses to the Clans. StarClan (where cats go after their first death and leave forever at their second death) received many warriors, but the Clans lost many warriors. The Clans had the advantage of the battle because they were prepared and also they lived around trees. The Last Hope is a sad and at the same time exciting because many deaths come, but the Clan’s greatest enemy gets destroyed completely and

Tigerheart crashed through the gorse, stopping when he saw Hollyleaf. "Let me help!" he said, shoving his nose under Hollyleaf's shoulder, and together, we began to carry Hollyleaf to ThunderClan camp. As we approached ThunderClan camp I heard Dovewing call for Leafpool and Jayfeather. As we came through the entrance, Dovewing ran to meet us. "Ivypool, are you hurt?" she asked, but I was in too much shock to answer at first. Firestar ran past Dovewing, taking Hollyleaf off my shoulders. When Dovewing asked what had happened again I managed to tell her that Hollyleaf saved my life. I could tell that Dovewing was worried that I had almost died, but she didn't say anything, she just pressed against me and turned me towards ThunderClan camp. When Poppyfrost asked me if I had seen Molepaw or Cherrypaw, I just murmured that they could be anywhere. When it seemed that Hollyleaf was going to die I yowled at Jayfeather and Leafpool, "You have to save her! Hawkfrost tried to kill me, but Hollyleaf chased him away." I saw Brambleclaw's eyes darken. "Hawkfrost? He did this?" I felt terrible. "I was fighting Snowtuft and Thistleclaw. I couldn't help her," I

It had been a peaceful moon since FireClan was last attacked. Their relationship with the other clans was growing. They kept peace between everyone. When one clan threatened war, FireClan was there to prevent any loss and pain. Even if the other leaders didn’t admit it, it meant a lot to keep war from happening.

Many war novels are either written for or against the war. Throughout this class we have read many novels that were seen as anti-war but we also have read a novel that was pro war. There were many similarities and differences when it came to the different books. Such as the last book we read by Heidi Squier Kraft, Rule Number Two: Lessons I learned in a Combat Hospital, were quite different from the first 6 books we have read. This book was the only book we read that was for the war. All the others six books for against the war such as All Quiet on the Western Front, A Farewell to Arms, Goodbye, Darkness ,Slaughterhouse 5, The Things They Carried, and Redeployment. In these books readers can see that theses novels shared common perspectives and characteristics. Some book were memoirs and some were stories but all these books had one main purpose which was the war. Wars dating back to World war I to the recent Iraq war. These authors share their experiences and memories the best that they could in through these books. While reading these different war novels, these novels have expressed how the war made an impact not only through the people connected within the war but everyone else around them.

The Civil War (1861-1865) took the lives of hundreds of thousands of people, more than any other American conflict. More than 100,000 died from disease, rather than from combat. The graphic novel Battle Lines, by Jonathon Fetter-Vorm and Ari Kelman, contains fifteen chapters, each one concerning itself on a specific object or a particular source from the Civil War. For example, there is a chapter focusing on a pair of opera glasses at the Battle of Bull Run/Manassas, and another featuring a diary at an Andersonville prison. These objects or sources serve as the focus of narration and artistic presentation throughout the novel. The novel does not simply gloss over the brutalities, fatalities and realities of the war, but delves deeper into

The landscape faded back to blackness, and when Tigerstar opened his eyes, he was back in his den with Dovewing and their kits. He wondered what Bluestar’s prophecies meant. Tigerstar had heard about second prophecy through Puddleshine after the last medicine cat meeting, but the first prophecy was new to him. As Tigerstar snuggled closer to his mates and his kits, Bluestar’s words, “Five cats kin to all Clans and all elements, that will rise in the Clans and lead the Clans to prosperity,” echoed through Tigerstar’s

The novel The Secret Warriors written by W.E.B. Griffin talks about a group of pilots who are part of the military, the Army. Canidy, who is one of the characters, is one of the many pilots that the story talks about. Canidy was stationed in Catalina Island, California, it is close to San Francisco. The novel begins with Canidy being moved from his station in Catalina Island to a station in Texas. Canidy was going by plane, on the way to his new station, he decided to start a conversation with the pilot. Their conversation started about their services with the military and what rank they are. The conversation later started to be about the war. Canidy and the pilot were talking about the many ideas they, as in their military and the U.S., can

Once a long time ago, there were five groups that had met with a very powerful witch. It put a spell on their tribes that made them unstoppable and gave them powers to transform into beasts of land, air, and sea. These groups were the Lions, who ran across the open lands, the Wolves, who ran through the forests, the Eagles, who soared high in the skies, the Crocodiles who swam through the seas, and the retched Hyenas, who betrayed them all. The tribes had thought they were the only ones but there had been a deal that made the evil tribes which were the Tigers to combat the Lions, the Vultures to combat the Eagles, the Sharks to combat the Crocodiles, the Hyenas made a deal that made them combat the Wolves. The Hyenas leader, Baman, was a tricky, back stabbing creature. The battles had been going on for three years. The leader of the Lions, Saba The Great, was strong enough

Everyone stopped cleaning, a heavy blanket of silence overtook the dining room. The Celestial Warriors of Suzaku casted hesitant stares to one and other.

Change is an essential part of life, for better, or for worse. It enables authors to add depth to their stories by creating characters that are either dynamic or static. In Arthur Miller’s The Crucible and Maxine Hong Kinston’s The Woman Warrior, dynamic and static characters play large roles in developing the plot. Mary Warren, in The Crucible, is a dynamic character whose unpredictability and compliance affects not only her own fate but also the fate of others in the play. In contrast, Brave Orchid, in The Woman Warrior is a static character whose views on women’s equality remain the same as the novel progresses. While Mary Warren’s acquiescence is detrimental to many characters in The Crucible, Brave Orchid’s unwavering beliefs prove to be just as damaging for other characters in The Woman Warrior.