Summary Of ' Winter Of The Dead '

This novel told us about Nat’s life in a ship yard. The novel begins with Nat as a young boy who dreams of someday attending Harvard. He loved math and he loved ships however circumstances caused him to quit school and help his father. Eventually he ended up an indentured servant to a ships dealer.

Nat adjusted well to the newfound cowboy life on the Duval Ranch going from a slave boy to a cowboy he lost all sense of fear that could’ve been gained through the years of a slave. Nat soon became an excellent ranch hand advanced in shooting a .45 revolver. He earned a reputation as being one of the best all-around cowboys in the Duval outfit beating anyone in riding, roping and shooting. Nat soon became the Duval outfit’s chief

This novel gives a vivid glimpse of life in early Jamestown. Through this book, we get the perspectives of not only people living in that time period but of actual settlers in Jamestown. Many of John Smith’s work is incorporated in this novel as well. Throughout this novel, we begin to question, how did a settlement that consisted majority of gentlemen become the first English permanent settlement? Through seventeenth-century English documents and first-hand reports, Price answers the question by showing the importance of John Smith and Pocahontas.

The Forgotten Dead takes in an account in US History that the problem of lynching did not only occurred in the US Southern states with African-Americans, but it also occurred in the US southwest with the Mexican-Americans.

David A. Price, Love and Hate in Jamestown: John Smith, Pocahontas, and the Heart of a New Nation (New York: Alfred A. Knopf)

The power of the story has been very much a part of the lives of humans throughout time. The story is able to bring the past to the present and the dead to the living. The story can make the blind see. The story is able to make others feel for events in time that they have never experienced. The story has a profound effect on both the teller and the audience. As the audience is thought to be the beneficiary or the storytelling process, the teller is able to relive the times of old, or even teach a valuable lesson to his or her audience. Thus, allowing both parties to gain something intangible throughout this process. In “The Lives of the Dead,” O’Brien conveys the importance of storytelling and imagination by suggesting that the dead can be brought back to life in the minds of the people who hear it.

Price's true strength in this book is his support of his main thesis. Price's ability to reveal the true story of John Smith and Pocahontas is shown in his support of his theories, which are numerous. Price's ability to portray John Smith as a capable leader despite the view of his co patriots at Jamestown is the true reason Price wrote this book. He wants to describe the real John Smith and Pocahontas, as well, and hopefully explain the real causes for the successful settlement of

One of the few things we learned this year that can be related to this book are the bones and skin. We learned about how the skin heals itself when it's wounded or injured in many

-The central story is of Niska's early adolescence. It is the winter during which she enters puberty. Her Oji-Cree Anishnabe clan of roughly 30 people still live near Hudson's Bay, in the wilderness. The winter is a harsh one, with few animals to trap and eat. They are reluctantly forced to consume a young hibernating bear, who they regard as a spiritual brother (38). Niska's father, a medicine man and a spiritual leader of the clan, argues that they have no choice but to eat or starve (37). Nothing it should be added, is to be wasted.

In 1846, eight families gathered together with a common goal, to find a better life in California. These families became known as The Donner party, also known as the Donner-Reed party. Although they set out with high hopes and good faith, their trip was doomed from the start.

The book “Wintergirls” tells the story of a girl named Lia. As Lia lives her daily life she is forced to deal with her ex-best friend's suicide, her parents divorced, cutting and anorexia. Both Lia and her ex-best friend Cassie struggle with maintaining a positive body image; Cassie attempts to being the skinniest girl in the school by throwing up after every meal and Lia starves herself in order to be skinny. Before Cassie died she atmented to call Lia thirty-three time and Lia did not pick up the phone leaving her feeling guilty throughout the book. Lia does not get along with her mother so she lives with her father, his wife Jennifer and her daughter Emma. Throughout the book she tries to keep her weight loss a secret so the won’t send her to the doctor or a mental hospital. Lia adores her sister Emma and views her as the only good thing in her life. As Lia continues to push herself to eat less and exercise more she begins to see Cassie as a ghost. Lia reaches a tipping point when she passes out in the same motel room Cassie died in; as Lia is slowly dying she realizes that she wants to live. Lia goes to the hospitable and begin to eat and rest and slowly becomes”a real girl” again.

They were about to kill him but they saved his life instead. Causing Smith to rightfully feel confused and conflicted. However the feast did not last. He was taken to the chief of all the tribes, Powhatan. Before his execution Smith was given water to wash his hands and feathers to dry them. A sign of hospitality and kindness. However, the tune quickly changes when Powhatan lays Smith’s head on two rocks, ready to smash Smith’s skull. Luckily, “Pocahontas, the King’s dearest daughter, when no entreaty could prevail, got his head in her arms, and laid her own upon his to save him from death” (15). The Native Americans change their tune quite frequently from treating Smith with respect, to trying to kill him, to saving his life. He liked their kindness, feasts, and the fact that he saved his life. But he did not like their constant shifts in attitude or the fact that they captured him. No wonder Smith feels ambivalent about these people. Their mannerisms and attitudes toward him change so often that it is hard to intently them as just “good” or

Nick’s summer in the East egg is and educational experience. He learns about Tom’s affair with Myrtle and how abusive tome is- breaking Myrtle’s nose because she wants him to leave his wife. Nick about Tom and Myrtle “They were careless people, Tom and Daisy -- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together and let other people clean up the mess they had made” (P 188). Now it’s true the education he came East Egg for was to learn about the bond business. The timing was great. It was 1992 and the economy was great. The 1920’s a happy extravagant time. Unfortunately Nick learned more about the business of the newly rich in East Egg. He discovers that Gatsby’s car was involved in an accident in which Myrtle Wilson was killed.

Everyone feels burdened by life at some point. Everyone wishes they could just close their eyes and make all the problems and struggles of life disappear. Some see death as a release from the chains and ropes with which the trials and tribulations of life bind the human race. Death is a powerful theme in literature, symbolized in a plethora of ways. In "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Eve" Robert Frost uses subtle imagery, symbolism, rhythm and rhyme to invoke the yearning for death that the weary traveler of life feels.

Dunbar knows that the arrival of American troops in the frontiers will only be a matter of time. Soon, he has to make the decision whether he wants to stick to his new friends or go back to his fellow soldiers and fight against the Indians. When Dunbar rides back to his post to get his journal, American soldiers are gathered around his post. They see him coming and shoot his horse. Since Dunbar is wearing a Sioux gown, the troops look at him as a trader and treat him brutally. When the soldiers are on their way to the next village to have Dunbar hanged, the Sioux attack, and rescue their friend, Dunbar. Back at the Indian camp, Dunbar and his wife decide to leave the Sioux. John Dunbar knows that he is a wanted man now.