Summary: The Girl On The Train

Consider the painting The Railroad Bride, Argenteuil by Claude Monet. This artwork looks simple, but uses geometry and one point linear perspective. Monet uses a sense of opposition is created by the alternating rhythm of light to dark established by the bridge pillars and the color orange and blue in both water and smoke from the train above. The light and dark areas given the picture asymmetrical balance between the dark and light areas. Monet uses one point linear perspective to create the bride. He uses proportions in the relationship between the parts of the object and the whole object by using geometry. Monet uses grid like geometry. The wooden structure support under the bridge is the same overall structure of grid and diagonals. Other lines are the apparent in the two diagonals as well as opposing directional lines of the train and the boat. The smoke shows direction of the wind and that the boat is moving that way as well. The visual weight/balance of the sail boat is smaller than the bridge. I believe the focal point is the new bridge for the train and new travels was is focal point in the picture.

Girl in a Bad Place By: Kaitlin Ward The book I read was “Girl in a Bad Place” by Kaitlin Ward. Mailee and Cara are in high school, over the summer the two girls are invited to see a place near the mountains in Montana called the Haven. The main characters in this story are two best friends named Mailee and Cara. Mailee and Cara are in their senior year of high school.

The Train to Crystal City, written by Jan Jarboe Russell, is a book about internment camps that were constructed in the United States during WWII to house people the U.S. government classified as “enemy aliens”. For years, these camps were home to people of various nationalities, most notably those of Japanese, German, and Italian descent. A majority of the book follows the experiences and lives of several families that were interned at these internment camps during the war.

What’s the best way to face a difficult situation? Day in and day out, life circumstances force people to live their lives differently than planned. Some struggle with this concept, never seeing the silver lining in the unexpected turn of events. Others however, live their lives as normally as they can, regardless of whatever they’re faced with. During the second world war, America was faced with the question of how to keep their country safe from enemies that might live within its borders. Although every American citizen is legally innocent until proven guilty, all’s fair in love and war. America saw no choice but to lock away immigrants and their American born children. This is detailed in The Train to Crystal City by Jan Jarboe Russell as

In the beginning of the novel, the reader is introduced to the idea of flashbacks, which remain short and are intertwined seamlessly within the text. The readers learn to be active when reading, and also pay close attention to the details within the flashbacks to learn more about the characters that their past lives.

That feeling, the one someone has as they walk through a sketchy crowd or pass by a person who looks like they can potentially end a life. But sitting across one on a moving train for who knows how long, is another story. In the poem “On the Subway” by Sharon Olds, she narrates an experience a young woman on a moving train. She is able to convey the speaker’s dilemma by employing tone, imagery, and organization

While many leaders in politics, business, science, and education strive for change, there still persists a deep divide between male and female roles in the workplace and in society. This gap begins in childhood as demonstrated in Sharon Olds’ (b. 1942) “The One Girl at the Boys’ Party” (1984). This poem describes a young girl who attends a swimming party where she is the only female guest. It relies on science and math imagery to contrast the boys’ physicality with the girl’s intellectual ability, and to juxtapose her physical features with the boys’ features. This figurative language creates a distinction to challenge the disparity between male and female roles and their separation in social life, which begins at a young age. Olds’ use of science and math imagery serves as an extended metaphor for the juxtaposition between the one girl at the party and the other guests, which represents the social divide between the genders.

People can live lives in a similar way and people will be forced to live them differently. In the poem “On the Subway” by Sharon Olds, Olds discusses two lives being viewed differently. Olds uses a number of literary techniques, such as poetic devices, and comparisons to display the contrast on the two lives. She discusses the two lives in order from small comparisons that may not even be viewed as contrast to more larger views.

Orphan Train, a historical fiction novel written by Christina Baker Kline, focuses on the lives of two very different people that have very similar backgrounds. Along with writing and editing many novels, Kline has taught multiple literature-based classes, such as poetry and non-fiction writing. Out of all of her fiction pieces, Orphan Train is the first of which that is based off of historic events and the real stories her mother-in-laws’ father told. Kline is very active in organizations that support children in foster care, as well as multiple libraries. This novel is the perfect compilation of two different stories that intertwine to create an intriguing plot of the present and past experiences of being an orphan.

Orphan trains and Carlisle and the ways people from the past undermined the minorities and children of America. The film "The orphan Trains" tells us the story of children who were taken from the streets of New York City and put on trains to rural America. A traffic in immigrant children were developed and droves of them teamed the streets of New York (A People's History of the United States 1492-present, 260). The streets of NYC were dirty, overcrowded, and dangerous. Just as street gangs had female auxiliaries, they also had farm leagues for children (These are the Good Old Days, 19). During the time of the late 1800's and early 1900's many people were trying to help children. Progressive reformers, often called

Helen Grant intrigues the reader with the references to the disappearances of the children. The author leads the story onto a different topic and dilemma and suddenly there’s another disappearance. For instance – in some places – the characters take a minute or two to work out what’s happening. Pia shows this, when she says, “It was several minutes before I worked out what must have happened. Another child had vanished.” This intrigues the readers because it surprises them when the incident does happen.

The novel depicts slavery and the problems faced by people due to racism in the history of America. The basic theme of the novel is the troubles and distresses that were faced by the slaves or colored people in those times. The book shows the struggles they did and the sacrifices they made for freedom.

Middleton and Dekker collaborate to write The Roaring Girl, which concentrates on a real-life London woman named Moll Cutpurse. Moll was reputed to be a prostitute, bawd, and thief, but the playwrights present her as a lady of great spirit and virtue whose reputation is misrepresented by a small, convention-bound civilization. In the play, as in reality, Moll dresses in men’s attire, smokes a pipe and bears a sword representing a colorful and in the underworld life of Moll Cutpurse. She stood London on its head with her cross-dressing and gender-bending behavior, and illegal pursuits. Her defiance of women in this play is exceptional. Also, she is perhaps one of the only players to be scrupulously true to herself; some of the other characters display very hypocritical aspects. Such unorthodox and unconventional role, Middleton and Dekker implies, leads to her spotted standing. She is a roaring girl; An audacious and bold woman-about-town. But beneath this absence of femininity, is a courageous, high-principled woman. Moll interposes in the central plots and is associated in skirmishes with many of the characters, consistently showcasing her ability to stand up for the downtrodden and wronged. Therefore, Moll creates a 'third space ' that identifies her as importantly freed in her navigation of space and social relations.

Traveling up to 60 miles per hour in a chain of iron boxes weighing several hundred tons altogether can make you feel quite small; and even smaller if you didn’t have any control of the destination. It was a tight fit in each train car due to the thirty to forty other orphans packed in together with two to three adults. There was a strain on all orphans involved in this program. The orphan trains were a bitterly imperative movement put in place to disperse the population, as well as put “future criminals” in what was supposed to be loving homes. (Web)

Innocence is a virtue, that only belongs to children. But what is a child without innocence? The novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, written by Harper Lee, reveals the theme of innocence through the portrayal of Scout, Jem and Dill. The town of Maycomb, Alabama is a sleepy town. Nearby the Finch family, lives a mysterious man, by the name of Arthur Radley, also known by the name of Boo, by whom the Finch children are obsessed with.