Suzy And Leah By Jane Yolen Summary

In the novel The Joy Luck Club written by Amy Tan, there are several stories that intertwine into one novel. Each of the stories takes place China where the roles and the actions of woman are vastly different compared to American tradition. In the different stories, they all are about different mothers and daughters. Throughout the book, the reader can see the development in each relationship between mother and daughter with their conflicting backgrounds from China to America.

Animals help humans in our lives for sharing their features. Every new experience can make a person change; sometimes the changes are positive, and other times it is negative. Either way, here is no avoiding change. Animals are kind, helpful, and playful.

The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan follows multiple Chinese-American women who struggle with their self-identity and creating a balance between American and Chinese culture. Because of their immigration and many hardships in life, many of the women feel like they cannot truly tell who they are anymore, and throughout the novel these women are portrayed as ghosts. Ghosts are used to symbolize these women because they share many parallels including being only a remnant of who they once were, or who they could be. Ying-ying St. Clair is one of the women, who has a daughter named Lena St. Clair, she has had a troubled past in China, which has made her lose her fighting spirit, and her spirit in general. Ying-ying is fully aware of her loss of spirit and is embarrassed because she considers ghosts to be shameful and weak, and wants to save her daughter, Lena, from her fate.

Would you stay silent when society punishes you for it's faults? In the book Coming of Age in Mississippi by Anne Moody, tells of a story of a girl told to remain silent and unseen. She lives in Mississippi of early 1940's. Anne Moody stayed on a plantation with her heart breaking mother, brutal father. and infant brother.

Literature is defined as written works published on a particular subject. Literature can also be viewed as witness, because it can be a source of proof based on the events it was written on. Literature as witness allows readers to get a deeper understanding of the issues that have happened based off of what the books are about. Those who read literary texts such as historical novels, memoirs and novels are witness to historical events. These texts can be viewed as witness because the events mentioned are based off of true life events. Some may argue historical fiction is not real and therefore could not be viewed as a reliable source. Even though historical fiction is made up of fictional characters, the conflicts that are mentioned are based

The story of “ St. Lucy’s Home for Girls” by Karen Russell introduced a girl named Claudette and followed her through her life during school. The author wrote about her learning how to be civilized. She talks about Claudette’s transformation from her old culture to her new culture. The transformation is put into five stages. The stages represent emotions that Claudette and the other girls would feel during these courses.

The prompt I have chosen is, “In the story The Summer People, The Allisons believe that the locals (the Country People) are harassing them because of their decision to stay at the cottage past Labor Day. Do you believe the locals are actually doing this or do you believe the Allisons are simply paranoid and imagining this? Please respond in a concise, well written three paragraph essay with specific examples and textual evidence from the text to support your answer.”

Bill de Blasio is the mayor of New York City who has a plan to build 80,000 affordable units of housing over a span of 10 years (The New York Times, 2016). His plans could have the potential to change housing patterns in New York, where there are a variety of ethnicities (The New York Times, 2016). In this New York Times story on the mayors struggle with integrating neighborhoods, there is a fight between keeping parts of New York’s housing reputation at an all time high or closing the gap between segregated neighborhoods, which is relevant to issues brought up in this course behind residential segregation. In this story we see the mayor of New York struggling with issues that were brought up in Amy C. Steinbugler’s Beyond Loving and Eduardo

From the story “Suzy and Leah,” by Jane Yolen, I chose to do my essay on Leah. Leah was the German born Jew who was sent to America after the war. She and some of her new friends were then put in a shelter where they lived. Suzy though was born in America and had a very loving family. At first Leah and Suzy didn’t really who each other. They did both give each other a very bad taste of how they might be though so the girls did not really like each other. In my essay I will be focusing on Leah and her feelings toward Suzy.

When Leah first meat Suzy, Leah did not know what to think. They were confused of each other. Leah thought the yellow haired girl (Suzy) brought sweets and she had a false simile. It was a forced relationship for the two. Suzy thought the refugees were creepy, the feeling changed over time by the switched diaries. Suzy is the one who started by when Leah went to the hospital they were collecting her stuff to take to Leah she found her diary. She read it and was very mad at first by the way Leah talked about her but, also very confused by who was Mutti and Natan. But then she asked her mom about what happened to people in concentration camps then Suzy became aware what happened to Leah. Then Suzy have Leah read her diary so they would be at the same point of view, they both get to read each

Violated nonimmigrant status or a condition of entry into the U.S Encouraged or aided any other alien to enter the U.S. illegally

Beautiful Joe, written by Margaret Sanders serves as an educational text on the value of compassion towards animals, children, and one another in society. Set in the later part of the 19th century, Beautiful Joe was reflective of society’s reforming views on the treatment on these lower creatures. In this time period, North America was moving from an industrial era where children were viewed as economic participants and property, and into a child-saving era where childhood was meant to be protected and cherished. Rich with humane guidance and parental instructions, Beautiful Joe illustrates it’s time period’s beliefs of the parallels between children and animals as lower creatures in need of protection from abuse, and the role of society to provide them with both education and moral instruction.

The story chosen was Suzy and Leah by Jane Yolen. In this story, we see a holocaust survivor’s relationship with a young American girl. The overall theme of this work is relationships and tolerance to others you do not understand. The story takes place in America, post-World War II.

Leah and Suzy The main characters in “Leah and Suzy” are Leah and Suzy, two girls who meet each other and don’t like each other right away. The story was written by Jane Yolen to tell us Leah and Suzy’s story. Leah is a refugee from Germany that comes to the United States and gets to go to school, but she lives in a refugee camp until she can find somewhere to live. Suzy is a young girl who lives in the U.S.and goes to the refugee camps to give them some candy bars and fruit and she sees a girl back behind all the other kids and thinks she is creepy Suzy tries to become friends with Leah

After reading The Liars Club an autobiography by Mary Karr, my interpretation of the reading is that she is telling her story from her point of view as a child and as an adult, utilizing foreshadowing and vivid imagery. For example, the reading states “My sharpest memory is of a single instant surrounded by dark.” “I was seven, and our family doctor knelt before me where I sat on a mattress on the bare floor” (Karr 3). This passage also brought some significance to the story as discussed in class. This helps the reader to understand that a very young age Mary Karr experienced something that was traumatic and it as stuck with her, therefore she labeled is one of her sharpest childhood memories. Usually when things happen to us as children we are not able to remember them exactly in detail, but when they are traumatic events those memories tend to stick with us throughout life. While writing Karr takes the role of two characters, those include the character “Pokey”. In the story this is a representation of Mary Karr a child. Her father Pete calls her Pokey. During this time frame Mary isn’t too aware of what is happening to her, she admires her father, and is also of her sisters. As I continued to read the story the next character that Mary Karr takes on is the narrator or author. This is referenced throughout the story when she looks back on her childhood to try and understand what was happening to her. A good example of this is when the author uses breaking of the fourth