The Crazy World Of Electra Brown

The book focuses mainly on a woman named Celie, who has lived a hard life already when, at the age of 14 she begins

The theme of the story is under some circumstances people can be blind to the truth. Character Edie determines the style of the story by talking about the circumstances of her life as a fifteen year old girl and as an older woman. She retells the stories of those that she has known, and the man that she believed she loved deeply. Sometimes the things we want to happen may not be the things that life has for us. We need to be open to all the opportunities in life that are different from what we believe.

Lastly, Erica is an eleven year old girl who takes drugs to try to mask the pain from living her miserable life. Also, she has sex with a sixteen year old boy, and thinks she is in love and does not use any contraceptives and gets pregnant. After becoming pregnant, the father bails and wants nothing to

In the book, the theme is developed because of the racial tensions and gangs found in the community. Highlighting the racial tensions, the main characters in this book are different races. Romiette is a sixteen year old African American girl who works hard, dreams big, and is only afraid of one thing. Water. She has been having a recurring dream of drowning and just before waking up, she hears a voice calling her name.

The movie begins with Tracy, the main character, as a normal teenager whose life seems from the outside “ok”. However, even at this point in the movie, there are hints of Tracy’s inner pain and discomfort or distress with her world. Tracy lives a tough life. Her parents are separated, and do not have a good relationship. Tracy lives with her mom and brother in a suburban low to middle class neighborhood. Her mom, Mel, is a recovered addict, who works as a hair dresser. Her dad, Travis, is a somewhat rich executive, who works all the time and barely

At the age of ten, most children are reliant on their parents for everything in their lives needing a great deal of concentration and concern. However, Ellen, the main character and combatant of the novel Ellen Foster, demonstrates a significant amount of self-reliance and mature, impartial thought as a ten-year-old girl. Ellen is a bantling even though she was not deserted, she was impoverished of a normal childhood. Her life as a child was immensely hard, physically and emotionally. She never had a mother or father take care of her through her entire youth. The recent mortality of her mother sends her on a journey for the optimal family, or anywhere her father, who had shown insensitivity to both she and her frail mother, was not. Kaye Gibbons’

The main character, Tara, is introduced in the story at the very beginning. The reader learns about who she is and where she comes from. Her parents are environmental researchers who are going on a trip to Brazil while Tara stays with her grandmother in Tallahassee. Her parents are an interracial couple and are very loving and supportive of Tara. It is hard for Tara to understand this because they will not let her come with them to Brazil. Tara then has no choice but to

The novel is shown through the eyes of a young high school girl. Her family issues with religion cause her to be bullied at school, which spurs the discovery of the telekinetic powers she possesses. The story demonstrates her power used against her fellow students in a cruel act of revenge. Although it contains many controversial

To begin, important theme that runs through the novel is the idea strong female characters like Taylor and Lou Ann. Furthermore, Taylor does not care about a man in her life and tries her best to do everything in her

This book begins with the life of its author. She starts out as basically a slave child on a farm in Mississippi. She tells of her parent's lives, how they went to the fields at sun up and came back from them at sundown. She describes her abusive cousin, George Lee, and tells of a few traumatic childhood experiences. She goes on describing where her mother and fathers marital

The main theme in this story is identity.Throughout the book the main character, Irene struggles with her identity. In the first chapter Irene is a regular Passing women who lives in Harlem with her husband Brain, but we start to see her mental health problems as she reunites with her childhood friend Clare.Clare is also a woman that

Throughout the novel, she experiences different types of conflicts as she adapts to her new school environment and attemptedly fulfills her obsessive desire to fit in. The inner conflict in which she experiences throughout the

The ability to handle hardships in the world can come easy to some and to others it may be so completely out of their own grasp that they give up without even trying. During the time frame of Kaye Gibbon’s novel Ellen Foster, the world was divided; the rich verses the poor. Others could view the nation as the whites verses the blacks. Ellen Foster is right along the middle of this division. Ellen is a white eleven year old child who faces hardship one after another. A main theme in Ellen Foster is how she deals with her pain by distracting herself with self-determination as well as comedic relief.

practices, their cuisine, and living habits, so she decides that she has no other choice than to live

The book revolves around 16 year old Hazel Grace Lancaster, and 17 year old Augustus Waters. Hazel doesn’t lead an ordinary teenage life, she suffers of lung cancer. After a long time of struggling with her illness, her parents decide that