The Genre Of The Movie, Motown

The book That was Then, This Is Now is about to really good friends Bryon and Mark starting to go their separate ways. Bryon was a 16 year old hustler who lived in a hood. His mother was poor and she had adopted his best friend Mark. Mark was an illegitimate who was adopted by new parents that got in a drunken fight and killed each other. Mark was a thief, and he always got away with everything that he possibly could do. Teen kids in there element who thought they could rule the world, everything was theirs and that nothing could possibly go wrong. They did everything bad together smoke, drink, jump kids for their money, steal, skip school, take drugs and get into gang brawls.

This book is about two black children, Layfette and Pharaoh, who grow up in inner city Chicago. They are faced with racism and hardships because of their race and social class. They have different ways of coping, but are better at facing the worst the city has to offer than are many of the other young black children who live around them. During the story the boys are faced with many adversities that stem from the social system. They are faced with gangs, drugs and Chicago housing. However, they also must face their own inner demons that may lead to either of them giving up and giving in to the corruption of the inner city. One of the major turning points in the story is when Layfette gets arrested for vandalizing a car, even though he says he did not. He gets released and is gets off with probation and 100 hours of community service. After this incident the author gets both kids in to a private school where Pharaoh thrives and starts to make good grades instead of daydreaming. Unfortunately Layfette could not handle the pressure and returns to public school. During this time Rickey starts running drugs for one of the local gangs. He is later arrested for carrying a butcher knife. The CHA finally cleans out the horrendous mess in the Henry Horner basements and reclaims the buildings from the gangs. Dawn and Demetrius finally get an

From the moment he became a older brother he started to seem lost and bewildered this is when she thought she wasn't giving her best and doing the most she could. His principal thought it was nice that he had a tutor but, she believed that when his mom daisy helped him with homework and studying, his grades kept raising and he was doing better. But when Cal was tutoring the grade were dropping nothing good was happening he wasn't doing good. Then soon enough he started talking to this girl everyday they talked, Daisy didn't think this girl was the greatest she was unimpressed with her. Daisy invited her over for dinner but they said no, She was hurt because they both went over to cals and stayed there for his “tutoring”. Daisy said that it was crazy and all partying at cals right In front of Daisy like its no big deal. She made it seem like a big party. When you don't listen to your parents and you don't think they know whats best for you it can all go down hill when its not accepted, and its hard to fix it

Genre: After reading the novel, I realized that the genres of the book are historical and it is an autobiography.

Moore, the author, states that Tony is persistent that his younger brother, Wes, is not following his example of being a drug addict, but instead is staying in school and out of trouble. Still, Tony and Mary’s attempts fail to prevent Moore from doing drugs. Rather than taking Tony’s advice, Wes chooses to follow and copy his older brother, Tony, and both of them ultimately end up being sent to prison for the same

“This book is a four to five month snap shot of life in 1960, it is from the perspective of a nine year old boy so it has that innocent approach. This is story of two families one white and one black, who live half a mile apart going through the same stuff in 1960” said author Gary Brice.

How would you feel if your family and you were in a fight? Darry and Ponyboy got into a fight and started a lot of drama in the family and many bad things happened in conclusion to those events. Dalleys choices affected ponyboy by ponyboy staying out late and making Dalley mad, making him run away from home and saving kids in a burning church.

The book was set in an African American suburb, built on old grounds where poor white folk would struggle for work and homes. Marie, a young African American girl who lives with her father, was abandoned by her mother. Her best friend Sherry was not fond of “trashy white folk”, nor was Marie’s father. When a poorly dressed white girl, Lena Bright, joins Chauncey High School Marie’s world is flipped upside down.

The book, named Mudbound, is written by .Hillary Jordan, who is earned the Bellwether Prize because of this novel. The novel’s background sets in the rural Mississippi at the end of World War II and the story is talking about two families: the white McAllan family and the black Jackson family. These two families’ connection is the sharecropping. In the other words, the Jackson family is the tenant sharecropper of the McAllan family, who is the owners of the land. The author uses the whole story to explore the relations between the two families.

The book takes place mostly in Kansas City, Missouri in the recent times because they have cell phones. The book takes over a span

This book is about two girls, Madison Van Buren and Anna Bronner. Madison wants to escape her life living in a wealthy family. Her parents are also divorced. Her parents are trying to plan her future, and she has to choose between the college her mom wants her to go to, and the college her dad wants her to go to. Madison decides to drive away to get her mind off things. Anna also wants to escape her life. She lives in an Amish home and thinks her life is too simple. She wants

The book is pretty much about 2 gangs in Oklahoma that are fighting each other the Greasers which are poor and live in the East side & the Socs (socials) of which are rich and live in the West side. The story goes through dramatic irony when ponyboy & johnny get into a fight with the socs of which one of the socs member is killed. The Greasers are forced to go into hiding so that they can protect themselves from the socs who pretty much are going on a “murderous” rampage to kill the greasers. So Ponyboy & Johnny meet up with Dallas and the other Greasers to tell them what happened and that they need to hide. The Greasers are weak and defenseless but they have each other and are full of heart.

Mark has also been Bryon’s adoptive brother since his parents shot each other in a fight over his legitimacy. The two teenagers live with Bryon’s mother, who is in the hospital post-operation at the start of the story. The family is very poor and they are having trouble getting together enough money to pay for the operation. Mark and Bryon reminisce about their childhood.

Watching the film, I had mixed feelings. One emotion was understanding. In the beginning, Africans sold their people away for guns, money, and etc. because slavery was a business to the world. I wasn’t just one race enslaving another. Emotion two was proud. I know many people do not look at slavery and say I am so proud. America would not be America without blacks. The white people just stood there and watched blacks make America and took the credit for it. Like the man in the video said everything we touched we made it better. From the food to the music there was nothing that could have stopped blacks from making American their homes. What also caught my eye was Haitian slave rebellion. I did not know that they ended their own slavery by

I am currently reading a novel entitled Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan. I am on page 140. This book is work of the social novel, a genre I have read before, and tells the story from different point of views of two teens who has the same exact name which is Will Grayson. The two teens ran in two very different crowds, suddenly find their lives going in new and unexpected paths.With a massive push from friends new and old and massively fabulous, Tiny Cooper, offensive lineman and musical theater auteur extraordinaire — both of the Will’s begin building toward respective romantic turns-of-heart and the epic production of history’s most awesome high school musical they all came together to produce the most fabulous