A World Without Adults
The Girl Who Owned a City is a book about young kids trying to survive in a world without adults because everybody over 12 died from the plague. The main character Lisa and many other older siblings had to take the position of the parent for the care of their little brother or sister. Lisa had to learn how to survive and take care of her younger sibling without an adult by her side guiding her on what to do. O.T Nelson made the characters 12 years and under to show that you don’t have to have an adult around to help you in life and survive.
In the book, Lisa and her militia need to find supplies in order to have enough food to live off of. Throughout the book, Lisa uses a lot of logic to find food, supplies, and defense. Usually parents are the ones who go grocery shopping and get all of the healthy food to force down their children's mouth. Now, It is Lisa’s job to get healthy food into her
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Lisa had the idea to try to learn how to drive a car and on page 31, Lisa was trying to learn and in the book it said, “The nervousness began to leave her. She started the engine again and set off very slowly this time, completely unaware of the many astonished eyes that followed her.” This shows that children are capable of learning how to do something by theirself and they don’t need an adult around to help or guide them.
In The Girl Who Owned the City, kids also have to learn how to work together and come up with plans for survival. Throughout the story, all the kids on Grandville Avenue would come together and all talk about what they should do to help themselves. For example, on page 54, all of the kids were having a meeting when Lisa thought of the idea that they should form their own militia. This shows that kids are capable of working together and figuring out ideas without having an adult around to guide
Some children may not like to be “taught” new ideas, games, etc. They might feel stressed to have a key worker sit with them and explain how we will accomplish a new task. The same child however may sit and observe other children doing the task first and then will have the confidence to try it out for themselves.
The book puts in question what are the important factors to a child’s development all the way until there teenage years. When growing up there are two main group of people that make us who we are; our parents and the outside world. When we are little, before we start school we do not know anything other than our family, this is called the first stage of development. By only knowing your family members this causes you to only act the way you see. However, a few years later, when
Main character, protagonist, 12-14 years old, blond hair, dark eyes, foster daughter of Hans and Rosa Hubermann. She does not know how to read when she arrives at Himmel street and is distrusting. By the end of the novel she loves her friends and family and has her own set of morals.
As a Learning Assistant, working in Year 3, I worked closely with a seven year old girl who, for the purpose of this case study, I will call Jane. Jane was a confident and happy girl who, despite not being particularly academically gifted, always participated with class discussions and activities enthusiastically.
Jeannette and her siblings adapt to self- sufficiency from a young age, from being emotionally and physically neglected by their parents. The children don’t expect anything so they learn to work with what they have and what opportunities come their way. Jeannette saw the suffering of the family and took this leadership for the family guiding her sibling in the correct path.
When readers read a story written by an author they will usually think that the author likes to read books and is what led the author to writing a book. William Goldman said, “As a child, I had no Interest in reading” (Goldman 3), this can lead readers to imagining the author as a young child rather than an adult not wanting to read a book. When Readers imagine the author as a young child the image imagined can give a better sense of how the author felt as a young child. The imagination of a child giving the reader a picture to think about is less complex than that of a adult giving a reader a picture to think about.
The book Girl, Interrupted is about a teenage girl Susanna Kaysen. At the age of 18 she voluntarily sent herself to the McLean hospital. In the beginning of the book the Susanna was talking to a psychiatrist she has been seeing for awhile, she has had a couple of suicide attempts so she started seeing that doctor. The doctor had recommended Susanna to go to McLean to help her be anti-depressive and help cure her borderline personality. Susanna ended up being in the hospital for 2 years.
This charming story reverses the typical roles within a children’s book. With underlying issues of stereotypes, independence and empowerment, it fills children with imagination and teaches them the importance of being strong, smart, and the realization that beauty comes from within.
The impact this short story brings to the reader is one we all can relate to. We have all been that little child who wants something different then what our mother is trying to buy for us. Parents are always there to help us out with what we need before the things we want. The attitude and behavior of the child in the short story should impact the students to make them see and understand why
One might believe that because capital punishment plays such a large role in Charles Dickens’ A Tale Of Two Cities, that Dickens himself is a supporter of it. This just simply is not true. Dickens uses capitol punishment as a tool to define the evil embodied in both the French ruling class, and the opposing lower class during the French Revolution; as well as comment on the sheep-like nature of humankind.
The film ‘A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night’, director Ana Lily Amirpour, is a mixture of genres such as the Spaghetti Western, the teenage romance, and the vampire genre. The clash of genres in this film brings out the idea of hybridity and duality, with the sounds and cinematography creating a sense of ambiguity, or the ‘in-between’. The underlying mix brings out a sense of horror for the overall feel of the film as it leaves audiences with a sense of fear and realisation that not everything is as it seems.
Have you ever wished that someone had given you a guide on how live the right way? Jamaica Kincaid does just that in her short story, Girl. The narrative is presented as a set of life instructions to a girl by her mother to live properly in Antigua in the 1980’s. While the setting of the story is not expressly stated by the author in the narrative, the reader is able to understand the culture for which Girl was written.
As a six-month-old baby books had opened up a whole entire new world of experience for me. My inspiration to learn how to read and write was encouraged by my Mother and Grandmother. This is because they read out loud to me before bed occasionally and gave me the best time of my life by introducing me to a library. By two years of age I developed speech and other communication skills. This helped me understand and develop a favorite book, “PJ Funny Bunny,” and I would stare at the pages pretending I was reading them. I would continually pretend to read with other Dr. Seuss books, Smurf pop-up books (I imagined I was a part of these for hours), sniff & scratches, and sensory books. I had just begun
After the children have played in the sun for two hours, they had realized that Margot was right. This supports my point because it gives specific information on how the children act when the teacher isn’t watching them. When the children acted out finally, the boy William, had pushed her and she didn’t move. They all crept away from her because it was a little creepy. This also supports my claim because the children are so swept up in their own jealousy that they bully her. This shows that children can and will be the next generations of
When I was young I would drown my floor with Dr. Seuss and books that gave excitement to me just by holding them. I loved looking at the pictures, the endless rhymes, and magical color schemes because I had no other outlet than books to reach in a grab my attention the way they could. That’s why picture books are almost a necessity to a child’s development. The type of