The Goodness Of Matt Kaizer Analysis

This period of our lives is a one bursting with challenging events and life-changing transitions, don’t you think? However testing this phase may be though, it's how we accept and counteract these alterations that ultimately opens up a deeper understanding of our world and self. J.C. Burke’s thought provoking novel, ‘The Story of Tom Brennan’ and John Marsden and Matt Ottley’s heartbreaking picture book ‘Home and away’, address this concept of transition and their challenges associated as each protagonist undergoes a catastrophic journey surrounding a challenged attitude and the need for maturity development.

The book, Nothing But The Truth by AVI is filled with irony and morals. The theme of the story is Actions have Consequences. The main character, Philip and other characters learn that throughout the story.

Another factor that makes the reader sympathize with Matt is how his wife, Ruth, is in shambles even months after Frank is murdered. “[Ruth] sees him all the time. It makes her cry. (pg. 94, Dubus). Killing Richard is the act of a protective husband and father and Matt does it because he thinks it’s the best solution for his family. Matt acts in the interest of his family, even though he feels guilt for everything that takes place.

In the article “The Perfect Essay” John Kaag claims that in reality it doesn’t exist a perfect essay. One day when Kaag arrived from school he was so happy because his teacher write that his essay was perfect. His mother’s reaction was so alarming that she took a pen and begun to show me how my perfect essay in just one second could become an improper essay. When his mother begun to find the mistakes he felt that his own mother was criticize him. He feels very bad. But the time past, and he realize that his mother was right, that in reality the perfect essay docent exist. With all the critics that his mother told him, it change him but for the good. He learned that to write he didn’t need a perfect essay just to do the best essay he could,

As Sandy Kemmpner writes to his parents about his experience in the vietnam war, we can clearly notice that he cannot stand one more second of it. On September 2, 1996 he writes a letter to his parents describing the horrible conditions he has been put through. Using imagery, sarcasm and parallelism he is able to convey the anti-war sentiment.

The Vietnam War was undeniably huge loss for the United States. This is confirmed by the tens of thousands loss of American men, the excessive period of time it occurred, and it being seemingly unwarranted. The general public protested against the United States’ participation in the Vietnam War. A multitude of people, even those who had participated had frowned upon their involvement. People indicated their antiwar sentiments through different means of expression including music, art, writing. A particularly successful example of said antiwar sentiment includes the letter written by Sandy Kempner. Through the use of sarcasm, Kempner is able to effectively convey his particularly negative view of the war.

The history of the united states is illustrated and told in A Patriot’s History of the United States written by Larry Schweikart and Michael Allen and A People’s History of the United States written by Howard Zinn. Both authors chronicles the history of the united states from the discovery of the new world to some of the more recent events, however with contrasting opinions and perspective . Larry Schweikart and Michael Allen curves towards a more conservative view with focus on a glorified america where sacrifice was necessary for the betterment and advancement of the people. On the other hand Howard Zinn focuses on views from the suffering or underprivileged groups that seems to show a pessimistic

In conclusion, someone that teaches you to do good also may teach you to do bad, is a theme that is taught in “Ashes,” a short story, written by Susan Beth Pfeffer. The three points shown is, the fact that the father always tries to teach good, the fact that his good is overshadowed by the fact that he does more bad example stuff, and finally that he tried to use his own daughter to steal money from her mom. This can relate to how in this day and age you will see the people who run for president or other big things but they are all horrible examples when they should be really good

The boy is very warm-hearted and appears to struggle to understand that danger could occur at any moment, whilst his father knows a lot more about what some people, “the bad guys”, do in order to survive. It could be seen that the child is very naive and therefore trusts others more than his father. However his trust in others teaches his father a valuable lesson; that not everyone is a “bad guy”. For instance when the pair come across Ely, the father is wary about him but his son is adamant that they give him a tin of food. This shows to readers that the boy has faith unlike his father. Another example is when the son sees the little boy; he begs his father to go back and help him and asks if he can go with them. I believe that he wants to help others as

In this Ted talk, Mr. Norman Spack talks about a very sensitive issue prevalent in the whole of the world, an issue which affects a substantial population of the world yet people find it difficult to address it. He talks about how sometimes when a child is born the doctors find it difficult to specify the sex of the child because of either the discrepancies among the externals or between the internal and external organs of the body. I agree with his statement that many times our feelings and sexual orientation differ from our gender identity. We also feel something which is not a normal thing for our gender but is a common trait with the opposite gender. The speaker rightly points out that whether the sexual orientation is in harmony with

In Daniel L. Schafer’s book Anna Madgigine Jai Kingsley: African Princess, Florida Slave, Plantation Slaveowner, the life of a somewhat mysterious African born woman is broken down. There were many challenges to writing a biography on a woman who did not write any letters nor kept a diary on the events of her life. This and the fact that she was an African slave in the beginning of her life over in Florida made writing such a biography all the more challenging. I feel that Schafer has succeeded in providing an organized and descriptive piece on a historical figure whose background has very much been shrouded in mystery and uncertainty. The book stays true to the thesis and keeps Anna Madgigine Jai at the center of

Although they are saying this in front of him, he stays positive. He entertains himself with the sawdust, and becomes friends with the bugs that start to live in the sawdust with him. He constantly thinks about Celia and Maria to stay happy and content with his new life.Matt stays positive by finding happiness in everything and not holding grudges. On page 147, Matt finds out that Rosa had been turned into an eejit because of the way she treated him. Instead of saying that she had it coming, he feels bad for her because she got the life sucked out of her body. Every time he got a horse, he would try to talk to her, to see if she would respond, but she never did. Finally, Matt made friends with people who believed him and believed that even though he was a clone, it didn’t matter, and this kept him

Matt was born a clone. This made things very difficult for him. Some people thought of Matt as an animal. Because of this, for a period of time, he also got treated like one. When Matt was first brought to the Alacran Mansion Rosa was assigned to watch him, and she didn’t treat him well. Matt was put into a room; with barred windows and rough cement floors. The room was later filled with chicken litter. This series of struggles taught Matt to have patience. For an extremely long time one day, Tom, a rude member of the Alacran family, shot peas at Matt. Matt dealt with Tom with much patience. “He instinctively understood that if he refused to react, Tom would lose interest.” (Farmer 46) This patience helped him climb out of a bone pit and deal with outrageous

Matt is probably one of the most toughest characters I have read about. He is tough throughout his whole life, as a little kid, and a pre-teen, and as a full grown teenager. He is first put into a small little room as a child. The were very mean to him and they talked very poorly to him too. Sometimes they even forgot to give him food for the day. He is never let out of this room that is filthy. At one time he was treated just like an

Matt is a middle class man who becomes obsessed with the need to get revenge on his son’s death. His son Frank is killed by a man named Richard. He is the husband and dads father of the women his son is in love with. This is what leads Matt into killing someone he wants pay back for his son death. Matt kills because he loves.