The Great Gilly Hopkins

Plot:          Macey Clare is a 15 year old girl who’s parents are never home so she stays with her grandparents on the weekdays, and on the weekends that her parents come home from work all week, she stays with them.

4. Temperaments: Calm, but when she is angry becomes a firecracker. She has a potty mouth, the Greg hates, but she doesn’t care. Overall is a great girl and very down to earth. Sometimes she is overly dramatic, but makes sure her reasoning for it is legitimate. She can be very emotional at times, also.

Typically, the story does not take place anywhere specific. Rather, the action will happen in a very generic place such as the woods. They are the stories of your childhood.

In “The Great Gilly Hopkins” Gilly Hopkins is a foster child that is very stubborn and yet brave. She has had some tough times in her foster homes and tries to mess up all of them somehow because she is determined her mother is going to come get her one day. Her social worker, Miss. Ellis, brought Gilly to her new foster home with Maime Trotter and her foster son, William Earnest (W.E.). Maime is a very “different” foster parent that is extremely loving. W.E. is very shy, small, and nearsighted. One day Gilly got a postcard in the mail from her birth mother. Gilly ran away to go see her and was being brave. Once she got to the train station the police came and brought her back to her foster home. A while back Gilly wrote a letter that was all

Few people can imagine living during the time of racial segregation or the great depression. The novel To Kill a Mockingbird takes place from the year 1933 to 1995. During this time, two siblings named Scout and Jem Finch are living in the town of Maycomb, Alabama. While growing up, they go through many events and learn numerous lessons from their father, Atticus Finch. Throughout the novel, Jem goes through many experiences that change the way he perceives the town of Maycomb and it’s people.

We start out in Lake Windsor, the housing development where Paul and his family live. Their neighborhood is nestled in among a bunch of other ritzy developments with fancy-sounding names, like the Manors of Coventry, and the Villas at Versailles. Lake Windsor even has its own middle and high school, so, for the first part of the book, the Fisher family's lives revolve around that one area of town. Mrs. Fisher heads up their Home Owner Association Architectural Committee, Erik joins his school's football team, and even Paul makes friends in their neighborhood.

Serial Killers are nothing new to today’s society. Jeffrey Dahmer, John Wayne Gacy and Ted Bundy shocked our nation with their violent, brutal, and at times unbelievable crimes, although none of them were as notorious as Herman Webster Mudgett better known as Dr. H.H. Holmes. A man that carried himself as a smart, intellectual member of society, but in reality he was a smooth talking conman and very disturbed individual. A man who designed and built a building with torture rooms that would serve as his play house. Being born and raised in Chicago, I enjoy learning about its rich history. I had heard about this serial killer before, but I was not aware of his complete story. I am taking this

Beery Starts his exploration of how a person is shaped by their life by starting at, of course the beginning. The main character, Hannah Coulter is born in 1922 in a fictional place called Hargrave, Kentucky. She is an only child. living on a small family farm with her

The story starts out in the rural Alabama town of Maycomb and focuses on the finch family. Atticus Finch,

Background Information: The time period that To Kill A Mockingbird takes place in is the Great Depression (1929-1939). Scout Finch lives with her widowed father, Atticus Finch, and her brother, Jem Finch. Scout and Jem befriend a boy named Dill. The three of them become extremely interested in the Radley Place, a spooky house on the street that they live. A man named Arthur “Boo” Radley had lived in that house for years without ever going outside.

Lori is the oldest child of four children. She is less adventurous than Jeannette. She takes care of her younger siblings instead of

To Kill a Mockingbird takes place in a tiny southern town in Alabama in 1932. The tiny town of Maycomb was home to deep rooted racism. Two children named Scout and Jem live in this town with their father Atticus and when their father is sent to defend a black man their lives see a dramatic change. The children soon learn the harsh truth of their little town and lose a childhood full of innocence. In her novel To Kill a Mockingbird, author Harper Lee foreshadows a loss of innocence through the symbolic significance of building a snowman, a harsh fire, and a mockingbird.

Lucy Grealy tells a story about not fitting in, unbearable pain that takes up residence in one’s head as loneliness and confusion, questioning what things mean, being scared and lost in your family, enduring intense physical pain, and most importantly, figuring out who you are. Lucy had no idea she might die, even though the survival rate for Ewing’s sarcoma was only five percent. She does not present her parents as overly afraid for her life, either. Her autobiography is not a story about the fear of death, but about such courage and anguish. Lucy shows how she falls under the spell of her disability, allowing it to control her life and dictate her future to a greater extent than it would otherwise. Having a disability means that

The Gillison family has dealt with many emotional situations. Both Meshia and her partner Tahir have lost a parent, which has been very emotionally straining on their lives. Meshia was very close to her father. When he was diagnosed with end stage lung cancer and she had to witness him go through hospice treatment and care it took a toll on her. After her father’s death her mother and sister decided to move down south due to the new financial strains of being without her father’s income. Meshia decided to stay in Connecticut because she thought it would be best to raise her

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee takes place in Maycomb, Alabama in 1903. This novel is basically a coming of age story for a young girl named Scout and her older brother named Jem. Who grows up in a time where racism is normal. They soon learn to stand up for what is right, just like their dad, Atticus.