The Grin Analysis

After rereading my book, Smile by Raina Telgemeier I saw some things that I didn’t catch on when I read it the first time. A theme that comes up in the book is Friendships. The author brings up two different friendships in the book. Toxic and True friendships. This book is an autobiography of her life when she lost her two front teeth. She keeps bringing up parts of when they talk to each other and how mean spirited they are to Raina. It seems like they don’t respect her and keep hurting that friendship she has with her friends.

Throughout the story, it becomes apparent that the parents in this story do less parenting than what would have been done in previous generations. Connie’s outing with a friend displays this parenting style.

As Jack wonders through the forest he stumbles upon a doorway to Christmastown, he is impressed by the excitement and feeling of Christmas. Jack shows Halloweentown what he has found and tries to explain Christmas. He decides to take over Christmas by getting the residents of Halloweentown to follow through with his plan. Part of his plan is to get the kid trio to kidnap “Sandy Claws’’. Sally has a horrible premonition that Jack’s Christmas is going to go all

Based on the real life story of Chris Gardner, the Pursuit of Happyness looks at the crests and troughs in Chris' life on his way to becoming a stock broker, and eventually as everyone knows, a multi-millionaire. Will Smith played the role of Chris Gardner while Smith's son, Jaden Smith played Gardner's 7 or 8-year-old son.

The phrase “Giving faces to the lost” has 2 meanings. The meanings are both, figurative and literal. The figurative meaning, is what the creator intended. The author intended this meaning, to give a fun, spin on words. According the article,”Giving Faces to the Lost”, it states,”...uses a skull...to sculpt the face…” The forensic anthropologists, are sculpting (giving) faces, to the skulls (lost). The play on words would be, the anthropologists, giving the skulls a face.

First of we meet nine-year-old Brittney Smith and her family. Brittney’s dad recently lost his job, causing the family to get kicked out of their previous house. Brittney then recounts her last shower and how it was consisted of only cold water because the bill was overdue. She later says that they lost their stuff that was put in the storage unit after they got kicked out of their last house because they couldn’t pay for the unit anymore. We then see that the father’s truck needs new brakes. This makes their situation even tougher because they need a vehicle to get to a job, but he can’t get new brakes until they have more money from a job he doesn’t have yet. The dad is stuck applying for as many jobs as possible online before the cable and internet is shut off because of, yet again, another overdue bill. The mother cannot get a job because she has panic attacks and can’t drive, most likely because she is on medication. Later we see that the extremely stressed mother is pregnant again and doesn’t

1. Analysis The novel, Smile by Raina Telegemeier, delivers a character who is not only relatable, but totally unique, because Telegemeier is writing about herself. The struggles starting with her middle school accident, through finding new friends contributes to making a strong and happy character by the end of the novel. Raina’s goal in the beginning of the novel is just to fit in, as she excitedly tells her mom “’this retainer makes me look so normal’”

grin, revealing a row of jagged, broken teeth that grayed along the gum line.”(page 43)

In the past five years, social and political injustices against people of color have been a reoccurring story in the news. Presently, it is common to find out that another defenseless black teen has been killed or a black woman is getting a twenty-year sentence for being found in possession of marijuana. In fact, we, as a society, have been desensitized to such news. It, unfortunately, doesn’t faze us, everyday people, anymore, but it should. Especially for innocent, little girls killed in drug raids like Aiyana Stanley-Jones. In 2013, the famous rapper, J. Cole, released a heart-clenching video in dedication of Stanley-Jones for his song “Crooked Smile.” The song “Crooked Smile” promotes female empowerment through encouraging women to accept themselves, moreover J. Cole tells his fans that he is an everyday person just like them which is seen from him keeping his own crooked smile. The music video of “Crooked Smile” narrates a story about a drug raid that leads up to an innocent, little girl’s death. The music video features the story behind the little girl’s death through moving images in this mini film. The song and music video are seemingly different from each other, initially, however they both share a common message of “No one’s perfect.” The music video, “Crooked Smile”, aims to persuade its audience to act against such social injustices like America’s war on drugs. J. Cole organized the “Crooked Smile” music video to, specifically, focus on the similarities of people

Nivek, presented a normal behavior today, he discussed how he had fun playing outside and was excited he will be able to participate in his school ice-cream party tomorrow. In the activity he expressed his feeling in an approached manner by accepting the fact that he was losing rounds in the game. Modeled appropriate behavior when he displaced competiveness and how he was willing to continue playing until he was able to win the prize that he desired very badly. He showed no signs of anger or frustration but stated how he enjoyed playing the game and wining a prize at the end. Therapist praise Nivek for showing better self- control.

“I noticed that [the doll] had two faces, one on either side of the disk of cardboard, and both grinning” (Ellison 446).

In the story, “Liking What You See,” Tamera, the main character and protagonist, removes but then ends up turning back on her calliagnosia.  I disagree with Tamera’s argument for various reasons.  Before I refute her argument, I will summarize it.

Adulthood has consistently been shaped owing to the experiences and know-how learned in childhood, specifically from the central people and events during this time period. Hughes’s semi-autobiographical novel, Not Without Laughter, tells of the journey into adulthood of Sandy, who is constantly exposed to oppression and racism through his own experiences and those of his many family members. It follows his attempts to better himself for the sake of his family and the community. Sandy’s development throughout the novel is shaped by the lessons he learns with the help of views of the past from Hager and her religious beliefs, content for the present from neighborhoods such as “De Botoms” that show no aspiration , and hope of the future from Tempy’s

In the movie “The Pursuit of Happyness” there was a lot of life lessons incorporated in the film. One of the things that Chris Gardner told his son, Christopher "Don't ever let somebody tell you, you can't do something. Not even me. All right? You got a dream? You gotta protect it. People can't do something themselves, they want to tell you, you can't do it. You want something, go get it. Period." I think that this is really inspirational, and can be used for everyone in any situation. Chris Gardner displayed a great deal of determination, humbleness and always had a good disposition. These things stood out to me because personally, I do not think I would be able to obtain all of those qualities while going through the situations Chris

Lilly a flower or a symbol what does it really means, or perhaps it's just the name of an every day person, maybe even destined to do extraordinary thing or maybe we should just come back to the sybol idea perhaps telling you what gilding the Lilly means might help, the meaning, as followed, to “make some one look better”, for example to try to add to someone's beauty when really your degrading the natural beauty.