The Loons Quotes

By: Xander Dell Book: New Kid Author: Tim Green Book genre: Realistic Fiction Quote: “Be careful what you wish for” Summary: A kid named Brock and his dad are moving around because there was a warrant out for Brock's dad and they would kill Brock if he did not turn himself in. When he gets to his new school he gets in a fight then becomes friends with the kid. Brock is only in eighth grade and is a giant for a kid.

“Our life would be what we made of it, nothing more nothing less.” This quote was said by a character in The Pigman. The Pigman takes place in Staten Island, NY in the mid 1960s. John and Lorraine were two high school students make friends with Mr.Pignati a lonely old man who just lost his wife and was looking for people to talk with. The Puritans would destroy the novel The Pigman due to the law breaking characters, characters leading sinful lives, and poor family values.

Besides the inherent self-confident issue, the outside voice from community is also affecting Pecola’s view. For example, in the “accident” when Pecola went into Junior’s house, Junior killed the cat and impute to Pecola. His mother, Geraldine, saw Pecola was holding the dead cat. Without any thought and didn’t even ask for the truth, Geraldine simply called Pecola a “nastylittle black bitch.” This event, again, reinforces Pecola’s view of what beauty means.

have white beauty is so strong that she eats Mary Jane candies, fantasizing that the candies will

Pauline Breedlove, Pecola's mother, experiences racism within the black community when she moves to Lorain, Ohio. Being a dark-skinned black woman from the south, she does not understand why "northern colored folk was different... [and why they were] no better than whites for meanness" (117). She recognizes the hierarchy, or the "difference between colored people and niggers" within the black community, especially from the light-skinned women she encounters (87). One of these light-skinned black women is Geraldine, Junior's mother, who believes "colored people were neat and quiet; niggers were dirty and loud" (87). She even tells her son

Society continues to rape Pecola through its refusal to acknowledge her as a human being. Since society thinks she is “ugly”, no one needs to care for or love her. For example, one of the biggest insults that her peers use for teasing boys is using Pecola as the insult.

Vanessa also realizes that trying to gain more knowledge and understanding about the Native culture through Piquette won’t get her anywhere because Piquette is as clueless as her. She accepts that her understanding towards the tradition is not going anywhere further than what the white society views it. However, Vanessa acknowledges the effects the white society has done to the Tonnerres’ family and the Natives. Piquette had the mindset of an adult while growing up due to the struggles her family has undergone. “’The mother’s not there,’ my father replied. ‘She took off a few years back. Can’t say I blame her. Piquette cooks for them, and she says Lazarus would never do anything for himself as long as she’s there” (Laurence

In the book Michael Vey Rise Of The Elgen, the main character Michael Vey has some sort of electrical powers that gives him the ability to be a human magnet, throw balls of lightning and he can shock people way more than you can shock someone by rubbing your feet against a carpet floor. But he's not the only one with these type of abilities. There are 23 other kids that have similar powers. Some (as in the ones I mention in the next paragraph)of the electric children hate this guy named Hatch because who works with the elgen. A electrical company that works against the government. Hatch try’s takes the kidnaps the kids at a young age and makes them forget their real names and their parents kinda like The Maze Runner but the human population not in danger. Hatch is power hungry he

They say the apple doesn't fall far from the tree, and Rodman Philbrick’s, Freak the Mighty, proves this quotes wrong magnificently through friendship, emotions, and destiny. All throughout the book the reader will get to see how judging someone on their appearance and heredity can truly change a person’s life, except with this book it is shown through a young boy named Maxwell Kane (the main character) and his best friend, Kevin as they go through many life changing adventures together. The reader will find themselves learning lessons that will change their own lives as they see Max conquering his problems of loneliness, neglect, and worry. Because the beginning of Max’s life was full of such things, he was taught to believe them and become

"If we could sniff or swallow something that would, for five or six hours each day, abolish our solitude as individuals, atone us with our fellows in a glowing exaltation of affection and make life in all its aspects seem not only worth living, but divinely beautiful and significant, and if this heavenly, world-transfiguring drug were of such a kind that we could wake up next morning with a clear head and an undamaged constitution - then, it seems to me, all our problems (and not merely the one small problem of discovering a novel pleasure) would be wholly solved and earth would become paradise."

A young boy about the age of six, was believed to have died as he was consumed in flames upon the island. The other boys described him as, "a shrimp of a boy, about six years old, and one side of his face was blotted out by a mulberry-colored birthmark" (35). The boys concluded that the young six year old had been killed in the flames of the fire, his body has not been found.

Although Lennie has the mental capacity of a child, he is innocent to doing anything wrong to George. George just seen him as a potential threat.

Cristy FredaAP Lit7 November 2017Lutie Johnson is the victim to the abuse of a cold, windy November day on 116th street. In The Street, Petry establishes Lutie Johnson’s negative relationship to the urban setting through the use of imagery, personification, and selection of detail.Petry uses imagery that affects all of the reader’s senses throughout the excerpt to establish Lutie Johnson’s negative relationship to the urban setting. The text begins with Petry describing 116th street having a cold wind that “rattled the tops of garbage cans, sucked window shades out through the top of opened windows and set them flapping back against the windows” (ll 2-5). This quote immediately establishes a negative relationship

The affiliation between beauty and whiteness limits the concept of beauty only to the person’s exterior. The characters are constantly subjected to images and symbols of whiteness through movies, books, candy, magazines, baby dolls and advertisements. Another example of the images and symbols in the novel is when the black protagonist, Pecola, feasts on a ‘Mary Jane’ candy.

At an early age Vanessa’s naivety of Piquettes ethnicity prohibits her from seeing Piquettes struggle with her sense of lacking belonging. This causes the two characters to clash throughout the story in regards to Vanessa's false interpretation of Piquettes identity. Throughout the story Vanessa tends to