The Lovely Bones Summary

Imagine World War II; you have just barely escaped your motherland at the age of twelve, no family, no friends, just with people you barely know. You have practically nothing other than a suitcase and the clothes on your back. In the book Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs, Jacob Portman, our main protagonist, mentions about his grandfather, Abraham Portman or Abe, who lived through the Second World War in the prologue and how he got to Britain. Jacob says, “My grandfather was the only member of his family to escape Poland… He was twelve years old… his parents sent him into the arms of strangers… It was a one way ticket.”

This initiation usually occurs through the acquisition of knowledge and experience. In many of these novels, the move into adulthood includes a loss of innocence or the destruction of a false sense of security. The protagonist often experiences a shift from ignorance to knowledge, innocence to experience, idealism to realism, or immaturity to maturity. In addition, coming of age involves rituals or rites of passage. The Lovely Bones focuses on these issues as the author explores the process of growing up. The novel begins when Lindsey Salmon is thirteen years old and ends almost ten years later, with Lindsey as wife and mother. It traces her move through the routines and events of female adolescence—first kisses, shaving of legs, makeup, summer camp, love, friendship, college. The novel, however, also traces Susie's coming of age. By presenting the development of a dead girl along with a living one, Sebold imbues the experiences of growing up with enhanced significance. Susie cannot move on in death until she finishes "growing up." Susie's rape and murder hastens the process of moving from innocence to experience for both girls. Susie learns her suburban and rather ordinary world is not safe—men murder children in this world. She moves swiftly and violently from innocence to experience, and from idealism to realism. Yet this shift does not culminate in her "coming

Chapter three of Eyal Press’ Beautiful Souls follows Avner Wishnitzer, an Israeli combat soldier serving in the occupied territories during the Second Intifada. In the 6-Day War of 1967, Israel captured the West Bank and the Gaza Strip and has since kept the land under an Israeli military occupation. In 1987 to 1991, a Palestinian uprising involving resistance and civil disobedience, known as the First Intifada, occurred in the occupied territories. Consequently, Israel deployed many soldiers into the occupied territories, and an estimated 1,674 people were killed in total. The Second Intifada, a much more violent Palestinian uprising in the occupied territories, transpired from 2000 until 2005. In response, Israel enacted Operation Defensive Shield, a large-scale military operation, in 2002 to stop the terrorist attacks and suicide bombings of the Second Intifada. An approximate 4,426 people were killed in the Second Intifada. Avner Wishnitzer’s public refusal to serve in the occupied territories was worth getting kicked out of Sayeret Matkal and being disgraced by Israeli society because it made people question the occupation and the treatment towards Palestinians. Even if Avner had been my father, I would have condoned his choices because I could create my own reputation in the military. Additionally, the current controversy over the Israeli occupation legitimizes his stance and actions for many Israeli citizens.

Matthew Olzmann’s “Letter to Someone Living Fifty Years from Now” and Maggie Smith’s “Good Bones” are both written to express their feelings, thoughts, and messages about the world. Both poems are closely related since they are both about what the world is coming to. Olzmann’s poem is about humanity vs nature, while Smith’s poem is about how the world is not safe for her children. Both poems come’s up with a problem that questions the reader to think about their choices in the world.

Ichabod Crane left the Van Tassel estate shouting unintelligible streams of words in an attempt to heal his wounded pride. His cacophonous excuses rang out through the fields of abundance that he had so longed for just hours earlier, and so with great dignity he refused to even glance at them. In this manner, he rode the disabled donkey with his chin jutting upward and his shoulders set with the weight of his ego.

Next, I examined our school’s collection to determine if those materials could be found in our school media center. Books from the Children’s Notable Booklists that could not be

The conflict between Lora and her daughter Susie only unfolds towards the end of the film when Susie falls in love with Steve – however, the scene where Lora tells her daughter about Steve’s marriage proposition is, to me, the most powerful example of Sirk’s use of melodramatic material in the entire film. We find out in the scene prior that Susie is in love with Steve through her confession to Annie, and as if on cue- the following scene see’s Susie standing by the window watching her mother and Steve pull up to the house after having a date. She stares at Steve as the violins and flutes play in the background in a fluttery lovebird tone – until she see’s them kiss, and the music cue shifts from the violins and flutes to a louder, angrier, betrayal tone.

"Instead you tried to seduce me with food and fun and girls while keeping all the bad things a secret?" (9.48)

Seeking for a book to dig our claws on, well this is the one for you. City of Bones by Cassandra Clare will keep you at the edge of your seat. With a world filled with creatures of the devil and angels you will fall in love. When Clary Fray goes to Pandemonium Club, she never expects to witness a murder by 3 teenagers that no one else can see. Clary's first meeting with the shadowhunters has turned her world upside down and both sides end up with questions not answered.

Miss Peregrines Home for Peculiar Children, written by Ransom Riggs, is the first in the Peculiar Children Trilogy and is often referred to as Peculiar Children. In Peculiar Children, Riggs writes the story of a young boy named Jacob. All throughout Jacobs’s childhood, he was told impossible stories with impossible people by his grandfather. After his grandfather was murdered, Jacob isolated himself. He then talked to a psychiatrist who told him and his parents that it would be good for him to go visit the place his grandfather told stories about. There, Jacob learns that the impossible stories he was told as a kid, weren’t really impossible. He learns the people and places are real, and that he has a special gift, just like them. Jacob befriends them, just as his grandfather did years before.

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is about the ghost of the headless horseman and a teacher new to town called Ichabod Crane. Crane finds the daughter of the richest man in town flirty and very cute. Crane starts tutoring Katrina in hopes of marrying her for her father’s money. Brom Bones is a local who is in love Katrina, the woman Ichabod Crane is trying to marry. They become rivals and Brom Bones is believed to have dressed as the headless horseman and scares Ichabod out of town.

The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is a novel about a curse sherlock Holmes and Watson investigate. Throughout the story they both encounter twist and turns,but in the end they must solve this mystery. From the beginning to end the author perfectly develops the theme of not being ruled by fear as characters experience these feelings that take over them and can cause life threatening outcomes.

The story of To Kill a Mockingbird takes place in Maycomb, Alabama, during the 1930’s. It is written from the perspective of a little girl named Jean Louise Finch, also known as Scout. The story tells about how Scout, her brother Jem, and their friend Dill, spend their days in the small town. It talks about the different types of activities they do to keep themselves entertained, and how it was like to live in that time. Things were much different for those kids. Since there was no electricity, they resorted to roleplaying, reading books, and making up stories about a man by the name Boo Radley.

In this novel, Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, Pip is a common boy whose expectations arise once he encounters an immensely “rich and grim lady” (Dickens 56) who appears as a “wax-work and skeleton seem(ing) to have dark eyes that only moved (to) look at (Pip)” (57). This first simple encounter sparks a collection of decisions and manipulations that kickoff the plot to the story. This all pulls to the theme that life is a pure game of chance –just as cards are to the game of poker - it is how you take advantage of those opportunities that define your character. This benefit of chance can be seen through the view of Pip and Miss Havisham due to their differences in social rising, ambitions, respect for the world around them, and their actions towards each other.

who dislikes him most in the Bennet family, and her dislike is obvious when she