The Orphan Keeper, By Cameron Wright

The definition of abuse is when someone uses cruel and violent treatment to negatively affect a person repeatedly. Abuse can come in a variety of ways, such as psychological abuse, mental abuse, physical abuse, emotional abuse, and one of the most common yet overlooked is sexual abuse. In the book A Child Called IT, David Pelzer writes the story of his childhood. A child whose whole life was surrounded by abuse, his mother would beat him and hurt him in such a way that she left him almost dead in several occasions. Sharon olds wrote a series of poems that all seemed to link up together after reading them consecutively. I go back to May 1937 is dealing with changing her existence, Little things is about focusing on enjoying small things,

The powerful and gripping novel The Boy Who Dared, written by Susan Campbell Bartoletti, is a Newbery Honor book. The novel is based on Helmuth Hubener who lived during the Holocaust when the Nazis were rising to power in 1933. Helmuth was one of the very few young boys who tried to expose Hitler to the people of Germany. Hitler was torturing the Jews and declaring wars on countries just because he wanted war. He also ruined Jewish shops and destroyed their futures. The Boy Who Dared shows historical accuracy in many ways, especially as it focuses on Helmuth’s life, the

Richard Wright is the author of numerous short stories and books, two of which include The Man Who was Almost a Man and Big Boy Leaves Home. The first story, The Man Who was Almost a Man, follows seventeen year old David, who one days becomes angered by the way he is treated by older men. The second story, Big Boy Leaves Home, follows four young African Americans who one day skip school. Richard Wright has a very unique writing style, which helps him develop his characters very fast. Author Richard Wright’s short stories are both written to illustrate how one’s decisions can affect their future.

The story of “ St. Lucy’s Home for Girls” by Karen Russell introduced a girl named Claudette and followed her through her life during school. The author wrote about her learning how to be civilized. She talks about Claudette’s transformation from her old culture to her new culture. The transformation is put into five stages. The stages represent emotions that Claudette and the other girls would feel during these courses.

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The child called “it” by Dave Pelzer. The time and place the book took place was March 5, 1973, in Daly City, California. Dave Pelzer was a boy who was abused by his own mother. He was the boy who was called “It” in his family house. His Mother would make him eat and drink things that you couldn't even imagine a mother would do. She treated her son as her slave. David wasn't allowed to shower or even wear clean clothes. His mother wouldn’t feed him until the third day. David would always go to school with bruises and scratches. His father, on the other hand, would try to do something but he failed each time he tries to convince David's mother to change her mind.

In The Book of Stories Beginnings by Kristin Kladstrup, Lucy Martin found her great-uncle's The Book of Stories Beginning and began writing her own story beginnings in the enchanted journal. She wrote about her father being a great magician. Everything written in the journal came to life. Lucy's father turned himself into a raven using his magic potion and flew across the ocean to a mythical land called Cat'n'berd Island. Lucy Martin and her great-uncle, Oscar Martin, went on a search to find Lucy's lost father and save him from King Bertram. Kristina Kladstrup was born Sioux City, Iowa. When she was a child, she loved reading and writing and she decided that becoming a writer would be her vocation. The house that her mother lived in when she was a child inspired the setting of Kladstrup’s novel. Kladstrup had also written two other children books which are Garden Princess and Le Livre Des Débuts D'histoires. She had co-written two children's books. One is A Night In Santa's Great Big Bag with Tim Jessell and the other is The Gingerbread Pirates with Matt Tavares. I chose The Book of Story Beginnings because a friend recommended it to me. She said it was set in an island far away from Iowa. I enjoy reading about adventures to distant magical lands, so I agreed to read this book. Upon finishing to book, the ending of the book was different from what I had predicted. I thought that after Oscar helped Lucy find her father, Oscar

The Yellow Wallpaper, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and The Orphanage, directed by J.A Bayona, are both female driven stories, and due to a lack of dominant female roles in books and television, these pieces make statements on our society. The 19th century had very few female rights and very strict gender roles. A time when most women were thought to have some form of mental illness, and due to a lack of medical knowledge were vastly mistreated. The lapse in medicinal science, in combination with extremely sexist ideologies caused more harm to come to women than help. The Yellow Wallpaper, with a nameless female Narrator, depicts how women seen as unwell were treated in the 1900’s. The Orphanage, through the main character Laura, portrays how differently women seen as sick are treated today. Both stories cross the line to the supernatural in a very similar fashion, and descend into madness after the loss of their children. While both stories face different obstacles, the most relevance can be gleaned from the differences between them. History’s importance is it’s ability to prevent repetition of mistakes, and show the world how far it has come.

Abuse is a very common act within our society today, and there are many different types of abuse that a person can come encounter with. As a culture we send powerful messages makes it seem as though women are obligated to fill roles in their relationships that will keep them dependent on their partners for as long as they are together. Domestic abuse is popular within families and parents are putting their lives, as well as their children’s lives in a great amount of danger because they cannot seem to shake their bad habits or they have the desire to fulfill the needs of their partner. The “Home to Perfect” by Erica Naone is a fictional short story about a mother that puts up with abuse from the father of her children, and she is so bonded to the man that eventually, she is content with her way of living (http://everydayfiction.com). The mother in the story is so used to being abused that she endangers herself, and her children for the sake of a man she is in love with! There are many reasons why women deal with this type of abuse.

Are you, a servant? Servants are people who perform duties or tasks for others. When you think of a leader you normally do not think of a servant; however, James Hunt explains how a servant leader can change the style of leadership to enhance the company, school, and life.

Lillian Florance “Lilly” Hellman is deemed as one of the first important American woman dramatists. She lived up to her last name by challenging the American public with unpopular beliefs of Communism as well as other non-traditional beliefs causing herself to be blacklisted by the House Committee on Un-American Activities. She was born in an affluent, Jewish family on June 20, 1905 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Her mother, Julia Newhouse, stemmed from a successful bankers and liquor dealers, while her father, Max Hellman, was a lucrative shoe salesman. She attended New York University for two years after graduating from high school then transferred to briefly attend Columbia University. In 1929, Hellman traveled Europe and settled in Bonn to continue with her education. At the same time, she became attracted to a Nazi student group which advocated for a form of socialism. However, Hellman immediately returned to the United States after being pressed about her Jewish heritage. She became a short-term member of the Communist Party from 1938 to 1940 in America. However, Hellman drifted away from the Communist Party because it seemed to be the wrong place for her. She described her “own maverick nature [to be] no more suitable to the political left than it had been to the conservative background from which [she] came.”

The Brigham Young University-Idaho Henrik Ibsen Series I chose to attend was A Doll’s House directed by Trevor Hill. The play was about Nora Helmer, set in the 1870’s. She is a loving mother and wife to all who entered her home. When Mrs. Linde entered her household, a friend, before either of them were married, Nora trusted her with a secret she had been hiding for quite some time. Years previous, Torvald (Nora’s husband) fell ill, and the only way to save his life was to get treatment in Italy. To get Torvald his treatment she had to receive a loan from the bank. We learn later that the only way she could get the loan, was through a man’s signature. She asked her father to sign the required documents. When the contract for the loan comes to light, we find out that Nora forged her father’s signature, because he had passed away days before the papers were signed.

The story The Dolls' House, By Katherine Manisfield is about the children coming within the brutal realities of the class-consciousness and the social ostracism. The parents play a very important role in the story. It's based on the social attitudes of the upper class, and the lower class. The Kelveys girls were described as any animal images, because Else was described as " a little white owl. Aunt Beryl shoos them away " as if they were chickens " as well Beryl taught of them as " Little Rats" these images emphasizes how the Kelveys anywhere they go they are suffering.

Writing of devouring infant poor and unlucky travelers, Jonathon Swift satirically writes of the tyranny of England. The 18th century began with a great struggle between Ireland and England. The world power of England encroached on the rights of the Irish including monitoring their right to their own parliament and regulating their trade clearly benefitting the English. England had left Ireland starving and impoverished. Jonathon Swift, an author at the time, wrote several essays intending to spite the English and call the Irish to action to fight this oppression. The Irish did not respond. Terry Eagleton and Daniel Coleman’s theories prove that in his attempt to move Ireland to action Swift in actuality pacified their need to rebel again the encroaching English. His literature provided the humanization to prevent violence, the information to prevent further action, and the vicarious experiences that fulfilled the peasants for retribution. It will be my pleasure to discuss, as Derrida would argue, that because Swift’s essays can be centered on both sparking and abating an uprising the structure of the essays have been destroyed and therewith their meaning.

After reading The Liars Club an autobiography by Mary Karr, my interpretation of the reading is that she is telling her story from her point of view as a child and as an adult, utilizing foreshadowing and vivid imagery. For example, the reading states “My sharpest memory is of a single instant surrounded by dark.” “I was seven, and our family doctor knelt before me where I sat on a mattress on the bare floor” (Karr 3). This passage also brought some significance to the story as discussed in class. This helps the reader to understand that a very young age Mary Karr experienced something that was traumatic and it as stuck with her, therefore she labeled is one of her sharpest childhood memories. Usually when things happen to us as children we are not able to remember them exactly in detail, but when they are traumatic events those memories tend to stick with us throughout life. While writing Karr takes the role of two characters, those include the character “Pokey”. In the story this is a representation of Mary Karr a child. Her father Pete calls her Pokey. During this time frame Mary isn’t too aware of what is happening to her, she admires her father, and is also of her sisters. As I continued to read the story the next character that Mary Karr takes on is the narrator or author. This is referenced throughout the story when she looks back on her childhood to try and understand what was happening to her. A good example of this is when the author uses breaking of the fourth