The Secret Lion Short Story

The book ‘Wildlife’ by Fiona Wood demonstrates several themes and techniques that are created by the author. ‘Wildlife’ is based on the students from Crowthorne Grammar and about their love lives, friendships and not fitting in. The novel includes challenging teenage moments, emotions decision-making, changes in friendship and the progress into adulthood. This essay will further discuss in detail the techniques, themes that are shown and used by the characters and how the author demonstrated a teenager’s life.

In the book, The Other Wes Moore, readers are introduced to two naive boys who share the same name and live an almost identical life at the beginning of their childhood. Author Wes Moore tells readers a chilling story about how he and “Other Wes” were raised in neighboring Baltimore neighborhoods and grew up living an almost identical life. The story is based on how the two men face many obstacles throughout their life that essentially depict their own futures. As the boys become more familiar with the idea of violence and drug related activity, the proposal of living the same life suddenly becomes extinct. The two Wes Moore’s eventually end up living two completely different ways of life and it can be argued how they ended up the way they did. The idea of environment, education, and even expectations are all themes readers are presented with in the story. Although all of these factors play a vital role in the development of Wes themselves, their environment is essentially what had the greatest impact on their futures and is what set the tone for the rest of their lives.

This is a book about love -- not only human love for an animal, but the love of a parent for a child, a man for his home, and a special love between two animals. Billy's family is extremely close-knit. His mother teaches Billy and his two sisters to read and write because the school is too far away, and when he turns eleven. Billy's father lets him help out in the fields. To complete the happy nest. Grandpa lives right down the road, and has the family over every Sunday afternoon for supper. There is security in this atmosphere of love. After leaving home for three days to pick up the puppies, Billy's mother breaks down and cries at his return -- this is punishment enough for Billy, and he

In addition, this book succeeds in terms of depicting real life situations to young children. As presented in the story, Reed’s father lost his job; thus, causing him to move back in with

Furthermore, the two essays also connect with one another because, in Nguyen’s paper, the lion represents much more than just a stuffed animal, it represents a chance for the little girl to be recognized as part of the “normal people” in the classroom. In Tan’s the mother reads the entire essay

Rhinoceros Beetle by Susan Hawthorne is a story about a young man with an obsession with animals and a penchant for treating women the same way. Rhinoceros Beetle undergoes a major tonal shift as the story goes from a whimsical tale of a destructive young boy, to a chilling story of a threatening and reserved man from a small town. As the story goes on, the foreshadowing becomes more obvious as you realize how suggestive and cacophonous the words are, which further develop the ominous tone. The way the author understates the boy’s actions in the beginning of the story take the reader down a path of realization as the implications of what he’d done later in his life becomes more apparent.The insipid yet obscure way that the short story is written ultimately leaves the audience in the dark with a few pieces of information that allows them to make an astute assumption of what happened to the women that were in the man’s home. Also, parallelism is used frequently throughout the story to portray the boy’s odd actions as being on the same level of his more mundane activities. All of these components successfully develop the ominous tone of the story, leaving the readers feeling that something awful or unpleasant was happening both in the boy’s past and in his now adult life.

In both articles the main idea of the text is lions. They both explain the hardships the lions had in the year of

Parenthood was a factor in the boy’s life, this ideas gives you an insight on what he wanted the reader to convey. here are two different emotions running through this story from both the boys. In the author Wes Moore the emotion you feel while reading it is hurt and compassion.

In addition, Wes uses the changing narratives to show the similarities between both Wes’ stories. These writing styles combine to create a book about poverty, discrimination and the tragic loss of childhood innocence.

The setting of Alice Walkers short story” The Flowers” is important for us, the readers to obtain a perspective of how life was like growing up for a 10 year old African American girl by the name of Myop. The title of the story is “The Flowers.” When you think about flowers, you instantly compare them to being beautiful, pure, and innocent. The title of the “The Flowers” is a symbolism that correlates to Myop who is the protagonist of the story. Myop is just like a flower in the beginning of the story. She’s a pure and innocent child but that pure innocence changes when she discovers something that’ll change her life forever.

The main setting of the story is the river, an arroyo. It illustrates their childhood, the place that never changes. It was their secret place where they could do whatever they wanted to do. “It was our river, though, our personal Mississippi, our friend from long back, and it was full of stories” (59). Additionally, they come in contact with a grinding ball. It represents their soon to be lost childhood. In realizing this, they decide to bury it hoping to preserve it and their childhood memories.

The fictional novels “The Secret Life of Bees” by Sue Monk Kidd and “The Chosen” by Chaim Potok are coming of age stories about young protagonists. “The Secret Life of Bees” depicts the life of Lily Owens as she runs away from her abusive father, T. Ray, with her black caregiver, Rosaleen. Lily is seeking a connection to her dead mother while establishing new relationships in a new town called Tiburon, SC. Similarly, ‘The Chosen” portrays the journey of Danny Saunders as he breaks away from the path paved for him while coping with the lack of a father-son relationship. Within both novels, “The Secret Life of Bees” and “The Chosen”, the lack of parental figures in both Lily and Danny’s lives causes both protagonists to seek others to fill in these positions as seen when Lily relies on Rosaleen, the Black Madonna, and the Boatwright sisters and Danny seeks support from Reuven’s family.

The circle of abuse and abandonment stands out as one of the prominent themes throughout Boy, Snow, Bird. In fact, many of the relationships throughout this book address this issue both directly or indirectly. Many of the mother daughter relationships throughout this book remain blatant examples; Boy sending Snow away, Frank allowing Boy to think all her life that her mother left her, Frank’s girlfriend leaving Boy alone with the Rat Catcher, even Boy running away, all of these have elements of abandonment and abuse. But Charlie and Boy’s

We named our child Ethan Leonard Rochester, whose bearing became the symbol that defined me and Edward’s overcoming our struggles. Quite literally, our son’s title means “Strong lion strength fortress” and this seemed oh so quite appropriate to me –I wanted my son to be firm against the evils of life to come. Reader, two years have passed since I married Edward, and Ethan is a blooming one year old, with honeysuckle blonde hair, --a recessive trait Edward tells me –a bright cheerful smile and large, brilliant and black eyes that I cannot help repeating, for they are dark as Satan’s eyes, but full of a rich chocolaty feeling.

These stories can be seen as different from each other in many ways. The young boy lives in a house in a suburban area without a mother or a father, but with guardians. He has a group of friends nearby he hangs out with. Though, he has no