The Story Trapped By Michael Northrop

The mood is depressing and saddening and feels hopeless, even at the resolution of the book. While there are no quotes referencing the atmosphere, there are heavy allusions made to rain and snow and cold, which I take to represent sadness, bitterness and hopelessness. However the one quote that stood out to me was that on page 60 where upon Holden asking where the fish go when the lake freeze over, the cab driver says he doesn't know and doesn't care. While seemingly unimportant I think the author used this quote to represent society's indifference towards the struggles of others, Holden being the fish and the ice being his

Reading is not one of my favorite things to do, but every once in awhile I get a book I like. One of my favorite books I have read is book called “Prisoner B-3080” By Alan Gratz. It was one of few books I that I just wanted to keep reading. The book was about a boy named Yanek, he was a Jewish boy that lived in Poland during the holocaust.

I am reading Trapped by Michael Northrop and I am on page 213. This book is about seven kids who are stuck in Tattawa Regional High School for a week. They stay after school one day and are not able to leave because of the crazy amount of snow. They try to get help before the roof caves in on them or they run out of food and water. In this journal, I will be predicting and evaluating.

To start off, on page 92 the author writes “The snow fell thickly. We were forbidden to sit down or even to move. The snow began to form a thick layer over our blankets.” Eliezer was on the train and so were the rest of the prisoners. This illustrated the snow building up on them. From the way that the author described the snow, it kind of gives you an image of a lot of snow on top of the prisoners. Next, on page 94 the author writes “ ‘Throw out all the dead! All corpses!’” The living rejoiced. There would be more room. Volunteers set to work. They felt those who were still crouching. “‘Here’s one! Take him!’” They undressed him, the survivors avidly sharing out his clothes, then two “grave diggers” took him, one by the head and one by the feet, and threw him out of the wagon like a sack of flour.” This showed the readers using description, how the prisoners who had died were being tossed out of the wagon like if nothing had happened. In the end of the story the author tried to describe things as clear as he could to help the reader picture the setting and characters in the

The characterization of winter which Wharton uses illustrates that the cold, brutal nature of the season reflects the isolation and bitter qualities of life during challenging times. Throughout the novel, the weather remains intensely frigid, symbolizing not only the harshness of life in Starkfield and the loneliness which comes from having to seek shelter from the elements. Foster uses words such as “severe,” “inhospitable,” and “suffocating” (75) to describe snow, which is sustained in Frome’s world. The continuous process of struggling to withstand the psychological and physical challenges of “the isolation of a Starkfield farm” (Wharton 13) becomes unbearable for Ethan, as he consistently daydreams of breaking away from his past. It seems

Descriptive writing: figurative language (label it), strong verbs (underline twice), etc. (Any other literary devices such

The town is very restricted to any outside information during the winter and this isolates the people from the rest of the world. This happens because “‘railroad’s blocked by a freight-train that got stuck in a drift below the Flats,’” (7). Ethan is seemingly not surprised by this and makes it feel like this

Also the family's scared about not surviving.they don't have enough food and are trying to survive from the cold weathers.because every single day the family only eats like one meal a day or doesn't eat at all.So This means that the family is trying to survive by making plans of when they should eat like one or two meals a day.Also the family is also

Everyone wants to be apart of something big. They want to be well known and important. Scott Weems, an athletic student, is in a “bull’s-eye in history” when he is stuck in his high school with other classmates. Snow encapsulates Scott and his friends while they fight for survival. No one knows if they are going to live. In Trapped, Michael Northrop uses comparison and first person narration to create the setting.

On page four, I show, that I am able to use descriptive and sensory language. I am able to provide the reader with descriptions of what the setting is. I describe what the shack is like in great detail, because I provide what the door, windows, fireplace, and etc. are like. This shows, that I am able to use descriptive and sensory language correctly in a story.

The water they poured on me was freezing. I was instantly awake, but jumping up in surprise I hit my head on the cage. I looked around frantically for my mom, dad, anyone but those people but they were everywhere. They all had these long poles with long sharp things at the end. I don't know what they were but one thing is for sure is that they hurt. The humans yelled and me calling me leftover, small , and puny. They said they would keep me for later when I would be worth more.

The story start off by Mia waking up to an inch of white snow outside her lawn that cancels all schools in

In a little Island near Europe, there lived a wealthy and powerful king. He was well known as the best and the mightiest king in the whole world, he was named Lawrence. He was only 14 when his father died from Malaria. Lawrence became the king of the island after the incident and ruled at a young age. He had a hard childhood, his mother and brother died when he was only 6 years old. It was said that some of the castle’s servants had tried to poison the whole family, but the only ones who were poisoned were his mother and brother who died a few days after. No one knew who poisoned them so Lawrence’s father fired all the servants and replaced them with new servants. This is why Lawrence became a very selfish and uncaring king.

As I look forward to a wine and cheese social gathering at the Micciche’s home on April 9th for a discussion on hosting international students, I reflect on the supportive community at Friends School that helped to shape a promising future for my daughters, Kathryn and Caroline. Kathryn graduated from Friends School in 2008 with your son Nick and today, she is a self-supporting writer living in Los Angeles; an accomplishment for any young writer and a relief for any parent.

The freezing wind turned my tears into ice and gave my hands frost bites it seemed to be shoving me, as I walked home I held my arm in front of my face desperately trying to shield the wind luging my notebook in my other arm. If I knew the weather would be this bad I would have asked Ely for a ride but I need time alone. Another tear dropped down and I choked down a sob thinking of the conversation I had over the phone earlier; ¨Hi…sweetie¨ my mom had started ¨I should not tell you this over the phone but… ¨ she paused for a while before continuing ¨I thought you should no right away… ¨ she had tried to explain another pause happened ¨Fea´s gone¨ the phone slipped out of my hand and crashed on to the floor. Everyone in the art studio heads turned towards the sound Mr. Bean asked me if I was ok but my body refused to work I just stood there in the same spot motionless. As I turned the corner I could see my house I ran to the doorstep stomping the snow of my feet before running into my room and landing on my bed with a thump.