The Theme And Themes Of Eleanor & Park By Rainbow Rowell

The book Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry is about girl named Kira, her mom dies leaving her to fend for herself with her twisted leg. The two big themes in the book are Don't give up because of her having no parents at the beginning of the book. The other theme is be proud of your pain. Her mom told her this because she said that kira is stronger than people without pain.

The book “Eleanor & Park” was written by Rainbow Rowell and was published in February 2013 by St. Martin’s Press. Rainbow Rowell is an American author who writes young adult novels. It is a romance novel between two misfit students in 1986. The novel is portrayed from two different viewpoints, from Eleanor’s and Park’s who live in Omaha, Nebraska. Eleanor was a 16-year-old girl with big red curly hair and big body, she has pale skin with dark eyes. Park was a 16-year-old boy who is half Korean with nice black hair and had an average body, not ripped nor skinny. The love story was unusual because not only the main characters have contrast look but their social and family life is different too. This essay will provide summary of the book “Eleanor & Park” and provide the response focusing primarily on bullying, domestic abuse, and child abuse from all the chapters in the book.

Eleanor, the protagonist, undergoes a difficult childhood where she had to take care of her ill mother for 11 years, until she died. Taking care of her mother for most of her childhood prohibited her from developing as a person; that affected her tremendously. For example, During Theodora’s supernatural experience, Shirley Jackson displays how Eleanor’s inner child managed to let her grow anger and jealously towards Theodora. Eleanor felt like Hill House was giving Theodora more affection and attention than it was giving her; similar, to the one that a child would have

Starting from the summer reading book, Eleanor and Park to the graphic novel we just finished, Persepolis I have been quite shocked. I was surprised that Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell had a swear word on almost every page. I don’t understand what swearing gets the point across. When I was reading it I kept focusing on the amount of swears on every page instead of the actual storyline. The swears on each page distracted me from the story causing me to constantly reread paragraphs in order to focus on them instead of the swears.

Rainbow Rowell’s Eleanor and Park and Paolo Bacigalupi’s Ship Breaker display social class’s affect on the characters’ lives. Eleanor and Park contrasts the high and low classes through the family and relationship love and violence. Eleanor comes from an abusive home that is part of the lower class, while Park’s family is more fortunate and intense than Eleanor’s household. Ship Breaker creates a parallel between the two classes through violence. However, family relationships in different classes are portrayed like in Rowell’s novel. The lower class deals with betrayal and the upper class have loyalty. In Eleanor and Park and Ship Breaker, the relationships and interactions between families and others in society are different depending on

To begin, important theme that runs through the novel is the idea strong female characters like Taylor and Lou Ann. Furthermore, Taylor does not care about a man in her life and tries her best to do everything in her

Over the course of the fiction novel Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor changes from shy and hesitant to a confident young lady. Eleanor has just moved to a new school, and is very uncomfortable with herself because she knows she is different. She knows she is different because everyone stares at her when she walks by them, her family is poor, and her hair is bright red and her clothes do not match, bringing lots of attention. Thankfully she meets Park, a young boy on her bus whom she becomes friends with. As their relationship grows, so does Eleanor. Eleanor learns to accept herself for who she is, and what life has thrown her way. Her dynamic change from awkward to confident allows her to live a successful life by the end.

The two teens come from very different backgrounds, but that doesn't stop them from slowly falling in love. Both Park, and Eleanor, face through their hardships with each others help. They are always there to reassure each other that everything will be okay. The plot had some moments when everything was expected. It was very cliché at points, for example, Park, being surrounded by his "popular" friends, was rude to Eleanor, (Page 9) but eventually fell in love with her (Page 114). Although it was expected, most of the time, Eleanor and Park was a conventional young adult novel about love, hope, and growth.

The theme is mainly developed through the characterization of the narrator, Scout. At the beginning of the novel, Scout is an innocent 6-year-old girl. Because of her innocence, she doesn’t understand the issues that she is

Harper Lee uses the characters emotions and attitudes to help portray multiple themes throughout the novel. Each character is used to help express a certain theme in the novel through their thoughts, actions and problems they have to overcome. Some of the themes in this novel are; coming to age, prejudice vs racism, courage, gender roles and poverty.

In the beginning of the book I found a theme statement that is, stress can lead to make bad choices. In beginning of the book there is a scene where greg steals the babys toy hammer and then the baby cries. So that makes me to lead that greg makes really

As an adult reader who has crossed over to the reality of life, reading about these characters can be a transparent, futile exercise because as adults looking back at youth we have the experience to know where these characters are headed before they even start their journey. However, for young adults who are still in the throes of existential angst this is a powerful novel that handles teenage rites of passage and coming-of-age issues such as loyalty, friendship, belonging, and even death and loss very well.

In chapter 1 it is about how introduces people like windrider, Uncle brightstar, Handclap White deer Lefty Mrs whitlaw Robin Black dog, and the main character moon shadow.

One of the things about reading this book is that although it was set in the 80’s, it didn’t feel dated at all. I was never taken out of the story, by the inclusion of items like tape players or the lack of internet access. I think this can partly be attributed to the fact that this is such a character driven story. You care about Eleanor and Park and their connection. The technology woven around the story is incidental to their emotions and thoughts. I also think Rainbow Rowell was incredibly clever about the music, graphic novels, and bands she chose to include. Watchman, the Smiths, the Cure, X-Men are all cultural landmarks. They have perhaps become even cooler now than they were to a teen of the 1980’s. A teen of today (especially those

The First Grader is a British film that takes place in a mountain village of Kenya. After Kenya received its independence, citizens were promised a free education. With the hopes of learning to read, Maruge, an 84-year-old man, seeks to cash in on this benefit. During the film, one can recognize some similarities and differences to our culture. Kenya culture, like American, has a tendency to disrespect its elders. Additionally, education is held in high value. Finally, Kenyan conditions highly contrast that of America.