The Wednesday Wars Analysis

Mr. Goldman is an elderly man that has been living in Long Island, New York for a long time. He is a nice and compassionate character that only wants to listen to someone recite Shakespeare and attend plays. He owns Goldman’s Bakery and has owned it for a long time. He runs the shop on his own and doesn’t need any help because he is the only employee. He says, “Why would I need someone to sweep or wash dishes when I have my own hands?” He is a humble man and thinks that he does not deserve any changes.

In the Wednesday wars by Gary d Schmidt, Holing Hoodhood has a lot going on, besides the Vietnam War. For example, he’s the only one not going to catechism or Judaism studies, so he’s stuck with mars baker, who hates his guts! Along with mars baker, there’s Doug Sweetest (the class bully), the 8th graders, and even a pair of rats, it feels like everyone’s out to get him. One of the interesting characters is Mai Thai, she is a Vietnamese girl who was brought to Camilla high by the catholic Vietnam relief association.

I choose the door to my past, open the door to my future, take a deep breath and sleep through to a new life. In the book The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt the protagonist Holling Hoodhood goes on a date with a young lady named Meryl Lee. There fathers are both competing for the same job and both have to present a layout of the new school the next day. During the date Merly Lee was asking Holling about his father's layout so Holling drew it out for her. After the date Merly Lee gave the design to her father he took it and the night before the presentation he redid everything to the exact same draw as Hollings dad. Hollings dad was embarrassed at the presentation and the next day Merly Lee was trying to explain

An important theme in The Wednesday Wars is to being compassionate is an critical to a healthy friendship which is supported by three examples in the book: The first example is when Danny Humfer stands up for Holling when Mickey Mantle wouldn't give him a signed baseball. The second example is when Holling helps his sister get home, the last example is when Meryl Lee is crying when Holling brings her cokes. When Holling went to get a baseball signed by Mickey Mantle he is devastated because Mickey Mantle won't sign him one. Then Danny steps up to the plate and shows some compassion toward Holling. "Danny Humfer who stepped up to the table and slowly placed his baseball-- his baseball signed by Mickey Mantle-- back in front of the greatest baseball

Now it is known that Mrs. Baker's husband, Lieutenant T. Baker, is missing in action. One day, Mrs. Baker, coached Holling on how to run and correct his form which she thinks will help him. Pretty soon, Holling is running faster than before and he is the fastest on the team. Reading a lot of Shakespeare, Holling uses many terms from his books such as “toads, beetles, bats, light on you”. So, after a while, Holling has learned many things from Shakespeare, such as curses and quotes. Though Holling was very tired because he had to get up early for his meet, he still ran very well winning the meet. Until, his sister ran away to California, Holling was starting to enjoying his seventh grade year. Very soon, however, Holling got a call from his sister saying that she needed money so that she could come back, so he got his savings bond and cashed it in for $52, which he then sent to his sister. When Holling went back to school the following day, Mrs. Baker had received great news that her husband was alive and coming home from the war. Xenocurrency was held with the soldiers in Vietnam, but when he came back to the United States, he could use it once again. Yarn was weaving in and out while Mrs. Baker was knitting something for her husband for

n the novel Until Tuesday by Luis Montalvan, the author faces numerous struggles during the times he was fighting and the times he was facing PTSD. Throughout the hardships of dealing with PTSD, Luis felt betrayed in many different aspects through his experiences. Luis feels betrayed due to the fact that the media was portraying false ideas and didn 't let Luis take action, the unfair treatment he dealt with in his own country and that his parents did not help nor accept him back even though he needed help. Luis throughout the novel wrote about the difficulties of coping with PTSD and the responses he got after coming back from Iraq was something he knew he did not deserve. People ranging from everyday citizens to his parents, all treated him in a tough manner and had no understanding of what he is dealing with.

The Civil War caused a shift in the ways that many Americans thought about slavery and race. Chandra Manning’s What this Cruel War Was Over helps readers understand how soldiers viewed slavery during the Civil War. The book is a narrative, which follows the life of Union soldier who is from Massachusetts. Chandra Manning used letters, diaries and regimental newspapers to gain an understanding of soldiers’ views of slavery. The main character, Charles Brewster has never encountered slaves. However, he believes that Negroes are inferior. He does not meet slaves until he enters the war in the southern states of Maryland and Virginia. Charles Brewster views the slaves first as contraband. He believes the slaves are a burden and should be sent back to their owners because of the fugitive slave laws. Union soldiers focus shifted before the end of the war. They believed slavery was cruel and inhumane, expressing strong desire to liberate the slaves. As the war progresses, soldiers view slaves and slavery in a different light. This paper, by referring to the themes and characters presented in Chandra Manning’s What this Cruel War Was Over, analyzes how the issue of slavery and race shifted in the eyes of white Union soldiers’ during Civil War times.

The author, Tim O'Brien, is writing about an experience of a tour in the Vietnam conflict. This short story deals with inner conflicts of some individual soldiers and how they chose to deal with the realities of the Vietnam conflict, each in their own individual way as men, as soldiers.

The Viet Nam War has been the most reviled conflict in United States history for many reasons, but it has produced some great literature. For some reason the emotion and depredation of war kindle in some people the ability to express themselves in a way that they may not have been able to do otherwise. Movies of the time period are great, but they are not able to elicit, seeing the extremely limited time crunch, the same images and charge that a well-written book can. In writing of this war, Tim O'Brien put himself and his memories in the forefront of the experiences his characters go through, and his writing is better for it. He produced a great work of art not only because he experienced the war first hand, but because he is able to convey the lives around him in such vivid detail. He writes a group of fictional works that have a great deal of truth mixed in with them. This style of writing and certain aspects of the book are the topics of this reflective paper.

Holling who thinks miss baker hates hates him is forced to spend each wednesday afternoon alone with miss baker while his classmates, attend church or the temple Holling a presbyterian is instead asked to do chores and read about shakesphere.However mrs baker starts to see that he is a genius. and she begins teaching him shakespeare, Hoodhood begins to understand there is more to the world that he enitailly realized thanks to shakesphere.

I think the central idea of “From War To America” by Kristen Lewis is that hope is stronger than fear. I think this because in the text it says, “...Six million Syrians have lost their homes...”. This is a time that you need hope and not fear because you have lost the little you have and the place you grew up in. Another example where you need hope more than fear is, “ ...4 million people at risk of starvation…”, this text shows that if the people of Syria lost hope they would have died and let fear get the best of them. One last example of how hope is stronger than fear is, “Bullets whizzed around them. They ducked behind a wall to catch their breath.” This shows that if they would have let fear get the best of them, they would have been in

was not the truth. This book showed the harsh reality of war that most people

In the novel “Tomorrow When the War Began” written by John Marsden, one important idea that was developed throughout the written text was how life events change people. People develop the most during their teenage years which is when they are affected the most during their life.Major life events change people and teenagers need to understand this. In this novel, seven teenagers go camping and when they emerge from the bush there are fires everywhere, the power is out and the animals are dead. The small town of Wirrawee has been invaded by the army. The idea of how life events can change people is shown through the technique of characters. With the events of war, Ellie showed how she grew up and lost her innocence because of the choices she

“Tomorrow When The War Began” by John Marsden, is a novel of survival, friendship, love and war. He uses many language techniques (e.g. simile, metaphor, personification, oxymoron, irony, symbol, allusion etc.) to get across to the reader the importance of each of the themes discussed. He also uses these techniques to set the mood in each chapter and to help emphasise each major point in the novel. “We’ve learnt a lot and had to figure out what’s important- what matters, what really matters.”- Ellie

Masks. Identity. The overarching trial that plagues most heroes lies in their difficulty to explore their minds and discover their identities. This issue exists because history and anthropology teaches that, throughout time, humans serve certain purposes. For example, hunters and gatherers perform specific functions and this serves as their purpose in life. However, as times change, the need for hunters and gatherers ebbs and leaves behind a urge to find a purpose and not waste time, but live in the moment; carpe diem. Before this, the urge to ensure that humanity survives and find enough food to live benefits everyone and serves a widespread purpose. With innovation, the purpose shifts from simply surviving to living a full and enriching life,