The Wednesday Wars: Mr. Hoodhood's 'Perfect House'

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.

Have you ever been to a baseball game with your teacher? In the book The WEDNESDAY WARS the main character Holling Hoodhood is a seventh grader that goes to school during the Vietnam war in 1967. The theme of this book is coming of age. The mood of the book is humorous.

Holling Hoodhood was a kid who grew up in Long Island in the late sixties. He always thought that Mrs.Baker hated him he never understood why. Mrs.Baker is Holling’s seventh grade math teacher, at first Holling and Mrs.Baker didn't get along very well, in fact Hollings was very convinced that Mrs.Baker "hates his guts". Holling’s sister name is Heather Hoodhood, she wants to be a flower child who loves the Monkees and cares for all the animals and plants. Heather can’t be a flower child because her dad, Mr.Hoodhood considered it stupid. Meryl Lee Kowalski isn't as big as the other characters but she is a big part of Holling's life. Throughout the book their relationship grows much more stronger when they find out that they both love Shakespeare. Danny Hupfer and Doug Swieteck show how much they care about their friend Holling and they always stick together through hard times. Furthermore, they always manage to get themselves into sticky situations many times, because of their own mischievous actions. Eventually they always get themselves out of the situation with each other's help. Holling's mother doesn’t have a big role compared to Holling's father, but she still plays an important role. Mrs. Hoodhood is a woman who loves everyone in her family she secretly smokes and seems to be typical housewife of the 1960's. Doug Swieteck brother is the classic misunderstood villain of the story. During the course of Holling's seventh grade year D.S.B makes Holling's

This selection expresses the theme that evil can be present in even the most innocent beings. Pearl, Hester’s treasure, shows a trace of wickedness when she expresses her hatred toward the mocking children. Hawthorne compares her shouts of outrage to “witch’s anathemas” in order to emphasize how a pure child can turn malignant at

With this description, Hester’s humanity is maintained, even when the community, “all” of it, objectifies her as a teaching tool. The image of her heart “flung”, “spurn[ed] and trample[d] upon” demonstrates both the narrator’s sympathy toward Hester and animosity toward Puritan society, regardless of the age of the member. Shortly after his description of the schoolboy’s callous treatment of Hester, the narrator continues with a harsh account of the scaffold and pillory once employed upon it, “that instrument of discipline” that represented “the very ideal of ignominy” (52). The pillory reflects the nature of the community’s sense of justice, and the narrator finds it extremely harsh. The word “ideal,” often associated with perfection, suggests that the pillory signifies the ultimate desired effect of “ignominy:” public shame from which the sinner cannot turn away. Next, it would seem that Hawthorne speaks out directly and emotionally to the reader, declaring, “There can be no outrage, methinks, against our common nature, whatever be the delinquencies of the individual, - no outrage more flagrant than to forbid the culprit to hide his face for shame” (52). Hawthorn’s use of word “methinks” suggests his forceful personal address on this issue of cruelty; he weighs in powerfully against the malice of the Pilgrim community that punishes Hester, even if it has not subjected her to the pillory. The word “no” implies Hawthorne’s view that this punishment is

White sets the tone for the piece by informing the audience of his “increasing admiration for the teacher in the country school.” This simple beginning statement puts a positive image of country schools into the readers’ minds without too harshly pushing his opinion upon them, which could in turn, result in alienation of the audience. By using this technique, White is able to begin to persuade readers without them even realizing

Two classical themes in literature are concealed guilt and confessed guilt and in many instances the reader sees the affects of these on individuals. In the examination and exploration of The Scarlet Letter and Macbeth the necessary comparison for both is provided. The guilt in The Scarlet Letter is seen in the minds and outward appearance of each main character, Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmesdale. In Macbeth the readers sees an obvious guilt in the main character, Macbeth.

In this chapter, we are led through Victor's personal experience throughout his school education, from first grade to twelfth grade. Victor was bullied from a very young age. Teased for his dorkish appearance, constantly tripped and pushed into the snow. “I was always falling down; my Indian name was Junior Falls Down. Sometimes it was Bloody Nose or Steal-His-Lunch.”[p.172] By the second grade, Victor was continuously bullied at school. No longer only by his classmates, instead now his teacher, Mrs. Betty Towle joined in on the cruelty towards Victor. She would make him stand eagle-armed for fifteen minutes. She would mock and tease her student for being a Native American. By the fourth grade, Victor had a teacher whom supported him. Mr. Schulter

The novel The House of Seven Gables conveys its messages through the usage of images, which is done through inanimate object or places. This can be seen in the house of the seven gables and the daguerreotype of judge Pyncheon. Hawthorne present these images in such a manner, that their original meaning in the novel is no longer applicable. While many see his writing style as a tedious form, such writing has made the images created by Nathanial Hawthorne. Nathanial Hawthorne may be seen as a writer with a tedious writing style, such as the long descriptions of the images in the novel. Nevertheless it’s an effective manner to use allegory in a novel.

In The Scarlet Letter Hypocrisy is evident everywhere. The characters of Hester, Dimmesdale, Chillingworth, and the very society that the characters lived in, were steeped in hypocrisy. Hawthorne was not subtle in his portrayal of the terrible sin of hypocrisy; he made sure it was easy to see the sin at work , at the same time however, parallels can be drawn between the characters of The Scarlet Letter and of today’s society.

Picture this: a person who is there in body, but not in mind. This is considered to be a mental illness. The American Psychiatric Association says “Mental illnesses are health conditions involving changes in thinking, emotion or behavior” (“What”). Throughout the works of literature, numerous writers tie in mental illness in their work to bring back a time in their life that they experienced this. In the short stories, “The Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allen Poe, and “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Gilman, both represent Poe and Gilman’s mental illnesses within themselves. The two authors’ mental illnesses impacted their main characters and made them as if they were that person playing the part. Both Poe and Gilman suffered

Once attending college, the man is betrayed by his professor, Dr. Bledsoe. “‘Tell anyone you like,’ he said. ‘I don’t care. I wouldn’t raise my little finger to stop you because I do not owe anyone a thing, son’”(Ellison 153). In the same way, Dr. Bledsoe creates betrayal because the narrator looks up to him and the professor wants nothing to do with the narrator. Moreover, he a gets in predicament at well known bar called Golden days, which lead Dr. Bledsoe to ask the man to leave the college. Evermore, Dr. Bledsoe grants the narrator the opportunity to attend school by handing the man seven letters of employment recommendations to Harlem. Besides, this act of kindness from Bledsoe is just to appease the narrator from returning to the college. Additionally, Dr. Bledsoe presents, “A former student of ours (I say former because he shall never, under any circumstances, be enrolled as a student here again) who has been expelled for a most serious defection from our strictest rules of deportment” (Ellison 168). Ironically, the principal Mr. Norton promises not to dislodge the man from the school, but this was just so the narrator would return to the school to prove that nobody would speak up on his behalf. Essentially, Dr. Bledsoe gives the narrator the impression that he has a future at Harlom and the all-black college, but to no prevail because of the betrayal of Bledsoe.

“Home is where the heart is.” In The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros develops this famous statement to depict what a “home” really represents. What is a home? Is it a house with four walls and a roof, the neighborhood of kids while growing up, or a unique Cleaver household where everything is perfect and no problems arise? According to Cisneros, we all have our own home with which we identify; however, we cannot always go back to the environment we once considered our dwelling place. The home, which is characterized by who we are, and determined by how we view ourselves, is what makes every individual unique. A home is a personality, a depiction of who we are inside and

In her new school, Theresa had a crush on an older Chaldean boy named Daniel, little did she know that that this innocent crush will turn her life into nightmare. Chaldeans had a

The Usher house if often viewed as a curse, some people think that the first moment when two members of the Usher family committed incest between them the curse started. And at the end of this story when the two last members of The Usher family die, the house automatically falls apart, this is an indicator that the curse is finally over but this is only a thesis. Everyday billions and billions of people around the world are sleeping, and all of them are having dreams. A dream1 is a succession of images, ideas, emotions, and sensations that usually occurs involuntarily in the mind during certain stages of sleep.