The Wild Things Are By Maurice Sendak

The book, Crazy, is an interesting, and informative non-fiction book, about the struggles that mental health patients and their family members encounter. Pete Earley starts off the story by talking about his son Mike, who started to act strangely in his senior year of college. (Earley page 9). It turned out that Mike would be diagnosed with bipolar disorder, and was prescribed medications. Mike thought he was fine, therefore would frequently stop taking his medications. Mike refused treatment from a hospital that he was admitted to. Because he was not a danger to himself, a danger to others, or gravely disabled; the doctor could not force him into treatment. Because, Mike stops taking his medications, his symptoms got worse. Pete discussed

There are an infinite amount of unique responses to the question “What is the meaning of life?”. However, the majority of people will agree that the true meaning of life is to find happiness and what is really important to one’s self. In Jon Krakauer’s, Into The Wild, Chris McCandless conveys this idealism through his life’s journey as he bravely defies all limitations. Chris McCandless isolates himself from society in his Alaskan Odyssey as a way to defy accepted expectations and to begin discovering the meanings of life without any corrupted influences.

The poem “Between the World and Me” by Richard Wright reanimates the horrible scene of a racial lynching and forces the reader to endure the victim's pain through the first person’s narrative voice. The poem contains structured lines and visual division into three stanzas. Moreover, there is one more type of division in the poem. The author uses an ellipsis four times throughout the poem. This punctuation mark frames the poem into the timeline, where the historical past of the African American poet becomes the present experience of any human, despite the race. The climax of the poem is presented in the middle of stanza two. The animated moment, which starts from the sentence “the ground gripped my feet”, dramatically shifts the

Technology, the advancement of knowledge and productivity through the application of tools, information, and techniques to create an effortless process, has ultimately lead to the declination of our society and our future. In “A Thing Like Me,” Nicholas Carr addresses the development of technology from the day it was created and how it initiated an immediate impact within the lives of humans leading to an unhealthy dependency. Carr establishes how technology, what was intended to be a tool, has become the “pacifier” of our generation. This “pacifier” causes a loss of freedom, not through the laws of the government, but rather with the values of freedom one holds within themselves. This freedom is the individuality that distinguishes each person from the next, and forms a desire for the development of oneself through the experiences of life and the wisdom that is acquired along the way. Technology has blinded man from this pursuit of self-enhancement and with the advancement of technology occurring daily, there is no resolution. Each day people are confined within themselves and the pieces of technology that will continually limit them in their lives. Freedom is more than just a concept of laws instilled by the government, it is the thought process found within each individual person and their “hunger” to become more. With technology, social media was created and immediately immersed within our lives. The society of today has

As the story goes on, Max continues to exercise power through his imagination. He has completely left the realm of reality in search of a place to control. Once Max’s room first changes, due to his imagination, his own personal boat arrives to take him away. The rest of his room becomes a wild jungle, where the wild things live. These large creatures, known as the wild things, inhabit Max’s room and soon become the perfect subjects for Max to take control of. First, Max has little interaction with the wild things, but soon, he takes full control. Max yells at the wild things, ordering them to do what he pleases. This shows that Max is displacing the anger he feels at his mother for yelling at him, onto the wild things. Max then begins “the wild rumpus,” an act in which all of the wild things and Max partake in. All of the creatures and Max are simply playing around in an unmannered form, causing trouble. This trouble continues due to the lack of adult guidance and the abundance of free imagination. While the rumpus is taking place, again the illustrations change to fit the scenes. Since Max has become the leader, and

Amongst the extensive symbols underneath the text of the story, one that captures attention is the wolf costume that Max is seen in throughout the entire story. Sandek uses this small detail in order for the readers to know that Max is hiding behind something. Knowing the

In the novel, Freak and Max become like brothers by how they act toward one another as if they are family. Freak states, ‘“We are Freak the Mighty, that’s who we are. We’re nine feet tall, in case you have not noticed’”(Philbrick 40). That statement shows that Freak and Max have a strong bond and they are proud of being friends. Then, Max says, ‘“I swear on the dictionary if Freak ever tries to eat Chop Suey again, I’ll dump it on his head or something”’(Philbrick 87). That statement proves to the reader that Max cares for Freak and will do whatever it takes to protect him. Finally, Max says

In the book, Crazy, by Pete Earley, provides a detailed overview of the mental health system in the United States, as it presents a first hand narrative of Earley’s family journey through the system. The author’s major premise and arguments, in the book, is to highlight the history of mental health, navigation through the judicial system with mental illness, the bureaucracy and policies of hospitals, society views on human rights and client safety, and the impact on the individual, family, and community. The content suggests that human service workers and public health workers should extend their professional lens to advocate for change in the mental health system in the United States.

Justin Torres Novel We the Animals is a story about three brothers who lived a harassed childhood life. There parents are both young and have no permanent jobs to support their family. The narrator and his brothers are delinquents who are mostly outside, causing trouble, causing and getting involved in a lot of problems and barely attending school, which their parents allowed them to do. The narrator and his brothers were physically abused by their father, leading them to become more violent to one another and others, drinking alcohol and dropping out of school. Physical abuse is an abuse involving one person’s intention to cause feelings of pain, injury and other physical suffering and bodily harm to the victim. Children are more

Egger chooses to use the word his which is used to show belonging, another hint to show that this is Max’s place in society. Max chooses to observe the beasts destroy nests and all the beasts except for Carol stops, and Carol’s efforts to encourage the other beasts to continue fails. It was quiet until “Something clicked in Max ... his plan was orderly and clear: he needed to be that someone” (7, Max at Sea), Eggers uses needed, which has a strong connotation, to show that Max feels obliged to be the one to keep destroying nests with Carol like Max is one of the beasts. Max is quickly discovering himself and where he belongs in society. Max blatantly lies to the beasts when Max tells them a story which persuaded the gullible beasts that Max is the king “He lowered his head to receive his crown” (9, Max at Sea) Again, Eggers uses the word his which shows possession of another thing. Max has officially become one of the beasts which is where he belongs and this event symbolizes how every single person in society is different and divided, but even though we are all different we all belong

Upon reading the title to the reading “Camping for Their Lives” by Scott Bransford, A lot of images come to mind as they do for many people. Whether it be family outings, military experience or just plain adventure. Scott Bransford takes a good long look at camping in a different way. The author’s topic is about tent cities and their homeless populations. He argues the struggles that they have with little or no help from the government and highlights a location in Central Valley California. The author structures the article well starting off with an example of a married couple that does not have enough money to sign a lease or take out a mortgage. He then goes into the day to day life and difficulties that are accustomed with living as a homeless person. He mentions statistics and the government’s temporary remedies to deal with the homeless population and the complications when imposing restrictions. The author goes into depth about the lack of jobs within the areas but does not go deep into the addictions, the crime networks that operate out of the areas nor the filth associated with enabling these tent cities to pop up.

One theme that I saw in both The Giving Tree and Where the Wild Things Are was mistreating others. In both books the boys mistreat people and things around them and take them for granted. It can be so easy to treat people badly so we must be aware of how we treat the people and things around us. In the book Where the Wild Things Are the author Maurice Sendak writes his main character to be very rude to his mother and later he also mistreats the monsters. In the book The Giving Tree the author Shel Silverstein has the main character mistreat the tree. Both these books follow young boys who don’t seem to be well at heart. They also share a similarity in who they mistreat. One of the people Max mistreats is him mother and the boy mistreats his friend who he used to love very much. Both these characters were hurting people who were close to them. Although they share this theme it is still different. While Sendak writes about Max in his young age, Silverstein ages the boy in his book. This shows that the evil in the boy follows him. Max could just be the way he is because of his age, Sendak doesn’t continue the story for us to know if Max’s bad characteristic shadow him though his growth, but we see that it does with the boy from the giving tree. Another difference was that Max was told that what he was doing was wrong, his mother yelled at him when he mistreated her. On the other hand, the tree was happy to help the boy. Max goes on to mistreat the monsters while the

London introduces the only other companion for the man on the trip, the dog—a native husky with a heavy coat of fur, which has adapted to survive the dangers of the cold wilderness. Unlike the man, the dog does not have a “sharp consciousness of a condition of very cold such as was in the man’s brain,” but instead the “brute had its instinct” (London 630). London contrasts the man’s intelligence with dog’s instinct, which doesn’t use human measurements to show temperature. The man pities the dog who was depressed by the cold and knew nothing of thermometers. But, for the man temperature is just meaningless way of communicating coldness passed through his generations, since it does not affect the man’s judgment. The dog’s instinct, inherited knowledge from generations prior, is able to make the practical judgment that it should not continue in the harsh weather.

The premise behind Wild at Heart by John Eldredge is simply put: astounding. A book that dives into the male psyche of today. Who we are, why we’re here, what we do; or sometimes rather don’t do. Wild at Heart works hard to break the stereo type of what men are taught to be by the world around them, and in doing so, helps self diagnose why you, as a guy living in todays world, might feel unfulfilled. Long story short, I feel as though Eldredge communicated the premise of Wild at Heart quite effectively. The hypothesis is proved several times throughout the book, actually, each chapter helps prove the belief. However, the three main points in Wild at Heart are the most potent.

* Dave- a hardworking dog who runs behind Buck in the team and ‘teaches’ Buck by nipping him to correct his mistake. Dave is