The Year Of The Flood By Margaret Atwood

Loyalty is a complex concept that can be interpreted in many different ways. The understanding of loyalty depends on one’s view on life”,” which demonstrates their interpretation of the concept of loyalty. It is difficult to recognize loyal people in the world because of the uncertainty of their past and their upbringing, however, in Margaret Atwood's novel, The Year Of The Flood, she clearly demonstrates that in a world filled with betrayal and chaos, loyalty should not be disregarded, but rather it should be obligatory. This is persistent with loyalty within factors of society, oneself, and among friends. This is approached through her characters and the loyalty that is being broken along with what should have been fulfilled for it not to

Book Summary – Big Rain Coming is a lyrical story, told by Katrina Germein, set in an isolated Aboriginal community. It is a story about waiting for rain to come to their community and the tension that builds in the community as the rain clouds spread and darken. Whilst waiting for the rain, they wonder, when will the rain come? Author/Illustrator Bibliography – The author, Katrina Germein, was raised in Adelaide, South Australia. In the remote Aboriginal community of Minyerri, Northern Territory, she began teaching in 1997.

A restructuring of religious doctrine, beliefs, and social practices during the 17th and 18th centuries in England, and in North America, infused with Calvinistic religious doctrine initiated the beginning of The Great Awakening. Following this further, according to Christine Leigh Heyrman, The First Great Awakening: Divining America,” a New Age of faith rose to counter the currents of the Age of Enlightenment. Ultimately reaffirming the view that being truly religious meant trusting the heart rather than the head, prizing feeling more than thinking, and relying on biblical revelation rather than human reason. After a while, several religious revivals sprung forth appeasing the colonists in America desire for a deep and significant personal relationship with God. Thus, this dogma spread to other denominations throughout the colonies in America (Heyrman).” As a result, The Great Awakening spread throughout the middle colonies in America by notable revivalist preachers instituting moderate Calvinistic doctrinal theology especially for the Presbyterians and the Congregationalists, and opened the door to unprecedented world societal changes.

Alice Mead published Year of No Rain on May 8, 2003.She wrote a book about three friends; Stephen,Wol, and Jairo, She made wrote about them going through hunger and thirst in their village and they can’t attend school because the village’s school due to the civil war between the northern soldiers and the southern soldiers,when the bombs exploded Stephen's Mother told him and his two other friends to run away so they won't be captured by the enemy soldiers.They’re on a journey and they all have to help each other survive. Sometimes you need teamwork to get over an obstacle.“Your mother should have let Naomi come with us.They kidnap girls, I heard.”He thinks She might’ve gotten kidnapped by the soldiers and it would've been better if She came

Reading the book, The Other Side of the River, by Alex Kotlowitz, the author writes about the relationship between two towns in Michigan, and the death of a young boy named Eric McGinnis. The two towns, Benton Harbor and St. Joseph, are called the “Twin Cities”, but are ironically not related in any way. St. Joseph is 95 percent white, while Benton Harbor is impoverished and is 92 percent black. Throughout the book Kotlowitz questions the residents from both towns and how they are affected by the environment around them. The author also starts with the climax on the first page of the book – the death of Eric, and uses this as an technique to tell the story of the disagreements between the two towns.

The literary masterpiece The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood, is a story not unlike a cold fire; hope peeking through the miserable and meaningless world in which the protagonist gets trapped. The society depicts the discrimination towards femininity, blaming women for their low birth rate and taking away the right from the females to be educated ,forbidding them from reading or writing. These appear in Ethan Alter’s observations that:

Amos Kincaid was born to Delilah Kincaid in November 1833. Jake Kincaid, a trapper and dowser was the father of Amos, and left every couple of months to continue trapping. He would return in the later months to visit Amos, for Delilah died giving birth and Jake wasn’t prepared to raise him. For the first majority of his life, Amos was raised by his aunt Rebecca and his uncle Gil. Rebecca was kind hearted but couldn’t bear children. Over time Rebecca taught Amos to read and write, along with some children from the Native American tribes. This ended however when Rebecca came down with smallpox. Which she obtained from tending to the Native American children, who didn’t want to receive the vaccination. Rebecca then begged Gil to shoot her to relieve

Harvey Fierson once said,“never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accepts no one’s definition of your life, but define it yourself.” Throughout life many people struggle to find who they are or the person they want the world to see. One can say this dilemma stems from the human need of belongingness, as demonstrated in Maslow 's hierarchy of needs. “Day of the Butterfly” by Alice Munro depicts this idea through the relationship, that is formed between the main characters Helen and Myra. Helen can be viewed as a dynamic and round character because her personality shifted a lot throughout the story. The reader was also allowed to see her battle with “self” from the beginning to end of the narrative. Myra on the other hand, would be a foil or static character. This is due to the fact that Myra remained constant and she was the reason behind Helen’s actions and thoughts. However for this analysis we will focus solely on Helen and how her character was affected and evolved. She was a very weak-minded, submissive, and scared individual, who later exhibit qualities of bravery. At the end we can see how she began to step into who she was as an individual. Now we will look at how Helen was affected mentally, socially and emotionally.

What I liked least about this book was it was hard to follow sometimes and the text got a little overwhelming with vocabulary. The intense cells names or the hard to pronounce genes were hard to follow because I had to stop every time. Once Shubin got on his flow about some cell type it seemed like he just kept going and going and the more I read, the more confused I would be. Some areas may be superfluous but the areas that are unnecessary flow with the book. Like the introductions of the chapters, Shubin always starts with a story or and experience closely related to the topic so it brings you in. The parts that could be taken out help with the understanding of the reading because it isn’t that easy to follow. What I liked best was the stories at the beginnings of the chapters so it is strange that they are what could be taken out. The stories made the introduction more interesting and almost made up for not fully understanding the bulk of the chapter.

In the novels Oryx and Crake and Frankenstein, mental health impacts the main characters and their everyday lives. Each character has been through different life changes that influence their state of mind. To more thoroughly comprehend what each character is going through, this paper analyzes the life changes that occur due to each characters’ mental state.

In the article “The End of Men,” Hanna Rosin offers several examples of women overpowering men. The inequality between men and women has become a critical issue in today’s society. According to Rosin, women are slowly surging ahead in the workforce and family life while men are left behind struggling to meet expectations. Rosin argues that this role reversal is taking place because women are simply better suited for postindustrial society.

Overall, I did not enjoy reading this book. Since I knew about most of the information being stated in the book, such as Darwin’s theory and global climate change, it was kind of like listening to a lecture of something that you already know a lot about. Also, the fact that this book was straight facts and knowledge didn’t lead me to liking it either. It was just throwing so much knowledge at you that it had you wondered what you had just read after reading just one page. Because of this, the book got confusing and especially boring. Also the book had no structure and was put into chapters that made the reading more confusing. So in conclusion, I would not recommend this

“Belief is nearly the whole of the universe whether based on truth of not.” by Kurt Vonnegut. People live day by day on what they believe whether it is their morals or values, and what people say. We choose to believe what we want to like in all of the Bluebeard variances. Bluebeard is a not as well known fairytales that tell you the grim consequences of disobedience and curiosity that women deal with during marriage. Although, marriages have many secrets, every wife and husband deserves the truth when it comes to dishonestly, disloyalty, and sometimes murder.

Already I can tell that this book is more difficult than most other novels I have read. It seems as though Roth is in favor of using long sentences and complex vocabulary. I sometimes had to reread sentences a few times because there was difficult vocabulary I needed to look up and the sentences were long. I needed to read each sentence piece by piece to make sure I could understand what the author wanted to convey to the reader. Although the text seemed overwhelming when I read the first few pages; once I began reading sentences in increments I could more easily understand the text.

“The Year of the Flood” is an epic, sprawling novel that moves back and forth between past, present and future effortlessly. Though it is told from Ren and Toby’s point of view, the novel is really about the story of three women (Ren, Toby, and Amanda) and their will to survive in a cruel and harsh world. It is a story of hope, despite all odds and a story of the power of love.