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In the short story Hairball the main character Kat is living a lie because she struggles to separate what she wants with what she can’t have.

Hooks did not fit in with her peers at either undergraduate university she attended. At the all girls school near her home the girls were all wealthier than she was and they lacked her educational ambition. Hooks “lived in the world of books ” while her classmates had “giggles and their obsession to marry” (26, 25). Their separate spheres kept them socially divided, but it didn’t stop the popular girls from going into hooks’ room and destroying and making a mess of all her things. They saw it as a joke, but hooks was not able to “replace broken things, perfume poured out, or talcum powder spread everywhere” (27). They crushed not only her physical items, but also her spirit. The other girls had a sense of entitlement because of class privilege. This blinded them to the feelings of others, and made hooks feel inferior. This sense of inferiority started much earlier in her life, and followed her throughout her academic career.

Have you ever had that one person who judges you by the way you look and not by the way you act and really are? In the book Echo, there are three main characters: Friedrich, Mike, and Ivy. These three characters all faced similar problems because of prejudice and discrimination and at the end of the book music untied them all. The theme don't judge a book by its cover has been seen throught all three parts of the novel Echo. This theme explains how many people judge others by the way they look and not by their personality. Throughout all three parts of the novel the author wanted us to understand how all these characters have experienced the same disgrace because of the way they looked.

Literature is the window to realizing the negatives of society and how destructive certain norms can be. Readers are brought into a completely different story than their own, but by using similar issues in today’s world, the readers can actually learn from the story and its overall message. All writers write for a purpose, whether it’s for a new meaning to life, to live a different life than our own, or to impact others on an emotional level by teaching them to see the importance of the little things. As a reader, you search for pieces of literature that interest you whether you find the story like your own, or wish you lived the life in the story. By using issues in today’s within their works, authors are able to grab the reader's attention long enough for them to get across what they wanted to get across. Often in many works of literature, writers use societal issues as their basis for the work’s themes and symbols. By doing so, this allows the reader to question the morality behind social norms and how impactful certain ideals can be in people’s lives.

I mean, I am smart and funny, and I know I’m a good person. But this is high school, and nobody seems to care about that. Why couldn’t I be tall and elegant like Diondra, or have Judianne’s perfect complexion, all smooth, super-rich fudge? Better yet, why couldn’t I look like Tanisha, or Gloria?” (Grimes 46). This showcases inner conflict as Janelle’s character is shown insecure about her physical appearance. Even though Janelle is aware of her good qualities, she makes her physical appearance overshadow them. Janelle compares herself to others which make it hard for her to embrace herself and realize her self worth. This tells the reader how society is so attentive to the outer beauty of a person, that one isn’t giving importance to the inner qualities of themselves. On the other hand this is evident in Freedom Writers when Andre Bryant who is characterized as a tough and aggressive guy, agrees to a failing mark in Mrs. Erin Gruwell’s class. When asked why he did not try he says “It's what I feel I deserve, that's all” (LaGravenese). This made Mrs. Gruwell question this behaviour and tried to consult him by insuring that he can do it. This

"The minds of many are trapped like a caged bird because they refuse to study the currency exchange value that God places on the mind; giving up God's priceless values to worthless valued sinful thoughts, ways, and objects." ~ Jon Barnes

Date: Pg. #: Role: Quote: Response: 1/22/16 7 Bystander The Jews of Sighet “But people not only refused to believe his tales, they refused to listen... Others flatly said he had gone mad.”

“Is it not good to make a society full of beautiful people?” (p.1), the first line of the text Uglies foreshadows exactly what the main theme of the book

"If we could sniff or swallow something that would, for five or six hours each day, abolish our solitude as individuals, atone us with our fellows in a glowing exaltation of affection and make life in all its aspects seem not only worth living, but divinely beautiful and significant, and if this heavenly, world-transfiguring drug were of such a kind that we could wake up next morning with a clear head and an undamaged constitution - then, it seems to me, all our problems (and not merely the one small problem of discovering a novel pleasure) would be wholly solved and earth would become paradise."

In this way, at its core, the problem at hand is one of power. Because she is different, she is a threat to their own identities and own position within the system of power. As a result, Jess’s peers must take her identity away from her. By creating a guessing game out of her gender gender [“a group of girls squealed as I passed, ‘Is it animal, mineral, or vegetable?” (24)], or letting her know Jess “[isn’t] a girl’s name” (25), her classmates deprive her of the option to define her own identity. As she and her peers “mature”, so does the caliber of harassment. When she’s young enough to describe the sky as “crayon blue” (17) the bullying manifests as tying her up and stripping her to “see how [she] tinkles” (18) and once she’s in high school, it progresses even further to the rape. The dissonance of needing to categorize her while at the same time being unable to do so is perhaps so conflicting they have nowhere to go but violence.

Good versus Evil how will it turn out in the end? In the story in the “Lord of the Flies” by William Golding there are boys that are stranded on an island. The boys try to stay as a whole group so the boys set some rules and chose a leader. The boys chose Ralph to be the leader and he tries his best, but then another kid named Jack started his own group. Then everyone went to his group except Ralph and a few others. Then it ended as just Ralph against Jack in his group. Based of Good and Evil by the end Ralph is good and see that Jack is Evil.

The ideas and or themes that stood out to me from this article was the fact this young girl had to face such discrimination at such a young age. At the tender age of 7 in the second grade she was subjected to name calling for example being called the N word, spic and the Mexican jumping bean. She also had to endure her hair being pulled, being spat and on being called to the president for incidents. I feel as if someone at such a young shouldn’t be exposed to such behavior. Another theme or main idea that stood out to me from this reading was one the author brought up herself what if she had been taught by a teacher who had looked like her, spoke like her and understood her. Henceforth would her grades be better or would she have asked more

“He’d do what he always did, find the sweet among the bitter” (265). In the book the Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, the Panama Hotel is on the corner of Chinatown and Japantown. The hotel is located between the two cultures Henry is tied to, the Japanese and the Chinese. The story takes place in Henry’s past when he first meets Keiko and the present, after his wife, Ethel, has died. The hotel acts as the connection in between the two cultures and the two time periods, and symbolizes how Henry does too.

The beginning of the book starts off with a scene that is known to many: an overweight woman has the nerve to be dancing and enjoying herself, leading to her being mocked for it by the main characters. This also results in a rather cruel nickname for her, “Tiny Tina.” However, this incident is not portrayed positively by the author. The protagonist, Rank, immediately comments on how it is wrong to treat her so harshly for simply enjoying herself. “-But now she just looks fat and silly and we’re embarrassed for her and disliking ourselves for thinking it because she’s a cool girl, we like her, and why shouldn’t she fucking

From the beginning of this story; the portrait of a pretty young girl is painted with the authors words. Pretty on the outside that is; on the inside it is the picture of a woman who has a burning desire for the things that only the rich can possess. Things like fine clothes, fine food, and pretty things around her. Her hunger for these things even caused her to turn her back on a friend from school; a young woman who was rich, and had the things that she needed so badly. She had let her lust for the finer things, turn her into an evil bitter person.