What Is The Theme Of Alissa By C. J. Moore

Her family was old-fashioned and well-mannered. When her family’s English was mocked, they kept their mouths shut and laughed along. When her family was ostracized from the rest of the neighborhood, they pretended not to notice, not to care. Her family taught her how to exercise caution, how to be afraid, how to categorize events as either blessings or lessons.

Alicia is a neighborhood girl who lives on mango street on which her mother died. She has to do all the chores such as cooking and cleaning while trying to attend college. Alicia uses public transportation everyday to go to school so she can escape her life. One night, she stays up all night studying and sees a mice, her father gives her a hard time about her studies and say the mise?? doesn’t exist. He basically explains that her life is to wake up morning after morning to make tortillas for her younger siblings lunches.“Alicia, who inherited her mama’s rolling pin and sleepiness, is young and smart and studies for the first time at university.” Alicia tries to use her education to have freedom, to leave her family and go have a better life.

Though this book is written from a young girl’s point of view, even in the first hundred pages there are various forms of

protagonist, is a girl who wanted to be educated , willing to struggle to do

Jane had a good education. She was schooled at home. Jane liked literature. She wanted to procure the literature career. But instead, she did religious acts. Her handwriting was very poor so she could not write very well.

In Markus Zusak novel “The Book Thief,” a little girl named Liesel serves as the protagonist. The plot of the story takes place in Germany during the late thirties, early fourtees while the anti-jewish sentimant is most prominent and Hitlers is at his peak in terms of power and followers. The book revolves around the life of Leisel and how these attrocious conditions shaped her life. This book does a great job of demonstrating many aspects described in “How to Read Literature Like a

explores her love of books and her thrive to steal she is acquainted with a Jew, who comes to

The story of “ St. Lucy’s Home for Girls” by Karen Russell introduced a girl named Claudette and followed her through her life during school. The author wrote about her learning how to be civilized. She talks about Claudette’s transformation from her old culture to her new culture. The transformation is put into five stages. The stages represent emotions that Claudette and the other girls would feel during these courses.

She wants to help her brother in a quiet way, so that her parents don't know that she has tried to help him. The only way she can help him is by teaching him how to read. By learning how to read, he can get educated and have a better future. As a result, he marries a French woman that can help him move forward to a better life. Moreover, his children also have a bright

Soifette is an eight year old from Haiti, Central America. Everyday is a struggle for Soifette, He wakes up every morning at 5 am on his straw mat washed his face and goes to find water for his family, he treks to the nearest pump and holds gallons of water on his journey back, after that he goes to get wood for the cooking fire so his mother can feed the family. Soifette goes out to the farm and helps with the goats and chickens. He goes out to the family garden and harvest papayas and corn. AFter he is done with the morning and afternoon work he goes inside for a homeschool lesson from his mother, he is learning french, math and science, he is one of the luckier kids most children don't get schooling until they are older. Later he goes to

She began to find herself wanting to stay in the house to read instead of going out to play. She first started reading to escape from the problems of her daily life. She would read books about black history, religion and love. When she becomes old enough to date boys she begins to read books about pornography, not knowing that these books were not fit for a girl her age. Then she begins to pleasure herself in private, but after her sisters catch her she begins to feel ashamed and never does it again.

Her life is so bad the village knows her as "Brat" and has to sleep in a pile of dung to stay warm at night. She wants nothing more than to find a niche and to be accepted for who she is in the village. It all seemed hopeless until one day she becomes the Midwifes apprentice, a blessing in disguise. However, life wasn't easy either. She still slept in dung and she had

The protagonist soon learns that life of a person is expected to be guided by the norms that regulate virtually every aspect of one’s developed. A good example is the criticism that she faced when she had learned to read before school: it was something that children were not supposed to do.

The impact this short story brings to the reader is one we all can relate to. We have all been that little child who wants something different then what our mother is trying to buy for us. Parents are always there to help us out with what we need before the things we want. The attitude and behavior of the child in the short story should impact the students to make them see and understand why

Finally, the lesson of the story is that do not be impatient. The setting contributed to how the lesson of the story was delivered. The old deaf man was not harming anyone and the café was not to close ‘til