While reading The Best American Comics: 2013 I came across Terry Moore’s written and illustrated

In this quote, “the other” Wes Moore’s mother, Mary, is telling her son and older brother of Wes, Tony, that Wes has already been arrested and taken by the police. Wes was arrested for shooting another teenaged boy named Ray after Ray beat up Wes since Alicia was at his house. This quote is true both literally and metaphorically, as Wes seems “gone” with his arrest, possible parenthood, and dealing of drugs have led him to the losing of his freedom and family. This quote fits quite well with chapter five “Lost”.

I personally can relate to Rachel in this story. I understand what it feels like to

I’ll never get anything else” (50). From this statement one can see that Rachel in a way has convinced herself that housework is an aspiration of hers. She makes it seem as if her situation is not as bad as it really is. Rachel is an educated woman, who deserves to have a substantial job, not being confined to a house on a daily basis. Rachel continues by stating, “We live. According to your philosophy, I suppose, make the best of it –it might be worse” (51). Once again, Rachel is convincing herself that a very obvious issue is not as pressing as it actually is. Grimké could have easily created a simplistic character that lacks depth and vigor, but instead created an individual that grapples with deep psychological trauma and spans farther than what meets the eye.

depression upon Rachel. When we think of depression, we other think of cloudy days or even rain. “Weather is almost always symbolic. Rain serves to set the mood, or it acts as a cleansing. It indicates some type of transition” (Foster 45). The rain in this case can represent three important things, the sadness and emptiness she felt of losing her mother, the cleansing of proceeding to not feel trapped in her hatred birth given family anymore, and as she moves forward to a better life as she continues to follow her desires. Due to her aunt and father removing Rachel from the picture during that emotional time the Shilsky family was going through, all because she chose to live her life how she wished to live it resulted in her feeling that the entire situation was her fault when in reality she truly did nothing wrong, for her family (specifically her father and aunt) are in the wrong for being misunderstanding and disrespectful of her life decisions.

Rachel is a survivor of the Holocaust. She has lost all her family except for grandfather and her younger brother, Yacov. In the concentration camps, the Nazi took advantage of her in the most horrifying way. They beat and branded her. After the war, she was released and smuggled into Palestine. She had hoped to reunited with her grandfather but instead she was put in a home with many other families. The Jews, her own people, shunned her and would go near her. They called her horrible things like tradior and Nazi. They bullied her until she thought she was worthless, unloved, and ugly inside and out. Rachel closed herself off from others. It was through her friends, family, and faith that she finally started to heal. This process was not easy.

One way that dialogue helps readers see this idea of recovery is with communicating with others. In the story, Rachel’s father Donald says, “She’s been blaming herself for their deaths for six years. She kept her guilt bottled up all this time and never told anybody… God I hope she is ready to forgive herself.” (pg.149) This shows that talking to others about how you feel can lead someone one step closer to healing. Symbolism is used to help show that pain cannot be kept in forever. The story reads, “It was like she had poison inside her and had to get it out.” (pg. 149) The pain the character feels is like poison inside someone’s system that desperately needs to be removed. She uses symbolism and dialogue to show the feeling of being hurt and how you can overcome

Rachel would like nothing more than to be the new girl. She wants to forget the tragic accident in Chicago. When she moves to Portland, she finds herself having a hard time fitting in. As a biracial teenager, who just lost her family, most would count out Rachel as a contribution to society. Rachel made mistakes along the way, but she had her destination in sight. Grandma tells Rachel that, “You’re gonna go to

Rachel is anxious about her birthday which is shown by how many times she says the word “and” in the first four paragraphs. This is something that children often do when they are nervous, they repeat and stumble upon their words. We witness Rachel’s immaturity again later in the story when she keeps repeating “not mine, not mine, not mine.” The tone throughout this paragraph is frantic and uncontrolled. Rachel overreacts and begins to feel sick, much like a child would. However, she still keeps her composure on the outside by reassuring herself that everyone’s waiting for her at home and that everything will be okay. The experience definitely provided newfound knowledge for Rachel and she will know how to better conduct herself if she finds herself in a similar

Drew says, “that makes a lot of sense to me’” (166). Rachel’s life was difficult. however, Drew’s compassion was able to lessen the pain. Without Drew, Rachel would have spiraled out of control and become a shell of the person she could have been.

Rachel herself is a child that wishes to someday be a loving caring mother. The whole play itself is a social protest against racial violence and lynching of African Americans. It was first performed in Washington DC in the year 1916. This first play was also known as “The first successful drama written by a Negro and interpreted by Negro actors.” (Locke and Gregory). At the time it was also admired by some critics for its dramaturgical skills. Surprisingly, now days, there has been hardly any criticism. This may be due to the play itself still being unfamiliar to so many and the fact that Grimke’s dramatic writing style is just not what people read these days, it is somewhat outdated. Grimke did not mind any of the criticism she got, she just learned to take the good with the bad. Although she had written a large number of plays sadly they did not become widely popular until after her death.

Saving Rachel is very misterious book about Sam Case, imagine if someone give you a choice to save your wife or to save your love? What would you do? Well he don't know either, he is hiding over 9billion for criminals, narco cartels, mafias,... It's very big trouble, but in this book is his story, his chocices. Would you do the same he did? There is a lot of feelings, i mean imagine that kind of choice, very hard, if you choose one, other one will die, worst choose ever, but he made his choose and it's not what you think it is, it's something third. Everyone who reads this book says "i have no words". Sam Case is one average man, but when you have to choose, you are not more average, you became a new man, you have to think just on that, you

Alan Moore’s story offers an immersive and complex plot that raises all sorts of moral questions. It is an extraordinary work of literature that occupies a well

Stan and Jan Berenstain are considered to be one of the most prolific literary duos in the field of children’s books. The Berenstains’ catalog consists of over three hundred titles, and they have sold more than two-hundred and fifty million copies worldwide. There have also been; three animated series, five NBC holiday specials, more than twenty television movies, and several educational software titles. The Berenstain Bears series sells approximately 2.5 million books a year and is published in over twenty-three languages. (“Berenstain Facts”)

At the start of the film I was introduced to a family who was complete and content in thir lives. However as the film progressed I started to see them individually falling apart inside because of which they came closer togeather. All of Rachels extended family was also their to support. “ We’ll find her, probably pissed off and hungry.” They didn’t lose hope. I found this quite interesting because I previously read The Lovely Bones in which a girl was also brutally murdered and the novel revovled around her families grief. In that book the effect of their daughter dying was completely the opposite to what I saw in this movie. This made me realise that every family and person grieves in different ways. Some people come closer and others grow apart. There is no set pattern to it

The art piece exemplifies the overall setting of the book by the tone of the visual representations.The images go from sarcastic, to happy, then loving and sad like an emotional roller coaster all over the place. This is just like “The Fault In Our Stars”