Essay on You Have Seven Messages by Stewart Lewis

Verderber 196). From the basic definition to the Active Listening Process outlined in this chapter, John fails on all accounts. He

To begin, the curiosity of whether he would become a Maréz or Luna was a huge asset to him maturing into an adult. María Luna dreamed of Antonio becoming a priest, therefore being a Luna. Maria had three other older sons that had gone off to fight

One day on Luna's eighteenth birthday she wanted to explore the sea in depth. She obeyed her parents for eighteen straight years and needed to peruse her dream for just one day. She thought no one would notice her nonexistence, therefore, at midnight

(Potter 191). Owen was mad, but eventually he forgave his sister because he knows she was just trying to help. In addition, Xan has kept the secret about Luna being magic for all her life. When Luna finally finds out about this lie, she forgives her grandma and doesn’t care about it because she wants her to be healthy. This is demonstrated in this part of the

Whilst on shift one day I needed to ask my key resident Mr H what clothes he wanted to wear for that day. Mr H is very hard of hearing but refuses to wear a hearing aid as he states they make his ears sore. Mr H has no speech difficulties.

He intentionally made this complicated and frustrating so we, as the readers, can make the connection by reading what isn’t there; the expression, “Reading in between the lines!”

The novel I am the Messenger, is a page-turning work of fiction in which the main character, Ed Kennedy, completes a long journey of tasks given to him on simple playing cards. Of these twelve tasks, there were three tasks that evidently stood out that were inscribed on an Ace of Hearts playing card. The tasks, depicted on the playing card, involved the people he cared most about, his best friends.

Emotional intelligence is the ability to recognize feelings and judge which feelings are appropriate for a given situation.

In The seventh most important thing by Shelley Pearsall, Arthur T.Owens throws a brick at a local man that collects rubbish. Arthur and his sister always call him junk man, although they would later find out that his name is actually James hampton. After getting out of juvie, arthur has a long nerve wracking time in court to decide his punishment for throwing a brick at junk man. Instead of being sentenced to more time in juvie, junk man offers an alternative, he is sentenced to one hundred twenty hours of community service… working for him. He would pay off those hours every Saturday. “ One kid. One crime. One chance to make things right.”

I really enjoyed reading the novel I am the Messenger by Markus Zusak. I found that I was excited to read the next chapter and learn more about the main character, Ed Kennedy; who is nineteen-year old cab driver, who lives in the suburbs of Australia. The beginning of the book, Ed seems like a normal character who doesn’t have an exciting life, he spends his time playing card games and drinking with his friends. Until he received his first message, the ace of diamonds, did is his character became more interesting. These messages led Ed to people who were in need of his help, which created a lasting impact on many people’s lives, as well as, changing Ed’s characteristics. I also enjoyed the diversity of the issues Ed had to fix, moreso how the

There’s a glowing there”(326). Elisa describes her view as the tinker leaves, staring out into the distance optimistic for what the her life has in

Luna had nothing to say after that. She knew she had to wait till Scar had fallen asleep and then touch her arm. Waiting until she fell asleep felt like hours. Luna and Scar were two very different people in many ways, but they were alike in so many more ways. Scar and Luna both hated being around a bunch of people, they both lost their parents at a young age, and many other things. Luna had went upstairs to take a shower and clean off. Whenever she went to the living

Affirming the Mystery of the Other- This principle teaches us to listen in a different order to better the dialogue. “the mystery of other is at the heart of dialogue” (pg. 9).

She has these eyes, sometimes they're as blue as the ocean, others they're this beautiful shade of green. If you look into her eyes long enough you would get lost in them, it feels like there's