Boys Over Flowers

Cultural Proximity and Cultural Distance As Japanese economy soared, its media products such as manga, TV shows, movies and music spread out across Asia. Especially, the young people in Asia began to embrace Japanese culture rather than the culture from the most dominant culture exporter- the United State, and this phenomenon was analyzed by Koichi Iwabuchi in his Feel Asian Modernities. His account of this intra-regionalization in Asia is cultural proximity that Japanese culture shares intimate

WILLIAM stood at the back of the cider mill and stared over the makeshift classroom. Mary and Reverend Flowers stood at the front of the classroom. Forty students ranging from 5-years-old up to 18-years-old sat at tables arranged by grade level. Mary taught a lesson on long division to a group of 7-year-olds while Reverend Flowers monitored the rest of the students as they worked independently at their desks. Reverend Flowers walked to an 11-year-old boy in the second row who was doodling in the margins

and followed him to the woods to see what was going to happen, the woods were also filled with fairies. The King of the fairies Oberon and the Queen of fairies Titania were fighting over a changeling boy because the king wanted to use the boy as his page. The rising actions begin with Oberon telling Puck to find a flower called

the British boys, except Simon, attacks a mother pig who runs in the clearing. Simon watches all of the boys literally killing the mother pig. This is the climactic part of the novel because the boys completely lost their innocence. In doing so, the boys find pleasure and it represents no civilization left. The slaughter of innocence shows that the boys can not go back to civilization. Another example from the passage states that, “Then Jack found the throat and the hot blood spouted over his hands

Usually when people read books they don’t always look back and see what the author was trying to show. You will see my idea of what I think the author of the book is trying display. I think the message the author is trying to portray is that just because you get knocked down, feel down, or that your down doesn't mean that you have to stay that way forever. In the beginning of sixth grade Ally hides that she can't read and fools her mom and some teachers that she can read. For example, on page 14

altercation on the dance floor. William and Mary pushed their way through the crowd. In the center of the circle, they saw two farmhands restraining Eric by holding onto both of his arms. Susan was screaming at the men to let him go. Reverend Flowers was doubled-over at the edge of the circle, holding his hand against his mouth. He pulled his hand back and looked at the blood on his fingers that flowed from a fat lip he had sustained.

The boy that’s moved across the street sells penny-flowers. A cent a rose, he says, proudly, A good deal, ‘anjad, ‘anjad. He sits on the wood-rot of his front porch, smiles a smile that is more gum than teeth. Bad’ik warda? he always asks, in his light, child-voice. Bad’ik warda, ya t’ant? You do not understand, but you do feel sorry for him. You’ve never seen his mother around, although the boy boasts—in his broken English—that the flowers all came from her garden in the yard. That’s lovely

Childhood is largely considered the embodiment of innocence. In both “The Grasshopper and the Bell Cricket” by Yasunari Kawabata, and in “The Flowers” by Alice Walker, the author is depicting a childhood experience. Although the stories may have that fact in common, these experiences are of very different meanings. One author describes a child’s experience with love and innocence, and the other describes an experience of innocence being stripped from a child. These stories are similar in that they

something he wants. Oberon wants to control Titania. Titania has an Indian boy left to her by one of her worshipers. Oberon thinks the boy is interesting and wants him to make his crew more diverse. Titania refuses to give him the boy out of loyalty to her follower. In that way, she wants to remain in control of her own life. You can’t control someone because often the results are unpredictable. Oberon asks puck to put magic flower potion on Demetrius’s eyes. “a sweet Athenian lady is in love with a young

Goodfellow. Robin, also known as “Puck” who is a troublesome fairy explains that his master, “King Oberon” is having a fairy get together, and tells the fairy that Oberon doesn’t want Queen Titania in his sight. Robin next begins to rant about an Indian boy that Titania has supposedly stolen and that Oberon wants. Oberon and Titania enter and the sense of romance emerges. Oberon the fairy king and Titania the fairy queen were once together and are now