Joan Bauer

“You know what I’ve found out about disappointments? I think that if we face them down, they can become our strengths.” (Bauer 113) In the novel Hope Was Here written by Joan Bauer, the main characters go through some difficult struggles. One of the main people, Braverman and Addie both had to overcome disconsolate times. Braverman chooses family over education. Addie goes through hard times when she losses her husband along with three unborn babies. This reminds me of the time where my mother’s

compulsive disorder, it is defined as a psychiatric disorder characterized by obsessive thoughts and compulsive actions, such as cleaning, checking, counting, or hoarding), but they are most likely just a perfectionist. In the story "Pancakes" by Joan Bauer, the character Jill is a perfectionist. In the story she tells us that she can not stand dirty mirrors, which is not hard to believe because I do not like dirty mirrors either. When you read that Jill has a stain removal kit in her top dresser drawer

Have you ever faced hardship in your life but found your way through it? Well, in the novel Hope Was Here by Joan Bauer many of the characters go through tremendous obstacles in their life but eventually overcome them. Examples like Hope and Addie are characters in the novel that faced struggles but both found ways to overcome them. Their struggles can even be personally related to my life. While many people see an obstacle and run, Hope and Addie find there ways to overcome them, and even if things

Literary Essay: “Pancakes” In the realistic fiction short story “Pancakes” by Joan Bauer, the author explores the idea of somebody having perfectionism. At the beginning of the story Jill, our protagonist, rips off a are you a perfectionist? Quiz taped to her mirror, Which leaves a smudge and she hates dirty mirrors, and Jill realizes she's late for work at the Ye Olde Pancake House. The reader sees how she is organized with everything and she's ready for the breakfast rush. But turns out she's not

In the realistic fiction short story, “Pancakes,” by Joan Bauer, the author introduces a girl named Jill who is a perfectionist, and how she has to overcome her perfectionism for her job. While at her job, Jill is all calm, cool, and collected, until a huge party of people come in to eat. Jill, has to fight for all of her tidy, and cleanliness to serve this massive amount of people. Everything is chaos, until finally her ex-boyfriend, Allen Fienman, comes in with his family to help at the pancake

In this realistic fiction short story, Pancakes by Joan Bauer, Arthur writes about how a girl wants everything to be perfect for her/ for everything to go her way. Jill has been told by other people, her ex-boyfriend, her mom, that she is a perfectionist. Then one day stress leads her to run around in a frenzy because her perfect way has failed to work. Eventually, Jill accepts help from her ex, his family, and the restaurant is returned back to its orderly manner. Finally, Jill has realized that

between nearly right and exactly right.”(H. Jackson Brown, Jr.) What this quote is saying is that perfectionists do struggle with making sure that everything is exactly right. They always focus on the tiniest of details. In the story Pancakes by Joan Bauer, Jill, a waitress at a pancake house, works on the busiest day of the week and gets overwhelmed with all the work she has to do. It doesn’t help that she is a perfectionist and is the only one working the shift. But, when her ex boyfriend shows

Who Inspired Me Joan Bauer an author inspired me the most during my elementary school years. Joan inspired me because in her writing she changed my perspective of things in life and one day I would love to write something that gives a person a change in heart. I have read many of Joan’s books but my favorites are “Almost Home” and “Hope was Here”. I read “Almost Home” the first time in the summer of 3rd grade, I read it 11 times after that. She is such an inspiration

In the book Soar by Joan Bauer, Jeremiah is the main character. He loves playing baseball and doesn’t let anyone or anything get in his way when it comes to it. Even though he has an unhealthy heart he still has a great personality. In one part of the book Jeremiah's team were going to play a game but they only had 13 players. Jeremiah didn’t want to quit, so he found other players to play on his team. Jeremiah was adopted by his dad, Walter he was left in front of Walter’s work and there he was

RECORD (BDR) Name Lauren Hornsby Class Period 2 Date 8/22/17 Genre_Realistic Fiction____Title and Author of Book __Tell Me by: Joan Bauer Date of Publication _1951_____ Number of Pages _259________ Biographical information--include at least three interesting facts about the author or the book. Write in complete sentences. One interesting fact about Joan Bauer is that she played the flute when she was my age, just like me. Another fact is that she was in a car accident and hurt her back during