When reading novels, characters always face some kind of challenge. In the realistic fiction novel Flipped by Wendelin Van Draanen, the reader can relate to challenges such as, family, health, learning, etc. Juli Baker, in the novel and I both face the issues of a clean yard. In Flipped, Juli is faced with yard issues. Bryce Loski told Juli Baker that her yard was a complete disaster. Juli felt really bad and started planting plants and grass to make her yard look good. Chet Duncan, Bryce’s grandfather helped Juli fix up her yard because he felt really on what Bryce did to Juli. As Bryce stated, “I know… I messed up. I should've just told her, but I couldn’t” (Van Draanen 85). Juli now has been fixing up her yard all the time. “I was busy …show more content…
We rebuilt our entire pool area, from a new liner in the pool and new concrete around it. But the only thing we haven’t done yet and is bugging me is the patio for our hot tub or chairs. All of the bricks are still sitting waiting to get placed down in the ground, we could have somebody do it for us… but that isn’t as fun! But, my dad doesn’t want to do it but I do… but I have no power to that kind of stuff. Also, our backyard is covered in sticks from the wind storm we have recently had. This is a simple task, but once again… we don’t want to do it because it is really boring and there are a lot of sticks to be picked up. But, the only way this stuff will get done is if somebody does something about it, so that is exactly what I am going to do. So I am going to be “assisting” with the patio in the pool area and picking up sticks in my backyard. Juli Baker, from Flipped and I both face the issue of a nice clean yard. I need to pick up sticks and do the patio in my pool yard. Juli, needs to fix her entire yard. We all face issues, from family, to learning, to yard issues! It just might take some time to figure these issues out… but don’t worry because everything will be
After reading Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt and The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, I observed that both these texts share a few similarities in the way the authors portray the difficulties their characters have to face, in order to get to where they are now. After researching a few rags to riches stories and using Slumdog Millionaire and The Pursuit of Happyness as my primary sources, I found out that successful individuals from harsh backgrounds shared similar complications, yet they had the will and perseverance to get to where they are now. They faced difficulties such as dealing with poverty and hardships of everyday life, struggling to overcome the effects of addiction and abuse. They found ways to overcome these difficulties through things like having some form of education, and utilizing their knowledge, to manipulate opportunities to their advantage in order to bring about success.
Poverty can be and extremely devestating force when left alone, but when persevered through, it is merely a small roadblock in the way of the path to success. Two stories that show the themes of poverty and peseverance are, "Angela's Ashes" by Frank McCourt, and "The Street" by Ann Petry. These themes of poverty and perseverance are consistent throuhout both of these stories and can shown through the author's use of characters, events, and settings.
One such event is when Jennings learns that his mother has been giving all the food to him and his brothers. This caused her to fall ill. He and his brothers knew that they would be sent off to other orphanages again. At his new orphanage he was abused by the nuns taking care of him. He became fed up with the abuse and made the decision to run away. Cops found him and took him to a station. Jennings was reluctant to tell them his name in fear that he was in big trouble. This psychological barrier of fear was broken down by an officer who was very kind to Jennings and talked to him on his level. Because of this event with the police, he knew further on in his life to trust them and knew that they meant the best for him. Without this event to give Jennings encouragement to talk to police, he would have tried to run away from the Daily’s. Then he would lack shelter and food that he was in great need of. Another psychological challenge was presented to jennings at the loss of his friend Mark. Jennings knew Mark since he started his journey being taken in and out of orphanages. Jennings was now alone in his new orphanage. He had great joy when he found out that Mark and him were placed in the same orphanage. Now that joy was shattered. After a month of grieving, Jennings gets called to go home with his brother Walter. Then he realizes that all the kids in the dining room wish that they could be him and how lucky he is to be able to have his name called to go home. This helps him cope with his grief and makes him realize not to always be down because it could always be worse. This lesson drives his determined attitude to survive. The largest challenge that Jennings faces occurs all throughout the novel. The unhappy household that Jennings has to live in is a burden on his mind. There is little time for Jennings to be happy at home. His mom broke her neck
The natural desire of Equality 7-2521 is knowledge who is born with a curse of uniqueness. He abides within the walls of a collectivist society. The citizens of this society prioritize the good of society over the welfare of the individual. In the beginning of the novel, Equality confesses that “[He] have broken the laws. The laws say that men may not write unless the Council of Vocations bid them so” (Anthem 17). Equality is asking for forgiveness and proves this by quoting “[I] strive to be like all our brother men, for all men must be alike” (Anthem 19). Through Equality’s journey of self-discovery, he gradually starts changing his mind on how he perceives of how critical the Council truly is. He begins rebelling without a care and denounces
On 3/14/2017 JASA APS Social Worker Shantea Granville had a heavy duty cleaning but there was a snow storm. The snow storm made it difficult to conduct a cleaning or even reach Genesis.
From our readings so far, one can see the strenuous decisions that have to be made when choosing to conform or to rebel against societies expectations. There can be both positives and negatives to conforming or rebelling. One isn’t right or wrong over the other, it’s based off of the particular individual. “The Hero’s Journey” is the perfect template for most works of literature. It conveys the steps necessary individuals must take to find themselves and to overall grow as a person. “Barn Burning” by William Faulkner and “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. are perfect examples of characters going through the cycles of the “Hero’s Journey,” while trying to determine exactly where they belong in society. Not only characters in a story,
In the story “a worn path” the main character phoenix an African American woman, is on a journey to the city to get medicine for her grandson. At the onset of the journey it seems simple but as the journey progress there emerge several obstacles along the way that brought conflict with her. The challenges along the way include her age, her socio economic status, and others, all these challenges are the example of conflicts she faces during the entire story.
Suddenly it felt real. This egg was alive. I quickly checked the rest of the group. There were little bean babies in all of them.” Juli Baker has a growth mindset in the book Flipped by Wendelin Van Draanen. A growth mindset is somebody who sees the good in the bad.
becomes especially hard throughout the book, as he has to face more and more challenging
We like to think that anything is possible. When certain inevitabilities or obstacles are brought into light, one learns to cope with their own lack of control. This is exactly the conflict that the characters of James Joyce’s “Araby” and Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” have to face. Although these characters have many differences between them, they both live their lives similarly. First of all, both the boy in “Araby” and the woman in “The Yellow Wallpaper” have no control over their lives. In addition, these characters experience isolation as a result of their controlled lives. Finally, that feeling of isolation drives
Throughout life there are many conflicts that people experience which effects their behavior and mind set. In the short story “The Lady with the Dog”, a married man and a married woman meet and fall passionately in love with one another and are forced to choose between their families or what they feel for each other. There is also much conflict in the short story “Barn Burning” which is about a little boy whose father commits terrible acts, although the little boy knows these are wrong and despises them. “A Rose for Emily”, the third story, is about a woman who has many conflicts in her life and will take any action necessary to get and keep what she wants. The characters in the stories experience conflicts that people in the real world also face in everyday life.
When I initially ventured on my gathering's appointed work-site, it was clear to me why this place had been chosen for us to work on. It was a little house with a lot of area encompassing it. The grass was congested and untended to, plastic containers and spoiled refuse littered the entire driveway, and weeds were gulping the plants in the patio nursery. The house's paint was peeling, and inside the home it was jumbled and the floor covering was grimy. The family who occupied the house were old and poor, and were not able do a significant number of the jobs. My gathering and I determinedly did all that we could to repair this old house, yet I saw that at whatever point conceivable, the family would attempt
Just over the ridge, I casually pull into Chris Turpin's leaf covered driveway. To my left, stands a squatty farm house that has dirty tan siding with dark brown trim, topped with a new forest green metal roof. The few windows the house displays are abnormally small and are always dark. The simple wood siding, though patched with dust and cob webs, has a neat, serene air to it. A branch-covered lawn, which looks as though it has not been mowed in weeks, makes a narrow ring around the house. To my right, stands a pole barn with no solid sides, rising far above the many tarnished orange corrals surrounding it. The barn is just old enough to have collected a nice assortment of ragged bird nests in its rafters, but the wood is not yet discolored. The barn encloses a small rectangular arena, which has one corner rounded off by an old log. In the spare corner is an ancient water faucet and invincible weeds. Extending from the east side of the barn are large corrals...
Another struggle was when I had to rake all the leave out the yard. I have a big front and back with two big trees and a wood line around back so you could imagine
When faced with difficult hardships, it is common for people to change how they behave. A sudden exposure to an adverse circumstance has the ability to reveal a person’s true character. It also reveals how someone reacts when in contact with situations that are tremendous stressful or dangerous. This theme is common used throughout literature to the nature of humans and how they are affected by their surroundings. Characters show changes in the The Red Badge of Courage when Henry goes from being egoistic to altruistic and in The Outcasts of Poker Flat when Mother Shipton decides to starve herself to save someone else.