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The history of childrens Literature summary "through the eyes of children
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Moon Shadow is a young boy that wonders all the time about the Land of the Golden Mountain. A few months before he was born, his father went there to work. Never in his life has he seen his father before and he dreams of how he looks like because his mother and grandmother talk about him. Moon Shadow always asks questions about him and the “demons”. The demons lynched his grandfather and his mother and grandmother are worried the same thing will happen to his father. One day, Handclap came to deliver a letter from his father and asked Moon Shadow to come back with him to America. He accepted it. He was scared at first when he arrived, but he got reunited with his father. His uncle though, calls him Windrider. Moon Shadow has no idea because …show more content…
The story was he gambled his China money away and cut if off as a punishment. Moon Shadow’s father tells him why they call him Windrider. He says it involves a Dragon King and the first night he spent in America. Uncle Bright Star gives Moon Shadow a small carving of a monkey, as a gift. Moon Shadow is not allowed to go to regular school, so he goes to Tang people’s school. He really wants to learn demon language so he can write to his mother and grandmother. Then, there’s Blackdog. He goes missing. Windrider finds him, punches him, and knocks him out. They all argue about who will pay his expenses but then manage to settle it out. A month later, Blackdog goes missing again. He comes back smelling like opium. He told Moon Shadow the story of how they got opium. He then gets furious at Moon Shadow and started beating him. Later, father and Blackdog get into a fight. They then decide Moon Shadow and father to move away from the company. They meet Miss. Whitlaw, the landlady. She offers gingerbread cookies and milk. He was skeptical first, but ate it anyway. Robin, Miss. Whitlaw’s niece, shows Moon Shadow the stained glass. Then they start playing piano and sing. Moon Shadow gets time off after work. So, he visits
In the book Storming Heaven by Denise Giardina, education, and the lack there of, plays one of the largest roles in the character's lives. At this time in West Virginia, where the book is set, many children had to leave school and actually go into the coalmines, as Rondal Lloyd did, or work on the family farm. Racial ignorance is also a key element Giardina confronts in the novel. The characters, chief and secondary, equally cultural and racially bland, pass on their beliefs and therefore help to maintain the continuous circle of inequality that carries on even today. Political knowledge, at least on the national and state level, is also lacking within the little town of Annadel. With this knowledge coupled with her own experiences from growing up as an immigrants daughter in the same coalfields as her novels characters, Denise Giardina tries to explain the function of education and ignorance in not only the coalfields of West Virginia, but throughout the entire world.
Black Dog shows up and says the white demons threaten violence against the Tang people. The white does throw a brick through the shop window. Tang people believe that a person can change their name because they believe people change as they grow up. WindRider had inventions that he has made when he was growing up, he is very proud of his inventions. This chapter also has the story about how he got his name “WindRider.” The Tang people stuck together in groups called “brotherhoods.” MoonShadow was not allowed to attend regular school only Tang people school. MoonShadow got too go outside with his father on the delivery cart, MoonShadow was a bit scared to leave Tang Town. They found out why, MoonShadows grandfather got murdered because he refused to let the white demons cut off his quene. Black Dog went missing it had took ten days before the company decided to search for Black Dog. MoonShadow and WindRider found Black Dog in trouble from a rival brotherhood he had stolen money from them. This chapter five starts off as an argument between White Deer, uncle, and father they were arguing about Black Dog. When MoonShadow had the money he's been raising under his
I recently read a mystery novel called The Servants of Twilight by Dean R. Koontz. Joey Scavello, a six-year-old boy, is the main focus of the book. His mother, Christine Scavello, owns a gourmet shop in Newport Beach, California. Together, the two live in Costa Mesa, a city near Los Angeles. The Church of Twilight, headed by a supposedly psychic woman named Grace Spivey, is the main force against Joey Scavello. Charlie Harrison is a private detective who helps the Scavello family evade the clutches of the
When Moon Shadow takes out the trash he meets three demon boys and they throw garbage, vegetables. and stones at him. Moon Shadow keeps the incident to himself. Moon Shadow writes a letter to the Wright Brothers with Miss Whitlaw’s help. When Windrider finds out that Moon Shadow wrote a letter to the Wright Brothers, he gets upset and crumples the paper. When Windrider flattens the letter he tells Moon Shadow to write another letter. They go to Ocean beach and they have Thanksgiving sandwiches for lunch. Moon Shadow asks Windrider if he can fly a kite, but Robin wants to fly the kite too. They decide to take turns flying the kite. When Windrider and Miss Whitlaw decide that it is time to go, Windrider releases the kite by cutting the string. Robin tells Moon Shadow that Jack hates being hit in the nose. Moon Shadow punches Jack and he feels like he won’t get bullied by them again. They go stargazing on the patio and they share their knowledge on constellations and they compare their myths. A week after the Feast of Pure Brightness, an earthquake happens. They dress out of their sleepwear and look at the wreckage. They decide to help all the survivors and the use chair legs as
A seven year-old child lives in China with his mother. This childs name is moonshadow. Moonshadow’s father lives in the United States which Moonshadow calls the land of the golden mountain. He beleivs that the “demons” (white people) live there. Moonshadow has never seen his father because before Moonshadow was born his father started a kite company in the United States to earn some money to benefit them. Suddenly his father calls for him and wants him to come live in the land of the golden mountain with him and work in the kite company. When Moonshadow gets there he is glad to finally spend some time with his father. Others in the company are nice and they show Moonshadow around. Windrider ( moonshadow’s father) treats Moonshadow with lots
Sometimes we all feel as if no one person could or would ever truly love us as we deserve. This is the case in the Moon for the Misbegotten. A young, not so attractive, wants to be loved but fears that if she did love, her life would not be as it is now. She fears change and not because she wants the life she is leading but because it means she would have to free herself from who she pretends to be.
Wind-Wolf, a young, innocent Indian boy is struggling to fit in while being torn apart between white culture and Indian culture. Having recently transferred to a new school, Wind-Wolf is trying to adapt to the new culture while
Rachel Perkins hybrid musical drama One Night the Moon set in the 1930’s Australian outback and Malala Yousafzai’s ‘speech to the UN’ in 2013 were composed to raise awareness and reveal truths of multiple perspectives, representing the voice of the unheard and disempowered in juxtaposition to the dominant and powerful. Both Perkins and Yousafzai challenge societal expectations of their context, advocating for all voices to be heard and for the potential unity between cultures and races through education and shifts in paradigm.
Jake, Lucy’s neighbor was a well-educated kid. He was 15 years old and lives in an old timber house with his parents. Jake’s father was a farmer and had lived in the area since he was a lad. The area seemed to be haunted since creepy tales about all sorts of beasts was told. People even claimed that they were awakened some nights by a howling. Mostly people believed that it was a feral dog but Jakes father incised that it was a wolf, a ghost wolf. He was sure since he had seen a wolf in the forest when he was in Jake’s age, but none believed him. He kept telling his son about the wolf and Jake wanted to find out the truth. Lucy knew about Jake’s curiosity, at the same time as she decided to escape from her unbearable father. So she lied to get Jake by her side on the endless escape from the futureless community. She said that she knew where the wolf’s lair was. Jake got even more curious and joined her wolf hunting-adventure.
Salem to work as his servant. She was known to practice Obeah, an African cult
Shadow of a Doubt is an Alfred Hitchcock film that was shot on location in the 1940's town of Santa Rosa, California. The town itself is representative of the ideal of American society. However, hidden within this picturesque community dark corruption threatens to engulf a family. The tale revolves around Uncle Charlie, a psychotic killer whose namesake niece, a teenager girl named Charlie, is emotionally thrilled by her Uncles arrival. However her opinion slowly changes as she probes into her mysterious uncle. In the film, director/producer Alfred Hitchcock blends conventions of film noir with those of a small town domestic comedy as a means of commenting on the contradictions in American values.
Shortly after giving up his power, the father realizes that he is nothing without it and appears to be slowly becoming insane. In both instances, the father, in a crazed moment, wanders off and puts himself in a life-threatening situation. In the end the youngest daughter comes to the fathers' rescue.
Late one night he finds himself in the middle of the woods with the Devil, on his way to a meeting of the Devil's followers. After seeing respected townsfolk at the Devil's meeting, including his minister and his wife, Faith, he loses hope in humanity and all that he had known to be true or real. Goodman Brown wakes up in his bed immediately following the Devil's meeting and wonders if what had happened was reality or simply just a dream. Despite his confusion about the events that took place, he was unable to forget what had happened and lost faith in religion and his com... ...
ghost of his father wants him to kill his uncle and send him to hell,
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