This book report is about the book The Songcatcher ,written by Sharyn McCrumb. Sharyn McCrumb is a Local writer whose novels celebrates the history and folklore of the Appalachian mountains . The Songcatcher tells the story of a family over the course of hundreds of years. I find the author's writing style different from anything I have read before. She flips from past to present throughout the book.The author really keeps the reader own edge and guessing what will happen next throughout the pages.I find that I can connect to the book on a cultural standpoint from living in the Appalachian Mountains .It is very interesting to me that she based this on her own family history.The book starts out telling two completely different stories, …show more content…
Transferring from a small village on an island in Scotland to a large town such as Morristown would be very difficult for me. Another element of the book I find interesting is the use of the supernatural throughout the book. For example , Nora Bonesteel ,who is said to have the sight , which allows her to see signs of death before it happens. There is also the midwife who gave the prophecy “the sea will take him” on the day of Malcolm McCourry was born , causing Malcolm's’ mother to retrieve the magical stone dipped in holy water . This action caused the midwife to give another prophecy “no McCourry from this day forth shall ever love best his first born child’’.This puzzled me until I remembered the way John Walker and his daughter Lark fight.As the story, progresses what seemed to be two separate stories begins to mold together to form one. For example, when it is revealed that John Walker is a McCourry on his mother's side.I enjoy how the book constantly hints to what will happen later on in the book. This makes the reader have to think about everything they read about. This makes for a very exciting reading experience for the …show more content…
They provide Malcolm McCourry with the family he never had. Family is one of the most important things in my life so this really affected me. I believe that the freeman family will have a big part to play in the future of Malcolm. The part of the story about Joe LeDonne is particularly interesting to me . I am not completely sure what is happening ,but I Think that his story and the other characters will be linked together somehow later in the book. The author regularly leads you one way and then takes the story a completely different direction. For example, when the author leads you to believe that Malcolm will drowned to fulfill the prophecy but he is actually kidnapped . The Songcatcher represent the culture of the Appalachian Mountains very well. The characters really represent some of the appalachian traits ,such as self reliance and friendliness. I have experienced these traits many times throughout my life. Another part of appalachian culture in the book was the music. Music is a very important part of our heritage . In the book as in real life music is passed from generation to generation. An example of a song in the book is The Rowan Stave that Malcolm learns while at sea. I think that Malcolm will continue to pass this song on to his
Some main themes in chapter 12 and 13 revolve around new ways of life, ideology, and America’s perpetuating wars. Biddy Mason’s life growing up around these multiple changes in her culture clearly reflect her actions when she is older. Mason worked on a plantation, coerced miscegenation, was heavily exposed to the new Mormon faith, walked across the continent, legally upheld emancipation, and was successful later on in California formerly known as Mexico. Biddy Mason’s successful life was possible because of the world she lived in and the newly added rights to African American women.
The live theatrical production I chose to see was 9 to 5 The Musical. The production was performed by Fayetteville Technical Community College’s very own Fine Arts Department. The musical is based on the film released by Fox in 1980. Collin Higgins adapted the film from the book 9 to 5 written by Patricia Resnick. It wasn’t until 2008 that the film was adapted to a theatrical production. The production was originally brought to broadway by Robert Greenbait and Dolly Parton wrote the lyrics and the music for the Musical. The run on broadway was very short but the production later toured in other countries around the around the world.
The book is significant in the sense that it gives even the current generation the knowledge of slavery, how it happened and the reason for slavery. It also shows us that whites and blacks are equal regardless of the skin colour. The point of equality is supported by the scene where Nat’s plans about freedom do not work but we understand that he had a lot of intelligence to plan that rebellion. This proves to us that blacks have equal intelligence as the whites since everyone being equal. The author tries to take us back to the ages of slavery and make us suffer with the slaves so as to feel how it was really like. The author succeeds in making us feel the pain and he succeeds in making us get that clear picture of what happened.
...re the reader is not able to make any solid connection with any of these characters. It is arguably only through the stories foreshadowing where both authors prepare us with little details like the mileage of the car written down by the grandmother in O’Connor’s story likewise the boys preparation of the stones in Jackson’s Lottery that would inevitably help the reader to comprehend how both these author’s reached the horrifically shocking climatic endings in both short stories. I believe the authors similar use of these three variables help the reader to understand the message being delivered through these stories of the human condition and its effects on a society that only embraces its traditional moral beliefs and values.
Kenedy, X.J., and Dana Goia. "Shiloh." Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and Writing. Ed. Dana Goina and X.J. Kenedy. Eleventh edition. New York: Longman, 2010. pg. 569-578. Print.
The Wiz is a musical/movie released in 1978 that was an adaptation of the popular film “Wizard of Oz”. It included several very popular stars of the time, which were Diana Ross, Michael Jackson and Nipsey Russell. The movie set place in New York City where the main character, Dorothy, suddenly is swept by a tornado in the middle of a snowstorm. She later then found herself lost in a city she had no clue about and curious as to how she could return home. After meeting 3 other characters during her journey that share similarities, they all embarked on a trip to OZ to fix each of their problems. Throughout the movie characters apply their own soundtrack through singing songs in harmony that compliment the mood of each scene.
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An Anthology For Readers and Writers. 5th ed. Boston, MA: Bedford/St. Martins, 2012. 1283-1296. Print.
The movie revolves around the sometimes love hate relationship between Rhett Butler and Scarlett O’Hara and how she will do whatever it takes to survive. It over romanticizes the old south and how the plantations were run and deals with topics such as slavery, reconstruction of the south and has a strong feminist survival theme to it.
Each character had the idea of their own American Dream, whether it was based on money, status, happiness, and so on. Yet unfortunately, only the reader realizes that they will never be fulfilled. George and Lennie’s dream of their own ranch conveyed to me as their own image of Heaven. The opening descriptions of Section One, such as the water was “twinkling over the yellow sands in the sunlight” quoted in chapter 1, convey to me on how Lennie and George travel on their journey to hopefully recreate these experiences as their ranch, for the sands were “a few miles south of Soledad” also stated in chapter 1, a land represented of loneliness and depression, which ...
The purpose is to further develop the character of Malcolm and the ethos, pathos, and logos expressed within the novel. The style and content all contributes to the power and beauty of the text. His narrative techniques include foreshadowing, for example in a previous chapter you see Malcolm 's relationship with his younger brother Reginald, really begin to grow and this central idea express his feelings, he seems to think very highly of Reginald and what he does. He states that he is mature for his young age, and comes across as a very intelligent put together person. Malcolm is what seems to be the reason why his brother is the way he expresses himself to be because he is a good Rolodex towards him and clearly plays a big role in his life. Malcolm 's character really develops as a leader. In chapter nine, he practically knows he will be assassinated, he really expects to make history and seems to strive to understand, Malcolm throughout the entire book seeks to know the meaning of why we as human beings are labeled and separated. Merely because we do not all look alike, and in this chapter, the author tells the story of “true knowledge” and this is where the dialogue really makes the chapter an incredible and shocking read. He speaks of the “black man,
It tells a story about two traveling ranch workers, George and Lennie, trying to earn enough money to buy their own ranch. As it is set in 1930s America, it provides an insight into The Great Depression, encompassing themes of racism, loneliness, prejudice against the mentally ill, and the struggle for personal independence. The book can be a parallel of what many people were going through at the time. Also it touches on how skewed the American Dream could be or if it even existed at all. There were many themes that encompassed this novel and really represented what the United States was going through at the time.
Harmon, William, William Flint Thrall, Addison Hibbard, and C. Hugh Holman. A Handbook to Literature. 11th ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2009. Print.
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As the world around Americans changed, so did the characteristics of literature. For the first time in literary history, writers began to shun artificiality of society and seek nature as a refuge. Feelings and intuition began to override reason. Inspiration was found in myth, legend, and culture. Faith was put in inner experience and power of the imagination. Innocence was preferred over sophistication. Individual freedom and the individual were the utmost important. Nature’s beauty was a path to spiritual and moral development. Most stories were set in exotic locales, supernatural realms, and the inner world of imagination (Arpin 144). For the first time, ordinary and outcasts were glorified. Not only d...