My book is about this girl named Clary Fray who fell in love with this boy named Jace Wayland, who she found out was her brother, even though she knows that they are siblings she still can’t help her feelings and she knows that her best friend Simon is in love with her. Clary believes that her father, Valentine, is behind the coma that her mom is in. Jace is in a lot of trouble, being raised by Valentine till he was ten the Clave thinks that he wants to help his father destroy the Clave, Whereas Clary was raised by her mom and didn’t even know that she was a shadowhunter until she met Jace. The main idea would have to be that just because your blood related to someone doesn’t make them family and just because you’re not blood related to someone doesn't mean you’re not family. The plot line is that Jace …show more content…
She doesn’t listen to Jace when he tells her that he’s not a spy for Valentine, She doesn’t listen to him when he tells her that Valentine won’t give her the Mortal Instruments if they give him Jace, or they’ll kill Jace. Even though I didn’t like the Inquisitor and I wanted her to die, I didn’t like how she died right after she apologized to Jace for not listening to him and save his life from a demon. Clary’s not telling Jace her true feelings and is instead is basically telling him that what they feel is gross and can’t happen but yet at times she acts like his girlfriend and I just want to slap her and tell her that she needs to get her emotions in check and be honest with Jace. Valentine is a strange character to understand, you don’t really get what made him think what he thinks, it doesn’t tell you why he hates downworlders so much and I wish they gave us more of a background on Valentine, like what his childhood was like, or if something happened that made him hate downworlders as much as he
Jace Witherspoon is a determined, responsible, and secretive sixteen year-old teen. Throughout the whole story, Jace has one goal: to save his mother from the pain afflicted by his father. He never gives up on his objective, even when his older brother Christian was ready to move on. The mother soon rejects the brothers’ attempt to rescue her, and Jace is unable to cope with it, shedding many tears, showing how unyielding he was about the situation the whole time. Adding on the Jace’s character, he did not blame anyone for him hitting his ex-girlfriend except himself. This shows he is able to accept responsibility for his actions, not blaming Lauren even though she slept with his supposed best friend. This is where his brother sees the difference between Jace and his father; Jace knows that he is wrong...
In the article Threshold of Violence published by The New Yorker Magazine, author Malcolm Gladwell alludes to the cause of school shootings and why they transpire. Gladwell tries to make sense of the epidemic by consulting a study of riots by stanford sociologist Mark Granovetter. Granovetter sought to understand “why people do things that go against who they are or what they think is right, for instance, why typically non-violent, law-abiding people join a riot”(Granovetter). He concluded that people’s likelihood of joining a riot is determined by the number of people already involved. The ones who start a riot don’t need anyone else to model this behavior for them that they have a “threshold” of zero. But others will riot only if someone
When writing the book Into the Killing Seas, Michael P. Spradlin accurately explained the details and the historical value of the sinking of the U.S.S Indianapolis. Additionally, it's clear that he did a lot of research on his topic of the sinking of the U.S.S Indianapolis and what the remaining sailors had to deal with to survive. Switching Gears, his book is not only based on the WW2 sinking of the Indy, but The battles of Guam. He accurately described the terror people in history felt when the attacks happened.
Just because people within a family are blood related and living together, it does not mean they are identical in their beliefs and actions. In some cases the generations of people in the family have the same way looking at things and understand the same sets of rules and believe in same kind of moral behavior. Unlike that, in the novel, “The Chrysalids”, the protagonist, David Strorm and his father, Joseph, the antagonist have very different characters and conflicting points of view.
Task #1 In War Gives Us Meaning Author Chris Hedges outlines a few points that give light to the whole book. He outlines three main points. War is part of our culture, we have a myth behind what is actually there and finally, we use war as a crusade. These three main points make up the entire book.
As the story progresses, those traits help pave the way for new ones like power, maturity, and fearlessness. Her compassion, empathy, and influence as Demosthenes helped bring her power. Her wit, among other things, like her close proximity to Peter and loss of Ender, made her mature. Her writing as Demosthenes helped her become more mature and fearless, as well as her acceptance of her own change in character. Do you know what Peter used to do to Valentine because she stopped him from hurting Ender? Orson Scott never answers the question, but it is safe to add Valentine’s endurance of whatever Peter did to her to the list of reasons why she is fearless. Valentine showed that a person can be compassionate, kind, incredibly smart, and still be powerful, mature, and fearless
The astonishing book, the Wednesday Wars, takes place in Kentucky in the 1960’s during the time of the Vietnam War. Education and social is in a different style then known today and religion played a big part of the people’s lives. The protagonist feels he is different from anyone else because he is the only Presbyterian in his class and on Wednesday's when all the Catholics go to Catechism and the Jews go to Hebrew school he is alone with his English teacher. And he believes for this reason and many untold of his 7th grade English teacher, Mrs.Baker, hates him and his guts. When he addresses this issue to his family his mother assures him that the teacher doesn’t hate him,his father tells him to be good to Mrs. Baker because she was related
Being from Halifax, Nova Scotia, February is a cold time of the year for most but due to Jace’s rich Uncle Stavros he is able to take a break from his daily struggles. But since coming from a dark past and a distant relationship with his family, settling down and relaxing seems unlikely for Jace Antonakos. Jace is left with much to contemplate about since he is the middle child of three boys. Unfortunately for Jace, he gets minimal attention for having a “perfect” older brother, Stefan, and a younger brother with child disintegrative disorder
Throughout an individual’s life-time, he/she has a vision as o what his/her should be. But when things do not go as planned and the unexpected occurs, does that person face it, or run away? In “An Act of Vengeance” by Isabel Allende, running away is not an option at well. Through the usage of plot, character and irony, Allende illustrates the cost of war.
Wes (the author) has a family who wants to see him succeed. Although Wes didn’t know his father for long, the two memories he had of him and the endless stories his mother would share with him, helped guide him through the right path. His mother, made one of the biggest effects in Wes’s life when she decided to send him to military story, after seeing he was going down the wrong path. Perhaps, the other Wes’s mother tried her best to make sure he grew up to be a good person, but unfortunately Wes never listen. His brother, Tony was a drug dealer who wish he could go back in time and make the right decisions and he wanted Wes to be different than him. He didn’t want his brother to end up like him and even after he tried everything to keep Wes away from drugs, nothing worked and he gave up. As you can see, both families are very different, Wes (the author) has a family who wants him to have a bright future. Most importantly, a family who responds fast because right after his mother saw him falling down the wrong hill she didn’t hesitate to do something about it. The other Wes isn’t as lucky, as I believe since his mother already had so much pressure over keeping her job and her son Tony being involved in drugs. Same thing with Tony, he was so caught up in his own business that no one payed so much attention to
The video, A Savage Legacy: Apartheid, Jim Crow, and Racism Today, explains the concepts of discrimination, prejudice, stereotypes, cultural relativism, egocentrism, ethnocentrism. The video provides clips of the history of slavery among blacks and relates it to the racism of today. Even though there is only five genes that determines skin color, skin color continues to affect someone’s destiny.
In the short story “The Most Dangerous Game”, there are two main characters, Sanger Rainsford and General Zaroff. The story starts off with Rainsford and Rainsford’s hunting partner, Whitney, on a yacht heading to Rio de Janiero to hunt big game animals. Rainsford ends up becoming trapped on Ship-Trap Island, and that is where he and the reader are introduced to General Zaroff. Unfortunately for Rainsford, General Zaroff is not your normal General. General Zaroff and Rainsford are similar and different in many ways, and even though Rainsford believes that Zaroff is a sick individual, at the end of the story he becomes more like Zaroff than he realizes.
The most influential saying in the lord of the flies is the fact that the symbolism represents the many statistics in the communal world which is relatively amazing for a book to possibly recreate. The way that William Golding showed his audience in this book how the negativity of the world and the wickedness in a man’s heart is beyond belief. This can be shown through the development of the children who progressively become more and more malevolence as the days pass. It can be made known through the items that represent the civilized world or ‘the adult’ society. It’s reasonably scary when we are exposed to the evilness sinfulness people have, even those that we perceive as innocent can be deceiving.
Society is based on two groups the people the haves and the have-nots. In the movie Glory Road, the Caucasians are the haves and the African-Americans are the have-nots. The beliefs of a conflict theorist are that there is competition for scarce resources, some form of inequality to maintain, and social change comes about because of the conflicts (Brinkerhoff 10-11).
Nonetheless, this really is a tale of compelling love between the boy and his father. The actions of the boy throughout the story indicate that he really does love his father and seems very torn between his mother expectations and his father’s light heartedness. Many adults and children know this family circumstance so well that one can easily see the characters’ identities without the author even giving the boy and his father a name. Even without other surrounding verification of their lives, the plot, characters, and narrative have meshed together quite well.