Fred Devito an executive vice president of mind-body training once said, “If it doesn’t challenge you it doesn’t change you.” In “A walk to the Jetty” by Jamaica Kincaid, Annie John comes to conclusion that she wants to go far away from her parents because they don’t give her the attention she wants; but, in “Kewauna’s Ambition” by Paul Tough, Kewauna wants to further her education and sacrificed many situations to get into this program. The differences between Annie John in “A Walk to the Jetty” and Kewauna in “Kewauna’s Ambition” are very obvious, even though both characters were female, their paths to success include different types of situations, problem, and consequences.If it weren’t for encouragement for Annie or Kewauna then they both …show more content…
would not be where they are at today. Focus more on bettering yourself than looking back on your past. In the story, “A Walk to the Jetty” by Jamaica Kincaid, Annie John wanted all of the attention she could get from her parents.
“Lying in my bed for the last time” (33), Annie John will soon be leaving her parents and go to England to go and explore what she wants to become. Annie John used to be very close to her mother when she was a little girl, but later grew apart. She never knew why her parents stopped giving her the attention she wanted. “I would have a new life” (34), once Annie John moves to England she can start her life over again, it's just like a fresh start. “We must have made a strange sight: a grown girl all dressed up in the middle of a morning, in the middle of the week, walking in step in the middle between her two parents” (38), Annie John soon realizes that once she gets on the ship to leave for England she will miss being with her parents all the time. Annie John would not have gotten on that boat if it weren’t for her …show more content…
parents. In contrast, Kewauna from “Kewauna’s Ambition” by Paul Tough, she does not seek to move away from her parents. Kewauna focused on her school work and if she had a question to ask she would write it down and after class she would go up to the teacher's desk and ask her questions. “I’m never the type to give up” (4), Kewauna would always go home right after school and do her homework. “Leadership skills Kewauna and her classmates were taught are powerful enough to get them through four years of college” (5), Kewauna would always think that she would not make it through school to get to college. While Kewauna gets in high school she will be enrolled in some college classes while she take normal high school classes. “OneGoal was a weekly afterschool class” (5), Kewauna would get help after school if she needed it and would always find a way to learn more. In comparison, both Annie John and Kewauna wanted to achieve a goal that could be achieved by hard work.
If Kewauna was to get help after school she would make herself better. Annie John used to be the star student until she stopped getting attention from her parents; she started acting out. Both of the girls have complications while they are trying to complete their goals. “My mother and father----I was leaving them forever. My home on an island----I was leaving it forever” (Kincaid 41). Annie John didn’t realize how much she will miss her family when she goes to England. “Not all of Kewauna’s fellow OneGoal students are going to take the deal with the same conviction” (Tough 5). Kewauna never had to deal with other students as much as she would if she went to a public school. If Kewauna set her mind to getting her homework done she would stay up all late and finish
it. Focus more on bettering yourself than looking back on your past. Annie John realizes how much she is going to miss seeing her parents all the time, but notices that this is the passage she should take. Kewauna never got the OneGoal program to get in her way of being with her family. It could be hard knowing that bettering your education or learning about life could change the way it is looked through the eyes of the seeker. Annie John’s attitude towards leaving her parents behind changed once she started to board the boat. By comparison Kewauna’s attitude towards going the OneGoal program is excited to be expanding her education. While their attitudes are towards different reasons, they're willing to sacrifice many things to help them conquer their happy endings. In the end, both characters find success in believing what they think would help them become a better person. Their final steps help them get to where they wanted to conquer what they believed what would help them reach their goals.
The Orphan Train is a compelling story about a young girl, Molly Ayer, and an older woman, Vivian Daly. These two live two completely different yet similar lives. This book goes back and forth between the point of views of Molly and Vivian. Molly is seventeen and lives with her foster parents, Ralph and Dina, in Spruce Harbor, Maine. Vivian is a ninety-one year old widow from Ireland who moved to the United States at a young age. Molly soon gets into trouble with the law and has to do community service. Molly’s boyfriend, Jack, gets his mom to get her some service to do. Jack’s mom allows her to help Vivian clean out her attic. While Molly is getting her hours completed, Vivian explains her past to her. Vivian tells her about all the good times and bad in her life. She tells her about how she had to take a train, the orphan train, all around the country after her family died in a fire. She told her about all the families she stayed with and all the friends she made along the way, especially about Dutchy. Dutchy is a boy she met on the orphan train and lost contact with for numerous years, but then found each other again and got married and pregnant. Sadly, Dutchy died when he was away in the army shortly after Vivian got pregnant. When Vivian had her child, she decided to give her up for adoption. Molly and Vivian grew very close throughout the time they spent together. Molly knows that Dina, her foster mother, is not very fond of her and tells her to leave. Having no place to go, Vivian let her stay at her house.
The Arizona atmosphere was visibly different in both literal and nonliteral ways from Kentucky. Taylor’s lifestyle would have been drastically contrasting with how she thrived in her new home of Tucson. Apart from having a night and day experience at maternity, and getting a fresh start at life on her own, Taylor also met a new group of people who changed her in many ways. Lou Ann, who molded her into a better mother, Mattie, who helped her to overcome fears, Esperanza, though she spoke very little, managed to open Taylor’s eyes the horrors of a life she would never have to experience, and finally Turtle, who made Taylor realize what she loved most in life. Pittman, Kentucky did not have any of these individuals to teach the protagonist of this story.
Students are motivated by many different things, for example Carly is motivated by chips. I remember when I was younger and took flute lessons, my teacher would give me candy if I practiced in between classes and improved. It also takes some students longer than others to learn things. It took Carly until she was 10 to really express herself. Even once she started typing she had to learn how to spell the words she wanted to write, she also had to learn to form sentences from those words. Some students might take longer than others to learn, as a future teacher we must be patient with the students and find the best way for them to learn the material. Another part of the book I found upsetting is when the general education teacher said she could not teach Carly anymore. She gave up on her without trying much to help Carly. As a future teacher, we must try to help all our students, even if they have
An artwork that transformed an outdoor location is the Spiral Jetty by Robert Smithson which was made in 1970, and is located in Great Salt Lake. The spiral was created in water by salt crystals and rocks that were gathered from the surrounding areas. The Gates as well as the Spiral Jetty had eye-opening impacts on their outdoor locations.
“And maybe, if I had been destined to it or called to it strongly enough, it might have been for me.” Jayber was hoping that aunt Cordie and uncle Othy did not die during the winter season but there was nothing he could do when they got but take care of them both. “ By “bachelor” I mean, as was generally meant, a man old enough to be married who was not married and who had no visible chance to get married.” He wanted to marry Mattie Chatham, but she was married to Troy, and she thought Troy was the one that made her dreams come true. “ Maybe they had taken notice of my habit of keeping the shop open at night as long as people was there.” As long as people stayed at the shop after closing, hoping Jayber wanted them to stay for company. When everybody left Jayber, he was hoping for an impel and to start his own family. Jayber was looking to start a fresh new way, but he could not because he want to live the rest of his life with her. He moved along the riverside bank to be to himself, in a house that a friend had gave him with no rent. Being left alone, with nowhere to call home was the saddest thing could happen to anyone. “ By then I had no living relative, or none who was known of me.” In Port William, Jayber did not have a family because they all had died during the winter season. Jayber had taught himself how to do everything he needs to know to survive, therefore he taught himself how to be a
Now I wished that I could pen a letter to my school to be read at the opening assembly that would tell them how wrong we had all been. You should see Zachary Taylor, I’d say.” Lily is realizing now that beauty comes in all colors. She is also again being exposed to the fact that her way of being raised was wrong, that years and years of history was false. “The whole time we worked, I marveled at how mixed up people got when it came to love.
from the teachers point of view; she tries to judge the Cunninghams and the Ewells from
Through her three marriages, the death of her one true love, and proving her innocence in Tea Cake’s death, Janie learns to look within herself to find her hidden voice. Growing as a person from the many obstacles she has overcome during her forty years of life, Janie finally speaks her thoughts, feelings and opinions. From this, she finds what she has been searching for her whole life, happiness.
As Jacqueline got to the age where her grandparents home was just a constant routine, never seen as anything but a cycle, her mother takes her and the family to New York for “new opportunities”. Jackie thinks of the idea as an adventure till she sees the pale grey streets
Hardships are a terrible, but normal part of everybody’s life. No matter the hardship, anybody can recover. After viewing the information, it give an idea of how bad each of them had it.When Jeannette from The Glass Castle escapes the depths of Welch and her parents, her life was smooth sailing afterwards. When you have a life as very upsetting as hers, It is expected for more struggles to happen later in life. Not everybody will be as fortunate as her and continue forward with no regression. When Lily from The Secret Life of Bees ran away from home with no clue where she was headed, other than a town written on a picture. Liz from Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story had drug addicted parents and no plans on continuing an education. She reached a life changing decision and started going to school again. This lead to her ultimate goal of going to college, and at one of the most profound ones in the United States. If these three girls can overcome the intense situations they endured, anybody can.
Almost immediately, though, she realizes her loss is so deep she has never been fulfilled (Abcarian, 21). John was Ellen’s husband who died young. Her thoughts suggest that she may have married him and did not love him but came to love him later (Abcarian, 21). He, too, left her to do the work of both man and woman as she “fenced a hundred acres digging the post holes herself” (Laman, 279). Marriage to John left her unfulfilled and she was searching for “something not given back” (Abcarian, 21).
As time passed, she eventually was given small bursts of freedom and allowed outside for short increments of time. She began to look forward to this personal time, not considering running away. During the middle of the story, Annie became pregnant. During one of her increments of outside freedom one day, she went into labor. The house had a sense of wellness and almost normalcy as Annie did her best to care for the infant. One night she woke up to ‘the Freak’ holding the baby, dead in his arms which he had murdered as she slept..At this point in the novel, Annie realized she had been victimized long enough and decided to fight back. She became a determined, angry woman and killed him with an ax. She took flight from the cabin and wound up at the police station where she was able to obtain the help she needed. As she tried to resume her prior life she, she was again the victim of an attempted kidnapping while walking home and a robbery at her home. She lived in constant paranoia; finding it hard to make amends and rebuild trust with friends and
This book describes ten-year old Honor and the significant changes of her thoughts about Earth Mother and the Weather for years. The story starts when the Greenspoons move to the 365 Island after they were retrieved from the North Islands. Honor goes to the Old Colony School. The name “Honor” did not fit perfectly, even her knowledge is strange, and totally diffe...
Lainey, the daughter, is going into 9th grade after the summer. She tries to obey her father as much as she can. She's kind, but at times, she is blinded by her friend. She's a very smart girl, so she excels in many of her classes in school. The fact that she' a good student, but can still be blindsided, is demonstrated by the psychiatrist when she remarks; “... And good students like you don't just skip class.” (Davis 48). She runs frequently and is one of the fastest students
...ith her peers. It is only when they couple desperately needs supplies that Katniss realizes, “ (Collins 297). Through Katniss’ unreliability, the reader is able to make realizations about her as she makes them about herself.