In the book Bitter by Akwaeke Emezi, the main character, Bitter, lives in the dorm of an art school called Eucalyptus, which is in the town of Lucille. There is one problem in Lucille, which is how many innocent civilians died at the hands of a man named Dian Theron. In order to stop this, Bitter summons a monster named Vengeance to take care of him, but things get out of hand. The biggest message of this book is that violence is not the answer to our problems. Bitter uses different types of activism to show how the people of Eucalyptus and Assata fight against violence to make the world a better place. At the beginning of the book, Bitter learns about the values of the revolution and why it is important. Bitter and Eddie have a discussion …show more content…
Too many people have died in their community, so they need to take action in order to make Lucille safer. Bitter’s way of fighting in the revolution is not being on the streets fighting. Instead, she creates Vengeance, a monster who she draws, with the purpose to stop the violence and fight for her. Bitter summons Vengeance after she sees him kill Dian Theron because it upsets her. Bitter thinks that “She wanted to create something monstrous to get rid of Lucille’s monsters, and now Bitter didn’t know who was the monster or where the lines that described it started or stopped” (Emezi, p.214). The author repeats the word “monster” a lot to give the reader the idea that both Vengeance and Theron are monsters, in the sense that they both cause a lot of harm to the community of Lucille. Bitter names her monster ‘Vengeance” which means getting back at the people who started and continue the violence. Bitter does not really think her creation completely through because she thinks that the idea of revenge is different than the monster’s. Bitter tries to fight against Dian Theron’s violence by summoning Vengeance, but his plan is different than
Wait Till Next Year is a book written by Doris Kearns Goodwin. Wait Till Next Year is a book written in Goodwin’s point of view set in Rockville Center, New York. The book begins with Goodwin’s father teaching her the scorekeeping rules of baseball in the summer of 1949. After her father taught her how to properly record a baseball game she would sit in front of the radio and listen to the game every day and would record everything each player did during that game. Then when her father would arrive home from work she would relay to him all that had happened during the game of that day. As Goodwin looks back on this in her book she begins to think that it is because of these times with her father that she has a love for history and for storytelling.
"Trust in the Lord with all your heart; do not depend on your own understanding. Seek his will in all you do, and he will show you which path to take." Proverbs 3:5-6. In the book, Born Again, Chuck Colson was as deadly to political opponents as a lion is to prey. Colson was largely targeted by the media and dragged through the mud, after a scandal that led to an investigation of Nixon's White House administration. He had become a public scapegoat for the media. Through a long and taxing process, Colson was indicted and put in jail. However, through the straining process, he had found a path to God
What would you do for love? Would you break up a marriage or assassinate an Archduke? In the short story “IND AFF” by Fay Weldon the narrator must make a choice on whether or not to continue her love affair while examining the Princip’s murder of the Archduke Ferdinand and his wife. The story is set in Sarajevo in Bosnia, Yugoslavia where the assassination took place. Through irony, symbolism and setting, Weldon uses the parallel between the narrator and Pincip to show that seemingly inconsequential actions of an individual can have great consequences.
Creation Untamed, by Terence E. Frcthcim The book, Creation Untamed: The Bihle, God, and Natural Dísasters, by Terencc E. Fretheim, is a dedicatecl Olcl Testament theological interpretation of human sufTering, especially during a natural disaster. Frethcim explores on of the most disturbing questions in human life, about the presence and role of God when a natural disaster occurs. In answering the question, thc author provides an interactive analysis and a ncw perspective of human suffering and natural disasters offered by some well-known Old Testament incidcnces, such as the account of creation, Noah and the great flood, and the suffering of Job. The biblical excerpts provide the guide to Fretheim's discussion as hc highlights the natures,
The book We Fought Back is about Frank Blaichman and how he was a teen resistance fighter. The author of this book is Allan Zullo. Frank Blaichman was born on December 11, 1922 in Eastern Poland. He was important becauses he was a resistance fighter for Poland and all the Jews who were being killed by the Nazis. Frank Blaichman is still alive and is 94 years old.
Written by Katherine Holubitsky, Tweaked is a novel that shows the readers how dangerous drugs are to both the user and their peers. With the two year meth addiction, Chase continues to financially and emotionally drain out his family however; the problems becomes worse when Chase escapes from his dealer's house. Richard Cross, the man Chase attacked, died and as a result, Chase is charged with murder. His mother secretly proceeds to monetarily support Chase but when she was caught, the bond between the family members exacerbated. Time elapsed and Chase was finally caught when stealing a car however, he dies shortly after and overdose and becomes brain dead. Tweaked shows us the reality of how hazardous drugs can be through the physical
Before 1975, Vietnam was divided into a North and South. The North was ruled by communism while the south was under United States protection. On April 30th 1975, communists attacked South Vietnam with the intentions of ruling both north and south in which succeeded. The Unwanted is a self-written narrative that takes place in Vietnam, 1975. At this time the United States had just pulled out of Vietnam as a result of the communist’s takeover. In effect of the flee, the U.S. left behind over fifty-thousand Amerasian children including Kien Nguyen. Kien was one of the half-American children that endured the hardships of communist’s takeover. Born in 1967 to a Vietnamese mother and unknown American father who fled to the U.S.
Ayiti, by Roxane Gay, is a collection of fifteen short narratives about Haiti and its people, which gives the readers insights into the complex Haitian diaspora experience. The novel seeks to offer a deeper view into Haitian society and covers an array of themes such as the politics of survival, resiliency, and feminist culture in Haiti. Throughout the novel, Gay is highly critical of mainstream media because of how they depict and silo Haiti as a poor and helpless country. Haiti’s historical stance on censorship is well documented, and as a Haitian writer living in America, Gay is successful in giving agency to the voiceless by chronicling the stories of the Haitian diaspora. Ayiti explores stories that explain what it is like to be a Haitian
The story of “Unwind” revolves around three main characters that are all scheduled to be sent to a harvest camp and unwound. Connor is a sixteen year whose family believes that he has caused too much trouble in society. Risa is a ward of the state, and due to budget cuts, is too expensive to be kept in the program. Lev is tithe, and individual that has been born with the purpose of being unwound. Connor one day discovers an unwind order in the house and decides to run away. With the help of an honest truck driver, Connor manages to slip away. However, Connor keeps his cell phone and the tracker inside gets him caught. The police attempt to arrest Connor but he resists arrest, runs through the traffic on the road, and grabs a tithed to use as a human shield. This event in turn causes a bus full of state home wards to spin out of control and overturn. Risa is one of the individual on that buss. Risa, Connor, and Lev all run into the woods. The next morning, while the three are gathering supplies such as food and clothes, they come across a storked baby on the door step. Due to past experiences, Connor decides to put all three of them in risk and decides to pick up the baby while a police car slowly passes nearby. Risa, Connor, Lev and the baby all get onto the school bus in hopes of not being suspected by the police car. Once they arrive at the school, they find the nearest bathroom and hide in it with the baby. Lev sees this as an opportunity to escape. As a tithe, he believes that it is an honor to live with the purpose of being unwound, so he finds his way to the school office and turns himself and Connor and Risa in. He then asks for a call, and calls his pastor, who to Lev’s surprise informs him that his face was purposely k...
One may surmise a reoccurring motif of vengeance throughout this novel due. The genesis of this vengeance spawns
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.
When faced with challenging, demanding times people will often choose what benefits them best. The poems and the novel, Night, show how cruel and selfish humans can be when they feel their survival threatened. People will turn against one another in order to live another day or deny help to a fallen soldier. The harsh truths of humanity leak out in times of war and crisis. At the end of the day, every man has to fight for himself in order to survive.
Now the monster is unable to obtain a connection with either of the characters mentioned in this story in the beginning, resulting in his anger; he lashes out only proving what people saw on his exterior, which was indeed a reflection of what was within a monster indeed. Revenge can indeed affect both parties because yes the monster succeeded in leaving victor with loneliness and grief similar to what he was feeling but the monster ended up losing victor himself leaving him truly lonely and a feeling of no purpose.
In 1939, the Nazi invasion of Poland began causing many traumatic experiences for Jewish people across Europe. Maus by Art Spiegelman is a book that is written based on the real-life experiences of Vladek Spiegelman, a Jewish man who was alive during the reign of Hitler and experienced the life of Jews during this time first-hand. Vladek lived a normal life as a Jew during the Holocaust before suddenly being recruited into the Polish army where he had to go into battle against the Nazis. The Polish lost the battle and Vladek was forced to surrender which caused him to be captured as a war prisoner. This capture caused him to realize the true injustice toward the Jews first-hand and led to him to take more risks in order to fight for a better
Over Spring Break, I read the graphic novel ‘Squire’ by Sara Alfageeh and Nadia Shammas, which was an engaging read. ‘Squire’ follows the adventures and challenges of a fourteen-year-old girl, Aiza, living in an alternate historical Middle Eastern setting. In the Bayt-Sajji empire, Aiza is a second-class citizen because she is part of a group called the Ornu, which are enemies of Bayt-Sajji. When a messenger visits her recently conquered province, he brings news of an extraordinary opportunity to join the esteemed knights and improve her family’s life and status. Her parents are reluctant at first but agree to let her go once they cover her arm tattoo, a sacred marker of the Ornu, to ensure Aiza's safety among the other recruits.