The Bridge from me to you by Lisa Schroeder is a book written about love, family, and football. The book is a romance story, not only about a boy and a girl who meet, but also about the love of family and trying to hold a family together. The setting is in Willow, Oregon and the time flows through the end of summer (Early August) through the school year. Lauren is seventeen and could be described as antisocial or a loner, but deep down she is neither of those things. Lauren doesn't understand what it is like to have a loving family or have friends due to her childhood. She has never gone out of her way to reach out to someone before, that is until she met Colby. Colby is a star football player at his school, but he wants more than just …show more content…
Her mother wasn’t suited to be a mom, she would often say things to :Lauren like “Be a good girl or you will have to find someone else to love you.” Lauren wasn’t the only child that had to live with the crude woman. Matthew, a baby, also lived with Lauren and her mom. Lauren’s parents were divorced and her father was remarried, but he still cared for his children. One day Matthew wouldn’t stop crying and Lauren’s mother went in the back room and began to choke the baby. Lauren was only a child, so she called the police on her mother. Lauren was scared that what she had done was wrong, so she covered up for her mom and told the police that she got mad at her brother and began to shake him around by his neck. Lauren took the fall for her mother, and soon after was sent to live with her aunt and uncle in Willow, because her mother said she was too ‘dangerous’ to be in her life or around …show more content…
In one scene of the book Colby confesses to Lauren that he has a fascination with bridges, and Lauren was the first person he had ever told that too. Lauren didn't find it weird, but fascinating at how much he knew about bridges. They bonded over that because it was at the beginning of their friendship while they still didn't know many things about each other. The main theme of this book is that family is important and no matter how broken it might be, it is worth saving and many times there is someone who is willing to go through it with you and stick with you no matter how things turn out. My favorite part of the book is the ending, when Benny is able to walk again and come watch his best friend play football for him. It is also one of my favorites because Lauren was thinking about going to live with her mother again, but didn't go because she believed she had a better place to be; In Willow, Oregon. The WIllow Eagles won the state championship, and Lauren and COlby found peace
The fourth Chapter of Estella Blackburn’s non fiction novel Broken lives “A Fathers Influence”, exposes readers to Eric Edgar Cooke and John Button’s time of adolescence. The chapter juxtaposes the two main characters too provide the reader with character analyses so later they may make judgment on the verdict. The chapter includes accounts of the crimes and punishments that Cooke contended with from 1948 to 1958. Cooke’s psychiatric assessment that he received during one of his first convictions and his life after conviction, marring Sally Lavin. It also exposes John Button’s crime of truancy, and his move from the UK to Australia.
... then meets Joy Duncan and Justine who just like him the way he is, they are not concerned with his social status, they like him because he is a kind, genuine boy. As the text goes on, we watch Carl and Justine?s relationship flourish into something bigger. This helps him with his self esteem. Justine shows him the true meaning of friendship and shows him that he is loved and worthwhile. There is also Carl?s relationship with Maddie. At the beginning of the story, Carl follows Maddie around because he notices her, she stuck out from a crowd. He then helped her on New Years Eve. Maddie was quite cruel to Carl but he never gave up and near to the end of the novel, they form a true friendship. Maddie, Carl and Justines friendship was very important because they all leaned on eachother through hard times, like the hard times Carl and Maddie were going through.
The book “A Long Way From Chicago” is an adventurous and funny story. The story takes place at Joey Dowdel’s Grandmothers farm house in the country. Joey and his sister Mary Alice were sent to their Grandma’s house during the summer because their parents had to go to Canada for their work. At first, Joey felt uncomfortable with his Grandmother because he had never met her before but eventually he got to know her and they became close friends.
The main character of this book is Susan Caraway, but everyone knows her as Stargirl. Stargirl is about 16 years old. She is in 10th grade. Her hair is the color of sand and falls to her shoulders. A “sprinkle” of freckles crosses her nose. Mostly, she looked like a hundred other girls in school, except for two things. She didn’t wear makeup and her eyes were bigger than anyone else’s in the school. Also, she wore outrageous clothes. Normal for her was a long floor-brushing pioneer dress or skirt. Stargirl is definitely different. She’s a fun loving, free-spirited girl who no one had ever met before. She was the friendliest person in school. She loves all people, even people who don’t play for her school’s team. She doesn’t care what others think about her clothes or how she acts. The lesson that Stargirl learned was that you can’t change who you are. If you change for someone else, you will only make yourself miserable. She also learned that the people who really care about you will like you for who you are. The people who truly love you won’t ask you to change who you are.
- Characters: The main character is developed by what type of book the author is writing. My main character Sugar Mae Cole was developed because of the way she acts toward different characters in the book. And by her personality and sugars personality is sweet kinda like her name and she is polite. She is always trying to brighten the other characters up especially her mom Reba. She has a different personality that any of the other characters and connects with them in a different way that is what makes her the main character. she is cautious and also believes in people and things like her mom. Her mom Reba is about to give up but Sugar still believes in her and she believes she and her Mom will get a home and things will change. The Point of view also goes along with developing a main character, The author wrote the book as if Sugar wrote the book.
The book that I read this quarter was Stargirl written by Jerry Spinelli. Stargirl Caraway has been homeschooled her entire life until her 10th grade year. She became a student at Mica High School. It is usually not a big thing to get a new girl at school, but Stargirl was different.
To begin, the novel Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes reveals the evolution of a being. The protagonist, Charlie Gordon is a thirty-two year old man, studying at a school for the mentally challenged and working as janitor in a bakery. He goes through an operation to make him into an intelligent human being. Throughout the novel, Charlie evolves and learns from many experiences, each situation he deals with leads him into becoming a more complete person. He overcomes various obstacles and grasps a greater understanding of the meaning of life. He experiences: emotional and physical growth, intellectual development and learns of the cruelty in the world.
-In hard times, friends will always be there. Friendship is the most important thing in life. Without it, you are lonely and have no one to vent to. In her rough moments, Alaska exposes the real her to Miles and speaks her feelings. She puts his trust into him because she sees something kind in him. When Miles begins to date a girl, he goes to Alaska to give him dating advice. And finally, after Alaska’s passing, Miles and his friend Chip Martin must rely on each other for support. They cope and console with one
The main character Billy, moved away from his abusive father and ended up in the Bendarat Freight Yard. There he truly learned what it felt like to love and to be loved. Firstly, his friendship with Old Bill taught him that everyone should have a chance to change. This friendship affected his outlook on life, and in addition, his relationship with Old Bill helped him start fresh. When Billy had to move away, Old Bill gave up his house for Billy to live in. This taught Billy that true friends always find a way to help each other. Lastly, Billy's relationship with Caitlin taught him that even though they had tota...
For His Daughter A father’s love for his child knows no bounds, not even when faced with imminent death. When cherished people are separated, all that is left of them are memories and possessions. When people pass on, their loved ones left behind must find ways to cope with the loss. In the poem “For My Daughter” by David Ignatow, he shares words of comfort for his child to help her prepare for his inevitable expiry. Assigning an object of permanence such as the “star,” creates a familiarity that the narrator is hoping will bring solace to his mourning daughter when he slips away.
This book is mostly about a war that is occurring at the time and friends who apart from that are going through their own problems. There is several themes I found in this book. Alcohol use, fake friendships, false communication and etc. These themes relate to real life events that at least one of use go through. I searched up many current events that relate to the themes of this novel and I found many articles. I chose one specifically because I felt it was relatable to teens, which is basically who I associate with and hang around.
The novel, Alone Together: Why We Expect More From Technology and Less From Each Other (2011) written by Sherry Turkle, presents many controversial views, and demonstrating numerous examples of how technology is replacing complex pieces and relationships in our life. The book is slightly divided into two parts with the first focused on social robots and their relationships with people. The second half is much different, focusing on the online world and it’s presence in society. Overall, Turkle makes many personally agreeable and disagreeable points in the book that bring it together as a whole.
Friendship can be shown through the words of anyone in any form, whether it is short or long, in a simple poem to a complicated novel, even in a simple common book such as, Bridge to Terabithia. The author, Paterson, uses many of reasonable literary elements in her book, such elements encompass: character, plot, setting, theme, style, point of view, and tone. These seven elements show us that friendship between the main characters, Jesse and Leslie, in Bridge to Terabithia, although interrupted by many everyday occurrences, can develop quickly, without one's realization. And that friendship, that was suddenly started, can be suddenly gone with the least suspected. In this instance, friendship is suddenly ended, there would be the realization of feelings that maybe there was something more then friendship; something not initially felt when the friendship actually once existed.
The realistic fiction book that I read for my book talk is Sweethearts by Sara Zarr. This book takes place in Salt Lake City, Utah, where the main character, Jenna Harris, lives. The main conflict in this book was an old friend, Cameron, of Jenna’s, whom thought was dead came back to her city. Jenna was never the popular girl when she was younger and Cameron got her through it.
The book ended with a plot twist that could lead to understanding why Silas and Charlie have lost their memories in the first place. While reading the last pages of the book, I was so hooked that it was really hard to breathe because it was like I was Silas who’s reading the letter that holds the truth of what was happening to the two of them. I did enjoy also the feeling of being by their side while they try to uncover the secrets of their past lives. I especially enjoyed the chapter to where they have found a video of Silas surprising Charlie and then making out in the bedroom. It was so private between them that I felt like a voyeur snooping to get a glimpse of what was happening. I particularly did like being inside the heads of the two while they were trying to think whether to trust someone who is a complete stranger but at the same time were feeling this certain connection for each other. I do experience that having my own special friend. I have this special connection with him that every time I look at him. Even though I am so mad or frustrated with him, my heart tells me to calm down and reminds me how much I love him. I also could relate of the feeling of Silas wanting to protect Charlie at all times, because I feel the same way when my friend was in trouble or just when he is not around me. Next, I also did like the different letters and pictures that they have given to each other when