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Ella is the main character in the book camo girl by Kekla Magoon. The novel centers around Ella, her friend Z, and the new kid Bailey. Ella is the only african american student at her school. It does not help that her skin has an uneven tone, which earned her the nickname ‘Camo Face’. One day a new kid named Bailey comes to school. Now Ella is not the only african american at her school because Bailey is too. He is automatically popular because he plays basketball. Bailey and Ella start hanging out. Ella must decide to either stay with Z and be an outcast or go with Bailey and be
Mara, the main character, is a perfectionist. She has straight-As, is in National Honors Society, and is a future Yale student. She is competing with her only ex-boyfriend for the Valedictorian. Her life changes completely when her niece V, who is only a year younger than her, comes to live with Mara. V is a slutty, druggie that has an attitude. This story takes the reader on an adventure of two complete opposite girls who have to learn to love each other. Mara eventually learns that she cannot control everything and has to take life as it comes.
She’s just so weak. If she would stand up for herself, no one would bother her. It’s her own fault that people pick on her, she needs to toughen up. “Shape of a Girl” by Joan MacLeod, introduces us to a group of girls trying to “fit in” in their own culture, “school.” This story goes into detail about what girls will do to feel accepted and powerful, and the way they deal with everyday occurrences in their “world.” Most of the story is through the eyes of one particular character, we learn about her inner struggles and how she deals with her own morals. This story uses verisimilitude, and irony to help us understand the strife of children just wanting to fit in and feel normal in schools today.
When war breaks out, it’s an awful time for everyone and it may even seem like the end of the world. When troublesome things happen within a family it may also feel life-changing in a bad way. Well Hana Takeda in Picture Bride most definitely felt both of these things throughout her life. Picture Bride by Yoshiko Uchida is about a Japanese woman who decides to move to America to marry a so-called successful man named Taro. When she arrives she meets a lonely, balding Japanese man with a run-down shop that isn’t selling much. Hana struggles through temptations, family hardships along with war evacuations and death all in her lifetime, quickly learning that some conflicts are worse than others.
Must race confine us and define us?’ The story The Girl Who Fell From The Sky, written by Heidi W. Durrow, revolves around the protagonist Rachel, who has bi-racial parents. After her mother and two siblings plunge to their deaths from a Chicago building, young Rachel Morse survives and is sent to Portland. Furthermore, part of her story is learning about how she conform into the world while dealing with her ethnicity. Additionally, when Rachel’s moves in with her grandmother, she is faced with racial expectations at home and at school.
Janie’s first discovery about herself comes when she is a child. She is around the age of six when she realizes that she is colored. Janie’s confusion about her race is based on the reasoning that all her peers and the kids she grows up with are white. Janie and her Nanny live in the backyard of the white people that her Nanny works for. When Janie does not recognize herself on the picture that is taken by a photographer, the others find it funny and laughs, leaving Janie feeling humiliated. This racial discovery is not “social prejudice or personal meanness but affection” (Cooke 140). Janie is often teased at school because she lives with the white people and dresses better than the other colored kids. Even though the kids that tease her were all colored, this begins Janie’s experience to racial discrimination.
I received a free copy of The Girl from Everywhere by … from Hot Key Books in exchange for an honest review, this has in no way influenced my thoughts and feelings about the book.
I've been pro-choice since before I fully understood what that meant. I don't remember which one of us got the abortion-rights bug first, but a few girlfriends and I started attending pro-choice rallies in our hometown (D.C.) when we were
Imagine being blind. Now imagine being kidnapped while being blind. Cheyenne has to endure a difficult situation that most normal people would just give up. Instead she stays hopeful and strong that she can make it. In the story Girl, Stolen the author teaches us that nothing is impossible, and you should never give up hope.
The family has always been and still is the main pillar of society. It is the place where members are born, learn, educate and develop. It must be shelter, pride and joy of all its members. When the family has problems, joys or sorrows internal, affect the whole family. Danzy Senna’s Caucasia is about the comparison between white, black and its mixtures, narrating the story of a blended family in the 70s. Birdie Lee, the protagonist, is a daughter of a black intellectual father and a white mother. Birdie is light-skinned and has a close relationship with Cole, her dark-skinned sister, with whom she invents a new language to communicate. When their parents separate, the two daughters are divided and Birdie’s world goes to pieces trying to find
The story revolves around two oddballs living in Omaha, Nebraska. Eleanor is a sixteen-year-old girl with curly red hair, and Park, a half-Korean sixteen-year-old boy. The two meet on a school bus and gradually realize they’re a lot alike, and enjoy the same things. Eleanor is starting 10th grade. She is the oldest out of all of her siblings. Her and her family lives crammed in a tiny two-bedroom home. All of the children share one bedroom. There’s only one bathroom and not even a door for privacy. Richie, the stepfather is emotionally and physically abusive to her mother and usually always drunk. Eleanor has to manage wearing clothes that do not fit her, and she is without a toothbrush even. Despite her ripped non-fitting clothing, she manages to patch them up and use her creativity to add to them. Eleanor does not only live in a stressful home environment, but is also often bullied by her classmates at school.
In the movie Jumanji, the four characters Spencer,Fridge,Bethany and Martha had no similarities with each other and when they found the video game Jumanji they were suddenly transported into the video game they had no idea what was going on.They were very confused because they look way different, what they looked like in reality.They were trying to figure out who’s who.Then suddenly a hippo came out of nowhere and ate Bethany. Everyone was traumatized by what happen, but Bethany fell from the sky and was alive. Everyone was confused, they noticed when she died one of the black lines on her arm disappeared. Spencer figured out we’re in the video game and after we use up on lives we might die in real life. Four people no similarities at all,
It was a bright and cold April morning when the old clock struck seven. Harmony Johnson, an ordinary 14 year old girl, had just moved from Ireland. Her family had moved to Georgia because her father Jack got relocated to work in Georgia as a chiropractor. Harmony is going to a new high school called Elk Creek High School. She is very distressed that she won’t make as many friends as she had back at Savanna High, but she remained courageous. The next day, Harmony was ready for school.
There are many moments in a person’s lives that affect them, and change their mind set, sometimes for the better or worse. In the main character’s case in the short story “A Red Dress”, she went from not caring about self image and what she wore, to caring very much about it after realizing what the world thinks. But after more experiences, she realized that someone can still be loved no matter what the look like. As shown with her, overtime, one’s realization about how other people think of you can change who you are, until you realize it really doesn't matter.
Victoria, a fourth grader who attends public school in the Philadelphia district is the focus student presented in chapter 5 of From another angle by Himley and Carini. Victoria is a student Tara Shaw (the observer) is focusing on and had the opportunity to have her as a student in both the 1st grade and the 4th grade. She describes Victoria as a student with a lot of imagination who loves to read and write. Not all the time she is interested in doing class work unless in pertains to writing. Shaw goes into full detail of Victoria’s physical presence and gesture. She talks about her height and weight in comparison to the rest of the girls in her age group. She elaborates on the type of clothing she wears to school and how it differs from the
In both “The Overcoat” and “The Metamorphosis”, Akaky and Gregor are defined by their job. When doing his job, Akaky “found an interesting, pleasant world for himself and his delight was reflected in his face” (924). Making copies is Akaky’s job and he really enjoys it. “In the office, not the slightest respect was shown him” (923). Akaky enjoys his job, but he is often mistreated in the workplace. His mistreatment in the office shows how Akaky is as a person. Akaky does not stand up for himself in the office. Unlike Akaky, Gregory does not enjoy his job. Gregor says, “‘If I didn’t hold back for my parents’ sake, I would have quit long ago, I would have marched up to the boss and spoken my piece from the bottom of my heart … once I’ve gotten the money together to pay off my parents’ debt to him’” (1084-1085). The only reason that Gregor works so much is because he is taking care of his family by paying off the debts that they have. Being a salesman is not what he wants to do, he just wants to be able to