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. In Girl, Stolen the author uses conflict to teach us that nothing is impossible. For example, Cheyenne is a blind girl that has been accidentally kidnapped by car thieves. Despite her blindness and having pneumonia, she never gives up hope that she’ll be rescued. Throughout her hardship, she receives help from an unlikely person when one of her kidnappers develops feelings for her. He eventually helps her escape. Clearly,
the author uses these difficulties to teach the reader that nothing is impossible if we only have hope. Teens today need to learn that one can accomplish great things, if we remain hopeful. For example, lots of students dream of being apart of a team. I have played soccer since sixth grade. I enjoyed being apart of the team, but it was very frustrating when some of my other teammates have been playing their whole life and where more experienced than me. However, I kept practicing, I didn’t give up, and now I play on the high school team. Additionally, academics is another thing in which students are tempted to give up. I struggle tremendously with school work and keeping up, but I will do anything necessary to better myself at this, like staying after school to get better. For me, quitting school is not an option. Therefore, I do whatever I can and set goals to achieve to help myself succeed. Without a doubt, Girl, Stolen’s theme is relevant in today’s world. Being sick and blind would be enough to make any normal person want to give up. But when your life is on the line, you try everything in your power to remain hopeful. Everyone can benefit from the lesson learned in Girl, Stolen. Through this story one realizes that you have to remain hopeful throughout everything you do in order to succeed. Knowing this information you must never give up hope, and you should give life your all no matter what the situation.
Girl, Stolen is a book by April Henry. It is about a blind, sick, 16 year old girl that gets kidnapped while her mother went into the store to fill her medication. She has to find a way to escape without being caught, but the only thing keeping her from doing so is she is blind and can’t see her way out of the house.
She was poor and very hungry. She got help from other girls who were suffering just like her. She just wanted to better her life because it was something her ancestors couldn’t do. She ended up learning that it is indeed hard to be an American. The Americans treated her like garbage and the nameless girl found out that “America” still needed improvements. In order for America to be the promised land, the nameless girl had to give a small portion of her own. The nameless girl felt sad for what was going to happen tomorrow because America would be too wise, too open hearted, too friendly handed, to let the least comer to come and make them feel unwanted.
In the novel, The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, Rudy Steiner undertakes a tremendous transformation from being selfish and naive to mature, empathetic and cognitive. Rudy was a skinny ten year old boy with blonde hair and blue eyes. From the outside he was a hitler youth but in the inside his idol was Jesse Owens, a black athlete, Rudy looks past all of the nazi ideals and sees no difference between himself and Jesse Owens. Through this, people perceived Rudy as a crazy kid for having those alien beliefs. In the beginning, Rudy doesn't really know what was happening around him. To show off at the Hitler youth carnival, Rudy won multiple races. To his own ignorance he drawed attention of the Nazi officials and was recruited to a special school.
“The Palace Thief” by Ethan Canin, shows Hundert a moral person from a boarding school named St.Benedict, and taught students with different backgrounds, including 3 generation of Senator’s sons, but when one of the Senator’s sons named Sedgewick, caused Hundert to be a person who praised himself by saying ‘he did this or he became this because of me’. However, in reality, Sedgewick stole his spotlight from the reunion to Hundert going back to his landowner. “The Palace Thief” was a story about never losing one’s own morals, because it is the power to do the righteous.
Throughout the novel, Laine would have dreams of what it was like when she was hidden away from everyone. Although she did not remember very many details, she always remembered how she felt when she was there. The scars on her wrists and ankles also allow her to remember how she was treated during that time. There was also a full chapter of the time right before she was kidnapped. It was a conversation between Laine and her mother. Her mother was about to be put into jail and Laine was going to become a ward of the state. This use of flashback allows the reader to realize what life was like before and during the kidnapping for
When individuals face obstacles in life, there is often two ways to respond to those hardships: some people choose to escape from the reality and live in an illusive world. Others choose to fight against the adversities and find a solution to solve the problems. These two ways may lead the individuals to a whole new perception. Those people who decide to escape may find themselves trapped into a worse or even disastrous situation and eventually lose all of their perceptions and hops to the world, and those who choose to fight against the obstacles may find themselves a good solution to the tragic world and turn their hopelessness into hopes. Margaret Laurence in her short story Horses of the Night discusses the idea of how individual’s responses
Reading Liliana Heker’s story called “The Stolen Party”, it gave me an outlook on the way rich people see us wealthy people in todays society. While reading the short story I had various ideas of what the situation was. I felt as if at first, maybe Señora Ines was a sweetheart and wanted Rosaura to feel welcomed, but after reading the part where Señora Ines puts her to do all these different tasks, I was somewhat confused. However, in the end when Señora Ines hands to Rosuara two dollar bills rather than one of the toys she handed to the other kids, it leads me to believe that Señor Ines is in fact a snob and her appearance in society.
In the novel The Book Thief, setting and point of view affect the theme and book a lot. The point of view of this novel is third person omniscient and a little bit of second and first person when the narrator talks about himself or to the reader. The setting of the story is Nazi Germany and it is based on a young girl named Liesel Meminger and what her life was like during this time. Her story is told by the narrator, death. Mark Zusak, the author, uses setting and point of view to express the theme of the novel because there was so much death happening, Liesel encountered him so many times, causing him to be able to tell her story; without this setting and the narrator, the theme story would have been different.
Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief is a tale narrated by Death as he follows nine-year-old Liesel Meminger on her journey through Nazi Germany. Liesel is haunted by Death’s presence from the moment she is introduced to the reader when Death takes away her younger brother, Werner, while travelling to the town of Molching in 1939. She is forced into the home of Rosa and Hans Hubermann, her new foster parents, after being surrendered by her mother since she was no longer capable of taking care of Liesel. After a bad experience at school, Hans helps Liesel learn to read, beginning with The Grave Digger’s Handbook, a book she found at the site where her brother was buried. Liesel quickly becomes absorbed in learning language, which prompts her to steal from a book burning. She is seen by Ilsa Hermann, the mayor’s wife, who encourages Liesel to visit her library. Liesel faces many trials as the story progresses. She discovers that her parents were Communists, which causes many of the other children to neglect her. Liesel also befriends Max Vandenberg, a Jew that the Hubermanns hide in their basement. When Hans is drafted for war, Max helps Liesel write stories
Stolen, written by Lucy Christopher, is a letter written by an abducted girl to her captor. This book is about a girl that is stolen and is taken to the middle of nowhere, and doesn’t know what to do. The setting takes place in Australia in the middle of a dessert. The setting affects the character because she has nowhere to go. Everywhere she looks all she sees is sand and the sky. I know this because Gemma states, “There was nothing to hide the moon.”
The point of view used in the novel Fugitive Pieces is first person. The story is about Jakob Beer’s life, so it is more effective and realistic to use first person point of view. It creates a feeling of a reliable narrator. But the author also has another character, Ben, write from his point of view near the end. This is because the author wants Jakob to be seen as a character in the book, not only a narrator who talks about his life, and helps develop the reliability of the story. Having the second narrator, we can point out if any of the facts read from the previous chapters are right or wrong. We can make connections between the two narrators, and see if both facts are related or not.
make the hero whole, forming a sacred marriage, giving the hero greater power. Michael is not meeting Kay for the first time, but upon his return from Sicily, he asks to marry her and implores her to take him back: “I’ll do anything you ask, anything to make up for what’s happened to us. What’s important is that we have each other, that we have a life together, that we have children” (Coppola, 1972). After being married to the temptress, Michael realizes that he needs her love and care in order to be whole and to pursue his quest.
In the novel Stargirl their was a girl in high school who was named Stargirl who didn't care much to conform and just did her own thing . Stargirl started to make a name for herself half way through the year by joining the cheerleading squad and did things that got the school buzzing . At first when she was doing this people thought it was something that they should conform to but some popular people like Hillari Kimble thought this was foolish and nothing to give any attention to. But it did so that was angering Hillari Kimble and towards the end Stargirl was remembered different and she must have been aware the way she would be remembered .
Some Girl(s) is a story about a man who is about to get married, and like most people, he is freaking out. Instead of talking about it with his fiancé, Guy does the opposite and goes to talk to some of his ex-girlfriends. The story follows Guy as he travels across the country as he pursues to track down his ex-girlfriends. Neil LaBute uses this story not as something created to satisfy the reader on an entertainment level, but to show the reader about interpersonal relationships and the inner conflict that one man is carrying with him. He also uses the story to teach about the struggle of relationships and demonstrated that by giving a character who wronged many women whom he dated. As LaBute once said, “Relationships in general make
‘Fearless Girl’ has quickly become a symbol for women throughout the United States. It has gained such a strong response because of the conversations it is producing. There has never been a time when opening up the conversation on equal rights and wage gaps has been so accepted, and that is why the statue has inspired an entire generation of women to stand up for such an important cause.