1. This is a story about a girl who lost her wedding ring, found a company phone that led her on an crazy, complicated adventure that ended up changing her life. “I've Got Your Number” is a book about a girl named Poppy, whose phone gets stolen after she loses her extremely valuable engagement ring, she then finds a company phone in a garbage bin and begins using it. Poppy converses with the man who owns the company, Sam, through the phone, and almost builds a friendship with him. During the book she faces feeling unworthy of her future in-laws after finding out that they don’t agree with her marriage with their son. Finding her world has turned upside down, Poppy has to find her engagement ring before her in-laws and her fiancé find out, …show more content…
The protagonist, Poppy Wyatt in “I’ve Got Your Number” faces, feeling unworthy of her future in laws and her friends. Poppy constantly felt that she had to kiss up to her future in-laws in order to be accepted, she also didn’t want to bother anyone, since she didn’t want to feel like a burden onto people. I have experienced a conflict similar to this. In my old school, I constantly let people walk all over me and let them take advantage of me, because I was too shy to stand up for myself, and I wanted to feel accepted. Therefore, I would always feel like I didn’t match up to others and that I wasn’t at their standards. This is the conflict I experienced that was similar to …show more content…
One of the themes for this book is, don’t feel unworthy of yourself and another theme would be, look at things from a different perspective. We can see the first theme in the book, where poppy feels like she has to match up to her in-laws in order to feel accepted. We see the second theme where Sam realises that he has the wrong attitude in some areas of his life, after looking at life the way poppy did. I agree with these themes, because in life, we should make the effort to improve ourselves in anyway that we can, but we shouldn’t downgrade ourselves because we are flawed and different.
8. I particularly despise Magnus, because I feel like he takes advantage of women. In the book he was so indecisive and he proposed to so many women and he kind of used them, he didn’t want to settle down and he couldn’t choose, because he didn’t want to be with one person for the rest of his life. He also cheated on poppy while they were engaged. Personally I feel like people have to love someone, in order to want to be with them for the rest of their life. So, I don’t like magnus, because he is kind of disrespectful and selfish and he used people for his own
For the adaptation, one main theme would be: “You can get what you want, but it might cost more than you were willing to pay”. I think this is a good theme to explore because personally I could connect with it. Like most people, I get lazy sometimes, and everyone wants to be successful. What separates those who actually are successful from those who are not, is the work others were
I learned a lot from this book I learned not to get in gangs and stay true to your family. I liked a quote in this story it said “things are rough all over” to me that meant no matter where you are where you go things are going to be rough so just stop running away from problems because it’s just going to create more. Dally and Sodapop both kind of remind me of myself because I don’t care about nothing but I can understand people and the different things they like and nothing don’t scare me. I think the theme of this story is to be your brothers keeper.
If my life had no purpose, no individuality, and no happiness, I would not want to live. This book teaches the importance of self expression and independence. If we did not have these necessities, then life would be like those in this novel. Empty, redundant, and fearful. The quotes above show how different life can be without our basic freedoms. This novel was very interesting and it shows, no matter how dismal a situation is, there is always a way out if you never give up, even if you have to do it alone.
Theme: The theme of the story is that sometimes in life you have to make sacrifices, big or small, to help things that are more important then what benefits you more. This is shown plenty of times throughout the story, but the most important time was when Sadie had to choose to save her father, or stop Set and...
...ing them how they should behave, and what they should feel. A sense of self is bigger than what one person or group of people can tell you; it is found from within. Salinger, Plath, and Heller capture ambiguity on a personal level; their characters must look within themselves and beyond the ambiguity to discover who they are. They could easily accept what society tells them, but they would be embarking on a journey of misery. They must be strong enough to resist what others tell them about war, themselves, and everyone else. The experiences are truly unique, even if they are painful. They reveal the journey of self.
What is the important message, or theme, in this book? Why do you think the author felt this message was important? Support your answer with three specific quotes or pieces of evidence from the text.
The Central Theme of chapter Eight from On Being Different is about people looking different on the outside, from the way someone looks we develop an idea of what we believe they are like.
There is the escape from reality, a low level job, and a way of life, in general. Each character is very relatable simply because so many people, in real life, are not happy with the way their lives are or seem to be turning out. “Mountain climbers don’t carry bricks”-Zig Ziglar. Sometimes one has to be selfish to better his or her situation. Laura wants to escape the fact that she is different and others don’t understand her. Amanda spends her time regretting her choice to marry Laura and Tom’s father who she blames for her current circumstances. She really wants her children to be happy, but maybe should spend more time thinking about what to say next. Jim has a reasonable desire for escape; a little more money, a little less work. Tom is beyond dissatisfied but wants to be responsible, but also seemingly envies his father’s escape and leaving him to be the man of the house. Williams likes to use bird imagery in his writing. Birds can symbolize freedom. They can go as they please and never look back. Tom leaves everything behind and finally escapes in the
...which easily outshine the contradicting points of their optimism and pessimism, and. Genes and Finny’s comparable insecurities illustrate the darker forces of human nature, mainly fear, which all people must learn to come to terms with then put it to rest by conquering and embracing it. Everyone has a choice to either fight or conquer these fears and forces, as fear is only dangerous when one allows it to be. Readers can gather from the two boys experiences that everyone is insecure in some way or another, despite the differences that may seem apparent at first. The insecurities found inside are another way of Knowles proving his theme that things are not what they seem on the outside and what is on the inside is what counts. Knowles delves into new insights and profound thoughts about conquering ones biggest fears and things not always being what they seem.
The theme of Gwendolyn Brooks's "Sadie and Maud" is that going against the grain of society is perfectly acceptable. Brooks conveys this message by depicting two contrasting sisters: Maud, who follows the rules of society, and Sadie, who does not allow social expectations to dictate her life. The poem explains how these women lead very different lives that reflect the choices they make.
What exactly is a theme? A theme, according to Merriam-Webster Dictionary, is “a particular subject or issue that is discussed often or repeatedly.” In most cases, a theme is referenced as a moral or lesson to be learned from reading and interpreting a selection. In East of Eden by John Steinbeck, the character Lee demonstrates some of the themes found throughout Steinbeck’s literary masterpiece. The way Lee conducts himself is a way that makes him content with his life and the position he is currently in. The manner in which he conducts himself is one that makes him such a good role model for people to follow, such as Cal and Aron. We will be focusing on the themes that Lee embodies through his words and actions.
For a novel to succeed it has to contain a profound plot, astonishing characters and themes that give the book a sense of all around meaning. Themes can be few or many, prevalent or irrelevant, but for this novel the themes help make the book what it is. The themes are
To start off with Alice through the looking glass and the theme for that movie. The theme in Alice through the looking glass is Don’t try and change the past. I know that one of the themes is that because Alice is trying to change what has already happened but she could not fix it. For example, when Alice is where she meets the Mad Hatter and the Mad Hatters dad get mad at him Alice tries to fix it. When Alice tried to fix it nothing happened and sometimes she made it worse than it already was. In Hidden Figures the theme is not judging a book by it’s cover. The reason I believe it is the theme Don’t judge a book by it’s cover because white people are judging the colored. The white people have not even met the colored people and they are judging them and thinking that they are not smart. The reason it goes along with don’t judge a book by its cover is because some people judge the book just by looking at it. To judge a book or in this case a person you have to get to know them. The similarity in both is they both focused on the future and not the past. All the characters focused on the future. If they focused on the past it would be sad, but they focused on the future and what was going to happen, not what already happened. In that paragraph you read how in a way the themes for both that movies were
Out of the themes that were in the book, the one that stood out the most to me was the importance of family and the bonds that you have with them. Jem finch shows a lot of examples of family bonds because of his and his sister scout’s relationship towards each other throughout the novel. The actions and dialogue of Jem during the fire at miss maudie's house shows an example of family bonds, “Jem put his arm around me. ‘Hush, Scout,’ he said ‘it ain’t time to worry yet. I’ll let you know when” (Lee 93). While the town of maycomb was in panic, Jem worried about his sister by trying to calm her down and help her not to join in on the panic. This displayed the love between siblings which also developed the characters in the way they look out for eachother. Another way that Jem showed generosity towards his sister when he had to spend his birthday money in town, “The day after Jem’s twelfth birthday his money was burning up in his pockets, so we headed for town in the early afternoon. Jem thought he had enough to buy a miniature steam engine for himself and a twirling baton for me” (Lee 134).
To be able to locate and analyze themes of novels, such as Great Expectations, it is essential to understand the basic definition of a theme: It is a fundamental and often universal idea explored in a literary work. For instance, if we take a closer look at the story of Pip, we discover that the main idea behind the story is ambition and self improvement, which is correlated to the preceding minor themes, including social class, crime, guilt and innocence.