For my book critique, I chose Dan Slater's Wolf Boys: Two American Teenagers and Mexico’s Most Dangerous Drug Cartel. The story focuses on Gabriel Cardona, Robert Garcia, and Rosalio “Bart” Reto. After being in the military and being in the police force for a while, Robert decides to join the DEA. Around the same time, one of Robert’s biggest problems is being born, Gabriel and Bart. Gabriel and Bart are both assassins for the Zetas Cartel. Only after Gabriel messes up a murder does he jump onto Robert’s radar, Gabriel’s biggest mistake, and puts the Zetas a few steps back. I chose this book because I’ve always been interested in the drug cartels. Growing up, my parents and extended family would talk about it. I was young, so I didn’t understand …show more content…
It started with the author reading an article about Gabriel and Bart’s arrest. Shortly after, Dan began sending the boys letters, saying he wanted to make a book about them. Dan would send letters back and forth with Gabriel for about two and a half years. Bart stops sending letters to Dan midway through the learning process, which explains why Dan doesn’t write Bart into the story until midway through the book when he becomes relevant to the story. This chapter reminds me of the story of Jason Moss. Jason Moss wrote “The Last Victim: A True-Life Journey in the Mind of the Serial Killer,” which is a book about exploring the mind of serial killers. He would go and visit serial killers and write them letters for the book. I find it interesting that Dan and Jason had similar ideas and made books out of them. I ordered my own copy of the book because I wanted to add it to my small book collection of books I’ve read. On the first day, I was excitedly flipping the pages when I found the map. I thought it was so cool! The only book I’ve read with a map was The Hobbit with the Middle Earth map. There’s a total of 2 maps in the
·Historical Information About The Period Of Publication: In 1992, the most prominent occasion that may have impacted the plot of this book is serial executioner Jeffrey Dahmer's conceding however crazy for the homicide of fifteen young men and young fellows. This attracts a parallel to the vanishings and murders that happen in Lost Boys.
Evaluation: I thought the book was very exciting and suspenseful like her other books. The book had very good detail and an interesting plot. I liked the twist when Juan and the girl’s father came upon Glenn walking down the road. I also liked how the author described the action in great detail. It made me feel like I was right there seeing it all happen firsthand. I don’t think that the author could’ve made this book any better than she did already.
“St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves” is a short story written by Karen Russell and published in 2006 as part of an anthology. Much analysis on this short story presents it as a demonstration of opposites, for instance, “Girls and wolves don't make sense [together] because they belong to different realms” (Malin 172). Some say that this short story is a commentary on humanity’s “civilized existence [and] primitive warfare,” however, a more in depth reading of this story remains (Malin 172). The story is broken into five parts labeled as stages; each stage demonstrates the progression of the girls moving from a werewolf culture to a human culture within a Catholic boarding school, starting with wearing clothes, eating cooked foods, changing language and
“St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves” by Karen Russell is a story about Claudette and her pack of wolf sisters learning how to adapt to the human society. Claudette starts off the program with a mentality of a wolf, like the rest of the girls. As she progresses into individual stages, she starts to change and adapt towards different characteristics of the human mentality. She shows good progress towards the human side based on what the Jesuit Handbook of Lycanthropia Culture Shock describes on behalf of what is suspected of the girls. But at the end of the story, Claudette is not fully adapted to the human society and mentality.
Scapegoat is defined as one that bears the blame for others or one that is the object of irrational behavior. Even though in retrospect the scapegoat has in some way failed in their own goals, we use scapegoats because it’s easy. When we don’t succeed in a particular goal or feel we are going to embarrass ourselves the person we blame is the person we assume to be the weakest. The weakest person is usually different from the norm and not the most popular they dance to their own beat.
In Francesca Lia Block’s Wolf, displays a young girl struggle to over come and admit to escape her abusive home life. Throughout time women have struggled to escape the gruesome home life that they have to go through. Whether that be from the struggles of rape of men throwing them self on to the women, or from an abusive relationship in that man beating them. Although Block story is about the little girl story of overcoming the abusive relationship the little girl believes in so much more than that. Within the passage in the Wolf where the little girl discusses how she is not a victim by nature which represents block’s fear of women being blamed for being in abusive relationship. Throughout all of the passages she displays this courage to face the man and to protect her mother from every thing that she has to go through.
My book report was on “Esperanza Rising” by Pam Muñoz Ryan. The genre of this book is Historical Fiction. The publisher is Scholastic. It has a total of 253 pages plus the author’s notes. Esperanza Rising was published in the year of 2000. Some unusual facts about this book was that it had some Spanish words in it but English after so you know what it means. This book is a Pure Belpre Award winning book. The Pure Belpre Award means excellent portrayal of Latino experience in children's literature. I chose this book to read because the author seemed familiar and the cover of the book really caught my attention including the title.
Gray Wolf Optimization Gray wolf optimization is presented in the following subsections based on the work in [13]. 1) Inspiration: Grey wolves are considered as apex predators, meaning that they are at the top of the food chain. Grey wolves mostly prefer to live in a pack. The group size is 512 on average. They have a very strict social dominant hierarchy.
...hing I want to report about this book is youth education. The school environment the author present is shocked to me: too many groups and “combat” among them, just as Greg said” how it is possible to exist in a place that socks so bad”! In addition, I don’t think it is a good way for youth that parents are involved too much in teenagers’ world. Just like Greg’s mother forces him to do things that Greg is not willing to do, even eavesdrops on Greg and Rachel outside the door. Also, there is a lot of dirty talking in this book, which I think it is bad for the growth of teenagers.
“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown” ― H.P. Lovecraft. Fear drives mankind to hate what he cannot comprehend. With this irrational fear mankind is controlled and set on a path of destruction and chaos. In the autobiography Never Cry Wolf written by Farley Mowat, the main character (Farley Mowat), journeys to the Canadian tundra to study the much-feared wolf. There he discovers the fear brought upon by men, and how it can result horribly for the wolves. The human race was so frightened by the unknown species that they began to blame the wolves for cold slaughters, portrayed them as vicious killers, and because of the fear of the unknown tried to exterminate wolves all together.
As we approach our final year in junior high, our class was given the summer assignment to read and explore the message of Wolf Hollow by Lauren Wolk. Wolf Hollow takes place in 1943 with the point of view of a twelve year old girl named Annabelle, whose life took an abrupt turn. Annabelle lives with her parents, grandparents and Aunt At a young age Annabelle showed maturity as she was inexplicably bullied by Betty, the new girl. However while Annabelle quickly misjudged the capacity Betty would go to hurt her, she found herself growing a relationship with a “damaged man” named Toby. Annabelle was open minded and didn’t see Toby as the homeless, mental, war veteran that others think he is. However the with the guns he carries across his back
The involvement of social issues in young adult literature is no red flag to modern day society. New Realism, which first occurred around the 1960’s-1970, lead to the evolution of the appropriateness of social issues in the young adult literature genre. (Robinson) In Francesca Lia Block's Wolf, the author addresses the taboos of sexual violence and abuse in the home, and pairs this with the idea of female self-empowerment, and the age appropriateness of young adult literature for young adults.
“Boys” by Rick Moody summarizes the life journey of two stereotypical boys and how they gain power from the experiences they face. The boys face both positive experiences and tragedies that impacts their amount of power. In the short story, the author is conveying the idea that as the boys mature they obtain more power. He shows this through the literary devices conflict, tone, and repetition.
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“Dances with Wolves” is a movie that seeks to deliver a message of the need for cultural diversity. The story follows the main character Lt. John James Dunbar, played by Kevin Costner, from the battlefields of the Civil War to the barely touched western frontiers that house the Sioux people. Once Dunbar arrives at his post, Ft. Sedgewick, he sets out to find his place in his new home. However, due to two plot moving events, the suicide of the officer who dispatched Dunbar to Fort Sedgewick and the murder of the coach driver who took him there, no one else is alive that holds knowledge of Dunbar’s placement.