The book I'm reading is Warriors: Rising Storm a book about wild cats that are in clans it tells of the many struggles the clan cats go through& the positive things they go through such as there being no prey in the forest for them to eat or many kits & warriors dying to diseases, or war etc. My book is by Erin Hunter. The setting of this book is in a large forest where there are four different territories. One for each of the four clans: ThunderClan, WindClan, ShadowClan and RiverClan.
The main character in the book is FireHeart born a kittypet after he discovered the wild life he figured out he hated the kitty pet life & wanted to live as a clan cat he endured many tests to finally become a part of Thunderclan,becoming the first ever kittypet
The title of my book is Lost in the Barrens. It is a fiction book by Farley Mowat that contains 244 pages. The main characters are Jamie MacNair,Awasin Meewasin,Angus MacNair,Alphonse Meewasin,Denikazi,Peetyuk Anderson. Jamie is Angus’s nephew,European,he is 15 years,used to living in Toronto at a private boys school,becomes good friends with Awasin,parents died in a car crash,he didn’t know how to live in the wild. Awasin is Alphonse’s sons,good friends with Jamie ,knows how to live in the wild,has bin to residential school. Alphonse is Awasin’s father,chef of the woodland cree’s,good friends with Angus. Angus is Jamie’s uncle,was paying for Jamie’s schooling but run out of money to pay for the school,Jamie went to live with him. Denikazi is a chef of the northern woodland cree,he took Jamie and
“Never shall I forget those things, even were I condemned to live as long as God Himself. Never.” (Wiesel 2006, p. 34) Elie Wiesel is a humanitarian but better known as a holocaust survivor and the author of the book Night. Elie recounts the horrors of his experience throughout the book and revisits times which he had not touched upon in years. His book initially only sold a few copies but later on through this renewed interest, Elie Wiesel’s book skyrocketed to fame and he started his journey in his humanitarian activities which in turn earned him a Nobel peace prize and resulted in his famous speech, Hope, Despair, and Memory. In Elie Wiesel’s speech, Hope Despair and Memory Elie Wiesel reminds us through his use of pathos and ethos as a speaker of the despair that humankind can create, but through our recollection and memories obtained from such despair we can summon the future with hope of change.
Fievel Mousekewitz and his family (who are mice), who are from Russia run away from their homeland in the late 1800s, and board a boat headed for America to escape the Czarist rule of the Russian cats. Fievel, however, is separated from his family upon his arrival in New York Harbor. While he’s searching for his family throughout NYC, he discovers that there are cats in America too (his father said there weren't). Fievel meets a variety of friendly and hostile mice, and learns the ins and outs of NYC and how to survive as an immigrant. Eventually he makes friends with a cat named Tiger and together, along with others, Fievel finds his family and lives happily ever after.
...heir novels, The Round House and The God of Small Things. Both of these authors present ancient religious and cultural traditions – namely stories of the windigoo and the concept of Love Laws – as deciding factors in how the characters in their novels interact with each other and how the plots develop. Past events, Pappachi’s disappointment and Linda Lark’s abandonment, are shown to be important to the way that characters live their lives in both of these novels. In both The Round House and The God of Small Things historically prevalent struggles such as the ones between native and foreign religions and the ones between white people and non-white people are shown to be incredibly influential on the ways that the characters of the present view the world and those around them. In both of these works the authors show that the past is a massive influence on the present.
The excerpt, "No Name Woman", from Maxine Hong Kingston's book, Woman Warrior, gives insight into her life as a Chinese girl raised in America through a tragic story of her aunt's life, a young woman raised in a village in China in the early 1900s. The story shows the consequences beliefs, taught by parents, have on a child's life. Kingston attempts to figure out what role the teachings of her parents should have on her life, a similar attempt for many of us in the world. Lessons taught by our parents, the people who brought us into this world, help guide us into the people we become as adults. Hopefully, the guidance is positive.
The Last of the Mohicans, by James Fenimore Cooper, describes the effects of the French and Indian War on a diversified group of people. Cooper describes the quest of three friends, Hawkeye, Chingachgook and Uncas, to deliver two young women, Cora and Alice, to their father. As they attempt to carry out this mission, the group encounters groups of Indians who interrupt and threaten their success. As the novel progresses, many characters’ virtues are put to the test, namely their loyalty. Throughout the novel, Cooper shows a character’s loyalty to be interwoven with their courage and steadfastness. The only characters who exhibit unwavering loyalty are those who show themselves to be both valiant and unfaltering.
Maxine Hong Kingston’s novel The Woman Warrior is a series of narrations, vividly recalling stories she has heard throughout her life. These stories clearly depict the oppression of woman in Chinese society. Even though women in Chinese Society traditionally might be considered subservient to men, Kingston viewed them in a different light. She sees women as being equivalent to men, both strong and courageous.
In the book The Woman Warrior, by Maxine Kingston, a story of a girl trapped between the culture of her family’s past and the culture currently surrounding her is presented. The girl, Maxine, enters into conflict with her mother and what can be explained as an old and traditional China. Maxine’s own beliefs are found in the newer American way of life with her attempts to assimilate to the culture, making it difficult for her to feel any relation between the two very different environments. It is through these tribulations that Maxine is a “woman warrior” coming to age as a Chinese-American.
Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior discusses her and her mother Brave Orchid's relationship. On the surface, the two of them seem very different however when one looks below the surface they are very similar. An example of how they superficially seem different is the incident at the drug store when Kingston is mortified at what her mother makes her do. Yet, the ways that they act towards others and themselves exemplifies their similarities at a deeper level. Kingston gains many things from her mother and becomes who she is because of Brave Orchid, "Rather than denying or suppressing the deeply embedded ambivalence her mother arouses in her, Kingston unrelentingly evokes the powerful presence of her mother, arduously and often painfully exploring her difficulties in identifying with and yet separating from her" (Quinby, 136). Throughout Maxine Hong Kingston's autobiography Kingston disapproves of numerous of her mother's qualities however begins to behave in the same manner.
The book I am reading is Mr. Tucket by Gary Paulsen, when fourteen year old Francis Alphonse Tucket in 1847 and is heading West on the Wagon Train when a surprise birthday party happens and he gets a .40 caliber weapon. But suddenly everything goes bad for his folks, Francis is captured by Pawnees. The Indian leader a gimmick comes and catches Francis fighting an Indian boy.The old woman is wife of the old warrior in the hunting party. When Francis wakes, she puts a rope on him and shows him off at each lodge, boys kick him. He fights the boys, decides it isn't worth it, and smiles at the old woman. She removes the rope. He is attacked by three boys. The fighting stops.
The book I read was “Catching fire” by Suzanne Collins. Katniss is the main character in the book; she’s also brave and generous to others. Katniss fought many battles in her life, one battle is that she still hunts for food and hides from the Peacekeepers. Katniss despise President Snow because he threaten to kill Katniss’ family, reason why is because he doesn’t want her to start a rebellion again. Katniss cares for her sister Primrose, mother, Gale, and Peeta; they are the ones that keep her going through the battle. During the game the other districts faced many dangerous environments around them to order to survive; they have to do dreadful tasks to still be alive. Wiress is the one that found out that the Quarter Quill is in a clock form and the others didn’t realize it until Wiress said “Tik Tok” over again until everybody figures it out. Katniss faced many battles in the past and still the fearless character in the book.
What if one had just learned that they had intensified hearing and sight? The apprentice, Dovepaw, in Warriors Fading Echoes, learned just that. She learns many things that happen around her camp, like a life-threatening tree about to fall. Will she get everyone out in time? Also, this novel blends the elements of tragedy, suspense, fear, adventure, and sadness. Warriors Fading Echoes, a juvenile fiction novel by Erin Hunter, is thrilling, tragic, and gives the reader a feeling of adventure; this story is eye-catching and has nothing that should be change.
Maxine Hong Kingston's The Women Warrior explores the tension of individual and collected identity through storytelling. In the three short stories, "No Name Woman," "White Tiger," and "A Song for a Barbarian Reed Pipe," Kingston uses narratives as her main strategy to question the traditional Chinese community that remains undisrupted, and that continues to oppress women. In analyzing the autobiography, Kingston uses silence to show the oppression, while the storytelling serves as a form to find her own voice. Each of the stories refer to women who Kingston has identified with- women without a voice, they serve as a reminder of hope and what she could become. She integrates oral storytelling told by her mother to indicate the unresolved experiences, and to add her own interpretation of them. In a way, her mother serves as the guide for Kingston who wants to find her own voice and break the barriers of oppression. The autobiography is about the
In the 306 page novel, Queen of Hearts by Colleen Oakes, Dinah is a princess who is soon to become the Queen of Hearts, but her father, King of Hearts, comes in the way of that. The setting of this novel is in the fictional world of Wonderland. In the beginning of the novel, Dinah is surprised with a step-sister name Vittiore. Dinah fights for the approval of her father but never receives it. In the middle, Dinah goes to the Black Towers with her best friend and “future lover,” Wardley, after receiving a note with the name of Faina Baker. The Black Towers are where they keep and torture prisoners of the kingdom. Dinah realizes how treacherous the towers are and makes it her destiny as Queen to put an end to it. In the end, the King of Hearts kills Faina Baker and Dinah is told her brother, Charles, was killed by her father and has framed her as the murderer in the middle of the night.
A story that has long been told by many different cultures is the tale of the “outlaw hero”, or “Social Bandits”, as Eric Hobsbawm calls it in a book he wrote by the same name in 1969 (Seal, 2009). Outlaw heroes are almost always real people whose story has been built upon or aggrandized as it was passed around and down generations. The reason this type of story is so popular with listeners, readers, and onlookers is because they are the classic tales of the oppressed getting one up on the oppressors. Whether it’s about the poor getting over on the rich, the citizen getting over on the government, or the lowly servant getting over on the King or Queen, whatever the story, it’s something every day working people can relate to, vicariously.