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The history of childrens Literature summary "through the eyes of children
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Moon Shadow is a young boy that wonders all the time about the Land of the Golden Mountain. A few months before he was born, his father went there to work. Never in his life has he seen his father before and he dreams of how he looks like because his mother and grandmother talk about him. Moon Shadow always asks questions about him and the “demons”. The demons lynched his grandfather and his mother and grandmother are worried the same thing will happen to his father. One day, Handclap came to deliver a letter from his father and asked Moon Shadow to come back with him to America. He accepted it. He was scared at first when he arrived, but he got reunited with his father. His uncle though, calls him Windrider. Moon Shadow has no idea because …show more content…
that isn’t his name. He then meets Lefty. He has no right hand.
The story was he gambled his China money away and cut if off as a punishment. Moon Shadow’s father tells him why they call him Windrider. He says it involves a Dragon King and the first night he spent in America. Uncle Bright Star gives Moon Shadow a small carving of a monkey, as a gift. Moon Shadow is not allowed to go to regular school, so he goes to Tang people’s school. He really wants to learn demon language so he can write to his mother and grandmother. Then, there’s Blackdog. He goes missing. Windrider finds him, punches him, and knocks him out. They all argue about who will pay his expenses but then manage to settle it out. A month later, Blackdog goes missing again. He comes back smelling like opium. He told Moon Shadow the story of how they got opium. He then gets furious at Moon Shadow and started beating him. Later, father and Blackdog get into a fight. They then decide Moon Shadow and father to move away from the company. They meet Miss. Whitlaw, the landlady. She offers gingerbread cookies and milk. He was skeptical first, but ate it anyway. Robin, Miss. Whitlaw’s niece, shows Moon Shadow the stained glass. Then they start playing piano and sing. Moon Shadow gets time off after work. So, he visits
Miss. Whitlaw. One day he went there and lost track of time because they were talking about dragons. Moon Shadow asks Miss. Whitlaw to help him write a letter to the Wright Brothers. And they right back. Moon Shadow and Orville Wright continue to right back to each other. Moon Shadow’s mother and grandmother respond to their move into the demon territory and they are worried. Moon Shadow and Windrider are trying to save money. They visit the Tang’s people cemetary and an earthquake strikes. The 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Moon Shadow can hear and see things collapse around him. After the earthquake, people start looting and steal stuff. They don’t bother to help others. Miss. Whitlaw and father try to help though. There is a shortage of water and a fire starts. Miss. Whitlaw is scared her childhood home will be ruined because of the fire. Soldiers start shooting looters on the streets. Then, they come and demand the Chinamen to leave. Windrider wants to pursue his dream. Windrider and Moon Shadow move to Oakland. Moon Shadow writes a letter to mother and grandmother telling them what’s been going on. They write back and grandmother is furious, but mother is understanding though. Moon Shadow spots Blackdog in their barn. They get into an argument and Blackdog threatens to hurt Moon Shadow if he doesn’t tell him where their money was. Windrider then comes and gives him the money. Windrider flies Dragonwings and it doesn’t go well. He ends up hurting himself, breaking his ribs and leg. Once he’s healed, uncle and the company ask Windrider to be partner in the company. Time goes by and they find Blackdog in an alley with his throat slit and his wallet stolen. Father goes back to the Middle Kingdom to get mother and bring her to America.
Jake, Lucy’s neighbor was a well-educated kid. He was 15 years old and lives in an old timber house with his parents. Jake’s father was a farmer and had lived in the area since he was a lad. The area seemed to be haunted since creepy tales about all sorts of beasts was told. People even claimed that they were awakened some nights by a howling. Mostly people believed that it was a feral dog but Jakes father incised that it was a wolf, a ghost wolf. He was sure since he had seen a wolf in the forest when he was in Jake’s age, but none believed him. He kept telling his son about the wolf and Jake wanted to find out the truth. Lucy knew about Jake’s curiosity, at the same time as she decided to escape from her unbearable father. So she lied to get Jake by her side on the endless escape from the futureless community. She said that she knew where the wolf’s lair was. Jake got even more curious and joined her wolf hunting-adventure.
In the book Storming Heaven by Denise Giardina, education, and the lack there of, plays one of the largest roles in the character's lives. At this time in West Virginia, where the book is set, many children had to leave school and actually go into the coalmines, as Rondal Lloyd did, or work on the family farm. Racial ignorance is also a key element Giardina confronts in the novel. The characters, chief and secondary, equally cultural and racially bland, pass on their beliefs and therefore help to maintain the continuous circle of inequality that carries on even today. Political knowledge, at least on the national and state level, is also lacking within the little town of Annadel. With this knowledge coupled with her own experiences from growing up as an immigrants daughter in the same coalfields as her novels characters, Denise Giardina tries to explain the function of education and ignorance in not only the coalfields of West Virginia, but throughout the entire world.
While Joseph Boyden 's Three Day Road is an exploration of the horrors of the Great War, it is as much a tale of homeland horrors. The stories Niska tells Xavier point to the devastation wrought by residential schools, racially motivated sexual violence, and government-sanctioned genocide all underscore historical violence. The bridge which Boyden uses to compare the violence of the homeland and that with the Great War is the figure of the windigo, a cannibalistic monster which roams both the frigid bush (44) as well as the devastated, crater-filled warzone of France (349). The novel’s emphasis on precognition, the genealogical destiny of windigo-killers, and the metaphoric nature of the Windigo enforces Niska 's explanation to Xavier that
Rachel Perkins hybrid musical drama One Night the Moon set in the 1930’s Australian outback and Malala Yousafzai’s ‘speech to the UN’ in 2013 were composed to raise awareness and reveal truths of multiple perspectives, representing the voice of the unheard and disempowered in juxtaposition to the dominant and powerful. Both Perkins and Yousafzai challenge societal expectations of their context, advocating for all voices to be heard and for the potential unity between cultures and races through education and shifts in paradigm.
I recently read a mystery novel called The Servants of Twilight by Dean R. Koontz. Joey Scavello, a six-year-old boy, is the main focus of the book. His mother, Christine Scavello, owns a gourmet shop in Newport Beach, California. Together, the two live in Costa Mesa, a city near Los Angeles. The Church of Twilight, headed by a supposedly psychic woman named Grace Spivey, is the main force against Joey Scavello. Charlie Harrison is a private detective who helps the Scavello family evade the clutches of the
Black Dog shows up and says the white demons threaten violence against the Tang people. The white does throw a brick through the shop window. Tang people believe that a person can change their name because they believe people change as they grow up. WindRider had inventions that he has made when he was growing up, he is very proud of his inventions. This chapter also has the story about how he got his name “WindRider.” The Tang people stuck together in groups called “brotherhoods.” MoonShadow was not allowed to attend regular school only Tang people school. MoonShadow got too go outside with his father on the delivery cart, MoonShadow was a bit scared to leave Tang Town. They found out why, MoonShadows grandfather got murdered because he refused to let the white demons cut off his quene. Black Dog went missing it had took ten days before the company decided to search for Black Dog. MoonShadow and WindRider found Black Dog in trouble from a rival brotherhood he had stolen money from them. This chapter five starts off as an argument between White Deer, uncle, and father they were arguing about Black Dog. When MoonShadow had the money he's been raising under his
A seven year-old child lives in China with his mother. This childs name is moonshadow. Moonshadow’s father lives in the United States which Moonshadow calls the land of the golden mountain. He beleivs that the “demons” (white people) live there. Moonshadow has never seen his father because before Moonshadow was born his father started a kite company in the United States to earn some money to benefit them. Suddenly his father calls for him and wants him to come live in the land of the golden mountain with him and work in the kite company. When Moonshadow gets there he is glad to finally spend some time with his father. Others in the company are nice and they show Moonshadow around. Windrider ( moonshadow’s father) treats Moonshadow with lots
Sometimes we all feel as if no one person could or would ever truly love us as we deserve. This is the case in the Moon for the Misbegotten. A young, not so attractive, wants to be loved but fears that if she did love, her life would not be as it is now. She fears change and not because she wants the life she is leading but because it means she would have to free herself from who she pretends to be.
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ghost of his father wants him to kill his uncle and send him to hell,
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