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 …show more content…
of respect. Black Dog (who is also in the company) isn’t the typical adult man. He is sort of a bad influence on anyone. He is known for putting money to bad use. Uncle Bright Star tries to figure out how he will pay back some of the money that Black Dog had stolen from someone. Different workers in the kite company decide to pitch in and help pay back the money because it was a large amount, knowing that Windrider says the company is family too.
Not to long after, Black Dog returns from leaving the company because he knew that he was guilty. Since Moonshadow is the double-digit of ten years old now in demon time “whites” he is now old enough to be the bill collector for overdue bills. One day while making rounds, Moonshadow sees Black Dog. Black Dog tries to get Moonshadow of track by telling him why he steals and uses drugs. Moonshadow can already sense that Black Dog is up to something. Black Dog quickly grabs Moonshadow and jerks him to the floor and kicks him with his boots. He steals the money that Moonshadow earned while collecting bills. A while later, Moonshadow wakes up on the floor with his father hovering above him softly talking to him. ANother adult “Lefty” gaurds the doors because Windrider is trying to get to Black Dog knowing that Black Dog caused the problem. Once Windrider calms down, he and Moonshadow walk out and they meet a white lady named Ms. Whitlaw. Moonshadow and Windrider are invited into the home of Ms. Whitlaw for some tea. When they sit down they are calm and they are all gracefully talking to one
another. A crash at the door announces Ms. Whitlaw’s niece named Robin who moved in with Ms. Whitlaw when her parents died. Moonshadow is busy checking out Robin and finds himself looking at Niagra Falls. Moonshadow’s schueduele st the stable was not to different than what it was before in the tang village in China. He would go into the tang people’s homes early in the morning or the late afternoon to buy goods. Moonshadow is appealed to see that Ms. Whitlaw almost puts milk with sugar into the jasmine tea that was offered to him. Moonshadow and his father decide to go on about their business and they can stay away from trouble like Black Dog. Black Dog ends up getting killed and robbed which could have changed the whole story.
The two children, age five and three, were telling their parents, about seeing a monster with red eyes outside the window, and consequently, they were very afraid. The parents couldn't believe the story, and always told them, not to worry, that probably was just a bad dream.
A Child Called “It” brings our attention to mental abuse that adults may inflict on a human being and in this particular case, a child. David’s mother respects the family’s dogs more than she respects her own son. The dogs are fed every day, yet she attempts to starve David. Although David has two other brothers, they learn to call him “the boy” and to pay no att...
A thousand people are being chosen for a new democracy on the moon in the year 2066. A citizenship is the status of a person who under the law is a legal member of a country. When people have a citizenship they are granted more privileges and are given more rights to them. If a person is not from a country they could be naturalized in order to get their hands on a citizenship. For this new unique civilization there would be a jurisdiction which would help when choosing people to join the civilization. In order to have a balance, six hundred and sixty responsible responsible citizens, one hundred and ninety participatory citizens, and one hundred and fifty justice oriented citizens will be admitted.
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.
This short story written by Richard Wright is a very well written, and has a very good plot and keeps the reader entertained throughout. From the dialogue to the characters, who inhabit the world crafted by Wright its very intriguing. On the surface it appears to be just a story about childhood disobedience in general, but the overall theme is much deeper than that.
Murphy expresses how justifying bad deeds for good is cruel by first stirring the reader’s emotions on the topic of bullying with pathos. In “White Lies,” Murphy shares a childhood memory that takes the readers into a pitiful classroom setting with Arpi, a Lebanese girl, and the arrival of Connie, the new girl. Murphy describes how Arpi was teased about how she spoke and her name “a Lebanese girl who pronounced ask as ax...had a name that sounded too close to Alpo, a brand of dog food...” (382). For Connie, being albino made her different and alone from everyone else around her “Connie was albino, exceptionally white even by the ultra-Caucasian standards... Connie by comparison, was alone in her difference” (382). Murphy tries to get the readers to relate and pity the girls, who were bullied for being different. The author also stirs the readers to dislike the bullies and their fifth grade teacher. Murphy shares a few of the hurtful comments Connie faced such as “Casper, chalk face, Q-Tip... What’d ya do take a bath in bleach? Who’s your boyfriend-Frosty the Snowman?” (382). Reading the cruel words can immediately help one to remember a personal memory of a hurtful comment said to them and conclude a negative opinion of the bullies. The same goes for the fifth grade teac...
Old Mother Hubbard is the most innocent person on the block. But one early morning she was robbed! Who would do such a thing to an innocent person. Luckily the local detective was in town. His name was Davis a black 30 year old male. By the time he got to the scene he had his stuff ready to go. First he finds the only people that were in the house at the time. The suspects are Johnny her grandson, Drew her husband and Kesha which is her helper around the house. “Once the suspects are gathered I will start the questioning them if they know who stole the dog bones,” Davis said.
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
While Dally strikes out with them and leaves in infuriation, Ponyboy and Johnny have more luck. At the end of the night they walked the girls home, but then the girl’s boyfriends showed up and that was the start of the dangerous and daring adventure the two boys would go on. After the girls left with the Socs, Randy and Bob, Ponyboy and Johnny stayed out that night and dozed off in an empty lot. Hours into the night Ponyboy woke up and realized he was meant to be home hours earlier. He rushed home only to get in a fight with his older brother Darry, consequently leading him back to the lot with Johnny. He tried to calm down, but then the Socs from earlier, show up and were looking for a fight. The two boys were left in a life or death situation and ultimately choose life and killed Bob. They ran to Dally for help, who was a genius when it comes to running from the law and the next thing they knew they were hiding in an abandoned church that belonged to a small town neighboring Windrixville. When Dally came to check on them, they found themselves unintentionally burning the church down and rescuing children from being left to burn. They managed to get all the kids out safely and Ponyboy was thrown out of the church window by Johnny just in time before it collapsed. Unfortunately, Johnny was still in the church which urged Dally to go in after him and save Johnny. The three of them were rushed to the hospital where they were reunited with the gang. Although they were all reunited, they were once again separated due to Dally and Johnny staying in the
The story provides many sources for the boy's animosity. Beginning with his home and overall environment, and reaching all the way to the adults that surround him. However, it is clear that all of these causes of the boy's isolation have something in common, he has control over none of these factors. While many of these circumstances no one can expect to have control over, it is the culmination of all these elements that lead to the boy’s undeniable feeling of lack of control.
This is a transmedia effort by the movement Half The Sky. It's a movement addressing the challenges facing women and girls globally with things such as sex trafficking, forced prostitution, gender based violence, maternal morality and poverty. The movement has a book of the same name, a PBS series, and Facebook and mobile games which allows the spread of their message and for others to share
He goes well she couldn’t have gone far have you checked the pound she said no I was gone like a long time. He gave her directions to the pound and he told her they were probably already closed by now and she started walking and he said their defiantly closed and she yelled and he said well if the pound has her she will be there in the morning the pound never hurt anybody. Wendy goes to the security guard to ask him if he has a quarter to exchange of all her change to use the pay phone to call the pound and he insist for her to use his cell phone, he tells her nobody uses a pay phone now a day. She calls the pound and still no sign of Lucy. He lets her know the tow her car away so now she doesn’t have a place to sleep so she goes to the woods and sleeps get frightened by another homeless man runs back to town waits at Walgreens for the security guard to show up for his shift. Eight o clock rolls around he pulls up he walks up to her and tells her she looks a bit shaken she said I’ve been her since eight where have you been he told her it was his day off but told her she missed a call from the pound last night after she had left. He let her use his cell phone to call the pound then afterwards he handed her six dollars and told her to take it and don’t say anything and don’t let Holly see it and just to stop back around and just say
Rainbow got up from bed and watched the kids go to school. He walks with the kids to school and goes straight to the candy store afterwards. He waits as the store doesn't open until 11:00 am and it's 10:55 am. He waits five minutes It's now 11:00 am, the store is still closed so he wonders how will he get the candy for the kids.
In Amy Tan’s “Fish Cheeks”, the author intrigues the reader very early on in the story. Tan tells about how she is in love with a boy named Robert, who was the minister’s son. It seemed very apparent that she really liked him, until her mom invites his whole family to come celebrate Christmas Eve with them. The reason this was a big deal is because Amy and her family are Chinese and Robert’s family is ‘as white as Mary in the manger’ (pg. 110).
The children couldn’t accept what they thought was so horrible. There was a lot of ignorance and carelessness portrayed throughout this short story. The theme of ungratefulness was revealed in this story; The author depicted how disrespecting someone can inturn feed you with information you may wish you never knew and how someone can do one wrong thing and it immediately erases all the good things a person did throughout their