1. Jacob Portman has this quest to find the home where his grandfather grew up. The home for orphans was or is run by someone named Miss Peregrine, and all the children who’s stay in the orphanage are peculiar. Now if we use “math” in this, we get Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. But, what does it mean to be peculiar or why use the word peculiar? In this book, the peculiar children aren’t just freaks or weirdos. No. They are kids that have unexplainable powers like the X-men! There’s a girl that can fly, someone can generate or create fire with their bare hands, another has superman strength, and so much more! As Emma says to Jacob when they find out he has a power, too. “I knew there was something peculiar about you. […] And I
means that as the highest compliment” (Chapter 9, Page 243).
The first document is a political cartoon showing Miss Columbia’s School House from 1894. This cartoon is a reflects the perception of others attending Miss Columbia’s School House because inside the school everyone is misbehaving and running around. Many believe that if one country is governed by another, it is an uncivilized nation. In the cartoon there a female and a male standing outside asking can they come in. the female represents Canada and the male represents Hawaii. The male figure is holding a British flag, imply that Britain once ruled Hawaii. The female teacher who’s supposed to be taking care of the children is a representation of America. The author is portraying America as a skilled and civilized country.
The Glass Castle is a memoir written by Jeannette Walls about her family. In this story she tells about her adventurous and dangerous childhood that shaped her to be the person she is today. Which is a strong, optimistic, responsible woman who knows how to roll with the burns and the punches literally. Brian, who is younger than Jeannette was her partner in crime in all her childhood memories. Maureen was the youngest she was not too close with the family and if I had one way to describe her it would be lost. Lori was oldest sibling and the total opposite. She was more reserved and very into her art. Which she took after their mother, RoseMary. RoseMary was a selfish woman, she would constantly put herself first. She was also, very weak and
“The Lost Children of Wilder” is a book about how the foster care system failed to give children of color the facilities that would help them lead a somewhat normal and protected life. The story of Shirley Wilder is a sad one once you find out what kind of life she had to live when she was a young girl. Having no mother and rejected by her father she has become a troubled girl.
In John Connolly’s novel, The Book of Lost Things, he writes, “for in every adult there dwells the child that was, and in every child there lies the adult that will be”. Does one’s childhood truly have an effect on the person one someday becomes? In Jeannette Walls’ memoir The Glass Castle and Khaled Hosseini’s novel The Kite Runner, this question is tackled through the recounting of Jeannette and Amir’s childhoods from the perspectives of their older, more developed selves. In the novels, an emphasis is placed on the dynamics of the relationships Jeannette and Amir have with their fathers while growing up, and the effects that these relations have on the people they each become. The environment to which they are both exposed as children is also described, and proves to have an influence on the characteristics of Jeannette and Amir’s adult personalities. Finally, through the journeys of other people in Jeannette and Amir’s lives, it is demonstrated that the sustainment of traumatic experiences as a child also has a large influence on the development of one’s character while become an adult. Therefore, through the analysis of the effects of these factors on various characters’ development, it is proven that the experiences and realities that one endures as a child ultimately shape one’s identity in the future.
Often in society do we see people treat others in a way that we learned at birth. In a way that make us seem lesser as a person in the long run. In the passage, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle (1751) Written by Tobias Smollett, it shows many traces of emotion and of social propriety of this sort. This can be found in the beginning when Pickle and Gauntlet meet, While they duel, and what happens after the duel.
Christopher?s mathematical interests are reflected in his numbering his chapters strictly with prime numbers, ignoring composite numbers, such as 4 and 6. He is also the first student to take an A level in Maths and to get an A grade at his school. Christopher has a photographic memory and is extremely observant. Similarly, Raymond ...
Frontier life was difficult for Molly’s family because they had to be self-sufficient of all the jobs to do such as feeding the horses, harvesting the farm, cooking the food, feeding the cows, making tools and clothes, and planting seeds.
Oscar Wilde once said, “Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.” The content of this quote embodies A Doll’s House and The Glass Menagerie because of the sexual control in both the plays. A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen and The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee William, the characters, although from different time periods, face the hardships of sexual control through the men they admire. Nora is written as the naive protagonist of A Doll’s House, who embodies the themes of the novella as she matures throughout the play. Nora learns that her husband, Torvald, uses her as a doll for his own pleasure and does not truly care for her. In The Glass Menagerie, Laura, the main character, is also
In Karen Russell’s short story St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves Claudette, the main character, and other teenagers are being raised in a home where they learn how to adapt to human society. Some girls accomplish this task while other girls fail. The wolf girl Claudette truly is conformed and successfully adapts to human society. Claudette proves this by her relationship with her other sisters along with her relationship with herself.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Hoang Tran English 3A - Mr. Nguyen Period 5 11/27/17 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, written by Ken Kesey, takes place within the 1960’s and centralizes its plot around the patients of the mental hospital. The asylum is governed with a matriarchy by Nurse Ratched. Nurse Ratched keeps her dominance within the ward through strict rules that keeps the patients in order. Her ways to keep her patient's intact may be a bit extreme
In the short story “The Possibilities of Evil” by Shirley Jackson several symbols to tell her story about Miss Strangeworth are very mystifying. The tell how she is and her personality. Her symbols in her life that are very important to her would be her roses. She love her roses because the were planted by her grandmother tended by her mother and now she does the same as her mother. Miss Strangeworth never gave any of her roses too anyone “At botherd Miss Strangeworth to think of people wanting to carry them away, too take them into strange towns and down strange streets…”. Her roses are something really ecstatic too her. The symbols that are very important to me in my life is family. To me family is everything, an at should always come first.
Through a magical doorway, past the golden thrones, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe was created by C.S. Lewis, in 1950, in England. Over the course of the past 64 years, this book has become one of the most famous books in the world. Lewis was “one of the most commercially successful authors” (The Life & Faith of C.S. Lewis: The Magic Never Ends). The hidden archetypes and intricate themes in this book are what sets it apart from others.
Another Hebrew word for peculiar is cuwr, (pronounced, soor); it renders the meaning “of the Temple” (Exodus 19:5). This indicates the meaning of God’s ownership or property; His holy possession. Our body is the Temple of the Lord where He inhabits, dwells, or abides. The Oxford Desk Dictionary and Thesaurus (American Edition) defines peculiar as “strange; odd; unusual; exclusively belonging to the individual as particular; special”.
In the passage, “The adventures of peregrine pickle”, the author Tobias uses dialogue between Mr. Pickle and Godfrey Gauntlet. The author states that the two main characters confront their own and control emotions. Mr. pickle and encounters Godfrey Gauntlet brother of his beloved Emilia by using literary techniques. Godfrey has bad emotions about the way peregrine disrespects his sister Emilia. In a matter of the dialogue between the two characters they use politeness when speaking with each other.
The Wizard of Oz was directed by Victor Fleming and was released in 1939. The movie is about Dorothy Gale, a young girl living on a farm in Kansas with her Aunt Em and Uncle Henry. Dorothy gets into some trouble with her neighbor, Miss Gulch, but everyone else on the farm is too busy to pay attention to her. Miss Gulch arrives with the sheriff to take away Dorothy’s dog Toto, because he bit her leg. Toto escapes the sheriff and Dorothy decides to run away with Toto. She meets a fortune teller who makes her, falsely, believe that Aunt Em is ill. So she runs home straight away, but as she gets there a tornado starts coming up. Not being able to get into the cellar, she is knocked out by flying debris and awakens to the house being carried away by the twister. The house lands in the World of Oz in Munchkin Land. Dorothy is greeted by Glinda, the Good Witch of the North, and the Munchkins. Dorothy is treated like a heroine because she killed the Wicked Witch of the East. Glinda transfers the witch’s ruby slippers to Dorothy’s feet, and the Wicked Witch of the West swears revenge on her. Dorothy is told to follow the yellow brick road to the Emerald City and talk to the Wizard of Oz to get her back home. On the way, she befriends the brainless Scarecrow, the heartless Tin Man, and the cowardly Lion. They get into some trouble, along the way, but they get to the Wizard. He said that he wouldn’t help unless they return with the broom of the Wicked Witch of the West. After a lot of danger and the kidnapping of Dorothy, her new friends save her and Dorothy kills the evil witch. The witch’s guards rejoice and give Dorothy the broom. Back in the Emerald City the Wizard still will not grant the groups wishes and Toto exposes the Wizard to be ...