Jeanelle Gonzalez 7th ELA
Mrs. Conklin 2/24/17
Silent to the Bone Book Report Have you ever had a friend who went to jail for something they didn’t do? In the book, Silent to the Bone by e.i Kongsberg which takes place in a juvenile Connor wants to convince everyone that Branwell didn’t put his baby sister Nikki in coma, but Branwell won’t speak. So, Connor finds a way to communicate with his good friend and investigates what really happened. This mysterious young adult fiction book takes the reader on a suspenseful
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The main character is Branwell. Branwell is accused of dropping the baby and goes to jail and won’t talk. He is a tall, freckled, redheaded boy. Branwell can be described as caring, talkative and considerate. He was caring when he came home early every day to take care of Nikki. He would change her and when Nikki was not breathing well he tried to give her CPR. Branwell is talkative because he loved words. “We both loved to talk, but Branwell loved it more. He loved words.” (7) Lastly, he is considerate when he told Connor to tell the agency Vivian works for that she smokes, so that she won’t cause harm to any other children. Another main character is Conner. Conner is Branwell’s best friend. He is loyal, determined and curious. Connor is loyal because he visits Branwell every day and is positive that he did not put Nikki in coma. He is determined when he kept visiting people even though he had exams. Connor was curious when he kept asking questions to Margaret about lies. “Why do you think he lied?” (151) Another character is the au pair, Vivian. Vivian can be described as sneaky, attractive, and mean. She was sneaky because she would smoke even though she knew she was not allowed to. “Someone might tell them that she’s started in smoking again.” (160) Vivian was afraid that she might lose her job because she started smoking. Vivian is described as pretty in the novel. Connor, Branwell, and Morris liked
For historians, the colonial period holds many mysteries. In Written in Bone, Sally Walker tells the story of America's earliest settlers in an interesting way, by studying human remains and bones. Sally walker works alongside historians as they uncover the secrets of colonial era gravesites. Written in Bone covers the entire process, from excavating human remains to studying the burial methods and how scientists, historians and archeologists go about this. Readers will be amazed by how much detail these processes uncover, such as gender, race, diets and the lifestyles of many different people. The reader will began to see the colonial era in a new way.
She was as “stubborn as a rusted hinge” (27). Grace is “skinny to begin with” (40). Grandma is another character. She appears to be “a pretty terrible mother” and “mean” that “she wasn’t worth a speck of love” (9). Lacey is a “longed-legged, graceful” ballerina (35).
After reading "scared to death" and "wolf family values" I think the second article gave better reasoning behind why we should protect the wolf population. Both articles talk of the wolves return to Yellowstone national park, but the first essay "scared to death" by Ed Yong focuses on the wolves effect on the elk population. The second essay "wolf family values" by Sharon Levy focuses mainly on the wolves and their population and changes of their behavior because of hunting and trying to manage the population. it also focuses on the effects they have on the environment in general.
Florence could feel someone staring at her and hear a quiet laugh that faded out, it was Sophia, the antagonist, because Sophia haunts everyone but Aunt. Sophia seemed like she was better than everyone else, because the way that her Aunt
The Great Silence is a short story written by Ted Chiang in 2014. The author uniquely uses a parrot as a narrator in this story which explains the slow disappearance of parrots, and why humans are ironically ignorant to this disappearance. Throughout the story, the satellite Aricebo is used a great deal to introduce how human’s actions are so ironic, and the Fermi Paradox, the unusual silence of the galaxy, is used the explain the seriousness of the parrot’s situation. Another name for the Fermi Paradox is The Great Silence, where this story gets its title. Along with these, Alex the parrot is referenced to strongly exhibit the abilities of parrots .After reading this short story, the reader comes to understand that the author and the parrot narrator are trying to kindheartedly warn humans of their ignorance of their own planet; specifically that that while humanity is searching the galaxies for communicative nonhuman life, this exact thing they are searching for is already on earth and dying out.
Jace Witherspoon is a determined, responsible, and secretive sixteen year-old teen. Throughout the whole story, Jace has one goal: to save his mother from the pain afflicted by his father. He never gives up on his objective, even when his older brother Christian was ready to move on. The mother soon rejects the brothers’ attempt to rescue her, and Jace is unable to cope with it, shedding many tears, showing how unyielding he was about the situation the whole time. Adding on the Jace’s character, he did not blame anyone for him hitting his ex-girlfriend except himself. This shows he is able to accept responsibility for his actions, not blaming Lauren even though she slept with his supposed best friend. This is where his brother sees the difference between Jace and his father; Jace knows that he is wrong...
Vivian’s boastfulness at the beginning of the play was an attempt to cover up her social ineptness with people who are neither her students nor her mentors. In a flashback scene, in which her mentor, Professor E.M Ashford, tells her to, “enjoy yourself with your friends” (15) rather than study, Vivian reveals her social awkwardness: “I, ah, walked around past the...There were students on the lawn, talking about nothing, laughing... I just couldn’t... I went back to the library” (15). She returns to the library because she prefers the concrete elements of her life, like facts, grammar, and word definitions, because with them, she has complete control. A later scene, when Susie interrupts one of Vivian’s imaginary lectures to tell her that she needs to do another ultrasound, proves this need for control. Vivian protests, saying “not right now. It’s not supposed to be now” and “it should not be now. I am in the middle of—this. I have this planned for now, not ultrasound” (51). Vivian needs to have power over her own life, and since connecting with others is her weakness, she refrains from doing
Silence — the sound of quiet, the state of mind, the lack of meaning — all these pertain to its definition. Communication is expanding, noise is increasing, music is becoming more obtainable as people search desperately for a moment of peace or a breeze of silence. As the scarcity of physical silence increases, its value as a rare commodity increases as well. The idiom “Silence is golden” may perhaps only grow closer to reality as time passes, as exemplified by the white noise machines or silent fans entering the market and fictionalized in Kevin Brockmeier’s short story, “The Year of Silence.” In light of this, Brockmeier explores the value of silence and noise in his story without putting one above the other. Through strange clues and hidden
while his wife Bunny and daughter Maude are reminiscent of the two Sternwood daughters, Vivian and Carmen” (Bergan 201). These two women also provide that all-important aspect of the femme fatale. Bunny is the impulsive, sexualized woman who acts without thinking, and lives by the charity of the elderly husband who just can’t tell her no. Maude is the dark, intelligent, manipulative woman. She works in the background, accomplishing what she wants, only telling others what they need to hear for her to get what she wants.
In “The Great Silence” Ted Chiang presents the reader with the idea that humans and other intelligent species do live on earth. Communication between different species on earth can be difficult because they can’t express their thoughts to one another. According to a possible solution to fermi’s paradox, intelligent life would rather hide than to present themselves to potential enemies. Humans have a hard time trying to find other species to communicate with because they only focus on extraterrestrial life. Humans created the Arecibo observatory to send out signals into space and pick up any signals that could be sent by extraterrestrial life. Although Humans cannot speak directly to other species we are able to communicate with our actions and vibes.
Jack, thinking he might have been that very baby, retrieves the bag he was found in as an infant in which Ms. Prism identifies by some distinguishing marks to have been her own. Jack realized the woman that had been teaching his niece was his mother. But then Lady Bracknell explained that she was not, but Lady Bracknell’s poor sister Mrs. Moncrieff was. The irony continues to explain how Jack and Algernon were biological brothers. They were pretending to be earlier to play out their game of Bunburyism.
Cassie worked really hard to get Lillian Jean to trust her after what happened at Strawberry. For a month, Cassie acts like Lillian Jean’s personal servant. Lillian Jean grows more and more fond of Cassie, eventually telling Cassie all her secrets. One day Cassie leads Lillian Jean into the woods, beats her up, and forces her to apologize for the event in Strawberry. Then Cassie threatens to reveal all of Lillian Jean’s secrets if the older girl ever admits that Cassie attacked her.
Vivian Ward (Julia Roberts) in Pretty Woman comes from a small town in Georgia, and works as a prostitute on the streets of Hollywood to support herself. Although Vivian's social position is very low, she has a strong sense of personal dignity and independence. Even though sometimes she have to stand by the street with empty stomach to wait for clients, Vivian and her friend Kit still keep themselves from the control of pimps, and "act as their own agents". Later, at the end of Vivian's one-week business arrangement with wealthy Edward Lewis (the Prince to her dream), which culminates in love and growing mutual respect, he offers her an apartment, a car and a credit card to get her off the streets, but she refuses. For Vivian, however, this arrangement is only different in terms of "geography" and terms of payment for the "business”; between them.
In “Don’t Breathe,” Melody Dismal wrote a very inspirational, heart-wrenching, and loving poem about being shy. The poem is to the unspoken, coy, and lonely people who question themselves about talking to others. In “Don’t Breathe,” the writer uses a hyperbole, metaphor, and the tone of her writing to portray when people are wary they miss out on the possibilities in life.
There are many characters who go through changes and have many religious experiences throughout this film. The main characters who experience and go through changes are Nathan, his daughter Jade, Derrick, Adam and his family, Shane, and David. Each of these characters change throughout the movie and learn the importance of a father in the family, and the importance of spending time with our families.