The book Trouble,by Gary D. Schmidt, is based on the Smith family who lives in Blythbury-by-the-Sea, which is a small, quiet town by the Atlantic Shore. The family believes that if you build your house far enough from trouble, trouble will not be able to find you. Then, abruptly, their life takes a turn for the worse and trouble finds them. Henry, the youngest of the Smith family, and Franklin, the oldest of the Smith boys, planned a trip to climb the mountain of Katahdin, but now, because of the trouble, Henry sets out to climb it with his best friend Sanborn. On this journey, he meets the person who started the trouble in his family, Chay Chouan, who goes with him. The two characters Henry and Chay have characteristics and traits that are the same, but they also have very different personalities and backgrounds and family styles. …show more content…
In the beginning of the book, it seems that Henry and Chay are complete opposites.
Henry is from a long line of rich, white Americans who were always upstanding citizens in the community. His family was well respected in everything that they did. On the other hand, Chay’s family is a Cambodian refugee family who came to America in search of a better life. The Cambodians never were treated well, and they all lived in a separate town called Merton. Chay’s family owned a business, but wasn’t really rich. Chay went to school with Henry’s brother, Franklin, who seemed to get into a lot of fights with Chay. Franklin taught Henry how to fight off Cambodians who would look at their sister Louisa in a bad way or touched her. That is the thoughts that Henry grew up to think towards Chay and all other
Cambodians. In the middle of the book, there really wasn’t a change in these things, but other circumstances happened that affected the thinking of Henry. Henry began to develop more hatred toward the Cambodians, but more specifically Chay and the rest of the Chouan family. He believed that they were 100% different and that Chay will never understand the pain that he caused for the Smith family. He also believed that the trouble that Chay brought to the family would never leave them and it would only get worse as they went on with normal life. When Henry and Sanborn met up with Chay on their trip to Katahdin, Henry began to realize the similarities that he shared with Chay. Henry didn’t want to believe that it could be true, but Chay knew the pain that Henry was feeling, and what the sorrow of their family sounded like. “A heart that has lost knows every other heart that has lost. Late and soon, loss is all the same” -Gary D. Schmidt, Trouble. Just as Henry had lost his brother, and would hear his family grieve over their loss, Chay’s family also lost a brother. Chay’s brother had been taken away from them when he was 10 to go fight for the people who were keeping them in the refugee camp, and then they shot his sister when Chay’s mother resisted them from taking her son. Chay then had to leave on a ship, which got stranded and then towed to Hong Kong, where they then left to go to America, so he knew what it felt like to have trouble follow him. Throughout the book, Chay and Henry’s personalities slowly over time show that they aren’t so different. The only thing that separates them is the color difference in their skin. Chay shows that he is truly sorry for what Henry has had to go through because of the trouble that has come, but Henry also shows Chay that he is sorry for the skewed mindset that he has had of the Cambodians. When they get past the color difference, they are both two guys who are dealing with trouble and try to run away from it, but no matter how far you build your house from trouble, trouble will always find you.
Harry Dolan grew up in Rome, New York, and currently resides in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He writes the critically acclaimed David Loogan series, a mystery/thriller series. He graduated from Colgate University, majoring in philosophy and he studied fiction-writing under the tutelage of Frederick Busch, a novelist.
Leon F. Litwack is the author of Trouble in Mind. Litwack is an American historian and professor of history at the University of California at Berkeley. He was born in 1929 in Santa Barbara, California. In 1951, Litwack received is Bachelor Degree and then continued to further his education. In 1958, he received his Ph. D. from the University of California at Berkeley. Samuel Eliot Morison and Henry Steele Commager wrote the book that sparked Litwack's curiosity in history. The book was The Growth of the American Republic. Litwack was in the eleventh grade when he first discovered his interest in history. In 1964, Litwack began teaching at the University of California, where he taught an excess of 30,000 students. Litwack has written other books besides Trouble in Mind. One of the books he wrote was Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery in 1979. In 1980, Litwack was the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for history of this book and in 1981 he was the winner of the National Book Award. He also wrote North of Slavery: The Negro in the Free State, 1790-1860, Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America, and The Harvard Guide to African-American History. Litwack has also won many including, the Francis Parkman Prize, the American Book Award, and he was elected to the presidency of the Organization of American Historians. In addition to this, Litwack has been an outstanding teacher and received two notable teaching awards. Litwack's first teaching position was at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, where he taught from 1958 to 1964. He also taught at the University of South Carolina, Louisiana State University, and the University of Mississippi. As one can see, not only has Litwack been an exceptionally outstanding author, he has also been a very popular and influential teacher.
The medical values learned in chapter 11 are, emotional detachment, professional socialization, clinical experience, mastering uncertainty, mechanistic model, intervention, and emphasis on acute and rare illnesses. The three that I mainly care about are, emotional detachment, mastering uncertainty, and clinical experience. Emotional detachment is a very important medical value because this can strongly affect not only the patient but the doctor as well. The doctor is supposed to sustain emotional detachment from patients. (Weitz 276). A doctor should try and keep their distance because their emotion can strongly affect the patient. How a doctor reacts or approaches a situation will show how they are with emotional detachment. Mastering
Both of these excellent stories illustrated how parents can set up their children for failure. Parents may want the best for their children, and they want them to be smart and successful, but it does not always turn out that way. Ultimately, Jing-mei was a disappointment to her mother but finally found contentment as an adult. Children want their parents' love and support, their attention, and unconditional love. Henry did not have any of those things, and he grew up to be as emotionally distant as his parents. As adults, we can only try to analyze our own upbringing and avoid unintended consequences in raising our own children.
The battle of good versus evil is present in all aspects of life. Actions taken by people can determine how others view them. Some choose to do what is right and good, while others choose what is wrong and evil. Many characters are forced to choose between the two, and some do not foresee the consequences of their actions. In the book Peace Like a River by Leif Enger, actions committed by the Davy, Jeremiah, and Jeremiah’s friends, both good and evil, always have consequences.
Lucy believes that even though she has gone through so much pain throughout her life, it can always be worse; there are people having more difficulties in their lives. For example, she brings up this ideology when she is watching the horrors of Cambodia loomed on TV. She expresses that “she feels lucky to at least have food, clothes, and a home” in comparison to these people that have nothing. In addition, she mentions how great would it be if people stop complaining about their situations and see how much they have already; “how they have health and strength.” Likewise, James expresses a positive view about the African American outcome after the slavery period. He realizes that the acceptance of the black man in society “not only has created a new black man, but also a new white man.” He’s not a stranger anymore in America; he’s part of a new nation. Because of this achievement, he concludes, “this world is no longer white, and it will never be white
Traditionally, it is agreed that any and every form of telling the truth is always the best thing to do. In the essays of Stephen L Carter and Stephanie Ericsson, this ideal is not exactly true. It is expressed in "The Insufficiency of Honesty" as well as "The Ways We Lie" that honesty is hard to come by and that there is more to it than believed. The authors convey their views by first defining what the concept is, picking it apart, and then use common occurrences for examples of the points they had made.
Charlie knows Jasper’s reputation but still manages to find a friend through the rumours. Racism and segregation has set in societal rules that Charlie overlooks through Silvey’s writing to send a message to us that everyone has a different side to them and that wrong assumptions and ignorance can influence racism.
In society, any accidents are perceived as negative outcomes illustrate a terrible ending that has taken place but in reality it can be perceived as something positive in the long run. By obstructing the 2005 Camaro and the three teens, it occurred that no one was injured and everything was calm. Accident by Dave Egger represents how a bad decision becomes a point of conflict and symbolism within the theme of the story.
In John Perry's book Dialogue on Good, Evil and the Existence of God, he used three characters in the dialogue in order to clarify the positions of the three characters (Weirob, Miller, and Cohen), the arguments they provide in support their positions and the "end state" of their discussion. This allows us to examine our understanding of the good, evil and the existence of God.
The novel I read was “The Watsons Go To Birmingham.” In this story, it talks about a family that is known as the “Weird Watsons”, and is about their life at school and at home and when they take a family trip to their mother's hometown in Alabama during the time of segregation. They live in Michigan, in their family there is three kids and two parents. The oldest kid is in the sixth grade and his name is Byron; he is the king of the sixth grade and always picks on his little siblings, the narrator is Kenny and he is in the fourth grade; he is always getting bullied and picked on by the king of fourth grade Larry Dunn and his older brother, and last but not least is Joetta which is in kindergarten; she always falls for the stuff that Byron says and is always telling on her older brother Kenny. During the school year Kenny had beaten up the king of fourth grade Larry Dunn because he was tired of getting picked on for being too
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...Walter is trash. Walter just got labeled trash because of his social class. Aunt Alexandra is being very rude about all of this. The court case had been very unfair and because of this Scout started to realize the unfairness in society. “There’s something in our world that makes men lose their heads- they couldn’t be fair if they tried. In our courts when it’s a white mans word againist a black man’s word, the white always wins. They’re ugly, but they are the facts of life.” This is not justice because no matter how much evidence there is that African Americans is not guilty the African American will still be the one who is getting blamed while the white person gets off the hook. As Benjamin Franklin had said the strictest law of not acceptiong some people in society becomes the biggest injustice that could happen.
Henry’s character is introduced in the movie when his cousin Mark, who is just about the same age as him, suddenly comes to stay with their family because his father had to go away on business. Mark’s mother recently passed away right in front of his eyes and he was still dealing with the repercussions of it all. Dealing with feelings of loneliness, Mark immediately developed a close bond with Henry. He found Henry to be adventurous and nice but was not aware of who Henry really was and what he was experiencing. At first, Henry seemed like a decent young boy who enjoyed experimenting with new things. On ...