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The House of the Scorpion is a book about a guy named Matt Alacráno as he struggles to survive and establish his own identity. The story is set in the future and mostly takes place in Opium, a strip of land separating the United States from Mexico. Matt is a clone of the powerful drug lord El Patrón who over 140 years old. A majority of Matt’s life is being held in captivity. His early years were peaceful but secluded childhood where he was raised by Cecilia. After Matt figured out that he was a clone he was moved to El Patrón’s House.While living at the mansion be befriends Tam Lin, his bodyguard, and Maria, his romantic interest. At this time clones were despised by everyone which made Matt fit in even less. The drug lord demanded that everyone
Rot & Ruin is a fiction novel written by Jonathan Maberry, set in the post-zombie apocalypse. The novel was released in the United States September 2010. 14 years after the zombie outbreak, this book follows Benny Imura five months after he turns fifteen as he looks for a job so that his rations won’t be cut in half. This is a third-person narrative that follows the protagonist, Benny Imura. Benny is 15 years old pale, somewhat skinny, has brown hair, and dark green eyes. Benny needs a job to live in Mountainside, a town in the Sierra Nevadas in Central California, and reluctantly joins his half-brother, Tom Imura, in the zombie-hunting business and discovers the reality of the business.
In the novel While the Locust Slept, Peter Razor tells his life story about the discrimination and hardships he faced as a Native American boy. In the novel, Peter uses many flashbacks to his early life that help the reader to understand how he got to the places he is. The flashbacks show how discrimination has effected Peters life because he is Native American. Flashbacks in the book include bad experiences Peter had with teachers at the different schools he went to. These flashbacks help to reader to understand how many different situations Peter had to deal with at a young age because the reader understand that the bad experiences are not just happening at the time, but also happened in the past. Many teachers in Peters life exerted their
Parrot in the Oven, by Victor Martinez, is a novel that portrays the lives that forty-five million Americans live every day from the point of view of Manny Hernandez, the main character of this book. He is a Mexican-American citizen who lives in the projects of his hometown in California. Manny lives with his mother, his abusive father, his two sisters Pedi and Magda, and Nardo, his irresponsible older brother. Throughout the story, Manny goes through many big events that help him discover what his real values should be and who he really is. Scenarios including speaking too soon, rebelling against his father and joining a gang that changed his character drastically.
In the essay The Chosen People, Stewart Ewen, discusses his perspective of middle class America. Specifically, he explores the idea that the middle class is suffering from an identity crisis. According to Ewen’s theory, “the notion of personal distinction [in America] is leading to an identity crisis” of the non-upper class. (185) The source of this identity crisis is mass consumerism. As a result of the Industrial Revolution and mass production, products became cheaper and therefore more available to the non-elite classes. “Mass production was investing individuals with tools of identity, marks of personhood.” (Ewen 187) Through advertising, junk mail and style industries, the middle class is always striving for “a stylistic affinity to wealth,” finding “delight in the unreal,” and obsessed with “cheap luxury items.” (Ewen 185-6) In other words, instead of defining themselves based on who they are on the inside, the people of middle class America define themselves in terms of external image and material possessions.
Imagine a world with clones and drug dealing as a daily occurrence. People are in a state of confusion and it is very chaotic. Things change constantly. This is a very similar world in comparison to the book. There are many clones and harvesting of clones. El Patron, one of the main characters, is a drug lord who deals drug. The characters in the House of the Scorpion show courage and fear, but to have courage you have to have a fear which is why the author usually uses these concepts together.
Yet as we journey from the dark to the light in Aeschylus, we cannot leave the dark behind – the darkness breeds the light.
Who are the cockroach people? In basic words, they are the Chicanas and Chicanos, the Mexican-American race. They are the general population that do not belong anywhere but also belong to two different races, which are Mexico and America. They are considered the pariahs of both countries; it is possible that they are to white for Mexico or to Mexican for America. The novel, The Revolt of the Cockroach People by Oscar Zeta Acosta, is a captivating story of a Chicano lawyer named Buffalo Zeta Brown and every one of his hardships. He recounts the story of the Chicano individuals from his own experience, deliberately using dialect to highlight his outrage and energy for political injustices. Alongside dialect, Acosta additionally uses symbols
What is the Gate of Eden? How does it affect our main character and who he is as a person? Joe Gendreau is a very complicated character in which he is quite different from your average man. In this story there is a lot of mysteries, why is the book named the Gates of Eden, and why did the Yatsimura bros try so hard to blackmail our main character was it that important, what is Joe’s Background, is there reasons to why he was so aggressive and finally who is Ms.Ohara?
“Vengekeep Prophecies” written by Brian Farrey is a good book for kids. The main message of this week's reading is always be careful who you come upon. If you don’t be careful of who you come upon, you’ll meet someone who you really like. If you meet someone, then you’ll have to betray that person which will make them really sad. You’ll have to betray that person because you might get orders from your leader to betray that person. In this case Jaxter got orders from Edilman to betray the Dowager. First this happened, Jaxter meets Da’s long lost friend and they unite together to help save Vengekeep. (Da is Jaxter’s Dad)After that this happened, Jaxter and Callie finds out that Edilman has the “Death Sentence”.
“Culture belongs to the imagination; to judge it rationally is to misunderstand its function” (Wilson 79). In “The Butterfly Mosque” by G. Willow Wilson, she acknowledges culture and explains why cultures can differ so greatly. She emphasizes why its highly inconclusive to try to find a meaning behind ones culture. As a young American Muslim women she is faced with cross cultural ironies as she tries to find her identity and where she fits in. Her conversion to Islam brings into light her internalized prejudice and the different perspectives of Westerners towards the Middle East and vice versa. In her memoir, she depicts both positive and negative aspects of both cultures and, her struggle to find a common ground between the two.
him. He tries to go back to raping peasants, but he can’t lift them up
Babylon’s Ark is the story of Lawrence Anthony a South African entered Iraq in hopes of saving the Baghdad Zoo. The Baghdad Zoo was in the middle of a war zone so parts of the walls were damaged, some animals had escaped and the ones that were trapped in their cages had to constantly endure the sounds of bomb shells going off and avoids the looters that were constantly trying to eat them. Upon Anthony’s arrival the prospect of the zoo surviving were slim to none. He even considered putting a bullet in each one of the animals because at the time it may have been the most humane thing to do.
Time, to normal people moves in a straight line, on the one end, is the past forever unreachable, and unchangeable to mortal beings. The past at some point becomes the present, where all mortal beings, and everything else that exists currently resides, and on the far end of this line, there is the future, shrouded in a mist, which mortals can only vaguely predict. In contrast to what normal humans see, the peculiar children, and haunting monsters of the novel Hollow City experience both time and place quite differently. For these peculiar children in Ransom Riggs novel the past is accessible through magical loops in time, where days are repeated exponentially, these loops provide to be an essential and interesting element of the story, effectively
Jorge Luis Borges’ thought provoking and fantastical literature stems from his philosophical mind. His stories, especially “Death and the Compass”, focus on labyrinths and identity. Borges fascinates his audience with his analysis of reality. He combines fact and fiction to create the perfect genre of mystery. His characters’ conquest for the unknown defines his use of detective fiction.
The House of Hades, by Rick Riordan, is set in present time and evolves over the course of two weeks. There are eight protagonists, all demigods fighting against Gaea. Two of the demigods, Percy and Annabeth, have fallen into Tartarus, the most abysmal and treacherous part of the underworld, where no Olympian god has dared to go. Tartarus is also the god of abyss. The other six protagonists travel from Rome to Greece, where lies the house of Hades. All eight protagonists are in search of the doors of death in order to close them.