As we approach our final year in junior high, our class was given the summer assignment to read and explore the message of Wolf Hollow by Lauren Wolk. Wolf Hollow takes place in 1943 with the point of view of a twelve year old girl named Annabelle, whose life took an abrupt turn. Annabelle lives with her parents, grandparents and Aunt At a young age Annabelle showed maturity as she was inexplicably bullied by Betty, the new girl. However while Annabelle quickly misjudged the capacity Betty would go to hurt her, she found herself growing a relationship with a “damaged man” named Toby. Annabelle was open minded and didn’t see Toby as the homeless, mental, war veteran that others think he is. However the with the guns he carries across his back …show more content…
and scars along his hands, Betty easily used Toby’s image to manipulate the people of Wolf Hollow. While Annabelle refuses to comply to Betty’s demands, Betty stops threatening Annabelle but instead started hurting the people she loves. When Betty meets a boy named Andy, Annabella was misguided by the thought that Betty would finally leave her alone since she made a new friend, but instead she not only cut Annabelle’s little brother with sharpened coil wire, but caused Annabelle’s best friend to go blind in one eye, from a rock she threw.
As Annabelle knew Betty cause these harsh events, everyone believed Betty when she claimed Toby committed these disastrous deeds. Later, Betty and Toby both go missing and rumors started that stated Toby kidnapped Betty. Things then get trickier when Annabelle takes matters into her own hands. As people searched for Toby, Annabelle found him first in his shack, just after he came back from fishing under the creek bridge. Annabelle the explained everything going on and took him to their barn where he hid, while police focused their attention to finding Betty first. Eventually Annabelle cut Toby’s hair and gave him clothes to the point where he didn’t look like Toby anymore. As Toby explained how he saw Betty cut her brother, and throw the rock it made sense why she would blame it on Toby, until Annabelle realized Betty might have fallen in a hidden well behind Toby’s …show more content…
shack. With Toby’s disguise, he was able to fish Betty out of the well, as a man named “Jordan” with the help of the rest of the search party. Unfortunately Betty had her toe amputated and then dies shortly after due to an infection but still found a way to blame Toby by claiming he pushed her down the well. As a new search party is formed to find Toby, he flees to Ohio where he was shot by the searchers, and died. Shortly before this heartbreaking event, Annabelle found a way for Andy to admit that Betty threw the rock and people gradually thought that Toby could have been innocent. Annabelle mourned Toby’s loss and returned to his grave for years after. Throughout Wolf Hollow there were multiple scenarios where the main characters stood up for important causes, however Annabelle’s urge to help Toby attracted the most attention.
Annabelle’s aunt, Lily, spat out numerous comments regarding Toby, then at the end of the book Annabelle stood up to her Aunt and proved her wrong, “‘What did you call Toby?’ I asked Aunt Lily slowly. ‘A monster? A mad man?’ I handed the star to my father, who looked at it closely and read aloud what was engraved on the back. ‘The Congress to Tobias Jordan.’” (Wolk 283-284). This gave a sense of relief to the readers when Aunt Lily was finally proved wrong and found out that Jordan, the man she was so proper to, was actually Toby, the man she greatly misjudged. Annabelle stood up for Toby in many situations without hesitation including when her parents started having doubts about Toby’s strange actions, “I looked my mother full in the face. ‘I wouldn’t say that’s a sign of confusion. I would say that’s a sign of something we don’t understand. Toby has his reasons and I don’t think that makes him odd at all. Or if it does, then i'm odd, too, and so are you.’” (Wolk 223-224). Wolf Hollow spreads the message that you need to stand up for what you believe in, no matter the damage. The book opens up as Annabelle tells us, “The year I turned twelve, I learned how to lie,” (Wolk 1). Annabelle is a realistic protagonist shown in this book Lauren Wolk wrote, where there isn’t always a happy ending. Overall,
I’m very fond of this book as it showed how difficult life was for a young girl in the 1940’s.
This book starts off simple in the beginning then surely escalates. Annie Lockwood, the main character is a typical teenage girl who just got out of school for the summer. Her boyfriend Sean isn't the romantic type at all. As she goes to Stratton Point where Sean is, to tell him that the party at the beach for the beginning of summer will start soon and she wanted him there with her. While he was working on a car, she walks into the old Stratton Mansion and looks around and all of a sudden she feels a falling feeling, like an earthquake almost, and then it was like only half of her was there. She could hear playing music, she even saw sun coming through the windows, and then bumped into someone. It was Hiram Stratton, Jr.. When he approaches her, she’s frightened, then Annie runs out of the house, and gets onto her bicycle and rides away. Finally, Strat was able to catch up with Annie and they went to the beach and sat there. That was where Annie had learned what year it was and they learned each other's names. Harriet Ranleigh was in the mansion in a tower, spying on Anna Sophia and Strat. She was angry and jealous when she saw the ...
The book that i chose to do this speech on is Cowboy Ghost. Cowboy Ghost is about a boy named Titus who goes on a cattle drive through Florida in the early 1900s. The main character in this story is Titus. Titus Timothy MacRobertson is a small and weak 16 year old boy that wants to impress his father that kind of ignores him. His mother died giving birth to him and his father “blames” Titus for her death. His father (Rob Roy MacRobertson) is a strong, massive and hardworking man. His brother Micah is a 29 year old man that is described as being a second Rob Roy MacRobertson because of his strength and size, at the end of the book you find out that he was more like their mother. The cattle drive was going really good until seminoles (indians)
In today’s world there are millions of people who grow up in situations that make them powerless. Poverty, violence, and drugs surround children from birth and force them to join the cycle. In L.B. Tillit’s Unchained a young boy named TJ grows up in this environment. With both his mother and father struggling with addiction, he is often left alone on the streets to fend for himself. He turns to a local gang for protection and a sense of place in Jr. High, but is quickly taken out of the life he knows when his father overdoses and dies. TJ is sent to live in a foster home where he learns to care for others and meets a girl and falls in love with her. However, when his mother regains custody of him, TJ is forced back into the gang where he uses violence and drug dealing to stay alive. With help from his foster care manager he soon realizes that he can make it out of his life and return to his foster home and the girl he loves. A central theme of Unchained is that people have the power to make decisions to determine their future.
Jake, Lucy’s neighbor was a well-educated kid. He was 15 years old and lives in an old timber house with his parents. Jake’s father was a farmer and had lived in the area since he was a lad. The area seemed to be haunted since creepy tales about all sorts of beasts was told. People even claimed that they were awakened some nights by a howling. Mostly people believed that it was a feral dog but Jakes father incised that it was a wolf, a ghost wolf. He was sure since he had seen a wolf in the forest when he was in Jake’s age, but none believed him. He kept telling his son about the wolf and Jake wanted to find out the truth. Lucy knew about Jake’s curiosity, at the same time as she decided to escape from her unbearable father. So she lied to get Jake by her side on the endless escape from the futureless community. She said that she knew where the wolf’s lair was. Jake got even more curious and joined her wolf hunting-adventure.
An artwork will consist of different elements that artists bring together to create different forms of art from paintings, sculptures, movies and more. These elements make up what a viewer sees and to help them understand. In the painting Twilight in the Wilderness created by Frederic Edwin Church in 1860 on page 106, a landscape depicting a sun setting behind rows of mountains is seen. In this painting, Church used specific elements to draw the viewer’s attention directly to the middle of the painting that consisted of the sun. Church primarily uses contrast to attract attention, but it is the different aspects of contrast that he uses that makes the painting come together. In Twilight in the Wilderness, Church uses color, rhythm, and focal
This quote from the book, Lone Survivor, shows the incredible resolve that the Author and protagonist of the story, Marcus Luttrell has. The book is all about the horrors that he endured in the Hindu Kush mountain region in Afghanistan when he went on a mission with 3 other Navy SEALs (Sea, Air, and Land), Danny Dietz, Matthew “Axe” Axelson, and Michael Murphy. The book, Lone Survivor was set in the mountains of the Hindu Kush, details the fight for survival against the Taliban, and has a theme of hospitality.
In Francesca Lia Block’s Wolf, displays a young girl struggle to over come and admit to escape her abusive home life. Throughout time women have struggled to escape the gruesome home life that they have to go through. Whether that be from the struggles of rape of men throwing them self on to the women, or from an abusive relationship in that man beating them. Although Block story is about the little girl story of overcoming the abusive relationship the little girl believes in so much more than that. Within the passage in the Wolf where the little girl discusses how she is not a victim by nature which represents block’s fear of women being blamed for being in abusive relationship. Throughout all of the passages she displays this courage to face the man and to protect her mother from every thing that she has to go through.
hits Myrtle and kills her. Instead of stopping or trying to help, she drives off. Later, when
After hearing a brief description of the story you might think that there aren’t many good things about they story. However, this is false, there are many good things in this book that makes it a good read. First being that it is a very intriguing book. This is good for teenage readers because often times they don’t willingly want to read, and this story will force the teenage or any reader to continue the book and continue reading the series. Secondly, this is a “good” book because it has a good balance of violence. This is a good thing because it provides readers with an exciting read. We hear and even see violence in our everyday life and I believe that it is something teenagers should be exposed to. This book gives children an insig...
In Francesca Lia Block's Wolf, the young, nameless protagonists, and heroine, runs away to her Grandmothers’ house after being repeatedly sexually assaulted by her Mothers’ boyfriend. "They don't believe me. They think I'm crazy. But let me tell you something it be a wicked wicked world out there if you didn't already know." (Block 40-45) From the first sentence and thereafter, the reader can infer through the thoughts, actions, and motivations of the protagonists, that something is not right. She does not come from a nuclear family, nor is she the 'Little Red' that we have come to expect. Her abuses, are no longer held under the daintily cloaked impressions of a lost little girl in a red cloak, they are explicitly stated. "I started screaming how he raped me for years..." (Block 40-45) The protagonists sees running away as her only solace, and even that is not guaranteed; as her abuse has happened for so long, she fears that it will forever haunt her as a "...red flag." (Block 40-45) An example of this is found with the boy she encounters on the bus, while running towards her Grandmother’ house; "I am freaked that if I get close to a boy he will somehow find out what happened to me-like it's a scar he'll see or smell o...
According to Karl N. Llewellyn and E. Adamson Hoebel, making new laws in our societies helps us to become more discipline and safe and it also prevents us from crimes such as rape, sexual assault or harassment, violent crime fraud, robbery, murder etc due to a larger society which Hoebel called “heterogeneous”. Many people in the modern society can not make their own decisions without hearing or listening to the people in power such as the government (legislatures), police, lawyers/ judges. Just like the “Cheyenne community”, the community they come to together to solve conflicts between individuals by involving individuals or the community as a whole for the protection of themselves.
Misery, trauma, and isolation all have connections to the war time settings in “The Thing in the Forest.” In the short story, A.S. Byatt depicts elements captured from both fairy tale and horror genres in war times. During World War II, the two young girls Penny and Primrose endure the 1940s Blitz together but in different psychological ways. In their childhood, they learn how to use gas masks and carry their belongings in oversized suitcases. Both Penny and Primrose suffer psychologically effects by being isolated from their families’ before and after the war. Byatt depicts haunting effects in her short story by placing graphic details on the girls’ childhood experiences. Maria Margaronis, an author of a critical essay entitled “Where the Wild Things Are,” states that “Byatt’s tales of the supernatural depend on an almost hallucinatory precision for their haunting effects.” The hallucinatory details Byatt displays in her story have an almost unbelievable psychological reality for the girls. Penny and Primrose endure the psychological consequences and horrifying times during the Blitz along with the magical ideas they encounter as children. As adults they must return to the forest of their childhood and as individuals and take separate paths to confront the Thing, acknowledge its significance in their childhoods, and release themselves from the grip of the psychological trauma of war.
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Lone Survivor tells is the eyewitness account of the Operation Redwing by the lone survivor, and Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell. The novel begins by telling the story of Marcus’s upbringing in Texas, and his early desire to become a SEAL. The story progress by Marcus recalling his challenging BUDS training, hell week, and sniper school. Marcus is deployed to Afghanistan, and participates in many separate missions that lead up to Operation Redwing. The goal of Operation Redwing was to scout a village for a Taliban leader, and capture or assassinate him. Marcus Luttrell, Danny Dietz, Michael Murphy, and Matthew Axelson, members of SEAL team 10, are flown by a helicopter into the rugged, and mountainous terrain outside of the village. While hiking to
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