Fun, laughter and family are the first thing I notice when I found “Where’s Jamela” by Mr. Niki Daly. The story is about a single mother moving to a new house and her six year old daughter wanting to stay in the house that she loves. The dynamic illustrations, with cartoon, water-colored, styled characters, fill the pages with details about the family and their community. Jamela’s single mother, Mama, just acquired a new job and now the family is moving to a new home in the suburbs. When Jamela hears the news she is disappointed because she likes her home, including the sounds of cars being repaired in the street, smell of dinner cooking, neighbors yelling at chickens, dogs barking and the various street sounds that she is familiar with.…
“ Olaudah Equiano’s Silent Study on the English and Persuasions on his Road to Abolish Slavery and Finding the Hidden Comparative Details between the New York Artisans and Gustavus Vassa”…
In Judith Cofer Ortiz’s short story “Abuela Invents the Zero”, through making her Abuela feel worthless, Constancia learns that internal respect comes from how other people value their contribution instead of external judgment. After the conflict, Abuela indirectly tells Constancia that “the worst [thing to be done to a person] is to make them feel as if they are worth nothing” (Ortiz 2). Through this proverb, Abuela proved that her worth did not rely on Constancia's acceptance, but on how much Constancia valued her. Therefore, Constancia realizes that Abuela, a single mother with ten children, gains respect simply because people appreciate her accomplishments. Furthermore, after realizing her mistake, Constancia “can feel [herself] shrinking…
Throughout history, writers have developed different types of genres to help form their own unique story. Different types of genres are used throughout our society today. The Bean Trees, by Barbara Kingsolver and The Giver, by Lois Lowry both have different genres. Kingsolver portrays an adventure, while Lowry shows fiction to get the attention of the reader.…
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, establishes a profound tone within the text, writing of truth and an unexaggerated account of Equiano’s life journey. Equiano’s tone of writing is humble. The purpose of the book is not for his own vanity or pride but to capture the power his faith which guided him through slavery until the point of his freedom. As the chapters unfold, Equiano establishes an authentic account of his plan to abolish the horrors of slavery by creating physical written text to illustrate the magnitude of the abuse and suffering slaves endured. The book maintains his reports of impassioned and emotionally centred rants against the slave trade industry. Along with many strong stances in regards to the so…
It was nice and crisp day at the ball fields. Alyx was up to bat with the tying run one third. There was 2 outs and she has a 3-2 count with the bases loaded. She sees the pitch coming in. She’s thinking,…
“The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano”, by Olaudah Equiano, is a narrative about a slave going to the new world. Olaudah Equiano was kidnapped by slave traders to be sent to the New World to be sold to other slave owners. This slave trade between Africa and North America was from 1619-1807 and carried hundreds of African men, women, and children in one tightly packed ship. In “The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano”, Equiano describes the horrible conditions slaves were forced to endure on the voyage to the new world. Equiano wrote this slave narrative, a literary work that exposes the horrors of slavery through the first hand experience of the writer, to help abolish slavery. To assist in persuading the…
Sylvia’s initiation in the short story The Lesson by Toni Cade Bambara, is striking because Miss Moore gives the opportunity to the children to evaluate the difference between the fifth avenue and their poor neighborhood. However, one of the story’s main themes is that innocence is a handicap and the political and moral innocence that are represented from the beginning to the end of the story brings the main character to many reflections. This idea is revealed as Sylvia’s ignorance towards the different social classes, Sylvia’s questions on the purpose of wealth and the hard realization of the true facts of inequality. Due to the children’s lack of political and moral knowledge,…
The focus of this assessment period was on fairy tales. Specifically, we tackled the fairytale of La Capericuita Roja from the perspective of Little Red Riding Hood, her grandmother in the book La Abuela, and of the wolf in a short story collection titled Tengo Hambre. La abuela is a story that helped reinforce the vocabulary and grammar structures in la Caperucita Roja and recycles previous vocabulary as well as grammar structures in the story we have worked on in class. La abuela was a fun story to act out with students. Students actors played parts ranging from animals to inanimate objects.…
These two books are both written by the same author only a year apart from each other. From the two books I read these books were very good but I have to say one of them tops the other one from the way the author tells the story, and how he uses slang to make it seem like it is an actual person instead of just a character in a fictional book. Andrew Smith can write two completely different stories but there are some major similarities and differences in the way he writes them and with his style.…
The main concept of the piece “Beg the Tired Oracle” is that the ones that help others can be damaged by not only their personal experiences but also the experiences shared by the ones they are helping. It is a fact that the person who is sought out for advice is also the most damaged. This piece shows this because the entire thing is ragged and destroyed. The wood is worn, the masks are ruined, the fridge has been shot 15+ times. In the title, the oracle is being begged, although the definition of begging is “to ask humbly” most people when they think of beg they think of someone on their knees constantly asking something.…
One of the themes of “Abuela Invents the Zero” is that respecting your family is more important than keeping up your reputation. This theme begins developing early in the story as we see that Connie cares much more about her reputation than her grandmother. It’s clear that Connie doesn’t respect her grandmother at first, calling her “ridiculous” (30) and being so embarrassed by her that she tries to “walk far behind them in public so that no one will think we’re together.” On the other hand, she cares a great deal about her friends, which is especially clear when Connie only agrees to bring her Abuela to church so that she can go to the mall with her friends.…
The Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano is a very descriptive narrative about Olaudah Equiano’s experiences of being of a slave. The narrative is very touching and heartfelt. I admire Olaudah Equiano for his strength, courage, and for being oppressed to so much pain. The kidnapping of Equiano and his sister, Equiano’s attempt to escape to freedom and the scene on the slave ship were the scenes that I found to be the most compelling.…
Omelas is an idea of utopia. It is an imaginary place where everything is perfect. Utopia is something absolutely necessary to social change with a perception of something better,filled with joy so the chances of social progress is high. However, someone's utopia may cause others to lose their freedom. In the short story "The ones who walked away from Omelas" by the author Ursula K. LeGuin is based on a message that shows how society sees their happiness through someone else's misery. After building a utopia, the narrator suddenly turns it into a morality problem. The residents from Omelas put an individual in contrast to a number of people acting as a group, to justify a small evil for a greater good.…
Chapter-6 Betrayal of Orivala The scene of Sargaso planet where the king is talking about the concealed treasury which was recently made public by the Orivala times. However, the stuff is still in the obscurity of the whole universe. King of Sargaso: I should have understood that before, the reason for their petulant nature.…