Andy's Gift Essay

In this essay I intend to prove that The Simple Gift by Steven Herrick shows that money and status doesn’t buy love and friends through the topic of identity.

In Ken Kesey’s One Flew of the Cuckoo’s Nest the narrator, Chief, a mental patient in the mid 20th century, critiques the world around him, and exposes truths about society through analyzing the events he witnesses on the ward. In this passage, Chief observes Nurse Ratched and her affect others as she enters the hospital to begin her daily routine. Through the use of mechanical and unnatural imagery, Kesey uses Chief to reveals the true nature of Big Nurse and their surroundings. Nurse Ratched’s goal is to fix people, make them conform to what society tells them is normal.

Andrew packs his guns and they leave arriving in Wyoming. Andrew wants to see his father’s body, but it hasn’t been released yet from the coroner’s office. Andrew begins asking questions about his father, but no one knows much about him. His father was a recluse.

Similarities and contrasts with Andy.both are alone and wet in the alley. Both are suffering mental restrictions

In the story “Fly Away Home”, by Eve Bunting, Andrew does not want to get noticed, his dad tells not to and makes him do certain things not to get noticed, Also Andrew knows that if he gets noticed he will get moved out by security.

Naturally, adolescents grow out of idealistic thinking. As one enters the real world, he or she understands what is realistic and what is impractical. Hunter portrays idealism versus realism through Andy. During the time that Andy is suffering in the alleyway his mind wonders off to his lover Laura. Thinking about her takes his mind off the pain he is experiencing. The protagonist has an unrealistic view of his future. After all, he is dying, his attitude is that “[s]omeday he would marry her, and they would have [many]

Charlie Gordon is a good man, and a hard worker, but he has a learning disability. Though he as this disability, he still gives his all no matter what the circumstances are. After his teacher Ms. Kinnian told him about a surgery that could make him smarter he goes through with this and it changes him, but not for the better. He loses all his friends and ends up being more disabled than before.

Now Andrew wouldn't want us to mop all day about his death he would want us to have a great deal of desserts. And that is why i have taken the liberty of buying a couple thousand cookies and a few hundred cakes and pies, and i didn't forget the milk. its all in the room to your left. God bless Andrew and Taby

Sometimes, people get so wrapped up in the sadness and despair of their current situation that they think that is all there is in the world. This is evidenced by the main character Andrew and his self-loathing, bitter attitude as well as his extreme lack of vulnerability. In the novel Andrew’s Brain by E.L. Doctorow, the author uses shifting narration, large vocabulary, complex thoughts from Andrew, and shortening chapters to give the reader a taste of the main character’s insanity.

“I’ll tell the nurse you’re here.” she opened a door and went down the hallway. The couple sat on the sofa. Soon several other family members arrived, after greeting each other, they sat down on the chairs. While waiting for news about the young couple, they made small talk, discussing the seriousness of the accident and each one relating stories about previous accidents involving them.

Because Jim is a father, husband and the only real adult in the novel. He plays a role as being Huck’s friend and taking care of him without being overprotective. Jim cooks for Huck and takes care of him especially when Huck sees Pap’s dead body and hearing that his father passed away. In chapter 24 when Jim tells Huck about what he had done to his daughter, Huck was even more connected than before.

The journey that Richard and Mildred Loving took is important for history and for the future of civil rights in the United States. I recently watched the documentary The Loving Story and enjoyed the footage, pictures, and interviews of everyone involved in the Loving v. Virginia case. The documentary addressed the issue of interracial marriage in Virginia in 1967.

All his life Grant Daniels was a normal, everyday person. He grew up as an only child on Levine Rd. with his mother and father. He was an averagely smart student in school. Grant went through all the phases, skater, goth, and athlete, just like everyone else in his class. He would sneak out and go to parties then get caught and grounded. Like all his friends he graduated and went to the college that was closest to home. There he met the girl of his dreams, Julie, they both finished college together, got married and moved into a house 3 blocks away from his family home. A few years later he was living in an apartment, divorced and alone. He didn’t mind it at all, Grant had a wonderful job teaching english to 5th graders and he had his dog, Charlie. Nothing was unordinary in his life. Nothing was unordinary about the small, friendly town. Everything in his life was normal, until he opened his eyes.

Oscar Dash Hayes laid still on the cool, firm table and counted the ceiling tiles above him as the machine scanned his frail body. The familiar hum of the CT scanner came to a stop and Oscar, who would usually stand right up off the table, cringed as a nurse helped him up. Lately, he had been feeling gradually worse than usual. Starting with nausea and fatigue, his health had began to rapidly decline in the past two days, prompting him to go in and have a CT scan done. His tall 5’10”, skinny body towered above the small nurse who helped him into the wheelchair. Oscar slumped into the chair and closed his eyes as he was wheeled to his room. The strong, disinfectant smell of the hospital occupied Oscar’s room, and nose,

Andy had continued to grieve and blame himself for killing his best friend. His parents had noticed that Andy had been pushing them away. After Andy had returned to school for his third day his teachers had already noticed that he is not himself. However, I forgot to mention that Andy was practically always the class clown. Then again, when Andy returned to his classes, he sat in the back corner