David Massey's Book Torn

In The Veldt, Ray Bradbury uses symbolism and descriptive language to reveal the anger and betrayal felt by the kids throughout the story. The Veldt features Happylife Home, an electronic house that does everything for you. The author uses those crafts to show how the kids used the nursery to express their anger and betrayal.

Uniting both male and female service members despite the different tasks each one faces, is one of the goals Gayle Tzemach Lemmon, author of Ashley’s War: The Untold Story of a Team of Women Soldiers on the Special Ops Battlefield, faces to elaborate. The preface opens up by listing the set of events Second Lieutenant Ashley White completed before going out on a mission that would not only change her life but many female personnel serving for the United States Armed Forces as well. Other then uniting military personnel, another major goal or theme is educating the reader of affairs usually not displayed on the news. From my perspective, Lemmon had taught me something that I probably wouldn’t have found out, if it weren’t for this book. I have always been under the impression that women can’t serve on the frontline, but this is not until the introduction of Cultural Support Teams, or better known as CST’s. Using both a pathos and logos approach the author introduces some of the first females to make a change in combat history. In the end the author makes a clear statement to the public and male service members that women are competent both mentally and physically to serve on a Special Operations Mission.

At the end of the novel some major conflicts in the story are resolved which resulted in some major tension between characters. At the end of the novel T. Ray shows up at the pink house to come and take Lily home and T. Ray learns somethings about what Lily has been doing and who she has been staying with. On page 292 it states "The is where my mother came when she ran away from us. August said she was wearing it(the pin) the day she got here." When T. Ray sees Lily and that she is wearing her mother's pin, he automatically gets reminded of Deborah. The memory of Deborah leaves him enraged at Lily and he is in a mental stage where he is not thinking straight. On page 294 it states "He stood over me. 'Deborah,' I heard him mumble. 'You're

I recommend “Cryer’s Cross” to my best friend because it is an amazing book. When I first read the book I thought I wouldn’t like it. But now I am in love with the book. The characters really engage me in the book and I think my friend would fall in love with the characters like I did. You can feel all the emotion in the book and I think that is what engaged me the most. You can feel how the character feels and it makes you feel connected to the characters. One of the quotes from the book is “When it is over, We breath and ache like old oak, like peeling birch. One of our lost souls set free. We move, a chess piece in the dark room, cast-iron legs a centimeter at a time, crying out in silent carved graffiti. Calling to our next victim, Our

For the most part, the novel was very enjoyable. One aspect of it that I loved was that the storyline was extremely intense, which always compelled me to find out what would happen next. For example,

It captured my attention from the beginning. I like how the Rand was descriptive words to help me have an image of what was happening in the novel. I like the story line. I like the idea of someone breaking way from everyone else and being different from others. That they are able to think for themselves and that it is ok to be different from others. I also liked how the novel had some romance because I do enjoy romance novels. The Language Police written by Diane Ravitch, I did not quit enjoy the book. I do not really like books like that. I do not recommend this book if you are not interested in how the bias panel chooses stories for children. I do recommend the novel, Anthem. It gives the reader a sense of individualism, there is a story behind

I, personally, loved the author's writing, although I did not really understand why she structured the book like so. With each chapter changing different perspectives and stories, it was kind of hard to remember which chapter went with another considering the chapters where out of order. With each story, I was a little annoyed that they just suddenly ended at the end of the chapter. It made me want to read more and more trying to find the next chapter that went with that person's story. It was also kind of difficult to connect the stories. Other than that, she did a marvelous job grabbing my attention. I loved the analogies that she included in the stories. For example, on page 216- 217, one of the mothers told her daughter about a turtle that eats her tears and then creates birds that laugh

As the overall book, I actually kind of liked it because it was kind of hard to understand because they couldn’t use “I” and I like challenges. They had to use “We” instead of using “I” to explain they self or the story. The book was okay as a whole but still kind of hard to understand I got kind of irritated after a while, while I was reading the book because of the way it was written.

The characters bring a riveting story to life when reading. Throughout the book, I felt emotions left and right for the characters and what they were going through. There is a lot of mystery and questioning that will be answered later in the book, but once its done, there are still many questions being asked. when I look for a book, that is something that stands out to me because I really want to read more, and when you have that reaction to a book, that means it was worth reading. I found this book remarkable because of the behaviors, characteristics, and decisions that the characters make, and I recommend this book to everyone, even if they don’t like to

The promise of the original American Dream has become an illusion due to the lack of opportunities available for Americans to succeed in present-day America. To demonstrate this issue, The Divide by Matt Taibbi focuses on the increasing wealth gap between the rich and the poor. Particularly, Taibbi tells us a story about a young man who suffers from the unfair treatment in the American justice system because of his homelessness. Taibbi writes, “He wasn’t educated, but he knew this math cold: a cop writing something meant he was about to be handed a summons, which in turn meant a court appearance and then jail if he couldn’t pay the two-hundred-dollar fine or whatever it was, which he probably couldn’t” (55). In this quote, the author is referring

In This Fleeting World, a nonfiction novel by David Christian, the ability to create, destroy, communicate, travel, and farm have all changed greatly over time, while the trends of life expectancies, equal rights, and competition have stayed the same.

During her first days in the compound, she seems to be a typical young American girl. She laughs and jokes with the medics, playing their games and drinking with them in their recreation time. However, the more time she spends there, the more she begins to lean into the war until eventually, she becomes one with the war. She goes from typical and innocent recent high school graduate to honorary Green Beret, sporting a necklace of human tongues. Although exaggerated and far-fetched, Mary Anne Bell’s story is simply a re-telling of any other soldier’s story.

Joan Furey had wanted to be a nurse ever since she was young. She was inspired by a movie called So Proudly We Hail! and it was the first time she realized that women could do courageous things too. She was interested in joining the Army after hearing about student protests of Vietnam. Joan was confident that her country was in Vietnam for a reason and they were doing good. She was met with support from her family but not everyone approved of the military. She then went to Vietnam to become one of the eleven thousand women to serve during the Vietnam war. When she was in Vietnam she tended to anyone who needed help, even civilians and North Vietnamize soldiers. The hardest patients to work with were the “expected” ones. If they were given this

The poems “Delight in Disorder” by Robert Herrick and “Still to be Neat” by Ben Johnson display similar themes. Both poems are written about natural beauty, “Delight in Disorder”, focuses more on the careless beauty while “Still to be Neat” focuses on the simplicity of natural beauty. Although these two poems are extremely similar because of their themes they are also different. Both authors aim to unveil the true meaning of beauty through being natural and having a balance between disorder and order in one's appearance.

Margaret Corbin is only one of many women who astounded society and would change the face of the military forever. During the times before women were allowed to enlist as soldiers, many women took the issue into their own hands, disguising themselves as men and enlisting in the military under false pretenses. Deborah Sampson was one of the women who participated in this trend. Sampson was enlisted in General Washington’s army and proved to be quite competent and an asset to her fellow soldiers. Deborah Sampson’s true identity was discovered shortly after she was wounded in battle. Despite her actions being illegal, Sampson received an honorable discharge as well as military pension for her duties (Time Line: Women in the U.S. Military).