Greyling By Jane Yolen Summary

In the short story “the White Heron” (1886), Sarah Jewett portrays a young little girl, Sylvia, bear the temptation of money and affection from the young man with mental struggle, and resolutely determined to protect the fairy of nature – a white heron. Through describing Sylvia’s authentic emotions and using of vivid theme colors and exquisite word choice, Jewett delivers the story like showing a lifelike 19-century country-life drama in front of the readers.

This story is a very heartwarming story, it brings some sorrow, but also some sections of the story that

Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys is a book about a girl named Lina Vilkas. This book took place in 1941, the time when World War 2 was going on. Lina is fifteen years old and has a wonderful family. In the book she would get arrested by the Soviet Union because she was Lithuanian and Joseph Stalin, the leader of the country at the time, did not except this. Lina, her brother, and her mother were all separated from Lina’s father because he got taken to a different camp. Lina and her family got loaded onto a train and they were sent to the north (Siberia) where they would have to work and live in very harsh and strong conditions. Lina would record everything that would happen from then on and she would try getting it to her father so they

The book, Lyddie, written by Katherine Paterson, is about a girl named Lyddie who lived in the 1700’s, working in the factories. In the factories, the workers were forced to endure the poor environment and a lack of safety working with the machines. Also the workers were under paid, had long working hours, and the atrocious, dissatisfactory, and lousy living conditions that were unacceptable. However, signing a petition could help improve work areas and protect workers’ rights. The book shows all the hardships and the effects of poor working environment on Lyddie and the other workers.

All Our Relations by Winona LaDuke describes the neglect and unfair hardships that Native American people have had to experience over time. LaDuke uses Aristotelian appeals such as logos and pathos to tell how the white man disparaged these people. She spoke of Gail Small, a Montana State University professor and a well-known advocate for Native peoples. The way LaDuke tells Small’s story is perhaps the most and persuasive of all.

The novel “Killing Mr. Griffin” is about a group of high school students from Del Norte High who decide to scare their strict English teacher but ends up in a suspenseful accident. Mr. Griffin is probably one of the strictest teachers ever. He won’t accept anything late, not even from the class president Dave Rutters; he won’t help Betsy Cline when she doesn’t understand an assignment; and Mark Kinney had to beg for a second chance in his class. When Mark’s best friend Jeff makes a careless comment about wanting to kill Mr. Griffin, he begins to make a plan to scare him.

Ruta Sepetys is the author for Between the Shades of Gray, a novel that captures the truth of Siberian camps and the annexation of the Balkans by Stalin. Ruta Sepetys got the idea to write this fictional story when she visited her family in Lithuania and got the chance to discover more about her heritage. She got very fascinated about her family’s struggle to keep memories of her grandparents because of the annexation of Lithuania to the USSR. This conflict urged her to find out more about the feelings and people’s memoirs during this period in World War II so, she started interviewing the survivors from the Siberian gulags and gathered information to write her novel. The book was also inspired by her father, Jonas Sepetys, who escape

The hand and 55 Miles to the Gas Pump were pretty good short stories that kept my mind alert. These stories had great meaning and symbolism behind them. They also illustrated other aspects of life that I haven’t noticed before reading these pieces. In conclusion, there

story of about war, loss, love, family and hope. I am a voracious reader and have read numerous different

In the chapter, the gray zone, the author Primo Levi describes the human relationships inside the Lager. In describing the gray zone, Levi discusses the different roles of prisoners assigned by the Nazi. The prisoners that did the work were seen as being more privileged which at the end of the day helped them get more food and live better. Therefore, the concept of the gray zone is analyzing the difference between the privileged and the non-privileged in the Lager. The difference can be seen by the tasks that the prisoners carried out, for example, one of the groups were seen as, “Low ranking functionaries... sweepers, kettle washers, night watchmen, bed smoothers... checkers of lice and scabies,

In the short story “Blonde” by Katherine Min, a girl called Jean dislikes herself because of her mongolian blood and the features she has. Jean craves to be similar to other people with as she claims to have better features. Eventually Jean befriends a girl who is pretty and idolizes her because of her looks and blonde hair. When Jean's parents buy her a blonde wig she is laughed at by them because she is trying to be somebody she is not. The author Katherine Min demonstrates that all people should respect themselves for who they truly are.

In Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s brilliant work, The Yellow Wallpaper, readers explore the consequences of the ignorance of mental health, as well Gilman’s underlying message of the restriction of women, in nineteenth century America. The author of this story doesn’t want readers to focus on the progression of the woman when realizing her real situation, but in my opinion, how Gilman comments with this piece of fiction to the real oppression of women, and lack of weight Medicine held on the patient 's opinions in Charlotte’s society.

The yellow wallpaper is the most obvious symbol in this story. This symbolizes the protagonist 's mind named Jane during the 19th century. The yellow wallpaper symbolizes the way women were perceived. The yellow wallpaper includes models, angles and curves so that they contradict each other. we could say that these angles represents the identity of women during the 19th century. The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, is about the control and attacks the role of women in society. What is expected of women of the 19th century is to have children, take care of the house and do only what the husband says. The man of this time have the privilege of having a good education, have their jobs and they make their own decisions. The

“the mother” was written by Gwendolyn Brooks in 1945 who was born in topeka Kansas on June 7, 1917. “the mother” was published in her 1945 collection “A Street in Bronzeville”, in 1950 Brooks became the first African American to win a Pulitzer Prize.(bio) “the mother” is a great description of a mother going through a time of remembering her wrongs and pondering on what could have been. The poem “the mother” is a anti-abortion poem, it is a emotional outpour of the sense of guilt by a mother who has regrets, she speaks of mothers who have had abortions and how they will never forget. The title “the mother” is not capitalized so it makes it feel as if the writer is making the mother less important or not important at all.

Animals help humans in our lives for sharing their features. Every new experience can make a person change; sometimes the changes are positive, and other times it is negative. Either way, here is no avoiding change. Animals are kind, helpful, and playful.