Identifying Themes In All Fall Down By Ally Carter

Day after day Grace is waking up and going to eat breakfast with a fake smile. Noah serves her very fancy food but she ends up not eating a lot of it. Grace always thinks everyday what her mother was like but never knew as Noah would never tell her. Nobody can ask Noah secret questions or he will get very angry. Apparently this is one of them for some reason that Grace did not

The Drop by: Jeff Ross, a novel about a group of teenagers. I think the main message is being brave and not giving up and keep trying again, because our weaknesses lie in giving up and the true success is to always try again. In chapter 12, Hope went down the drop but MISSED the spot where Sam told her to go to… In chapter 13, The temperature was like below 0, or frozen temperature, Alex and the group was freezing. Alex said he couldn't even move...In chapter 14, Alex woke up of a nightmare, dreaming about that he

Many live under the assumption that those who come to the United States want to become Americanized and assimilate to the melting pot our culture has formed into. This is the populations ethnocentric belief, which is the belief that the ways of one’s culture are superior to the ways of a different culture, that wants others to melt into the western ways. In Ann Faidman’s The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, Faidman fails to completely remain objective when demonstrating how cross-cultural misunderstandings create issues in the healthcare field, specifically between the Hmong and western cultures that created dire consequences between the Lee’s and their American doctors. Faidman uses her connections with the Hmong and the doctors who cared for them in order to disclose the different views, beliefs and practices the Hmong and Western cultures practiced. With her attempt to be culturally relative to the situation, Faidman discusses the series of events and reasons as to why the Lee’s faced the fate that they did and how it parallels to the ethnocentrism in the health care system.

For example, Grace gets stuck on the lifeboat, and perseveres throughout her time on it until she is almost at the point of safety. Then, after the group on the lifeboat gets saved, Grace still pushes through her days in jail and in court. At the end of the novel, when she gets remarried, it concludes that she struggled through a lot and, with her determination, still manages to prevail and work through anything that stands in her

Once Grace goes missing her parents seem tired, and out of strength. Their mother “dropped her arm as if it were too heavy to lift”. She would later go and “start something and stop it and start something else”. Their father also believes it’s his fault for letting the girls go off to hide the last time. These characters are emotionally lost, but they are on a whole different level from

"All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal."—Flannery O'Connor.

Not only is “Never Fall Down” by Patricia McCormick one of the most provocative books I have read, It is an experience you need to have. This book explores a variety of topics that change my view on my

Backing to Grace, Cosima meets with old friend Emelina, who corrects Cody’s memory and completes her memory about Dr. Homer and their neighbor Uda as well, and questions her past and gradually feels excluded from the community of Grace. After getting off the bus and standing in her hometown, when Cody arrives at her old friend Emelina’s house, she sees Emelina’s family killing the chicken. They make fun of their childhood by talking about Cody and Hallie’s behaviors when they were little. However, they hold different memories. In Cody’s memory, her sister has ab fit over the chickens and cries because of her soft heart, but Emelina points out, “No, I am sure it was you that had a fit over the chickens. You’d start, and then Hallie would do it too.” (Kingsolver 31). Cody misplaces her sister with herself in her memory, and she does not know that she is the one who has a soft heart and lea Hallie around. When Cody insists, “Blood all over the driveway and I did not faint.” (31), and she is the brave one back to the child, Emelina reports her by stating that people change, and the current life situation does not reflect childhood and

Not only does grace sustain Kevin emotionally, it also helps give Kevin the strength and courage to keep his Dad alive. This is shown when Kevin hears himself saying aloud: “I love you, too, Dad”. (260). Right after this statement, Kevin is sitting by the fire near his Dad and remembers as Bailey says, “of what all along, his father had really been trying to teach Gary David and him about surviving in

It is thought that if her love was real, and she did not commit the murder, that Grace Marks would be a wreck after such a tragic event. Instead she acts calm and collected, and she even goes as far as wearing Nancy’s clothes and even taking her money, both being blatant signs of disrespect. Even more blatant would be the fact that Nancy was strangled, and Grace’s handkerchief was the “weapon.” Also, Grace had little or no love interest in James McDermott, her co-murderer. However, McDermott had interest in her, which Grace used to play him by giving him false hope that if he did what she said that he’d have a chance to be with her. This is exemplified by McDermott’s desire to please her, even though she had no interest in him. It was his goal to convince her what a good guy he was, and that hopefully that would make her want to be with him. McDermott also knows that Grace has sincere interest in Mr. Kinnear, which would make it easier for him to kill him in cold blood. Grace also used taunting as a device to get her way. She presented the idea of killing Kinnear and Nancy as challenges to McDermott, and he would try and complete these challenges to win her affection. For instance, Grace told McDermott that he was all bark and no bite. This statement may be the main reason that McDermott killed Nancy and Mr. Kinnear, as that allowed him to prove that he was daring enough activity to prove to Grace

The Flawed series, Flawed and Perfect by Cecelia Ahern, takes us into a world with a society that looks down upon people for their mistakes, what they do wrong and if they are considered different from others. When placed in a situation to help a dying man on the ride to school, out of all the people staying put watching him suffer, only Celestine chose to do the right thing and help the man into a seat. Celestine risked her entire reputation to help the man which was unacceptable according to the people in her society. The theme that these books suggest is that being selfless in our society can be very difficult especially when most people are looking for acceptance from others, but when we look past that and take it upon ourselves to be

Everyone here at Northwestern, even though it is a Christian college, has a different view of faith. Some people put it above all and others only know the stories. In the novel Ordinary Grace, Krueger throws challenges at the Drum family. Each family member reacts differently to every challenge thrown at them and has their faith strengthened or destroyed. In William Krueger’s Ordinary Grace, he shows the different levels of faith from the strongest to the weakest, and how they react to different obstacles in life through Nathan, Frank, Jake, and Ruth.

The episode opens with Grace alone at home, hearing a noise she calls out to daughter Zoe but gets no response. As Grace makes her way to the kitchen she grabs a glass of wine and some leftovers for dinner. While on the phone to Zoe, Grace assures her she is fine and that the arrest was just a big mix up. As Grace hangs up the phone a stocky man approaches her from behind and attempts to garrote her. In a fight across the house, Grace manages to subdue her attacker and then phones her father for help.

When she was younger Grace was attacked by wolves. Dragged off her swing set, the ripped at her, clawed, even bit her, trying to draw blood. There she lay, no fighting the wolves, but staring into the yellow eyes of the wolf that was not hurting her. Her parents took her to the hospital afterwards, got stiches and all was fine. Then Grace became ill. Running fever, throwing up, Grace was sick for about a week after her attack. Taking her into town, her father accidently leaves her in the back of the car, with another trip to the hospital, the doctor said the heat should have killed her, but she survived. Flash forward to present day, Grace is a great student, never misses a day, hang out with her two best friends, Rachel and Oliva, and basically

“Life is tough but darling so are you.”~Stephanie Bennett Henry. This quote relates to Graceling because we learn that Kasta can change from a strong independent women who will fight for he beliefs to a soft girl who loves to be told she is beautiful and dreams about a happy future. In the world of the Seven Kingdoms, a few people are born with Graces--talents beyond the ordinary. At age 8, Katsa discovers what hers is: killing. Trained by her uncle, the king, to be his enforcer, Katsa also secretly forms The Council, a group dedicated to helping the helpless. But when she rescues an old man who has been kidnapped by a neighboring king, Katsa meets a man who is nearly her match in fighting, and discovers a mystery that threatens all of the kingdoms.