Inside Out And Back Again, By Thanhha Lai

The book Last Man Out by Mike Lupica the boy in the book (Tommy) has many memory moments/flashbacks about his dad, the memory shows us about the conflict he has with his father and having to deal with him being gone.

After reading Briana O’hara’s report, “New Course Takes Students Out of The Classroom and Into Nature” I noticed some mistakes she made when incorporating quotes from Heidi Sprouse, author of Adirondack Sundown. The paragraph before her first quote details a cabin on top of Kane Mountain and how Sprouse wishes to use it as a setting for her next book. “Sprouse said she plans to use that cabin as the setting for her next book.The cabin was once used as a ranger station for the forest ranger who would climb the fire tower to check for fires” (O’hara). However, When introducing her first quote:

Scarlet Benoit set out to find her grandmother who had been kidnapped for weeks. Walt Masters wanted to warn Loren Hall that stampeders were planning to steal his claim. Farah Ahmedi undertook the mission to escape Afghanistan with a prosthetic leg and her mother. However, all three fought to better the lives of themselves and/or others.

In the book She’s Come Undone by author Wally Lamb, we travel on a journey with a young girl Dolores Prices, as she matures from early childhood to adulthood and all the terrible things that accompany her along her voyage. It was rather intriguing the Wally Lamb did such an excellent job of writing in a first person perceptive as a woman. He accredits his ability to his older sisters. Wally Lamb wrote this book to help emphasize one’s journey to self-discovery. This book’s theme heavily shows the loss of innocence and a coming of age story. Lamb was able to write in a way that many of us could relate to or may have found ourselves in similar situations. Regardless of Lamb’s purpose for writing this book, he was able to create a relatable

Throughout the course of any being’s life, they are greatly influenced by the people and environment around them. In the coming of age fictional biography, She’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb, the reader follows the protagonist Delores Price throughout her journey in life from the age four to forty. Delores goes through many trials and tribulations in the course of her life, which include witnessing abuse and infidelity, experiencing rape, alienation, the deaths of her loved ones, suicidal tendencies and rebirth. Many of the experiences and traumas as well as deaths Delores witnessed and was subject to made her personality revolve around dysfunctional relationships and left her lost on how to approach life.

The Lion Behind The Glass How much do we really know about lions? This beautiful beast does not only pridefully take on his role as “King of the Jungle” but he’s is also an inspiration to many of his followers. He is recognized as brave and prideful. Although he’s all of these great things he has a hidden truth. The lion is probably the most terrible dad in the animal kingdom.

While reading the story Opening Skinners Box wrote by Lauren Slater there was a chapter that made me look at the world like I do and how sometimes the world relates to a story. The chapter was On Being Sane in Insane Places” while reading this chapter I seen and I was thinking that some of the things being said in the book was true. Sometimes people make wrong choices and they chose paths that lead them to bad consequence. Then we have those people that are born with this, bad consequences. Sometimes we have to face the world and how the world is. Sometimes it is not their fault that they are the way that they are. Some of them are just born that way because of their chromosomes that are way too much or some that don’t fully develop.

Under the lights by Abbie Glines. There are three teens that grew up together in a southern small town. Willa’s mom had her when she was a teenager. Willa had gotten into some trouble at a young age and had to stay with her Nonna. Willa’s two best friends were Gunner and Brady. Willa has made some bad choices in her past life which made her go down the wrong path in life. Brady’s a high school quarter back now and with the choices Willa has made Brady sees Willa as a different person. Gunner is also a football star in high school. Gunner is living a good rich life the only matter though he cares about himself only, except for Willa. He understands the person she has grown into over her time. As they were known to be child hood friends secrets start to come out and the truth may be the reason of them losing each other.

In his book “Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free,” Hector Tobar recounts the story of 33 miners who spent 69 days trapped more than 2000 feet underground in the Chile’s San Jose mines following the collapse of the mine in 2010. According to Tobar (2015), the disaster began on a day shift around noon when miners working deep inside the mountain excavating minerals started feeling vibrations. A sudden massive explosion then followed and the passageways of the mines filled with dust clouds. Upon settling of the dust, the men discovered that the source of the explosion was a single stone that had broken off from the rest of the mountain and caused a chain reaction leading to

Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo is a documented version of life in a Mumbai slum. The “story” revolves around the life, death, and hope in the undercity of Annawadi. The book thrusts the reader into the hidden worlds behind the lavish living of the rich and into the lives of people that are impossible to forget. Originally published February 7th, 2012 by Random House in New York, Katherine Boo writes about the apparent economic inequality occurring in the Mumbai undercity. This telling of life in a slum provides a distinct look into the social and economic injustice that determines the way these people live their lives. The book highlights the struggle of those in Annawadi as well as the Indian people as a whole. Terror and the global recession shake the city and the rising tensions over religion, caste, gender, power, and jealousy take a violent turn. Behind the Beautiful Forevers is beautifully written and does a superb job of opening eyes to the brutal and unforgiving world of Annawadi.

S. Bruck Comp110 October 5, 2017 Gender in Education The laws of the United States of America require that children attend school regardless of their sex, race, or religious background. This can be achieved by attending public schools, private schools, or by doing homeschooling. The most popular school system is the public system where children from both genders attend. According to Christina Hoff Sommers in her article, “The Boys at the Back”, published on the internet February 2, 2013, we are seeing girls in these institutions outperforming boys at an increasing rate.

Teju Cole’s phenomenally written original novel majorly takes place in New York City. Cole character was easy to relate to because of his Nigerian American decent being that I am a Ghanaian American. Cole is a Nigerian American. He was born and raised in Lagos, Nigeria and came to the United States in 1992 at the age of seventeen. Cole is also well educated and is a graduate student at Columbia University. I found it insightful how in the novel Cole met several various types of people, including other immigrants. He met and shared stories with a Haitian shoe shiner, at work in Penn Station; a Liberian, imprisoned for over two years in a dentition center in Queens; and a Moroccan student working at an Internet café. I enjoyed the fact that the narrator was well stocked minded. He touched on the topics of art, music, and interesting books. He had a very eclectic set of interest.

The fundamental characteristic of magical realism is its duality, which enables the reader to experience both the character’s past and the present. In the novel, Monkey Beach, Eden Robinson uses this literary device to address the the trauma and mistreatment of the Haisla community in Canada by unveiling the intimate memories of the protagonist, Lisamarie, and the resulting consequences of this oppression. Monkey Beach illustrates how abuse in the past leads to another form of self-medication in the future - a neverending, vicious cycle for the members of the Haisla community. Many characters in Monkey Beach are scarred from childhood sexual abuse and family neglect, and resort to drug and alcohol abuse as a coping mechanism. These

Há’s life has changed in several ways. One way Há’s life changed is that she started to get bullied. For example, on page 196 it says, “She should be a pancake, she has a pancake face.” This shows Há is getting bullied because someone called her pancake face. Another way Há’s life changed is she felt dumb when she first got to Alabama. For instance, on page 156, it states, “I’m furious unable to explain I already learned fractions and how to purify water.” This shows Há felt dumb because she is learning the same thing over again.

I wish that I could be rich, that I had this car, that I could go to India, that I could be a billionaire… Don’t these all sound fine and innocent to wish? The big and important lesson that is found in The Monkey’s Paw is the evils of wishes. Wishes, throughout history and literature have something to do with magic, showing that they are unreal and seem to come from nothing when they come true. When we wish for something we do not think, “I will go and work for this until I have it” but we sit there and think, doing nothing. We hope that chance will somehow magically give us what we want. If wishes came true, the ideas of W. W. Jacobs on this topic would surround us. Wishing is fruitless, and if it did bear fruit it would only be able to work through realistic ways. It boils down to this, magic is not real, and if there is any type of fate it works through the laws of nature. Wishes do not come true, if they do it is because work is done to accomplish them. The definition of wish is to “want something that cannot or probably will not happen,” so why wish but to make oneself miserable? If magic and fate worked together it would make wishes come true, through the most horrific and sensible ways