Naro And Soka Summary

There are not that many characters in the book but the main character in the book is Chet. The book is has Falling Action in it. It tells

The book opens with a squad of soldiers running a tactical control point just outside of a village called Yusufiyah. They are approached when a man Abu Muhammad had found his cousins family brutally murdered not too far off. Sgt. Tony Yribe and 3 others went to go investigate it. Although it was a terrible scene Sgt. Yribe had just assumed that it was like most other situations in Iraq in that the family was a victim of Iraqis attacking other Iraqis. The one thing that bothered him was that there was a shotgun shell and Iraqis do not normally use shotguns.

The book starts with Louise and Thomas a couple who has one child, a son, Bruce. When Bruce is three, he gets German measles or rubella. After finding this out, Louise discovers that, she is pregnant with their second child. When Louise took Bruce to the doctor to get all of the information on the measles, the doctor was worried about Louise’s pregnancy, even thought she was not very far along. The doctor said that being around someone with these measles could possibly cause congenital defects for the baby. Of course, upon hearing this, Thomas and Louise went through a very worrisome and anxious nine months until the baby was born.

When Abelard Schneider returned from his voyage to the primitive Nacirema tribes, one could scarcely stop him in his excited rambling. He spoke in a frenzy, rarely pausing to accept questions from his audience of peeved onlookers.

This is a book about a young woman named Sundara who is from Cambodia. Chamroeun is a guy who Sundaras parents want her to marry because it is custom in Cambodia that the parents pick who their children will marry. Sundara falls in love with Chamroeun but that has to end because he goes off to fight in the war. It is about how she lived with a group of people (tribe) and one day Khmer Rouge came and tried to take over their village, Phnom Penh. Sundara, her family and the rest of Phnom Penh ran to a boat and they sailed away, planning to go to America. Back then people from different countries were lead to believe that America was a perfect place and you could be or do anything you desired, well that obviously isn't the

Loung is a ten-year-old girl living in the town of Phnom Penh in Cambodia. Loung was once a normal village girl. She had friends and went to school. All that changed when the Khmer Rouge came into power in 1975.“When Pol Pot’s communist Khmer Rouge stormed into the city April 17, 1975, my charmed life came to an end. On that day, Cambodia became a prison and all its citizens prisoners.”(1). Loungs life takes a sudden turn, Her once luxurious life has turned

This project will allow me to provide insight into the tragedy that has taken place in Cambodia during the

Written by Edwidge Danticat, Krik Krak demonstrates the Culture, Values, and Hardships of Haitians. This book starts with the chapter “Children of the Sea”. In this chapter Two nameless lovers write each other letters they will never read. A black butterfly brings the message of one's death to the other, causing a sense of mystery. After this chapter is the “Nineteen Thirty-Seven” section. In chapter 2, hours before Josephine’s birth, her mother went across a dangerous river to Haiti from the Dominican Republic. This river is where Josephine’s grandmother was killed. Josephine visits her mother who is imprisoned for witchcraft, bringing with her a small statue of the Virgin Mary that her mother makes cry using wax and oil. “A Wall of Fire Rising” is about 3 main characters, Guy, Lili, and Little Guy, living in a one room shake. Guy is fascinated by an air balloon, which makes his wife worry. One day. Guy is seen flying the balloon, suddenly he jumps out and kills himself. I think that this

When they arrived in America a cowboy helped them settled into their new house. He paid the rent three months ahead. Mother could not believe his generosity until Brother Quang says the American government gives sponsors money, she was even more amazed by the generosity of the American government until Brother Quang says it’s all to ease the guilt of losing the war.” Ha and her family will now have to adapt to her new surroundings because it’s different from Vietnam. Most of the things will be unfamiliar to Ha because she has to learn English. Ha then started school at first it was ruff because she was getting bullied, “They pulled my arm hair, they threw rocks at me, they promised to stomp on my chest.” It twisted inside out, for her at school. The first person she told was brother Vu, she then asked him to teach her defense. After he taught her defense her life came back again, she started to understand English much better and no longer gets

The setting is on the west coast of Africa in Sierra Leone in the 1990’s as well as in New York City during the same time period. 7. The narrator of the novel is Ishmael Beah, the author, and the plot is told in first person point of view. 8. The major conflict is that the main character was robbed of his childhood, separated from his parents, and forced to fight in the war at the age of thirteen and had to live with the guilt for what he did to people.

Looking back at the article Nacirema, I feel my daily routines are weird and tradition as a Chinese. After reading the article Nacirema, it shows that the belief of American think their culture is superior to others, they tendency to view other cultures from their own views. Some of the traditional culture, maybe looks weird in another people’s eye. For example, as a Chinese, we eat chicken feet, duck feet, and chicken viscera which American people don’t like it. We like to have a morning tea with family to eat dimsum, deep-dried dough sticks, steamed buns, tofu pudding, noodles, and rice for breakfast, but the American people like to have some coffee, milk, eggs, fired potatoes, cereal, toast, and pancake. I like salty stuff, but American

The novel begins in the summer of the year 1964. There was a family of three that lived in Wheaton, Illinois. Louise and Tom Spradley found out that they were pregnant with their second child. Bruce, the first child who was three and a half, was diagnosed with German measles. When Louise took Bruce to the doctor not knowing what he was diagnosed with the doctor asked if Louise was pregnant. He began to explain that German measles can cause birth defects but the chances were very little and the baby would be completely normal. This caused Louise to worry about the health of her baby. The family set off to go to California to visit Tom’s Parents. When they were heading to California she noticed she got a rash on her arm. When Louise went to see her old Doctor in L.A, Dr. Anderson could not confirm if she had German measles. She was given a vaccine and told there was only a slim chance any side effects would be shown.

The book starts out explaining a grocery store in Cannery Row. The owner, Lee Chong, is a very friendly and nice person. A group of bums led by Mack, ask the grocer if they can rent a place that Lee Chong owns, but doesn’t use. They get his permission. This group of bums cause a lot of problems in this book. One of them being stealing things from multiple people. The group is very shady, and are good liars. They also try to throw a party at Docs, a scientist, which is a

The setting changes throughout the book but the main settings are the Conners, the Kellys, the tree house, and the high school. Lara Kelly, Brianna Connors, Liam Connors, Sydney Kelly, Mr. and Mrs.Kelly, and Mr. and Mrs.Conners are the main characters. The conflict going on between these two families is the Connors daughter bullied the Kellys daughter with a little help from her monster mom. Have you ever had a best friend then one day they totally leave you in the dust and worst of all you’re going through the hardest time in your life? Have you ever had a guy pretend to like you?

This book is mainly about a family named the Arvydas’ and they are being moved to a concentration camp because their house was now owned by the Soviet Union. Well in the first chapter the men from the NKVD were at their house saying that their house is theirs. So Jonas’ mom made a decision to break all of their glasses from the China cabinet, because since now the house belonged to the Soviet Union so she broke the Soviet Union's belongings. In the second chapter the Arvydas’ family except the father are in a truck stuck at the hospital because one of the people that the Soviet Union needed was giving birth at that hospital. Two long hours later the woman who was giving birth was taken from that hospital with her baby girl. The woman who was giving birth to the baby girl, the woman's name is Ona.