Plot Elements In The Darkest Corners By Kara Thomas

Keely- Young woman who is in her early thirties and got raped by her ex-husband living her pregnant.

She meets Josie for lunch before she leaves town. Josie thinks her mom and Cincinnati has something to do with the murder. Josie hates Cincinnati he is a longtime off and on again boyfriend whom has always mistreated Josie’s mom. Later Cincinnati dies and Josie’s mom gets arrested on her way back to New Orleans.

The Darkest Hour by Caroline Tung Richmond is a book about a sixteen-year girl who joined the Covert Ops to take down Hitler. This story takes place during World War II and focuses on Covert Op that occurred during the war. Lucie Blaise is stationed in Paris, France along with other Covert Ops. Lucie's mission is to stop the Nazi operation called “Zerfall”. She must deal with traitors and mind games that attempt to control her.

“…. because a girl of my age ought to be able to brush her own hair and it was a travesty that my mother hadn’t taught me” (Evans 39). It is often the case that most people develop awareness of their identity when they become involved in diverse social circles, neighborhoods, or schools. In “Snakes”, Danielle Evans carefully chooses the characterization of her characters to give the reader an insight into the racial division that has been pervasive in America. Having never been aware of her biracial identity, Tara confronts the reality of her identity when she leaves her parent’s house to spend the summer with her grandmother. Evans portrays Lydia, Tara’s grandmother, as brutal, bigoted white grandmother to draw parallel between her and white

The setting takes place in present day Texas throughout the whole novel. The main characters were Sunny Reynolds (14) who was the main detective of the novel, and the younger sister of the dead sister, who died in a fire in New York, but was deeply loved by everyone, Deborah Hallard a girl who looked and pretended to be Jasmine Reynolds (the girl who died), but knew everything about her and her family, and Dan and Lily Reynolds the parents of Sunny and Jasmine. Dan had a drinking problem, and Lily was depressed because of her beloved daughter who was dead, Jasmine. The mystery of the story was when a letter arrived to Sunny’s house from her dead sister, two months after her sister passed away. It said that Jasmine was going to come home because she ran away even though she was reported dead. When Jazz arrived at her family’s doorstep, everyone besides Lily knew that it wasn’t the real Jasmine. They weren’t sure who she was, why she was at their home pretending to be someone who she wasn’t, and how she knew everything about the Reynold’s family and their secrets. The detective in the novel was Sunny Reynolds. She was always trying to find clues about the girl pretending to be her sister, calling people to get as much information as possible, and would even look through the girl’s bags even if that risked her getting caught because unlike some people, she had nothing

There are three main characters in the novel starting with Elena Dunkle. Elena is twenty some years old and has Anorexia Nervosa. She believes that to be perfect you need makeup, perfect grades, and to never eat. ‘“You let yourself get forced into eating a hot dog. Therefore you are a spineless, obese, out-of-control ballon”’(117). That is her inner voice talking to her. It jnormally does this to make her feel horrible about herself so she doesn't have to eat. She is the protagonist in the story. The next main character is Elena Dunkle. Clara is Elena’s mom and she is in her late forties. She is terrified that her daughter is going to die. ‘“...if you’re going to continue to destroy yourself, you’re not gonna use a single thing of ours to help you do it”’(283). She wants to help Elena get better. She loves her with all of her heart and doesn’t want to see her this way. The last character is Valerie Dunkle. Valeris is Elena’s sister. She used to be very suicidal and walked out on her family when they tried to help her. ‘“I’ve swallowed a bottle of pills”’(187). They ended up sending her to a psych ward. She managed to escape the institute and moved away with her now husband Clint. She wants to be

Black Widows bare similarities to the unnecessary evil in our world. Showing excessive violent tendencies, these creatures represent a broader inspection of our society. Through many examples of literary devices in Gordon Grice’s essay “Caught in the Widow’s Web”, black widow spiders are compared to these evil tendencies in our world..

Most curriculums being taught to students withhold a mass amount of history. Some may do this because they feel some events do not have the same importance as other topics being taught. Such topics for example would be the rape and sexual exploitation of thousands of African American females during the time periods where racism and segregation was the norm. It is important for people to be educated about the horrific events that these women went through without justice. It is also essential because it shows the amazing activism Rosa Parks took part in. Most people are often just taught about Parks’ actions on the bus. At the Dark End of the Street by Danielle L. McGuire shows how Rosa Parks and many other dedicated their lives to receive equality not only for themselves, but for all African Americans in the south. Danielle L. McGuire’s work is an amazing way for people to not only learn more of Rosa Parks story, but to get a better understanding of what all African American woman had to deal with during this time period. The realism of sexual violence and its dominant impact on the African American women was one of the many events that helped ignite the Civil Rights Movement. McGuire wrote At the Dark End of the Street in order to resolve the negligence of this reality.

Jessica is the new girl, while Alexia is popular and bratty. Peter is the class clown, while his friend Luke is the smart kid and a total nerd. Danielle is shy and has a hard time standing up for herself. Anna is an outcast because of her home situation, and Jeffery hates everything. Mr. Terupt is the new teacher who knows how to deal with them all. The class wanted to have a great year with their new favorite teacher, but then a playful joke turns into a possibly fatal freak accident. So, the kids grow very close to each other as they hold onto hope that their teacher will be okay.

World War II is an important key point in history that addresses to young adolescents. The novel, T4 is based on a true story, in which the author, Ann Clare LeZotte is portraying a novel that is based on the theme of survival. It appears to be that the author’s argument in writing this novel is to simply maintain awareness of the past. Generally speaking, a story about survival is a difficult genre for young readers, “The majority of war stories for children are about World War II and the Holocaust.” (Huck 482) The reason war stories are mainly about World War II and the Holocaust is because it was the most recent, largest, and horrifying war during the twentieth century in Europe. Our textbook also states that these historical novels help children experience the past. Meaning, that it is important for a child to learn about the past including all the wars, conflicts, sufferings, and great happiness that had occurred so they can apply that to the present and to the future.

Darcy is the main character, Jamie is Darcy’s sister and Hakeem is Darcy’s boyfriend/ ex boyfriend, Tarah is her best friend. Copper is Tarah’s boyfriend and Liselle and Brain are brother and sister. Now you know everybody in the book. Every character in the book plays a very special part in it. They make the plot special and unique in its own way.

Nikki expressed how she was sick of them acting out. The argument escalated into more physical abuse. If only this time nikki knew that this particular fight would end in a bad tragedy. Jas hit her mother with a vase over the head. Investigators say that was thee first sign of blood drawn. As nikki was trying to fight back tas stabbed her. After more fighting Jas starts to choke her mother with a ribbon medallion she won when she was younger. After being hit back jas picks up the knife to stab her mother. After all the verbal and physical abuse the twins dragged her to the bathtub in the master's bedroom. During the interview with jas and tas they state that when they put her into the tub she was still alive. Jas said her mother's last word were “ I hate you. You're going to jail.” Jas told her mother she was sorry. After cleaning up the bloody mess the girl walked to school arriving two hours late. Students said that they act as if it was a normal day. The twins came home and they thought the police may have been there unfortunately they were not. Jas managed to flag down a officer passing through in her neighborhood. She told the officer that someone had killed her mother. She said her and her sister missed the bus but immetimatley start to walk to rockdale high school. They told officers that they made it to every class on time. The officer indicated that it seem as if she tried to put up a fight at the moment she was being killed but there was no sign of forced entry. Officers focus on the boyfriend as the prime suspect. After investigating they soon come to realize he had nothing to do with the murder. During interviews with the twin detective started to notice that they had many injuries bite mark, scratches, and more. Detectives immediately started to focus on them, But the twins were stick to their stories. Since detectives did not have a solid case the was forced to let them go. Haneef

The settings are important in a story because they tell where and when the story takes place. A reader should always focus on the setting, so he will not get lost in the story. In Doris Lessing’s “Through the Tunnel,” the story focuses on a boy named Jerry trying to accomplish something very difficult while his mother wants him to stay safe. He sees some boys swimming through a challenging tunnel and he tries to go through the tunnel to impress them in order to become friends with them. The setting in “Through the Tunnel” has an impact on the characters, the plot, and the symbols.

Within the first episode of Twin Peaks, ”Pilot”, we are introduced to a wide array of characters and subplots. The show’s main plot starts when the body of Laura Palmer is discovered washed up on a riverbank, wrapped in plastic. FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper is called in and teams up with Sheriff Harry Truman, as he believes there is a connection between Laura’s death and the death of another girl named Teresa Banks a year prior. As the whole town of Twin Peaks is devastated by this shocking event, substantial things are happening on the side. Such as Audrey Horne ruining a business deal for her father Benjamin Horne, the owner of the Great Northern Hotel; Sheriff Truman arrests Laura’s boyfriend Bobby Briggs, who is secretly seeing a married woman named Shelly and Laura’s best friend Donna Hayward and her secret boyfriend James Hurley discover a mutual attraction for one another. And this is only a handful of what goes on in the first episode.

Natasha has been feeling like Hayley and Jenny don’t want to be friends anymore, so she goes back to Becca. Together, Natasha and Becca try to find out how she got in the river. Later on, everyone was at play practice. Tasha wasn’t feeling good so she sat out. Becca’s best friend Hannah stepped in her place. When Tasha went to go move the overhead light, it came crashing down over Hannah. It killed her. Both the police and the girls had decided that Hayley and Jenny had led Tasha into the river and did something to the light for it to fall. The two girls were sent to prison and counseling for murder and attempted murder. After that, everything was going fine until Becca started to get a little suspicious. She asked the police if she could look over all the evidence again. She then came to the conclusion that Natasha had done all of it. She had thrown herself into the river and framed Hayley and Jenny, and she loosened the light so that it would fall. The police did not believe her. One night, Becca and Tasha went out into the woods. Becca was going to try and get her to confess. Natasha did end up confessing, but then she