Population 485 Essay

The setting is very joyful, graceful and inviting, but within the town hides much evil (mostly Miss Strangeworth) which one might also say is fairly ironic. The author is very skilled at making a well developed setting, which suits the themes of deception, secrets and incorrect first impression very well and makes the reader think more to conceive what is really happening or how the setting connects to theme, characters and other literary devices.

The first nine years of his son’s life seemed like that may be true. Lawrence Junior started going to Palisades School for Boys when he was six years old and he was flourishing. Lawrence Junior was very bright and had fantastic potential. He learned how to ride a bike at seven years old and his father bought him his very own bike because he was so proud of him. Lawrence Senior and his wife were nothing, but optimistic about their future as a family until the year of 1914. That year everything changed. Lawrence Senior’s wife was in an automobile accident on her way home from the grocery store and was killed on impact. He was grateful his wife felt no pain in her passing, but the same could not be said for him and his son’s feelings. That day

Have you ever felt that you knew you your home but then realized that it actually wasn’t what you thought it really was? Well, that’s how Jacqueline Woodson felt. As we grow and change, so do our perspectives on a variety of things that we experience in life. In, When a Southern Town Broke a Heart, Woodson introduces ideas changing as you get older as a central idea of the story.

Jenkins starts the article with a section that sets an optimistic tone for the piece. “What makes it special, what makes it sacred, is the love that Thomas poured into the turf,” is an example of how Jenkins places a thought of determination into the reader’s mind. Throughout the article Jenkins explains how Ed Thomas helped the town of Parkersburg through many disastrous moments, such as the tornado that hit thirteen months before. Thomas keeps hope by putting back together the football field, which brings the town together. Towards the end of the piece, Jenkins goes back to the optimistic tone and writes about forgiveness and how the people of Parkersburg are sticking together. He includes a quote that Ed Thomas’ oldest son told the team about what was going to happen. “Don’t use this as an excuse. Nothing is changing here.” By including this quote, it lets the reader know that the citizens of Parkersburg are not giving up and they are going to move on through the tough times, no matter how hard it is.

Unfortunately for the MacDonald family they had to bury a couple of their family members. The theme of death is shown immediately. In a special night, people in his town gather to light a candle for someone special they lost to the myriad of horrible reasons like murder or drugs. Losing a child can be hard for any parent and it was no different for Michael MacDonald’s mother. Even though his mother is usually a very strong woman he saw weakness in her. “She was only crying a little, and tried to hide it from me. His siblings were dead and one of the strongest people he saw one of the strongest people he knows crying. Michael Macdonald was put in an extremely tough position after constant injustice Michael MacDonald didn’t succumb and give up under tough situation but instead he made the best decision someone in his position could make, he want to protect his mother. “I only wanted to protect her”. The tragedy didn’t end there for Michael MacDonald. At first he lost Davey to suicide and then he lost Kathy. All of these deaths show a theme of loss. The theme of loss is shown in the article” A nation of none and all of the above”, by Sam Roberts, when it mentions how Benjamin Franklin though the true American Identity would be lost Germans. Even when faced with constant distress Michael MacDonald is able to overcome it. Even when everything looks bad for Michael Macdonald, Through Resilience, he is able to overcome the injustices that surround

1. What descriptive details does the author use to make it clear that the setting of the story is a small town?

When a young author from New York City decides to take a trip to the southern city of Savannah, he finds himself falling in love with the town and ends up renting an apartment. He encounters many different characters, including Danny Hansford and Jim Williams, that gives the reader a good look into the aura of Savannah. The main conflict in the book occurs when a murder happens in an old mansion located in the town. The book follows the progression of the trial and the outcome following the court’s decision.

Throughout the novel, perseverance and resilience can be shown through the families struggles. When the family lived in Welch, it was a very rough and cold winter.

When O’Connor was 12, her father took a position with the American Legion Post of Georgia and spent most of his time traveling. Edward was traveling so much that he and the family started to neglect financial obligations, and ended up having to move to Milledgeville. A few years later, when O’Connor was 15, her father died at age 45 from Lupus. O’Connors father was always on the road, so he was hardly at home. With him always gone and then his passing, it was clear that

It is pretty strange when Tretheway has not been ridden out the storm at that time, yet her ability to extend that empathy to the local residents is undeniable. Thetheway refacts all the deaths and “bodies washed away” (65) through the lens of witnesses – her family and the whole community – with emotional depth and

The primary locations in this novel is in Sweet Home, a small farm containing slaves in Kentucky, and 124 Bluestone Road on the edge of Cincinnati, Ohio. Although the novel starts out in the home of Sethe and her daughter, Denver, Sweet Home is where Sethe’s experiences to the past begins. In Sweet Home, the slave system was taken over by Mr. and Mrs. Garner, a kind couple who treated their slaves like human beings. 124 becomes personified through the paranormal activities in the house, and through the chapter names; 124 was spiteful, 124 was loud, and 124 was quiet. Mr. Bodwin, the owner of 124, tells how the house has a history of paranoia, "Women died there: his mother, grandmother, an aunt and an older sister before he was born" (259).

Michael is a sub-affected person of the war . He is affected because of Alice going overseas to become a nurse. “Alice was in one of the war zones… [and] we feared for her life.” In the process, Alice became missing for a while and in result Michael received a stroke, and starts to feels depressed about everything.

The movie begins with Tracy, the main character, as a normal teenager whose life seems from the outside “ok”. However, even at this point in the movie, there are hints of Tracy’s inner pain and discomfort or distress with her world. Tracy lives a tough life. Her parents are separated, and do not have a good relationship. Tracy lives with her mom and brother in a suburban low to middle class neighborhood. Her mom, Mel, is a recovered addict, who works as a hair dresser. Her dad, Travis, is a somewhat rich executive, who works all the time and barely

Knowing Our Place is and excerpt from Barbara Kingsolver’s SMALL WONDER. The excerpt is basically all about the places where her life stories and where important times in her life take place. They all end up having to take place in the wilderness in a small town, in a small house in the middle of nowhere; where she had actually grown up. She talks about how her log cabin at the end of Walker Mountain is near tobacco plants and also how it has old historic nature to it. She talks about how she loves the rain and how it sounds in her little log cabin house that was built in the early 1900’s. She grew up and spent most her childhood in these woods filled with neighbor’s miles away and

Tim O’Brien tells the story of him and his platoon in Vietnam as well as a little about what each had experienced before and after the war. He tells each story in different way to elaborate on different things that happened around the same time. This complicated method emphasizes how he and each of his platoon member felt together while in Nam.It may jump from tale to tale in the stroy, but it has a clear message. In the story The Things They Carried O’Brien explains in different ways about being away from home can cause dramatic changes to someone in an alienating or a beneficial way.