Essay Seconds Away by Harlan Coben

Mickey is the youngest of a large family and is treated as such. His mother loves him but is always weary of where Mickey goes to play incase he gets too close to the Lyons' house. Mickey's older brother Sammy ten years old but thinks that he is far more superior than Mickey even though there is only three years between them. The audience can see this as Mickey tells his mother ‘Our Sammy's robbed me other gun an' that was me best one. Why does he rob things off me?' In this line, we can see a lot of Mickey's character. It show's his accent and dialect which Mickey speaks in and it shows that he is young as he is ‘telling on' his brother and this is an action a young child uses.

The point of view in “Code Name Verity” is split into two different points of view. In Part 1, the point of view is “Verity’s” first person point of view. She is writing a confession for the Gestapo in hopes of buying herself time to live, and by doing that she is telling the story of her best friend Maddie. “Von Linden said I have two weeks and that I can have as much paper as i need. All I have to do is cough up everything I can remember about the British War Effort.” (4). While the story is written in First Person point of view, Verity

connotative - a referee or umpire They have a lot of umpire talk in this book because it is about baseball.

The main character's name is Stanley Yelnats. At first, you see stanley as an alright kid who has made a bad decision stealing. “ I stole some sneakers” (pg 22). Throughout the rest of the story you find that stanley is nice and always seems to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. “He was just in the wrong place at the wrong time all thanks to his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather” (Pg 7). At school before camp Green Lake he was bullied and treated bad. “he didn’t have any friends at home, he was overweight” (pg 7). At camp Green Lake Stanley made a new friend, his best friend “Zero”. He get’s along great with Zero and teaches him how to read. “I’ll try

The main character Mickey is represented as valuing the outcasts of society. He is at an age where identity is important to find and seeking power to prove he can fit in. The issues facing this character have values and attitudes reflecting his actions. Another essential feature of an

There were many characters in this book. The main character in this book was Omri. Omri was a normal young boy who was interested in playing cowboys and Indians, and other games like that. His friend, Patrick, was interested in the same things, but Patrick wasn’t as nice and he was a bit bossy and pushy. He forced Omri into making a live toy for him. Omri had a brother named Adiel. Adiel didn’t like Omri that much and one time in the story he hid Omri’s cupboard because he thought Omri had taken his football shorts. Another character in this book was the headmaster. The headmaster was a very strict person, but he wasn’t unkind.

Octavia Butler’s novel Kindred is categorized as science fiction because of the existence of time travel. However, the novel does not center on the schematics of this type of journey. Instead, the novel deals with the relationships forged between a Los Angeles woman from the 20th century, and slaves from the 19th century. Therefore, the mechanism of time travel allows the author a sort of freedom when writing this "slavery narrative" apart from her counterparts. Butler is able to judge the slavery from the point of view of a truly "free" black woman, as opposed to an enslaved one describing memories.

Modern Times by Paul Johnson gives an overview of the history from the nineteen twenties until the nineteen nineties. He bases his book on the presuppositions of the Judeo-Christian worldview. Johnson is very clear in his belief in the Judeo-Christian worldview as he states it explicitly multiple times throughout his lengthy book. The presuppositions of the Judeo-Christian worldview are: “the Kingdom of God is spiritual, man is prophet, priest, and king under a sovereign God and that there is no institutional interposition between God and man.” This worldview causes him to affirm limited government, free market economics, the rule of law and self-government.

How does the context of the novel affect the way this value or idea is represented

He is a mysterious kid and not much is known about him and his background at the start. He dresses in black and rides an old BMW motorcycle. This, of course, occurs without the necessary context and the questions that arise from his confession, the ‘who?’ and the ‘what?’, remain unanswered for some time. The first significant event that occurs in the novel is a drug sweep in the school where a junior named Mikey, the second main character of the novel, runs in to trouble. Mikey is a small teenager with a big mouth that always gets him into trouble. He is Mexican and despite his troubled attitude, he is quite intelligent. During the school-wide drug sweep, a big, drug-dealing bully named Jon Brand, afraid to get caught with his weed, forces Mikey to take his drugs. Mikey, with his nonchalant attitude, unwisely trashes his marijuana. Jon Brand, being the tempered bully that he is, threatens to violently beat Mikey up unless he pays him $500, the estimated street value of his drugs. Unfortunately, Mikey’s sister is dating this bully. Jon becomes very abusive to Mikey’s sister, Marie, which is something she does not realize until a long time. He is a drug addict who is physically violent to Marie and gets her to start using drugs. Mikey dislikes that Marie, his vulnerable teenage sister, is being hurt by Jon. This event and his hatred of Jon ties into Shayne Blank as it becomes the starting point in their friendship. Shayne offers to help Mikey solve his problem with Jon by using his “ninja-style” combat skills. As you can guess, this series of events following Jon’s abusive actions kindles their involvement in matters leading to Shayne’s confession of

Runner (p.45) - This is important because it is a job at the Glade which Thomas wants to do. Denotative - a person who runs, esp. in a specified way. Connotative - a job at the Glade in which a person runs and maps the Maze

“Seeing Ourselves” by Arthur Gottleib is an opened form poem that consists of four no rhyming quintains with the exception of the last stanza. The subject focuses on a complicated relationship between a man and a woman. In the poem, the speaker is a man who is having trouble with his love life. The theme of this poem is that one can only fight and battle so much for something they love before they meet the end and give up. The tone begins in frustration mixed with sadness, but in the end switches to hopelessness and gloom. At this point, the speaker has realized that he has been ‘fighting’ for a lost cause.

In the opening to Paul Fussell’s essay “A Touchy Subject”, he observes that no one really quite understands how class works, and each class theorizes the deciding factors between them, through the colored lenses of station. Of interest though, is the description he gives of the Upper Class, who “perceive that taste, values, ideas, style, and behavior are indispensable criteria of class, regardless of money or occupation or education” (McQuade) If that criteria is taken and applied to society, other social classes are revealed that lie hidden within the umbrella of Low, Middle and Upper. There is a group of people that embodies their own values, who celebrate their ideas, flaunt their style and act with a certain behaviors, and they have formed a class of their own; Geekdom.

The theme of education is strong in all the past readings and research throughout the class. Institutionalized learning versus self-learning and the fact that education through institutions can sometimes fail the individual in the sense of systematic learning compared to academic knowledge. In Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro, the institution of Hailsham helps shelter the clones, yet inhibits them. In Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, Creature learns languages from his neighbors. The lack of an academic system causes a form of self-teaching. While self-learning is a form of self-realization as mentioned in Walter Kirn’s article “Lost In Meritocracy” Kirn learns from his experiences, Ellison from Invisible Man learns “street smarts” similar to the clones in Never Let Me Go in which the clones are also self-taught. In Frankenstein, the Creature learns from Victor, who is a selfish man who never loves the Creature. A cultured education is stemming from a higher self of education, which is self-experience enlightenment, instead of academic institution whose instructors do not know how to convey the information correctly in the example in Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro, the guardians not being able to teach the clones of their origins or properly educate them to be human. Consequently, producing the clones have a wrapped sense of information and education which makes them unnatural in mannerisms.

Ever wonder what it would be like if the person you love unconditionally lost all of their memories? The film “The Notebook” originally written by author Nicholas Sparks, starts with characters Noah and Allie married to each other after many years together. Allie is in the hospital suffering from Alzheimer's disease. Noah reads to her daily from his notebook. The notebook is a diary of their life together. As Noah reads to Allie their life flashes back to when they first met, as teenagers, where Allie spent her summers and follows them as couple through the ups and downs of their world win of a relationship.