Shells By Cynthia Rylant Summary

micheal having friends then there would be no story because jack and wade helped michael in the first book but in the middle of the book wade takes a bullet for jack and he later on dies.If michael didn't have friends then in the first one when his mom was captured he needed someone to be by his side to help him but then michael and his friends were captured except for zeus and then zeus managed to save michael and his friends.without then michael and his friends would of been killed or tortured.then in this book that i read without michael's friends his powers wouldn't have been enchanted Tessa wouldn't be able to lead micheal out of the jungle intime before the elgen would of came and captured them.Michael's mom wouldn't be here and now he wouldn't have no family.

“Shells”by Cynthia Rylant is a realistic fiction short story about a boy named Michael and his Aunt Esther and Michael's parents died so he is living with Aunt Esther. His aunt took him in because no one else would and because she was loyal to her family.In the beginning Michael does not get along with Aunt Esther and she does not under stand Michael and the things he does. One day Michael decides to bring crabs home with him and aunt ester is fine with this. Aunt Esther thinks that this fine and lets him keep them.Then one day he finds her in his room looking at the hermit crab and she says that the crab needs a friend. They go out and get 21 crabs. Then when back home she brings up his mom and they bond over this and he smells his mother's talc. Aunt Esther was trying to bond with Michael with the crabs.

Shells By Cynthia Rylant is a realistic fiction about a 14 year old boy who lives with his aunt after his parents’ death. In the beginning,Michael was in denial of his parents’ death.Soon, Michael became lonely and missed his parents’. In the end Michael felt happy with his aunt Esther.the story shows that Michael has changed a lot.

“Shells” by Cynthia Rylant is a realistic fiction short story about a fourteen year old boy, Michael, whose parents have died and is trying to get used to living with his Aunt Esther. In order to do that he has to stop fighting with her. In the beginning, they fight and Michael storms out the door. Soon, he comes home with a hermit crab that starts a little bit of a bond. Finally, Aunt Esther comes into his room and tells him that Sluggo, the hermit crab, needs a girlfriend. Throughout the story, Michael and Aunt Esther learn to get along.

“Shells” by Cynthia Rylant is a Realistic Fiction Story about a 14 year old boy who lives with his Aunt Esther after his parent’s deaths.Michael gets a hermit crab and makes his bond with Esther stronger.In the beginning,Michael’s parents died and his only family, Aunt Esther decides to take care of Michael.Michael currently hates his Aunt Esther because they argue all the time.Soon,Michael comes home from school with a hermit crab. He shows the Hermit crab to Aunt Esther, who surprised Michael because she was just sitting, instead of talking to her friends about how bad Michael is.Aunt Esther looks at the hermit crab and tells Michael he better not grow out of his bowl.Michael watches Aunt Esther play with the hermit crab as she pokes the

A man by the name of Tony Henderson or “Big Tony”, who sometimes took care of Michael, was able to convince Briarcrest Christian School to allow Michael to attend the school. This is where the Tuohys- a rich, white family- meets Michael and takes him in. The most dominant theme in the novel deals with overcoming adversity. The three key points that can be

Diction - specifically, Kahan’s use of the words “uncanny” and “unsettling” - help to illustrate the effect that Michael’s behavior has on his parents by it helping create the illusion that something is not normal in their home. Michael’s parents are disturbed and are to an extent afraid of their son because they do not know which Michael they are going to get. Michael is able to switch his false shy behavior to chilly detachments when he states “I hate him”. Michael’s ability to switch scares his parents because his behavior resembles

Retelling “Shells” by Cynthia Rylant is a realistic fiction short story about Michael and his Aunt Esther who get into arguments. Aunt Esther knows that Michael hates living there and hates her. Michael’s parents died so he has to live with his Aunt. Michael is a 13 year old boy. Soon Michael denies that he hates Aunt Esther.

Through the use of low-key lighting, long-shot and dialogue, Hancock made me recognize the significance of friends and family by revealing to me the positive influence one young teenager can have on a range of people - in this case Michael is having a positive influence on Sean, his football team/coach and Leigh Anne. Not only did Michael influence these characters in a positive way, but they influenced him as well and changed him for the better. I'm concerned about the fact that our society is not improving instead it is becoming much worse with all the stereotyping that is rumoured. Avoid stereotyping others because you are not going to receive anything from it apart from putting others down. A million people did not believe in Michael at the start, but I am certain they changed their view on him

Next Michael struggles with getting use to living with someone that he doesn't know. michel gets separated from his family. Aunt Esther always complains about him on the phone.In paragraph 5-10 that got into a fight and he said that he hated her and he said he did not mean

and then they got along. This story shows that Michael struggles with changes in his life. One reason Michael struggles is with living with his aunt. Michael is struggling with living with his aunt is because they always fight and his aunt tries to make him admit that he hates living there.

Mikey’s father is disappointed with his life and is doing things he should not be doing to try to find some excitement and action. He is stuck in life and is unsatisfied with his marriage. He

Michael is more than your average 16-year-old teen. His reality, whether he likes it or not, is some kids dream: professionally playing video games. I can connect to Michael because as long as I could remember I’ve been in love with video games. Video Games to me is like a gateway away from everything, away from life, away from responsibilities, away from the homework that is supposed to be due the following day, and away from the drama that surrounds me. Michael is on his journey to fight and overcome the impossible: “The government knows that in order to catch a hacker, you need a hacker. And they’ve been watching Michael. If he accepts Michael will need to go off the VirtNet grid, to the back alleys and corners of the system human eyes have never seen—and there’s the possibility that the line between game and reality will be blurred forever” (Dashner). My supercilious attitude towards videogames lets me connect with Michael and his responsibilities. I anxiously away the day that our reality evolves to a point where total mind and body immersion becomes real, and I can truly relate to the book. Another way I can connect to Michael is with his parents. It doesn’t deliberately come out and say what his parent’s occupation is, but does let the reader know that the parents aren’t around a lot, and Michael rarely sees them: “He had to a lot to thank his weathly parents for. They traveled a lot, and at the moment

Michael didn’t want to worry about his real life problems that awaited him when the ship would arrive to England. Michael felt as if he was on a ship were for once he didn’t need to worry about his mom, because he never really knew who she was. Michael boarded the ship with no understanding of what was really to come. Michael meets many people on the ship that impacted his life later

Along with the struggles of growing up in a community where he doesn’t fit the expected “norm” for male behaviour, Michael has an alcoholic and abusive father who believes heavily in the gender stereotypes perpetuated throughout the film and disapproves heavily of Michael’s behaviour. All this strain on Michael makes it hard for him to have a “normal childhood” as he struggles with the challenges of growing up in a community where you don’t fit the “mold” of what a man should be like. This is shown in the scene when he and Billy are wearing tutus and dancing in the boxing hall and get caught by two angry parents who then proceed to call them both “poofs” and “sissies” for dancing together. Michael is also seen at the end of the film to have his male partner sitting next to him.This relates to the audience because at some point in their life everyone feels like they don’t fit in with the majority of their community, whether it is a small difference or a large one people are all unique but sometimes can feel like they are the only one fighting against the world. In Michael’s case he has to grow up hiding his true self and not being able to express his feelings as the community he lives in is heavily embedded in traditional gender roles and stereotypes and does not accept people who don’t fit within the “black and white”