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Themes: One of the first themes that appears in the text is fear. Fear was a driving force in

The second theme shown throughout the novel is the power and strength of female community. When Lily escapes to the Boatwright house she meets the three strong and independent Boatwright sisters. It is there where Lily grows from a scared little girl to not only a stronger and more independent young lady but a more considerate and accepting human being, she grows into a better person. And it was Rosaleen’s strength to stand up to the racist men that gave Lily the strength to runaway from T. Ray and escape Sylvan. As she grows and learns the truth about her mother she accepts her flaws and as she matures and realizes why T. Ray is the way he is, because he is so hurt from Lily’s mother leaving him she accepts his flaws as well and knows that he really does love her. It is the strength of these women that gave Lily the strength and courage to grow and accept.

Jade Butterflies is a historical fiction book written by Kathy M. Zhu. Jade Butterflies takes place in Beijing and Suchow. Young Mei is a young girl who is interested in receiving an education at the Guiyan academy in Beijing, but tradition prevents women from studying and receiving an education. When a traveling student, Shan Shu comes to stay in Mei’s home she uses the opportunity to travel to Beijing with him. She disguises herself as a man named Ming, and they travel together. On their journey they go through many adventures from escaping death to killing oversized snakes. When they reach the academy Mei and Shan Shu become friends with Wu Long. After a couple of months Mei sees how corrupt the school’s system is. If a student was rich,

Red Queen In Mare Barrow’s world, the society is divided by the color of their blood. Those with red and those with silver. Mare and her family are placed as low Reds who are destined to serve the supernatural Silvers. All Silvers are born with supernatural abilities; magnetron, nymph, shadow, singer, burner, whisper, and more.

Red Queen attempts to breathe new life into dystopian YA, blending social injustice with supernatural powers. However, at this point, nearly all the plot elements the book contains have already been done and it seems impossible not to compare the story with all those that have come before. Some stories can make a prince in disguise or secret revolutionaries seem fresh and exciting, but though this book kept me reasonably engaged, it never blew me away. It is a solid YA dystopia, and one sure to please fans of the genre, but I have to admit I do not understand all the hype it has received.

No matter what story there is always a theme and sometimes it can be very moving. The theme for Ransom of Red Chief and Home Alone is that appearances can be deceiving. It states on page 62, “Hey little boy! says Bill, would you like to have a bag of candy and a nice ride? The boy hits Bill square in the eye with a piece of brick”(O’ Henry 62). This means that Bill thought Red Chief was stupid, small and he didn’t expect the little boy to hurt him. From a scene in Home Alone Harry and Marv knocked on Kevin's’ door to let them in and Kevin shot Harry and Marv with a bb gun...(Home Alone). This shows that Harry and Marv thought of Kevin as a stupid little boy and they weren’t ready for him to shoot them with a bb gun.

In the second theme, there’s an eerie chill among the characters, even when they eat dinner, you are not comfortable. Rayna, the most hopeful character tries to maintain communication and connection with John, who is hard to get through

The Once and Future King: Themes for the Future After a good binge read or movie marathon, the audience will feel more prepared for the real world or learn a new tidbit or two, all the while enjoying their experience. What the audience just learned from that lasting experience, was a theme. There are many interesting themes in T.H White’s novel, The Once and Future King. However, there are three important themes that just stick out from the rest. In the first theme, Queen Guenever finds that love is complicated, as a result of her own complex love life.

The first theme is about your appearance. The book gives us two towns, Uglyville and New Pretty Town. These towns are based off of how you look. When you are about seven or eight you are taken to Uglyville. At the age of sixteen, if you get the surgery, you will be moved to New Pretty Town.

The theme identity is shown by the character Kirby who is being forced to be someone she is not. This is shown in the novel as she struggles to be who she is because of her family is calling her Esther instead of Kirby. Her family call her Esther instead of Kirby as they believe Kirby is not a godly name new sentence here this makes Kirby outraged as they are trying to change her into someone she is not an example of this is when she is told to put on the COF clothing and is not allowed to wear her own clothing or when she gets told to put her hair in a braid when she likes her hair down new sentence here if she does something wrong she is punished in the punishment room new sentence here the evidence i used to backup my point is the quote

Everybody has tried acting like someone else in their life before, but then they realized that they should just be who they are. Well that is the themes for "the pink hat" and "7th grade". The short stories "the pink hat" By: Caroline Bond Day and "7th grade" By: Harry Sotoe show the reader that even though you want to act differently¬ to impress someone or to like you, you should always be yourself. Both authors develop the theme be who you are through their wonderful stories.

The lifestyles of the characters plays out to form the theme. One theme is money. All the characters are together because of their new or old money. Being wealthy is the best you can get in society. The setting is in East and West Egg along with the Valley of Ashes

Issues concerning her size, identity, and her social exchanges with both Wonderland and its creatures spur and characterize Alice’s development towards becoming a young woman.

The traditional male qualities are overtaken by female characters such as the Queen of Hearts and the Duchess. Also, a male character such as the King of Hearts expresses the traditional female qualities. However, throughout the story, Alice meets characters who support their traditional gender roles such as the White Rabbit and the Pigeon. All in all, Alice learns that although some characters such as the Duchess have reversed cultural gender roles, she still expressed her maternal instinct, prompting Alice to discover the ancient feminine in

Based on the children’s literary work written by Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland is a fictional film that was directed by Tim Burton.  The film is set in Wonderland inside of Alice’s dream, so viewers are able to recognize the lack of order and the fantasies of children.  One of the major themes seen in the movie is childhood, specifically the development into adulthood, which is depicted in other characters besides Alice.  Alice, however, is used as the primary symbol for what children in the Victorian Age should not ideally act like, since they were expected to dress properly and attain a certain level of education.  Furthermore, Sigmund Freud’s dream theory and tripartite give further insight into the characters and what they represented during the Victorian Age. The id, ego, and the superego are applied to the unconscious and conscious mind states, and how the unconscious state is still somewhat available during a conscious state.  In Alice in Wonderland, psychoanalysis is used to portray the Red Queen as the id, the Absolem