Tuesday Wars Quotes

In the Wednesday wars by Gary d Schmidt, Holing Hoodhood has a lot going on, besides the Vietnam War. For example, he’s the only one not going to catechism or Judaism studies, so he’s stuck with mars baker, who hates his guts! Along with mars baker, there’s Doug Sweetest (the class bully), the 8th graders, and even a pair of rats, it feels like everyone’s out to get him. One of the interesting characters is Mai Thai, she is a Vietnamese girl who was brought to Camilla high by the catholic Vietnam relief association.

All Quiet on the Wester Front, by Erich Maria Remquie, is basically telling us what war means in Paul’s eyes, which is that war is pointless and doesn’t really have a purpose because you lose more than you gain.

How I would justify the theme of underestimation within the novel Soldier Boys is when both the Métis and Canadian communicated in such way of thinking that something is not as good or great as it/they really are. An example of underestimation justified in the story is when Lashbrooke underestimated Tom’s bugle abilities when he had gone in for the interview. He thought for Tom having such a young age his skills would be the same. ‘Yes, yes quite so, but we are not the church band, boy’... ‘You may be able to play some tunes in the church hall but will you be any good to me when the bullets are flying and the enemy hard upon us’ (p.15)?

The characters in the novel Tomorrow When the War Began (TWTWB) (1993) begin as very human, very believable and, very ordinary. Then their lives are changed in an instant and they are forced to respond, to change, to grow and to adapt.. The characterisation is so well done that Ellie, Robyn, Fi, Homer, Chris, Corrie, Kevin and Lee become real to the reader, and you find yourself relating to them as you would actual people. Author John Marsden creates characters based on Australia’s unique multicultural society in TWTWB. The novel is based on an Australian town where John Marsden uses stereotypes as the main characters. They start out as fairly stereotypical examples of teenagers, but they undergo a character metamorphosis as the story progresses. Characters such as Homer, first introduced as a very stereotypical law-breaking teenager often seen in todays society, undergoes a transformation into a strong leader as the story develops.

Chris: “Ninety percent of the school thought he was weird, ten per cent thought he was a legend, everybody thought he was a genius.”

In “Chanda's Wars” by Allan Stratton, Nelson, a teenage boy, is introduced to Chanda, a girl who is visiting her family. At first, Nelson doesn't think chanda has much to her. He thinks that she isn’t very smart and is just another city girl. He doesn't want any help from her. “Careful?

In the fiction novel, “A Separate Peace” by John Knowles, there are plenty of characteristics exposed from the setting about the character Finny. How the setting of the novel helps reveal the character Finny is by the way he reacts towards his education, sports, and friends. He and a friend, Gene, go back fifth-teen years as if they were still at Devon High School, which is a boarding school for boys only.

A seventh grader whose school is largely divided between Catholics and Jews. But, because Holling is a Presbyterian, he has to stay alone with Mrs. Baker on Wednesdays. Causing him to think that Mrs. Baker hates his guts. During these Wednesday's, Mrs. Baker makes Holling do extra work. Each time, he thinks that she was making him do things because she hated him. First she makes him do physical work, but after a while she has him learning Shakespeare. Games were being played between his dad’s company, Hoodhood and Associates, and other nearby corporations. Holling dislikes the fact that his dad will never care about what he asks if it might have the slightest chance of disrupting a deal. In a short amount of time, Holling starts

In Warriors Don’t Cry, the theme of inner strength and perseverance is profusely prominent. There are many examples of this including Melba getting past her suicidal thoughts, becoming a warrior, and the trust she put into Link. Each of these examples are situations that Melba was put into that most people wouldn’t be able to survive, let alone coming out and succeeding in life after. It is amazing to see how she persevered through every obstacle in her life and still came out on top.

In many ways, this passage from the book All Quiet on the Western Front depicts war in a way that puts you right into the carnage. It is common knowledge that WWI brought with it new and catastrophic levels of violence, with battles that lasted for months on end and amazing advancements in weaponry, such as the machine gun, flamethrower, and poison gas. With the introduction of the poison gas came the need for masks that could be worn over the face to deter inhalation of what would prove to be fatal air. The soldiers still use caution when breathing with the masks since they have seen the horrors that follow if the mustard gas enters their lungs. "These first minutes with the mask decide between life and death: is it tightly woven? I remember

Anthem represents a collectivist society that is stagnant and primitive where the word “I” is obsolete; talking in first person is a sin. It is always “we” and never “me”. Equality 7-2521, the main character in Anthem, writes in a journal about himself but only uses “we” forms. Writing about yourself is a sin in this society. Equality starts of his first journal entry, the beginning of the book, with this quote; “It is a sin to write this. It is a sin to think words no others think and to put down upon a paper no others are to see,” (1.1). At the end of this book, Equality’s outlook on the sin, whether it is a sin or not, changes. He decides his actions are not a sin. It is him being an individual. His own self.

In the beginning of All Quiet on the Western Front, Remarque really emphasized on how Paul’s childhood and youth was affected. The term “Iron Youth” was used to describe Paul’s generation and is an ideal of a strong group friends who enlist and fight in the war as a way of showing their pride for Germany and as a symbol of nationalism. However, Remarque tears this ideal apart by comparing how Paul felt physically, emotionally and mentally before the war and after the war. The word “Iron” refers to how they should feel physically and mentally against the weapons of war but Remarque provides us with enough evidence such as, when Kemmerich dies because of a gunshot wound and lost his leg and how Kat died because he got chipped, to know that

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry is a wondrous book with many different characters that have their own unique traits. One of the characters in this book is Cassie, who is a nine-year-old girl living in Mississippi during the Great Depression. The trait that best describes her is being courageous. The denotative definition of courageous is. “Not deterred by danger or pain; brave.”

Normal life is not an option with a ferocious 30 year war going on, and it is no easier if it takes place on the other side of the world in Vietnam. The Wednesday Wars searches through the ideas of boundaries by using the life of a normal boy, Holling Hoodhood, to show the feelings of growing up in the midst of the Vietnam War. Holling has to learn how to grow up and explore his relationships and ultimately find himself. Throughout the novel The Wednesday Wars, Holling examines the boundaries of war through his experiences with his father, Ms. Baker, and his readings of Shakespeare all develop the theme of comfort, independence, and masks.

The section that I read from the book The Wednesday War made me feel really sorrowful for many reasons. One example is because since Doug pulled the horrible prank on the teachers he has been treated like he treated