The novel Our Only May Amelia by Jennifer L. Holm is a nonfiction book that will break the hearts of readers. May Amelia is the only girl who lives near the Nasel River she is expected to be lady-like and isn’t supposed to do anything that could be dangerous but despite this she is very rebellious and does what she wants lady-like or not. Throughout the story she get into trouble and every time Papa (May Amelia’s father) yells at her. The theme in the story is to cherish the ones that you love before it’s too late. Jennifer L. Holm shows this when Papa isn’t mad when May Amelia is in the water when the damn opened.…
How would you fare in a war you are not prepared to fight? The book, April Morning, by Howard Fast, is about Adam Cooper and the challenges that he must endure through the first battles of The Revolutionary War. Joseph Simmons is Adam’s cousin and a complex character who is simple, brave, and father-like.…
“Take them there. I don’t want him to lie in the darkness tonight.” (Fast 195) Adam Cooper is told by his mother Sarah Cooper to take candles to the church so his father will not lie there in the dark. This book took place in Lexington Massachusetts on April 19th 1775, the red coats marching in a solid column through towns destroying them. The three minor characters in this book are Sarah Cooper, Granny, and Ruth Simmons.…
The author of this novel is Ellen Raskin. During her book there were major events that took place. Somewhere such as being forced to go somewhere, and finding out clues to the bombings that took place in the book. The book has one big setting that takes place in the Sunset towers where all the people live.The main events where very important because these were the very places the setting of the book took place. The things that took place in the book where pretty shocking. In the book a bomb goes off and one of the things that happened there for the first time was very unexpected.…
“The plain truth of the matter is that we can’t stop them!” (Fast 90). April Morning, written by Howard Fast, is a novel about the start of the Revolutionary War, specifically the Battle of Lexington in 1775. Adam Cooper, the protagonist of the story, is a 15-year-old boy who is forced to become a man to defend his home from the British. Moses Cooper, Adams father who is also the antagonist of the story, is extremely hard on Adam and does not see him as a man. Not until Adam signs up to fight that is. Moses Cooper is a loving father that is disciplined, dutiful, and wise.…
My book is Red Queen. It is written by Victoria Aveyard. My favorite part in the book is at the end when Mare and Cal are sentenced to death. They are fighting people with powers. Cal’s power is fire. He can make little fireballs and hurl them at people. Mare’s power is lightning. You see, people who have powers need it already there for them to work with it. Like with Cal, his power is fire right? Well he need a spark to create something bigger. With Mare though she can just make lightning she doesn’t even need a thunderstorm to create deadly lightning bolts. She has RED blood, they have SILVER. Reds aren’t supposed to have powers, but she does. Strange ones at that.…
Steinbeck is trying to create a simple, naturally beautiful, and tranquil environment. A quaint little paradise.…
In April Morning, the setting is during a state of war in the 1700s, where Adam learns to…
the main character in my book middle school is james and this book is written by James patterson he is a very independent boy who just likes to sit at home and do nothing all day hes a calm,kind,boring person but when it becomes summer his parents send him to a camp called camp wannamorra and he doesn't want to go to but when he gets there out of all the cabins he gets the worst one called the muskrats with all the kids who gets picked on and thats makes him feel like he's gonna have a long summer with bullies.…
Good to Great by Jim Collins is by far the best business-oriented book that I've read that can be applied to any career situation. I can see why it has gained the notoriety and respect from top level executives around the world. I have read other business type books which were more of a motivational lecture than actual years of research going into the making of one text. Before reading this book, my preconceived notion was that I would be lost in trying to understand executive jargon. That was not the case at all. Jim Collins did a great job of portraying his ideas and findings in an easy to understand manner that anyone can comprehend. Also, the graphs and illustrations were a useful tool in grasping the ideas he was trying to get across. After reading the book, I was impressed to learn of the concepts and characteristics that may aid me in the pursuit of personal greatness.…
This past March I read an amazing book entitled Green Angel. The author of Green Angel is Alice Hoffman. She is a really good writer by the way. This is a fictional novel. The genre is a mixture of adventure, romance and drama. I started reading this book in the beginning of March and finished it on March 23rd. This book was trully an amazing novel.…
Throughout the book, an underlying theme of starting a task slowly and finishing the task quickly. The character Adam is slow to start his chores, but quick to finish his responsibilities; Adam's father, Moses Cooper is slow to begin to let his son try and prove himself as a man, but Moses is deadly quick to finish that process, literally; the beginning of the American Revolutionary war is slow to start on April 19, 1775, but the battle at Lexington Green is over in a matter of minutes; and as a whole, the book April Morning is slow to start, but ends in the period of one day.…
Two kinds, one of the short stories in The Joy Luck Club, by Amy Tan, first published in 1989, vividly displays a bittersweet relationship between Jing-mei, the narrator and protagonist, and her mother Mrs. Woo, and explores conflicts between a Chinese mother and her disobedient Americanized daughter. The story happened in the Chinatown in San Francisco throughout the 1950s and maybe the early 1960s. It begins with Jing-mei and her mother’s moving to America in 1949. Encouraged by the American Dream and the conventional Chinese parents’ values, Jing-mei’s mother imposed great hopes on her and expects her to become a child prodigy. She tried in all ways to discovery the special talent in Jing-mei. First, she pushed Jing-mei to be the next Shirley Temple,but that didn't work. Then she prepared intellectual tests which were clipped from popular magazines for Jing-mei everyday. Unfortunately, Jing-mei didn't show promise in this field, either. Finally, the mother stumbled upon the answer that Jing-mei must be a piano virtuoso, and forced Jing-mei into piano lessons which taught by Mr. Chong, an elderly piano teacher, who is deaf and whose eyes are too weak to tell when Jing-mei is playing the wrong notes.…
The King Day celebration happened at Harbach Theater at the CFA on January 16, 2017. This event was meant to commemorate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday and act as a remembrance for all the work he did and all the work that still needed to be done. The event showcased the Knox College Choir and additional singers, speeches from Laura Behling, Professor Konrad, Professor Shabazz, Professor Fequiere, President Amott, and two students who did poetry.…
The Author of this novel is Ernest Hemingway. Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899 and died on July 2, 1961. He was an American author and journalist, which relates to the book because in The Sun Also Rises the protagonist, Jake Barnes, is a journalist. He was also an ambulance driver in World War I which ties in with the book as well because Jake was a World War I veteran. Another thing that ties in the book from his personal life is that he was wounded, and in the novel as well he is wounded and that is how he had met Brett when she was taking care of Jake because he had gotten hurt during the war.…