The book Hatchet, by Gary Paulsen, is about a boy named Brian who lives in New York. One day he is sent to visit his dad in the summer on a one passenger plane. On his way there, he suddenly realizes that the pilot is having a heart-attack. So Brian does what he thinks he should do and crash lands the plane in the middle of a lake. So from then on into the book, Brian is stranded in the middle of nowhere with nothing but a hatchet he had gotten from his mother a few years back.…
Rooster is a dance piece choreographed by Christopher Bruce. It was originally premiered by the Ballet du Grand Theatre de Geneve in 1991. It is a contemporary ballet piece performed by ten dancers to eight of The Rolling Stones’ most memorable hits.…
Title: Flyboys, what the title means to me is that it's about pilots in a war fighting enemies. The title sparks my interest a little. Yes, the title does fit with the text of the book. Author: James Bradley, I have read another book from this Author before called “Flags of our Fathers”.…
poem refuses to resolve the ambiguities of orientation and perspective, a refusal embodied in the…
In the first stanza, the poet talks about the tension between the mother and her attitude towards her. She makes known to reader immediately that at the first meeting, the tension between the mother and herself was one that was harsh and bitter.…
Adrift, By: Paul Griffin Adrift by: Paul Griffin is a suspenseful and fictional story about how two boys, Matt and John, who are put to the test when they end up at sea stranded with 3 other friends. It teaches you to never give up and to have hope in people, even in the hardest times. Matt and his lifetime friend, John where lifeguards at a beach for only a summer. When they meet a girl, Driana, who decides to invite them to a party.…
Steven Herrick’s work of “By the river” displays a bildungsroman novel in which harry goes on a journey through life, facing love and loss.…
Dear Gary Paulsen: The first time I read Hatchet was when I was in the fourth grade. I have always liked survival stories and Hatchet made me really about how fast our world can be turned upside down. I really appreciate the section when Brian tells how his teacher, Perpich, told him to "stay positive and stay on top of things" and "You are your most valuable asset. Don't forget that. You are the best thing you have.…
These two poems are very similar in the theme they try to get across to their…
Gary Larson is the creator of the enormously popular cartoon The Far Side. The cartoons unique style and creative style has helped it to become one of the most recognizable and popular cartoons of all time. Gary Larson was born August 14th 1950 in University Place, Washington (near Tacoma, WA) to Verne and Doris Larson. As a child he enjoyed drawing and biology as well as playing the guitar. He graduated from Curtis Senior High School and then attended Washington State University where he earned a degree in communications.…
Imagine how life would be, starting off with having nothing to having everything you could ever want in your lifetime. With the efforts to help a young hopeless man, Leigh Anne Tuohy has greatly influenced Micheal Ohers life in numerous ways. Not only has Leigh Anne changed Michaels life, but in turn changed her life as well. She sees that Michael has the potential to be the greatest he can be if she pushes him to his limits. She becomes a stronger woman emotionally because of her experiences with Michael. Her family learns to accept him into their life and later considered him as part of their family. He also effects his community in many different ways. His disengagement from society leads him to become the most talked about in his community and later throughout the United States. He became more engaged within school, and his decisions made him a more positive person. Leigh Annes decision of welcoming Michael into her and her families life has tremendously changed their lives forever.…
This epigraph contains a metaphor relating dust to the abstract idea of fear. Dust can be compared to fear because dust is small…
Alvarez uses personification and hyberbole to describe the mother’s cleaning. The speaker saw “[m]y name was swallowed in the towel . . .” (line 13), expressing the way her mom wiped away her name with the dust-cloth. This example of personification reveals how the speaker feels threatened with a loss of significance. Her mom cleaning and wiping away her name seems to take away the unique individual she is. The towel being capable of swallowing makes it seem hungry to devour her identity. Another description involves hyperbole: “[T]he pine grew luminous” (16) exaggerates the way the furniture shines after being dusted. It also exaggerates the mother’s extent of cleaning. Cleaning becomes the mother’s identity in the poem. As she wipes away her daughter’s attempts to use dust in a creative way, she is staying true to who she is. The mother has accepted that her role of simply contributing to the beauty of the pine furniture is the proper one.…
Also, both poems are narrated by a single person, implying that the choices that they have made and the hardships they have endured have been alone. This implies a strength and individuality from either narrator.…
Despite both men fearing that death will come too soon for them, the apparent differences in their situations arise towards the middle of the poem. Specifically their experiences and views of love are expressly different. Longfellow has…