wake up extra early on Tet (The Vietnamese equivalent of New Years’) to bless the house with his luck. Ha decided to wake up even earlier than her brother, to bless the house instead. “Tap my big toe to the tile floor” (Thanhha Lai, pages 2-3) This quote shows How incredibly brave Ha is. By tapping the floor first, she goes against all of her family’s traditions because she is bitter that her brothers get to bless the family with their luck. Analogous with Ha, the Bosnian refugees also are very brave
moment she returned back to her homeland everything would go back to the way it was; her loving mom and dad, her regular happy life but sadly, that wasn’t the case. She held onto that thought that going home would fix everything but, when nobody she knew or loved was there, it didn’t hold the same meaning it did once before. My dad told me this quote when I was younger and while reading this part, I remember it. It was “Maybe home isn’t a place. Maybe it’s a feeling you have inside of you, being around
Name: Chad Nakagawa Period: 4 Title and author: The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger Number of pages in book: 532 pages Section 1 Page Range: 1-105 Dates Read: 10/3/15-10/4/15 Original Summary: On Sunday, October 26, 1991, Clare Abshire and Henry DeTamble officially meet for the first time at the Newberry Library in Chicago. Clare invites Henry to dinner and explains that she knows about his time travel condition and that she has known the older time traveling
pattern like a set of intentional scars.” Intentional scars indicates that she is referring to slavery since many African Americans were being whipped and they would receive whip lashes from their masters. She also alludes to slavery towards that end when she mentions “the way his own back is being broken” again referring to the whip lashes. Her tone becomes stereotypical when she mentions that the man has “a casual cold look of a mugger, alert under hooded lids.” Hooded lids suggests that the man’s
island. Once on the island law and order fall apart and they become more savage and the evil progressively comes out of everyone, faster in some and slower in others. William Golding’s Lord of the Flies has many symbols and themes throughout the book, but a big one I personally noticed is that deep down everyone has that evil and it can come out. The three symbols that go with evil is inside all of us is the boys painted faces, the beastie, and killing the first pig. The first symbol that connects
“There are no secrets that time does not reveal,” as said by Jean Rachine. But where do we decide what secrets to keep and what to reveal if it is all inevitable that they come out with time? Or does time decide when the secrets we keep come out? In the song, “Secrets” by OneRepublic, the band has written a song that summarizes all of these thoughts into one cohesive work of art. The speaker of the song is saying that the secrets they keep are weighing them down and it is time for them to move onto
“The time is always right to do the right thing” - Martin Luther King Jr. I always believed that I follow that quote, but on this day I did not follow it. I wanted to ride my brother’s bike so I went to my garage and took his bike out. I was riding it and my brother took a break and saw me riding it so he chased me. He was chasing towards a hill (not on purpose). I saw cars going by so then I pushed the pedals backwards but nothing happened. I hoped my life wouldn’t end on this day. On this day I
Heart of Darkness “Men! The only animal in the world to fear” (Lawrence). D.H Lawrence makes a statement with this quote by saying man should ultimately fear themselves. It shows that a person doesn’t have to be a psychopath to abandon morals. Moreover, in Conrad’s novel, Heart of Darkness, he shows that man can lose all of his humanity by being taken out of society. Conrad uses the literary elements of conflict, characterization, and symbolism to illustrate the theme that when humans are surrounded
annoying, she keeps nagging at me to sleep earlier”, More often than not, I would hear my friends complain. I open my mouth, about to explain to them how they should not take their parents’ concern for granted, yet close it again. After all, why would they listen to me. Time and again, we would take our parents’ for granted, as after all, they have been with us since we were born, and we often assume that they would be there with us forever. I admit, I was once like that. Months before PSLE, I started
on the exterior of the house is chipping. The people that live there rarely come outside their property, only to leave for work, and return later that evening. The town lives in fear of the strange people whom reside there. They separate themselves from any social interaction. They are the whispers that flow through the town. They are outsiders. Every town has them, and they are often criticized for their uncommon habits. In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird the Radley family attracts the town of