Always Coming Home is a 1985 novel by Ursula K. Le Guin about the Kesh, a fictional group of people living in California in the future. Part of the book tells the story of Stone Telling, a Kesh woman who lived among the militaristic and patriarchal society of the Condor people. The rest of the book is a collection of essays on the Kesh, who are opposed to modern society, as well as examples of their folklore and rituals.
Always Running: La Vida Loca Gang Days in L.A. is an autobiographical work by Luis J. Rodriguez published in 1992. Rodriguez tells of his life while in a street gang in East Los Angeles. The book discusses Rodriguez's immigration to the United States and the poverty and hardships he faced in L.A. He also discusses how racism, oppression, lack of opportunity and poverty promote and worsen gang activity and violence in the city.
We Have Always Lived in the Castle is the surreal story of teenage Merricat and her older sister Constance, who live with their aging uncle in a mansion on the outskirts of a small town. Years earlier, the rest of their family was poisoned, and most people think Constance is responsible; consequently, the sisters are shunned and do their best to avoid society. However, when their cousin Charles comes to town, Merricat fears that everything may change. This novel explores the themes of family, isolation, and otherness.
In the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley proves that things are not always what they seem Harold Bloom in the After word in the Signet Edition of Frankenstein states The monster is at once more intellectual and more emotional then his Maker The greatest paradox and most astonishing achievement of Mary Shelley s novel is that the monster is more human than his creator This nameless being is more lovable than his creator and more hateful more to be pitied and more to be feared When one hears the
A Game For Jordan by Ashley Ware One day Jordan was in his room thinking about what he always thought about money He always thought about ways to get money He was always making up schemes to get more money or things he wanted As he was thinking up one of these schemes he realized it was time for work As Jordan was walking down the sidewalk on his way to work a girl about his age ran past him to retrieve a ball Hey she said Im Brooklyn Wanna play kickball with us Sorry Jordan said shortly Im on
Natures transcendental quality is described in Robert Frosts poem Birches The speaker of the poem is an older man who recalls the memory of being a swinger of birches The overwhelming aspects of his life cause him to yearn for the trouble free and undemanding times of childhood Although the poem is written from the speakers viewpoint the perspective of a specific boy is introduced These two outlooks offer contrasting perceptions of what the birch tree and act of climbing and swinging represent