A Year Down Yonder The 4 5 A class just finished reading A Year Down Yonder This Newberry Award winning sequel to A Long Way From Chicago is written by Richard Peck A Year Down Yonder stars Mary Alice Dowdel and her trigger happy grandma the one and only and feared Grandma Dowdel Mary Alices parents have gone off to find better jobs amidst the Great Depression and her older brother Joey has joined the C C C Civilian Conservation Corps And the only place left for Mary Alice is her not so ladylik
Beauty and Power Who will Survive The word equality has become one of the terms on which society puts an honorable coat Modern American society seems to believe in gender and racial equality and its social implementations and the rhetoric of equality is a key concept repeated in politics education and even in advertisement Is gender equality a reality or is it a fashionable idea that people merely love to mention and rarely practice Today gender and racial equality have only been partially impl
The words the lottery immediately bring to mind the conventional idea of a lucky jackpot winner but writer Shirley Jackson had a different image in mind when using these words to title her haunting short story By manipulating this deceptive image Jackson creates an abrupt and shocking ending and sheds light on humanitys tendency to cling to meaningless rituals In the story the warm summer day the childrens play the casual chatter and the air of suppressed anticipation of the village on the day
In The Lottery Shirley Jackson describe June 27 the day the lottery is held as a normal everyday life for the towns people in a small town called Anytown USA in the story Jackson addresses the day of the lottery as a normal quite and pleasant day In my opinion the lottery is a cruel bizarre tradition that note of the towns people thought to question the ritual on why an individual get stoned to death their very own towns people Jackson uses simple objects to symbolize cruelty and unfairness to
The story that I chose is The Lottery by Shirley Jackson The central theme of the story is the black box that is used in the lottery drawing The box symbolizes a kind of mystery As we read the story and find out about the box we realize that someones fate lies in this box The box symbolizes tradition and our desire to not change things In this story the underlying evil shows a tradition not necessarily of a positive nature but of a nature of evilness by the outcome The story starts out with det
A Rose for Emily The end of the American Civil War signified the end of the Old Souths era of greatness During this time many southern people refused to accept that their conditions had changed even though they had bitterly realized that the old days were gone They kept and cherished the precious memories and in a fatal and pathetic attempt to maintain the glory of the South people tended to cling to their old values and customs of the past Miss Emily Grierson from A Rose for Emily was one of t
Blood Feuds In the stories Why I Live at the P O by Eudora Welty and Everyday Use by Alice Walker one can see the theme of sibling rivalry Sibling rivalry is a type of competition between children The children compete for the attention and approval of their family members and peers against one another through their various accomplishments both of which are very prominent in the stories Even after growing up sibling rivalry still exists While sibling rivalry can sometimes be healthy for a relati
Bram Stokers Dracula was written in a time of great change His story had many interesting themes that where symbolic According to shmoop com blood may be one of the most symbolic themes in the story shmoop com The character Renfield says I tried to kill him for the purpose of strengthening my vital powers by the assimilation with my own body of his life through the medium of his blood relying of course upon the Scriptural phrase For the blood is the life He is referring to the idea that by drin