My Brother Sam is Dead is a novel by James Lincoln Collier about a boy named Timothy Meeker living during the American Revolutionary War. Timothy's father is a loyalist and his patriot brother is forced to leave home, eventually joining the Continental Army. After his father dies and the family begins to fall apart, Timothy witnesses many horrors of the war and his brother is eventually killed. The novel is a coming of age story focusing on themes of loyalty and bravery and the tension between family and ideology.
Humans beings go through a lot of troubles and obstacles every day of there life some people go through more troubles than other people the only thing that gives people a boost is the thought of coming home and spending time with there families Sometimes people are to absorbed into there own world and they start to neglect the people they love and when people get neglected they start to change In The Rocking Horse Winner and The Jewels it is shown how neglect can effect not only the one being n
History is made by men with The Right Stuff Abraham Lincoln faced not one man but a nation A nation torn apart set against each other in Civil War Abraham Lincoln displayed the Right Stuff by ending the war freeing slaves and reuniting the nation as one In the 1940s the military begun testing rocket propel jets These new airplanes required certain men with unique aptitudes ones who have the ability to push themselves never quit never accepted the norm and demonstrate the courage to push the env
Introduction Langston Hughes was a vital part of African American society in the twentieth century He was a member of the Harlem Renaissance and a well known writer whose works impacted the lives of many Langston Hughes published several works childrens books and newspaper columns Langston Hughes incorporated the metaphor of blues and jazz in his poems to portray African American life He uses these genres in his poems The Weary Blues Lenox Avenue Midnight and Dream Boogie to explore the main th
In the short story What You Pawn I Will Redeem by Sherman Alexie a character by the name of Jackson Jackson sets out to collect money to purchase his grandmothers long lost regalia Jackson Squared as he is so often referred to in the story is a homeless Spokane Indian His efforts at raising the money needed to buy back the regalia are strong However throughout the story he squanders the money her earns Allowing the reader to see his generosity is counter intuitive to his cause and leaves him wi
I Have a Dream August 28 1963 a powerful speech I Have A Dream was delivered to over 200 000 people at the Lincoln memorial in Washington D C by Dr Martin Luther King Jr Not only a highly respected activist and heroic leader for civil rights he was a well educated and phenomenal speaker King captivated his audiences by using various strategies such as metaphors repetition historical and spiritual allusions and word choice Some of these techniques will be explained here Metaphorically Kings spee
The speech I have a dream by Martin Luther King Junior is one of the most influential speeches ever made This speech resonated very well with the audience It is formed with powerful imagery and quotes from other important speakers such as A Lincoln There is also a lot of repetition in this speech such as One hundred years later which dramatizes the racial problems in America and makes the audience desperate for a final solution He did his speech one the same place Lincoln made promises about de
Betty Wehner Smiths unique ability to capture the reality of American society in the early nineteen hundreds is seen in the novel A Tree Grows in Brooklyn The setting of the novel stems very much from the authors own childhood Society can truly relate to this story as it has a place in every American familys roots The time defying novel evokes sympathy by telling the story of a young impoverished family comparing their rough lives to a relentless tree native to Brooklyn New York Betty Smith was
The novel Twenty thousand leagues under the sea describes the battles in the sea that many people experienced while operating vessels in the sea These people had always reported cases of either meeting a naval wreck submerged a giant whale ramming them or going into an island floating in the sea Many people had therefore met face to face with death from this unknown creature Different people had viewed this creature in different forms and there was a need for its identification to reduce the nu
Life on the American Plains as a Source of Wholeness and Self Sufficiency in My ntonia Willa Cather born in Virginia in 1873 moved to the Nebraska Divide when she was nine years old and then later to Red Cloud Nebraska Her memories of her time in Nebraska and the frontier life she both experienced and observed greatly impacted her writing Although Ms Cather did well as a writer her novels O Pioneers 1913 Song of the Lark 1915 and My ntonia 1918 about heroines of the western frontier led to her