I think she wrote this book to connect to younger readers, and maybe see if they can connect with the same problems that the girls in the story were going through. The title “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants” is perfect. This book is about best friends that have a sister like relationship, having to spread apart and find themselves. For the first time they don’t have one another by there side. So they send each other the same pair of pants every two weeks to stay closer together.
There are four main characters in this book. Carmen is the most thoughtful of the four girls, and she recognizes the importance of their friendship more clearly than the other girls do. Half Puerto Rican and half white, Carmen lives with her mother, Christina. Her plans for spending a summer with her father, Albert, in South Carolina are ruined when she discovers that Albert is engaged to a woman with two teenage children.Tibby Tomko-Rollins the rebellious, sarcastic friend who learns valuable life lessons thanks to her young friend, Bailey. Tibby is the only friend who stays home in Bethesda, Maryland, for the summer, and she has a healthy dose of scorn ready for all the people from her hometown, whom she sees as ridiculous losers.
Identical: A Literary Analysis From a tragedy, two sisters discover a secret connection that they never even thought could happen. In the book Identical by Ellen Hopkins, Kailey and her identical sister Reanne have to learn to listen to their inner voice without the guidance from their mother. The theme in this story is Reanne learning to make her own decisions. She often finds herself under the influence of her boyfriend, Ray. He is very convincing when it comes to taking drugs and skipping school.
Huy Dinh English 28 Prof. Gray Summary “Everyday use” "Everyday Use" by Walker is told in first-person point of view. Mrs. Johnson (Mama), an uneducated woman, tells the story herself. The reader learns what she thinks about her two daughters, and her observations reveal her astute observations about life. The story begins as Mama and her younger daughter, Maggie, are waiting for her older daughter, Dee, to come and visit them. Mama imagines being reunited with her daughter on a television show where the celebrity guest is confronted with her family, and she is greatly tearful and thankful for her origins.
And we could see the sadness on the tough face when the car drove away. She treated her daughter like a friend, talk about almost everything with her. When she realized that Emma didn’t have much time because the malignant tumor, she let Emma to travel ,to have fun. She lost control, lost her elegance when the nurse moved slowly to take the pain killer injection to Emma. From the beginning to end of the movie, she has never said out” I love you” to Emma once, but we can always feel the warmth from the mother.
Araceli Perez Aldama “Never give up, you have to keep trying no matter how hard it gets.” Those are a few words commonly used by Araceli Perez Aldama, or as I call her, “Cheli”. Araceli is not famous world wide, but is very popular in our small town of Windsor. Just like everybody else, she had a normal childhood and has a bright future ahead of her. What makes her different is she has a huge passion for dance. Araceli Perez Aldama has always been an outgoing, crazy, and fun girl ever since the day she was born.
SISTER FLOWER CHYAUNDRA LEVETT ENG121: English Composition I (PTD1438C) DEBORAH BUSBY 09/30/2014 In Maya Angelou's "Sister Flowers" a little girl finds encouragement from the woman she idolizes, Mrs. Flowers. Mrs. Flowers provides Marguerite with attention and with feelings that are most essential for the development of a child - self-respect, confidence, and the feeling of being liked. A little girl grows up to become a great writer, and remembers Sister Flowers with great admiration as the woman who changed her life.
Good and bad. Guilty and innocent. These are only a few of the countless themes that surround everyone’s life. All of these themes are found in the short story, “A Good Man Is Hard to Find”, by Flannery O’Connor. The story is about a “good” woman (the grandmother), who goes on a vacation with her son and his family and in the end suffers horribly due to her poor beliefs and judgment, but at the same time learns real importance of “good” in a “bad” situation.
Carmen went to South Carolina to meet her dads new family. Lena went to Greece with her sister to enjoy some time together. Tibby stayed in their home town to film a movie. Bridget decided to go to Baja California, Mexico to a soccer camp. Summer Summer break Plot Chapter one Carmen goes thrift shopping and finds these rally cute jeans and she decides to wear them and it turns out that these jeans fit them all.
The story starts out about two innocent girls who become friends while in an orphanage, but turns into a story about race and it comes between the friends. At the beginning of the story, when Twyla and Roberta first meet, Roberta is non-judgmental. After Roberta leaves the orphanage and is forced to come back, she becomes jaded. By the end of the story, Roberta has begun to question what really happened to Maggie and her childhood. Roberta and Twyla are defined by the other orphans in St. Bonaventure’s as not a real orphan because her parents are still alive.