Brief Summary Of The Book 'Moon Shadow'

As Desmond Tutu once said, “Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.” In “Hunger Moon” by Jane Cooper, the speaker is showing that everyone during the Hunger Moon has hope and wants to make through it. The Hunger Moon was the name of the last moon in February when there was a lot of snow. The Hunger Moon rises and sets like any other type of moon, has a negative connotation, but when it ends it brings happiness.

(Windrider’s partner), Lefty (A guy who has only one arm because he punished himself for the gambling by cutting his hand off) , and Hand Clap (Moon Shadow’s cousin) are heading to Chinatown. On the way to there, as a little boy who was wondering about the Land of the Golden Mountain, and who has seen the Land of the Golden Mountain for the first time. However, it was not like Moon Shadow was expecting, the town is very stinking. He also passes by many places which are brothels, saloons, and gambling joints before he gets to the company. When he gets to company’s home, it was a company business of laundry with a sign that reads “Peach Orchard Vow” in English and Chinese. He also meets White Deer who is a vegetarian old man and cooks for everyone. They throw Moon Shadow a party for the first night at the town of the Tang people ,and they also

Night by Elie Wiesel was one of the best books I have ever read. Night is the story about Elie’s horrible time spent in Auschwitz and Buna the death camps. This story impacted me the most because all of this is real. Elie’s mother and sister were murdered as soon as they arrived. The story goes on telling his unimaginable experiences with his father in 1944 during the Holocaust.

Richard Wright’s short story entitled, “The Man Who Killed A Shadow” showed the reality and truth of a black man’s life and how quickly it can be jeopardized when race and sex are mixed together. When I began reading the story I felt heartbroken for the main character because he just seemed like a good human being. Saul basically grew up with no role models to guide him in his life and his parents and grandmother died when he was a young boy. Saul quickly had to adapt to these changes and began working to support himself. When Saul began working at a young age he did not understand why “the shadows” or white people saw him as inferior. This was something that he noticed that black people just seemed to accept and he began to accept it as well even though he had no idea why. Saul had to continue to work for the white shadows became increasingly unhappy with the way his life was going. The narrator states, “At the age of fifteen Saul knew that the life he was living was to be his lot, that there no way to rid himself of his plaguing sense of unreality, no way to relax and forget” (187). It was extremely depressing to me that Saul knew at the age of fifteen that this was the reality of the rest of his life. He knew he would never be happy and that he would have to work for the white shadows in order to feed himself.

The Long Shadow is a book written by three research sociologists; Karl Alexander, Doris R. Entwisle, and Linda Olson. Karl Alexander is John Dewey Professor and chair of the Department of Sociology at the John Hopkins University. The late Doris R. Entwisle was a research professor of Sociology at the John Hopkins University. Linda Olson is an associate research scientist with the Baltimore Education Research Consortium (BERC) and the Center for Social Organization of Schools at the John Hopkins University. This book was originally published on April 14, 2014 and in this book, these professors followed the lives of 790 children growing up in various neighborhoods throughout Baltimore, Maryland. I would consider this book a case study because it took over twenty-five years of research, interviews and surveys to finally get it done and then later on published. The three main subjects researched in this book are a family’s background, disadvantaged urban youth, and the transition to adulthood. And in this paper, I will present my central findings of this book.

Ready Player One hits some of the same situations as in the holocaust or for the book that we read “Night” like taking people spread out over a good area and combining them into a small dense area. They both also touch on the topic of how when someone is killed or something is blown up now one raises an eyebrow or if they do no one does anything about it.

The novel The Secret River written by Kate Grenville and the film One Night the Moon directed by Rachael Perkins both use conventional features such as symbolism, characterisation and features particular to the text type to highlight the differing views between Europeans and Aborigines over land, conflict and tragedy which ensues due to these differing attitudes. Grenville portrays the European society eager for a fresh start in Australia, but conflict with the traditional land owners is ongoing. Both Grenville and Perkins present readers and viewers with the challenging question of why respective cultures had differing attitudes to the use and meaning of the land, urging us to remove ourselves from restrictions such as culture and tradition and view the issue objectively.

Moonshadow and his family want to be with his father but can’t because his father is at a place called “Land of the Golden Mountains’’ with the white demons. Every time he mentions or asks about “Land of the Golden Mountain’’ his mother always makes up a reason to not talk about it. They both are unable to be with Moonshadows father because their “own clans discouraged wives from leaving because it would mean an end to the money the husbands sent home to their families—money which was then spent in the Middle Kingdom”. When this turning point occurs it causes Moonshadow to be even more curious and this could lead to find out why his father is really at the Land of the Golden Mountain. Who would have realized how hard it was for a son to be with his

I think that the author included Parker in the story because it was a great way to show that these people were actually people and that they had emotions, they cared for others, and someone from a European descent found them to be better than ‘civilized’ society. However, there were also many instances of them being truly terrible to some people specially to older women (Gwynne, 106). Parker was also the mother of “the last chief of Comanches”, Quanah. She eventually married and had children with an Indian reported in a paper that surprised many people (Gwynne, 116). This is why when she was finally found by her brother she did not want to leave her family (Gwynne, 126). However eventually Parker was taken back to her white family with her daughter, and they both eventually died; Quanah

Moon Shadow, a Tang boy in the Middle Kingdom, otherwise known as China, lives with his mother and grandmother. His father, Windrider, is in the “Land of the Golden Mountain”, or America, in seek of money to send to his family, and bring them overseas. Moon Shadow’s grandfather died in America on the ship dock years before because he was lynched, or hanged, by the “demons”, or white people in America. Because of this tragic event, Moon Shadow’s mother does not ever want to or talk about the Land of the Golden Mountain, Grandfather, or her husband. All she ever says is “... He was a maker of most marvelous kites…” However, one day a distant cousin of Windrider’s, Hand Clap, comes with a message for Moon Shadow: Windrider wants Moon Shadow to

Holocaust is the most terrible human action in the history. It absolutely marks the ending of the previous mentality of human-beings. Therefore, a new round of discovery of evilness of human nature has been established. Best uncovering the truth of Holocaust will help prevent the furthur destuction of humanism, which is the most important mission of the society after World War II. There are many sources of Holocaust trying to best uncover the truth, such as the inhabitant’s experience of the immediate suffering in the camp, fragment memories from the survivors. However, only the analyzations with critical sights of these horrible actions will appeal for just humanitarian attentions to the most extent.

I went Into Elie Wiesel 's Night having read the book in various stages in my life. It seems to follow me through my schooling years. In junior high I read it in standard English class, just like any other book I would have read that year. In high school I read it for a project I was creating on World War II, looking at it from a more historical approach. Being a firsthand account of concentration camps made it a reliable source of historical information. But during previous times when I was reading, I never thought to take a look at it from a theological point of view. Doing so this time really opened my eyes to things and themes I hadn 't noticed during previous readings.

Do you know what it's like to feel abandoned? In the book Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech there are a lot of themes like independency, family and many others. The ones that I like the most that I feel are the best and most represented are, motherhood and abandonment. I feel like in the book Sal is the most affected by these themes. On the start of the book Sal and her father moved to Euclid, Ohio after her mother’s death. After that event Sal went through a lot of mixed feelings, she was feeling envious and guilty because she thought her mother wasn’t happy with her so she was envy that she wanted another child, and when her mother lost the baby she felt guilty thinking it was her fault. She was also angry at her father because she thought he was the one who drove her mother away. And she was also feeling like she was abandoned because her mother left , and when the accident happened she felt sad because she never said goodbye to her mother and there was also a lot more of change, changes she never wanted to happen. Before Sal’s mother left her she had a lot of mixed feelings, but after she did she felt even more feelings.

One of the first versions of Sleeping Beauty was published by Charles Perrault in 1697. However, he based his story on a tale by Giambattista Basile in 1634, called Sun, Moon and Talia. A lord got a beautiful daughter, named Talia. He asked many astrologers and wise men to tell him her fate and after a while they concluded that she would be put in great danger by a splinter of flax. The lord ensured that no flax, hemp or anything of that kind was brought into the house to keep his daughter safe.

"Never shall I forget that night, the first night in the camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed. Never shall I forget that smoke. Never shall I forget the little wreaths of smoke beneath a silent blue sky. Never shall I forget those flames which consumed my faith forever. Never shall I forget that nocturnal silence which deprived me, for all eternity, of the desire to live. Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust. Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to live as long as God Himself. Never." (9)