For The Love Of Books Rita Dove Analysis

No Excuses The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls is a non-fiction autobiography about a woman recounting her less than normal childhood. Jeannette talks about her erratic, harebrained mother, her alcoholic, irrational but brilliant father, and her three siblings. She talks about her father’s plans to build a solar-powered house made entirely out of glass (hence the title of the book), and his promise to her that their family will be rich one day. The story takes place throughout her childhood, starting at her earliest memory.

She became a best friend to me. Having the book in her perspective was interesting. Her thoughts and feelings often sounded like things I would think, or even say at times.

Most of the information is presented in a recessive way rather than a factual statement. Meaning that instead of the author coming out and stating an event or factual evidence they present it in a way that forces the reader to look for it, this is done because some information may not be needed by anyone, someone, or everyone. Lots of information in this book was useful to me in many ways. Reading the story about Melinda has shown me that sometimes, people just need someone to talk to. That even though people may act fine and seem fine they may be very distanced from true happiness because of something that happened in there past, and if they do not have someone that will listen to them then they may allow it to define their future, but, if someone is willing to just listen to them, then they may be able to get past the traumatic event(s) that they are letting define them.

The Investigation is a dramatic documentary of the Frankfurt War Crimes trials during the 1960s based on actual evidence from the trial. Weiss strips the trial down to its most essential features and converts it into a powerful play. It consists of extracted testimonies from numerous witnesses and defendants, including moments of examinations and cross-examinations conducted by the prosecutors and defense counsel. The nine unnamed witnesses represent the millions of individuals affected by the Holocaust. They were brought forth to testify to the barbarity of Auschwitz.

I was also connected to the text more listening to her and how she tries to match her family experience to the family in the book. I noticed that she was very passionate about Japanese Internment camps, this made me want to strive to be passionate about the book as much as

I remember our first days in US were difficult for me and my mother; especially, one night when I woke up and saw her fainting in the cold floor. I had panicked, I didn’t know what to do. I didn’t have a car, or phone to call anyone. I felt a shame of myself, I couldn’t help my own mother at the same time. Thankfully, one of my neighbors was awake, and she helped me with everything.

At that time, I did not particularly like reading because my parents always forced me to read over the summer. Like most children, I would have rather liked to have been playing outside. But as the months and years progressed at Notre Dame de Sion, Emma and I shaped a beautiful friendship around literature. At the start

Books opened my eyes to enthralling revelations at a young age. They gave me solace in my times of worry and melancholy. Especially where the lost protagonist overcame her obstacles and fought her fears. I could always relate to such struggles. I understood what it meant to feel diminutive and powerless.

During summer while other kids were outside having fun, i was indoors with my AC on reading different kind of books because of a soccer injury i had. If it wasn 't for that injury i don 't think i would of ever gotten a book on my own. It all started with an injury to a book that became the book that kept me going to find more books to read. The book is called " A Child Called It: One Child 's Courage to Survive" by David Pelzer. Before this i thought all books were boring but this one totally changed my mind.

I felt my heart hammering in my chest. I knew I was next and my anxiety was trying to get the better of me but I knew better. When I heard my name called, I slowly got up from my seat. I glanced around me and caught my brother’s eye.

Joan Didion’s 1967 essay, “Goodbye to All That,” is a memoir of her eight years in New York City, from her arrival as a naive 20-year-old to her departure as a disillusioned 28-year-old. In the final section of the essay, Didion reflects on the “lesson” she learned from her experience: “it is distinctly possible to remain too long at the Fair.” This statement is part of an extended metaphor that compares New York to a fair or a carnival, where everything is exciting and dazzling at first, but eventually becomes stale and disappointing. Didion uses this literary technique to communicate her feelings of disenchantment and detachment from the city that once enchanted and attached her. Didion introduces the fair metaphor in the beginning of the essay, when she describes her first impression of New York as “a city that was entirely mine” (Didion 236).

I like the quote said by Scout “Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”(pg) This quote means that people don’t know the value of things until they lose it. In this case, Scout began valuing reading only after she was in danger of losing it due to Miss Caroline lecturing her for being able to however by not her teaching. Scout interestingly compares how her love for reading grew when she was going to lose it to how people start to love their ability to breath when a certain situation arrives when they somehow lose it is an interesting comparison she made.

The Rebellious Daughter: Analyzing the Theme of Amy Tan’s “Two Kinds” The story “Two Kinds” by Amy Tan explores the deep familial emotions between a mother and her daughter. Jing-Mei’s mother had left China to come to America after losing her family, and had been raising Jing-Mei in America with her second husband. Despite her mother’s grand hopes for Jing-Mei to become successful in America by becoming a child prodigy, Jing-Mei did not share the same opinions.

It’s a story that made me put the book down a few times and stop reading because I was so shocked to be reading about some of the things that were normal back in the day, like when Dr. Flint picked up Benny when he was little and threw him across the room because he was trying to protect his mom. It is a story of ultimate courage and hardship that can inspire literally anyone and it really puts our lives today in perspective. We really have everything we need, and yeah life is unfair sometimes but if Linda thought that way, she would have never made it out of the

At the time, I couldn't figure out why I felt such a deep sadness, a sadness I had never before felt after finishing a book. Never would I have known that a book I'd read in the fourth grade would have such an impact on the person that I would become.