Chapter Summary Of Chapters By Robyn Anderson

James Frey, Leonard, and Lilly are the main characters of this book. James is the narrator, in which he told the entirely book through his points of view. He explains his feelings, thoughts, and reactions upon his addiction. He was a privileged child that began drinking and smoking pot at age ten. Now, that he is older, he is addicted to drugs and alcohol, which led him into a rehab clinic.

who she was very close to. She explains that her father taught her and her brothers free will and to feel like they were human beings, although it was very dangerous for a slave. The more a slave possessed the notion of their own free will, the more likely they were to be disobedient, run away and be of no use to their owner. Slaves were supposed to think that they were less than human so that the masters not only had physical control over them but psychological control as well.

These chapters show the drive of what an individual can have. For example, Chapter 11 shows the drive of gay wanting to fix the Model T car to get to Carmel Hill. In chapter 13, Mark, the boys, and Eddie find a carburetor to fix up the Model T car. In the world today, people need to have the drive of what these boys do to get the job done. In chapter 12, I found it interesting that on their way to find a new carburetor they find carrots, chicken, and all the others supplies to cook the chicken all at one place.

Eric Harris was by all accounts a normal high school teenager. Former classmate, Kyle Ross, said, “He was a typical guy. He didn’t seem anything like what is portrayed on TV”. Eric was nothing like what they made him out to be after the Columbine shooting but after it took place, many untold secrets came out that were both crucial and imperative regarding Eric and Dylan.

Dave Cullen’s journalistic portrayal of the infamous school shooting in Columbine reveals the raw truth of Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris’ murder spree while uncovering misconception surrounding it. Cullen dives deep into the heart of motive and recovery, offering a newfound understanding of both the victims and the killers. The tragedy at Columbine was planned as a series of explosions that would have killed nearly 2,000 students. The bombs failed, however, so the shooters abandoned their plan and went on a spree through the school instead, using semiautomatic weapons they acquired at a gun show, where background checks can be bypassed.

Eric Packer (Robert Pattison) is a billionaire young broker. In the book he’s described as someone cold and frivolous. In a chaotic day, he decides to travel around the city in his super technological limousine. He spends all day trying to get a haircut, and ends up at the salon of the poor neighborhood in which he grew up. The same day he decides to invest all his money, and all the money of the people who trusted him, in a risky bet against the yen.

Danielle L. McGuire’s At the Dark End of the Street, “an important, original contribution to civil rights historiography”, discusses the topic of rape and sexual assault towards African American women, and how this played a major role in causing the civil rights movement (Dailey 491). Chapter by chapter, another person's story is told, from the rape of Recy Taylor to the court case of Joan Little, while including the significance of Rosa Parks and various organizations in fighting for the victims of unjust brutality. The sole purpose of creating this novel was to discuss a topic no other historian has discussed before, because according to McGuire they have all been skipping over a topic that would change the view of the civil rights movement.

Things begin to get harder in Kilanga because they are not getting money from the mission league and they have lost Mama Tataba due to their father going crazy. In the middle of the book, readers see an uncaring side of Nathan when Orleanna and Ruth May lay in bed all day. Instead of being a loving and caring husband and wanting to help them when they’re down, he does not care whether they are dying or not. Nathan yells at Orleanna for not getting out of bed and says that “she would heed God’s call soon enough, and get herself up and around.” (page 217)

James Patterson has done it again. Unlucky 13 is a murder mystery and suspense book full of fast moving plots. Four women who work in law enforcement and the legal systems comprise a group known as The Women’s Murder Club. Set in modern day San Francisco, it gives a inside look on the process of them catching a serial killer. Unlucky 13 will keep readers on the edge of their seats after every page flip.

Monster Monster by Walter Dean Myers was published in 1999. This occurs in Manhattan and Harlem, New York City. The story is told in third-person and first-person point of view as told by Sandra Petrocelli, Steven Harmon, Jose Delgado Osvaldo Cruz, James King, Kathy O’Brien, Sal Zinzi, Asa Briggs, Richard Evans, and The Judge. There are six important characters. They are Steven Harmon, who is a sixteen-year-old young man who has been arrested for being a look-out in a robbery that turns out to be a murder.

Jeff Bussey had no idea how brutal war really was, and he certainly found out the hard way in Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith. Jeff thinks being a soldier would be fun and adventurous. He learns how cruel and brutal war really is, but he also finds love along the way. Harold Keith mixes fact with his story, and not his story with his fact. Which is a good thing.

The story begins with a narrator (Offred) describing an old school that her and other women were held in, and how they lived. Offred tells about how her life in a series of flashbacks and the present. In the present she describes how she wishes she could gossip with the Martha's, and tells us in a flashback about her first meeting with the Commanders Wife, Serena. Gradually through the first ten or so chapters we begin to get a picture of what life is like in this dystopian America, and we come to realize that the Handmaidens, such as Offred, have no freedom and are treated as property with the sole purpose of reproduction. We meet Nick who commits an offense by winking at Offred and who is also ignored by her due to her fear of him being a

Stone Butch Blues is a novel of autobiographical fiction based on the author, Leslie Feinberg’s life. The story is full of heartbreaking struggles of gender, sexuality, the law, abuse, and finding home in a world where being yourself is against the law and dangerous. The book begins with the main character, Jess, as a teenage butch lesbian in the 1960s when being gay, and dressing in what were considered “Men’s clothing” were not only illegal, but behaviors that opened the character up to harassment, assault and rape by simply being her truest self. Basically, this is a complicated and heart wrenching story about Jess trying to find a home and community when the whole world is against her.

On April 20, 1999, two disturbed teenage boys Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris began a killing rampage at Columbine High School in the suburban town of Littleton, Colorado. This was considered one of the worst school shootings to occur at that time. In the morning of April 20, before noon, the two juveniles had killed 13 people to include 12 students and 1 teacher; they also wounded another 23 people before turning the guns on themselves. This event would change the theories as to why school shootings would occur. (History)

Through reading “Columbine: Whose Fault is It?” by Marilyn Manson we can identify that the media had a great influence in the aftermath of the shooting, and who was the scapegoat for it, in other words who is to blame for what happened to those poor 13 innocent teenage kids. The Columbine High School massacre was an infamous event that went down as one of the worst shootings to happen to a high school in America. In 1999, a pair of two students named Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold decided to assault a school in Colorado named Columbine High School. Their intent was unknown, and because of that, many people started speculating as to why the duo decided to shoot up the school.