This document summarizes and analyzes the themes in Mitch Albom's novel For One More Day. The main themes are: [1] unconditional love, especially between a mother and child; [2] taking loved ones for granted; and [3] coming to terms with parental divorce and choosing between parents. The summary provides examples from the story of how these themes are portrayed, particularly through the relationship between the main character Chick and his mother Posey.
This document provides a summary of the novel For One More Day by Mitch Albom from the perspective of a student. The summary is in 3 paragraphs:
1) The novel tells the story of Chick Benetto whose life spirals out of control after his mother Posey's death. He deals with career and financial problems and becomes an alcoholic. He comes to regret idolizing his father over his mother.
2) Through a dream, Chick gets a chance to reconnect with his mother and learn the truth about his parents' divorce. Major themes of the novel include mortality, unconditional love, and taking loved ones for granted.
3) The student reflects on how the book relates to their own
The document provides a detailed biography of author Mitch Albom. It discusses his background, education, career as a journalist and author, and bestselling books. His most famous works include Tuesdays with Morrie, The Five People You Meet in Heaven, and For One More Day. The biography highlights Albom's success as an author, including his books making the New York Times bestseller list and some being adapted into movies and plays. It also notes his philanthropic work through various charities.
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde was published in 1890 and immediately criticized as scandalous and immoral. It tells the story of Dorian Gray, a handsome young man who remains youthful while his portrait ages and reflects his moral corruption. Dorian sells his soul and pursues a life of pleasure and immorality, which corrupts his soul as reflected in the changing portrait. In the end, Dorian kills the portrait to try and free himself from his spiritual corruption, but mysteriously dies in the process. The novel explores the relationship between art, morality, and the human soul through Dorian's Faustian bargain.
'To Kill a Mockingbird' - Jem essay question planningAndy Fisher
Jem is Scout's older brother in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird. The document provides details about Jem's character and development throughout the story. It lists events where Jem shows courage in confronting the unknowns around the Radley house, as well as growing disillusioned with the racism he witnesses in the trial against Tom Robinson. The document also discusses analyzing Jem's character through Scout's perspective as the narrator and younger sister, and how the context of the 1930s Deep South shapes Jem's coming of age.
Lorraine Hansberry was the first African American woman to have a play produced on Broadway. Her most famous work, A Raisin in the Sun, debuted in 1959 and explored the dreams and conflicts within a black family living in racially segregated Chicago. Each family member has their own dream - Walter wants to open a liquor store, Beneatha dreams of becoming a doctor, and their mother's dream is to own a home - but tensions arise as their limited financial resources cannot support all of their ambitions. The play examines themes of segregation, poverty, the purpose of dreams, and family relationships against the backdrop of the housing discrimination the author's own family faced in the 1940s Supreme Court case Hansberry v.
Kate Chopin was a controversial writer in the late 1800s who wrote about women's rights and feminism. Her novel The Awakening was widely criticized for its themes of a woman rejecting traditional roles but is now recognized as an important early feminist work. Chopin used powerful and surprising endings in her stories to send messages about women's place in society and to provoke thought in her readers. Her works provided a representation of women's experiences during the time period in which she wrote.
Dorian Gray is a handsome and innocent young man who sits for a portrait by Basil Hallward. He meets Lord Henry Wotton, who influences Dorian with his views on beauty and youth. Dorian begins to wish he could remain young and beautiful while the portrait ages instead. After hurting his girlfriend Sibyl, who later commits suicide, Dorian fully embraces a hedonistic lifestyle. Over time, he commits unspecified evil acts while remaining youthful, as the portrait ages and degrades in his place. When Basil sees the portrait and confronts Dorian, Dorian kills him. Later, Dorian destroys the portrait at last, but his wish has taken its toll - his body instantly ages into a wretched form
The document provides a book review and project details for the novel "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott. It includes sections on general information about the book, an introduction, the author, themes, a summary, characters, setting, conflicts and resolutions, the group's views, and a rating. The summary recaps that the story follows the four March sisters - Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy - and their experiences growing up in New England during the Civil War period, dealing with their father being away, and each sister's personal journey.
This document provides a summary of the novel For One More Day by Mitch Albom from the perspective of a student. The summary is in 3 paragraphs:
1) The novel tells the story of Chick Benetto whose life spirals out of control after his mother Posey's death. He deals with career and financial problems and becomes an alcoholic. He comes to regret idolizing his father over his mother.
2) Through a dream, Chick gets a chance to reconnect with his mother and learn the truth about his parents' divorce. Major themes of the novel include mortality, unconditional love, and taking loved ones for granted.
3) The student reflects on how the book relates to their own
The document provides a detailed biography of author Mitch Albom. It discusses his background, education, career as a journalist and author, and bestselling books. His most famous works include Tuesdays with Morrie, The Five People You Meet in Heaven, and For One More Day. The biography highlights Albom's success as an author, including his books making the New York Times bestseller list and some being adapted into movies and plays. It also notes his philanthropic work through various charities.
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde was published in 1890 and immediately criticized as scandalous and immoral. It tells the story of Dorian Gray, a handsome young man who remains youthful while his portrait ages and reflects his moral corruption. Dorian sells his soul and pursues a life of pleasure and immorality, which corrupts his soul as reflected in the changing portrait. In the end, Dorian kills the portrait to try and free himself from his spiritual corruption, but mysteriously dies in the process. The novel explores the relationship between art, morality, and the human soul through Dorian's Faustian bargain.
'To Kill a Mockingbird' - Jem essay question planningAndy Fisher
Jem is Scout's older brother in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird. The document provides details about Jem's character and development throughout the story. It lists events where Jem shows courage in confronting the unknowns around the Radley house, as well as growing disillusioned with the racism he witnesses in the trial against Tom Robinson. The document also discusses analyzing Jem's character through Scout's perspective as the narrator and younger sister, and how the context of the 1930s Deep South shapes Jem's coming of age.
Lorraine Hansberry was the first African American woman to have a play produced on Broadway. Her most famous work, A Raisin in the Sun, debuted in 1959 and explored the dreams and conflicts within a black family living in racially segregated Chicago. Each family member has their own dream - Walter wants to open a liquor store, Beneatha dreams of becoming a doctor, and their mother's dream is to own a home - but tensions arise as their limited financial resources cannot support all of their ambitions. The play examines themes of segregation, poverty, the purpose of dreams, and family relationships against the backdrop of the housing discrimination the author's own family faced in the 1940s Supreme Court case Hansberry v.
Kate Chopin was a controversial writer in the late 1800s who wrote about women's rights and feminism. Her novel The Awakening was widely criticized for its themes of a woman rejecting traditional roles but is now recognized as an important early feminist work. Chopin used powerful and surprising endings in her stories to send messages about women's place in society and to provoke thought in her readers. Her works provided a representation of women's experiences during the time period in which she wrote.
Dorian Gray is a handsome and innocent young man who sits for a portrait by Basil Hallward. He meets Lord Henry Wotton, who influences Dorian with his views on beauty and youth. Dorian begins to wish he could remain young and beautiful while the portrait ages instead. After hurting his girlfriend Sibyl, who later commits suicide, Dorian fully embraces a hedonistic lifestyle. Over time, he commits unspecified evil acts while remaining youthful, as the portrait ages and degrades in his place. When Basil sees the portrait and confronts Dorian, Dorian kills him. Later, Dorian destroys the portrait at last, but his wish has taken its toll - his body instantly ages into a wretched form
The document provides a book review and project details for the novel "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott. It includes sections on general information about the book, an introduction, the author, themes, a summary, characters, setting, conflicts and resolutions, the group's views, and a rating. The summary recaps that the story follows the four March sisters - Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy - and their experiences growing up in New England during the Civil War period, dealing with their father being away, and each sister's personal journey.
It’s no exaggeration when we say we’re absolutely wild for Zootopia and think it’s one of the best feel-good movies of this year. Sure, it has cute animals and humorous overtones, but its heart is what truly drives the film. If you haven’t seen it yet you better Hopps to it because there are some wonderful things to be learned! Here are some of our favorite Zootopia lessons.
The document provides examples of how various phrasal verbs and idiomatic expressions are used in sentences. It lists over 100 entries with the verb or expression, its meaning, and an example sentence using it. Some common ones included are: ask someone out, back something up, break down, call someone up, cheer up, check out, cut back on, do up, eat out, fall down, figure something out, get along, give up, let in, look into, and sign up.
Irony and lamb to the slaughter intro lessonEnglish Tribe
This document provides an overview of irony and the short story "Lamb to the Slaughter" by Roald Dahl. It defines verbal, situational, and dramatic irony and provides examples. It also provides background on Dahl's life and style of writing vivid characters and improbable events presented as ordinary. The document guides the reader to focus on how irony affects stories and characters' perspectives of unexpected change when reading Dahl's story.
The document analyzes how Disney's Aladdin portrays inaccurate and stereotypical representations of Arab culture. It provides multiple examples of how the film depicts Arab women as sexual objects, Arab men as villains or buffoons, and includes customs from other non-Arab cultures while excluding truly Arab traditions. Overall, the document argues the film presents a misleading and often negative portrayal of Arab people and fails to accurately reflect Arab culture.
El documento presenta un cortometraje sobre cinco amigas que planean una noche de fiesta. Cada una intenta convencer a sus familias para salir. Una vez fuera, consumen drogas y alcohol. Al regresar en coche borrachas y drogadas, el vehículo sufre un accidente en el que mueren cuatro de las cinco amigas. La única superviviente reflexiona sobre cambiar su vida. El cortometraje busca concienciar sobre los riesgos del consumo de drogas y alcohol.
A Study of "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri Madhvi Dholiya
Hello, Learners,
This presentation is collaborating work of third year BA students of English literature. We have tried to explain this novel with depth and using various concepts.
Noah Calhoun falls in love with Allie Hamilton, a wealthy summer visitor. They have a passionate romance that summer, but Allie leaves to attend school. Noah writes her letters daily for a year, but Allie's mother keeps them from her, forcing Allie to move on. She gets engaged to another man but realizes she still loves Noah. They reunite and rekindle their romance, though Noah now has a life with another woman. The film depicts their enduring love through flashbacks and Noah caring for Alzheimer's-stricken Allie by retelling their story daily.
The document summarizes the play "The Swamp Dwellers" by Wole Soyinka. It discusses how the play presents the conflict between traditional village life and modern city life in Africa. It provides examples of characters that represent each side of the conflict, such as two brothers where one remains traditional while the other abandons tradition after moving to the city. The settings of the village and city also symbolize the conflict between tradition and modernity. In the end, the play suggests that modernity may be overtaking tradition.
The document provides background information on key characters in Arthur Miller's play The Crucible. It describes Abigail Williams as jealous of Elizabeth Proctor and manipulating the girls. John Proctor is depicted as a strong personality who refuses to admit to witchcraft. Reverend Parris is concerned with his reputation and power over the community. The document also summarizes tensions between families in Salem village and suggests the witch trials may have been influenced by existing conflicts over land and politics.
Lorraine Hansberry was born in Chicago in the 1930s and experienced racial discrimination as a child when her family moved to an all-white neighborhood. This experience inspired her play A Raisin in the Sun, which depicts the struggles of the Younger family, who are African American. The play illustrates their desire for equal opportunities and expression of their cultural identity at a time of racial segregation and discrimination in the 1950s. When the Youngers receive an unexpected $10,000 inheritance, it causes conflict as the different family members want to use the money in different ways.
A customer orders a pizza, spaghetti and cola from a waiter at a restaurant. After 10 minutes, the waiter returns with the customer's order and totals the bill at 25.5 euros for the meal and 7 euros for the drink. The customer pays and thanks the waiter.
The document provides information about Minions from the Despicable Me movies. It describes their physical characteristics as small, yellow, and cylindrical with one or two eyes. They have an impulsive nature and love bananas. The document also includes some of the Minions' language and describes their roles as working for the villain character Felonious Gru and his family which includes three daughters.
The document discusses the representation of characters in action adventure films. It notes that characters often fit stereotypes, with the action hero usually being a white male and the leading lady being white and beautiful. However, some modern audiences see this as a problem as it can misrepresent genders and ethnicities. The document asks questions about how masculinity, women, and gender are represented in these films and scenes. It discusses how stereotypes function in films and the problems they can cause with misrepresentation.
The Notebook is a 2004 romantic drama film based on the novel of the same name. It tells the story of Noah and Allie, who fall in love in 1940s South Carolina, but struggle due to their different socioeconomic backgrounds. Allie's family disapproves of Noah and they separate, though Noah writes to Allie for years hoping to reunite. The film is narrated by an elderly man telling the story of Noah and Allie to another nursing home resident.
Little Women is about the four March sisters - Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy - who live in New England during the 1860s with their mother while their father serves as an army chaplain in the Civil War. Each of the sisters faces challenges as they grow up and find love - Meg marries John Brooke, Beth sadly passes away from illness, Amy and their neighbor Theodore "Laurie" Laurence fall in love and marry, and Jo eventually marries Professor Bhaer. The novel follows the sisters over the years and their personal growth as they overcome obstacles with the support of their family and faith.
Aka Manto is a Japanese urban legend about an evil spirit that haunts public toilets wearing a red cape and mask. It asks victims to choose the color of toilet paper, and no matter what color is chosen it will kill them - slitting their throat for red, choking them for blue, or cutting them into pieces to form a red cloak. Some accounts say choosing yellow allows survival with head forced in the toilet. Origins of the legend come from reports in the 1930s-40s of a red-caped man appearing in schools and going on killing sprees in Tokyo, though there is no evidence proving its existence.
Homophones are words that sound alike but are spelled differently and have different meanings. The document provides examples of common homophone pairs like toe/tow, one/won, eight/ate, son/sun, and explains that homophones are words that sound alike, are spelled differently, and have different meanings. It then provides a series of examples with definitions to illustrate homophones for children.
The document summarizes several short stories from James Joyce's Dubliners collection. It provides plot summaries and highlights key elements like epiphanies, paralysis, and tone for each story. These include themes of being trapped in stagnant lives and societies in Ireland and characters who are paralyzed and unable to escape their circumstances.
Mitch Albom's For One More Day Book ReportAkmal Cikmat
An International English Testing System (IELTS) task given by the teacher.
the first book report made by me during the IELTS class.
please dont bother any grammatical error because everyone is a first timer.
Active reading involves metacognition, or thinking about one's thinking, which helps students become more strategic thinkers and better understand texts. It also involves using schemas, or background knowledge, to comprehend texts. Effective active reading strategies include visualizing descriptions, asking questions, making predictions, linking to prior knowledge, forming opinions, highlighting main ideas, and making outlines.
It’s no exaggeration when we say we’re absolutely wild for Zootopia and think it’s one of the best feel-good movies of this year. Sure, it has cute animals and humorous overtones, but its heart is what truly drives the film. If you haven’t seen it yet you better Hopps to it because there are some wonderful things to be learned! Here are some of our favorite Zootopia lessons.
The document provides examples of how various phrasal verbs and idiomatic expressions are used in sentences. It lists over 100 entries with the verb or expression, its meaning, and an example sentence using it. Some common ones included are: ask someone out, back something up, break down, call someone up, cheer up, check out, cut back on, do up, eat out, fall down, figure something out, get along, give up, let in, look into, and sign up.
Irony and lamb to the slaughter intro lessonEnglish Tribe
This document provides an overview of irony and the short story "Lamb to the Slaughter" by Roald Dahl. It defines verbal, situational, and dramatic irony and provides examples. It also provides background on Dahl's life and style of writing vivid characters and improbable events presented as ordinary. The document guides the reader to focus on how irony affects stories and characters' perspectives of unexpected change when reading Dahl's story.
The document analyzes how Disney's Aladdin portrays inaccurate and stereotypical representations of Arab culture. It provides multiple examples of how the film depicts Arab women as sexual objects, Arab men as villains or buffoons, and includes customs from other non-Arab cultures while excluding truly Arab traditions. Overall, the document argues the film presents a misleading and often negative portrayal of Arab people and fails to accurately reflect Arab culture.
El documento presenta un cortometraje sobre cinco amigas que planean una noche de fiesta. Cada una intenta convencer a sus familias para salir. Una vez fuera, consumen drogas y alcohol. Al regresar en coche borrachas y drogadas, el vehículo sufre un accidente en el que mueren cuatro de las cinco amigas. La única superviviente reflexiona sobre cambiar su vida. El cortometraje busca concienciar sobre los riesgos del consumo de drogas y alcohol.
A Study of "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri Madhvi Dholiya
Hello, Learners,
This presentation is collaborating work of third year BA students of English literature. We have tried to explain this novel with depth and using various concepts.
Noah Calhoun falls in love with Allie Hamilton, a wealthy summer visitor. They have a passionate romance that summer, but Allie leaves to attend school. Noah writes her letters daily for a year, but Allie's mother keeps them from her, forcing Allie to move on. She gets engaged to another man but realizes she still loves Noah. They reunite and rekindle their romance, though Noah now has a life with another woman. The film depicts their enduring love through flashbacks and Noah caring for Alzheimer's-stricken Allie by retelling their story daily.
The document summarizes the play "The Swamp Dwellers" by Wole Soyinka. It discusses how the play presents the conflict between traditional village life and modern city life in Africa. It provides examples of characters that represent each side of the conflict, such as two brothers where one remains traditional while the other abandons tradition after moving to the city. The settings of the village and city also symbolize the conflict between tradition and modernity. In the end, the play suggests that modernity may be overtaking tradition.
The document provides background information on key characters in Arthur Miller's play The Crucible. It describes Abigail Williams as jealous of Elizabeth Proctor and manipulating the girls. John Proctor is depicted as a strong personality who refuses to admit to witchcraft. Reverend Parris is concerned with his reputation and power over the community. The document also summarizes tensions between families in Salem village and suggests the witch trials may have been influenced by existing conflicts over land and politics.
Lorraine Hansberry was born in Chicago in the 1930s and experienced racial discrimination as a child when her family moved to an all-white neighborhood. This experience inspired her play A Raisin in the Sun, which depicts the struggles of the Younger family, who are African American. The play illustrates their desire for equal opportunities and expression of their cultural identity at a time of racial segregation and discrimination in the 1950s. When the Youngers receive an unexpected $10,000 inheritance, it causes conflict as the different family members want to use the money in different ways.
A customer orders a pizza, spaghetti and cola from a waiter at a restaurant. After 10 minutes, the waiter returns with the customer's order and totals the bill at 25.5 euros for the meal and 7 euros for the drink. The customer pays and thanks the waiter.
The document provides information about Minions from the Despicable Me movies. It describes their physical characteristics as small, yellow, and cylindrical with one or two eyes. They have an impulsive nature and love bananas. The document also includes some of the Minions' language and describes their roles as working for the villain character Felonious Gru and his family which includes three daughters.
The document discusses the representation of characters in action adventure films. It notes that characters often fit stereotypes, with the action hero usually being a white male and the leading lady being white and beautiful. However, some modern audiences see this as a problem as it can misrepresent genders and ethnicities. The document asks questions about how masculinity, women, and gender are represented in these films and scenes. It discusses how stereotypes function in films and the problems they can cause with misrepresentation.
The Notebook is a 2004 romantic drama film based on the novel of the same name. It tells the story of Noah and Allie, who fall in love in 1940s South Carolina, but struggle due to their different socioeconomic backgrounds. Allie's family disapproves of Noah and they separate, though Noah writes to Allie for years hoping to reunite. The film is narrated by an elderly man telling the story of Noah and Allie to another nursing home resident.
Little Women is about the four March sisters - Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy - who live in New England during the 1860s with their mother while their father serves as an army chaplain in the Civil War. Each of the sisters faces challenges as they grow up and find love - Meg marries John Brooke, Beth sadly passes away from illness, Amy and their neighbor Theodore "Laurie" Laurence fall in love and marry, and Jo eventually marries Professor Bhaer. The novel follows the sisters over the years and their personal growth as they overcome obstacles with the support of their family and faith.
Aka Manto is a Japanese urban legend about an evil spirit that haunts public toilets wearing a red cape and mask. It asks victims to choose the color of toilet paper, and no matter what color is chosen it will kill them - slitting their throat for red, choking them for blue, or cutting them into pieces to form a red cloak. Some accounts say choosing yellow allows survival with head forced in the toilet. Origins of the legend come from reports in the 1930s-40s of a red-caped man appearing in schools and going on killing sprees in Tokyo, though there is no evidence proving its existence.
Homophones are words that sound alike but are spelled differently and have different meanings. The document provides examples of common homophone pairs like toe/tow, one/won, eight/ate, son/sun, and explains that homophones are words that sound alike, are spelled differently, and have different meanings. It then provides a series of examples with definitions to illustrate homophones for children.
The document summarizes several short stories from James Joyce's Dubliners collection. It provides plot summaries and highlights key elements like epiphanies, paralysis, and tone for each story. These include themes of being trapped in stagnant lives and societies in Ireland and characters who are paralyzed and unable to escape their circumstances.
Mitch Albom's For One More Day Book ReportAkmal Cikmat
An International English Testing System (IELTS) task given by the teacher.
the first book report made by me during the IELTS class.
please dont bother any grammatical error because everyone is a first timer.
Active reading involves metacognition, or thinking about one's thinking, which helps students become more strategic thinkers and better understand texts. It also involves using schemas, or background knowledge, to comprehend texts. Effective active reading strategies include visualizing descriptions, asking questions, making predictions, linking to prior knowledge, forming opinions, highlighting main ideas, and making outlines.
The document provides a format and guidelines for writing a book review. It instructs students to include 3-4 sentences summarizing the plot, discuss any personal experiences relating to the characters or story, provide their opinion on whether they liked the book and their favorite/least favorite parts, and make a recommendation on if others would enjoy the book and what type of reader might like it. The review should be at least 3 sentences and not reveal any major plot points like the ending.
THESIS - WIKANG FILIPINO, SA MAKABAGONG PANAHONMi L
I uploaded this thesis for the reference of the future researchers.
Entitled Wikang Filipino, sa Makabagong Panahon.
We tackled about the progress of Filipino language as time pass by. And the factors that affect it.
Enjoy and God bless! :)
The document summarizes the key aspects of the digestive system. It describes how the digestive system prepares food for use by all body cells through digestion. It then outlines the main parts and functions of the digestive tract, from the mouth through the esophagus, stomach, small and large intestines. The document also discusses the roles of accessory organs like the liver, gallbladder and pancreas in producing digestive enzymes and chemicals.
This document summarizes the key themes in Mitch Albom's novel For One More Day. It discusses how the main character Chick Benetto's life spirals out of control after the death of his mother Posey. He comes to regret not appreciating his mother more when she was alive. The novel explores what would happen if one was given "one more day" to fix past mistakes. It examines themes of mortality, unconditional love, and taking loved ones for granted. It also analyzes Chick's realization of his past mistakes in how he treated his mother due to the influence of his father.
- The document discusses how reading and writing have always helped the author mentally escape from overwhelming thoughts and emotions. Witnessing her mother perform spoken word poetry from a young age inspired the author and showed her how powerful words can be.
- As a child, the author's mother read to her before bed and introduced her to interactive books, sparking her love of reading and helping her visualize stories and mentally escape family hardships. Though writing is sometimes difficult, the author sees it as a form of self-expression.
- The author wants to improve their writing by reading classics and transitioning to journalistic writing to discuss important issues not given enough attention. The long-term goal is to become a well-known novelist
Angela 1
Angela G. Bailey
Professor Wilson
Intro to University Writing
13 February 2015
I Believe in Writing
Let me tell you why I started writing in diaries. I was 17 years old when my mother got cancer. My mother tried to take her own life by jumping out of a hospital window. Thank God it was time for her meds and the nurse was able to get her back to her bed. This was so devastating to me, just the thought that she wanted to die sooner. I did not understand why she did not want to spend what little life she had to be with her children. I started writing daily about her day and what I was feeling. I had just gotten out of a children’s home. Definitely there was so much fear in me that I was going right back to the home. Many tears flowed from my eyes that year. I did not want to see my mother leave this world without getting any time with her. After all I was in the children’s home since I was eight and a half years old. My junior year in high school my teacher took me aside as she knew what I was going thru. She told me to write my life down that I had a story to tell. I did not write my life down however; I did start a diary and wrote in it from the day my English teacher told me to start. My mother died and I made it thru the funeral but it was pure and raw emotions I felt watching my sisters scream and brothers cry like babies. All I could do was sit and watch, I never shed a tear because I had come to terms with her dying by writing about her.
Fast forward 5 years down the road after my mother’s death. My brother Randy took his young life at 37 by taping his car windows and running an exhaust pipe thru his window. We looked for him for days. We never had one clue that he was suicidal. If we did we never picked up on it. We found him in the morgue. My brothers and sisters and I all knew that Randy never got over our mothers death, after all he was a momma’s boy. It took me a long time to get over his death than it did my mothers. He came to me in a dream and explained why he took or life. It gave me a sense of peace and understanding inside as to why he took his life. Maybe it was just that I made myself believe why.To this day two of my sisters have yet to get over his death. I tell them all the time to sit and write their feelings down. They may understand more why he did this horrible thing that crushed all our lives. Again writing got me through this horrible tragedy.
Now I will tell you about my daughter April who tried to take her life many years ago when she was 20 years old. Thank God, she had the sense to go to the hospital afterwards before the pills kicked in she was able to tell them what she did. Took me a long while to understand how a love gone wrong can cause a girl to want to die. I asked my daughter to please write me a letter explaining how she felt and why she felt she wanted to leave life as she knows it. She gave me a 5 page letter that stated this boy was the love of .
Meghan created a multigenre project for her boyfriend of 6 years to express how much he means to her. The project includes narratives about how they met in middle school when he accidentally hit her in the face with a basketball, informational pieces about what he means to her, a poem expressing her love, and a persuasive piece about how he helped her overcome fears after having a health scare. The overall message is that her boyfriend is her best friend who has helped and supported her through challenges, and she is glad they found each other.
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THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER
Stephen Chbosky
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Published by: POCKET BOOKS, Simon and Schuster Inc., 1230 Avenue of the Americas, New
York, NY 10020.
Copyright 1999 by Stephen Chbosky
BOOK JACKET INFORMATION
standing on the fringes of life ... offers a unique perspective. But there comes a time to see what it
looks like from the dance floor.
This haunting novel about the dilemma of passivity vs. passion marks the stunning debut of a
provocative new voice in contemporary fiction: The Perks Of Being A WALLFLOWER
This is the story of what it’s like to grow up in high school. More intimate than a diary, Char-
lie’s letters are singular and unique, hilarious and devastating. We may not know where he lives. We
may not know to whom he is writing. All we know is the world he shares. Caught between trying
to live his life and trying to run from it puts him on a strange course through uncharted territory.
The world of first dates and mixed tapes, family dramas and new friends. The world of sex, drugs,
and The Rocky Horror Picture Show, when all one requires is that perfect song on that perfect
drive to feel infinite.
Through Charlie, Stephen Chbosky has created a deeply affecting coming-of-age story, powerful
novel that will spirit you back to those wild and poignant roller coaster days known as growing up.
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stephen chbosky grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and graduated from the University of
Southern California’s Filmic Writing Program. His first film, THE FOUR CORNERS OF NO-
WHERE, premiered at the 1995 Sundance Film Festival and went on to win Best Narrative Feature
honors at the Chicago Underground Film Festival. He is the recipient of the Abraham Polonsky
Screenwriting Award for his screenplay EVERYTHING DIVIDED as well as a participant in the
Sundance Institute’s filmmakers’ lab for his current project, FINGERNAILS AND SMOOTH
SKIN. Chbosky lives in New York.
the perks of being a wallflower is his first novel.
This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are products of the
author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons,
living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
For my family
acknowledgements
I just wanted to say about all those listed that there would be no book without them, and I
thank them with all of my heart.
Greer Kessel Hendricks Heather Neely Lea, Fred, and Stacy Chbosky Robbie Thompson Chris-
topher McQuarrie Margaret Mehring Stewart Stern Kate Degenhart Mark McClain Wilson David
Wilcox Kate Ward Tim Perell Jack Horner Eduardo Braniff
And finally ...
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Dr. Earl Reum for writing a beautiful poem and Patrick Comeaux for remembering it wrong
when he was 14.
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THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER
PART ONE
August.
Danilyn Sanchez was born on July 27, 1998 in the Philippines. She has brown curly hair and brown eyes. She describes having two different personalities - one that is calm and quiet, especially around teachers and strangers, and one that is more random and talkative around friends and family. She gets her personalities from her father, though her "kiddie voice" comes from elsewhere. Her parents are hardworking - her father works as a wielder and her mother runs a small home cooking business. The birth of her younger brother was initially an adjustment but she has come to love him, though he can be annoying at times. Danilyn hopes to become an illustrator and eventually an animator, as she enjoys
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2.
To get the chance to go back for one day
to fix everything you did wrong in your
life…
3. • If you did what would you do?
• Would you take back hurting a passed loved one?
• Would let someone know how much you really
appreciated and loved them for all their efforts?
• Finally would you be able to handle discovering
the real reasons on why situations in your life
turned the way they did?
4. Mitch Albom’s #1 New York Times Bestseller novel For One More
Day is story that gives his readers a philosophical view on life.
Similar to one of his previous novels(many of us have read Tuesdays
with Morrie) it is a novel that makes us think of the choices we have
made in our life and how they affect others and how everything
happens for a reason in our lives. The novel goes in an in depth look
of what would actually happen if we received “one more day” to
meet our past problems and ghosts. Overall it is a story of
redemption by going back in time and fixing past mistakes and
showing appreciation for our loved ones.
5.
Meet Chick Benetto whose life spirals into a complete
mess after the death of his mother, Posey. He deals with
problems with his career, finances and becomes an
alcoholic who then leaves his family and ends up in a
depression where he then tries to commit suicide. At a
young age Chick is placed in a position by his father, Len
where he must choose which parent to love, he makes his
choice by Len telling him this: “You can either be a
momma’s boy or a daddy’s boy but you can’t be both.” So
he chooses to completely idolize and worship his father.
Consistently he goes against his loving mother who gives
him all her love and tries to give him the best she can, and
instead brushes that away to tries to please his cold
hearted father.
6. .
At any moment he possibly could Chick would always take the side of
Len over Posey. When asked about Posey’s cooking Chick would
agree with Len and would say it tasted bad, any type of behaviour Len
portrayed Chick would mimic it. If Chick wanted to laugh but Len
wasn’t laughing Chick did not laugh , if Len did not like what Chick
was wearing due to Posey’s choices Chick certainly did not like it. He
then makes a list in the book called times my mother stood up for me
and times I did not stand up for my mother. (Obviously his Mother
outweighs him).Chick also made it his passion to play baseball
because Len strongly loved baseball. He then made it a priority to
become a professional baseball player in order to satisfy Len’s dreams
and throw away his college education even after Posey balances two
jobs just to send him to college. He then regrets the day where he
leaves his mom’s 70th birthday to go to a baseball game after his father
insistence, during that game Posey dies right in front of his daughter.
After that event he tries to kill himself but fails and goes into a dream
where he meets with his mother and gets one more chance to find out
details on his parents divorce and gets to see how his mother had an
unconditional love for him.
7. .
Albom makes it a crucial to make his readers understand his main themes in
the book and tries to tackle these themes by using unique situations. Such as
making one of his main characters Posey a single independent mother during
the 1950’s in a small town, where a situations like that would be unheard of.
Mortality is one of the biggest themes used throughout the book. It gives
readers the chance to wonder about the possibilities of reconnecting what you
could do if you had the chance to meet again with a dead relative. After Chick’s
suicide attempt he is put into a dream where he meets Posey again. There Posey
takes him back in time to revisit the past mainly events in his childhood. To
show him how she tried to protect and love him. It is here where Chick realizes
all the mistakes he did unto his mother. It questions readers if you were given
the chance to go back would you apologize for all the things you did and how
would you want to spend a day with a lost loved one. It also makes us wonder
whether or not we can handle moving on with our life if we got to fix our
mistakes and would we continue to be the same person—Chick certainly did
not remain the same person. Through this book I got analyze Chick’s
realizations on his past mistakes and it allowed me to compare how I would
take back any of my mistakes and seeing how Chick tried to fix his past
8. .
A theme that I recognized immediately after finishing novel that is not aas highly focused on is
unconditional love—and a smaller theme attached to that would be taking a loved one for
granted. After continuously being shut down and getting rejected by her son’s love Posey does
not give up on her son. The unconditional love Posey has for her son is very evident. She does her
absolute best to ignore the rejection and blame Chick gives her and continues to provide what is
best for her son which is: love, care, and support and completely on her own. She never tries to
walk out or give up on Chick and always tries to teach him valuable lessons. However Chick
never sees that growing up and constantly tries to push Posey away from his and wishes she
didn’t love him as much. Not until later he realizes how wrong most of his actions were.
I’m sure many of us can relate that in the past we take our parents for granted. We do not always
see the their logic or even know the real reason as on why they do certain things. Similar to Chick
I have taken my mom for granted and have tried to push her away by my actions and words. Yet
after reading this book you see that a mother’s love for their child is really strong and that love is
unconditional because what I learned from this book is that no matter how much you try to reject
a parents love when they truly love you they always stick around for you and do the best to
understand you. Unfortunately most us don’t see that when we’re young, and some us like Chick
figure that out too late. We think after time and time after hurting our parents they are used to it
, so they will always be there, by doing this Chick put himself in a state of mind where is Posey
would always be there it wasn’t until she was finally dead . Many of us don’t realize how some of
our actions can hurt our parents but subconsciously we know they will always forgive us, this
plays into mothers—or parents attaining a n unconditional because if they still are by your side
after either disappointing them or trying to go against them by pleasing someone else (similar to
Chick), no matter what you do though if a parent really loves you they never walk out.
9.
A huge and obvious theme in For One More Day is divorce. This is how I
related to the book the most because like Chick my parents also divorced when
I was young. After seeing continuously through the book that Chick would
show more love for Len then Posey, it reminded me of my younger self. My
parents did not get along at all and at a young age sub-consciously I felt torn
between which one to show more love more. Like Chick I chose my dad,
anything my mom would try to do I wouldn’t think was a good enough and
when my mom was always more stricter then my dad, I was blind to seeing
that it was for the best of me. As a child though I did not see my dad as often
and like Chick said in the book :``Kids chase for the love that eludes them and
for me that was my father`s love..`` so I would chase for my dad`s love because
he wasn`t always there. I felt obligated when I was young to show more
appreciation towards him but in the process I was putting my down. Again
similar to Chick it wasn`t until I was older that I came to a clear realization why
it did not work out between my parents and I discovered the truth on certain
past situations, after realizing this I stopped picking between which parent to
love more; un fortunately unlike me Chick did not realize this until his Mom
was dead.
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Here is an example of how Chick got to find out the
truth to his parents divorce. There he feels
completely betrayed and stupid for taking Len`s side
after all those years and going against Posey and
thinking it was her fault for Len leaving. After this
he wishes he could take back worshipping Len but at
the same time he still tries to defend the man who
completely abandoned him.
Still clearly chasing for the love that eluded him
11. .
At one point in the book Chick reconnects with Len after Len comes to see
him play professional baseball. There they are back in communication and
Len is constantly there for Chick, yet it is evident he is not there because he
loves Chick he is there because Chick is living the dream Len wish he had.
As Chick`s health is declining and as he ages he finally tells his father there
is no point of him playing baseball. However Len will not hear this and
tries to completely force Chick to not quit baseball. Even though it is
impossible for Chick to play as successfully as he did when he was young.
These unrealistic views reminded me of the Great Gatsby because Len like
Gatsby feel he can control things you can not control and both characters
are blind to seeing some situations in life are beyond human control. After
all how is it possible for Chick to not to age and slowly his baseball talent
starts to diminish with age. Len and Gatsby both try to re create the past.
Len wants Chick to play baseball and be as good as he was in the past
however that`s impossible because all athletes have their time were their
successful and slowly that fades away, but Len doesn’t think that is
possible and keeps forcing things that are not meant to be forced.
12. .
The message I picked up from the book may slightly
differentiate from most people however overall the book
taught me to forgive the ones we love. To understand that
there is no such thing as a perfect family. It taught me that
relatives will disappoint us and some of the actions we do
onto our relatives may not be intentionally but either way we
should always forgive them. But it also sent me the message
that we do not always get a second chance and the we
should appreciate the actual day we have with our relatives
and make today count, instead of waiting for another day to
come to redeem ourselves. All of us won`t be as lucky as
Chick to get a second chance, so enjoy the day you have with
your family and show the appreciation and you have for
your family before it’s too late.