![]() While the boy sleeps, the man reflects upon one of his dreams of a creature with dead eyes. Because this is a post-apocalyptic story, the exemption of these punctuation elements might serve as a way for McCarthy to indicate that in this new world, remnants of the old world - like electricity, running water, and humanity - no longer exist, or they exist in very limited amounts. McCarthy also chooses to use no quotation marks in dialogue and for some contractions, he leaves out the apostrophes. Stylistically, the writing is very fragmented and sparse from the beginning, which reflects the barren and bleak landscape through which the man and boy are traveling. The story is set in a post-apocalyptic world, date and place unnamed, though the reader can assume it's somewhere in what was the United States because the man tells the boy that they're walking the "state roads." Neither the man nor the boy is given a name this anonymity adds to the novel's tone that this could be happening anywhere, to anyone. The novel begins with the man and boy in the woods, the boy asleep, as the two of them are making their journey along the road. ![]()
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Problem:It’s the wrong bookIt’s the wrong editionOther Details (if other): Cancel Thanks for telling us about the problem. I never knew prisons could be picky, but I guess they can. Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko l Summary & Study Guideby BookRags. The convicts we have are the kind other prisons don't want. Plus, there are a ton of murderers, rapists, hit men, con men, stickup men, embezzlers, connivers, burglars, kidnappers and maybe even an innocent man or two, though I doubt it. And there are twenty-three other kids who live on the island because their dads work as guards or cook's or doctors or electricians for the prison, like my dad does. There's my sister, Natalie, except she doesn't count. A Newbery Honor Book Today I moved to a twelve-acre rock covered with cement, topped with bird turd and surrounded by water. ![]() ![]() ![]() Because I would have been more comfortable and more fully and truly myself. Had I then the confidence I have now to be myself, my students would have benefited even more from my teaching. I wish I had not worn that ugly suit that day. A man going to a business meeting doesn't wonder about being taken seriously based on what he is wearing-but a woman does. Many of us think that the less feminine a woman appears, the more likely she is to be taken seriously. The sad truth of the matter is that when it comes to appearance, we start off with men as the standard, as the norm. I wore a very serious, very manly, and very ugly suit. I really wanted to wear my shiny lip gloss and my girly skirt, but I decided not to. And I was worried that if I looked too feminine, I would not be taken seriously. I knew that because I was female, I would automatically have to prove my worth. Instead I was worried about what to wear. Not about the teaching material, because I was well prepared and I was teaching what I enjoyed. The first time I taught a writing class in graduate school, I was worried. ![]() Reprinted by permission from Vintage Books, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc. Copyright © 2012, 2014 by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. This is an excerpt from WE SHOULD ALL BE FEMINISTS by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. ![]() ![]() ![]() In this Mexican retelling, Tomie dePaolo has followed in the tradition of many folk tellers by choosing names for his characters that say more than readers might first realize. Using Internet or library resources, confirm their predictions by reading other cultural presentations of Cinderella such as Cendrillon in the Caribbean, Ashyputtel in Germany, Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters in Africa, etc. Based on their knowledge and experiences, have students predict how Cinderella tales might unfold in different cultures throughout the world. 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