The Secret Garden Quotes

In the book The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, the protagonist realizes many things in chapter, The Monkey Garden. Ms, Cisneros uses imagery to contribute to the story by setting the scene for us. “Yellow spiders ran when… so many crusty lady bugs.” The quote shows us the garden the protagonist loves. It demonstrates to us, that even though it is full of bugs, she loves it.

As Henry Miller once said, “Chaos is the score upon which reality is written” (“Chaos Quotes”). Miller seems to believe that no matter what actions we take, the world is destined to return to chaos. He seems to be right. Today’s world has been overrun by social issues such as hunger, segregation and depression. While government programs everywhere take action to prevent these issues, their efforts are futile. The truth is, to prevent these social issues, the world must kill the seed from which they grow. In Jeannette Walls’ book, The Glass Castle, she perfectly demonstrates how one social issue can become a source of many others. In the book, Jeannette’s father

She made her into the village and through the square to set up her market stall of curiosities, her display is a large array of fruit or flowers in the forest, sometimes she would find owl pellets and would sometimes dissect them to see what the owls have been eating. Often, she would display books that she has written one book was titled ‘The Modern Medicines’. One of the villagers picked it up and attempted to read it and her face was puzzled, she remembered them looking at her and saying to her ‘What’s all these here squiggles on this pa’er Mary?’ She placed it down and walked to the vegetable stall.

Jerry Spinelli’s, historical fiction novel, Milkweed describes a young orphan’s endeavor to survive in a Polish ghetto during WWII. As Misha continues to struggle, he hopes that he will survive the Holocaust. In this story, milkweed, a plant that can grow almost anywhere is a symbol of hope.

Hammond states this to Dr. Wu in the chapter, Bungalow. In this quote Hammond refuses to face the reality of how unsafe his park is, even though countless amount of evidence is set in front him. Not to mention he also refuses to believe that the dinosaurs have found a way to breed despite of the scientists’ precautions. Between his stubbornness and old age we observe that Hammond is actually out of his mind. Later on, after the island is in pieces and most of the staff is dead, Hammond still believes that he still/should build another Jurassic Park. Though in the beginning the novel vilified Nerdy, Hammond emerges as the real villain of the story with his abuse of the scientific power. This quote helps you understand who the real protagonist and real antagonist are. Nerdy was just a pod in the author’s game, to figure whose fault is. (Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton. Chapter Bungalow)

In the book the Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls The advice that the Dad gives his children could get them in trouble.One quote that supports this is “Dad had always said that self-defense was a justifiable reason for shooting someone.” This quote is interesting to me because this is a girl that is barely eight years old and is being questioned by the police about neighbors hearing gunshots, and she said it was in self defense. But she didn’t need to shoot the gun at all, first off Billy was shooting them with a BB Gun, and three of them were safe undercover behind a table, and the fourth child made it upstairs, they could have waited for him to get tired of shooting or run out of BB’s. But the way their father brought them up, gave them the

In the novel jurassic park there are many consequences that affected many people on the island of Isla Nublar one of the many reasons the consequences were so large and impactful because they were dealing with animals that were around 247 million years ago. They had to find and use strands of DNA from frogs and petrified tree sap which made them able to breed because frogs can change their sex to be able to have offspring. Also because of the dinosaurs being able to breed there was more dinosaurs then the people thought were on the island. Because there was more dinosaurs they were escaping and they didn't realize because the computer was only programed to count the original number of dinosaurs and it didn't account for the new ones that were appearing and living on the island. While on the tour through Jurassic Park Lex spots two juvenile velociraptors on one of the supply ships escaping from the island it shows that the dinosaurs are breeding because they only had adult velociraptors in the park

An airplane, in the book Milkweed, is a symbol of fear. When an airplane flies by, bombs are dropped in Warsaw, Poland. At first it is the Nazis taking over Warsaw. They bomb buildings for the purpose of killing Jews or eliminating their homes. Then the Russians were bombing Warsaw to try to overthrow the Nazis and free the Jews. Whenever planes flew over the town, people knew that they had to take cover. People would stampede into buildings or hide in ditches in hope that they would not be targeted. The narrator writes, “Soon the airplanes came, adding their waspy buzz to the music. I wanted to see them, but Uri would not let me go outside” (16). This shows the danger of the airplanes and the fear that Uri has when he will not let Misha

Although Mary did not always live with abusive families, the main focus in her book were the ones that treated her poorly. From roughly age twelve to her death in 1833, she was a subject to unfortunate treatment while living with the three families mentioned above, the Inghams, the D-s, and the Woods.

Green in October as it is in July. Milkweed, the symbolism of endurance. A symbol of motion. Letting things go. Embracing changes and accepting them. The book Milkweed is meant to say a message;“When you own nothing it’s easy to let things go.”

The Graveyard Book Essay Summative The quote I choose was "That's the difference between the living and the dead, enit? The dead dun't disappoint you. They've had their life, done what they've done. We dun't change.

“An abuser can seem emotionally needy. You can get caught in a trap of catering to him.” -Lundy Bancroft, this quote explains how mistreating people is a way of correction or to show that you did something. Which brings us to Purple Hibiscus, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, in the story Kambili is misused by her very religious father for minor situations, throughout the story the main character Kambili starts off as shy and she starts to become more social during the book.

The family moved to Hoxton, England in 1774 when Mary was a teenager. This is where Mary met Mr. and Mrs. Clare. They took interest in Mary and let her into their home, so she could

First, Twyla introduces Mary from the beginning of the story, as her mother claiming that she was put in St. Bonny’s, because mother have been all night dancing. Twyla reveals that she

While freedom of choice and free speech are privileges in American society, suppression of those freedoms is common among many other societies. In these societies, people are held back without being able to voice their opinions. People that have their voice are able to fight the suppression and have influence on those that do not.. In Purple Hibiscus, Chimamanda Adichie clearly portrays the differences between characters, especially the ones who have the courage to speak up and the ones that do not. Stripped of simple rights like singing songs and listening to music ,Kambili is withheld from a normal kid’s life.