The House On Mango Street The House on Mango Street written by Sandra Cisneros, is based on the author's story of how she is growing up at this house and the important events that happen throughout her life. Even though Esperanza is so insecure, she learns to get over her insecurity during many events that happens in Mango Street. She gains confidence with all the people on Mango Street. Throughout the book it shows how Esperanza grows up she goes through 3 faces which are, people in mango street that influence her, her growing stages, and insecurity then she starts to gain confidence. Finally she becomes a strong young woman capable of anything.
Sammy and Juliana in Hollywood Sammy and Juliana in Hollywood written by Benjamin Saenz, is about a young male teenager named Sammy, who is living in a barrio they named Hollywood. The book is written in Sammy's prospective, he goes through a lot of depression in the book. He meets new people and people he loved fade away. As the book progresses Sammy gets older and starts becoming a man and dose things on his own, like gets a job and takes care of his sister since his dad passed away caused of a heart attack. This book can relate to Latino teenagers because of our current economy.
Antigone Antigone Written by Sophocles is a famous Greek tragedy play. Its about a woman named Antigone, is sentenced to death because she burred her brother when the king did not want to. Antigone thinks she has done the right thing so she accepts to receive her punishment. The king then starts to realize that he has made the wrong decision for punishing Antigone. As she is being sent to death, the king decides to change his mind, but it was only too late. We read this in our class to get an Idea of how Greek plays looked like.
My Sister's Keeper My Sister's Keeper is a novel by Jodi Picoult is a very realistic/real world book that is very sad. This book is about a girl named Anna who has a sister with Leukemia, named Kate. Anna is born for a purpose, and that purpose is to help her sister Kate by donating bone marrow and possibly a kidney. as Anna gets older she gets tired of giving up her body and decides to sue her parents. while she is going through these situations she learns more about her family and others that will affect with her decision.
Of Mice and Men Of Mice and Men is a novel by John Steinbeck is about two men that often got in trouble because of Lennie who is the big guy with a mind of a child. George is short and has more brain than what Lennie does. Lennie would do things he is not supposed to and because of him they would get in trouble. They come upon a farming land and get a job there to save money for their dream place. To illustrate the theme of discrimination, Steinbeck includes the characters of Curley’s wife, Crooks and Lennie in this novela through the 3 characters Steinbeck shows his displeasure with the way people treat one another.
The Art of Racing in The Rain The Art of Racing in The Rain is a novel by Garth Stein is told by a dogs perspective. Enzo (the dog) tells the story of his life living with his human family and how everything starts change little by little when Eve (mom) dies of cancer and leaves her daughter Zoe and her husband Denny behind. The grandparents start to say that it was Denny's fault that Eve died for not taking care of her. So the grandparents took his daughter Zoe. The grand parents sued him then but that didn't stop Denny from trying to get Zoe back. Enzo Is trying to give advice to Denny but he knows he cant talk so he wants to be a human in his next life and become a Racer because he admires Denny for being a race car driver.
Romeo and Juliet Romeo and Juliet is a tragic play written by William Shakespeare published in 1597. The story is there are two families,in Verona, Italy, named the Montagues and Capulets. There has been a feud between the families for many years and everyone forgot why it ever started. Romeo is a part of the Montagues and Juliet is a part of the Capulets. Romeo's best friend, Mercutio, is the right hand man of the Prince of Verona. The other right hand man is Paris. The Because the Montagues have Mercutio on their side the Capulets decide to make Juliet mary Paris. Little did they know that during a Capulet's party Romeo and Juliet met and fell in love with each other and decided to get married to show their love. after the ceremony Romeo kills Juliet's Cousin, Tybalt, because he killed Romeo's best friend Mercutio. Romeo is banished and Juliet is devastated. Juliet doesn't want to marry Paris so she goes to Friar Lawrence and asks for help. He gives her a sleeping potion that would make her look like she' s dead. Friar Laurence's letter telling Romeo about the potion did not reach Romeo in time and Romeo thinks Juliet is truly dead. Romeo goes to Juliet's coffin and on his way see's Paris who thinks Romeo is going to desecrate the grave and so Romeo kills Paris. Romeo then drinks a poison after seeing Juliet's body because the love of his life is dead. Juliet wakes up and sees that Romeo killed himself and takes Romeo's blade and kills herself as well. When their parents see this they are devestated and agree that the fighting must stop between their families.
Dear Zoe, Dear Zoe, is a novel by Philip Beard and its about a story of a family and a tragic incident that happened on September 11. The story is told from Tess's perspective Tess is the daughter of a young ex-married couple who had her in their teens. Tess's mother moved on and found a new husband, David, and had two more kids, Emily (Em) and Zoe. On September 11 of 2001, when the planes hit the towers. Tess was supposed to be watching Zoe. Tess instead was watching the planes hit the towers and Zoe was hit and killed by a car. Tess and the entire family are depressed by what happened with Zoe and become disfunctional. Tess leaves and because of this Em becomes even more sad. Tess goes to live with her father to get away after finding out about her mom's scandal with a guy at the grocery store. While she's away she gets a dog and a boyfriend named Jimmy Freeze. Tess's dad made money by selling weed and doing other little jobs. Tess ends up doing weed with Jimmy who gets it from her dad. During summer Tess finds a job at a local theme park with Jimmy. The whole summer everything is perfect but then Tess's birthday comes. On Tess's birthday both Jimmy and her dad are arrested. They get out soon after and on their way to see Tess her dad hits Frank, the dog, and has to rush him to the vet's. A little while after Tess realizes she needs a picture of Zoe and ends up going home with her mom.