"Summer in the Yakima Valley"

The poem "Summer in the Yakima Valley" by Ruth Roach Pierson has a lot of great examples of contrast. The first half of the poem the speaker talks about how everything in the day she loved, she mentions how she loves "the farmhouse on the hill". and how his cousin and him where giddy "on the danger of going too near the whirlpool pull of the main pipe's undertow.
But when it gets dark out, everything changes he was scared "his cousin leaving him listening alone to the sounds of the night". At night he sits there listening to the sounds of a coyote's hungry cry, the twist and scrapes of the tumbleweed like a wind- tossed tangle of bones over clay-dry earth." In line 44 he is still scared during the dark he lay's there and preys to the sick ache, the hunger for home as nightmare shadows slid across the floor .

Novel study paragraph

Both the poem "The road not taken" by Robert Frost and the novel "Slumdog Millionaire" by Vikas Swarup disscuse the choices we have to make in life. "And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler" is a highlight from the poem.
The point isn't that one was "less travelled," but rather that, because the traveller is just one person, he cannot take both, the person must make a choice every choice they make reflects on their life.
When the speaker in the poem, " stood And looked down one as far as [he] could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other" he is saying that he is looking down the two roads one that has been worn down and has been used and the other one that is less appeling. Ram from the book "Slumdog millionaire" has had a rough life but everything that has happened to him lead him to the point where he is now. Was it fait that brought him to where he is now or was it the choices he made. Every choice he made effected his life but the poeple around him if the prest had not died then he would have never gone to the juvinel home where he met his best friend salim and if he had not met salim then salim would have been raped and then taken to Mumbai alone where he would have served for Maman with his eyes ripped out and would be singing on the trains and beggin for money.

Slumdog Millionaire Lit Circle "Connector"

Many children in India are torn away from their families due to big mobs that attack small villages and light them on fire. Many families are burned to death and some are just beatin to death.
There was a christian couple living in India that had been attacked by a large mob of anti-Christian extremists that brutally attacked two Gospel for Asia-supported missionaries in Himachal Pradesh, India, on Saturday, March 14. After stripping them naked and beating Murari Jay and Atul Rajesh, the vicious group burned all their belongings and then had the missionaries arrested.
The mob of about 30 people barged into the place where Murari and Atul were staying. Humiliating the missionaries, the group tore the men's clothes off and beat them. Murari sustained severe injuries to his back after mob members repeatedly kicked him, and Atul suffered acute head trauma. Other members of the mob set fire to everything the missionaries owned.
This kind of stuff is common in India when I was reading this book I kept thinking to my self how could this happen in our generation why dont people try to stop this behaviour?

Novel research

Vikas Swarup born and brought up in Allahabad, Swarup, an avid quizzer since his college days,was sitting in a resturant reading a article on how many east indian boys living in the slum of Asia that have never went to school and never read a newspaper in their life, he wanted to show that knowledge is not the preserve of the educated elite and that even a 'street-kid' can possess the wisdom to win a quiz show.
Vikas Swarup has lived in India most of his life where there are many fights and he could see how many families are parted from one another, and how many boy's are left on their own to surrender for themsselves no one to help them.


http://www.vikasswarup.net/

"It isn't fair,it isn't right," Mrs. Hutchinson screamed, and then they were upon her. This is a line from the story" The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson. In this story everyone gathers up for a lottery, every single person has to pick out a slip from the black box, Mrs. Hutchinson had picked out the slip that had a black dot on it, that dot indicated that she was the winner. As the prize for being the winner she was killed by her neighbors and family. In the story there was no logic reason for killing Mrs. Hutchinson. This Lottery has been going on for years no one knows really why they do this, they just kill Mrs. Hutchinson without asking question's no one knows even when the lottery had started. "Why do we do a lottery every year" that's the question no one had ever thought of asking.


We are on the threshold of a new century,a new millennium." is written in

"The Perils of Indifference,"is about

Terrible violence and inhumanity can be demonstrated by the most "ordinary" citizens. Like you and me we go home to families and our kids, but no one knows who you really are most of the time people who kill for no reason are people like you and me