Hair: Malcom X
Malcom X gets his hair conked.
He regrets it in the end, Theme: Doing what society tells you to do.
By Any Other Name: Santha Rama Rau
Indian girls go to school run by English people. English lady can't pronounce their names so they change them. The girls leave the school after being falsely accused of cheating. Theme: Discrimination
Titanic: Hanson W.
Baldwin
Ironies: "unsinkable ship" closest ships didn't come to helpTitanic pilot ignored iceberg warningsSinging a song about dying before it happenedHow we knew it would endNot enough life boatscrew wasn't trained for the situationband kept playing while the ship sunk
No News From Auschwitz: A. M. Rosenthal
starts with hope ends with hopeWhy come? Pay respects or see if it is true.
Objective
Facts
Subjective
Opinion
A Guided Tour of the Inferno: Charles Nicholl
Author goes into meat packing plant to see if it s front for the snow white cocaine story.
Off job shows up and the reporter has to run. Symbolism: cows represent young people who do drugs. Speaking a coded language about drugs
A presentation of Whales: Barry Lopez
non fictions, slow, sad, easy to picture, intriguing, chronological, objective/subjective, people try to save a life but you lose the life and gain an experience.
The Lowest Animal: Mark Twain
Satire- ridicules human weaknesses in the hopes of social reform
The Man in the Water: Roger Rosenblatt
Hero, heroism, point: even though we can seem powerless we have control over our lives.
Now You Take "Bambi" or "snow White" THAT'S SCAREY: Stephen King
Making a point
