The story, Chains, written by Laurie Halse Anderson, talks about an African-American slave named Isabel, and her younger sister Ruth, who are sold a cruel household owned by Mr. and Mrs. Lockton, and managed by a housemaid named Becky. In this book, on page 3 of chapter 1, One can see that Isabel learned certain habits from her mother, like seeds implanted in her brain. The epigraph for this chapter is “Youth is the seed time of good habits, as well in nations as in individuals”-Thomas Paine. The relevance is shown when the author writes “The best time to talk to ghosts is just before the sun comes up. That's when they hear us true, Momma said.” (Anderson 3) This shows …show more content…
I know personally, stereotypes ruined my middle school years, and my mood altogether. Some movies have already altered the perspective of people in movies. The movie ¨A Wrinkle In Time¨ is about Meg Murry and her little brother, Charles Wallace, have been without their scientist father, Mr. Murry, for five years, ever since he discovered a new planet and used the concept known as a tesseract to travel there. Joined by Meg's classmate Calvin O'Keefe and guided by the three mysterious astral travelers known as Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Who and Mrs. Which, the children brave a dangerous journey to a planet that possesses all of the evil in the universe.¨ - (Google) There are bullies, who always seem to be strong and put together, one of which is dieting and is insecure about her weight. In the story, Meg is the nerd and she also has many faults, and the only way she can save Earth from slipping into darkness and her lost father, she must show her faults and accept who she is first. This shows that the nerd can be the hero, and a bully can be the broken