Pie

When faced with a challenge, one must learn to cope well. However, these coping methods must change when different challenges are faced. In the novel Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie, the Alper family must cope with Jeffrey’s illness. Over the course of the novel, their coping mechanisms develop and change. The different struggles that the family face define what kinds of coping methods that they need and can afford. One of the characters, Steven, must cope with Jeffrey’s illness. His coping…

Me, Myself, and Pie Everybody has an identity, it makes them individual and unique, and it defines who you are as a person. This project about my identity showed me what makes me unique. I would have never known how much my friends mean to me or how my identities connect with each other. I have three identities that make me who I am, cultural, personal, and social. A specific quality that covers my cultural identity is being Czechoslovakian. For my personal identity, the biggest part is my…

When summer rolls around, it’s time to put away the cakes and breads and pull out a fresh-baked pie for a warm-weather treat. But with so many different varieties to choose from, how do you know what type of pie will satisfy your sweet tooth this season? According to the friendly folks at Busken Bakery, the only way to make the right choice is to familiarize yourself with some of the most popular summertime pies in America this year. While there are countless flavors available at your local…

In the book “Drums Girls And Dangerous Pie”, the main character, Steven, went through the five stages of grief (Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance). After his younger brother Jeffrey fell and had a really bad nose bleed, it turned out he had leukemia. In the book “Drums Girls And Dangerous Pie” Steven goes through the first stage of grief, denial. The book said that Steven believes the emergency room doctors are wrong, and Jeffrey had a bad nose bleed. This was right after…

to sin/evil and he realizes that the pie that he enjoyed in guilt could never be erased. He describes this through the use of allusion and imagery. Through the use of allusion, the six year old broke his trust for himself and god. The author Soto alludes to Adam and Eve with the apple in order to let the reader know the apple pie was going to lead him to trouble .through this reference, the reader connects the apple form the forbidden tree and the apple pie from the forbidden grocery the…

In Gary Soto’s biographical narrative he entertains his audience by telling them a story of his past and how it had shaped him as a person. To elaborate, in the narrative Soto steals an apple pie from the German Market and even though he didn’t feel guilty at the beginning it slowly consumed him and lead to him feeling guilty for the sin he had just committed.To help him Soto used the figurative language of imagery and, the sound device, onomatopoeia, in order to help the readers paint a clear…

In "The Pie," a short story by Gary Soto, the narrator uses figurative language to lead the reader down a spiraling passage into spiritual guilt, stealing, and gluttony. For example, when the narrator states he knew enough about hell to stop him from stealing and that somedays he recognized the shadows of angels flopping on the backyard grass, and other days, the narrator, "heard far away messages in the plumbing that howled underneath the house," (Soto). The quote "far away messages in the…

In Rossetti’s poem, “Promises Like Pie-Crust," she excavates the dormant hesitation that is brought about by a naive past relationship. This hesitation is verbalized through the use of paradox: “Promise me no promises, So I will not promise you.” This plea is the evidence of a previous betrayal of trust, prompting the resistance of anything involving a commitment. The line, “Keep we both our liberties” refers to the abstinence from promises and depicts how they are viewed as constricting and…

Apple Pie Fourth of July: Picture Book Analysis The picture book Apple Pie 4th of July. Written by Janet S. Wong and illustrated by Margret Chodos-Irivine, is a piece of literary work that presents itself with many important themes that any child may, at one point in their early lives, find themselves struggling with. Wong does a very excellent job of trying openly address the issue that is confliction of identity and of having to conform to societal ideals or in our protagonist’s case the idea…

Sometimes in life do you feel brave to do something or do you feel hopeful for someone or something, well in my two books Hatchet my character is brave to do what he does and it will be my paragraf after this, and Drums Girls and Dangerous pie my character is hopeful for his little brother that has cancer the paragraph after hatchet. Then I will talk about what they have in common and then do a conclusion lastly. I feel like my theme in my book Hatchet is [bravery.] I think this because, Bryan…