The Face On The Milk Carton/ Character Analysis

The day after Janie found the dress, she gave her parents dull and mean responses since she was upset with them. The text states, “Something wrong, honey? Why are you mad at us?” Janie then starts giving her parents attitude and they start yelling at each other. The next day, Janie had a Honors Breakfast. After the honors breakfast, Janie asks her “parents,” “I want to know why there aren’t any photographs of me until five. Even if you didn’t buy a camera until then, you would have had a baby portrait done. I want to know who Hannah is upstairs in the trunk. I want to know why you won’t let me see my birth certificate.” 

*SPOILER ALERT* Janie’s mom and dad sit her down. They tell her that Hannah is her mother and that they’re not really her parents. They tell Janie they are really her grandparents and that Hannah was their daughter. They began telling her that basically her mother, Hannah was an unusual teenager. She wasn’t crazy about boys or stuff like that, she was mostly concerned of right and wrong. When a cult came along and swept thousands during the 60s and 70s, from the East Coast to the West Coast. It attracted Hannah. When Hannah was 16, she begged on her knees for her parents to let her join the cult. The text says, “We tried everything to get Hannah out. We took her on long vacations, we sent her to live with my cousin in Atlanta, we tried traditional church.” They say no matter what they did, Hannah would never budge. They wrote to Hannah a lot, but she rarely wrote back. Janie’s grandfather, Frank, got a letter by the cult that Hannah had been married to a member in the cult. Then, one day, the door opened, and Hannah was standing there with Janie. She had escaped.  After everything they could do, eventually hannah went back to the cult. So, for the sake of Janie, Hannah’s parents lost touch with Hannah. Stopped calling on her birthday, stopped sending presents, stopped writing letters and sending postcards. After all the crying and hugging, Janie was relieved. Janie says, “Mother and daddy are all I have, and all I want.” 

Character Analysis

Reeve was Janie’s next door neighbor. He doesn’t care about about his schoolwork. In the text it states that,” Reeve never did homework.” But he got B’s as grades at times, also with some D’s ad F’s. Janie and Reeve knew each other since they were little kids because their parents know each other as well. 

Face On The Milk Carton- Summary/ Character Analysis

Janie goes upstairs to the attic to see if there was any clues or things about her kidnapping. She starts looking around the boxes so see if anything looks suspicious. She sees a box in a corner and remembers her mother telling her that it is junk, and that she'll "toss out." The narrator said "If she had really intended to toss it out, or if it was really junk, it would have never gone to the attic; she would have donated it to the Salvation Army." Then, Janie finds a box that has the letter H written on it.After Janie had found that box with the letter H on it, she began to look through it. She found book reports, maps, worksheets, and photographs.  Even a report on Mesopotamia. It turns out that the letter “H” stands for Hannah. Then Janie found a photograph of Hannah. Heres how the text describes her, “A pretty girl- perhaps twelve or thirteen-looked back at her. Sweet, blond, mild.” From behind the papers, Janie realized a little piece of fabric. It was a white cloth, with tiny dark polka dots. It was the dress on the milk carton. 

Janie Johnson is a redhead, from in which she inherited from her mother, Hannah. She is lactose intolerant. In the text it says, “They had recently discovered  she had a lactose intolerance. This was a splashy way of saying she had stomachaches when she drank milk.”

Would We Be Killed? - Life On the Rez.

Native Americans have been marginalized by society and made to feel as if they didn't exist by: Captain Pratt tricking the children's parents into thinking that he is going to give them education. In the text it says, "He believed that Native American children deserved a quality education." So he came up with a plan, his plan was to turn abandoned army barracks in Carlisle, as said in the text. This had convinced the parents to let their children go. But Pratt didn't tell the parents the whole story. Pratt also wanted to kill the Native American culture inside the person. He believed he needed to do this to them in order for them to succeed in America. The text says, "Pratt believed that the children needed to completely abandon their "Indian-ness" in order to succeed in America." This proves that Pratt would then make the children completely change their lifestyles.

The purpose of Shanice's essay was to tell to people that just because she is a Native American, she is just as normal as everybody else. Also to inform the readers the many different things her tribes do. She wants people to know that Native Americans are regular people, but they still proudly show their culture through their actions. Her town is just like any other town, with restaurants, paved roads, a grocery store, like a little small community. She wants the readers to know that they have a lot of traditions they pass down generation, through generation, and if you don't pass them down, that part of the tradition might disappear.

The Face On The Milk Carton

In the book, The Face On The Milk Carton, Janie attends school like any other day, she gets nervous in her English class because she had to present her essay to the class, but the lunch bell saved her. So she decides she has 27 minutes to write a much better essay. In lunch, Janie and her friends turn over the milk carton to see who had been kidnapped. When Janie turns over the carton, she sees a little girl in a dress with a narrow white collar and tiny dark polka dots,  and with her hair in tight ponytails. Janie soon realizes the little girl in the milk carton is her. After school, it’s pouring rain. Her guy friend,  Reeve, offers to take Janie for ice cream, even though lactose intolerant. Janie was feeling dizzy because of what had happened earlier, so Reeve decided to take her home. Once she gets home, she discovers nobody is home, irritated, she runs over to Reeve’s house. “The silence of the house was suddenly unbearable. She leaped from the bed, pounded down the stairs, flung open the side door, and ran over to the Shieldses’ house.” Once there, Janie sees Mrs. Shields is watching Lassie. 
More to come.. 

Theme-

I think the theme of this book so far is mystery because I think Janie will spend her time through the book searching for her real parents, and answers. Also, in the book it states that, “Or is she my mother? Is she daddy’s second wife? Or is it daddy who is somebody else?” I think though out the book Janie will try and figure out these questions. 

Tolerance

Tolerance- the ability or willingness to allow the existence occurrence, or practice of something, in particular the existence of opinions or behavior that one does not necessarily agree with.

One time I experienced intolerance was when I seen someone bullying another kid in my old school's hallway. This affected me because I felt bad for the person that was getting bullied so I decided to back them up.

Tolerance to me is to accept things just as long as it doesn't harm/or have a negative effect on you in any way.

A Child Called It- David Pelzer

Summary:
Six year old David got beaten until he was 11 years old. From warnings like yelling, to being forced to lie down on a hot stove.  From discipline to punishments. David's mother was once a caring, loving mother who cared for her children just like any other mom. David's dad was always away working. As a result of this, David's mother became addicted to alcohol and began beating David for being a "bad boy" even though he did nothing wrong. David got angry and started disobeying her. David later regretted being disobedient to his mom because the outcome was tragic. Since he was being disobedient, his mother decided she would stop feeding him. First 3 days without food, then later 10 ten days without food, to him just having to steal food from the stores and his school cafeteria. In the story it says that David would fall asleep fantasizing about food. Also from his peers lunches. One day his mother had a knife in one hand and David's baby brother, Russell, in the other. As she was yelling at David, she lost control and the knife went flying to David's chest. While he was there bleeding severely, his mom quickly went into action. She treated the wound with cloths. David wasn't shocked because he knew his mother wouldn't just let him bleed to death, no matter how evil she was.  The author says, "Mother was still on her knees wrapping a cloth around my lower chest."Weeks later David's mom started treating him like a normal child. At first he couldn't believe what was happening. As the days went by, things became clearer. The reason she had started acting all nice and sweet was because an agent from Child Services came to speak to David about his mother. Just as soon David said the wrong thing, his mother's smile faded. You can guess what happened after the agent left. David was called down into the nurses office and was instructed to take off his clothes so they can inspect his bruises. Once the nurse saw the beating scars, she called the police officer into the office. He then inspected his body, instructed him to put his clothes back on. The police officer called David's mother and told her she had just lost custody of David then hung up the phone. The text says, "Mrs. Pelzer, this is Officer Smith from the Daly City Police Department. Your son David will not be coming home today. He will be in the custody of the San Mateo Juvenile Department. If you have any questions, you call them." David and the cop took the police car and went to the orphanage where David would live freely until he was adopted.


Character Analysis: David is a sweet, loving little boy. Just as soon as his mother stops feeding him of course. He's not so sweet. In the text it says that David would take up weeks of planning on how to steal food from the stores and from lunch boxes in the classroom. He was very obedient to his teachers and would respect his classmates. In the story it says that David would get along with his teacher and his peers. He would play very well with the kids at recess time when he wouldn't be planning on stealing food.

Summary/Character Analysis- Life as We Knew It

Summary: 

Something surprising happens, but we already saw it coming. November 25: Thanksgiving Celebration. Each person was allowed one leg and two bites of thigh off a chicken. November 26: Miranda’s mom asks her kids if they have done any of their schoolwork yet. The text states,” Have any of you done a bit of schoolwork all fall?” She then asks them to pick one subject and to work on that. Miranda chose history, Jon picked algebra, and Matt decided on philosophy. December 1: The temperature was above zero so Miranda took  her mom’s skates and decided out to the pond. No one was there, so she enjoyed her time alone. 

Character Analysis: 

Brandon is an ice skater from their hometown who is training for the Olympics. He is loved by fans worldwide. As in the text it said that Brandon has his own fan-site (website) dedicated to him. He gets along with Miranda very well, maybe because they both connect to ice skating in their lives.