The main character, Macey Claire, in the book, Burning Up, by Caroline B.Cooney, changed from a normal fifteen-year old to someone willing to make a difference.
The story begins in Connecticut, and summer is just beginning. Macey has been known to spend her weekends with her grandparents living on Shell Road. The road is known throughout the town for its beauty and respectable people. On the same road, Austin's grandparents live. Aus is a little bit older than Macey, but they both look forward to spending time together. His grandparents" place has been his home for the past school year. This was led on by his parents" troubles in their marriage.
To finish up the school year, Macey's class had been assigned a history project. There was a barn fire on Shell road in 1959; thus, Macey chose that as her topic. Casually, she started asking relatives and Austin's grandparents questions, hoping to get a start. Much to her surprise, nobody seemed as interested as she and didn't really want to talk about it. Many of the people she asked, including her teacher, suggested finding a new topic.
During the school year, each student was required to have so many points earned by community service. Macey, Austin, Lindsey, and Grace, Mace's other friends, decided to help out at Good Shepard Church to earn some of those points. The church was located in the part of town known for violence. At the church, their assignment was painting classrooms for younger kids. Macey was assigned to work with Venita. Venita was a black girl who talked a lot to Macey that day. They found a lot in common and formed a friendship. Venita told her of their school having to use Shakespeare photocopies and having no computers to use. Mace was extremely shocked by this. After mentioning it to other people, she realized the problem had always been, but she just never believed it.
While the kids were painting that day, a fire was started, which was later thought to be arson.
Mississippi Burning Essay In the movie "Mississippi Burning" many aspects of our civil rights unit were key points in teh movie. ... After the actual crime when the FBI showed up none of the people in the town, including the black population, would not give them information. ... In conclussion, "Mississippi Burning" was a good example of how our civil rights unit ties in with what really happened in 1964. ...
"Mississippi Burning": Fact versus Fiction In the movie "Mississippi Burning" we see a dramatized version of a non-fiction event that occurred in Mississippi in 1964. ... There was little played out in the movie "Mississippi Burning" about the activists, but through out you hear a little more about them. ... After reading information about the Mississippi Burning trail that took place after the bodies were found and people were arrested, the real heroes, besides the activists, were the lawyers who won the case for them. ... You have to play up to emotions of your audience. ... After dramat...
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Burning Barns In Faulkner's Barn Burning, the tale of a southern sharecropper's family forced into a nomadic existence by the both the political and social structure following the Reconstruction, Abner Snopes stands out as a wholly callous and insensitive patriarch as well as a vicious and malevolent poster-child for the oppressed proletariat tenant-farmers. ... Sarty's dilemma and Ab's frustrations continually grab the reader, serving up a series of emotionally laden dilemmas: Given the circumstances of the story, is Ab's barn burning justified? Should Sarty tell...
Barn Burning "You"re getting to be a man. ... Sarty's father, Abner Snopes is being accused of a barn burning. ... , referring to the people that his father and his family for that matter are up against. ... Barn burning is his largest and always final statement. But, he sort of builds up to that, as we can see in the story. ...
Barn Burning "You"re getting to be a man. ... Sarty's father, Abner Snopes is being accused of a barn burning. ... , referring to the people that his father and his family for that matter are up against. ... Barn burning is his largest and always final statement. But, he sort of builds up to that, as we can see in the story. ...
Barn Burning "You"re getting to be a man. ... Sarty's father, Abner Snopes is being accused of a barn burning. ... , referring to the people that his father and his family for that matter are up against. ... Barn burning is his largest and always final statement. But, he sort of builds up to that, as we can see in the story. ...
