My book, The Virgin Suicides, by Jeffrey Euginides, is about the neighborhood boys recalling the past thirteen months where all of the Lisbon girls committed suicide. Cecelia, the youngest was the first one, then came the others. Mr. Lisbon was fired from his job for complaints and after that no one was seen coming or leaving the Lisbon house. The neighborhood boys are invited to go to the Lisbon house and while they're getting impatient they start to explore. They find Bonnie dead in the basement and Therese dead by sleeping pills. Lux is dead from choking to death and Mary is the only one who can be saved. However Mary decides to commit suicide later. I believe that Cecelia was like the trigger, that she was the one who started all of the suicides and her parent helped contribute.
       I think that Cecilia was the trigger and the one who started all the suicides because she was the first and all the others followed. Of course their parents letting them have no social lives contributed because they couldn't make friends and became depressed. Cecelia went upstairs during the party and jumped out her bedroom window and was impaled on the garden fence. I think that if Cecelia didn't commit suicide then the other girls wouldn't have because it never would have occured to them to end their own lives. I think their mother, Mrs. Lisbon played a big part in their daughters suicides. She didn't let them out of the house after Lux came home late and she kept them from school. She and her husband were controlling their daughters lives. If they let them have more freedom then their daughters would still be alive. Cecelia should have tried to make friends in school because then she would not have felt so bad about life. A priest said that Cecelia was one of those people who were there, but they weren't really there and that when she jumped she probably thought she would have flew. But I don't think that this is the case, I think that Cecelia knew what she was doing and she was getting prepared for it. The author includes a part about how Cecelia took her time and I think that this time was spent contemplating on whether or not to end her life because she previously tried to cut her wrists and the doctor said it was a social issue. I believe that Cecelia was just done with life.

To kill a mockingbird

     The book, "To Kill A Mockingbird," by Harper Lee is about Scout Finch and all the adversity that she has to go through because her father, Atticus is defending a black man named Tom Robinson. The book takes place at a time where racism is present. The blacks and whites of
Maycomb are divided, and every white person in town thinks that Atticus is crazy for defending a black man because they think that the whites are always right. In this book Scout and her brother, Jem  has to face a lot of adversity because of the man her father chose to defend.
     Scout gets told at school about how her father is a n*gger lover, and even though she doesn't know exactly what it means, she beats up the kid who said it. She was defending her father's pride because he was doing something that no one else in their time period would have done. In many people's eyes he was doing the unthinkable which was defending a black man. Atticus tells Scout and her brother, Jem to keep their heads because they would have to learn to because it would be much worse when the Summer came. Summer was when the trial was. Scout's neighbor, Ms. Dubose is always trying to get Jem and Scout to lose their heads whenever they walk by her house. One day when Jem and Scout are walking to town she talks about how Atticus is defending a n*gger. When Jem and Scout come back from town with their new toys, Jem cuts up all her flowers because of what she said. Also, when their family went to celebrate Christmas at Finch's Landing, Scout's cousin is making insults about Atticus and Tom Robinson. Scout forgets what Atticus said about keeping her head and punches her cousin because what he said was so offensive,
     I think that back then was a bad time, where certain people thought that they were better than others. The book takes place in Alabama where there was a lot of racism because it was close to when slavery was abolished. I think that all the hate that the whites gave the blacks was about bitterness because they had just lost the people who did all their work. Mr. Ewell is the man who beat up Mayella, not Tom, he had just witnessed his daughter kissing a black man, and he did what most people would've done, he blamed it on a black man. I think it's wrong how the jury failed to see Tm's innocence. They were bias and it would've been the first time a vote went towards a black man over a white. They should've realized that everyone is equal and treated each other with respect.