Zoya's SAS Blog

Author’s Note Dear Reader, The idea for this may seem a bit strange at first, but I urge you to give it a shot. It’s not as weird as you think. It came to me in the middle of class while I was discussing a different topic in a critique group. So many people at SAS are mixed, part Asian, part something else; I began to think: what if there was a girl just like that in a story? And, of course, not just your typical coming of age story where the girl finally comes to terms with being half one culture and half another. More of a girl who knew who she was but was held back because people were scared of her. And thus the character Amani Kearny was born. Writing her was fun and after a certain point, it was like I wasn’t typing. There’s a certain way Amani talks — loads of sarcasm along with the barest hints to what she actually feels— that makes her feel like a lot of the people that I talk to on a daily basis. Which is most likely why it was so interesting. If I had...

Author’s Note The Victorian era was a time where the world is making the transition into the technological age making it both easier and harder to write. That pulled me into writing about this. After reading Cassandra Clare’s book Clockwork Angel I was intrigued by the story of a girl that had been murdered by an occult society, like a young girl in that book was.  I got to thinking, what if this girl had once been poor? Wha t if she had once seen all the bad in the world? And what would happen if suddenly she was thrust into the life of the rich? What if the woman that took her in forced her to join a society? And what if she wanted to leave? The questions flitted around in my head for so long that I thought I might as well write on the idea thus the idea of Elizabeth Barnes was formed. Most Occult societies were very hush-hush, you gained entrance by knowing people and there are not many recorded societies although there are probably quite a few so researching about them ...

In what wa ys does the model reflect your understanding of the story? Refer to and integrate your summary into this response. This response should be no more than one double-spaced page in size 12 font.   “ They Called Themselves the KKK ” by Susan Campbell Bartoleti is a real-life horror story documenting the creation and reign of white supremacy in the form of an American terrorist group known as the Ku Klux Klan (KKK).   After the Civil War, many Democrats in the South became frustrated with the way the freedmen were using their new freedoms. As we are currently studying slavery and it’s after effects in social studies I already knew this but the description Bartoleti uses in the book gives a more in depth understanding of the feelings of anger felt by the Southern white public during the Reconstruction Era. “ In the last days of fighting, Confederate leaders warned white Southerners that if the South lost the war, the sl...