Choice Novel Question

In the book "Where the heart is" by Billie Letts, the main character Novalee's American dream is to move into a beautiful house with her love Willie Jack and start a family. Novalee's dream slowly starts to change, shes pregnant and on her way to California with willie jack. she still plans to move into a classic American house but soon her dreams are crushed when willie jack leaves her at a walmart. With nowhere else to go she lives at walmart until having her baby there, her life begins to come together, she has a job, a beautiful daughter, a place to stay, and is surrounded by amazing people. Novalee faced many struggles and hardships to achieve her dream, with losing sister husband, Americus getting kidnapped and taking care of friends but it was all worth it. Novalee has fallen in love with photography and soon her American dream has changed into a new wonderful dream she never new she wanted.

In the book "Where the heart is," by Billie Letts the main character is a 17 year old teenager named Novalee Nation. In the beginning of the book Novalee is crossing the country with her boyfriend Willy-Jack hoping to raise a family in the state of California. Novalee is 7 months pregnant when she is ditched in the small Oklahoma town of Sequoyah. Scared for herself and her unborn child Novalee hides out in the town's Wal-Mart for a few months until one fateful night which will change her life for the ever. Novalee starts having her baby in the middle of the Wal-Mart at night and it all seems to be going badly until the librarian named Fourney Hull shows up and helps delivery the baby, whom she names Americus. After the whole incident quiets down Novalee gets a job at the Wal-Mart she gave birth in and begins living in Sister Thelma's house. After living in Sequoyah for a couple of years Novalee begins to pursue her dream of being a photographer. Novalee then discovers that Fourney Hull has feeling for her and she has them for him too but Novalee feels that she is not worthy of someone like Fourney and he moves back up to his original home of Maine. Finally, after months of feeling guilty about what she did to Fourney Novalee calls Fourney up asking "Is it too late?" Fourney answers "There is no one better than you Novalee." Novalee finally accomplishes her own "American dream," of raising a family and living a happy life.    

in the novel Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts, the protagonist is Novalee Nation. Novalee starts off driving to California with her baby daddy Willy Jack. Novalee has had a bad history with the number seven. Sevens had brought bad luck to Novalee her entire life, willy jack abandoned her at a Walmart one day. Novalee's American dream is to have a home of her own to raise her daughter. She quickly meets a spunky woman named Sister Husband who eventually turns into a mother figure for Novalee and her newborn baby. Novalee was living at Walmart for some weeks taking care of a buckeye tree given to her by a little boy, but when she noticed it was dying she brought it to Sister Husbands house to help it grow.



Novalee's dream never changed, she always wanted to live in a cozy home to raise her family even though she was missing Willy. Sister Husband unexpectedly dies in a Tornado leaving Novalee to the home in her will. so what i think Novalee realizes is that home is literally where the heart is. you can find your home anywhere, even in the middle of Oklahoma. willy jack eventually comes back as it turns out he was in a terrible accident leaving his legs amputated and they fall in love.

In the book we were here, Miguel is the protagonist. Miguel was born in Stockton but he soon is sent to a group home because he accidently killed his brother. when he gets to the group home he does not like anyone already and does not want to talk to the other kids in the group home. he dislikes the group home since he finds it boring and is still trying to forget about him accidently killing his brother. Miguel wants to forget about it and doesn't want to see his family anymore because he feels shame about it. In the group home he gets in a fight with a Chinese kid named Mong who later on tells Miguel he has a plan to escape to Mexico. Miguel then starts to dream about escaping to Mexico in order to get away from everything that's happened to him. Soon his roommate, Rondell joins in the plan and Miguel steals money and the three boys personal files.

Miguel is ready to achieve his dream to move to Mexico and forget his mom, his brother, and everything that has happened to him. However not everything went as planned as when they were wandering the streets a police officer questions what their names are and Rondell acutaully gives the officer his name and they have to run and hide at a beach. Soon Mong drowns himself when he swims far away from the shore. Later on Miguel and Rondell travel away to a park where things get worse when Miguel develops feelings for a girl he met but then later on she steals his money and Miguel and Rondell are ondering if they should still go to Mexico. the reader can see now if it is possible if they can still achieve their American dream which is now unlikely. Eventually they both go to Fresno where Miguels grandfather is and get jobs landscaping. They make enough money to pay back the group home which they stole from. They both leave Fresno and go back to the group home to serve their time. At the beginning Miguel wanted to forget about his brother and his family and when Mong planned to escape to Mexico, Miguel thought it was the best way to get to forget about his brothers death and forget about the family but his dream changes because of the problems that occurred. Miguel realizes that Rondell has been with him through the tough times and Rondell is a brother to him

The protagonist of ARTICLE 5 by Kristen Simmons is Ember Miller, a 17-year old young woman whose life is permanently changed when she and her mother are arrested for violating one of the Moral Statues (a set of laws that governs the United States in the book’s dystopian world). In the book, Ember’s American Dream is to escape from the government morality police (colloquially known as the Moral Militia), and find safety with her mother. Ember’s love for her mother is shown when, after the bus pulls up to the ‘Girls Reformatory and Rehabilitation Center,’ one of Ember’s first thoughts is “wondering, hoping, that there was a separate building for my mother” (Chapter 2, page 37). Ember later escapes the Reformatory with the help of an old friend, Chase Jennings, who intends to escort to a carrier in Harrisonburg, Virginia, where Ember will be taken to a safehouse in South Carolina that Chase says is where Ember’s mother is. At one point, however, Ember had “made up my mind to leave him [Chase].” While it is ostensibly because of her fear that Chase could harm her, Ember’s increased paranoia concerning Chase could be because Ember desperately wants to survive to see her mother. After an incident with an insane woman who mistakes Ember for the woman’s daughter, Chase and Ember are reunited and resume their journey together.

Despite the death of their carrier, and an incident where the pair’s true identity was discovered by a family who tried to turn them in, Ember and Chase eventually reach Knoxville, Tennessee, where there is not only a carrier, but also “a whole underground system” (Chapter 12, page 267), according to one car salesperson that tries to help Ember and Chase. Sure enough, Chase and Ember find a resistance organization, with a former guard at the Reformatory, Sean Banks, being a member of the resistance. However, Ember and Chase must adjust their plans when Chase finally reveals that Ember’s mother is dead; Chase describes how he “held the gun up,” and that Ember’s mom “backed into a chair, watching me” (Chapter 14, page 385). Due to Chase’s delay in killing Ember’s mother, Chase’s Commanding Officer fatally shots her. After being capture yet again, Ember escapes with the help of Chase, who turned himself in so he could save her. By the end of the book Ember and Chase are once again with the resistance, they decide on a new American Dream: help the resistance topple the current government.

In the story We Were Here the protagonist is Miguel. In the story, Miguel's dream is to block out what he did to end up in the group home, and try to keep moving forward. Even if it's escaping his group home and going to Mexico with someone he didn't even really like. He vowed never to say out loud what he did. Eventually he finally let it all go and told Rondell what he had done. He had made it clear that he would have done anything to take it back or trade his life for Diego's. When he finally did tell Rondell what he had done it was sort of a relief for Miguel.

After he had made back the money that was stolen from him he returned to the group home to serve his time. He had hopped that someday, when he was released, his mom would forgive him even though he feared she never would. Though he and Rondell had gone their separate ways, Rondell showed up at the end to serve his time with Miguel. After he returned the money to Jaden he had changed his dream to serving his time with Rondell and live his life on. His dream changed after he confessed to Rondell what he had done Diego.