Word: spirits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Though Ben's the one we should be swooning over, it's Sarah that captures your heart. Forces isn't exactly the high point in Bullock's career, but it's a bit more daring than her usual romantic comedy. Her portrayal of a fun-loving and impulsive free-spirit has much appeal for an audience who last saw her in the silly Hope Floats and the dreadful Practical magic. Sarah's dynamic perspectives and passion for living make for an enchanting character role. However, as convincing a rebel as she may be, Bullock's trademark beauty and genuine nature...
...small windfall to pay for our share of the household's food? What if mom had said, "Junior, if you want your macaroni and cheese tonight, you'll have to hand over that buck-seventy-five." Thankfully, this never happened to us, but it perfectly captures the spirit of the student-College dynamic with regard to the construction of a new student center...
...emotional issues attached to the rape which she has been a victim and her heart wrenchingly adolescent yearning for the life of the girls she sees in Seventeen. Her survival in spite of such daunting obstacles becomes for us a shining example of the triumph of the human spirit...
...even admit that the deal was sweetened by my personal fascination with African-American inner-city life. But this book is one that transcends those interests. I found myself reading passages again because they were so full of a simple, quiet strength of character and intensity of spirit which allows the narrator-heroine to endure the trials that occasionally strike the reader dumb with incredulity. Despite a few rough edges, the book manages to involve readers deeply in the emotional current of the story. While the novel falls down occasionally in the use of an inner-city dialect which author...
...soft, unexpected shock of every sequential tragedy presented in Imani; perhaps it's the rather unprecedented portrayal of innocent joy in teenage motherhood; or perhaps it is just the accepting, enduring clarity and strength of the main character, and the renewal of faith in the human spirit-whatever the case, Porter has uplifted a typically unheralded heroine and established herself as capable of writing with power and grace in a context unbraved by many other authors...